James Sharpe
@jamessharpe.bsky.social
Writer: Rep'd by Oli Munsen @ AM Heath
Video Producer: commercial and branded
Narrative Designer @ Glowfrog games
ADHDer
www.JamesSharpe.co.uk
Video Producer: commercial and branded
Narrative Designer @ Glowfrog games
ADHDer
www.JamesSharpe.co.uk
Ok, it's too hot. The cat is too hot and is trying to sleep in unusual places sandwiched against the skirting board (are skirting boards a natural cat coolant?) I want ice cream but managed to give myself a coffee headache rendering myself unmotivated to leave the house. It's all going well here.
June 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ok, it's too hot. The cat is too hot and is trying to sleep in unusual places sandwiched against the skirting board (are skirting boards a natural cat coolant?) I want ice cream but managed to give myself a coffee headache rendering myself unmotivated to leave the house. It's all going well here.
Recent reads:
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- The City and its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami
- Extremophile - Ian Green
- The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
- The Lamb - Lucy Rose
- Go On - Tania Hersham
- The Wall - Marlen Haushofer
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- The City and its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami
- Extremophile - Ian Green
- The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
- The Lamb - Lucy Rose
- Go On - Tania Hersham
- The Wall - Marlen Haushofer
June 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Recent reads:
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- The City and its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami
- Extremophile - Ian Green
- The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
- The Lamb - Lucy Rose
- Go On - Tania Hersham
- The Wall - Marlen Haushofer
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- The City and its Uncertain Walls - Haruki Murakami
- Extremophile - Ian Green
- The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
- The Lamb - Lucy Rose
- Go On - Tania Hersham
- The Wall - Marlen Haushofer
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One of the questions I’m asked most is about feedback and mentorship for nonfiction writers - well, I’m offering a new service via Hinterland. So, if you’re a nonfiction writer in need of a close read of your manuscript or in search of a mentor to help develop your writing, check it out.
Today we’re pleased to announce our new Manuscript Assessment and Mentoring services, two separate services offered by the Hinterland editorial team that will help you to meet your writing goals for 2025 and beyond! You can find out more here: hinterlandnonfiction.substack.com/p/introducin...
May 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of the questions I’m asked most is about feedback and mentorship for nonfiction writers - well, I’m offering a new service via Hinterland. So, if you’re a nonfiction writer in need of a close read of your manuscript or in search of a mentor to help develop your writing, check it out.
So I think I’ve reached my limit with Blue Prince. I would have to transcend to another level consciousness to conquer the final puzzles by myself. It’s become more fun to sit with my partner while she plays and work together. She’s already transcended and returned to this plain of reality.
May 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
So I think I’ve reached my limit with Blue Prince. I would have to transcend to another level consciousness to conquer the final puzzles by myself. It’s become more fun to sit with my partner while she plays and work together. She’s already transcended and returned to this plain of reality.
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Applications open for 1 *FREE* place for writer from an underrepresented community on our "Shorts: short fic, poetry, non fic & hybrids" residential @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course in Aug. Email taniah@gmail.com by 4 Jun telling me how you're eligible & why this particular course interests you!
May 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Applications open for 1 *FREE* place for writer from an underrepresented community on our "Shorts: short fic, poetry, non fic & hybrids" residential @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course in Aug. Email taniah@gmail.com by 4 Jun telling me how you're eligible & why this particular course interests you!
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The short version of this is 'Some men (and it is men) are simply not mentally equipped to read science fiction, it's too much for them, they can't handle it'
This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The short version of this is 'Some men (and it is men) are simply not mentally equipped to read science fiction, it's too much for them, they can't handle it'
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My son works for this company here in the U.K.
It was playing the video game ‘Deus Ex’ that set him on the path to becoming a Biomechanical Engineer.
Sometimes, it’s nice to highlight the good things that video games can do. And also remind myself just how proud of him I am.
It was playing the video game ‘Deus Ex’ that set him on the path to becoming a Biomechanical Engineer.
Sometimes, it’s nice to highlight the good things that video games can do. And also remind myself just how proud of him I am.
HOLY SHIT! This might be the coolest thing ever.
April 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My son works for this company here in the U.K.
It was playing the video game ‘Deus Ex’ that set him on the path to becoming a Biomechanical Engineer.
Sometimes, it’s nice to highlight the good things that video games can do. And also remind myself just how proud of him I am.
