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Ever Dundas
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Writer: Goblin | HellSans
Rep: Jenny Brown Associates
Inklusion Guide co-founder
Obsessed with Pearl Jam, Suede, The Sisters & Bauhaus

#AutisticAF #QueerCrip
#TransAlly

(banner photo: The Abomination 🖤 from Lynch's Dune)

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · Nov 18
If you lovely creatures would like to know a bit more about me, I was interviewed for The Times this time last year on the run up to the fabulous Push the Boat Out fest

(though, personally I think ‘Ever stopped eating corpses aged 7’ is a better headline)
“Ever Dundas: ‘I was asked to be pals with Paris Hilton’ The author on a strange encounter with a TV producer, being a ‘boring hermity bookworm' and her Interview with the Vampire obsession” Phot of Ever by Cinn Curtis: Ever in a black coat, pale skin, bright green hair Interview by Ashley Davies, Wednesday November 15 2023, 12.13am, The Times Ever Dundas is an Edinburgh-based author whose debut novel, Goblin, won the Saltire Society's First Book of the Year award in 2017. Her latest novel, HellSans (2022), is a dystopian thriller. What's your earliest memory? Collecting worms in a bucket and losing them down the back of our couch. Chaos later ensued when they emerged. What has been your most memorable Scottish gig? Seeing Manic Street Preachers play The Holy Bible in full at Glasgow Barrowland and Edinburgh Usher Hall. Utter ecstasy. What's the best meal you've had in Scotland? If it counts as a meal, espresso coffee with my husband's to-die-for vegan cinnamon rolls. What's your favourite place in Scotland? St Conan's Kirk (next to the aptly named Loch Awe) because it feels otherworldly. Walking through the entrance is like walking through a portal to a fantastical realm. I first visited on the way back from Iona to celebrate my mum's 70th birthday. I wrote about St Conan's magic for Burning Eye Press. What's your favourite TV show or film (and why)? I love too many to have a favourite, but I'm currently obsessed with the deliciously queer Interview with the Vampire series. Sam Reid as Lestat is mesmerising.
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helleborezine.bsky.social
Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian.

By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
Guardian headline: 'Demonic' Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
everdundas.bsky.social
Just a normal Monday
liapas.bsky.social Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 4d
Happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day to all who celebrate! #SciArt
A panel from the comic The Watchmen. A glowing blue circulatory system is in a restaurant kitchen while the staff looks on in horror. The caption reads: It’s November 10th Now. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen.
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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elliemackinroberts.net
FYI: you don’t have to wear a red poppy to show your support for victims of war. You can wear a white peace poppy to remember all victims of war, to challenge global militarism, and signal your commitment to lasting peace.
Remembrance & White Poppies
The white poppy has been worn in the run-up to Remembrance Day for over ninety years, as a symbol of remembrance and peace.White poppies are worn every year by thousands of people across the UK and be...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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cstross.bsky.social
Or maybe we should provide a universal basic income for ALL humans, no exceptions, no means tests (just take it back from the billionaires at income tax time).

Humans shouldn't need to work to live.

We are not work machines!
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12d
Even if you were willing to buy that an LLM/Gen AI tool has human-like intellect, you’re still left with the fact that an LLM doesn’t NEED a job to remain alive under capitalism, but a human does.

morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social
Today is World Vegan Day! If you are concerned about climate change, reducing meat and dairy in your diet is one of the most powerful individual actions you can take.

"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat)
Dr. Goodall went plant-based after confronting what that meat represents: pain. Since, she learned more reasons why the work to #eatmeatless is important.
news.janegoodall.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
#CoverReveal : We're obviously always delighted to celebrate one of our (very!) local literary stars, Muriel Spark, and Hodder has James Bailey's Like a Cat Loves a Bird, "a spiky and delicious new literary biography", coming next April.

#books #livres #MurielSpark #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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zaranosaur.bsky.social
Pals! Do I know anyone who’d be particularly interested in being a podcast expert on representation of disability in fiction for a rather lovely podcast by and for and about disabled people? U.K. based preferred but not essential!
October 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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scottishtrans.bsky.social
"A blanket ban on access to gender- affirming spaces does not support healing. It retraumatises. It isolates. It tells vulnerable young people that their needs don't matter."

A powerful letter from a parent of a trans child in the National today, calling for the govt. to challenge EHRC guidance.
Guidance from EHRC should be challenged by Labour I WRITE as a feminist and the parent of a trans teenager. I have also spent years working to safeguard women and children. I understand risk- and where harm comes from. I'm writing because of the damage being done by the initial guidance on single-sex spaces from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and the urgent need for principled leadership from Keir Starmer. The trans community - and by extension, my child - faces hostility, suspicion, and dehumanisation simply for existing. The hatred I see online is terrifying. When politicians fail to stand up for their rights, it sends a chilling message: that trans people are not safe, not welcome, not worthy of dignity. That families like mine don't matter. But it also fails women. It misdirects their fear. The risk to women and children is overwhelmingly from cis men. Women are not safe in their own homes - why are we talking about toilets? This guidance doesn't protect women it undermines us. It shifts the burden of safety onto marginalised groups, rather than addressing the real sources of harm. It tells cis women that their fear should be directed at trans women, rather than at the systems that fail to protect them from male violence. It also divides us. It pits cis women against trans women, when we should be united in fighting misogyny, inequality, and abuse. It distracts from the real battles - like the epidemic of domestic violence, the failures of the justice system, and the rise of online misogyny. It offers a false sense of security while leaving the actual threats untouched. As a feminist, I find this deeply regressive. It's not about protecting women - it's about controlling spaces. And this brings me to the hypocrisy of current safeguarding rhetoric. Politicians claim to be protecting children, yet ignore the fact that many public spaces - swimming pools, for example - are not gendered. Children routinely share spaces with cis men, often with no supervision. No-one seems concerned about safeguarding in those contexts. Male children routinely stand beside adult men exposing themselves at urinals - yet no-one calls for reform in those spaces. Sex offenders are not routinely stopped from using public toilets. But no pearl-clutching for that. Why? Because the concern isn't about safeguarding - it's about targeting trans people under the guise of protection. The current political framing of trans people as a blanket risk is not only inaccurate - it's unethical. It is also incompatible with trauma- informed practice. Blanket bans and exclusionary policies ignore the complexity of trauma, identity, and safety. Trauma-informed work requires us to consider the individual, not to impose rigid categories. It demands that we create environments where people feel safe, seen, and respected. I am astounded that Labour have not yet publicly rejected the EHRC's guidance. Surely their role is to challenge it - not quietly adopt it. It is the role of politicians to lead, to legislate, to protect - not to defer responsibility. The EHRC's proposals are unworkable. They do not support the rights of my trans child. From what I've read, they are focused on exclusion, not inclusion. Are we going to segregate trans youth like it's 1950s America? That seems to be what Wes Streeting is suggesting. Will my child have to walk miles to find a toilet they can safely use? This issue does not exist in a vacuum. Women in the UK face enormous challenges. We have a police force riddled with misogyny. În Scotland alone, there were 65,000 reported domestic abuse incidents last year. We face inequality in healthcare, threats to reproductive rights, and systemic failures in protecting victims of violence. Online misogyny is on the rise. These are the issues that demand urgent attention. Yet here we are talking about single-sex spaces. This is not about protecting women. It is about stoking fear. It is about scapegoating a marginalised group. And it is deeply harmful - not just to trans people, but to all women. All this could have been avoided. So much harm has been done - harm that will take years to undo. My child's life has been made more painful, more difficult, more isolating. Not because of who they are, but because of what the Labour Party has legitimised. Because of the fear and hatred that has been fuelled. I urge Keir Starmer to reject the EHRC's guidance, to listen to trans people, parents and professionals, and to lead with empathy - and more importantly, with evidence. Because right now, Labour is failing trans children. As a parent, it's horrifying. Parent of a Trans Child
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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lighthousebks.bsky.social
Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair is less than a month away!

