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E.Saxey

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Tallish, bookish Londoner. Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/ Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22 They/them.

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 1h

Neighbours often leave small unwanted objects in front of their houses, for passersby to take (clothes, books, ornaments).
Local foxes are abundant.
Often, I'll pass a sign which says "🌸❤️HELP YOURSELF! 🌸😀" with an arrow which now points only at some fox poo.

E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 8h

Just watched The Borderlands! Excellent and horrible. And set somewhere around my original neck of the woods.
Thanks for the other suggestions.

E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 1d

I actually prefer William Despair Hodgson #moregoth

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 3d

Happy book birthday - thanks for the insight into the coming-about process, and very much looking forward to reading it!

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 5d

And it was built by a lascivious Gothic author. It's got to be at least a nod.

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 5d

Just started All of Us Murderers (by the excellent @kjcharleswriter.com) and it's set in a Gothic pile - built to look older than it is, with an octagonal central tower.
Is that echoing, and thus foreshadowing? 🤔
(I don't want to spoil anyone via architectural history trivia, so no placenames.)

Engraving of a massive Gothic building, like a cathedral glued to a castle, with an octagonal central tower. No label to say where it is, because that might be a spoiler.

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 6d

That's an Urban myth

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 7d

Me neither, more of a suspicion.
But you're right, the dates make sense 😬

E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 7d

Flanders and Swann, sorry!

E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 7d

Ouch, but also were they self-consciously a bit archaic? That would soften the blow.

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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 10d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 8d

Hope you can find the smell again with another kind!

E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 9d

Seeking a hair product I used in 2022ish, the internet offers me horse grooming goop. Briefly offended, I soon think: horses are huge! I bet you get more horse shampoo, per pound, than human.
Expect to see me shortly in fine fettle.

An online listing for oh so silver coat conditioner. This product enables the colour of your grey pony and horse.

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 10d

Really useful, thanks! My witches were exhausted rather than frightening, but with the potential for menace.

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 10d

A similar feeling. Bothered by death.

A painting, often referenced online, of a bored (mourning?) young woman on a train with a man leaning over the back of her seat to bother her. Titled 'The Irritating Gentleman' - Berthold Woltze, 1874

Painting of a tired and gaunt Queen Elizabeth the first, with a skeleton leaning over her shoulder at just the same angle as the irritating gentleman.

E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 10d

And what a painting! So overborne, so exhausted - if it had been painted in her lifetime, frankly treasonous. I'd love to say the painting inspired the story, but I only just found it. Queen Elizabeth I in Old Age, c1610, English School.
www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-pri...

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 10d

Book Quote Wednesday! Today’s word is “hard.”
Moving into spooky season: What if Queen Elizabeth I never died, and is languishing in a bricked-up chapel?
She's tiring of talking to pompous History professors. She's changing.
giganotosaurus.org/2023/10/01/o...
@giganotosaurus.bsky.social
#BookQW

A painting of an aging Queen Elizabeth the first, and a quote from a novella: "“We thank you,” said the Queen. Other tongues rattled their gratitude in the shadows.

Sophia let go, stepped away. She gulped in the sickly air and looked for the Queen. She had to be standing further in, in the nave of the chapel. There was a figure there, but it was hard to make her out. Cloaked, certainly. Hooded, perhaps. Stiff drapery distorted her silhouette."

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 16d

I remember enjoying (mild spoilers) the way that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "Maybe the solution to the triffids is—another KIND of triffid!" 🌾🙁

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 17d

This is excellent, and you may know this - there's an excellent essay, something like 'how Dracula became historical', about the shift from the book (where the goodies use new tech and medicine) to film and other adaptations (which leaned into it being a "Victorian" piece). Does that ring bells?

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 17d

Oh! I get it! I think.

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Game Table Network @gametablenetwork.bsky.social · 18d

Join us for The Interactive Pasts Conference 4: The Fellowship of Past and Play 8–10 October at the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology and on Twitch! Playful workshops, exciting talks, two great panels, and a games exhibit await! See thread below for links!

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 18d

Missed bisexual visibility day. Am no longer visible. Still audible, tangible, frangible and malleable, ineluctable, flammable and biodegradable, unspeakable, impressionable and comfortable.

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 19d

Wyrd friends and folklorists in reach of London, this might refill your well. Cunning folk in a pub theatre.

Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Wyrd Revels 2025
21st to 25th October at The White Bear Theatre
A week of 😈devils, 🧙‍♀️witches, cunning folk and horror! Featuring the plays The Witch of Edmonton, The Wise-woman of Hogston, Thyestes and both versions of Doctor Faustus!
🎟️Season and single show tickets available. #BookNow #Live #Horror

Image of Roel Fox as Doctor Faustus, seen through slashes in the black background of the image. Text overlaid, as per the post - beyondshakespeare.org

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 20d

The Strings are False? "Outside the station there was a flowering bush of buddleia and my father produced a little bag of preserved ginger. The ginger was sweet too though it bit, brought tears to the eyes, but the buddleia was sweet only, sweet." (p38-39)
www.boards.ie/discussion/2...

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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 21d

I'm petsitting and reading fantasy novels. I would prefer fewer dreams about gerbil necromancy.

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