Hal Duncan
@halduncan.com
Writer, editor, gardener--sometimes even in that order.
Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender.
Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender.
Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
this is the Ardeer ICI Nobel factory site where my paternal grandmother helped build munitions to kill people in WW2 and produce chemical shit after that which ultimately poisoned her before I was born, don't think there's much chance of my getting a job there now even if I wanted the slow poisoning
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
this is the Ardeer ICI Nobel factory site where my paternal grandmother helped build munitions to kill people in WW2 and produce chemical shit after that which ultimately poisoned her before I was born, don't think there's much chance of my getting a job there now even if I wanted the slow poisoning
I have fixed the stupid nomenclature whereby your parent's cousin is supposedly also a "cousin" rather an aunt or uncle, and even your grandparent's cousin is supposedly also a "cousin" ffs rather than a grand-uncle or grand-aunt.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I have fixed the stupid nomenclature whereby your parent's cousin is supposedly also a "cousin" rather an aunt or uncle, and even your grandparent's cousin is supposedly also a "cousin" ffs rather than a grand-uncle or grand-aunt.
So it worked out rather well
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So it worked out rather well
"so yeah, I was watching Operation Valkyrie the other night..."
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"so yeah, I was watching Operation Valkyrie the other night..."
what? you thought I was joking? behold my new gay (lion) pride flag!
September 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
what? you thought I was joking? behold my new gay (lion) pride flag!
when you think in terms of bastion theory, you realise that "triangulation" by the elite is really just adopting a position halfway between the propriety of the bourgeois centre and the brutality of the guards along the walls and then making that position the new propriety of the bourgeois centre
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
when you think in terms of bastion theory, you realise that "triangulation" by the elite is really just adopting a position halfway between the propriety of the bourgeois centre and the brutality of the guards along the walls and then making that position the new propriety of the bourgeois centre
So I invested in some basics from a nearby pan-Asian deli to see how they compare to Lidl’s version or, with the panang paste, to fill a gap where Lidl don’t stock it.
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
So I invested in some basics from a nearby pan-Asian deli to see how they compare to Lidl’s version or, with the panang paste, to fill a gap where Lidl don’t stock it.
Be the Mercedes from Pan's Labyrinth that you want to see in the world.
September 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Be the Mercedes from Pan's Labyrinth that you want to see in the world.
Why do they think we do? >> Wilhoit's Law
Wilhoit's Law is how they operate. Wilhoit's Law is how they think *everyone* operates.
Also:
Wilhoit's Law is how they operate. Wilhoit's Law is how they think *everyone* operates.
Also:
September 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Why do they think we do? >> Wilhoit's Law
Wilhoit's Law is how they operate. Wilhoit's Law is how they think *everyone* operates.
Also:
Wilhoit's Law is how they operate. Wilhoit's Law is how they think *everyone* operates.
Also:
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
I do like the term "reactionary centrist" but it's important to remember that "centrist" really means "aligned with the centre of power & privilege" because the left/right axis is only a spatial metaphor, there is no "middle ground", not really, and that's right IT'S BASTION THEORY, MOTHERFUCKERS!
September 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I do like the term "reactionary centrist" but it's important to remember that "centrist" really means "aligned with the centre of power & privilege" because the left/right axis is only a spatial metaphor, there is no "middle ground", not really, and that's right IT'S BASTION THEORY, MOTHERFUCKERS!
reject horseshoe theory, embrace BASTION THEORY
September 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
reject horseshoe theory, embrace BASTION THEORY
Two people to take the ring to Mordor
August 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Two people to take the ring to Mordor
if it was a talking doll there'd be an entire franchise of horror movies and a tv show devoted to it
August 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
if it was a talking doll there'd be an entire franchise of horror movies and a tv show devoted to it
This showed up in Lidl’s limited time section and with no idea how it tastes I figured I’d trust Korean cuisine and Thai manufacturers, and at a wee taste I do not regret it
August 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This showed up in Lidl’s limited time section and with no idea how it tastes I figured I’d trust Korean cuisine and Thai manufacturers, and at a wee taste I do not regret it
For my first ever attempt at pan frying fish—it’s just something I never got round to after disastrous frying failures in my 20s then decades of only a stupid tiny frying pan too small for fish—I’m quite chuffed how the fish came out. It was rather tasty too.
August 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For my first ever attempt at pan frying fish—it’s just something I never got round to after disastrous frying failures in my 20s then decades of only a stupid tiny frying pan too small for fish—I’m quite chuffed how the fish came out. It was rather tasty too.
I have collaborated with Nibling the Younger in designing a Thai BL Bingo Card, because we both felt it needed to be done
August 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I have collaborated with Nibling the Younger in designing a Thai BL Bingo Card, because we both felt it needed to be done
The median elite journalist is firmly a constitutive element of the centre of power & privilege which responded to the threat to that centre posed by 21st century social justice with a campaign of anti-egalitarian rhetoric to radicalise its violent fringe and *create* that powerful fascist daddy.
August 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The median elite journalist is firmly a constitutive element of the centre of power & privilege which responded to the threat to that centre posed by 21st century social justice with a campaign of anti-egalitarian rhetoric to radicalise its violent fringe and *create* that powerful fascist daddy.
Proudly clocking a mentoring client’s debut on the shelves of the big Glasgow Waterstones, Blood Caste by Shylashri Shankar being a ripping murder mystery set in 1890s Hyderabad.
August 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Proudly clocking a mentoring client’s debut on the shelves of the big Glasgow Waterstones, Blood Caste by Shylashri Shankar being a ripping murder mystery set in 1890s Hyderabad.
Went to a pop up gay market with the niblings
July 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Went to a pop up gay market with the niblings
It's Bastion Theory time again!
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's Bastion Theory time again!
One of the stalks had folded completely under its own weight so it is now lending its gorgeousness and fragrance to the living room
July 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
One of the stalks had folded completely under its own weight so it is now lending its gorgeousness and fragrance to the living room