Jack Fennell
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
Writer, anthologist, geek. Anthologies: "A Brilliant Void," "It Rose Up" and "Your Own Dark Shadow" published by Tramp Press; academic tomes "Irish Science Fiction" and "Rough Beasts" by LUP. He/him for convenience's sake.
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Jack Fennell
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Everybody Wants to Ruin the World
tramppress.com
You can read the intro to Your Own Dark Shadow, in which I discuss a time I got haunted and wax philosophical about horror, on the Tramp Press website:
tramppress.com/everybody-wa...
tramppress.com/everybody-wa...
This morning's #BookMail from @templedarkbooks.bsky.social - an intriguing debut from Tom O'Connell. Dark and cold, way I like my coffee.
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This morning's #BookMail from @templedarkbooks.bsky.social - an intriguing debut from Tom O'Connell. Dark and cold, way I like my coffee.
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did a few rehearsals, travelled to the free concert, played , did a video and put it on here so you could ignore it🙃
youtu.be/gr5uN0LxvdQ?...
youtu.be/gr5uN0LxvdQ?...
moondance
YouTube video by davey ewart
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November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
did a few rehearsals, travelled to the free concert, played , did a video and put it on here so you could ignore it🙃
youtu.be/gr5uN0LxvdQ?...
youtu.be/gr5uN0LxvdQ?...
SPOILERS: END OF COWBOY BEBOP
I remembered this today and made myself sad, but it's great. Jet and Spike's reaction to losing Faye, Ed and Ein in one go is to compulsively eat boiled eggs.
Two, three at a time. If your mouth is full, you can't talk. If you don't talk, your feelings stay inside.
I remembered this today and made myself sad, but it's great. Jet and Spike's reaction to losing Faye, Ed and Ein in one go is to compulsively eat boiled eggs.
Two, three at a time. If your mouth is full, you can't talk. If you don't talk, your feelings stay inside.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
SPOILERS: END OF COWBOY BEBOP
I remembered this today and made myself sad, but it's great. Jet and Spike's reaction to losing Faye, Ed and Ein in one go is to compulsively eat boiled eggs.
Two, three at a time. If your mouth is full, you can't talk. If you don't talk, your feelings stay inside.
I remembered this today and made myself sad, but it's great. Jet and Spike's reaction to losing Faye, Ed and Ein in one go is to compulsively eat boiled eggs.
Two, three at a time. If your mouth is full, you can't talk. If you don't talk, your feelings stay inside.
> sees reminder on phone for 10th November 2025:
🎶DOES ANY MAN KNOOOOOW WHERE THE LOVE OF GOD GOOOOES, WHEN THE WAVES TURN THE MINUTES TO HOURS?🎶
#EdmundFitzgerald50
🎶DOES ANY MAN KNOOOOOW WHERE THE LOVE OF GOD GOOOOES, WHEN THE WAVES TURN THE MINUTES TO HOURS?🎶
#EdmundFitzgerald50
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
> sees reminder on phone for 10th November 2025:
🎶DOES ANY MAN KNOOOOOW WHERE THE LOVE OF GOD GOOOOES, WHEN THE WAVES TURN THE MINUTES TO HOURS?🎶
#EdmundFitzgerald50
🎶DOES ANY MAN KNOOOOOW WHERE THE LOVE OF GOD GOOOOES, WHEN THE WAVES TURN THE MINUTES TO HOURS?🎶
#EdmundFitzgerald50
All the more obvious ones were taken.
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
All the more obvious ones were taken.
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MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦⬛📖
When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?
#QuestPit #OS #AG #Editors
#A #YA #F #RF
When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?
#QuestPit #OS #AG #Editors
#A #YA #F #RF
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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#Questpit
Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space
6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy?
#Q #SF #SFF
Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space
6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy?
#Q #SF #SFF
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
When a polarising filmmaker has the same surname as you and ypu keep getting jumpscared by mentions of her, part 3,675:
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
When a polarising filmmaker has the same surname as you and ypu keep getting jumpscared by mentions of her, part 3,675:
Someone should steal his body and leace it on a park bench, dressed as a clown.
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Someone should steal his body and leace it on a park bench, dressed as a clown.
Thoughts and prayers.
a woman in an orange fur coat is standing next to another woman in a red coat .
Alt: Phoebe and Rachel from "Friends" jumping for joy.
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Thoughts and prayers.
This includes my very accurate and totally true slice of 19th-century Australian bushranger life, the aftermath of the 'squatter-versus-selector' war, and the worst legends about Dan Morgan. The volume's subtitle gives a hint of what's involved.
FCQ8 is our gnaw-themed issue and features excellent writing from:
@jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social (with an original novelette)
Art by Valerie Marshall
Jasmine Harrell
@therrien.bsky.social
Tremain Xenos
@abastedo-writing.bsky.social
@breathinghead.bsky.social
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
@jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social (with an original novelette)
Art by Valerie Marshall
Jasmine Harrell
@therrien.bsky.social
Tremain Xenos
@abastedo-writing.bsky.social
@breathinghead.bsky.social
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This includes my very accurate and totally true slice of 19th-century Australian bushranger life, the aftermath of the 'squatter-versus-selector' war, and the worst legends about Dan Morgan. The volume's subtitle gives a hint of what's involved.
Yesterday's workshop was a blast. Thanks a million to the Consulate General of Ireland, Vancouver for inviting me, and to everyone who came along. I can't wait to read all your horror masterpieces at some point in the future!
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Yesterday's workshop was a blast. Thanks a million to the Consulate General of Ireland, Vancouver for inviting me, and to everyone who came along. I can't wait to read all your horror masterpieces at some point in the future!
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I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think
So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children.
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
www.thetimes.com/article/0887...
CCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing children
Gardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released
www.thetimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think
Giving an online creative writing workshop for the Consulate General of Ireland in Vancouver this evening, so naturally I spent the last two hours baking spiced apple and pear dumplings.
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Giving an online creative writing workshop for the Consulate General of Ireland in Vancouver this evening, so naturally I spent the last two hours baking spiced apple and pear dumplings.
There was a girls' comics character back in the day, possibly Millie the Model, with a boyfriend nicknamed 'Flicker' whose name had to be changed for precisely this reason; he became 'Clicker.'
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There was a girls' comics character back in the day, possibly Millie the Model, with a boyfriend nicknamed 'Flicker' whose name had to be changed for precisely this reason; he became 'Clicker.'
Merry Devils Night to all who celebrate.
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Merry Devils Night to all who celebrate.
"A prestige drama series where the US military attempts to capture Frank N Furter."
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"A prestige drama series where the US military attempts to capture Frank N Furter."
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They call me Ram
They call me Ozy
They call Usermaatra
Setepenre
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
They call me Ozy
They call Usermaatra
Setepenre
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
My name is Ozymandias, King Of Kings. You looked on my works. Prepare to die.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and no worries if not.
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
They call me Ram
They call me Ozy
They call Usermaatra
Setepenre
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
They call me Ozy
They call Usermaatra
Setepenre
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
They're all my names
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they *could* look upon my works, they never stopped to consider if they *should*.
My name is Ozymandias, King Of Kings. You looked on my works. Prepare to die.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and no worries if not.
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they *could* look upon my works, they never stopped to consider if they *should*.
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Generational image for this app.
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Generational image for this app.
Reposted by Jack Fennell
My short story - you know, for kids - The Hungry Giant is up on Ember Journal if anyone wants something a bit odd and scary and sad but also hopeful to read....
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
The Hungry Giant | Ember
There was no safe place in the entire world from the rain of stars. The fox fled to the one place he knew, the one place he remembered, where he had felt safe and secure and happy. He ran to the…
read.emberjournal.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My short story - you know, for kids - The Hungry Giant is up on Ember Journal if anyone wants something a bit odd and scary and sad but also hopeful to read....
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
#speirgorm #kidlit #mglit
Ever have one of those weeks that makes you daydream of being Piranesi'ed, just for a day or two?
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ever have one of those weeks that makes you daydream of being Piranesi'ed, just for a day or two?
Sexy election turnout
Sexy lasagna recipe
(the last person-shaped google search would give "sexy shrine maiden gintama")
(the last person-shaped google search would give "sexy shrine maiden gintama")
October 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Sexy election turnout
A reply under a fairly mild joke about Oasis on Facebook. Arguments about the Gallagher brothers' nationality or identity aside: I look forward to the day when all my countrymen accept that you can be Irish and shite.
![A Facebook reply reading "I think you'll find there's more to [Oasis] than the media would portray, you don't have to like their music but this is disrespectful. They're proud Irish lads & they had some real talent, it's not their fault they were marketed and followed by a bunch of meat heads."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mny4xywxqowruu3xh6jwqbrg/bafkreid2ceyrd233xkjr7bmyxgijpl7ow3ysi4p3p6b4mzocg2aqwo7nk4@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A reply under a fairly mild joke about Oasis on Facebook. Arguments about the Gallagher brothers' nationality or identity aside: I look forward to the day when all my countrymen accept that you can be Irish and shite.