Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
@kitwhitfield.bsky.social
Novelist ‘as tart, dark and juicy as a summer pudding’. World Fantasy Award finalist. She/her.
Timeline cleanse queen.
The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v
Agent: Sophie Hicks.
Timeline cleanse queen.
The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v
Agent: Sophie Hicks.
Pinned
Art by my husband illustrating one of the creatures of my IN THE HEART OF HIDDEN THINGS. (tinyurl.com/nvvetupj)
The brambles had been talking to themselves for a while, but it’s only when someone uprooted one that they started to get really stroppy…
The brambles had been talking to themselves for a while, but it’s only when someone uprooted one that they started to get really stroppy…
So yeah, I'd have said Kubrick was the perfect adapter: a director who approached his every novelistic material with calm, intrigued hostility. It would have been a fascinating match.
What about you? Who's your fantasy pick?
9/9
What about you? Who's your fantasy pick?
9/9
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
So yeah, I'd have said Kubrick was the perfect adapter: a director who approached his every novelistic material with calm, intrigued hostility. It would have been a fascinating match.
What about you? Who's your fantasy pick?
9/9
What about you? Who's your fantasy pick?
9/9
It's a book every reader has to find their own way of recuperating, because forget the Angry Young Men: this is just about the most alienated book ever written.
Every adaptation I've seen has been the comforting fiction that it was something, anything else.
8/
Every adaptation I've seen has been the comforting fiction that it was something, anything else.
8/
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
It's a book every reader has to find their own way of recuperating, because forget the Angry Young Men: this is just about the most alienated book ever written.
Every adaptation I've seen has been the comforting fiction that it was something, anything else.
8/
Every adaptation I've seen has been the comforting fiction that it was something, anything else.
8/
And since Emily Bronte herself was an isolated and unusual woman, probably on the spectrum, you could easily take from it the moral: 'Are the neurotypicals ok? Because from where I'm standing, they don't seem like they're ok.'
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February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
And since Emily Bronte herself was an isolated and unusual woman, probably on the spectrum, you could easily take from it the moral: 'Are the neurotypicals ok? Because from where I'm standing, they don't seem like they're ok.'
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7/
Some characters form one- or two-person cults of personality centred around themselves.
Then they get adult enough to act for themselves, and the world quickly becomes a war of all against all.
Wuthering Heights is a war story set among civilians.
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Then they get adult enough to act for themselves, and the world quickly becomes a war of all against all.
Wuthering Heights is a war story set among civilians.
6/
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Some characters form one- or two-person cults of personality centred around themselves.
Then they get adult enough to act for themselves, and the world quickly becomes a war of all against all.
Wuthering Heights is a war story set among civilians.
6/
Then they get adult enough to act for themselves, and the world quickly becomes a war of all against all.
Wuthering Heights is a war story set among civilians.
6/
Kubrick takes out these comments, these flickers of poignancy. He just shows you people harming and harming and harming each other. And you watch.
That's what Wuthering Heights does.
In small places ruled by powerful bastards, tiny cults emerge.
5/
That's what Wuthering Heights does.
In small places ruled by powerful bastards, tiny cults emerge.
5/
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Kubrick takes out these comments, these flickers of poignancy. He just shows you people harming and harming and harming each other. And you watch.
That's what Wuthering Heights does.
In small places ruled by powerful bastards, tiny cults emerge.
5/
That's what Wuthering Heights does.
In small places ruled by powerful bastards, tiny cults emerge.
5/
"In the USO there are barrels and barrels of letters which have been written to us by children back in the World...
Rafter Man reads the letters out loud. He can still be touched by them.
To me, the letters are like shoes for the dead, who do not walk."
4/
Rafter Man reads the letters out loud. He can still be touched by them.
To me, the letters are like shoes for the dead, who do not walk."
4/
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"In the USO there are barrels and barrels of letters which have been written to us by children back in the World...
Rafter Man reads the letters out loud. He can still be touched by them.
To me, the letters are like shoes for the dead, who do not walk."
4/
Rafter Man reads the letters out loud. He can still be touched by them.
To me, the letters are like shoes for the dead, who do not walk."
4/
A side note:
Full Metal Jacket was actually based on Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers, a book full of serious grief and anger that Kubrick stripped out, leaving the audience unmoored in the face of horrors.
It's beautifully written. And it absolutely tells you what it thinks.
3/
Full Metal Jacket was actually based on Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers, a book full of serious grief and anger that Kubrick stripped out, leaving the audience unmoored in the face of horrors.
It's beautifully written. And it absolutely tells you what it thinks.
