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A corner of The Lightrooms shows an image of an Apollo astronaut standing on the Moon. The image is on every surface and a man in dark trousers and a light t-shirt looks on, awestruck,
An orange background with a red circle. Two thirds of it are red, with a vertical yellow stripe defining the third section and orange beyond that. The paint is acrylic
Against a twilight forest background speckled with stars, a female violinist in a black and white dress plays. She has the head of a rabbit. The cover reads ADVENTITIOUS ISSUE 1-FEATURING NEW FICTION FROM PA CORNELL AND OTHERS
A high definition image of an Apollo astronaut on the moon on the edge of a crater. It's projected across all four visible surfaces of an enormous room with people standing and sitting looking up at the photo from the floor. The title THE MOONWALKERS and BY ANNE NIKITIN is written across the centre of the image.
#TheFullLid - 27th March - Happy Friday! We're going to the Moon and back with Tom Hanks and The Moonwalkers, celebrating the space art of Alma Thomas, loving the first issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social and playing into the weekend with Anne Nikitin
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A New York subway train hurtles past a deserted platform, motion blurring as it goes. At the top of the image is the quote 'An absolute delight to read a thriller this damn good.' by Mark Greaney. Below that is the title THE SURVIVOR. Below that are the words A NOVEL and below that is the name ANDREW REID
A green background with an image of an ink well in black and the words 'invisible ink' written in white lower case text
Pink flowers and curved dark green leaves in mosaic form on a white background in a New York subway station
A kneeling woman in a dress snarls on a concrete floor. Above her the words SONIC YOUTH are written in the air. Below her in the bottom left corner is the word EVOL.
#TheFullLid - 20th March - Happy Friday! We're back with a @mygoditsraining.bsky.social 's brilliant The Survivor, Nancy Blum's amazing subway flowers from @thisiscolossal.com , @brendonconnelly.bsky.social 'snew newsletter and Sonic Youth takes us out to the weekend.
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A group of kids stand on a fracturing surface filled with splinters of white light. They're all in the same school uniform, with Bobby at the front holding a satchel and a determined expression. To his right is Tony, blonde and terrified but standing. Behind him is DJ wearing a hat with a hamster with a determined expression on his shoulder and behind him is Nikki. She's the biggest kid, with glasses, pig tails and wielding a ruler like a sword. To her right and off Bobby's left shoulder is Ada, the smallest of them and the one with the most determined expression. The title reads MYSTERY OF THE MIDNIGHT CARTOGRAPHERS by BARRY NUGENT'
Flights of Foundry' is written in green against a dark blue background. Black dragons speckled with white dance through it.
A forest at night with a cottage to one side of a clearing and a fire in the centre of it. The fire forms a wolf and a horse head above the forest and the title CAMLANN - A Post-Apocalyptic Audio Drama is written above it.
DJ Afrosia's 90's New Jack Swing remix. DJ Afrosia is a woman in a brightly coloured top, DJ'ing in a daylight filled cheerful room
#TheFullLid - 6th March - Happy Friday! This week we're solving the mystery of the Midnight Cartographers with @geeksyndicate.bsky.social 's new book, we've got Bandcamp Friday recommendations, @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social crowdfunding and DJ Afrosia plays us out.
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Against a black background, a bloodstained ladder with a yellow and blue rag tied to it stands next to the words BEAR WITNESS, written vertically in white
A wooden sign on a deserted desert road reads welcome to TCP in trans colour.
A figure in a camo t-shirt and a parachute harness throws up the finger guns as he dives, shades, finger guns and sculpted hair first down a blue image peppered with clouds, land and opponents, next to the word DROP SHOT.
Billy Preston and his band perform Nothing from Nothing in a recording studio.
#TheFullLid - 27th February 2026 - Happy Friday! This week we're manufacturing revelation in the stunning new game from @rufflejax.bsky.social ,supporting the Trans Continental pipeline, doing the Clean Sweep for the month and playing out with Billy Preston.
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Gabby Taylor, a young black woman in a blue suit speaks into a microphone as Jim Brockmire, her older broadcast partner, looks on admiringly.
The Ignyte awards logo, written in blocky white writing and with a golden flaming black fist cradled in the Y of 'Ignyte'
A black woman sits cradling a star with a cradle of molten metal at it's core, the stare throwing light out across a purple background.
