Andrew Reid

"Allowing international performances in Saudi, especially comedy, subtly broadens what’s thinkable and sayable in a society." As a counterpoint: reaching across borders to intercept, murder, and dismember a man bluntly broadens our understanding of what impossible amounts of power will do if piqued.

Omid Djalili writing in The Guardian that critics of Saudi Arabia and the Riyadh comedy festival specifically should just go there and see what it's really like, apparently forgetting what happened to a high profile critic of Saudi Arabia seven years ago.

Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town: The Second Official Novel (Stranger Things 2) Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town: The Second Official Novel (Stranger Things 2) eBook : Christopher, Adam: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

UK folks! My STRANGER THINGS novel DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN is an October Kindle Monthly Deal! For the whole month, it's just 99p.

Go grab it!

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Highly recommend this piece to writers, publishing people and anyone interested in how books are made (and why they're rejected).

Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle in Another Cinderella Story

Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle in Ginger Snaps

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This is a fascinating article about Bombay Beach, a surrealist artist community beside the dying Salton Sea. If you want to see some of the strange, grotesque, and beautiful art, watch a documentary called Iconicity; about half of it is about Bombay Beach (on Prime)

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?

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Climbing with other people is approximately 500x more fun than going to the wall by yourself. Doubly so when one of the group brings a baby.

My INPRNT banner, considering of cropped art of the catacomb saints and the INPRNT logo.

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the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

Cover image for novel Broken Ghosts by J.D.Oswald

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Alien: Earth, the Weekend At Bernies reboot we never knew we we needed

Thank you!

Autumn is here ! 🍁🍂
#pokemon

YouTube video by Minotaur Books THE SURVIVOR by Andrew Reid: Book Trailer

I still find it quite bizarre having a book trailer but it is still nice to have one nonetheless: the book doesn't land until March 2026 but the marketing team are very keen.

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Maybe I should repackage it for young men to supercharge their brains and charge 150 quid for a small bag of it

Would not recommend. Oily spots on the surface, odd taste. Coffee gets congealed lumps.

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎

You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...

Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

Weird residue in my coffee and tea this week. Check the mugs, the dishwasher, the kettle...everything fine.

I have been using jam sugar with pectin in it by mistake.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Delighted to finally reveal the new SPACE gallery at London's @sciencemuseum.org.uk!
It was a pleasure to help - providing what may well be the largest photo of the🌖on🌎!
The gallery is stunning, and it's so special to see the Apollo 10 Command Module alongside Soyuz.

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This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Melinoe facing us, holding her scythe across

Hecate, arms wide, abs showing~

Hecate, hand stretched out towards Melinoe in the foreground

Melinoe pointing her dagger out looking at Hecate in the foreground

Some of my character layouts for The Line’s Hades 2 trailer for @supergiantgames.bsky.social ~

It feels like a nod to the fact it was raised in captivity: some poison arrow frogs, for example, are one colour in the wild and another when bred and raised in zoos

(this is, of course never happening - we would have had Chekhov's power loader by now if so - but a man can dream of a complete story instead of the inevitable shot of eyeball-infected Kavalier staring down the lens while some impeccable indie rock leads into the cut to black and S2 announcement)

This is an extremely long shot but I will be genuinely sad if Alien: Earth doesn't take the Ghost in the Shell influence full circle and have Wendy lose all her limbs fighting something much bigger than she is before ending on her consciousness being decanted into a different body.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

My Authentic Shelf, by The Disappointed Skeptics Club 11 track album

Our Neil Williamson is also a band! Disappointed Skeptics Club's new album is My Authentic Shelf, and you can get it now on Bandcamp before it hits your usual streaming services.

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Anno: Oh, I’m critical of Porco Rosso, myself. Tomino: What was wrong with Porco? Anno: As a picture, nothing. But because I know Miyazaki-san personally, I can’t view it objectively. His presence in the film is too conspicuous, it’s no good. In other words... it feels like he’s showing off. Tomino: How so? Anno: He has the main character act all self-deprecating, calling himself a pig... but then puts him in a bright red plane, has him smoking all cool-like, even creates a love triangle between a cute young thing and a sexy older lady. Tomino: Ha! I see what you mean. He and | are around the same age, though. So I get how he feels, unconditionally. So I may think, “Oh boy...” but I can’t stay mad at him (laughs). Anno gets a little too into talking about underpants, and Tomino of all people has to check hit Anno: From my point of view, he’s being very presumptuous. Tomino-san, you put so much of yourself into your works, it is like you’re dancing naked in them. I like that! (balls fists) In Miya- san’s recent works, he makes you fhink he’s dancing naked... but on second glance, you realize he’s still wearing underpants. (getting carried away) I hate that! I feel like shouting: “Take it all off!” (getting really carried away) And to add insult to injury... he’s wearing fancy underpants! Tomino: You don’t beat around the bush. We get it, we get it already. Anno: (shrinking) Excuse me.

Tomino: i do get what you mean, and i don’t mean to play devil’s advocate for Miyazaki, but... generally speaking, that’s just how you get when you age. It’s the same for me, surely. That was my first time hearing it put so frankly... but you get what I mean already. It does feel nice letting it all hang out, waving your dick around. That’s how movies ought to be! Anno: Yes, I agree. I don’t like it when people try to obscure themselves like that. If you’re gonna wave your dick around, wave it all around! If you don’t have the guts to do that, then wear the best clothing you can. Tomino: Right... Dress yourself to the nines! Anno: Commit yourself to putting on a show. He couldn’t do that. I felt betrayed. Like, this guy isn't really naked!

i think often about this discussion between Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. it's one of the funniest ways anyone has ever talked about restraint vs self indulgence in art.

Alien Earth but all the Peter Pan references are swapped out for One Piece references and Boy Kavalier gets a filler sequence reading aloud from a leather tome about how Koby is his beloved pupil and the future of the Marines