It was playing the video game ‘Deus Ex’ that set him on the path to becoming a Biomechanical Engineer.
Sometimes, it’s nice to highlight the good things that video games can do. And also remind myself just how proud of him I am.
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Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
Why publishers, film studios, and television makers aren't kicking these fuckers doors down, putting a stop to this and suing them out of existence is beyond me.
‘Other communications show that researchers worked to remove the copyright pages from the books they had downloaded.’
If you’re a writer or artist of any kind, this piece will turn your stomach.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
If you’re a writer or artist of any kind, this piece will turn your stomach.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”
As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and...
www.vanityfair.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Why publishers, film studios, and television makers aren't kicking these fuckers doors down, putting a stop to this and suing them out of existence is beyond me.
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More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
April 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
New season of White Lotus should be set in Skegness.
April 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
New season of White Lotus should be set in Skegness.
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Today, we'll be joining the @societyofauthors.bsky.social outside Meta's offices to protest the use of pirated works to train their AI models.
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
April 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Today, we'll be joining the @societyofauthors.bsky.social outside Meta's offices to protest the use of pirated works to train their AI models.
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
We’ve been watching 90s Star Trek in story order. Other than few stops by DS9, we’ve just finished TNG. I’d forgotten how fantastic the finale All Good Things… is. Brilliantly written, acted and a noticeable step up in direction. We’ll miss Mr Picard and team until we hit the first film.
April 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We’ve been watching 90s Star Trek in story order. Other than few stops by DS9, we’ve just finished TNG. I’d forgotten how fantastic the finale All Good Things… is. Brilliantly written, acted and a noticeable step up in direction. We’ll miss Mr Picard and team until we hit the first film.
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to the people posting Studio Ghibli AI slop. May Miyazaki bless you 🙏
March 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
to the people posting Studio Ghibli AI slop. May Miyazaki bless you 🙏
Timeline cleanse: here’s Panko inspecting the pile of books on my desk. She’s approves. I think.
March 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Timeline cleanse: here’s Panko inspecting the pile of books on my desk. She’s approves. I think.
I went to Amsterdam for a day this week for a work thing and this was the only photo I took.
March 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I went to Amsterdam for a day this week for a work thing and this was the only photo I took.
Just look at this gorgeous animation for All You Need Is Kill!
youtu.be/glIY7aowcPU?...
youtu.be/glIY7aowcPU?...
【特報】ALL YOU NEED IS KILL ティザーPV／“ALL YOU NEED IS KILL” 1st teaser trailer
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Japan Anime
youtu.be
March 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just look at this gorgeous animation for All You Need Is Kill!
youtu.be/glIY7aowcPU?...
youtu.be/glIY7aowcPU?...
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Let’s all please remember that the Guardian *did a deal* with OpenAI which they disclose elsewhere on their website but not within the increasing batter of sycophantic propaganda dribble they are masquerading as articles
I imagine it's easier to come to this rather generous conclusion if you have already built a glittering and secure literary career www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson
I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Let’s all please remember that the Guardian *did a deal* with OpenAI which they disclose elsewhere on their website but not within the increasing batter of sycophantic propaganda dribble they are masquerading as articles
I’m really enjoying Severance season 2 but I’m feeling quite disconnected from the story. Season one was SO tight and simple (to an extent) and funny. Maybe it’s the week-by-week viewing. Maybe it’s opened the world up too much too quickly. Maybe the characters are lacking any real focused goal.
March 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I’m really enjoying Severance season 2 but I’m feeling quite disconnected from the story. Season one was SO tight and simple (to an extent) and funny. Maybe it’s the week-by-week viewing. Maybe it’s opened the world up too much too quickly. Maybe the characters are lacking any real focused goal.
