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first 6 instalments of 'That Realm, Wherein We Hume Do Dwell' web novel 🐕 by Remy Dean with Zel Cariad 🦄 now published & free to read for a limited time 📚 please pledge subscription to show support 🙏 subs will apply to chapters publishing from April 🔮

#ThisThatAndTheOther 🐲 threerealms.substack.com
graphic showing titles of six instalments: 1. Where To begin? 2. The New Girl. 3. The Fair. 4. Dream-Sharing. 5. A Stray in the Woods. 6. A Dog's Life.
January 15, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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#RemyReviews

2025's #movie mega-hit 'KPop Demon Hunters' won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature while its breakout anthem 'Golden' is named Best Original Song

my #review @framerated.co.uk 🎞️ ICYMI:

🎤 medium.com/framerated/k...

BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#animation #KPop #music
Golden Globes: KPop Demon Hunters wins best animated film and best original song
The film's breakout anthem Golden was also named best original song at the awards on Sunday.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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#ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel
🆓is free to read for a limited period

Chapter 5 published today!

"Their dreams were of woods and dogs and sometimes of something strange, just at the corner of their vision, which turned into something else when they looked at it."

🐾 substack.com/@remydean/p-...
A Dog's Life
THAT REALM, WHEREIN WE HUME DO DWELL: Chapter Five
substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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🤩 My O My 💝 read this 🧚‍♀️ fantasy masterpiece 🐉
remydean.bsky.social Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · Dec 11
My #WebNovel of #ThisThatAndTheOther has debuted on Substack & is free to read for a limited period.

For those interested in friendship, #folklore & fairy tales who love magical adventures

Read the Prologue🌳 threerealms.substack.com/p/where-to-b...

What's it about?💭 threerealms.substack.com/about
chalk illustration by Remy Dean of a giant winged wolf in flight against a backdrop of the night sky - beams of light shine from its eyes and open mouth... the text "Where to begin" appears at the centre of the image.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Yuletide Greetings 🎄
#ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel
🆓is free to read for a limited period

Chapter 4 published today!

What was the 'thing' they glimpsed watching from the shadows? Can Rietta & Carla ever solve the mystery of the missing standing-stone?

🪨 threerealms.substack.com/p/a-stray-in...
A Stray in the Woods
THAT REALM, WHEREIN WE HUME DO DWELL: Chapter Four
threerealms.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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👁️ 👁️ 👁️

standing like a sentinel at the fringe of its thicket our 'Bardic Birch' keeps watch over the Vale (in the dawn or dusk half- light, those eyes seem to fix you with benign scrutiny)

#landscape #photography from #Eryri #Moelwyns #folklore
photograph by Remy Dean of a section of a birch tree trunk with knot marks that look like four eyes looking out in different directions
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🎻 🎥 💃

'Get to Know Remy by Reading Remy'
the art, films & oshi that have made me what I am today

over 8 years, I've written 555+ articles on Medium which tend to be in-depth pieces about #media #music & #movies, classic & contemporary

🖼️ medium.com/@remydean/ge...

#cinema #JPop #咬人猫 #宅舞 #art
9 thumbnail images - (Left-Right) Top: ‘Kwaidan’, ‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Middle: ‘The Medusa Touch’, Yaorenmao, Jonathan Meades - Bottom: Lydia Lunch, Daleks, ‘Inferno’
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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“Creatures”

#art by Zel Cariad was our December 2023
#exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery :

6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie...

#ContemporaryArt #animals #folklore #illustration #イラスト
Three illustrations of Velvet Worms colourful Pop Art in style while remaining biologically accurate. "Solórzano's velvet worm, Mongeperipatus solorzanoi (the pink one) is one of the biggest velvet worms, growing to around 22 cm long. Other species are much smaller, about 5cm long on average, but some species are even smaller. Eoperipatus totoro (the brown one) was named after the 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. The first specimen was caught in 2007. The team that found it wanted to name it after Totoro because the velvet worm's many-legged cuteness reminded them of the Catbus in the film. So far Eoperipatus totoro is the only velvet worm described from Vietnam. The species can grow to be up to 6cm long. The New Zealand Peripatus, Peripatoides novaezealandiae (blue one) gets its name from the word 'peripatetic' meaning 'wandering'. The Māori name for velvet worm has a similar meaning - ngaokeoke comes from the word 'ngaoki' meaning 'to crawl'. This particular species is about 10cm." more in article via link in post.
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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#ThisThatAndTheOther my #WebNovel is now live on Substack & free to read for a limited period.

