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#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
One year, there will a Hookland advent calendar. Every window haunted. Every window opened a release of ghosts.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One year, there will a Hookland advent calendar. Every window haunted. Every window opened a release of ghosts.
Hookand was created on the principle that there a lot of places we only assume exist because we have seen some ephemera from them - a postcard, a box of fudge. Maybe a badge that says MELDON - King of Hills. To be honest, it wasn’t till late in life that I was entirely convinced Belgium existed.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Hookand was created on the principle that there a lot of places we only assume exist because we have seen some ephemera from them - a postcard, a box of fudge. Maybe a badge that says MELDON - King of Hills. To be honest, it wasn’t till late in life that I was entirely convinced Belgium existed.
Of course, doing THE VOICE.
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Of course, doing THE VOICE.
There is the solution. Whoever the next DG is, they are actually played by Tom Hardy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
There is the solution. Whoever the next DG is, they are actually played by Tom Hardy.
In that shot, he looks like he is being played by Tom Hardy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
In that shot, he looks like he is being played by Tom Hardy.
Persactly so. The BBC must be us, the best of us, not an other Lord of the realm we tug the forelock to, not something above and beyond that we dance in praise of at stipulated times.
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Persactly so. The BBC must be us, the best of us, not an other Lord of the realm we tug the forelock to, not something above and beyond that we dance in praise of at stipulated times.
I have written a talk on how folklore will haunt the tech bros.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I have written a talk on how folklore will haunt the tech bros.
Only if you are lucky John. I mean it is more likely that today’s news will soak your dreamscape with less fun metaphors.
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Only if you are lucky John. I mean it is more likely that today’s news will soak your dreamscape with less fun metaphors.
Goodnight Mando.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Goodnight Mando.
I am mentoring kids who are the first person to bring a book into their home, kids with the ability to imagine singing glass on alien worlds, but who can’t ever imagine getting published because being on the bruised economic margins is exclusion, is erasure. It makes me so damn angry and sad.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I am mentoring kids who are the first person to bring a book into their home, kids with the ability to imagine singing glass on alien worlds, but who can’t ever imagine getting published because being on the bruised economic margins is exclusion, is erasure. It makes me so damn angry and sad.
Goodnight QM.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Goodnight QM.
Because being poor screws you up. It is trauma. You write and all that psychic damage makes you doubt you words, doubt that they or you will ever be good enough - especially when you are still don’t have bus fare poor. Every working class writer over the line is a hope for the rest of us.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Because being poor screws you up. It is trauma. You write and all that psychic damage makes you doubt you words, doubt that they or you will ever be good enough - especially when you are still don’t have bus fare poor. Every working class writer over the line is a hope for the rest of us.
Goodnight Whatters.
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Goodnight Whatters.
Goodnight. Rest well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Goodnight. Rest well.
Me too Anny. Goodnight.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Me too Anny. Goodnight.
Thank you. Have a couple of broken toes so that is especially appreciated. Goodnight.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Thank you. Have a couple of broken toes so that is especially appreciated. Goodnight.
Genre often comes with a community of love, but the love is earned by writing which is literary, innovative and connective. The emotional muscle and poetry of writing doesn’t live exclusively anywhere - certainly not in long listed books.
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Genre often comes with a community of love, but the love is earned by writing which is literary, innovative and connective. The emotional muscle and poetry of writing doesn’t live exclusively anywhere - certainly not in long listed books.
People will read Marianna Enriquez in a century and her name will probably be known in the same way Bram Stoker’s is. The kids I mentor know the names of people in their favoured genres going back 70 years yet are sketchy about some of the most hyped names of the Booker in the last five years.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
People will read Marianna Enriquez in a century and her name will probably be known in the same way Bram Stoker’s is. The kids I mentor know the names of people in their favoured genres going back 70 years yet are sketchy about some of the most hyped names of the Booker in the last five years.
You sound like Mrs. S. - an Australian prophet of the brushed cotton.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You sound like Mrs. S. - an Australian prophet of the brushed cotton.
Genre is some of the most literary contemporary work. Its ongoing exclusion is wearisome, but some of the books we have read this year will be still being read in 20 years. I can’t say I am hopeful that will be the case for all the books on the Booker.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Genre is some of the most literary contemporary work. Its ongoing exclusion is wearisome, but some of the books we have read this year will be still being read in 20 years. I can’t say I am hopeful that will be the case for all the books on the Booker.
Goodnight Sharon. May sleep come easily tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Goodnight Sharon. May sleep come easily tonight.
Goodnight. Rest well. Dream deep.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Goodnight. Rest well. Dream deep.