The late Reverend Jesse Jackson leads a group of kids on Sesame Street in his famous 'I am Somebody' affirmation.
#TheFullLid - 20th February 2026 - Happy Friday! This week we're calling the plays on the best episode of #Brockmire, celebrating the return of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social and the late, great Reverend Jesse Jackson reminds us who we are. mailchi.mp/e5f4b60e2842...
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Josh Johnson, a friendly looking man with dreads and a gre hoodie stands with his arms folded in front of a multicoloured background covered in tour dates
Playing York, Pennsylvania, Josh Johnson discusses ICE, good, evil and found family.
An orange background with the title DJCUPHERFIT PODCAST written in black and white at the top. Two photos of Deejay, a male host with a goatee and dreadlocks are one side of a logo which is crossed barbells around a microphone. On the other are two photos of Cypher, a woman with long dreadlocked hair,. Beneath them are the words 'Come along with two nerds on different paths to fitness.'
In a dizzyingly fast, festive, furious set, Bad Bunny plays his bggest songs in a location that shifts from a wedding to a street party to sugar cane fields and broken power lines before ending on a powerful, furious, call for unity for all the Americas.
#TheFullLid - 13h February 2026 - Happy Friday! This week we're getting flowers from Josh Johnson, Friends of the Lid @cypheroftyr.bsky.social and @deejayknight.bsky.social have a new project and Bad Bunny plays us out.
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The complete Waves of Madness, a micro budget horror/action movie set on a cruiser liner menaced by supernatural forces. The cover shows the liner, robed cultists, the plucky leads and Legrasse, the gun toting special agent sent to investigate, next to the words The Waves of Madness
A red skeleton in black globe-like armor, leaning on a long sword. In its other hand a bastard sword, upon which lies a bloodied crown. With a rictus grin it intones; DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS!
An ink drawing, in a tense, nervy style, of a torch on its side in the dark. It's illuminating the left hand side of the image
A still of a black and white photo of a demonstration, banners reading ICE OUT!. The words STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS are written around them.
#TheFullLid - 30th January 2026 - Happy Friday! This week we're talking about the quality (or lack) of Mercy, the very fun Waves of Madness, declaring Death to the Wizard Kings! courtesy of Marie Enger and friends and The Boss plays us into the weekend and our break.
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Professional talk gooder Alton Brown makes lemon piccata and talks about his love of chicken thighs through the mediums of food, puppetry and dad jokes.
A red devil with horns and a pointy tail walks across the snow, leaving hoof prints behind
Val Basmajian, one of the lead characters of the series, stands holding a tomato they're cutting open with a very large knife. Val is an intense looking woman with green eyes and long light brown hair. She's wearing a tank top and a tomato vine is tattooed across her shoulders. here are splashes of ed liquid on her left cheek and her lip as well as the knife, making it seem like she's been in a fight as opposed to chopping a tomato. Both may well be true. A suburban house, painted through a blue filter is behind her. At the bottom of the image is a white horizontal band with the BOOM! Studios logo in the left hand corder and NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH 1 Main Cover by Haining in the bottom left hand.
The members of Brass Against perform Epic by Faith No More live in studio.
#TheFullLid - 23rd January 2026 - Happy Friday! This week we're finding hope in Alton's Brown kitchen and #thebonetemple (spoilers). Our spotlights are some #365devils from Friend of the Lid @sennydreadful.bsky.social and we play out with the @brassagainst.bsky.social.
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I’m currently running a campaign for a set of specially designed puzzle coins, wrapped in lore and mystery! #TheFullLid
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Twiglet, the white cat with pink ears and nose, peeks through a curtain
Watercolor painting of a southeast asian woman in pinstripe suit against city night background
Sun rise over the Earth seen from space. The Patreon 'P' logo is in the top left corner and a drawing of a cheerful bee in space, wearing a helmet, is in the bottom left corner.
Rap artist Doechii and her band perform a NPR Tiny Desk concert.
#TheFullLid - 16th January 2026 - Happy Friday! We're back from break with the State of the Lid 2026, a festive Clean Sweep, some amazing human art from Bluesky, Friend of the Lid @scribblejotter.bsky.social 's great new project and Doechii's Tiny Desk Concert! mailchi.mp/fdb80bcd7a5b...
