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ruthejbooth.bsky.social
Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) has a spooky name
@ruthejbooth.bsky.social
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SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC. #SGSAH funded. #StrathLife

Queer Neurodivergent Human with Chronic Illness.

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Never seen this classic so correcting it thanks to Alan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra tonight.

@realbigal.bsky.social
A photo of the programme for Bride of Frankenstein with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ben Palmer. Features an image of the bride staring at the reader in the style of Metropolis, but with the grey streaks in her hair rendered as musical staves.
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Here's another from a wonderful chat that has me excited to start this one.
In front of a green wall with plates and flower paintings hung on it is CL Clark, a black femme-presenting person, sat at a table across from Taylor Driggers McDowall, a white masc-presenting person with brown hair and glasses. In front of them are the heads of a couple of white folk intently listening as CL speaks.
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Taking a wee break from final year panic to catch @clclark.bsky.social at Waterstones Argle ST (Taylor Driggers-McDowall and D hosting).

@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
In front of a green wall with plates and flower paintings hung on it is CL Clark, a black femme-presenting person, sat at a table across from Taylor Driggers McDowall, a white masc-presenting person with brown hair and glasses. Standing is D, a person with long dark hair and glasses.
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Well, I may not be on Brighton, but at least I get to see Horror Legend (TM) Garth Marenghi tonight.

@garthmarenghi.bsky.social
From the back of a theatre stalls looking towards a stage. On a black curtain, projected are the words Garth Marenghi's The Bursted Earth.
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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But my highlight was hearing Katacombs do her thing -- think Mazzy Star, Melissa auf der Maur, Emma Pollock -- Sweet Smoke curling across a room moments before you know if it's incense or the smell of your house burning down. Three cracking bands worth your time live. (2/2) @kingtuts.bsky.social
A smartly dressed bald white drummer and a besuited curly-haired white man playing electric guitar rocking out on a stage in front of the logo for King Tut's Wah Wah Hut.
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Lovely night out with @neilwilliamson.bsky.social to see the fabulous Katacombs, Warm Reekin' Rich, and The Inspector Cluzo. WRR are your new Stereophonics with proper blues rock bite, and The Inspector Cluzo are fucking epic -- The White Stripes and the D wish they were these guys. (1/2)
A blonde caucasian woman with an acoustic guitar stands on a blue lit stage, the logo for King Tut's Wah Wah Hut behind her. A blonde caucasian woman with an acoustic guitar stands on a smoke-filled stage, the logo for King Tut's Wah Wah Hut behind her. A close up of blonde caucasian woman with an acoustic guitar standing on a blue lit stage, the logo for King Tut's Wah Wah Hut behind her. Visible on the guitar is the logo for Katacombs.
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Can confirm.
Ruth is a shorthaird brunette gurning like a crazy person. Neil Williamson is a bald guy looking over his glasses.
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I'm hardly the most regular Overclockers customer, but it does delight me, 7 years on from my last PC, that they still include this wee bit of setup fuel for hungry users.

@overclockers.bsky.social
A mini packet of Goldbears in front of a PC with spinning rainbow fan lights.
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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**New Blog** Thank you, everyone, for your kind Birthday greetings! As thanks (as well as apology for missing World Fantasycon later this month), please accept this wee seasonal gift from me...

www.ruthbooth.com/2025/10/hall...
On an orange background, the header from a Spotify playlist for Halloween Americana, including audio tracking visualization, play button and more.
October 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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While I'm here, I'm doing a podcast with Madeline Wahl from The Aviary tonight. We'll be talking about how studying Fantasy has impacted my fiction and other things. Link below if you'd like to know more.

@madelinehwahl.bsky.social

theaviaryliterarymagazine.substack.com
Ruth Booth is a caucasian woman with short unbrushed brown hair, glasses, and wearing a navy shirt. She is sitting on a brown sofa.
October 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It's World Mental Health day! This is what looking after your mental health looks like: taking your treatment (meds for me), looking after your body (yoga, walk later), doing chores, and wearing your Death and Vanilla shirt but forgetting to brush your hair. Meh!

#wmhd2025 #worldMentalHealthDay
Ruth Booth is a caucasian woman with short unbrushed brown hair, glasses, and wearing a navy shirt. She is sitting on a brown sofa.
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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HALLO BAKED POTATO. My dear gardening friend supplied me with some homegrown red goodness that I then stuffed in a hot oven. Shown shortly before I drowned it in red leicester and baked beans.
On a ceramic, multicoloured plate sit two jacket potatoes baked with olive oil and sea salt, with slices of butter melting into the cross cut into the soft potato. Mmmm.
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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#Film location crews! Ensure your sec team know how to redirect locals looking for services. Got told I couldn't access a post office - false, for starters - and was not given alternative directions. Vital services for vulnerable folks without smart phones!

