Lynda Clark
@lyndac.bsky.social
Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/
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There will be swears.
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No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
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Beyond Kidding: An unputdownable, darkly funny sci-fi
An unputdownable, darkly funny sci-fi
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Updated links to my books that actually work:
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When I rounded the corner this morning to find this I thought there had definitely been a murder.
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
When I rounded the corner this morning to find this I thought there had definitely been a murder.
Re-watching Mute for current project and I think its main problem is that it isn't really Leo's story, it's Cactus Bill's. If Leo had been cut altogether and everything had been refocused around Bill, I wouldn't be writing about it in a book on vocal disorder but it would be a better film.
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Re-watching Mute for current project and I think its main problem is that it isn't really Leo's story, it's Cactus Bill's. If Leo had been cut altogether and everything had been refocused around Bill, I wouldn't be writing about it in a book on vocal disorder but it would be a better film.
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Still looking for a Christmas present for the Scottish folklore enthusiast in your life? Dark Crescent has you covered - "a terrific collection of Scottish folktales with a modern twist" (according to Joanne Harris!) ✨️ Available in the usual places/via @lunapress.bsky.social! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Still looking for a Christmas present for the Scottish folklore enthusiast in your life? Dark Crescent has you covered - "a terrific collection of Scottish folktales with a modern twist" (according to Joanne Harris!) ✨️ Available in the usual places/via @lunapress.bsky.social! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
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Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
HODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONS
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www.hodder.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
I'm watching the American Traitors series with Bob the Drag Queen in it cos he's my fave and would love to know what the fuck accent Alan Cumming thinks he's doing.
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm watching the American Traitors series with Bob the Drag Queen in it cos he's my fave and would love to know what the fuck accent Alan Cumming thinks he's doing.
I keep my decaf in a jar with a ghost on it because decaf is the ghost of actual coffee.
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I keep my decaf in a jar with a ghost on it because decaf is the ghost of actual coffee.
In Scottish Gaelic, gorm means both green and blue depending on the context and it seems from watching Real Real Japan that this is true in Japanese as well. Does anyone know why?
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In Scottish Gaelic, gorm means both green and blue depending on the context and it seems from watching Real Real Japan that this is true in Japanese as well. Does anyone know why?
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Just in case anyone was (foolishly) feeling all caught up on their reading lists, here's 100 books by small publishers including stuff from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @psychopomp.com
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just in case anyone was (foolishly) feeling all caught up on their reading lists, here's 100 books by small publishers including stuff from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @psychopomp.com
On my way to Dundee to participate in Wet Tec. This is a technology/arts event series and none of the Cronenbergesque things envisioned by my guttermind.
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On my way to Dundee to participate in Wet Tec. This is a technology/arts event series and none of the Cronenbergesque things envisioned by my guttermind.
People who have loud conversations on buses should at least have the decency to be interesting.
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
People who have loud conversations on buses should at least have the decency to be interesting.
A weird question for my current project: Does anyone know of writers who are mute? Helen Keller and Jean-Dominique Bauby are the only ones I can find and neither is really what I'm looking for, as both had other intersecting disabilities too.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A weird question for my current project: Does anyone know of writers who are mute? Helen Keller and Jean-Dominique Bauby are the only ones I can find and neither is really what I'm looking for, as both had other intersecting disabilities too.
One of my students got me polvoron as a graduation day present and I'm already stressing about what I'm going to do when the box runs out. Have never had them before this, anyone know where I can buy them in the UK?!
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
One of my students got me polvoron as a graduation day present and I'm already stressing about what I'm going to do when the box runs out. Have never had them before this, anyone know where I can buy them in the UK?!
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For the many women I meet who support trans rights , in case you don’t know it, there is @nionwomen.bsky.social here and on instagram
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
For the many women I meet who support trans rights , in case you don’t know it, there is @nionwomen.bsky.social here and on instagram
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You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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Hey Audible members! The Needfire is currently on a deep discount for the next week so if you've been waiting to buy, now's your chance!
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hey Audible members! The Needfire is currently on a deep discount for the next week so if you've been waiting to buy, now's your chance!
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Thought I might post some short stories for advent - but I may be overestimating my industry & your interest
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Preview Excerpt – Zoetrope: All-Story
www.all-story.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thought I might post some short stories for advent - but I may be overestimating my industry & your interest
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Watching Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. 15 mins from the end (paused it just now to get a snack) and have said at least 5 times in the course of the film "Jesus Christ Victor, go to therapy you arsehole!"
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Watching Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. 15 mins from the end (paused it just now to get a snack) and have said at least 5 times in the course of the film "Jesus Christ Victor, go to therapy you arsehole!"
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And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Eleven!
Submissions will be open from DECEMBER 1st - DECEMBER 14th.
We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.
Submissions will be open from DECEMBER 1st - DECEMBER 14th.
We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Eleven!
Submissions will be open from DECEMBER 1st - DECEMBER 14th.
We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.
Submissions will be open from DECEMBER 1st - DECEMBER 14th.
We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.
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2 weeks left to apply for the American Philosophical Association Fellowship at IASH for 2026-27! Enjoy a private office at the Institute for up to 6 mths, along with regular seminars, lunches, writing retreats and more!
You must be a member of the APA - apply here: www.apaonline.org/page/edinburgh
You must be a member of the APA - apply here: www.apaonline.org/page/edinburgh
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December 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
2 weeks left to apply for the American Philosophical Association Fellowship at IASH for 2026-27! Enjoy a private office at the Institute for up to 6 mths, along with regular seminars, lunches, writing retreats and more!
You must be a member of the APA - apply here: www.apaonline.org/page/edinburgh
You must be a member of the APA - apply here: www.apaonline.org/page/edinburgh
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* ANNOUNCING *
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
* ANNOUNCING *
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤
Watched the Until Dawn movie. It's fine, nothing great, nothing egregious either but does make me wonder what reviewers who said "it's nothing to do with the game" were talking about. It's literally the story of the game from a different (admittedly weird, somewhat nonsensical) POV.
November 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Watched the Until Dawn movie. It's fine, nothing great, nothing egregious either but does make me wonder what reviewers who said "it's nothing to do with the game" were talking about. It's literally the story of the game from a different (admittedly weird, somewhat nonsensical) POV.
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man i sure wish there were a search engine that would make up plausible-looking but completely incorrect search results
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
man i sure wish there were a search engine that would make up plausible-looking but completely incorrect search results