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My favourite genres are
5. oooh look, rain
4. it was all a dream
3. let's sing La Marseilles at Nazis until they shut up and sit down
2. space western
1. Let's cook
5. oooh look, rain
4. it was all a dream
3. let's sing La Marseilles at Nazis until they shut up and sit down
2. space western
1. Let's cook
My favourite genres are
5. I’m slipping through the boundaries of reality and I’m quite sad
4. We don’t know what’s going on and the world is strange
3. Memories are malleable
2. Murder mystery in a small town but it’s a weird headfuck
1. Existential crisis in a near future capitalist hellscape
5. I’m slipping through the boundaries of reality and I’m quite sad
4. We don’t know what’s going on and the world is strange
3. Memories are malleable
2. Murder mystery in a small town but it’s a weird headfuck
1. Existential crisis in a near future capitalist hellscape
My favourite genres are
5. Families, eh? But French!
4. It's great to be gay
3. Say hello to my little friend
2. I am so depressed, let me just wander around in the world's most gorgeous scenery while I regret everything
1. Underappreciated woman gets justice at last (sexually)
5. Families, eh? But French!
4. It's great to be gay
3. Say hello to my little friend
2. I am so depressed, let me just wander around in the world's most gorgeous scenery while I regret everything
1. Underappreciated woman gets justice at last (sexually)
March 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My favourite genres are
5. oooh look, rain
4. it was all a dream
3. let's sing La Marseilles at Nazis until they shut up and sit down
2. space western
1. Let's cook
5. oooh look, rain
4. it was all a dream
3. let's sing La Marseilles at Nazis until they shut up and sit down
2. space western
1. Let's cook
My favourite genres are
5. I’m slipping through the boundaries of reality and I’m quite sad
4. We don’t know what’s going on and the world is strange
3. Memories are malleable
2. Murder mystery in a small town but it’s a weird headfuck
1. Existential crisis in a near future capitalist hellscape
5. I’m slipping through the boundaries of reality and I’m quite sad
4. We don’t know what’s going on and the world is strange
3. Memories are malleable
2. Murder mystery in a small town but it’s a weird headfuck
1. Existential crisis in a near future capitalist hellscape
My favourite genres are
5. Families, eh? But French!
4. It's great to be gay
3. Say hello to my little friend
2. I am so depressed, let me just wander around in the world's most gorgeous scenery while I regret everything
1. Underappreciated woman gets justice at last (sexually)
5. Families, eh? But French!
4. It's great to be gay
3. Say hello to my little friend
2. I am so depressed, let me just wander around in the world's most gorgeous scenery while I regret everything
1. Underappreciated woman gets justice at last (sexually)
My favourite genres are
5. comedies where characters have opinions about Middlemarch
4. The Church is sending their saddest man to an unwelcoming country
3. Fightin'
2. There is a killer on the loose and he likes weird monologues
1. Someone needs to use the microfiche machine in the library
5. comedies where characters have opinions about Middlemarch
4. The Church is sending their saddest man to an unwelcoming country
3. Fightin'
2. There is a killer on the loose and he likes weird monologues
1. Someone needs to use the microfiche machine in the library
March 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My favourite genres are
5. I’m slipping through the boundaries of reality and I’m quite sad
4. We don’t know what’s going on and the world is strange
3. Memories are malleable
2. Murder mystery in a small town but it’s a weird headfuck
1. Existential crisis in a near future capitalist hellscape
5. I’m slipping through the boundaries of reality and I’m quite sad
4. We don’t know what’s going on and the world is strange
3. Memories are malleable
2. Murder mystery in a small town but it’s a weird headfuck
1. Existential crisis in a near future capitalist hellscape
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BLOODY HELL
It’s official! PAGANS by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social is a Times Top 10 Bestseller, and we couldn’t be more proud. Look at that! In print and online, no less! Find out what everyone’s talking about by picking up your copy from @waterstones.bsky.social: www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
March 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
BLOODY HELL
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
This is a fascinating and honest breakdown of the reality of being operating as a band in the UK without the backing of generational wealth. Hats off to LC! as well for forging ethical and fair touring practices (low income tickets / all age shows / safe spaces etc).
📈 In The Black Stuff
📖 tr.ee/4Kvcl9
A detailed breakdown of the finances of our recent sold out show in Dublin, Ireland.
Hoping this provides some insight into what it takes to get the LC! show on the road.
📖 tr.ee/4Kvcl9
A detailed breakdown of the finances of our recent sold out show in Dublin, Ireland.
Hoping this provides some insight into what it takes to get the LC! show on the road.
March 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is a fascinating and honest breakdown of the reality of being operating as a band in the UK without the backing of generational wealth. Hats off to LC! as well for forging ethical and fair touring practices (low income tickets / all age shows / safe spaces etc).
I’m spoiled for gorgeous hardbacks in tbr pile at the moment. @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social @ianthegreen.bsky.social @jamesbluecat.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m spoiled for gorgeous hardbacks in tbr pile at the moment. @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social @ianthegreen.bsky.social @jamesbluecat.bsky.social