@hereward.bsky.social
2026-1: Heavy Weather. Short stories themed around supernatural weather stories, including Du Maurier's The Birds. Each story is delightful but the editor's attempt to frame each in terms of the changing climate is perhaps a little clunky.
January 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
2026-1: Heavy Weather. Short stories themed around supernatural weather stories, including Du Maurier's The Birds. Each story is delightful but the editor's attempt to frame each in terms of the changing climate is perhaps a little clunky.
Saw #ThePoltergeistArcola at @arcolatheatre.bsky.social last night and was really blown away. The play has an emotional intensity that makes it exhausting to watch but we were very glad to have seen it. Louis Davison's performance is so engaging, effortlessly sparking from tragedy to comedy. 5*!
September 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Saw #ThePoltergeistArcola at @arcolatheatre.bsky.social last night and was really blown away. The play has an emotional intensity that makes it exhausting to watch but we were very glad to have seen it. Louis Davison's performance is so engaging, effortlessly sparking from tragedy to comedy. 5*!
"Expensive bit of real estate for a Quaker meeting." - A passer by.
July 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Expensive bit of real estate for a Quaker meeting." - A passer by.
I have read eight books this year, which is relatively good going. Unfortunately I have acquired twelve books, excluding gifts. This is unsustainable. I will not stop.
February 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have read eight books this year, which is relatively good going. Unfortunately I have acquired twelve books, excluding gifts. This is unsustainable. I will not stop.
The Swiss have mastered the art of making cannelés affordable by making them *tiny*. Cappuccino for scale.
February 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The Swiss have mastered the art of making cannelés affordable by making them *tiny*. Cappuccino for scale.
I finished reading a book today. So I bought myself three new books. As a treat.
January 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I finished reading a book today. So I bought myself three new books. As a treat.
My (initial) reading list for 2025 and the D20 that will help me decide what to read next.
January 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My (initial) reading list for 2025 and the D20 that will help me decide what to read next.
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This year I want to do more to support queer and other minority groups, ESPECIALLY creators in said groups.
I’m starting by backing this awesome project by @rdpires.bsky.social
Full disclosure: we’re friends, and I blurbed this book (so I’ve already read it)!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rdp...
I’m starting by backing this awesome project by @rdpires.bsky.social
Full disclosure: we’re friends, and I blurbed this book (so I’ve already read it)!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rdp...
Of Chaos and Eternal Night: Book of Mortal Names Edition
Coming of age fantasy-horror novel for lovers of ancient mythology, magical monsters, and tantalizing brushes with death.
www.kickstarter.com
January 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This year I want to do more to support queer and other minority groups, ESPECIALLY creators in said groups.
I’m starting by backing this awesome project by @rdpires.bsky.social
Full disclosure: we’re friends, and I blurbed this book (so I’ve already read it)!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rdp...
I’m starting by backing this awesome project by @rdpires.bsky.social
Full disclosure: we’re friends, and I blurbed this book (so I’ve already read it)!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/rdp...
There is a special kind of joy that comes from visiting #GaysTheWord to buy a book that is only bested by visiting #GaysTheWord and having someone else buy a book for you.
December 22, 2024 at 1:17 PM
There is a special kind of joy that comes from visiting #GaysTheWord to buy a book that is only bested by visiting #GaysTheWord and having someone else buy a book for you.
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It’s even worse knowing that Wes actually met trans kids, listened to them cry about how awful it would be to go through the wrong puberty, how this is a lifesaving treatment, and is fucking doing this anyway
It’s even more heartless than shutting them out of conversations
It’s even more heartless than shutting them out of conversations
BREAKING: I have seen confirmation that the indefinite puberty blocker ban for trans kids that was passed by the NI Executive yesterday will be UK-wide. It will come into effect on January 1 2025 when the temporary ban expires.
It is being laid before Parliament today.
It is being laid before Parliament today.
