Jack Fennell
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
Writer, anthologist, geek. Anthologies: "A Brilliant Void," "It Rose Up" and "Your Own Dark Shadow" published by Tramp Press; academic tomes "Irish Science Fiction" and "Rough Beasts" by LUP. He/him for convenience's sake.
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Jack Fennell
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Everybody Wants to Ruin the World
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You can read the intro to Your Own Dark Shadow, in which I discuss a time I got haunted and wax philosophical about horror, on the Tramp Press website:
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"In 21st-century Ireland, women knew their place. All except a hidden few..."
1993 Irish dystopian novel likely conveys contemporaneous Ireland better than most 1990s realism!
1993 Irish dystopian novel likely conveys contemporaneous Ireland better than most 1990s realism!
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"In 21st-century Ireland, women knew their place. All except a hidden few..."
1993 Irish dystopian novel likely conveys contemporaneous Ireland better than most 1990s realism!
1993 Irish dystopian novel likely conveys contemporaneous Ireland better than most 1990s realism!
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The NGS is cracking at the seems and the pressure is working. It needs to be shut down & an investigation made after years of intrusive sexually inappropriate questioning & behaviour from staff. Yet another reference to the debunked Cass review too from Moran:
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
Transgender care waiting list to close due to resourcing concerns
The National Gender Service (NGS), which provides healthcare for transgender adults, is closing its waiting lists due to a lack of resources, Prime Time has learned
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December 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The NGS is cracking at the seems and the pressure is working. It needs to be shut down & an investigation made after years of intrusive sexually inappropriate questioning & behaviour from staff. Yet another reference to the debunked Cass review too from Moran:
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
Had a nightmare in which I was part of a film crew shooting in a haunted house. In the middle of it, I went on a conversational tangent with one of the other dream-characters about the Indian horror film "Mercury" (Karthik Subbaraj, 2018), which I haven't seen IRL.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Had a nightmare in which I was part of a film crew shooting in a haunted house. In the middle of it, I went on a conversational tangent with one of the other dream-characters about the Indian horror film "Mercury" (Karthik Subbaraj, 2018), which I haven't seen IRL.
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Well, it's official!
@vallescurarule.bsky.social and I have just handed the manuscript for SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES VOLUME 3 over to @lunapress.bsky.social! You'll get to see it Easter 2026!
Sneak peek at the ToC here: www.tiffani-angus.com/spec-fic-for...
Now we falldowngoboom!
@vallescurarule.bsky.social and I have just handed the manuscript for SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES VOLUME 3 over to @lunapress.bsky.social! You'll get to see it Easter 2026!
Sneak peek at the ToC here: www.tiffani-angus.com/spec-fic-for...
Now we falldowngoboom!
Spec Fic for Newbies
Spec Fic for Newbies by co-authors Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan is a beginner's guide to writing various subgenres and major tropes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This page provides informati...
www.tiffani-angus.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Well, it's official!
@vallescurarule.bsky.social and I have just handed the manuscript for SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES VOLUME 3 over to @lunapress.bsky.social! You'll get to see it Easter 2026!
Sneak peek at the ToC here: www.tiffani-angus.com/spec-fic-for...
Now we falldowngoboom!
@vallescurarule.bsky.social and I have just handed the manuscript for SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES VOLUME 3 over to @lunapress.bsky.social! You'll get to see it Easter 2026!
Sneak peek at the ToC here: www.tiffani-angus.com/spec-fic-for...
Now we falldowngoboom!
