Alys Wilfred Earl
@alysdragon.bsky.social
Writer, aesthete, reprobate.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
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My first stories, and novels When the Sea is Rising Red, and Beastkeeper came out under Cat Hellisen.
My latest novel The Shape of Monsters is under CL Hellisen, and narrated by the fabulous Omari Douglas.
Also more stuff between those ends of the timeline
My latest novel The Shape of Monsters is under CL Hellisen, and narrated by the fabulous Omari Douglas.
Also more stuff between those ends of the timeline
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
My first stories, and novels When the Sea is Rising Red, and Beastkeeper came out under Cat Hellisen.
My latest novel The Shape of Monsters is under CL Hellisen, and narrated by the fabulous Omari Douglas.
Also more stuff between those ends of the timeline
My latest novel The Shape of Monsters is under CL Hellisen, and narrated by the fabulous Omari Douglas.
Also more stuff between those ends of the timeline
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My favourite thing about Teddy and Peaches relationship is that they engage in a lot of casual, sexual touch. They know each others bodies so well that a kiss becomes a caress becomes sex…
By which I mean, I hope I remembered the #NSFW label on this one.
By which I mean, I hope I remembered the #NSFW label on this one.
In which Peaches comes home. Chapter two concludes today: forthenby.com/2025/11/19/2...
2.2.3
In which Lord Forthenby learns something of his household…
forthenby.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My favourite thing about Teddy and Peaches relationship is that they engage in a lot of casual, sexual touch. They know each others bodies so well that a kiss becomes a caress becomes sex…
By which I mean, I hope I remembered the #NSFW label on this one.
By which I mean, I hope I remembered the #NSFW label on this one.
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"Some parents shared deeply distressing accounts of what they have heard about the services, including stories of patients as young as 11 being continually asked about their genitals and sex life."
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children”
Parents cry out in despair for their children at the NHS Sussex investigation into WellBN's prescription of gender dysphoria medication
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November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Some parents shared deeply distressing accounts of what they have heard about the services, including stories of patients as young as 11 being continually asked about their genitals and sex life."
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Gods, my head just sounds like the grinding of metal gears right now. I’ve got so much work to do, and…
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Gods, my head just sounds like the grinding of metal gears right now. I’ve got so much work to do, and…
Turns out if I have a significant enough emotion, I have an asthma attack.
Pop psychology: Just let your feelings go. Feel your grief and your rage, let it move through your body…
Me, wheezing: SALBUTAMOL
Pop psychology: Just let your feelings go. Feel your grief and your rage, let it move through your body…
Me, wheezing: SALBUTAMOL
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Turns out if I have a significant enough emotion, I have an asthma attack.
Pop psychology: Just let your feelings go. Feel your grief and your rage, let it move through your body…
Me, wheezing: SALBUTAMOL
Pop psychology: Just let your feelings go. Feel your grief and your rage, let it move through your body…
Me, wheezing: SALBUTAMOL
Fuck Waterstones for this bullshit: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Fuck Waterstones for this bullshit: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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If you're a fan of Le Fanu, M.R. James, Stoker and want something modern that tickles those pickles, you need to run to @alysdragon.bsky.social and request your copy of Time's Fool today!
(If anyone wants a copy of my gothic and wintery vampire novel, lmk. I have copies and am happy to sell you one.)
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If you're a fan of Le Fanu, M.R. James, Stoker and want something modern that tickles those pickles, you need to run to @alysdragon.bsky.social and request your copy of Time's Fool today!
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We are governed by monsters.
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We are governed by monsters.
Looks like snow’s back on the menu, boys!
(I know it won’t settle, I know it won’t settle.)
(I know it won’t settle, I know it won’t settle.)
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Looks like snow’s back on the menu, boys!
(I know it won’t settle, I know it won’t settle.)
(I know it won’t settle, I know it won’t settle.)
When I send my mincemeat out in to the world, it’s always in proper Kilner or Le Parfait jars, and what comes back is always “they’re just as good!” generics with shitty seals, that are always just sligghhhtly smaller.
*grumble grumble grumble*
*grumble grumble grumble*
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
When I send my mincemeat out in to the world, it’s always in proper Kilner or Le Parfait jars, and what comes back is always “they’re just as good!” generics with shitty seals, that are always just sligghhhtly smaller.
*grumble grumble grumble*
*grumble grumble grumble*
IT IS TIME.
Muffins, buttered eggs, and the first episode of The Box of Delights.
Muffins, buttered eggs, and the first episode of The Box of Delights.
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
IT IS TIME.
Muffins, buttered eggs, and the first episode of The Box of Delights.
Muffins, buttered eggs, and the first episode of The Box of Delights.
Made some preserved clementines last year (recipe: larderlove.com/how-to-make-...) and a jar has been sitting in the fridge for months, and I asked Mattie to check if they’d gone over. (It’s mincemeat day, I need the jar.)
And OH MY GOD.
They had not gone over. They were *heavenly*
And OH MY GOD.
