Patrick Ness
@patricknessbooks.bsky.social
Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
My advice for the new year would be what Regine says to Seth in More Than This: “Know yourself, and go in swinging.”
Don’t let anyone take your light. Not billionaires, not terrible presidents, not radicalized children’s authors.
Decline to change your shape to accommodate the bigotry of others.
Don’t let anyone take your light. Not billionaires, not terrible presidents, not radicalized children’s authors.
Decline to change your shape to accommodate the bigotry of others.
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My advice for the new year would be what Regine says to Seth in More Than This: “Know yourself, and go in swinging.”
Don’t let anyone take your light. Not billionaires, not terrible presidents, not radicalized children’s authors.
Decline to change your shape to accommodate the bigotry of others.
Don’t let anyone take your light. Not billionaires, not terrible presidents, not radicalized children’s authors.
Decline to change your shape to accommodate the bigotry of others.
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Right now, all over our country, there are people being made to deny who they are so as not to create friction or disrupt the time that is supposed to be special, writes Maggie Chapman ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
December 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Right now, all over our country, there are people being made to deny who they are so as not to create friction or disrupt the time that is supposed to be special, writes Maggie Chapman ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Empress.
Soooo I’m an interdimensional warlock-ninja.
Or a consulting detective, if we’re counting short stories.
Or a consulting detective, if we’re counting short stories.
December 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Empress.
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“This must be the year Britain finally kills off gay ideology”
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off disabled ideology”
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off black ideology”
…See how bigoted it sounds!?
Also note the radicalisation of Suzanne Moore via transphobia!
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off disabled ideology”
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off black ideology”
…See how bigoted it sounds!?
Also note the radicalisation of Suzanne Moore via transphobia!
December 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off gay ideology”
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off disabled ideology”
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off black ideology”
…See how bigoted it sounds!?
Also note the radicalisation of Suzanne Moore via transphobia!
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off disabled ideology”
“This must be the year Britain finally kills off black ideology”
…See how bigoted it sounds!?
Also note the radicalisation of Suzanne Moore via transphobia!
Heard the name Loïc today and love it.
December 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Heard the name Loïc today and love it.
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oh god we CANT let a dude like this leave
December 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
oh god we CANT let a dude like this leave
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Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
December 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
Wake Up Dead Man is great fun (if a tad leisurely) but WHAT a performance from Josh O’Connor.
December 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Wake Up Dead Man is great fun (if a tad leisurely) but WHAT a performance from Josh O’Connor.
Watched Sinners again. Hell of a film. Deeper and richer on a second viewing.
December 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Watched Sinners again. Hell of a film. Deeper and richer on a second viewing.
There has never been a greater album title than “A Salt with a Deadly Pepa” by Salt-n-Pepa.
December 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
There has never been a greater album title than “A Salt with a Deadly Pepa” by Salt-n-Pepa.
Impressed six year old niece by knowing the words to “Golden”. She has no idea how much six year old girl culture and gay culture overlap.
December 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Impressed six year old niece by knowing the words to “Golden”. She has no idea how much six year old girl culture and gay culture overlap.
Definitely not a cult.
classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
How Sandie Peggie 'Benidorm Posse' friend group was torn apart by NHS Fife trans tribunal
The personal cost of the changing room row was exposed in expletive-ridden private messages as tensions boiled over in group chats.
www.thecourier.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Definitely not a cult.
My god, Canada’s Drag Race just can’t help shooting itself in the foot.
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My god, Canada’s Drag Race just can’t help shooting itself in the foot.
What a fucking insult AI-generated subtitles are to deaf and hard of hearing people. Riddled with uncorrected errors and stupid guesses. An embarrassment.
December 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What a fucking insult AI-generated subtitles are to deaf and hard of hearing people. Riddled with uncorrected errors and stupid guesses. An embarrassment.
There always the joke from the Christmas cracker to make everything worse.
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There always the joke from the Christmas cracker to make everything worse.
Christmas season social battery: zero.
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Christmas season social battery: zero.
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Somehow, Tiny Tim returned.
December 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Somehow, Tiny Tim returned.
Somehow, Tiny Tim returned.
December 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Somehow, Tiny Tim returned.
Most important issue of Christmas so far is being introduced by two and a half year old niece to Evil Pea.
December 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Most important issue of Christmas so far is being introduced by two and a half year old niece to Evil Pea.
I’m of Scandinavian descent, and we celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve. So merry Christmas to all you fellow tall folks with big faces and enormous tolerance for cold! Enjoy your lefse!
December 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I’m of Scandinavian descent, and we celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve. So merry Christmas to all you fellow tall folks with big faces and enormous tolerance for cold! Enjoy your lefse!
Queer kids, sadly, often have no choice. Parents don’t get a free pass to abuse, disrespect, insult, frighten. If home isn’t a safe place, you don’t have to go there. End of story.
Sarah Ditum: the voice of parents, some driven mad with hate by the very newspaper for which she writes, who rejected their children and now struggle with the consequences.
Sarah, I'm pretty sure hectoring them from the pages of The Times won't bring them back.
Sarah, I'm pretty sure hectoring them from the pages of The Times won't bring them back.
December 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Queer kids, sadly, often have no choice. Parents don’t get a free pass to abuse, disrespect, insult, frighten. If home isn’t a safe place, you don’t have to go there. End of story.
Good god, the final scenes of Hamnet are powerful. Just like in the novel.
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Good god, the final scenes of Hamnet are powerful. Just like in the novel.
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Piper at the Gates of Dusk returns readers, 20 years on, to @patricknessbooks.bsky.social's acclaimed world of the Chaos Walking series!
Two brothers haunted by dreams of Noise, a new adventure with themes of power, division and hope.
Signed preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/piper-a...
💙📚🪐
Two brothers haunted by dreams of Noise, a new adventure with themes of power, division and hope.
Signed preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/piper-a...
💙📚🪐
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Piper at the Gates of Dusk returns readers, 20 years on, to @patricknessbooks.bsky.social's acclaimed world of the Chaos Walking series!
Two brothers haunted by dreams of Noise, a new adventure with themes of power, division and hope.
Signed preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/piper-a...
💙📚🪐
Two brothers haunted by dreams of Noise, a new adventure with themes of power, division and hope.
Signed preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/piper-a...
💙📚🪐
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
“Don’t use adverbs.” They can be used well, they can be used badly, but saying only bad writers use them is demonstrably untrue.
This usually comes from people who bore on about the “craft” of writing. Yes, craft is important. But mojo is more so. Find your voice, and your craft will follow.
This usually comes from people who bore on about the “craft” of writing. Yes, craft is important. But mojo is more so. Find your voice, and your craft will follow.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Don’t use adverbs.” They can be used well, they can be used badly, but saying only bad writers use them is demonstrably untrue.
This usually comes from people who bore on about the “craft” of writing. Yes, craft is important. But mojo is more so. Find your voice, and your craft will follow.
This usually comes from people who bore on about the “craft” of writing. Yes, craft is important. But mojo is more so. Find your voice, and your craft will follow.