First time in 2026!
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Against a blue and red background, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern watch The Player King bow to us. R and G are tall men in their thirties in brown tunics and Elizabeth clothing. One has short light hair and the other has an attempt at a beard and longer brown hair. The Player King is an older man with a full beard and long greying hair. The title ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is at the bottom of the image.
A white and orange skull against a black background. The words THIS IS HORROR AWARDS are to their right.
In a still from 1999 bisexual classic The Mummy, Rick O'Connell cocks a gun, Evie Carnahan looks attentive as does her brother Jonathan Carnahan. All are dressed in 1930s style adventurer gear and in an Egyptian tomb at night.
The members of Run DMC dressed in Santa's hats and old school rap chains.
#TheFullLid - 19th December 2025 - Happy Friday! We're looking at the @escapeartists.net end of year campaign, talking blood, love and rhetoric, @pseudopod.org 's @thisishorror.bsky.social win, visiting with spirits and spending Christmas in Hollis. See you next year!
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Last time for 2026!
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Against a background of a golden audio waveform, the words ESCAPE ARTISTS YEAR END CAMPAIGN are written in gold and green. Next to them is the EA logo, the two letters in green surrounded by the wave audio wave form.
A box of copies of Horse! Folks Customs of the British Isles by S. Cousins. The cover shows three supernatural horse costumes, one a riot of colour, one the skeletal white Mari Lwyd from Wales and one a dark coloured wooden headed horse wearing a bell. All three are sitting down to tea.
A hare sprints across the countryside in front of a trailcam
A pair of earrings on black card against a slate background. They're teardrops arranged in a heart like shape, the colour of cranberries
#TheFullLid - 1th December 2025 - Happy Friday! We're looking at the @escapeartists.net end of year campaign, @6knifes.bsky.social 's incredible Horse! Exploring @cameratraps.bsky.social, shopping with @peculiarityshop.bsky.social and playing out with Dean Winchester.
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A colossal stone and moss troll stands in the background with a burning Norwegian landscape beneath him. The main characters of the movie are arranged in portrait in front of him including Erika, a blonde scientist, Andreas as terrified politician, Kris a soldier and Mr Tidemann, Erika's father. The title TROLL is beneath them.
The words THE MOUTH OF WINTER-a serialized novella, against a blue background. The moon is visible to its right.
a glade in the sun, leaves catching the light. In the top right corner are the words 2 Mello. In the bottom left are the words Sunsound Collisions.
Neoclassical metal band Apocalyptica perform In The Halls of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.
#TheFullLid - 5th December 2025 - Happy Friday! We're off to the halls of the Mountain King with the #troll duology, we've got #bandcampfriday recommendations for you, a great serial novella from @loottheroom.bsky.social and classical music for a classical weekend.
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The poster for AdventureX 2025 shows a group of characters from various games, all clustered around. Men and women and a duck dressed like a hard bitten private detective with the title ADVENTUREX above them and 22-23 NOVEMBER 2025 beneath them.
Against a beige background, the words HIGHGATE WOOD are written in curly rounded letters for the first word and harsh, precise text for the second. HIGHGATE is in green and wraps around WOOD in black. An arrow pierces WOOD.
An 8-bit adventure game where you begin a new job working for a company building a wind farm and discover just how shallow their intentions are. The images shows your character, a white man in a shirt and tie holding a coffee mug, surrounded by red and yellow demonic faces.
A still of the album cover, showing Strong Bad, a small angry red masked luchador with boxing gloves for hands surrounded by hurriedly scribbled lines of electricity and ROCK and also flames and guitars. At the top is the title STRONG BAD SINGS AND OTHER TYPE HITS.
#TheFullLid - 28th November 2025 - Happy Friday! We're back from #adventurex full of inspiration and thoughts on the show. Our Spotlights are the entire show! As well as two of the games we played while Strong Bad plays us out with some excellent news about The Cheat.
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@alasdairstuart.bsky.social #TheFullLid playout?
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Hmmmmmmm… new #TheFullLid section?
Oh! Thank you so much to Alasdair and Jen for the boost to the African Translation Project. We've got the second (and last) book HALF funded now, and yes, all the funds go to the Black woman owned small press in South Africa.
I totally just subscribed to #TheFullLid also - it looks great! 🎉