3/
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
A side note:
Full Metal Jacket was actually based on Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers, a book full of serious grief and anger that Kubrick stripped out, leaving the audience unmoored in the face of horrors.
It's beautifully written. And it absolutely tells you what it thinks.
3/
Full Metal Jacket was actually based on Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers, a book full of serious grief and anger that Kubrick stripped out, leaving the audience unmoored in the face of horrors.
It's beautifully written. And it absolutely tells you what it thinks.
3/
...and so it creates people either broken, cruel or both.
Then they go out into the world, unable to address it by any method except violence, creating meaningless, brutal chaos wherever they go.
All watched by a narrative eye that doesn't comment, and doesn't blink.
2/
Then they go out into the world, unable to address it by any method except violence, creating meaningless, brutal chaos wherever they go.
All watched by a narrative eye that doesn't comment, and doesn't blink.
2/
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
...and so it creates people either broken, cruel or both.
Then they go out into the world, unable to address it by any method except violence, creating meaningless, brutal chaos wherever they go.
All watched by a narrative eye that doesn't comment, and doesn't blink.
2/
Then they go out into the world, unable to address it by any method except violence, creating meaningless, brutal chaos wherever they go.
All watched by a narrative eye that doesn't comment, and doesn't blink.
2/
Let's play a game: if you were picking the perfect Wuthering Heights director, who would it be?
I'll start: Stanley Kubrick.
I'm serious. That book is the Full Metal Jacket of its day. A gaze into a culture dominated by violent people so culturally segregated their rule goes unquestioned...
1/9
I'll start: Stanley Kubrick.
I'm serious. That book is the Full Metal Jacket of its day. A gaze into a culture dominated by violent people so culturally segregated their rule goes unquestioned...
1/9
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Let's play a game: if you were picking the perfect Wuthering Heights director, who would it be?
I'll start: Stanley Kubrick.
I'm serious. That book is the Full Metal Jacket of its day. A gaze into a culture dominated by violent people so culturally segregated their rule goes unquestioned...
1/9
I'll start: Stanley Kubrick.
I'm serious. That book is the Full Metal Jacket of its day. A gaze into a culture dominated by violent people so culturally segregated their rule goes unquestioned...
1/9
I like to feel that if it came to a knockdown drag-out style-off between me and my notebook, I’d stand at least some chance of winning.
February 13, 2026 at 8:51 AM
I like to feel that if it came to a knockdown drag-out style-off between me and my notebook, I’d stand at least some chance of winning.
Thanks for that! Loads of pages, but worth doing. Hopefully other groups will target those changes specifically, as that form is one I think many people will bounce off.
February 13, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Thanks for that! Loads of pages, but worth doing. Hopefully other groups will target those changes specifically, as that form is one I think many people will bounce off.
Reposted by Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
A warning to always keep me well away from the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket, because it just looks too delectable and I can't be held responsible for what happens next
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 AM
A warning to always keep me well away from the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Franks Casket, because it just looks too delectable and I can't be held responsible for what happens next
I didn’t watch the war between the People of Thompson’s field and Gillam’s ditch, but looking at how crestfallen the fairy-mounts are looking in Thompson’s field I’d say the ditch has it.
#AskAFairySmith
Books here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
#AskAFairySmith
Books here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
How about a rare Colombian moth photographer? 😏
Genus Symphlebia, not very rare but look at that punim!
Genus Symphlebia, not very rare but look at that punim!
February 12, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I didn’t watch the war between the People of Thompson’s field and Gillam’s ditch, but looking at how crestfallen the fairy-mounts are looking in Thompson’s field I’d say the ditch has it.
#AskAFairySmith
Books here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
#AskAFairySmith
Books here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Mine just had huge eyelashes! Inherited from his father, in fact, but they did the trick. And since people tended to respond to the same crying with either 'He's angry' or 'She's scared', we just stayed schtum.
February 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Mine just had huge eyelashes! Inherited from his father, in fact, but they did the trick. And since people tended to respond to the same crying with either 'He's angry' or 'She's scared', we just stayed schtum.
Middle-aged feminism is when you don't correct doctors who mistake your baby for a girl because they'll be gentler with him, and don't correct officials who write to you as 'Mr' because they'll listen to you more carefully.
February 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Middle-aged feminism is when you don't correct doctors who mistake your baby for a girl because they'll be gentler with him, and don't correct officials who write to you as 'Mr' because they'll listen to you more carefully.
Morning all.
Artist: Yu Chengyou
Artist: Yu Chengyou
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Morning all.
Artist: Yu Chengyou
Artist: Yu Chengyou
Reposted by Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
A woman befriends a sea witch at the end of the world, in The Loneliness of Water, first pubbed in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social hexagonmagazine.ca/wp-content/u...
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February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
A woman befriends a sea witch at the end of the world, in The Loneliness of Water, first pubbed in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social hexagonmagazine.ca/wp-content/u...
Reminds me of those 70s 'dystopias' where the UTTER NIGHTMARE was 'Everyone's basic needs are met, so, er, it's awful because, er, nobody has the chance to excel!!!'
Yeah, my dude, other people getting things isn't a castration. Calm down.
Yeah, my dude, other people getting things isn't a castration. Calm down.
February 11, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Reminds me of those 70s 'dystopias' where the UTTER NIGHTMARE was 'Everyone's basic needs are met, so, er, it's awful because, er, nobody has the chance to excel!!!'
Yeah, my dude, other people getting things isn't a castration. Calm down.
Yeah, my dude, other people getting things isn't a castration. Calm down.
Bluesky has supposedly added a 'drafts' function, but I'm finding that if I try to save more than one draft, it eats either one or both of them. Anyone else getting that?
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Bluesky has supposedly added a 'drafts' function, but I'm finding that if I try to save more than one draft, it eats either one or both of them. Anyone else getting that?
#booksky #bookqw word today was 'unbelievable', which stumped me. Went with UNLIKELY.
Sometimes the People dance in an oak grove. The fairy-smiths of Gyrford would be happy to leave them alone, but sometimes the customer insists.
Buy here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Sometimes the People dance in an oak grove. The fairy-smiths of Gyrford would be happy to leave them alone, but sometimes the customer insists.
Buy here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
February 11, 2026 at 8:36 AM
#booksky #bookqw word today was 'unbelievable', which stumped me. Went with UNLIKELY.
Sometimes the People dance in an oak grove. The fairy-smiths of Gyrford would be happy to leave them alone, but sometimes the customer insists.
Buy here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Sometimes the People dance in an oak grove. The fairy-smiths of Gyrford would be happy to leave them alone, but sometimes the customer insists.
Buy here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Fossils are rad. (I’m not a scientist so this is an amateur opinion. But I stand by it.)
February 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Fossils are rad. (I’m not a scientist so this is an amateur opinion. But I stand by it.)
My husband swears this:
He once dreamed he was a noir detective teaming up with a female sleuth. She would have been a more typical dame, except she was, I quote, ‘spending a year in the body of Barry White for tax purposes.’
Their crime fighting was SMOOTH.
He once dreamed he was a noir detective teaming up with a female sleuth. She would have been a more typical dame, except she was, I quote, ‘spending a year in the body of Barry White for tax purposes.’
Their crime fighting was SMOOTH.
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM
My husband swears this:
He once dreamed he was a noir detective teaming up with a female sleuth. She would have been a more typical dame, except she was, I quote, ‘spending a year in the body of Barry White for tax purposes.’
Their crime fighting was SMOOTH.
He once dreamed he was a noir detective teaming up with a female sleuth. She would have been a more typical dame, except she was, I quote, ‘spending a year in the body of Barry White for tax purposes.’
Their crime fighting was SMOOTH.
Reposted by Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
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Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
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Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
February 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Today's a great day to support some creators.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Cool!
Gyrford series: dark folk fantasy featuring fairy-smiths forging iron to protect folks from the People. Family, talking brambles, disability rights and a Black Dog that eats landlords.
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Gyrford series: dark folk fantasy featuring fairy-smiths forging iron to protect folks from the People. Family, talking brambles, disability rights and a Black Dog that eats landlords.
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
In the Heart of Hidden Things (The Gyrford series) eBook : Whitfield, Kit: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
In the Heart of Hidden Things (The Gyrford series) eBook : Whitfield, Kit: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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February 10, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Cool!
Gyrford series: dark folk fantasy featuring fairy-smiths forging iron to protect folks from the People. Family, talking brambles, disability rights and a Black Dog that eats landlords.
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Gyrford series: dark folk fantasy featuring fairy-smiths forging iron to protect folks from the People. Family, talking brambles, disability rights and a Black Dog that eats landlords.
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
There’s owls can talk in the woods this season. Look wise as you please, but it turns out all their insights are about mice.
#AskAFairySmith
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
#AskAFairySmith
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
February 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
There’s owls can talk in the woods this season. Look wise as you please, but it turns out all their insights are about mice.
#AskAFairySmith
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
#AskAFairySmith
tinyurl.com/nvvetupj