phenryward.bsky.social
Books, art, theatre. I mainly use social media to tell people that I liked the thing they made.
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Which reminds me to respond to your email... Will resubscribe!
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Not to jump on typos, but a 'convinced sex offender' is great: "Nope, I meant to! I actually really recommend it!"
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I had my first publication last week, so please forgive the giddy self-promotion.
The Crow's Portion is an anti-fascist thriller, mixing Poe and Dashiell Hammet in a 'Masque of the Red Harvest'. It's cynical and violent and funny!
www.bristolnoir.co.uk/the-crows-po...
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Thank you!
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I had my first publication last week with @bristolnoir.bsky.social, so please forgive the giddy self-promotion.
The Crow's Portion is a weird anti-fascist mix of Poe and Dashiell Hammet probably best described as a 'Masque of the Red Harvest'.
www.bristolnoir.co.uk/the-crows-po...
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In my neck of dino-bothering jungle we prefer the term 'macroherpetophilia'
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Great title. Every time I think "[X] Gothic" is played out, something else comes along and I've got to admit: Nope, that's a banger too
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Came here to scorn this exact, baffling element
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This is pure madness. Was anyone else making interactive not-really-games? I've got a blindspot for the whole concept!
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I didn't know the Residents, and now I do, thanks.
I forgot entirely here the doubleness of mole (as in undercover...)
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Yet they do accept MolePolice, which shows whose side they're really on
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Thought it was incredibly well-handled. Didn’t know source material at all, but the way it all tied up with a resonant metaphor for inequality - the sacrifice of the poor so the rich get pools - and the epitome of an un-reformable police force? That’s the stuff.
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Or the drama in shared calandars
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This is more broadly a recommendation for everyone to have more beautuful, human made things in their home, and to support the people who make them.
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An oddly goofy tone, too, resisting the usual reverence, which is fair enough in principle - but not if you're also a bit dull.
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Usually the performance is based upon some cynical calculation at least - there's no audience for this.
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*Online* presidential library incoming...
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You're right - Bond is English Psycho!
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What's interesting about the ad - the only aspect of it that isn't low common denominator, CGI bilge with awful politics - is that Theo James plays it as objectionably as possible, like American Psycho for English gentry
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This parallel used to be straight-to-paperback, right? Which has shaken off its pejorative. (As an avid hunter of the remainder stacks, I always appreciated the gentle dot marker rather than the violent scrawl.)
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Excellent, thanks!