🎶
There'll be much mistletoe-ing
And your heart will be glowing
And if not we'll cut off your eeeeeeears,
It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶
There'll be much mistletoe-ing
And your heart will be glowing
And if not we'll cut off your eeeeeeears,
It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🎶
There'll be much mistletoe-ing
And your heart will be glowing
And if not we'll cut off your eeeeeeears,
It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶
There'll be much mistletoe-ing
And your heart will be glowing
And if not we'll cut off your eeeeeeears,
It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶
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Submissions Call: Sci-Fi Ireland
Submissions Deadline: 31st January 2026 Sci-Fi Ireland is a literary magazine. Our mission is to find and publish the best new short science-fiction from the Island of Ireland. To bring sci-fi into the spotlight at a time when philosophy, thought and discussion…
Submissions Deadline: 31st January 2026 Sci-Fi Ireland is a literary magazine. Our mission is to find and publish the best new short science-fiction from the Island of Ireland. To bring sci-fi into the spotlight at a time when philosophy, thought and discussion…
Submissions Call: Sci-Fi Ireland
Submissions Deadline: 31st January 2026 Sci-Fi Ireland is a literary magazine. Our mission is to find and publish the best new short science-fiction from the Island of Ireland. To bring sci-fi into the spotlight at a time when philosophy, thought and discussion around science and technology are more important than they’ve ever been. And to provide a literary space in which the sci-fi community of Ireland can connect and have a bit-a-craic.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Submissions Call: Sci-Fi Ireland
Submissions Deadline: 31st January 2026 Sci-Fi Ireland is a literary magazine. Our mission is to find and publish the best new short science-fiction from the Island of Ireland. To bring sci-fi into the spotlight at a time when philosophy, thought and discussion…
Submissions Deadline: 31st January 2026 Sci-Fi Ireland is a literary magazine. Our mission is to find and publish the best new short science-fiction from the Island of Ireland. To bring sci-fi into the spotlight at a time when philosophy, thought and discussion…
Telling my mam the news about the story sale, and giving her a rough outline of what the story is about (a riff on demonic pacts, set during Christmas).
Mam: "That's enough."
Me: "lol, okay."
Mam: "And don't go making any yourself."
Me: "...what?"
Mam: "That's enough."
Me: "lol, okay."
Mam: "And don't go making any yourself."
Me: "...what?"
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Telling my mam the news about the story sale, and giving her a rough outline of what the story is about (a riff on demonic pacts, set during Christmas).
Mam: "That's enough."
Me: "lol, okay."
Mam: "And don't go making any yourself."
Me: "...what?"
Mam: "That's enough."
Me: "lol, okay."
Mam: "And don't go making any yourself."
Me: "...what?"
Nothing like a nice lil' story acceptance to kick off the week.
a woman is sitting at a table with a laptop and making a funny face ..
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a laptop and making a funny face ..
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December 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Nothing like a nice lil' story acceptance to kick off the week.
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I'm still writing my STI protocols (almost done). More sexual health fun facts may or may not be incoming.
Absolutely wild that chlamydia can give you arthritis.
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'm still writing my STI protocols (almost done). More sexual health fun facts may or may not be incoming.
I'm so proactive that it only took about 11 follows from spam-bot accounts to make me block the person they kept coming from.
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I'm so proactive that it only took about 11 follows from spam-bot accounts to make me block the person they kept coming from.
*Ghost voice*
🎶 So they call you a liiiiiii-yar
They say your pants are on fiiiiii-yar 🎶
🎶 So they call you a liiiiiii-yar
They say your pants are on fiiiiii-yar 🎶
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
*Ghost voice*
🎶 So they call you a liiiiiii-yar
They say your pants are on fiiiiii-yar 🎶
🎶 So they call you a liiiiiii-yar
They say your pants are on fiiiiii-yar 🎶
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If you missed it, last night's RTÉ Radio 1 Arena featured Maggie Armstrong and Mike McCormack talking about An Alternative Irish Christmas, and you can listen back here! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
An Alternative Irish Christmas is out now
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An Alternative Irish Christmas is out now
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An Alternative Irish Christmas
Mike McCormack and Maggie Armstrong discuss Tramp Press’ An Alternative Irish Christmas.
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If you missed it, last night's RTÉ Radio 1 Arena featured Maggie Armstrong and Mike McCormack talking about An Alternative Irish Christmas, and you can listen back here! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
An Alternative Irish Christmas is out now
tramppress.com/product/an-a...
An Alternative Irish Christmas is out now
tramppress.com/product/an-a...
Random comment about "Your Own Dark Shadow" that annoyed me this morning:
"I was disappointed in it because there was nothing in it from the North, only the 26 counties."
Yeah you plonker, Tyrone and Down are famously located south of the border.
"I was disappointed in it because there was nothing in it from the North, only the 26 counties."
Yeah you plonker, Tyrone and Down are famously located south of the border.
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Random comment about "Your Own Dark Shadow" that annoyed me this morning:
"I was disappointed in it because there was nothing in it from the North, only the 26 counties."
Yeah you plonker, Tyrone and Down are famously located south of the border.
"I was disappointed in it because there was nothing in it from the North, only the 26 counties."
Yeah you plonker, Tyrone and Down are famously located south of the border.
It takes a profound lack of intelligence to think that forcing trans people back into the closet will result in them ceasing to exist, and a stunning lack of imagination to not even consider how a beleaguered (and if transphobes get their way, invisible) minority might strike back.
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It takes a profound lack of intelligence to think that forcing trans people back into the closet will result in them ceasing to exist, and a stunning lack of imagination to not even consider how a beleaguered (and if transphobes get their way, invisible) minority might strike back.
LOL, just caught an automated 12-hour ban on the bird site for being extremely impolite to a bloviating American gun enthusiast.
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
LOL, just caught an automated 12-hour ban on the bird site for being extremely impolite to a bloviating American gun enthusiast.
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Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People
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November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff.
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Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm
Just actual-lol'd at the state of this bot. "Hey sexy, your posts are so good that I had to DM you..."
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just actual-lol'd at the state of this bot. "Hey sexy, your posts are so good that I had to DM you..."
An incredible exchange from the found-footage horror flick I'm whiling away the evening with:
" 'Calm down'??? Robot Guy has just been eaten by a creature we can't identify, for Christ's sake!"
"Well, nobody made you come."
(This is not a parody film, btw)
" 'Calm down'??? Robot Guy has just been eaten by a creature we can't identify, for Christ's sake!"
"Well, nobody made you come."
(This is not a parody film, btw)
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
An incredible exchange from the found-footage horror flick I'm whiling away the evening with:
" 'Calm down'??? Robot Guy has just been eaten by a creature we can't identify, for Christ's sake!"
"Well, nobody made you come."
(This is not a parody film, btw)
" 'Calm down'??? Robot Guy has just been eaten by a creature we can't identify, for Christ's sake!"
"Well, nobody made you come."
(This is not a parody film, btw)
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As of today there are 7 friends who are desperately search for somewhere to live.
9 people if you count the kids of my friends.
Rents are too high.
HAP & it's restrictions don't reach current rents.
It's not just Dublin, but Cork Waterford, Galway & Louth.
FF & FG are the landlords parties.
9 people if you count the kids of my friends.
Rents are too high.
HAP & it's restrictions don't reach current rents.
It's not just Dublin, but Cork Waterford, Galway & Louth.
FF & FG are the landlords parties.
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As of today there are 7 friends who are desperately search for somewhere to live.
9 people if you count the kids of my friends.
Rents are too high.
HAP & it's restrictions don't reach current rents.
It's not just Dublin, but Cork Waterford, Galway & Louth.
FF & FG are the landlords parties.
9 people if you count the kids of my friends.
Rents are too high.
HAP & it's restrictions don't reach current rents.
It's not just Dublin, but Cork Waterford, Galway & Louth.
FF & FG are the landlords parties.
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"Every western nation will allow us to do this."
The *honesty* and self-awareness in that statement in contrast to "this is not who we are," is striking.
The *honesty* and self-awareness in that statement in contrast to "this is not who we are," is striking.
Ah. I was wondering whatever became of this “plan”.
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Every western nation will allow us to do this."
The *honesty* and self-awareness in that statement in contrast to "this is not who we are," is striking.
The *honesty* and self-awareness in that statement in contrast to "this is not who we are," is striking.
Since the fae are kind of trending at the moment, a tip:
If you wouldn't be happy to find a wild ape in your garden, you probably wouldn't like to find one of the fae folk either.
(Copy/edit/reposted after all, because I spotted a bunch of bullshit autocorrects)
If you wouldn't be happy to find a wild ape in your garden, you probably wouldn't like to find one of the fae folk either.
(Copy/edit/reposted after all, because I spotted a bunch of bullshit autocorrects)
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Since the fae are kind of trending at the moment, a tip:
If you wouldn't be happy to find a wild ape in your garden, you probably wouldn't like to find one of the fae folk either.
(Copy/edit/reposted after all, because I spotted a bunch of bullshit autocorrects)
If you wouldn't be happy to find a wild ape in your garden, you probably wouldn't like to find one of the fae folk either.
(Copy/edit/reposted after all, because I spotted a bunch of bullshit autocorrects)
My gaming group has finished up two alternating campaigns in the past two weeks that previously lasted for about two years each.
a man with a beard and long hair is talking to a police officer in a blurry photo .
Alt: Robin Williams in the original Jumanji, dishevelled and hairy, asking someone "What year is it?"
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November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
My gaming group has finished up two alternating campaigns in the past two weeks that previously lasted for about two years each.