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Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil

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Thread on the Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher Westerns which I've been watching for the first time recently and which I would wholeheartedly recommend.

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Cats In The Cradle, except it's all about a guy who's outsourced all his family time to Chat GPT

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Had a new t-shirt made based on a quote from this old Gollancz cover, because I love that they turned Daphne du Maurier into an adjective.

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I really feel like a hugely underrated factor in our politics is "everyone in Westminster and the broader media assumes newspapers represent the range of public opinion, as opposed to the range of public opinion who still buy newspapers". Yet another thing pushing us towards gerontocracy.

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Wild to see the justifiably outraged reaction to this and realise that the cut-off point of 65 is actually ten years younger than it is in the UK.

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I don't believe the unknown writer of these panels (from the Cosmo, Phantom of Disguise story in DETECTIVE COMICS #24, on-sale date Jan 5, 1939) realized that this strip would be heartily enjoyed in the year 2025, just in the opposite way that they wanted. (The speaker here is secretly the bad guy)

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Christopher Lee outside Harrods (1984) photograph by me, Anne Billson.

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Today's best charity shop vinyl buys - early 70s Waylon and late Seventies Brooklyn rock

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Full thread of my 'Adrian Chills' stories, for any fans of flash fiction horror inspired by mundane newspaper columns

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Full thread of my 'Adrian Chills' stories, for any fans of flash fiction horror inspired by mundane newspaper columns

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CATS ON FILM (kindle or pbk) "the perfect book for cat lovers" "Bonus: includes My Day by Jones, AKA Alien from the cat's PoV" "one of the finest pieces of specialist film scholarship published in recent years” "possibly the greatest book ever" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1978038747

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THE EX: A Ghost Story (kindle or ppbk) "a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat, all dressed up in a yarn that twists like we did last summer" "clever, creepy, wickedly funny" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845

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I find this so weird. I use prompts quite often to spark ideas - like with the Adrian Chills stories I've been writing - but that's as a starting point for my own mind to start figuring out how to tell a story. The satisfaction - and the frustration - in writing is the figuring out.

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If you're using AI to do all these things, you're less a writer and more a proofreader for a chatbot.

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I ranked some Hollywood remakes of foreign films!

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Thread on the Randolph Scott/Budd Boetticher Westerns which I've been watching for the first time recently and which I would wholeheartedly recommend.

Cats In The Cradle, except it's all about a guy who's outsourced all his family time to Chat GPT

Had a new t-shirt made based on a quote from this old Gollancz cover, because I love that they turned Daphne du Maurier into an adjective.

I really feel like a hugely underrated factor in our politics is "everyone in Westminster and the broader media assumes newspapers represent the range of public opinion, as opposed to the range of public opinion who still buy newspapers". Yet another thing pushing us towards gerontocracy.

Wild to see the justifiably outraged reaction to this and realise that the cut-off point of 65 is actually ten years younger than it is in the UK.

I don't believe the unknown writer of these panels (from the Cosmo, Phantom of Disguise story in DETECTIVE COMICS #24, on-sale date Jan 5, 1939) realized that this strip would be heartily enjoyed in the year 2025, just in the opposite way that they wanted. (The speaker here is secretly the bad guy)

Christopher Lee outside Harrods (1984) photograph by me, Anne Billson.

Today's best charity shop vinyl buys - early 70s Waylon and late Seventies Brooklyn rock

Full thread of my 'Adrian Chills' stories, for any fans of flash fiction horror inspired by mundane newspaper columns

Full thread of my 'Adrian Chills' stories, for any fans of flash fiction horror inspired by mundane newspaper columns

CATS ON FILM (kindle or pbk) "the perfect book for cat lovers" "Bonus: includes My Day by Jones, AKA Alien from the cat's PoV" "one of the finest pieces of specialist film scholarship published in recent years” "possibly the greatest book ever" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1978038747

THE EX: A Ghost Story (kindle or ppbk) "a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat, all dressed up in a yarn that twists like we did last summer" "clever, creepy, wickedly funny" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845

I find this so weird. I use prompts quite often to spark ideas - like with the Adrian Chills stories I've been writing - but that's as a starting point for my own mind to start figuring out how to tell a story. The satisfaction - and the frustration - in writing is the figuring out.

If you're using AI to do all these things, you're less a writer and more a proofreader for a chatbot.

I ranked some Hollywood remakes of foreign films!

Today’s best second-hand buy - another to add to my collection of vintage yellow Gollancz hardbacks.

@johnnymains.co.uk Barbara Walton I hadn't seen before here!

Me and Kier Starmer.