4 Days of bookstalls from 50+ presses
20 events incl DragQueen Storytelling, Community Lunch & 2 Cabarets!

Full program is live, hybrid & either £5 or free!
5-9Nov: Join us!

tinyurl.com/RadicalBookF...
lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
It’s also frankly insane
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Oct 16
you should read the Bible because if nothing else it will give you a very full set of language to talk about religious hypocrites and the iniquity of the rich and powerful
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Oct 16
we are whiting more sepulchers than ever! and tithes of mint, dill, and cumin are all up!
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
everdundas.bsky.social
“It’s a call, too. For publishers, festivals, readers: stop turning disabled creativity into a statistic. The work doesn’t need justification. It needs to be seen. Valued. Paid for. Published.”
October 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
everdundas.bsky.social
“We create with our bodies… And it takes time, time rarely given, time always political."

The fabulous Haneul Lee has written a beautiful love letter for disabled writers:

disabilityarts.online/magazine/opi...
Opinion - Haneul Lee - A love letter for disabled writers
Disabled writer and journalist Haneul Lee delivers an impassioned call, inspired by conversations with Julie Farrell and Ever Dundas, fellow writers and publishers of the Inklusion Guide, a resource a...
disabilityarts.online
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
everdundas.bsky.social
A brilliant piece by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social on Dystopian Medicine

"it’s when society feels at its most unstable that we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction... because these stories provide us with a space in which to explore our growing fears."
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Oct 6
Drawing from stories such as Hiron Ennes' Leech and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, author @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social reviews the popularity of medical horror, placing it alongside the return of dystopian fiction:

reactormag.com/dystopian-me...
Dystopian Medicine: Why Medical Horror Has a Hold on Us - Reactor
When society feels at its most unstable, we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction...
reactormag.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
everdundas.bsky.social
I was looking at my x-rays at the dentist and said “It’s cool being able to see your own insides” and now I’m on some ‘potential serial killer’ list
October 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
Today’s rather grim proof note:

P415 line 24: delete “people”

Sorry, people.
October 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
everdundas.bsky.social
Beautiful piece by my talented friend Rona Innes

You can support her art here:

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Rona...
Beautiful painting of an otter in water, surrounded by bubbles, their head just above the surface looking up at a firefly
October 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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sarahcoomer.bsky.social
It's that time of year again... spooky advent calendars illustrated by me back in the Etsy shop! Borely Rectory Christmas cards with the same design available very soon if you want one / some of those as well. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/1801...
An advent calendar based on an imaginary vintage greetings card of Borley Rectory at Christmas, complete with ghostly nun and Harry Price An advent calendar window depicting two vampiric choirboys and Mark Gatiss with fangs in front of a gothic arched window. An advent calendar window featuring an illustration of Krampus An advent calendar window featuring an illustration of two ghostly youths peering out of a window
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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thinkingautism.com
As Julia Bascom writes,

“…[the parents] think the problem was that they treated their child like they were intellectually disabled, & they weren’t. But that’s not the problem. The problem is that they thought their child was intellectually disabled, and so they didn’t treat them like a person.” 40/
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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thinkingautism.com
Many autistic people have clinical-level anxiety, and may learn to self-soothe through stimming or creating elaborate, predictable, & therefore safe, routines. Try to understand why your child may be behaving differently than their peers, instead of making them feel bad about their differences. 35/
September 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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thinkingautism.com
Also: Become educated about autistic learning styles. Not all autistic kids are math prodigies or "little professors." In fact, studies show that most don’t have superior math skills, but rather average or below-average math skills. (I KNOW.) 36/
September 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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horrorculturist.bsky.social
Do one thing every day to make the world a worse place for evil people.
February 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
everdundas.bsky.social
Suede: Big Frog

(next album cover?)
black and white photo of a mannequin dressed as dandy frog in a shop window, with Edinburgh old town building reflections
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Childhood books & television really led me to believe that the isolation of illness was going to at least be tempered by thrilling, shimmering time slips, faithful little ghost friends & ancient spirits of the deep green earth visiting neglected wisdoms on my languishing, bed-mouldering, lonely self
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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mickeybiz.bsky.social
Happy Princess Bride Day!

Set of Princess Bride Nesting Dolls from 2020. (Still available)

#tradart #illustration #moviesky #princessbride #fanart
Grid of photographs from different angles of a wooden nesting doll illustrated with characters from The Princess Bride.
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM