ARAston
@araston90.bsky.social
He/him
35 years old
Writer of hobgoblins & assorted weird little guys
Author of the upcoming Savage Oaths Saga. More info on my website:
https://andrew-r-aston.com/
35 years old
Writer of hobgoblins & assorted weird little guys
Author of the upcoming Savage Oaths Saga. More info on my website:
https://andrew-r-aston.com/
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‘Lab Rats and Lobsters’ is the ttrpg we never knew we needed.
Oh so lab rats and lobsters can have heroin as a treat but
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
‘Lab Rats and Lobsters’ is the ttrpg we never knew we needed.
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“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”
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Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
October 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
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"Diversifying" historical fiction isn't a case of shoehorning. It's a case of restoration. Archeological evidence reveals that ppl from Africa settled in Britain as much as 3,000 years ago, their presence recorded in the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Tudor eras.
History is written by the conquerors.
History is written by the conquerors.
September 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"Diversifying" historical fiction isn't a case of shoehorning. It's a case of restoration. Archeological evidence reveals that ppl from Africa settled in Britain as much as 3,000 years ago, their presence recorded in the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Tudor eras.
History is written by the conquerors.
History is written by the conquerors.
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We hope you have your weighted blankets and comforting hot drink of choice prepared - as we've come up with a list of our favourite Cosy Autumn Reads to keep you company on these darkening nights!
Read more: tinyurl.com/yv8nfyyv
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September 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We hope you have your weighted blankets and comforting hot drink of choice prepared - as we've come up with a list of our favourite Cosy Autumn Reads to keep you company on these darkening nights!
Read more: tinyurl.com/yv8nfyyv
Read more: tinyurl.com/yv8nfyyv
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Four pairs of dividers were found on the Mary Rose.
Made of brass, the pilot would have used them to plot courses and distances on navigational charts.
We didn’t find any maps or charts on the Mary Rose though - paper doesn't last long in the sea!
Made of brass, the pilot would have used them to plot courses and distances on navigational charts.
We didn’t find any maps or charts on the Mary Rose though - paper doesn't last long in the sea!
September 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Four pairs of dividers were found on the Mary Rose.
Made of brass, the pilot would have used them to plot courses and distances on navigational charts.
We didn’t find any maps or charts on the Mary Rose though - paper doesn't last long in the sea!
Made of brass, the pilot would have used them to plot courses and distances on navigational charts.
We didn’t find any maps or charts on the Mary Rose though - paper doesn't last long in the sea!
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For the first 40 odd years of my life, I lived under state-sanctioned oppression. The reality is that a great deal of ppl are perfectly comfortable with fascism as long as it doesn't mean them.
To see blatant hate speech as "just an opinion" is the outlook of the perfectly comfortable. Same old.
To see blatant hate speech as "just an opinion" is the outlook of the perfectly comfortable. Same old.
September 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For the first 40 odd years of my life, I lived under state-sanctioned oppression. The reality is that a great deal of ppl are perfectly comfortable with fascism as long as it doesn't mean them.
To see blatant hate speech as "just an opinion" is the outlook of the perfectly comfortable. Same old.
To see blatant hate speech as "just an opinion" is the outlook of the perfectly comfortable. Same old.
Snazzy fliers for my author website have arrived early, ready to deploy at all the lit festivals I can physically reach! Soft launch begins now.
Please subscribe to my site & you'll be the first to read my serialised first Savage Oaths novel:
andrew-r-aston.com
Please subscribe to my site & you'll be the first to read my serialised first Savage Oaths novel:
andrew-r-aston.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Snazzy fliers for my author website have arrived early, ready to deploy at all the lit festivals I can physically reach! Soft launch begins now.
Please subscribe to my site & you'll be the first to read my serialised first Savage Oaths novel:
andrew-r-aston.com
Please subscribe to my site & you'll be the first to read my serialised first Savage Oaths novel:
andrew-r-aston.com
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"Inside every man, there are two wolv-- oh god not like that!"
August 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"Inside every man, there are two wolv-- oh god not like that!"
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really enjoyed this book. Thoroughly immersive world building, exposition delivered in small droplets, a web of overlapping characters, magic and rebels and monsters. #booksky #writersky #amquerying #sff
really enjoyed this book. Thoroughly immersive world building, exposition delivered in small droplets, a web of overlapping characters, magic and rebels and monsters. #booksky #writersky #amquerying #sff
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
WKND READ REC 20
really enjoyed this book. Thoroughly immersive world building, exposition delivered in small droplets, a web of overlapping characters, magic and rebels and monsters. #booksky #writersky #amquerying #sff
really enjoyed this book. Thoroughly immersive world building, exposition delivered in small droplets, a web of overlapping characters, magic and rebels and monsters. #booksky #writersky #amquerying #sff
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I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
yes. yes yes.
the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.
the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.
Agree. One thing that I really liked about @jpspencer.bsky.social’s Labour Together report is it included culture in “growth spending”. So much policy about regional development in the UK basically regards culture, tourism, etc. as distractions from the real work of building trains to nowhere.
August 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
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The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:
July 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:
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Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
July 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
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Me: No kings!
King In Yellow: (8 feet tall, lurching in corner of room) You talking about me?
Me: Nah man, you’re cool
King In Yellow: (8 feet tall, lurching in corner of room) You talking about me?
Me: Nah man, you’re cool
June 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Me: No kings!
King In Yellow: (8 feet tall, lurching in corner of room) You talking about me?
Me: Nah man, you’re cool
King In Yellow: (8 feet tall, lurching in corner of room) You talking about me?
Me: Nah man, you’re cool
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I'm a normal height and width but my depth is incredible. Over 4 metres between the tip of my nose and the back of my head
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm a normal height and width but my depth is incredible. Over 4 metres between the tip of my nose and the back of my head
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