December 11, 2024 at 10:49 AM
It’s even worse knowing that Wes actually met trans kids, listened to them cry about how awful it would be to go through the wrong puberty, how this is a lifesaving treatment, and is fucking doing this anyway
It’s even more heartless than shutting them out of conversations
It’s even more heartless than shutting them out of conversations
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Fortunato
He destroyed his cask
Yes
YES
The Amontillado is out
by Edgar, age 37
He destroyed his cask
Yes
YES
The Amontillado is out
by Edgar, age 37
November 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Fortunato
He destroyed his cask
Yes
YES
The Amontillado is out
by Edgar, age 37
He destroyed his cask
Yes
YES
The Amontillado is out
by Edgar, age 37
Finally finding out just how the twinks are being obliterated. @bonabooks.bsky.social
November 11, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Finally finding out just how the twinks are being obliterated. @bonabooks.bsky.social
I'm not watching the opening ceremony, but based on the memes it's mainly bisexuals.and boats right?
July 26, 2024 at 7:52 PM
I'm not watching the opening ceremony, but based on the memes it's mainly bisexuals.and boats right?
Switching from British to American detective fiction has given me such whiplash. Gone from pottering around a sleepy market town with Wexford to being stalked on the freeway with Scarpetta.
July 24, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Switching from British to American detective fiction has given me such whiplash. Gone from pottering around a sleepy market town with Wexford to being stalked on the freeway with Scarpetta.
Time for the Rome/Florence St Sebastian round-up. We'll be bringing you the best (well, all) of the St Sebastian portraiture we found in the last week.
We're starting off fairly traditional with a painting from the Vatican Museums.
We're starting off fairly traditional with a painting from the Vatican Museums.
February 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Time for the Rome/Florence St Sebastian round-up. We'll be bringing you the best (well, all) of the St Sebastian portraiture we found in the last week.
We're starting off fairly traditional with a painting from the Vatican Museums.
We're starting off fairly traditional with a painting from the Vatican Museums.
Found a cheeky @museumbums.bsky.social in Florence today. 👀
January 31, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Found a cheeky @museumbums.bsky.social in Florence today. 👀
The square outside our hotel has live music. It's the only square in Florence with live music. It's a busker performing to an audience of half a dozen. They're so loudly amplified we can hear them in the hotel room. Last night the music ended at 1am. It all seems so unnecessary.
January 31, 2024 at 5:04 PM
The square outside our hotel has live music. It's the only square in Florence with live music. It's a busker performing to an audience of half a dozen. They're so loudly amplified we can hear them in the hotel room. Last night the music ended at 1am. It all seems so unnecessary.
@chrismccartney.bsky.social and I have just spent over eight hours in the Uffizi. WHAT YEAR IS IT?
January 31, 2024 at 2:47 PM
@chrismccartney.bsky.social and I have just spent over eight hours in the Uffizi. WHAT YEAR IS IT?
For financial logistical reasons @chrismccartney.bsky.social is paying for most of our meals in Rome. This is not stopping me from pretending I'm a 1920s twink being whisked round Europe on someone else's dime.
January 29, 2024 at 9:01 AM
For financial logistical reasons @chrismccartney.bsky.social is paying for most of our meals in Rome. This is not stopping me from pretending I'm a 1920s twink being whisked round Europe on someone else's dime.
Hilariously getting labeled as adult content. Bluesky, darling, it's a 2000 year old statue in The Vatican. You can let it go.
There are a LOT of Ganymedes ( ... and Antinouses, and Saint Sebastians).
This one, I think, really has a go at making it look like Zeus chatted Ganymede up *as a bird*.
"Sooooo, wanna get out of here?"
This one, I think, really has a go at making it look like Zeus chatted Ganymede up *as a bird*.
"Sooooo, wanna get out of here?"
January 28, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Hilariously getting labeled as adult content. Bluesky, darling, it's a 2000 year old statue in The Vatican. You can let it go.
Enjoying the view with @chrismccartney.bsky.social after a successful day of visiting museums.
January 27, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Enjoying the view with @chrismccartney.bsky.social after a successful day of visiting museums.