Tim Leach
@timleachwriter.bsky.social
Writer of historical fiction, Associate Professor at University of Warwick.
Website: https://www.tim-leach.co.uk/
Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Tim-Leach/author/B07GRBS3VD.
Website: https://www.tim-leach.co.uk/
Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Tim-Leach/author/B07GRBS3VD.
One of my favourite low-key satirical moments in One Battle After Another - during an ICE style raid, a bearded special forces operator (confronted by a metal security gate in front of a bodega blocking his path) mutters to himself "We need to go kinetic..."
Not the main point, but: these guys are all about direct, ‘masculine’ speech and then suddenly it’s all ‘kinetic action’
How does launching air strikes and a commando raid fall under the remit of self defense for an arrest operation
January 3, 2026 at 2:17 PM
One of my favourite low-key satirical moments in One Battle After Another - during an ICE style raid, a bearded special forces operator (confronted by a metal security gate in front of a bodega blocking his path) mutters to himself "We need to go kinetic..."
Watership Down, of course, and specifically this edition:
January 2, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Watership Down, of course, and specifically this edition:
A thread of books read in 2026...
January 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
A thread of books read in 2026...
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
2025 - what a shitter of a year it has been, one of the more gruesome, personally, professionally, and globally that I can remember. Let us bury it and piss on its grave, and do better next year.
December 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
2025 - what a shitter of a year it has been, one of the more gruesome, personally, professionally, and globally that I can remember. Let us bury it and piss on its grave, and do better next year.
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how to save your boyfriend from getting lost in your Dad's maze. [a thread] 🧵
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I am Chief Rabbit of the warren - I don't think I'd be terrible at it, but not a patch on Hazel.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I am Chief Rabbit of the warren - I don't think I'd be terrible at it, but not a patch on Hazel.
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Do I have any followers who cover the Comic-Con world for the UK media? (Fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels.) My friend Zdenek Strnad is organizing the 2026 Prague Comic-Con in March and would be keen to bring in a UK based journalist.
December 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Do I have any followers who cover the Comic-Con world for the UK media? (Fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels.) My friend Zdenek Strnad is organizing the 2026 Prague Comic-Con in March and would be keen to bring in a UK based journalist.
What actor's facial expression in a movie/TV show will stay with you for the rest of your life?
December 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What actor's facial expression in a movie/TV show will stay with you for the rest of your life?
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Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
December 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Merry Christmas all, hope you got magic swords and mithril under the Christmas tree...
Today the Company will depart. Bilbo gives Frodo his sword Sting and—secretly—his magnificent Dwarvish mail-coat of pure mithril. The old hobbit sings softly.
‘I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see…’
‘I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see…’
December 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Merry Christmas all, hope you got magic swords and mithril under the Christmas tree...
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READ THIS: Still probably the best #ChristmasEve tradition I’ve heard. Iceland definitely does Christmas well — my Reykjavik clients had funny comments about this! Are you planning to curl up with a great new book on cities this #Christmas? Share your pick with us using hashtag #UrbanismBookClub!
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
READ THIS: Still probably the best #ChristmasEve tradition I’ve heard. Iceland definitely does Christmas well — my Reykjavik clients had funny comments about this! Are you planning to curl up with a great new book on cities this #Christmas? Share your pick with us using hashtag #UrbanismBookClub!
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up there with this classic:
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odysseus: we now set out on our odyssey.
sailor: [raising hand] what's an odyssey?
odysseus: a long journey named after the only survivor.
sailor: oh ok wait what.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
up there with this classic:
These are GREAT. “The man who caught the tail of the lion sank in the river, but the one who caught the tail of the fox was rescued” is particularly pleasing...
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
These are GREAT. “The man who caught the tail of the lion sank in the river, but the one who caught the tail of the fox was rescued” is particularly pleasing...
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🎶he sees you when you're sleeping
he knows when you're awake
his vision's based on movement
and the heat signature you make🎶
he knows when you're awake
his vision's based on movement
and the heat signature you make🎶
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🎶he sees you when you're sleeping
he knows when you're awake
his vision's based on movement
and the heat signature you make🎶
he knows when you're awake
his vision's based on movement
and the heat signature you make🎶
Started a tradition last year of rereading one of my own books every year. Now it is time for the sequel, 'The King and the Slave'...
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December is the month for rereading, and so I thought I'd go back and reread my very first book - published back in 2013, and I've not looked at it for the better part of ten years. Interested to hear from other writers about their experiences of going back to the beginning!
December 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Started a tradition last year of rereading one of my own books every year. Now it is time for the sequel, 'The King and the Slave'...
bsky.app/profile/timl...
bsky.app/profile/timl...
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
'Sickness', Mixed Media, Leach, T, 2025
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
'Sickness', Mixed Media, Leach, T, 2025
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
If you haven't seen the wonderful 'Home Movie' version of the Princess Bride that a bunch of actors made during Covid, I guess today is a good day to do so.
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The Princess Bride: Home Movie (full)
YouTube video by Dornish Queen
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December 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
If you haven't seen the wonderful 'Home Movie' version of the Princess Bride that a bunch of actors made during Covid, I guess today is a good day to do so.
youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI?...
youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI?...
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This by Pratchett in 1999 isn't about AI bros but might as well be
February 29, 2024 at 7:51 PM
This by Pratchett in 1999 isn't about AI bros but might as well be
Yes, I think the mission for us men entering middle and older years is to not become the kind of tediously bitter man that makes your heart sink in the pub.
Key weapons in the fight:
1) Relearning how to be playful (rediscovering childhood)
2) Embracing new hobbies that you're bad at.
Key weapons in the fight:
1) Relearning how to be playful (rediscovering childhood)
2) Embracing new hobbies that you're bad at.
When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks.
The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.
But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.
There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.
But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.
There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Yes, I think the mission for us men entering middle and older years is to not become the kind of tediously bitter man that makes your heart sink in the pub.
Key weapons in the fight:
1) Relearning how to be playful (rediscovering childhood)
2) Embracing new hobbies that you're bad at.
Key weapons in the fight:
1) Relearning how to be playful (rediscovering childhood)
2) Embracing new hobbies that you're bad at.