Bracing myself for Saturday morning Borough Market and a thousand background appearances in ‘I Tried The Viral Chocolate-Covered Strawberries?!’ influencer videos.

🩸📚💙 Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey (dark fantasy horror). Once Was Willem isn’t 12 year old Willem who died of a fever in 1152, he’s whatever crawled out of Willem’s grave after he was indifferently resurrected a year later by Caradoc, a sorcerer who steals his immortality from children’s souls.

Honestly just having a nice, nostalgic time right now bimbling around in Silent Hill: Townfall admiring all the things I recognise from the 1990s. Hopefully will not at some point enter the nightmare world and get chased by a horrible mutated plastic guide dog full of ominously jingling coins.

A Short Stay In Hell 🩸📚💙. Soren is condemned to a slightly absurd, but comfortable hell in the form of a vast library. No pitchforks or flaming lakes, his needs are met and all he needs to do to leave is find his own life story in the endless shelves of gibberish.

Kind of tickled that the reason I can’t get a London hotel room within my expenses max rate is because of the Bayeux Tapestry, which is very pleasingly up there with the likes of Taylor Swift when it comes to selling out entire hotels.

After two days of contentedly sitting where I had left it, this melon, for no discernible reason, decided to very slowly and ominously roll itself off the fridge and bounce (not very well) across the floor right before my eyes, like a shit take on the bouncing red ball in every horror movie.

An interesting pair of advertisements from 1950. Do you want to slenderise gently with 20 minutes of nightly relaxation in a soothing Sorella bubble bath, or do you want to slenderise SUDDENLY AND VIOLENTLY with Bile Beans Laxative Plus? (unclear whether “not slenderising at all” was an option)

My pre-order of This Is Where The Future Bleeds by @mikebrooks668.bsky.social! This will be my heatwave reading this week 🪐📚💙

I had to know.

#sotd is one of my favourite heatwave perfumes, Squid by Zoologist. I mostly get a salty, inky vanilla (actually benzoin) with incense and pink pepper. Dark, cool and bracing, and I enjoy the interesting blue-black murkiness when I’m getting bored with clean summer fragrances #fragrancesky

New smells: White Rice by d’Annam (I hardly ever buy full bottles, but this perfume just may make an honest woman of me), J-Scent discovery set, 3x gothy botanical candles by Rosefox (big fan of Grave Flowers, a pleasingly moody incense and dark, dried rose petal bomb) #fragrancesky

#sotd is Orange Pekoe Tea. Possets’ excellent black tea note smells very like sticking your nose into a caddy of good tea leaves and inhaling, but here the tea has been brewed light, crisp and almost citrussy. A very refreshing, spa-like tea fragrance for a relaxed Sunday #fragrancesky

YouTube recommended me a music video called Stacy’s Brother last night. Now wondering if anyone has written a song just called “Stacy”, from the perspective of a boyfriend who is actually quite keen on Stacy and doesn’t secretly have his eye on one of her more attractive relatives.

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

General: That barrage damaged it! It's hurt! *cheers from soldiers* *smoke clears* General: PULL OUT!!! PULL OUT!!!

REwadent Evil@ewacat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

They'd just team up, we cannot allow them to coincide

Very much here for ruddy faced pissed Tom Bombadil handing out some street justice at closing time at the Prancing Pony

Daniel Wynter@boardgamefeast.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Tom Bombadillo gonna knock you on your bumbadillo

Playing Go Home Annie. I enjoy this SCP that causes a massive quantity of bananas to spontaneously manifest inside victims with the intent of killing them through the accumulated level of potassium-40, but mostly succeeding due to the accumulated volume of a billion bananas.

London Weird by AV Wilkes 🩸📚💙. Three perfectly crafted, tremendously gothic stories set in a London that has something very wrong with it. Three women become modern gothic heroines, caught in spiralling obsession & often thoroughly justified fears around their careers, relationships, pregnancies.

I am not the hot-buttocked workman that the advertising algorithm is searching for, but I do appreciate the cartoon bum’s little hard hat.

Loved Coffin Moon 🩸📚💙. A straightforward revenge story, but graced with tremendous emotional depth. A Vietnam vet & his traumatised, fiercely determined niece embark on a bloody road trip through 1970s America searching for the vampire John Varley after he destroys their fragile happiness.

Reached the despair point in packing when you realise that an awful mistake has been made, you own more stuff than anyone in the universe has ever owned, and it will take an entire convoy of men with ven six weeks to move it all 90 mins down the road (..a half day job for one guy with a Sprinter).

Delighted to find out you can now get an iced strawberry matcha latte with your lukewarm steak bake at Greggs. What a time to be alive.

🩸📚💙 Persona by Aoife Josie Clements had me at “a feral shut-in discovers a disturbing internet porn video of what seems to be herself”. Severely depressed trans woman Annie is sinking quietly into mountains of trash when she sees her cam girl doppelgänger, a seemingly happy & sociable mirror

Going to spend my weekend sampling 4160 Tuesdays fragrances. Especially excited for Figs In White Chocolate and Lavender Rice, which will be my #sotd. Love their pretty boxes, the scent note cards, and how the samples look like sweets when they’re wrapped up in tissue paper 🥹 #fragrancesky

this would be many of you when faced with a HELLRAISER-esque scenario

Angel Down. Against the thundering, bloody backdrop of WW1, five lost and traumatised men are sent careening through the trenches on a desperate mission to save a downed angel in hopes she can end the war. Beautifully written in one long, breathless sentence like a never-ending scream 🩸📚💙

Reasons to journal: - Good for mental health ❎😡🤮 - Record precious memories ❎😡🤮 - Provide valuable enrichment for future historians ❎😡🤮 - Can buy more notebooks ✅ 🥳👍

Neil Gaiman: it's me neil gaiman, imagineer and dreamweaver Gaiman: have you ever considered Gaiman: the incredible power of story? Gaiman: but perhaps even more powerful are the stories that we don't tell Gaiman: anyway here's my NDA

In a Downton Abbey/Gossip Girls mash-up, Bunty Cutler would be an absolutely fantastic pen name for the mysterious source that’s all over the society pages revealing juicy secrets from inside the house.