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e.g. Mark Clapham

@markclapham.bsky.social

Former writer, current office person, chronic wife guy. Erratic set of interests barely likely to intersect with whatever you’d like me to post about. He/Him.

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This is incredible really as I only wrote a couple of 40k novels and have since quit writing. I guess the BL ecosystem just allows constant steady discovery. It isn’t a huge amount of money - a lunch now and then rather than a living - but odd to think im still being read, somewhere.

23.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

today was the six monthly black library statements day, and it struck me that it’s kind of remarkable that a steady stream of people - not a huge amount, but more than a handful - are continuing to buy my 40K short stories digitally.

23.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hell yeah

23.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hooooow has no one thought of Jonathan Crane being related to Niles and Frasier before, it’s been sitting right there

23.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘Every other year or so’, rather. FFS no wonder I’m not a working writer

23.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah that’s why he vanished just as spider Gwen was becoming huge. I have no idea if he and Aaron finished Southern Bastards either

23.02.2026 20:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m pleasantly surprised as a retired nonentity that my BL shorts steadily earn a few quid each every year ago, just a very steady stream of digital sales for decade old short stories.

23.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Really stark learning today how alien the very idea of intrusive thoughts is to a lot of people, whether or not they are then acted upon.

23.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 101    🔁 16    💬 10    📌 2
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DUNE trilogy:

23.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 343    🔁 63    💬 0    📌 1
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‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Joining Criterion Collection (EXCLUSIVE) 'KPop Demon Hunters' and Guillermo del Toro’s 'Frankenstein' are two of Netflix's award season films that are joining the Criterion Collection.

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS CRITERION what a time to be alive

23.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 44    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 4

Also when I was doing articles and news-with-background pieces for HeroCollector a few years back that was definitely content.

23.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The thing about saying ‘content’ is that it isn’t just a synonym for ‘writing’, it also covers video and audio and any other bit of media you can put out. People use ‘content’ to cover all of the above, and if you’re running a website you probably are posting all of the above.

23.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Australia also had the best version of Traitors

23.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cover for issue 1 of MASK, out June 3rd by Dan Watters and me.

23.02.2026 11:59 — 👍 111    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 1
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Don’t bite the watch, divorced zombie, you can’t afford to replace it and pay child support.

22.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hardcore 90's Image Comics-style drawing of Silent Hill 2's James Sunderland for a PSM front cover.

Hardcore 90's Image Comics-style drawing of Silent Hill 2's James Sunderland for a PSM front cover.

THERAPIST: Hardcore 90's Image Comics James Sunderland isn't real, he can't hurt you.
HARDCORE 90'S IMAGE COMICS JAMES SUNDERLAND:

22.02.2026 03:25 — 👍 196    🔁 76    💬 7    📌 9

To me, this is gaming

22.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really fun thread and piece at the end!

22.02.2026 10:36 — 👍 72    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 1

Has anyone referred to the Mary Jane version of Venom as a Femivenominon yet?

21.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did marvel just release the first synopsis for the new Spider-Man movie in the solicitation for an Art of the Movie book? It wasn’t hugely revealing but it was a surprising place to see it.

20.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

omg I was so distracted by the pug I didn’t register the space domestic violence

20.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Darth Vader and Son-isation of publishing is relentless, when the next big Hannibal Lecter thing comes out I expect it to be accompanied by an all ages graphic novel called The Very Hungry Doctor from some acclaimed but broke indie cartoonist.

20.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...

20.02.2026 11:56 — 👍 3649    🔁 1060    💬 29    📌 18
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I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

18.02.2026 00:40 — 👍 2244    🔁 794    💬 55    📌 55

Too soon

20.02.2026 11:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Emergency kitten-retro Potats, tiny squeaks edition.

20.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 295    🔁 62    💬 2    📌 5

Sony could have got them to remake Ico but instead we get this

20.02.2026 09:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them
But they’re only satellites
It’s wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish
I wish
I wish you cared

20.02.2026 09:04 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
Obi Wan confronting Anakin and saying "I sleep in a big bed with your wife."

Obi Wan confronting Anakin and saying "I sleep in a big bed with your wife."

19.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 106    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

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