They had not gone over. They were *heavenly*
Homemade Clementines Preserved In Brandy Syrup Two Ways (+Video!) - Larder Love
Easy recipe for how to make clementines in brandy syrup, delicious served with ice-cream and the perfect foodie gift for Christmas too.
larderlove.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Made some preserved clementines last year (recipe: larderlove.com/how-to-make-...) and a jar has been sitting in the fridge for months, and I asked Mattie to check if they’d gone over. (It’s mincemeat day, I need the jar.)
And OH MY GOD.
They had not gone over. They were *heavenly*
And OH MY GOD.
They had not gone over. They were *heavenly*
It feels churlish to complain because I keep benefitting from it, but the whole “charity shop as vintage” pricing has got completely absurd, lately.
I live near one of those outlet/last chance charity shops? And I have picked up SO MANY beautiful/mint/designer items for 3-4 quid?
Do you know why?
I live near one of those outlet/last chance charity shops? And I have picked up SO MANY beautiful/mint/designer items for 3-4 quid?
Do you know why?
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It feels churlish to complain because I keep benefitting from it, but the whole “charity shop as vintage” pricing has got completely absurd, lately.
I live near one of those outlet/last chance charity shops? And I have picked up SO MANY beautiful/mint/designer items for 3-4 quid?
Do you know why?
I live near one of those outlet/last chance charity shops? And I have picked up SO MANY beautiful/mint/designer items for 3-4 quid?
Do you know why?
It’s built a nest!
Is that going to make it more unsettling? Or less?
Is that going to make it more unsettling? Or less?
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It’s built a nest!
Is that going to make it more unsettling? Or less?
Is that going to make it more unsettling? Or less?
Two lovers, locked in eternal battle (me taking the hangers out of Mattie’s wardrobe v. Mattie hoarding all the fucking hangers in their wardrobe.)
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Two lovers, locked in eternal battle (me taking the hangers out of Mattie’s wardrobe v. Mattie hoarding all the fucking hangers in their wardrobe.)
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Five hours!!!!! The Mikey! $1000 grand prize. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
www.smokelong.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Five hours!!!!! The Mikey! $1000 grand prize. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Gods, the pain is bad tonight.
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Gods, the pain is bad tonight.
Sprog2 dyeing her hair green…
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Sprog2 dyeing her hair green…
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Day zero or day one, today is the deadline for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Ends midnight tonight. Send your best 250 words (or fewer). #TheMikey. ❤️
#TheMikey deadline is this Saturday Nov. 15, midnight NYC. However you count the days (you can see how bad we are at it), you can't choose your own ending for this, sadly, but you CAN choose to send us your 250-word story—top prizes $1,000/$500/$300; finalists $100; all published in December's SLQ.
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Day zero or day one, today is the deadline for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Ends midnight tonight. Send your best 250 words (or fewer). #TheMikey. ❤️
The problem with Spike is that they had to undermine all his smouldering charm with moments of humour so that The Girlies (gender neutral) didn’t completely lose their minds with lust.
Unfortunately, this only served to make him Scrungly. Which Made It Worse.
Unfortunately, this only served to make him Scrungly. Which Made It Worse.
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The problem with Spike is that they had to undermine all his smouldering charm with moments of humour so that The Girlies (gender neutral) didn’t completely lose their minds with lust.
Unfortunately, this only served to make him Scrungly. Which Made It Worse.
Unfortunately, this only served to make him Scrungly. Which Made It Worse.
I’ve just realised something.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I’ve just realised something.
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tickets now on sale for "Casting the Runes" in London on 7 December
londonmonthofthedead.com/mrjames2025....
londonmonthofthedead.com/mrjames2025....
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
tickets now on sale for "Casting the Runes" in London on 7 December
londonmonthofthedead.com/mrjames2025....
londonmonthofthedead.com/mrjames2025....
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Two weeks to go until the latest run of WRITING THE OCCULT, which will be turning its attention to the monstrous and mysterious with CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES! And just like at that line-up - not quite sure how I got there but loads of good stuff as well... www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Two weeks to go until the latest run of WRITING THE OCCULT, which will be turning its attention to the monstrous and mysterious with CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES! And just like at that line-up - not quite sure how I got there but loads of good stuff as well... www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Weather tonight making me think of that gorgeous Scots word, “courie”.
Been winter-proofing the garden and snuggled all the tender little bits down in some fleece, and am now drawing the curtains against the night, and curling a bit closer in to my jumper.
Been winter-proofing the garden and snuggled all the tender little bits down in some fleece, and am now drawing the curtains against the night, and curling a bit closer in to my jumper.
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Weather tonight making me think of that gorgeous Scots word, “courie”.
Been winter-proofing the garden and snuggled all the tender little bits down in some fleece, and am now drawing the curtains against the night, and curling a bit closer in to my jumper.
Been winter-proofing the garden and snuggled all the tender little bits down in some fleece, and am now drawing the curtains against the night, and curling a bit closer in to my jumper.