Will Tattersdill
@tattersdill.bsky.social
Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
Oh also shout out to the student who discovered the Carrot of Doom. Another day at the office
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Oh also shout out to the student who discovered the Carrot of Doom. Another day at the office
A huge pleasure to work on the near-complete run of Fantasy Book Magazine (1981-87) with my periodical history students today!
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A huge pleasure to work on the near-complete run of Fantasy Book Magazine (1981-87) with my periodical history students today!
I love Trollope and you'll never stop me loving Trollope
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I love Trollope and you'll never stop me loving Trollope
This excellent obituary repeatedly made me think of another hugely effective callout of the racist and sexist scientist James Watson, written 25 years before his birth
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This excellent obituary repeatedly made me think of another hugely effective callout of the racist and sexist scientist James Watson, written 25 years before his birth
I was trying to think who Bob the Blob reminded me of, and it is of course Blorb from Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Mayhem Monster Madness
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I was trying to think who Bob the Blob reminded me of, and it is of course Blorb from Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Mayhem Monster Madness
OK which is funnier, tech bros or the UK govt
August 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
OK which is funnier, tech bros or the UK govt
It was one day, twenty-three hours, fifty-two minutes btw
July 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It was one day, twenty-three hours, fifty-two minutes btw
Just saw this meme and was filled with warm memories of the Choose Your Own Adventure I co-wrote a few years ago. If it's somehow news to you and you wish to recreate the meme organically, please consider LEAGUE OF THIEVES: www.amazon.co.uk/League-Thiev...
July 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Just saw this meme and was filled with warm memories of the Choose Your Own Adventure I co-wrote a few years ago. If it's somehow news to you and you wish to recreate the meme organically, please consider LEAGUE OF THIEVES: www.amazon.co.uk/League-Thiev...
Genuinely I was like "ah, he's creating a two-tier justice system"
June 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Genuinely I was like "ah, he's creating a two-tier justice system"
@franceshardinge.bsky.social found a copy! 😊
June 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
@franceshardinge.bsky.social found a copy! 😊
Look at this 100% reassuring headline that this brilliant government has given us
May 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Look at this 100% reassuring headline that this brilliant government has given us
I'll take this guy seriously when he reiterates this point but expressly addressing British residents of the Costa del Sol
May 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'll take this guy seriously when he reiterates this point but expressly addressing British residents of the Costa del Sol
Listen, there's literature and then there's Wilkie Collins
May 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Listen, there's literature and then there's Wilkie Collins
This makes me very very angry.
May 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This makes me very very angry.
I haven't been posting about teaching this term, but it was a pleasure to finish up the fantasy core curriculum with two interesting and very timely discussions of N. K. Jemisin's profoundly intertextual 'The City We Became' - I learned a lot from both the Americans and non-Americans in this class!
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I haven't been posting about teaching this term, but it was a pleasure to finish up the fantasy core curriculum with two interesting and very timely discussions of N. K. Jemisin's profoundly intertextual 'The City We Became' - I learned a lot from both the Americans and non-Americans in this class!
Old man vs cloud here but: a single second of advertising before a film is a waste of the fan's time
March 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Old man vs cloud here but: a single second of advertising before a film is a waste of the fan's time
In my whole life I will never experience a drug as powerful as centrism
![Anonymised post saying that while critics might take issue with Starmer's handling of Trump, "in their black shrivelled heart they'll know [he] played a blinder"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jlcmx3dkeolsgpw4ipu6z6lk/bafkreifv7knyekfpyivad3y25cj3q23uybjn2uuvanpjj6a4utynrdefhq@jpeg)
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In my whole life I will never experience a drug as powerful as centrism
I know it's a Guardian editorial and I know everyone following me already knows this, but this is very well put indeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
February 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I know it's a Guardian editorial and I know everyone following me already knows this, but this is very well put indeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot stress this enough: no
February 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I cannot stress this enough: no
Shelves in the local library be writing my book for me
January 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Shelves in the local library be writing my book for me
"Accept"?!? ACCEPT??
December 12, 2024 at 8:31 AM
"Accept"?!? ACCEPT??
And not to continue the love-in, but what a superb meeting of the Strange and Norrell reading group too (I don't have a picture of us so here's a raven). Two academic spaces I am utterly privileged to be a part of!
December 6, 2024 at 5:52 PM
And not to continue the love-in, but what a superb meeting of the Strange and Norrell reading group too (I don't have a picture of us so here's a raven). Two academic spaces I am utterly privileged to be a part of!