Angus Stewart

What do you like to read?

It seems very quiet here. It drives me less nuts than twitter but it also seems less interesting.

It's an investment bubble trying to escape death.

Hi new followers! Am here in lieu of a place for lit that isn't 🧟‍♀️ified

I ran the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast for 5 years - after hiatusing it I have focused on
1️⃣ writing weird stories
2️⃣ reviewing Chinese/Sino books
3️⃣ other odd writings

Would love to talk. Life is finite so why not?

I believe this is the opening scene of Train to Busan

I would too but it's 1am here so I mustn't be getting too thrashy before bedtime

YouTube video by Sofa Surfers - Topic Safe Zone

And the recurring words 'can't stay, won't leave' are from this track. Because it's where I think many of our heads are at, these days

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YouTube video by The Ghost of a Thousand - Topic Last Bastion Of Heaven Lies Abandoned And Burning

I used this song title in a sentence because it's hard as heck
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Thank you so much 🌑 Yours reminded me of a chapter in Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer titled 'Two Men in a Fucking Boat Thing', which is high praise 🚣‍♀️

Also, in the spirit of recommending things... I'll tell you the song title and lyric I plagiarised in The Cheshire Plain 🍎👣

Relatable

whaddup fellow Angus

I awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic Hollywood franchise

What a ride. A strange dream. A bad dream. An intense dream. And all too real. This book goes incredibly hard - read it 🇭🇰

Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang) | Very Bad Wizards podcast We've done deep dives on three of his stories, and now THE MAN HIMSELF, multi-award winning science fiction author Ted Chiang, joins us to explore the...

Was great! Soma rang a bell 🔔 this is why: verybadwizards.com/episode/epis...

I once listened to Ted Chiang chat about it

I have just been rewatching the Ghost in the Shell TV series so this will do nicely over a cup of fibre-optic tea later today, thank you 😁☕🔌

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My inner snob wants to say that blend is 'TV brain', which is odd because TV is so old compared with AI

Sad but true, I do see it as a bit of a filter. For what though, I'm still wondering. Inner life? Gullibility? Or just good old sloth.

Nothing

Escape. From the noise in your head to the burden of emotion to your awful past. Angus Stewart brings us a story about escape and rebirth in Desire to Feel Nothing. www.neondystopia.com?p=100043485

Hehehe 😉 I emerged from my tank specially for the occasion

Blissed out to be published by @realneondystopia.bsky.social! Blissed out and dissolving into dream, as in my story: Desire to Feel Nothing ♾️
www.neondystopia.com?p=100043485

It's based on my experience inside a sensory deprivation tank - may it make you feel like you are floating too

I had totally forgotten that back in 2019, @flashfictionnorth.bsky.social published my wee story 'East Coast West Coast'. This is a good one for dog owners and people who enjoy tasting bittersweet memories.
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A county, a cow, a burger, and a Celtic god, and some adjectives too I think

[ESSAY] “As If Present; As If Absent: Fang Fang’s Wuhan” by Angus Stewart 茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “As If Present; As If Absent: Fang Fang’s Wuhan” by Angus Stewart Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Fang Fang. Editor’s note: …

Awesome to see so many writers giving these books a side-by-side reivew... including me! Hehehe
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To my designer's eye... It pops! 🔴

So proud to be inside this gorgeous, ghostly, and at times disgusting magazine.

My story is about a guy whose mind is disintegrating while he traverses one of the richest stretches of land in England - also disintegrating.

And with zero spite: happy St Andrews Day 🤠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

There's some reading for me tomorrow, so thank you too!

I got lucky slightly - I happened to have very recently read Written on Water. It made me:
(1) Want to zap back in time and quiz the author
(2) Feel guilty for having read so few of her stories

Chuffed to be in the Asian Review of Books covering a novel that pulled me right in (tr by @jeremytiang.bsky.social 👑)

It's about a nanny stuck caring for a boy while his ultra rich parents flee a corruption investigation 🇨🇳

Plus there is a goose 🦢 and it's loose

Sent this very same text out on X too. Two flavours of throwing scraps into the void. Hard to know how to get any attention at all without returning being a podcaster! Which I'd love to do but then my time to write would be pushed out.

Have been sending out a 'mad wee story' today. Very experimental, about a fish digitally spliced with a man.

A month or so ago I was sending out a far more normal story, about sensory deprivation.

If you the reader know any editors looking for scratchings, lemme know!