Joel Morris
@gralefrit.bsky.social
Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
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Joel Morris
@gralefrit.bsky.social
· Dec 12
If you want to get info, buy books, courses etc, it’s all on my website…
www.gralefrit.co.uk
Substack: for writing, Comfort Blanket and exclusive bonus subscriber podcasts.
joelmorris.substack.com
And the Broken Veil channel is where to get (and support) the weird stuff.
patreon.com/BrokenVeil
www.gralefrit.co.uk
Substack: for writing, Comfort Blanket and exclusive bonus subscriber podcasts.
joelmorris.substack.com
And the Broken Veil channel is where to get (and support) the weird stuff.
patreon.com/BrokenVeil
Went in to this film knowing nothing about it and it is *terrific*!
Sleep (2023). It’s on the BFI player /rentable. South Korean domestic horror film. 90m. Funny, sweet, charming and horrible in equal measure. The leads are so wonderful that I said out loud “I LIKE THESE PEOPLE!” ten minutes in.
Sleep (2023). It’s on the BFI player /rentable. South Korean domestic horror film. 90m. Funny, sweet, charming and horrible in equal measure. The leads are so wonderful that I said out loud “I LIKE THESE PEOPLE!” ten minutes in.
February 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Went in to this film knowing nothing about it and it is *terrific*!
Sleep (2023). It’s on the BFI player /rentable. South Korean domestic horror film. 90m. Funny, sweet, charming and horrible in equal measure. The leads are so wonderful that I said out loud “I LIKE THESE PEOPLE!” ten minutes in.
Sleep (2023). It’s on the BFI player /rentable. South Korean domestic horror film. 90m. Funny, sweet, charming and horrible in equal measure. The leads are so wonderful that I said out loud “I LIKE THESE PEOPLE!” ten minutes in.
Reposted by Joel Morris
There should be one digital device and it should be in the living room and everyone has to take turns to use it and nothing is private, everyone can see what you are doing. This is the only reason why 90s kids couldn't be touched by big tech
February 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
There should be one digital device and it should be in the living room and everyone has to take turns to use it and nothing is private, everyone can see what you are doing. This is the only reason why 90s kids couldn't be touched by big tech
The problem isn’t teenage brains being exposed to social media. It’s teenage brains owning and running social media.
February 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The problem isn’t teenage brains being exposed to social media. It’s teenage brains owning and running social media.
The “save a draft” option when you decide not to post something you realise is actually fucking stupid seems sarcastic.
“Send to the Smithsonian? Y/N”
“Send to the Smithsonian? Y/N”
February 16, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The “save a draft” option when you decide not to post something you realise is actually fucking stupid seems sarcastic.
“Send to the Smithsonian? Y/N”
“Send to the Smithsonian? Y/N”
There’s a bit in Seven where the detectives pay a secret FBI mole to find out what sort of stuff their killer is reading and into. It’s a huge deal, and they’re breaking the law, and it takes a big chunk of the story. We all leak and share that data all the time. It reads so weirdly now: privacy.
February 16, 2026 at 6:57 AM
There’s a bit in Seven where the detectives pay a secret FBI mole to find out what sort of stuff their killer is reading and into. It’s a huge deal, and they’re breaking the law, and it takes a big chunk of the story. We all leak and share that data all the time. It reads so weirdly now: privacy.
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This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
February 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Another piece of art is this post, which sums up Penda’s Fen rather well within a 300 character limit, a feat I would normally consider impossible.
PENDA'S FEN (1974): Stunning, magical Play For Today written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan 'Scum' Clarke. Spencer 'Timeslip' Banks is a pastor's son struggling with his sexuality, religion, and place in the world amidst a series of startling visions. Folk Horror as art.
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Another piece of art is this post, which sums up Penda’s Fen rather well within a 300 character limit, a feat I would normally consider impossible.
Reposted by Joel Morris
The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 AM
The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
This is like rewatching The Thick Of It and getting nostalgic for a time when politicians tried to hide their bad sides from the public in case it made them unelectable.
rewatching peep show. remember when accidentally making friends with someone who shows themselves to be a raging fascist felt beyond of the realm of possibility, and how it was funny because it was such a wildly atypical, unfortunate, and therefore quintessentially mark corrigan thing
February 15, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This is like rewatching The Thick Of It and getting nostalgic for a time when politicians tried to hide their bad sides from the public in case it made them unelectable.
Pitch: the Apprentice but instead of Sir Alan, it’s Servalan.
February 15, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Pitch: the Apprentice but instead of Sir Alan, it’s Servalan.
UBI for artists is cool, but easy to sell as “you people think the world owes you a living”.
The irony is that the world *does* owe artists a living. Tech corporations just worked out how not to pay it.
The irony is that the world *does* owe artists a living. Tech corporations just worked out how not to pay it.
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
UBI for artists is cool, but easy to sell as “you people think the world owes you a living”.
The irony is that the world *does* owe artists a living. Tech corporations just worked out how not to pay it.
The irony is that the world *does* owe artists a living. Tech corporations just worked out how not to pay it.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
February 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
Wuthering Heights (2026) goes into the collection of recent films etc that have one big thematic thing that the creator has to absolutely *nail* to make everything make sense and then they decide not to, but apparently I’m not meant to care because aren’t we all having a marvellous pretty time?
February 15, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Wuthering Heights (2026) goes into the collection of recent films etc that have one big thematic thing that the creator has to absolutely *nail* to make everything make sense and then they decide not to, but apparently I’m not meant to care because aren’t we all having a marvellous pretty time?
One of the noblest pursuits a human can do is to spend so long doing something that you start to imagine the Venn diagram of people who might possibly understand what you’re up to, and the intersection gets smaller and smaller… but you don’t stop… because those people might be your friends.
February 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM
One of the noblest pursuits a human can do is to spend so long doing something that you start to imagine the Venn diagram of people who might possibly understand what you’re up to, and the intersection gets smaller and smaller… but you don’t stop… because those people might be your friends.
The only answer to Brontegeddon was to watch a wildly ambitious literary adaptation with a brain, forensic fidelity to its source, a batshit commitment to doing-the-thing-it’s-doing and something proper to say… and so we’ve just watched The Green Knight, and are happy now. Cleansed.
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The only answer to Brontegeddon was to watch a wildly ambitious literary adaptation with a brain, forensic fidelity to its source, a batshit commitment to doing-the-thing-it’s-doing and something proper to say… and so we’ve just watched The Green Knight, and are happy now. Cleansed.
Have watched both the Emily Brontë biopic and the Wuthering Heights film this week and in neither of them do they do the song. For god’s sake, play the hits, guys.
February 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Have watched both the Emily Brontë biopic and the Wuthering Heights film this week and in neither of them do they do the song. For god’s sake, play the hits, guys.
Bit of a rabbithole dive has turned up the trailer for the 1970 Timothy Dalton Wuthering Heights, which I now realise is known already to many of us as “the one the Pythons are parodying in semaphore.”
youtu.be/Jl-PjHZ6ITY?...
youtu.be/Jl-PjHZ6ITY?...
Wuthering Heights (1970) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers
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February 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Bit of a rabbithole dive has turned up the trailer for the 1970 Timothy Dalton Wuthering Heights, which I now realise is known already to many of us as “the one the Pythons are parodying in semaphore.”
youtu.be/Jl-PjHZ6ITY?...
youtu.be/Jl-PjHZ6ITY?...
After seeing him in the expected monster prosthetics in Frankenstein, I wonder what his father - the Finnish Eurovision metal star - makes of Jacob E. Lordi as Heathcliff.
February 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
After seeing him in the expected monster prosthetics in Frankenstein, I wonder what his father - the Finnish Eurovision metal star - makes of Jacob E. Lordi as Heathcliff.
We’ve been to see Wuthering Heights and now I can barely hear myself think back home for the sound of furious Martini making. This is going to be a long night of rage.
February 14, 2026 at 6:11 PM
We’ve been to see Wuthering Heights and now I can barely hear myself think back home for the sound of furious Martini making. This is going to be a long night of rage.
Re: that last repost, there’s a pretty clear and positive trans-coded character in West Side Story as well.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
February 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Re: that last repost, there’s a pretty clear and positive trans-coded character in West Side Story as well.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
We’ve just re-invented not understanding this stuff because some arseholes reckoned it might be handy for whatever mad plan they had to rinse us for rage cash.
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This is why it's so bizarre when people are like "How am I supposed to explain all this trans stuff to my children" because Enid fuckin' Blyton managed to do it in one page in NINETEEN FORTY TWO.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
This is why it's so bizarre when people are like "How am I supposed to explain all this trans stuff to my children" because Enid fuckin' Blyton managed to do it in one page in NINETEEN FORTY TWO.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
Get a grip, for gods sake.
This works absolutely fine.
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This works absolutely fine.
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Husband is watching Future Shock: The Story of 2000AD and oh dear me this clip has not aged well. The last line. #NeilGaiman
February 14, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Husband is watching Future Shock: The Story of 2000AD and oh dear me this clip has not aged well. The last line. #NeilGaiman
Feeling stinky with a heavy cold and have taken myself to bed where I have chosen of my own free will to watch back to back Sapphire and Steel, then a double bill of Smile 2 and Event Horizon and now I feel weird and evil. Maybe I was just matching the media to the headspace.
February 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Feeling stinky with a heavy cold and have taken myself to bed where I have chosen of my own free will to watch back to back Sapphire and Steel, then a double bill of Smile 2 and Event Horizon and now I feel weird and evil. Maybe I was just matching the media to the headspace.
If a Shudder subscription proves anything it’s that all good well written psychological horror movies have a 50% audience approval rating, presumably thanks to the number of horrible people who sign up to a horror streaming service merely to watch women’s heads be cut off.
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
If a Shudder subscription proves anything it’s that all good well written psychological horror movies have a 50% audience approval rating, presumably thanks to the number of horrible people who sign up to a horror streaming service merely to watch women’s heads be cut off.