Sarah Jackson

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic The Irish Bog and Abject Femininity in Irish Horror Film with Marine Galiné

Did you miss this week's talk on Irish Bogs and Abject Femininity in Irish Horror?

Don't miss it!

Find it here!

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The book is so important to me but I'm not sure I've seen the adaptation! If I have it must have been eons ago

Last night was #OrangesAreNotTheOnlyFruit - one of those archive shows that just quietly had a 95% female cast, about 50% older actors, and no-one notices because it's also 100% queer representation. Still a powerful piece of TV because it's so knotty and honest.

snoopy is typing on a typewriter while sitting on a bed ALT: snoopy is typing on a typewriter while sitting on a bed

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Comic panels showing a pretty stream with ducks, the captions read: "Somewhere in the world there is sanity. Somewhere reality is uncomplicated by madness. Somewhere, but not here, not today..."

Comic panels showing Swamp Thing throwing an axe to one side and trudging into the swamp. Thought bubbles read: "The kid must've run off during the fight. Serves me right I guess... I should know better by now than to expect explanations. Though a thank you might be nice... Just once..."

Comic panels showing Swamp Thing looking at his hands then walking away sadly. Thought bubbles read: "It's just a shame that a man with the genius to create such a device had to mad as well. But I guess being shunned by a whole world can be quite a burden on a man's mind. Yeah... So tell me about it, world, just tell me about it."

Comic panel showing a wild landscape with an inset close up of Swamp Thing's eyes looking desperately sad. The caption reads: "To put it mildly indeed, Alec Holland's thoughts have been grim." His thought bubbles read: "I suppose there's nothing left to do. There never really was. My life ended the day I became this man-monster. Everything that's happened since has all been just a nightmare."

This is heresy, I know, but I read all the bronze age Swamp Thing a while back and I enjoyed it just as much - if not more! - than Alan Moore's run.

Wein & Wrightson era Swampy isn't mystical, he's just depressed in a very relatable way.

Shoji Yamasaki // LITTERED MVMNTS

A very large cross stitch on black aida fabric of the Enterprise D as shown by an LCARS style screen with lots of other sub-windows around.

I finally finished this Enterprise D LCARS cross stitch! Was supposed to take about a year, but longcovid had other plans for my brain and ability to count. So it's been over four years instead. It has a bazillion-jillion stitches in it.

I got this book as a birthday gift from @zenithedtom.bsky.social and it is a thing of beauty

🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards!

Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works!

bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

The Night as a Womb: How Dark Writing Teaches Me to See the World Clearly - Ruadán Books I have been writing for many years in the hush that follows noise, in those narrow hours between midnight and the faint first light of dawn. There, words reveal their true layers; they are not merely…

Read the latest essay at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk: "The Night as a Womb: How Dark Writing Teaches Me to See the World Clearly" by Alaa Al-Aswad, a writer and digital publishing designer based in Amman.

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Full comic page showing Cliff and Rita complaining, Niles Caulder telling them to get over it, then Larry walks in and joins them in complaining, telling Caulder if they don't blow off steam they will explode, Caulder finally agrees.

I also saved this whole page of Doom Patrol being Doom Patrol back in the 60s. I love a sad superhero!

Happy Friday!

Overprinting of three strengths of colours, 1940.

a close up of a cartoon character 's face with a tear coming out of his eye Alt: Animated series Batman looks miserable in the rain.

And that is why Batman is my favourite :-)

Full comic page showing Cliff and Rita complaining, Niles Caulder telling them to get over it, then Larry walks in and joins them in complaining, telling Caulder if they don't blow off steam they will explode, Caulder finally agrees.

I also saved this whole page of Doom Patrol being Doom Patrol back in the 60s. I love a sad superhero!

Cat is giving I am disappointed with you face.

A ★★★★ review of Nuts in May (1976) I’ve seen Mike Leigh’s Nuts In May many times since January, 1976, but never imagined until now that Roger Sloman and Alison Steadman were both 29 when they filmed it. Nineteen-year-old me assumed tha...

