Ryan Vance
@ryanvance.bsky.social
Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast.
www.ryanvance.co.uk
www.ryanvance.co.uk
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I'm currently available for everything book design, from covers to typesetting to ePubs - with narry a single speck of AI included. Check out the rest of my work and give me a shout over at www.ryanvance.co.uk!
Set the direct debit amount to what I wanted it to be, but too late for the next payment to reflect the change. Received a deeply patronising letter today imploring me to change it back. Someone less confident about these things might find it quite intimidating. Shoddy behaviour, @octopus.energy.
Octopus Energy up to their usual shenanigans, increasing our direct debit eleven days before our next payment, which can't be reversed ten days within that payment. We moved to a fixed tariff earlier in the year so it's not increased as much as it used to, but still agog that this is legal.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Set the direct debit amount to what I wanted it to be, but too late for the next payment to reflect the change. Received a deeply patronising letter today imploring me to change it back. Someone less confident about these things might find it quite intimidating. Shoddy behaviour, @octopus.energy.
One upside to aphantasia: when you reach the three-day-complete-insomnia point where most folk start to hallucinate, you don't! Lucky me.
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
One upside to aphantasia: when you reach the three-day-complete-insomnia point where most folk start to hallucinate, you don't! Lucky me.
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We've got a great essay but from the great @gavia.bsky.social about how hagsploitation made a surprising comeback in horror this year www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
2025's Biggest Horror Trend Is A Regressive Step Backward
With two of the biggest horror movies of the year, the "hagsploitation" genre made a big comeback. But is it the one we wanted?
www.inverse.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We've got a great essay but from the great @gavia.bsky.social about how hagsploitation made a surprising comeback in horror this year www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
We’re getting roadside recycling installed tomorrow morning and the *only* space not currently occupied by a car is directly in front our living room window, the *only* ground floor flat without a tall hedge or fence to block the view. I approve of the scheme but please? Please! Not us!
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We’re getting roadside recycling installed tomorrow morning and the *only* space not currently occupied by a car is directly in front our living room window, the *only* ground floor flat without a tall hedge or fence to block the view. I approve of the scheme but please? Please! Not us!
Would genuinely chew off my own arm, and a few arms belonging to others, for £7k paid over 18 months for a book deal, tbh.
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Would genuinely chew off my own arm, and a few arms belonging to others, for £7k paid over 18 months for a book deal, tbh.
The Bee and the Birds
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Bee and the Birds
Octopus Energy up to their usual shenanigans, increasing our direct debit eleven days before our next payment, which can't be reversed ten days within that payment. We moved to a fixed tariff earlier in the year so it's not increased as much as it used to, but still agog that this is legal.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Octopus Energy up to their usual shenanigans, increasing our direct debit eleven days before our next payment, which can't be reversed ten days within that payment. We moved to a fixed tariff earlier in the year so it's not increased as much as it used to, but still agog that this is legal.
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Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
Giving Alias a rewatch 25 years on and tell you what, at 17 years old I did not understand camp, tomfoolery and terrible wigs enough to fully appreciate this show.
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Giving Alias a rewatch 25 years on and tell you what, at 17 years old I did not understand camp, tomfoolery and terrible wigs enough to fully appreciate this show.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
The microplastics in my body unionised by Ross McCleary
The microplastics in my body unionised while I was staring at the ocean;they took matters into their own hands,making pickets in the alcoves ofmy prefrontal cortex, replacingfuzzy void yesterdays with...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
“I like gridlock the length of Paisley Road West, actually.” Glasgow council during Ibrox matches.
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“I like gridlock the length of Paisley Road West, actually.” Glasgow council during Ibrox matches.
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In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
Today's GenAI Book Group scam is from someone inexplicably called Ryan Organizer, sending emails from Seattle at 4:30am in the morning. I respect the grindset mindset but that's just tooooo much, man!
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Today's GenAI Book Group scam is from someone inexplicably called Ryan Organizer, sending emails from Seattle at 4:30am in the morning. I respect the grindset mindset but that's just tooooo much, man!
You know, you simply can't fully comprehend how many stand-up comedians you know by name until you're doing the index for a book on the last five decades of stand-up comedy. There's so many of them. Like, so, so many. And they just keep coming. The fruitfly of the entertainment industry.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You know, you simply can't fully comprehend how many stand-up comedians you know by name until you're doing the index for a book on the last five decades of stand-up comedy. There's so many of them. Like, so, so many. And they just keep coming. The fruitfly of the entertainment industry.
Displeased by rubbery cucumber.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Displeased by rubbery cucumber.
Shoe polish vape
Petrol station vape
Bakeline telephone vape
Wet wool vape
Mushy peas vape
Bin fire vape
Vape that makes a sound like a leaf blower
Vape that makes a sound like a smoke detector when the batteries are low
Vape in the shape of trucknuts
Petrol station vape
Bakeline telephone vape
Wet wool vape
Mushy peas vape
Bin fire vape
Vape that makes a sound like a leaf blower
Vape that makes a sound like a smoke detector when the batteries are low
Vape in the shape of trucknuts
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Shoe polish vape
Petrol station vape
Bakeline telephone vape
Wet wool vape
Mushy peas vape
Bin fire vape
Vape that makes a sound like a leaf blower
Vape that makes a sound like a smoke detector when the batteries are low
Vape in the shape of trucknuts
Petrol station vape
Bakeline telephone vape
Wet wool vape
Mushy peas vape
Bin fire vape
Vape that makes a sound like a leaf blower
Vape that makes a sound like a smoke detector when the batteries are low
Vape in the shape of trucknuts
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News! We are launching a 404 Ink Bursary to pay it forward to small presses. We will also run a crowdfunder to give away more.
We are ALSO releasing one last book. Royalties from this are pledged to match-fund more small press support.
You can pre-order now: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
We are ALSO releasing one last book. Royalties from this are pledged to match-fund more small press support.
You can pre-order now: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026.
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink
404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.
www.404ink.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
News! We are launching a 404 Ink Bursary to pay it forward to small presses. We will also run a crowdfunder to give away more.
We are ALSO releasing one last book. Royalties from this are pledged to match-fund more small press support.
You can pre-order now: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
We are ALSO releasing one last book. Royalties from this are pledged to match-fund more small press support.
You can pre-order now: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
The marketing budget for Infinite Jest's 30th Anniversary Edition is sort of insane.
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The marketing budget for Infinite Jest's 30th Anniversary Edition is sort of insane.
Industry bragging? I would never.
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Industry bragging? I would never.
Preoccupations - Bunker Buster (Official Video)
YouTube video by Jagjaguwar
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
International Men's Day is an anagram of End My Trans Alienation. COINCIDENCE?!
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
International Men's Day is an anagram of End My Trans Alienation. COINCIDENCE?!
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The internet has given me brain tinnitus
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The internet has given me brain tinnitus
The idea that I’d be able to return directly to work after Thought Bubble without a mandated Crash Out Day was, in retrospect, very misguided.
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The idea that I’d be able to return directly to work after Thought Bubble without a mandated Crash Out Day was, in retrospect, very misguided.