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Louie Stowell
@louiestowell.bsky.social
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Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
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Can anyone who's good at instagram help me? Whenever I post a story using a grid post, I can't see what I'm typing. I see this. It's been doing it a while and I tried googling but couldn't find a fix. Anyone?? I'm on a samsung S23 if that helps.
Screenshot of my phone screen when attempting to post a story. You can see the original post, a pic of loki, in the background. Instead of seeing that I am posting the word "test" in my story, you can only half see the word test. Superimposed on that is a bar showing fonts and text styles, hiding what I'm trying to type. It is driving me nuts.
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Watching the numbers tick up is giving me life. Who can tip this over 6 large?
Screenshot of Bid 4 Sudan site with the total raised: £5,989.49! So if someone bids (oh god maths) just over a tenner on something, we will be over 6k. I think?
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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"You'll be visted by three spirits"

The three spirits:
From left to right, pics of Stede Bonnet, Jim and Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Art by @raafaye, insta
Poster announcing CREATIVES 4 SUDAN. A sudanese flag is waving behind the text. The rest reads AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER, BID TODAY. galabid.com/creatives4sudan The art on the poster is by @raafaye on insta.
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I will be posting about this non stop in the days to come but v excited to say this auction is LIVE! Funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Perfect xmas presents and treats for you! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
Poster announcing CREATIVES 4 SUDAN. A sudanese flag is waving behind the text. The rest reads AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER, BID TODAY. galabid.com/creatives4sudan
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This took me down a rabbithole that led here:
Reddit screenshot in a thread about Fenton: LazarusOwenhart 2y ago says" He even got a shout out in the Assassin's Creed series. In Valhalla if you go to the vague area of Richmond Park you'll hear a guy yelling "Fenton! Fenton!" He gives you a quest to find Fenton."
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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It's friday! Time for the weekly good news thread. What's YOUR good news of the week? What's made you smile?
Emma Thompson in Down Cemetery Road, looking the hottest a person can look. She has grey-white short hair, little hoop earrings, and she's smiling. Her coat is leather and she's holding a phone to her face.
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The medieval version of this
A much-circulated-online drawing of a horse where the hindquarters are beautifully drawn and shaded and the front looks like a 4 year old drew it in a hurry.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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The answer to the question, what if a viking king had a name that really, really made him sound like he should be a Danny Dyer character.
A screenshot of wikipedia showing an illustration of a medieval king. His name is Harthacnut. When you take into account norse pronunciation, that th is more like a d and if, like me, your brain always flips the first two letters of Cnut then, he's definitely a king who would fit into a British gangster film of the 90s or 2000s.
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Postez votre perso favori de Star Trek, mauvaises réponses uniquement
A screenshot of a french website showing the flag with a woman composing the white part of it. The web address is data.gouv.fr. (Apologies for doing the metadata in english, my internet vocab in french is bad. What IS screenshot? Off to look up)
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Respectfully, Emma Thompson in Down Cemetery Road.
Emma Thompson, in apple tv's Down Cemetery Road, in a black coat with the collar popped. Her hair is short and grey and HOT. Everything about this character is hot. Even the fence she's standing behind has become hot by association.
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Ps you were in my waterstones email this morning!
Screenshot of a marketing email from waterstones showing best books of 2025, nature and travel. It includes Moonlight Express in the header image.
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
A black and white photo of the interior of a train car. A woman in a dressing gown is condiucting a disorganised looking band of white women, a lot of them with bottle blonde hair. If you look closely, two of them are Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dressed as women, and one is Marilyn Monroe with a tiny ukelele.
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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PS this one?
The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs, published by faber and faber
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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It's friday! That means time for the weekly good news thread. What's YOUR good news from the week? What's made you smile? Mine is an incredibly fun time I had with @amdassu.bsky.social at her online launch last night. For this gorgeous book! (pics from the physical launch earlier on)
AM Dassu in silky blue reading from Wild Journey: A flight of stories acrxoss deserts and forests, cities and seas by AM Dassue, illustrated by Joe Lillington. We see her agent, Julia Churchill, in the background, and a wall of copies of Wild Journey. The covers are orange. The cover of WILD JOURNEY: A flight of stories across deserts and forests, cities and seas. We see pics of a wounded starling, some camels and a wolf, surrounded and connected by a murmuration of starlings. Teh background is orange. It's by A.M. Dassu, illustrated by Joe Lillington.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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OK this is less funny but also cool to see, dominating the trickster tag.
Screenshot from Amazon saying Best Sellers in Children's Trickster Tales fiction. Loki books take all 4 top spots (Book five first, book one second, book 4 third, book 3 fourth)
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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This remains the funniest category for my book to be in, kudos to whover did the metadata.
A screenshot from amazon for LOKIL A BAD GOD'S GUIDE TO CAUSING CHAOS. It has the additional text in the title, in the manner that publishers favour these days, saying Trickster Norse god turned school kid - the brand new book in the hilarious comics-style diary series for 7-11 year olds (Loki: A Bad God's Guide, 5) There is a #1 Bestseller flag in Children's Books on Religions
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Every now and then I find an old screenshoot I took from a publishing email
Screenshot in black text on white saying Waterstones BOTM anal
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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For the National Year of Reading, I'd like to see a publisher-neutral pro-reading campaign on the scale of the library one from the 80s and 90s please. Who would be your top choices of celebs to get kids reading now? Rights would be a nightmare but what a bout a k pop demon hunter drawn reading...
A poster from what looks like the early 90s based on the hideous grey shiny suit showing a young denzel washington. The strapline says READ in big letters. Underneath it says Denzel Washington for America's Libraries. He' ssitting in an armchair. The resolution isn't great but I tHINK he's reading a dr seuss book. A poster shows David bowie leaping in the air reading a book. He's wearing jeans and a lettermans jacket saying ROOTS. The book looks like a penguin classic and shows a man with a beard but the resolution isn't good enough to tell exactly which book. The header says READ and the smaller text on the poster says David Bowie for America's Libraries.
November 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Been mostly reading adult books but now it's time to return to the kidlit TBR... #KidLitUK First stop will be The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social 🐒 Cover illo by Helen Crawford-White. I've been looking forward to this one as I loved Secrets of the Snakestone. @nosycrow.bsky.social
My hand holding up a book. The background of the cover is black and on it is a stylised orange monkey holding a greenish blueish jewel. The white, hand-lettered title, curving around the monkey and its tail, reads The Golden Monkey Mystery. The author's name, Piu Dasgupta, is written on the monkey's arm in black. The background behind the book is my rainforest wallpaper which, accidentally, fits the theme of the book as it's set partly in a jungle in Bengal.
November 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Love this juxtaposition. The tower remembers.. What Lily Allen's boyfriend did.
An avert for the tower of london saying THE TOWER REMEMBERS next to a poster for lily Allen's new album that looks like an old master of her
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
Neill Cameron art of the characters from Mega Robo Bros.
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Mordor is birmingham, I always assumed. Mostly from going through birmingham on the train a lot as a kid and seeing nothing but chimneys. These vibes
A black and white photo of chimneys belching smoke in birmingham at some point in the past, maybe the 1950s? I'm not THAT old but it's definitely the same vibe that birmingham gave in the 80s when I was going past on the train to liverpool.
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Loving this! Have been quoting anecdotes from it to anyone who'll listen. And those who won't but can't get away.
The cover of Embers of the hands: hidden histories of the viking age by Eleanor Barraclough. It's black with gold decorative illustration including a thor's hammer, a statue of Frey with a massive dong, and a comb.
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Watching Vikings and no place is as miserable as Floki's settlement in Iceland. I've been at cheerier Travelodges on ring roads. At least they have roofs. Also Ivar has lost it. This is Yellowjackets level bats.
Ivar the boneless from vikings wearing white makeup and a crown, looking insane like a medieval norse joker.
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM