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The story Priest tells in The Recollections covers the long gestation of the movie adaptation and his thoughts on the process and end results. Well worth a read if you're a fan of The Prestige.

Seeking recommendations for Book Riot, my lovelies: What are some Native and Indigenous SFF that you're excited about releasing this year? SFF that leans horror is totally fine as well. Links appreciated!

While I'm generally of the view that, yes, you should stockpile a bit of pasta if you can, the provision of bottled water in emergencies is literally the job of water companies and following a drought for which the public are being blamed, I do think asking we stock up is pretty fucking brass necked

The BL quietly transforming itself into a WeWork seems like a bad idea, all things considered. If we had a Culture Secretary I’m sure they’d be all over it.

Oh this could get REALLY messy depending how appallingly awful the Home Office want to be www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

"The vision that comes to all the makers of the world, before they make a new thing, whether it be a song, or a sword, or a chalk-cut horse, half a hillside high." The genius of Rosemary Sutcliff.

For an organisation so desperate to save money, the BBC seems to have an unusually large visual effects budget to spend on covering or removing queer flags and slogans.

One of the things that most struck me about WWAS was how open and multifaceted it is in terms of the topics and themes it engages with. This is a great discussion that unpacks more of them than I could do.

Hey @solarisbooks.bsky.social I feel like @drkarenlord.bsky.social's latest is your kinda jam: somewhat literary, a bit weird, hard to define, and brilliant. Plus it feels like absolute @clarkeaward.bsky.social bait (complimentary) if it gets UK publication...

Suddenly I understand why so many of my author friends go to BristolCon each year.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

BIOWARE IS DEAD. NOW WHAT? A thread to panic read on what happens next to your beloved games and servers, and where to find Devs that made that thing you love.

Dragon Age has become a huge part of my life right now and seeing the news that Bioware is shutting down sure stings. But remember that a lot of the devs are off starting their own projects and opening new studios - there are still stories to be told. Go out and find them, support them.

The fact that corporations did not value the human impact of Bioware games is devastating. We love the studio because of their humanity, not because of fancy graphics or multiplayer or microtransactions or anything else shunted in to generate revenue. All EA had to do was leave Bioware alone.

In the wake of the awful Bioware news, I am remembering just how beautiful all the moments in Veilguard where you got to explicitly state your character's transness, have it affect their journey and tie into Taash's own self-discovery of their identity was. Goddamn.

What the FUCK

Well this feels *evil*, doesn't it!

Much to my surprise, during the last election campaign Ed Miliband turned up on my doorstep. He was very persuasive, said he understood my doubts about Labour, but promised they would deliver on Green issues. “Won’t get fooled again” as the song goes

At least no one thought the tulips were gonna kill us all.

This is fucked. Really bleak how entrenched this is becoming.

SoA members, if you haven't filled in the feedback form, here it is

you think abortion is okay? what if I told you this man who loves groping women thinks otherwise?

A lot of aspects of "left-wing" antisemitism are dispiriting and depressing, but "why would people fleeing pogroms and genocide not identify with the country perpetrating said pogroms and genocide? must be a global Jewish conspiracy" puts the lie to so many of the values these people purport to hold

Interesting idea for members to bring up at the @societyofauthors.bsky.social listening session this month.

How very very... normal... of them

Did a class on Charles Coughlin’s 1930s anti-Semitic broadcasts. Student (a good one, no shade) argued he should have been allowed on air because free speech. I pushed back: “that protects him from being arrested, it doesn’t guarantee him radio airtime.” Which the class hadn’t quite considered.

As with so many things when it comes to porn and how it influences people - especially young people - I think the answer is education. But we remain, as a society, terrified of actually engaging with the idea of learning about sex.

I just want to say if a character on West Wing gave this verbatim speech it would be an Emmy winning moment fans would love forever. I need normie blue dog libs to understand this is actually, right here, the kind of progressive person that should be in government. This is exactly who you want.

Every argument along the lines of "this can be used for good" has to reckon with the material reality that it is in practice being used mostly do wreck intellectual community and life.