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Fancy stewed pear, ginger and dark chocolate porridge from Hata. Also coffee.

Two small woven squares. One is a green and pink decorative sampler in a variety of stitches, one is a purple and yellow twill square

Four skeins of yarn - two purple/pink skeins from Trava & Wool, two green skeins from Little Grey Girl

I had a brilliant day out at Woolly Good yesterday seeing friends, eating fancy Edinburgh porridge, doing some beginner's weaving and, importantly, buying yarn

With voting now open for this year's British Fantasy Awards, we're calling for jurors. Once voting is closed, the shortlist goes to a jury of peers to choose a winner. Fancy being part of the action?

Nominate yourself to be a juror for the British Fantasy Awards here: forms.gle/Kv1JTHBeSXaJ...

I think young men who want women to find them masculine and attractive should get into butchmaxxing (wearing flannel shirts, hiking, adopting shelter animals, doing DIY repair jobs for useless lesbians)

Oh you know, it's just so hard to make a nice filming space

You're so right, I will make sure I remove the venom sacks from the human legs and chuck them in there

You're right... anything can be a body for a pigeon head with enough articulated wire

Fellow creators of horrible chimeras, what do you do with the spare parts? I've got a lot of bird heads, snake middles and human legs lying about the flat and I don't want them to go to waste.

started trying to watch evangelion all the way through again lads

I am covering my eyes because the sun is shining directly into my eyes

I have lowered my hand and now the sun is indeed shining directly into my eyes

the sun

THE SUN (no good pictures were taken)

"You should lower your hand so I can get your beautiful face in the picture"

A beautiful woman with blonde hair and cold-pinked cheeks (that's me) gazes at a wooden sculpture of a hawk

A black lino print of a crow who looks like he has opinions

A pair of shorts made from star wars print fabric

A metal sculpture of a green man

I had a very relaxed easter weekend of arts, crafts and little trips - I tried lino printing, gave blood, went to Greenbank Gardens and threw together a pair of pyjama shorts from scrap fabric

A still from a black and white Betty Boop cartoon showing a small girl with shaggy curls and big eyes held in the arms of a darker, taller and much stronger-looking similarly-featured person. The diminutive figure is Betty Boop and the larger, her boyfriend Fearless Freddy. Betty is wearing a little black dress and Freddy a pair of short shorts and a white vest with LIFE GUARD written on the front.

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Dir: Rose Glass

Did some writing, gave blood, read another book, which I think means I get to play Divinity Original Sin 2 the rest of the evening!

(I need to live my best life this weekend so I don't get too much Eastercon FOMO)

It was fun, I think I probably will. Have you done any of it?

I also read an entire Ali Hazelwood book and tried tiramisu from the shop on Queen Margaret Drive that sells nothing but tiramisu

I had so much fun starting my easter weekend with CRAFT TIME

Fiction, I read a fair amount of literary fiction, and some classics and old gothics.

Non-fiction, I read a lot of popular history and science, and some true crime.

I'm also in a book club at work, which gets me reading the odd memoir, contemporary or crime novel I wouldn't normally pick up.

Meme of Gordon Ramsay with the subtitles "Delicious Finally, some good fucking tap water"

When you're back in Scotland after being away for a while

Ken Russell showing Vanessa Redgrave how blasphemous he wants her performance to be during the making of THE DEVILS (1971)

Sorry, but it is an important public health message.

The FantasyCon 2026 team in Glasgow are delighted to open for space applications for the art show!

Applications for the Fantasycon 2026 art show are now open! The con is 9-11 October, and space applications close 14 April. This year, me and the wonderful @jennicoutts.bsky.social are co-running it - so please get in touch if you've got any questions!

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a green heron points to the ski excitedly while a space shuttle flies away. The heron says, “the humans are all leaving! Panel 2: the heron continues, “we can finally enjoy the unaltered beauty of the earth!” Panel 3: the heron stands smiling. Behind it a group of beavers wearing hard hats and safety gear are building a giant log structure. Two of them are looking at a blueprint, another in the back is using a chainsaw.

CAMARILLA ONE: it's a centuries-old sacred duty that maintains the fragile peace between mortals and the children of caine without which the very fabric of reality would be torn asunder
CAMARILLA TWO: i'm just saying it sounds like-
CAMARILLA ONE: it's not fucking kayfabe

Glasgow Film Festival 2026 Glasgow Film Festival 2026 watchlist

Another Glasgow Film Festival over! I tried to make an effort to review most of what I watched this year: boxd.it/RXOPE

In context, it comes across as more bored/childish. It's a fidget Cathy does at the dinner table while listening to Edgar and Isabella argue about going to see a hanging.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

Congratulations!

The Restoration at Grayson Manor Irish playboy Boyd Grayson (Chris Colfer) delights in bringing men home to his sprawling family estate for sex, just to spite his legacy-obsessed mother (Alice Krige), reminding her she’ll never get t...

Also I will, entirely predictably, be going to see the FrightFest movie where Kurt from Glee is given evil robot sex hands by his mum.

Rose of Nevada When the Rose of Nevada ship mysteriously reappears in a faded fishing village 30 years after vanishing, the locals view it as an omen that their luck might be changing. Nick (George MacKay) and Liam ...

Rose of Nevada, screening Thursday night and Friday afternoon. A Cornish time-travel film about a group of fisherman who find themselves in the 1990s after setting out on a boat which mysteriously re-appeared after 30 years.