In other news: Spider-Man photos.
Close up on signs in US style, including "Williams ST", "Bus Lane", "Bergman ST" and a New York style ambulance. Photo of an on-location shoot for Spider-Man in Glasgow. Key features include a white New York-style bus. Map buffs may like to know this was taken from Glassford Street, looking down Wilson Street.
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Braved a migraine tonight for a splendid conversation between Heather Parry, Kirsty Logan and both halves of MK Hardy for the launch of The Needfire and The Carrion Crow. Gothic is back, baby! Let's set the world on fire.

@mkhardywrites.com @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
In front of a green bookshelf and before a crowd of seated people, four people are sat in a row. Heather Parry (black tshirt and jeans, short dark hair), Kirsty Logan (chin-length dark hair, glasses, short sleeve plung neck top), Morag Hannah (short hair, grey shirt and black waistcoat, glasses) and Erin Hardee (glasses, short white hair, black dress with white flowers). Morag has the mic. In front of a green bookshelf and before a crowd of seated people, four people are sat in a row. Heather Parry (black tshirt and jeans, short dark hair), Kirsty Logan (chin-length dark hair, glasses, short sleeve plung neck top), Morag Hannah (short hair, grey shirt and black waistcoat, glasses) and Erin Hardee (glasses, short white hair, black dress with white flowers). Morag has the mic and the others are smiling and laughing.
July 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Hope everyone had a lovely solstice! A bunch of us GSFWC folks went to Brian M. Milton's house to burn things.

Some of them tasted good.

@munchkinstein.bsky.social @gsfwc.bsky.social
A roaring fire in a fire pit in a grassy garden, with a man standing admiringly with hands on hips.
June 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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New plants bought at the church fair near my parents' place at the weekend. First photo shows Camomile, Calendula (I think), Echinacea and Lemon Balm. Second photo is Sempervivum Red Rum. Third photo is Jacob's Ladder. Because... healing and horror aren't always mutually exclusive?
Four herbs (left to right)Camomile, Echinacea, (bottom row) Calendula (I think) and Lemon Balm. Green succulent with red spike-tipped leaves - Sempervivum Red Rum. Jacob's Ladder in a small pot
June 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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New Shoreline of Infinity column out, in which I respectfully explain some of the "AI" issues and why authors don't want wood glue on their pizza.

www.ruthbooth.com/2025/06/hold...

@shoreinf.bsky.social
Shoreline of Infinity 39 cover by Vincent Kings. An abstract piece of dark green lines on a light pink background, resembling a mountain on its side made of organic shapes resembling flowers and other organic matter.
June 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Leaving #Manchester just in time. In serious danger of falling in love with it again.
Ruth is a shorthaired brunette woman with glasses sat in from of a poster for Hamlet Hail to the Thief.
May 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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That was the best Hamlet fight scene I've ever seen.

And I don't just mean the shop afterwards.
@the-rsc.bsky.social #HamletHTTT #HailToTheThief @radiohead.bsky.social
A black large screen with the white words "I fear how much it costs".
May 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Off to Manchester for scout out Hamlet Hail to the Thief in case it's fodder for my Incel Hamlet PhD. Still surprised I managed to get a ticket.

@the-rsc.bsky.social
A brunette shorthaired fat woman in a black t-shirt looks out the window at a grassy hill and cloudy blue sky.
May 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I don't think this train likes me very much.

(Not photoshopped.)
The junction between two British trains, showing the letters of each carriage. They are "F" and "U".
May 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Okay, now my calendar is taking the piss.
The top of a calendar featuring text on the silhouette of a stag drinking from a loch while the sun sinks behind the mountains. Text reads: Nae man can tether time or time.
May 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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The
Personal
Is
Political

C. Gamble Ink on Skin
A fist, knuckles tattoed with T P I P
April 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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A kind gift from @darthj.uno of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! This is my aspirational Strange Horizons badge ribbon.
April 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The Luna Press and Slab Press joint launch, celebrating their 1st and 10th anniversaries respectively. L-R Ana Sun, Cécile Cristofari, Sara K. Ellis, Donna Scott (Slab Press) and Francesca T. Barbini (Luna Press). @lunapress.bsky.social
Five femme-presenting people sit at a long table covered in a white tablecloth.
April 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM