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Anyone got a Dad for borrowing? I need one lol

Unless of course the shower isn't on the fuse board, which it might not be. There are a few electric things in the basement that I'm not sure what they are (i.e. none of it - even the fuse board is just labelled "Lights" for everything - not very helpful 😂😂😂)

Think my electric shower has given up the ghost. TBF, it is old. But also, not great timing. Any electrician I get in to install a new one is gonna take one look at my 1960s wooden-backed fuse board and nope the fuck out - and replacing that is not really in the cards soon (or ever) 😂

Cover of the Vintage Vonnegut edition of Slaughterhouse 5.

Reading my first Kurt Vonnegut book. Feels like a milestone.

Young AFI (Hunter still has hair) posing moodily in a graveyard, as you do

Happy Halloween, Fall Children xd 🎃🎃🎃

Note to self: This is not nearly enough information. No idea what was meant to be going on here lol

"Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works" - Rein Lee on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics, and Finding Your Way in the Small Press Communit... Rein Lee is one of Broken Frontier's 2025 'Six Small Press Creators to Watch' and they talk to us about their comics and practice.

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH interview! “Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works” – @rein-lee.bsky.social on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics. @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social #ThoughtBubbleatBF25 www.brokenfrontier.com/rein-lee-int... #BF6toWatch

Halloween Beat: 13 horror novels to get you into reading the genre Horror is vast, cosmic in scope. It wants to burrow under your skin in dig further into your bones. Here are 13 books that do just that.

Check out my list of great horror novels for genre fans to give a read!
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screenshot of an email telling me I've watched 28 films so far this year

Not doing so well with my reading goals this year (only read 5 books and 0 comics), but, hey, doing alright on the movie side. I don't think I've ever watched so many movies in one year - unless we count the year I watched Man in the Iron Mask every single day after school for months xd

The new collaboration from @christophcondon.bsky.social and myself THE PERIL OF THE BRUTAL DARK is out from VERTIGO in February! Check out this preview!

Photo of me wearing a teal suit jacket, light blue button up, and a navy tie with lil t-rexes on it

Dino 🦖🦖🦖

Coming over the next few days…cover and artist reveals for new books from London Horror Comic. These will be available to buy from @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social 24-26 October and then @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social 15-16 November and then shortly after online.

A couple years after me, another mother at the same agency sued and got her baby back because she was able to prove coercion - the agency didn't do anything to her that wasn't done to every other mother, including mine. But most can't prove it and didn't have family willing to help them like she did

She had no idea she was legally allowed to change her mind up to 6 weeks after the birth - despite hospital staff being there and hearing her scream "don't take my baby away" and sob until they knocked her out when they took me to the nursery.

The 'counselling' my mother was offered was writing lists of what she could offer vs what adopters could and being repeatedly told by the agency nuns that she would be a horrible mother because she was young, unmarried, and had nothing to offer but love against the adopters' "2 parents" and money.

"It’s in the language that frames adoption as empowering, while the majority of relinquishing mothers are not offered counseling, do not have their own legal representation, and are not informed of their rights."

"Adoption isn’t the benevolent system we’re taught it is; it doesn’t exist because we have “so many babies” in need of homes; it’s not the “common ground” we should concede in abortion debates. To understand today’s maternity homes, we have to first reframe what we think we know about adoption."

Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now

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Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now

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The cover of a book called "The Great Mirror of Male Love" translated by Paul Gordon Schalow.

Will forever be mis-seeing/pronouncing this guy's name as Salchow 😂

The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery by @christophcondon.bsky.social &@thatjacobphillips.bsky.social is a noir detective tale that collides with magic, fascism & a mysterious stolen artifact..

Out next year, but email us at shop@okcomics.co.uk now to get it on your pull list!

Jobs requiring a Bachelors degree, when one isn't required for like licensure, 'or equivalent experience' is discriminatory and redundant, and I will die on that hill. This post brought to you by trying to help my friend figure out how to demonstrate their experience is equivalent - hellish.

The news is out!!! Brutal Dark, the new series by myself and @christophcondon.bsky.social is coming from VERTIGO in 2026!! Meet Ezra Caine, our Nazi-Punching-New-Yorking- P.I!

Conroy describes The Peril of Brutal Dark as a “a classic detective story with another genre creeping in”!
#DCVertigo @christophcondon.bsky.social #comicbooks #comics #NYCC #NYCC2025 @conroyforreal.bsky.social @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social

If I ever went for an autism assessment, I'd tell them that when I was around 10, I had a Dr Seuss memory book which asked, "Do you eat like a horse or a bird?" and I wrote, "I eat like a person".

MEGALOPOLIS the graphic novel is out TODAY. I'm so excited to finally get this book out into the world. Here's a few of my favourite pages from the book

Two colourful art prints side-by-side in white frames. On the left, there is a brown Jesus with rainbows and text at the bottom that reads "Love one another". On the right, a child with messy hair and big glasses in a t-shirt that reads "Strong-Willed Child".

Finally found a place for these lovely art prints I bought from @emilygarces.bsky.social nearly two months ago. It's a very tiny, narrow hallway, so it was hard to get a decent picture. I love them <3

Not convinced my package will actually turn up today since for some reason it left Leeds to go to Manchester and is out for delivery in Manchester ? despite needing to be delivered to somewhere far closer to Leeds lol

YouTube video by Rock n Roll The Monkees Goin' Down

Best thing about Breaking Bad season 5 is that one of my favourite Monkees songs is in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gv...