Angela Cleland

On my way to @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. Squeee! Attempting to bend time in order to be there in time for the launch of @stewarthotston.com’s Project Hanuman at 14:00.🤞

Wifey doing the announcement about shuttle buses to Thorpe Park as we were coming in to Staines just rounded off with:

“If you are working at Thorpe Park, good luck.”

😆

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Booo. Thats a shame.

Bravo!👏

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

I'm dressing up as actually more of a comment than a question

Funding update:

We’re pausing the next round of Developing Your Creative Practice until April 2026.

In the meantime, in its place, we’re launching £7.5 million of R&D Funding for individuals, as part of our National Lottery Project Grants programme.

Oooh, I very much like the sound of this!

QUOTE: Helpless in the grip of my sorrow, I reached out to them. ‘I will make a song of you. A song of Gododdin. A song of the north. And folk will sing it long after I am gone, and the stars have different names. This, I promise.’ You too have a life to live, my mother’s voice echoed as I fell to my knees. Don’t give it all to the dead.

It's World Fantasy so what better day for a title reveal?

Poetry, pining, grief and glory. A love that survives after death. Inspired by Britain's earliest literature, history & myth, THE LAST VERSE OF THE HARP LORD is the story of legendary bard, Aneirin.

Look out for more news next year!

There better be a copy editor readying up a 'GAME OF CLONES' headline for this or what even are we anymore?

I’m dressing up as “the school calling”

I’m dressing up as a phonecall from someone because they saw you were online.

As ever, insightful education from Stew, who doesn't have to educate us assholes, but does so anyway.

2nd leading cause? Complications from head-stuck-in-banister injuries.

A comic with three rows of panels. The first row has four panels. Each panel shows Dipper the corgi sleeping, as a pumpkin headed creature slowly sneaks in behind him. By the fourth panel, dipper is starting to wake up but has not registered the creature yet. The second row also has four panels, sort of. In the first panel, Dipper sees the creature and freaks out. In the second, he starts to run away, pressing up against the white panel border, which bends around him like it is made out of fabric. As he continues to run, he tears off the border between the third and fourth panels, which wraps around him like a sheet as he falls over. In the third row, there are now only two panels, because the borders dividing what was panel 1 from 2 and panel 3 from 4 are torn. In the first large panel, the pumpkin creature lifts off it's pumpkin head, revealing it was Hilde the cat all along. She laughs at her successful prank. Dipper lies on the ground, covered by the white sheet. His front legs have poked two little holes in it. In the second large panel, Dipper sits up, still covered by the sheet. The sheet combined with the two holes his arms made cause him to look like a dog-shaped ghost. Hilde screams.

Boo!

Oopsies.

If you're off to #WorldFantasy2025 this week - surprise! So are we! Join your GSFWC pals all weekend at the items listed below.

#WorldFantasy @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

Possibly, though not till Friday night at the earliest.🤞

Scarlett Johansson advertising PRADA, looking like she’s furious about a handbag.

Scarlett Johansson has gone to her local paper because the handbag she bought from Vinted came with a lump of cat sick.

🥰Thank you, Anna! Looking forward to getting the copy edits back. Ish. 😂 And I hope I’ve done your developmental edit justice - it feels like you enabled me to bring heart and clarity to the story, whilst taking the knife (!) to it where I needed to. 🗡️ 🦌 ❤️

Almost finished working on the copy edit for @angelacleland.co.uk and, guys, it is SO GOOD.
It has such a unique rhythm and style that I'm having to adapt my feedback and not be The Grammar Guy, so it fits.
But look out for it, and give her a follow, too! ~ Anna

This was a worthwhile use of my morning 🔉

Have fun! I wish I was going!

Coming mid-2026

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

It’s a different bloke in the Blobby costume every year, as the old one is sacrificed to guarantee a bountiful harvest

Don’t be silly. You must simply carry it with you *For All Time*.

Replacement.AI Humans are no longer necessary. So we’re getting rid of them.

I almost spit out my lunch when I got to HUMBERT®

replacement.ai

Gambling is an intrinsically vampiric industry, it makes nothing and adds nothing, and taxing it more heavily is a plan with no drawbacks