John Reppion
@johnreppion.bsky.social
Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction, reviews... loads of stuff.
Co-adapted Sir Gawain & the Green Knight with @mdpenman.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction, reviews... loads of stuff.
Co-adapted Sir Gawain & the Green Knight with @mdpenman.bsky.social
My New Year's resolution is 300 dpi.
January 1, 2026 at 10:59 AM
My New Year's resolution is 300 dpi.
Probably when the HS2 guys got really upset with me about the bat tunnel. Because I pointed out that the bats weren't costing "extra" money, it was just that HS2 was a poorly budgeted shambles. And the bat tunnel was something like 0.05 of the actual cost of it anyway.
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Probably when the HS2 guys got really upset with me about the bat tunnel. Because I pointed out that the bats weren't costing "extra" money, it was just that HS2 was a poorly budgeted shambles. And the bat tunnel was something like 0.05 of the actual cost of it anyway.
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Just one step in the ongoing process of excavating, archiving, scanning every stitch of original art in reach (and not in reach) for the forthcoming TYRANT® crowdfunder in January 2026. Sign up now to be notified when it goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
Coming soon: Stephen R. Bissette's TYRANT Historic Deluxe Editions
The comic book masterpiece finally collected in both complete and original art editions, lovingly designed by Jim Rugg.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Just one step in the ongoing process of excavating, archiving, scanning every stitch of original art in reach (and not in reach) for the forthcoming TYRANT® crowdfunder in January 2026. Sign up now to be notified when it goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
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6.30 tonight at Norton Priory. Get off that sofa and see this.
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight performed by @gavcross.bsky.social at Norton Priory tomorrow norton-priory-museum-and-gardens.arttickets.org.uk/norton-prior...
Art Tickets
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December 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
6.30 tonight at Norton Priory. Get off that sofa and see this.
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight performed by @gavcross.bsky.social at Norton Priory tomorrow norton-priory-museum-and-gardens.arttickets.org.uk/norton-prior...
Art Tickets
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December 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight performed by @gavcross.bsky.social at Norton Priory tomorrow norton-priory-museum-and-gardens.arttickets.org.uk/norton-prior...
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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Mithras -
A festive piece from me for @dailygrail.com about the mysterious cult of Mithras and its (supposed) Christmas connections.
www.dailygrail.com/2024/12/its-...
A festive piece from me for @dailygrail.com about the mysterious cult of Mithras and its (supposed) Christmas connections.
www.dailygrail.com/2024/12/its-...
It's beginning to look a lot like Mithras: Is an ancient Roman god really the reason for the season?
Centuries before Christ lay in his manger, Mithras, Roman God of the Sun, was born a miraculous birth in lowly surroundings. His birthday corresponding, more or less, to our own 25th of December. Mith...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Mithras -
A festive piece from me for @dailygrail.com about the mysterious cult of Mithras and its (supposed) Christmas connections.
www.dailygrail.com/2024/12/its-...
A festive piece from me for @dailygrail.com about the mysterious cult of Mithras and its (supposed) Christmas connections.
www.dailygrail.com/2024/12/its-...
Fantastic news.
Christmas Eve 2025. 22:00. BBC Two.
The BBC's 2025 ghost story for Christmas: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of EF Benson's The Room in the Tower.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Christmas Eve 2025. 22:00. BBC Two.
The BBC's 2025 ghost story for Christmas: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of EF Benson's The Room in the Tower.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - A Ghost Story for Christmas, The Room in the Tower
Roger has been haunted by a recurring dream. What is lurking in the room in the tower?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fantastic news.
Christmas Eve 2025. 22:00. BBC Two.
The BBC's 2025 ghost story for Christmas: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of EF Benson's The Room in the Tower.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Christmas Eve 2025. 22:00. BBC Two.
The BBC's 2025 ghost story for Christmas: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of EF Benson's The Room in the Tower.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Happy Winter Solstice, all.
December 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Happy Winter Solstice, all.
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Prancing PAN Pan,
Early 2nd century AD
Early 2nd century AD
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Prancing PAN Pan,
Early 2nd century AD
Early 2nd century AD
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decades-long manhunt finally ends
May 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
decades-long manhunt finally ends
Giving up and letting the Yuletide drag me out into the deepest Christmas waters. There's no point in fighting this anymore. Hopefully, I'll wash up on the shore of the New Year.