"...Like it or not, for the viewer, it's a hall of mirrors, our worst aspects blown out of all proportion and reflected back at us. We point at them and laugh. Silly humans. It's brilliantly played by all, and excruciatingly hilarious..."
My review of NUTS IN MAY, now on iPlayer. boxd.it/czQIHD

(I saved these panels at the time because they made me smile, just found them again as I am replacing my decrepit old tablet)

Comic panels showing a pretty stream with ducks, the captions read: "Somewhere in the world there is sanity. Somewhere reality is uncomplicated by madness. Somewhere, but not here, not today..."

Comic panels showing Swamp Thing throwing an axe to one side and trudging into the swamp. Thought bubbles read: "The kid must've run off during the fight. Serves me right I guess... I should know better by now than to expect explanations. Though a thank you might be nice... Just once..."

Comic panels showing Swamp Thing looking at his hands then walking away sadly. Thought bubbles read: "It's just a shame that a man with the genius to create such a device had to mad as well. But I guess being shunned by a whole world can be quite a burden on a man's mind. Yeah... So tell me about it, world, just tell me about it."

Comic panel showing a wild landscape with an inset close up of Swamp Thing's eyes looking desperately sad. The caption reads: "To put it mildly indeed, Alec Holland's thoughts have been grim." His thought bubbles read: "I suppose there's nothing left to do. There never really was. My life ended the day I became this man-monster. Everything that's happened since has all been just a nightmare."

This is heresy, I know, but I read all the bronze age Swamp Thing a while back and I enjoyed it just as much - if not more! - than Alan Moore's run.

Wein & Wrightson era Swampy isn't mystical, he's just depressed in a very relatable way.

A box of Folk London magazines with Hamilton Gross, Angeline Morrison and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on the cover

The new Folk London is out now and going out to subscribers today. Featuring:

* Jump Billy! @angelcakepie2.bsky.social and @drmarylshannon.bsky.social on a forgotten Black hero
* Beginner's guide to morris dancing
* Broomdasher on 10 years of song

Buy here: folklondon.co.uk/product/febr...

Derby is a city with its share of ghosts, and we'll have even more joining us for the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL, coming to QUAD over the weekend of 27th Feb to 1st March! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #derby #derbyshire #festival #festivals #writing #writers #authors #books #fiction

Toad sleeps in Frog's bed. From "The Story" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

But Toad did not answer. He had fallen asleep.

Finally, a flag worth fighting for.

Join a union, kids.

www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union

This starts of funny then gradually becomes really impressive then somehow shifts into genuinely haunting. What a talent.

Sorry about the long slumber. Dragons move in mysterious ways. Here is a delightful little dragon with verdigris patterning on its scales. Spotted nesting on top of a posh school in W1, at the end of Waverton Street.

Four-panel image-led graphic. Left panels show David Attenborough wearing a beige jacket, seated outdoors beside reeds and water, smiling and gesturing behind him. Right panels show close-up photos of a beaver swimming and standing upright among tall reeds. Bold yellow caption text across the panels reads: “If someone had told me when I first moved here that one day I would be watching wild beavers in London, I would have thought they were mad. But there they are, right behind me. Happily going about their own business.”

Beavers are back in London 🦫

Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️

Neoliberalism had to die and I'm not sad to see it in its throes. However, not terribly keen on living in the time of monsters.

A prairie river valley with reddish grasses, poplar gullies, and corrugated coulees, near Lethbridge

When my Churchlands/Five Deserts novelette Fletcher's Flights comes out, this is the landscape I'm talking about and I'd like to think I've painted it right. The whole bloodsoaked lonesome thing's a love letter to the coulees of Alberta. The land's as much a character as anyone.

Wooo! Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on this list, and especially @amabilisohara.bsky.social whose nominated work "A Sign Hangs From My Hunger" appeared in our sixth issue. Read it here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/a-sign-hangs...

The Deadlands - Issue 41 | Psychopomp Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Charlotte Suttee, Phoua Lee, Joe Koch, Jeremy Morris, gray lindsey, Dmitri Akers, Aliya Whiteley, Marisca Pichette, Alan M. Fisher, Sadoeuph...

the deadlands ISSUE 41

with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved

IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD

check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here: