James Macaronas

Sorry you have to deal with this, that's sickening - reported & blocked ✊

These deep dives into Terrance Dicks' Target novelisations are absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended (and not just because I get a glowing name check in this one)!

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

Narrm folks, if you're able, consider supporting Grandmas Against Removal, or another grassroots, Indigenous-led organisation.

Photo of a crowd outside Flinders Street station. An Aboriginal flag is being waved overhead.

Photo of a crowd marching north on Swanston Street. A sign in the lower left reads "Solidarity with Camp Sovereignty".

Photo of the top of a crowd on Spring Street. A sign being carried overhead reads "Always was always will be."

Photo of a crowd marching outside Melbourne Town Hall. A banner held overhead reads "Readers and Writers Against the Genocide".

Yesterday's anti-racism, anti-Nazi march - calls for unity from Wurundjeri community, as well as solidarity from settler Aussies - including dismantling systems that profit from division.

White leftists empathizing with racists is exactly why we say you’re more dangerous than republicans. You talk the talk but never walk the walk especially when you’re not the target. Your stake in white supremacy matters more to you than your ideology, whatever that looks like now.

"You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning America into a police state [...] You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. [...] As a writer you are finished."
- William Burroughs to Truman Capote

Boycott DC Comics.

They're still operating like their massive lying apparatus actually sets the terms of our thought and debate rather than just further demonstrating to us how much they need abolishing

“Charlie bit me!” - the dust

Was waiting for you to get to this! Wild stuff 🌊

what a (lovely) day to be teaching Fanon ..

This is beautifully, powerfully written… and I agree with every word. I too, am an AI Hater.

... but more gleeful, more violent, as you say - new aliens bursting out in place of another human hybrid.

Also riffing on a lot of Romulus's 'big ideas'! Young people/children being in this future, synth identity crisis, encounters with the Xenomorph always being produced by previous encounters ...

Photo of a street in Naarm, with the skyscrapers clouded in haze.

"The enemy is not man is not woman—The enemy exists only where no life is and moves always to push life into extreme untenable positions"
- William S. Burroughs, 'Nova Express'

Still from 'Dracula' (1931). Van Helsing is talking to two men. The subtitles read "The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."

You don't say?

I am seeing gen-AI creeping into solo ttrpg communities more and more, which is baffling and frustrating. Being creative, collaborating instead of merely consuming, is the point. Why are you outsourcing that to a water-guzzling plagiarism machine? Just play the damn game. Be creative. Be joyful.

Black and white illustration from a mid-century edition of War of the Worlds, depicting the Martian tripods marauding across London.

although this was the first illustration I saw - the frontispiece in a Heinemann edition - still arrested by the way the heat ray resembles a camera ..

it'll always be the paintings from the Jeff Wayne album I think - expressing something alien in the same way the music does.

a black line drawing of David Lynch on a red background with black zigzag stripes

Lynch is back up in my store ♥️🪵

John Blanche's work is just so goddamn good

That thing SWs have been warning everyone about for years is here and it's gonna get a lot worse real quick.

Very fair - it's a classic for a reason! Although I've got a soft spot for "Black Thirst" and "Julhi" ..

What's your favourite Northwest Smith story?

Let's hope Interzone magazine & its editor haven't been dogpiled off Bsky for good. They did good work, were kind to people, boosted others & other mags constantly, & were keeping one of the oldest sff mags alive.

still really dig this essay -