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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper

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Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · Dec 14

It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site.

1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
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Night of the Hats

Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 2h

A Shakespearean wrestler whose soliloquies keep getting cut off by someone running in and spearing them

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 1d

All...gulls

What could it mean?

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 1d

The first and last word of each story in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope:

He … night
The … bloom
Hilla … could
All … gulls
First … one
Jak … won’t
Stop … coming
The … dawn
When … me
I … all
I … Bravo
Listen … Listen

Find out what lies in between at www.kaleidotrope.net

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 17h

I read Pop by M C Schmidt in @rfpress.bsky.social in which the power of music is revealed in it's full (and annoying) glory nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-re...

I Read Stories: Pop by M C Schmidt

Pop by M C Schmidt in Roi Fainéant Something odd is going on. Our narrator’s father, a retired lawyer, is suddenly drinking beer and ...

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 2h

[Swedish accent]:...

Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 5h

You will not believe what Bluesky is asking me

Nej då

A screenshot of me opening the reply box on Bluesky to Rita's post, having no words in it yet, where it is asking me if I am writing in Swedish.

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 5h

Ooh, the selfie stick! Haven't seen one of those for a while.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 6h

KAISER WILHELM: So, General der Infanterie Kate Bush, you must lead my army up that small rivulet, there, so as to attack the enemy.

KATE BUSH: I only wish I could, Kaiserliche Majestät!

KW: You refuse my order??

KB: No, no: If I only could, I'd be Hunning up that rill ...

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M.J. Jones @mjj-writes.bsky.social · 1d

You should read this, it's a cup of hot chocolate for your Friday evening 😊

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

...if you wanted you could read the only retelling I think I've ever published? a what-if/unpacking of easy of the sun west of the moon. it's much softer and nicer than I usually am and caught on more than most of my writing, so I feel it gives a slightly off impression? but I still kinda like it

A Princess With a Nose Three Ells Long - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

In a castle flanked by fjords, so very far from everything that the winds rarely raised its banners, there lived a troll princess. Her mother was a troll queen, by virtue of a castle and a bad temper,...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13h

Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957

To Who
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And
Advised me
To
Get a job selling jellied eels
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 7h

Good advice all round

Serge Broom @sergebroom.bsky.social · 10h

Svengoolie on MeTV tonight… “Them!”

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 9h

Time for a quick #OldSchoolDungeonsAndDragons! Let's look at Classic Warfare (1975), by Gary Gygax.

Cover of ring-bound Classic Warfare, "Rules for ancient warfare from the pharaohs to Charlemagne," by Gary Gygax. Shows an Egyptian chariot rider as an illustration

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · Aug 2

Tweet too long.

“If HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS had filmed a season in the 2010s, there definitely would have been an episode where Hercules and Iolaus travel to the city of Ur—which looks like a New Zealand suburb—and discover there that Salmoneus has been placed under arrest by the King for fraudulently selling lousy copper. Hercules investigates and it turns out Salmoneus is just a wholesaler and the crappy product is the fault of his supplier, an absolute dirtbag merchant played by guest star Keenan Ivory Wayans.

Hercules beats up the merchant's goons to discover evidence of his shady business practices and the evidence saves Salmoneus from getting his hands chopped off but the king respects the merchant too much to punish him for his fraud. Salmoneus fecklessly screams out as he departs on horseback with his companions that he's going to write a formal complaint about his poor customer service, and the merchant just clutches his gut laughing and finally shouts back "And who shall ever care, that humble Ea-Nasir had a displeased customer?" Fade to credits as Salmoneus seethes”

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 8d

I spilled entirely too much ink talking about every Halloween Horror Nights house this year: medium.com/errant-signa...

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Every year I go to Halloween Horror Nights and threaten to write up what I think about the event. And every year I decide that the interest…

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 12h

Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 12h

For Saturday our space opera serial continues with various characters in a bar, swapping years in Space Stories/Tall Tales www.patreon.com/posts/space-...

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Courtney Ellis @courtneyellis.bsky.social · 1d

My 6yo: I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK
Me: Oh wonderful! Would you like to read it to me?
6yo: CHAPTER ONE - MY FAMILY IS WEIRD

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mumblo @mumblesbot.bsky.social · 1d

$5+ patrons get to see my review of easy delivery co early! www.patreon.com/posts/easy-d...

Easy Delivery Co Review | Mumbles

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 23h

Found this in a 1981 Conan the Barbarian comic book. I salute you across the gulf of time, Horny Enough to Cut Out a Newspaper Ad Kid.

Ad for Tarzan the Ape Man starring Bo Derek and Richard Harris, with the line “The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time” and art of Derek in a straw bikini swinging on a vine against a white background

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 22h

I don't think kids today really appreciate just how tryhard edgy video game marketing was in the 90s.

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 17h

I read Pop by M C Schmidt in @rfpress.bsky.social in which the power of music is revealed in it's full (and annoying) glory nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-re...

I Read Stories: Pop by M C Schmidt

Pop by M C Schmidt in Roi Fainéant Something odd is going on. Our narrator’s father, a retired lawyer, is suddenly drinking beer and ...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 1d

My postcard story Special Delivery is online for subscribers. Non-subscribers will find it has been delayed.

Perhaps aptly, thanks to various confusions and alarms I didn't post the physical ones until yesterday.

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Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 18h

This meeting could have been a zoom call

How the Email Found Me @howtheemailfoundme.bsky.social · 18h

The email has found me waking from drugged darkness, chained to a chair at the head of a long table laden with jewelled cups and a rich banquet. The smell of roasted meat is mouth-watering, dizzying, but mingles with unspeakable rot. Every other seat is occupied by things that were once men.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know there's a Clark Ashton Smith conference happening in January? Learn more about the event, and the group behind it, here: www.thesmithcircle.net

A photo of Clark Ashton Smith sitting in an armchair. The text along the top reads: CLARK ASHTON SMITH CONVFERENCE. A celebration of local weird fiction author, artist, and sculptor. Sat Jan 10th 2026. Auburn Carnegie Library. 175 Almond Street Auburn California

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Josh Crutchmer @jcrutchmer.bsky.social · 1d

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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