How to be a Writer.
1. Stare out of window at rain.
2. Experience a certain lassitude.
3. Contemplate the infinite.
4. Tea.
@timothyfox.bsky.social
'every house needs a ghost' available from @thebraag.bsky.social. London Library Emerging Writer 2023/24. https://linktr.ee/timothy_fox_
How to be a Writer.
1. Stare out of window at rain.
2. Experience a certain lassitude.
3. Contemplate the infinite.
4. Tea.
Always a good thing listening to RLP read out loud mind melting literature.
08.02.2026 10:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ICYMI
08.02.2026 09:54 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
07.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 11760 🔁 2640 💬 180 📌 196Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
07.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 7045 🔁 2158 💬 67 📌 59"He’s so small. I pick him up and put him back to bed.
‘I’ve been dead a long time,’ he says.
‘Really?’ I ask.
‘Why yes,’ he says. ‘And what are you doing here? You haven’t been born yet.’"
Today on ergot.: 'The Forest of Almost Death' by @timothyfox.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Timo...
Thanks, Hugh!
07.02.2026 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
06.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 8798 🔁 2975 💬 77 📌 84"The hospital is built on a cliff overlooking the ocean. From his room, I can see down the coast to where the fires burn. When I’m not sitting at his bedside, I walk the long hallways..."
Today on ergot.: 'The Forest of Almost Death' by @timothyfox.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Timo...
Tomorrow on ergot.: a new trip to the hospital with Timothy Fox @timothyfox.bsky.social
05.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The next to last song played at the office Christmas party.
04.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER MY BOOK 💚🪱
also, look at my babygirl worm on the cover 😭
Through groggy, just opened eyes, I thought this was a picture of ET in a suit.
04.02.2026 08:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Tonight I told my friend about @andrewblair.co.uk’s upcoming pamphlet and he snorted his burger out of his nose. Not boogers. Like the actual burger that he was eating. Like an actual burger.
31.01.2026 22:42 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social,
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
Children's drawing: when I grow up I want to be carried away by owls
Don't we all
23.01.2026 12:43 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0RIP me
16.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚
Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'
When @kymdeyn.bsky.social told me about this, I laughed for exactly 17 hours until I died. I’m so very much looking forward to it.
16.01.2026 11:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Could we just take him to the pub and convince him Romeo and Juliet just DOES NOT work and needs to be lost to the bottom drawer?
14.01.2026 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats!
11.01.2026 16:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A detail from a mughal painting with a saffron background: two hands dipped in henna pick flowers. Underneath the image is a tear and a white page, in red text are the words "empirical, Gita Ralleigh"
We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉
09.01.2026 19:05 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
Noice
04.01.2026 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow!
03.01.2026 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I gave up at the Disney mice.
27.12.2025 12:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t disagree with you - I don’t think there’s been a Del Toro film I’ve actually liked, despite having immense respect for him as an artist. I like that he’s, at least, sincere.
27.12.2025 11:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Two things: ‘a long visually decadent cartoon for adults who enjoy morbid gothic vibes’ is Del Toro’s oeuvre and…
27.12.2025 10:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Traumatized owl
18.12.2025 17:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0