Chapter 3 published today

Did Rietta & Carla really share the same dream?
Was it truly a dream?

🌳 substack.com/@remydean/p-...

What's it about?💭 threerealms.substack.com/about
#BookSky #fantasy
promotional illustration by Remy Dean of Smugly, a plushie soft-toy dog with long ears and a sort of stern expression - the title 'Dream-Sharing' appears across the middle of the sepia-tinted illustration
December 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#ThisThatAndTheOther 📚 #WebNovel

Chapter Two published today!

Join Rietta & Carla on their journey of friendship as they hear a plea for help from the Fair Ones who call to them from another realm through their dreams

🌒 substack.com/home/post/p-...

“Bursting at the seams with magic!”
an illustration - chalk sketch by Remy Dean of a tiny glowing figure alighting on the fingers of a hand
December 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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#RemyReviews

"...the BBC adaptation of John Masefield’s 1935 novel has become as integral a part of the festive season as sending cards or decorating the tree." Enjoy your annual rewatch of 'The Box of Delights' (1984)

read my #review of the #Bluray @framerated.co.uk

🐭 medium.com/framerated/t...
four film stills from the restored Blu-ray: a spooky fox (mask) in close up; Devin Stanfield as Kay Harker & Patrick Troughton as Cole Hawlings, both looking concerned about something offscreen; animation cell of two stags in a magical forest with beams of sunlight slanting through the trees; two Kay Harkers, one reclined on a bed the other looking back at himself with Glyn Baker as Herne the Hunter watching, incongruously, the bed and bedroom side table are in a snow covered woodland...
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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My #WebNovel of #ThisThatAndTheOther has debuted on Substack & is free to read for a limited period.

For those interested in friendship, #folklore & fairy tales who love magical adventures

Read the Prologue🌳 threerealms.substack.com/p/where-to-b...

What's it about?💭 threerealms.substack.com/about
chalk illustration by Remy Dean of a giant winged wolf in flight against a backdrop of the night sky - beams of light shine from its eyes and open mouth... the text "Where to begin" appears at the centre of the image.
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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“To Own Nothing but the Whole World”
- The #Moomins at 80

@kimvertue.bsky.social celebrates the endearing & enduring symbols of hope & harmony:

🎩 medium.com/signifier/to...

#art #illustration #ArtHistory #BookSky #fantasy
covers of the first three Moomins books featuring illustrations by Tove Janssen: 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' is a painting of a dense forest with giant flowers and tiny Moomins walking along watched by eyes from among the trees; 'Comet in Moominland' is a mainly red swriling design dominated by a comet with the small figures of the Moomins and friends in the foreground; 'Finn Family Moomintroll' features a colourful illustration featuring Moominpapa wearing his top hat and other characters including the dark, hunched Groke with Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden sitting on a cloud.
July 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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it's National #ReadABookDay📖 so here's one I made earlier that you can start reading for free 📚 medium.com/@remydean/th...
#fantasy #FairyTale #booksky
THIS — a novel by Remy Dean with Zel Cariad (Extended Sample)
“…a delight to read. A lovely depiction of friendship and of course there’s magic involved!” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
medium.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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For our 10th anniversary 🙌, @remydean.bsky.social reminisced on his time writing for the site! Enjoy! www.framerated.co.uk/remy-dean-re...
June 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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'The Conversation' continue adding new articles to their Tove Jansson / #Moomins celebrations⬇️
May 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Jack-in-the-Green 🍀 you mean!

from 'This Realm, Wherein Magic Yet Flows'
#ThisThatAndTheOther Book 2
by Remy Dean & Zel Cariad:
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Were we first? 😮 We were! 🐦
remydean.bsky.social Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · May 16
"From beneath a heavy brow of shaggy moss, his eyes shone bright & clear, as if lit from within. They were green. The greenest green imaginable. The green of summer sunlight seen through fresh leaves. They sparkled with clarity & kindness that instantly put the girls at ease."

🥬 the green I mean ↓
photograph by Remy Dean of oak foliage lit from above so the sunlight through leaves creates a bright vivid green against a blue-grey sky beyond
May 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Archival #interviews with fellow authors & word-wielders: Jonathan Meades, Lydia Lunch, Jonathan Stroud, Graham Masterton, Ramsey Campbell, Bryan Talbot, Angie Sage, Eloise Williams, Ian M Banks, Colin Wilson. My new Medium list: remydean.medium.com/list/intervi... #BookSky #writing #horror #fantasy
List: Interviews with fellow authors | Curated by Remy Dean | Medium
8 stories · chats I've had with word-wielders I admire
remydean.medium.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
redsparrow.bsky.social
📙 📕 📘 🧚 🐕 🐇 🪄 📖
it's #WorldBookDay once again

here's Red Sparrow Writer, Remy Dean retelling a chapter from #ThisThatAndTheOther Book 1 - recorded live [courtesy of Tredegar Park Primary School] - a #fairytale full of mystery, magic & a very special dog 🐾

🐶 youtu.be/sqKAzRzLf-U?...
'A Little Bit of THIS' Remy Dean retells a chapter from Book 1 in the sequence
YouTube video by Remy Dean
youtu.be
March 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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#history #landscape

"We were entering the Fairy Glen, a chasm between two worlds, steeped in Welsh #folklore where, it is said, ‘wild’ Merlin hermitted himself away to recuperate after the magical exertion of facilitating the birth of Arthur…"

@redsparrow.bsky.social 🧙‍♀️ medium.com/red-sparrow-...
three images: Willy Pogany’s 1907 pen and ink illustration of the Afanc in ‘The Welsh Fairy Book’ (1907) by W. Jenkyn Thomas; landscape photograph by Remy Dean of the Fairy Glen looking upstream into the gorge; colour illustration by N.C. Wyeth of Merlin carrying a baby from an arched castle doorway followed by the king and queen and two guards "So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and so he bare it forth” for ‘The Boy’s King Arthur’ (1922)
February 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Merlin slept in the land on two portentous occasions ... each time there was a mighty mythical beast involved — the Afanc & the Red Dragon.

Explore Fairy Glen with Red Sparrow Writer Remy Dean - @remydean.bsky.social - author of #ThisThatAndTheOther with Zel Cariad

🧙 medium.com/red-sparrow-...
Magic of the Fairy Glen: Exploring Merlin’s Hiding Place
Folklore and history converge with geography and geology in a little known natural wonder of Wales
medium.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
redsparrow.bsky.social
🎄 order now and books will arrive before Christmas 🎄
remydean.bsky.social Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · Dec 2

A reminder that the right books make great gifts for the right people🎄 I've written 4 novels in the 'This, That, & The Other'🦄 sequence with Zel Cariad that "will be enjoyed by fans of #fantasy of all ages, particularly those who like classics like the Narnia saga"🎁 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08DYCN2F...
promotional banner featuring four illustrated book covers: a fairy alighting on the fingers of a raised hand; a metallic dragon breathing a plume of sparks and cinders; a rearing unicorn; and a winged wolf flying in a night sky.
December 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Remy Dean: 'Illustrating This, That, and The Other'

is our online #art #exhibition for November 2024
in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery

6️⃣ medium.com/the-signifie...

#イラスト #illustration #books #folklore
promotional poster for exhibition - dominant image is a pen and ink illustration by Remy Dean of 'Smugly' - a plushie puppy
November 5, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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please support our Red Sparrow writers 🐦
(all profits from book sales go to the author)
remydean.bsky.social Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · Dec 13
Order now & paperback arrives before Xmas🎄
read for free with Kindle Unlimited instantly📚

Try before you buy with This extended sample:
remydean.medium.com/this-90eacdf...

amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1...

"Bursting at the seams with magic"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"...a lovely depiction of friendship"
two paperback book covers with woodcut illustrations: one of a tiny glowing figure alighting on the finger of an outstretched hand, the other of a dragon in golden armour breathing out a plume of sparks.
December 15, 2023 at 10:46 AM