John Hunter

Here's a pretty color cover collage with books l've read & enjoyed: America's Most Gothic Honeysuckle & Bone The Woman in the Mirror The Ghost Woods The Girl From Rawblood - TBR: A Sweet Sting of Salt Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil The Thirteenth Child How to Fake a Haunting

Some pretty book covers✨

I've never fully understood the threat they seem to present. Is it creating patterns on you with their dirty wheels on you if you're wearing light clothing?

Tremendously good advice here.

Read an Excerpt From The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel - Reactor A queer, feel-good cosmic horror that reflects on gaslighting and emotional abuse.

Have you ever heard "feel-good" and "cosmic horror" in the same sentence?? Well. Meet Hester Steel's The Faceless Thing We Adore with this new excerpt, coming out today from Page Street Horror!

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Yet, for all meandering moments of s2, I still rate the daft Nadine storyline and Ed and Norma's troubled love. I'm so glad this all ran into The Return 25 years later. And while I've my thoughts on Windom Earle's inconsistencies, he definitely brings the show back together for the final stretch.

Killing off a scumbag like Hank or Leo to gruesomely clean up Twin Peaks would have added dark drama. Or, not just for shock value, imagine killing off one of the many lawful characters like innocent Andy or even Cooper's new bestie partner Sheriff Truman! A v different show but the stakes!

While Earle has a few ominous moments, his tonal capering is... a choice. That said, his first move of killing of a nameless drifter to announce his arrival feels like a writing error. By this point, killing one of the many deadbeat, dead weight men in the town could have set off real shock waves.

Into the Windom Earle era of my weekly #TwinPeaks rewatch. Of all the show's foibles, I really feel he was the biggest missed opportunity. A dark reflection of Cooper poisoning the town Cooper loves feels like a far more personal antagonist to contrast the whodunit of Laura Palmer's murder.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Feel free to edit as you go. Do not listen to the purists who insist you should hold off until the thing is finished

I have an anxious tic where I tap or scratch my nose.

In other news, I've cut my nose. Again.

YouTube video by Alex Bruning Stoneshore Register V5

Oh and there's a book trailer!

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Wilson and Perker together again!! 🤩

If you took a billionaire's money away, they would just earn it back again. Cream rises to the top.

I'm so confident about this, I think we should prove it by taking all the billionaires' money away.

Asked my daughter what she thought of her first viewing of THE THING and got this in response.

Who else wants to know what these rules are...?

A dark haired man in a Prescott asks a man with a moustache bent next a horse if his social worker is inside the animal

Tomorrow on Patreon: it's one of HANNIBAL's best lines/sight gags as we discuss S02 episodes 7 & 8.

Tron Ares

"Executives pitched the idea of actually incorporating AI into one of the characters as a marketing strategy. The AI-generated character would be a sidekick, but the idea was ultimately scrapped because executives internally were told that the company couldn’t risk the bad publicity.”

Well, Bring Her Back has some 'ooof' going on. Ooof.

A parody of a jeans ad showing the mutated guy from "The Fly" and the text: "American Eagle Seth Brundle has fly jeans"

Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse

Processing: Why Benjamin Percy Is Writing a Novel as a Newspaper with Stephen King The author on writing across mediums, the appeal of physical objects, and working with the legendary Stephen King

I talked to @benjaminpercy.bsky.social about writing across mediums, working with the legendary @stephenking.bsky.social, and serializing the forthcoming novel-as-newspaper THE END TIMES

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My pleasure - I just like lovely, cool, creative things!!

'Cyclists ring road' plan for bikes around city centre Sheffield could be set for a ring road for bikes, under latest plans drawn up for transport in the city.

Sheffield could be set for a ring road for bikes, under latest plans drawn up for transport in the city

A graphic showing three men smiling, looking towards the camera, in bubbles in the middle of the screen. A blue and white cartoon gaming background is behind the words “we’re going to Gamescom”. Text at the bottom reads “message us to arrange a meeting – special effect”

We’re heading to Gamescom and couldn’t be more excited to connect with our friends and supporters out there! If you’d like to chat with our team, email info@specialeffect.org.uk or message a team member to arrange a meeting!

(Also: movies cost that much because of crazy above-the-line costs and bonkers decisions like “let’s junk this almost-completed film and reshoot a new script with a new director”.)

Quick doodle of my Fallen London character. Finally got to playing it few days ago and I'm having a blast so far

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The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
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It's also a bit melancholy as it hoped the swimmer in the poster was secretly cake.

When it hauls itself onto the boat it needs a bit of a rest because it’s over exerted itself.