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Giving up and letting the Yuletide drag me out into the deepest Christmas waters. There's no point in fighting this anymore. Hopefully, I'll wash up on the shore of the New Year.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I've put together some slightly esoteric t-shirts in my Etsy shop. For fans of archaeology, Folk Horror, Wizards, and weird stuff
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
www.etsy.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I've put together some slightly esoteric t-shirts in my Etsy shop. For fans of archaeology, Folk Horror, Wizards, and weird stuff
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
They're the same companies who are now advertising for temporary positions for human writers to "train AI" to be better at doing the jobs. Which is why none of us should, on any account, do that for them.
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
They're the same companies who are now advertising for temporary positions for human writers to "train AI" to be better at doing the jobs. Which is why none of us should, on any account, do that for them.
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Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years since I wrote this for @dailygrail.com
"The 5th Young One: Pay No Attention to the Girl Behind the Sofa" www.dailygrail.com/2016/06/the-...
"The 5th Young One: Pay No Attention to the Girl Behind the Sofa" www.dailygrail.com/2016/06/the-...
The 5th Young One: Pay No Attention to the Girl Behind the Sofa
In the early hours of Saturday morning, ignoring the blare of children’s television, I muzzily and reflexively poked at the Twitter icon on the battered screen of my knackered phone. Down I scrolled t...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years since I wrote this for @dailygrail.com
"The 5th Young One: Pay No Attention to the Girl Behind the Sofa" www.dailygrail.com/2016/06/the-...
"The 5th Young One: Pay No Attention to the Girl Behind the Sofa" www.dailygrail.com/2016/06/the-...
Remembered that I have an Etsy shop. And that you can now design t-shirts on there via Printiful. And that I have free will, as well as access to a vast library of out-of-copyright images via the magical internet.
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Remembered that I have an Etsy shop. And that you can now design t-shirts on there via Printiful. And that I have free will, as well as access to a vast library of out-of-copyright images via the magical internet.
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...
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Deleted Saves needs artist(s)! I am interested in commissioning a logo, as well as art to integrate into future issues. If you are an artist or know one, please email me at deletedsaves at gmail dot com to start the conversation. Thank you!
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Deleted Saves needs artist(s)! I am interested in commissioning a logo, as well as art to integrate into future issues. If you are an artist or know one, please email me at deletedsaves at gmail dot com to start the conversation. Thank you!
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Bridget Jones's Diary is on TV and, despite being from 2001, it somehow manages to have a very weirdly Paddington vibe and direction. The cinematography, the portrayal of London, it's all ridiculously Paddington. Why is that? Is Paddington a Bridget Jones's Diary rip off?
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Bridget Jones's Diary is on TV and, despite being from 2001, it somehow manages to have a very weirdly Paddington vibe and direction. The cinematography, the portrayal of London, it's all ridiculously Paddington. Why is that? Is Paddington a Bridget Jones's Diary rip off?
I'm choosing to believe that "moved to France" is a euphemism like "went to live on a farm". Crumb moved to France a good while back.
I read the new R. Crumb comic today and it bummed me out - it’s heartening to see that in his 80s he can still draw like a motherfucker, but he’s totally fallen down the anti-vax rabbit hole, he even recommends RFK jr’s books. *extended Charlie Brown sigh*
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm choosing to believe that "moved to France" is a euphemism like "went to live on a farm". Crumb moved to France a good while back.
When you overthink a small detail for your story, and then have to work out a way to include it, no matter what.
Travel/food writer with some occasional punching
Quite moved to report that Fleming ends the entire Bond saga with A RECIPE FOR SCRAMBLED EGGS
December 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When you overthink a small detail for your story, and then have to work out a way to include it, no matter what.
It's true, LoEG was slagging off Harry Potter and JKR long before it was cool to do so. Ahead of the curve, as always.
God bless Alan Moore and Kev O'Neill for pissing on this anodyne garbage
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It's true, LoEG was slagging off Harry Potter and JKR long before it was cool to do so. Ahead of the curve, as always.
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Lancaster Priory. In 1912, excavations revealed a wall which may be from Roman times. Also, a small Saxon doorway has been exposed in the west wall of the present nave. It also believed that a monastery had been established here before the Norman conquest.
December 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Lancaster Priory. In 1912, excavations revealed a wall which may be from Roman times. Also, a small Saxon doorway has been exposed in the west wall of the present nave. It also believed that a monastery had been established here before the Norman conquest.
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Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday