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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Weirdly, I needed to read this exact thing at this exact moment so thank you

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Now only £22! 🤞

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 6h

Excitingly we are only £42 away from being 50% funded. Hopefully we will get there before I wake up tomorrow morning.
www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 14h

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 17h

The family name angle aside, though, that’s a really good story about rehabilitation and giving people in prison opportunities and support - and how positively transformative that can be

Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 17h

The biggest hint I’m under the weather after my flu jab: it took me a full minute staring at this headline (without the subhead: I’m not quite that bad), thinking “Why is that name familiar…?” before the ‘McAvoy’ bit clicked

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The armed robber who went straight: John McAvoy was born into the criminal life. Here’s how he escaped it

His stepfather was a serious criminal. His uncle was one of the Brink’s-Mat heist gang. McAvoy followed them into crime – and into prison. Then one day in the gym he discovered the talent, drive, supp...

www.theguardian.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 18h

Obvs, if it was just a case of being able to say “I got really good seats to see Keanu Reeves on stage in this ridiculously anticipated show and it cost me $$$ look at me look at me” then my sympathy is… limited

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 18h

I can’t decide whether they’ve earned the dunking they’re getting by just assuming they know what they’re getting because it’s Broadway and they KNOW Broadway, or if we ought to be a bit more sympathetic because here’s someone who just wanted to see some stuff they didn’t know and support the arts.

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I think you’re completely right, obviously, but it still makes me grumpy (not at you!)

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I guess - but it feels like trying to crunch down the ideas in a book and consume them with no real context or process is a bit of an exercise in defeat. (It’s gobbets, she says, going full History Boys. Gobbets.) And it’s why so many people misquote Caroline Bingley from Pride & Prejudice.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t get stuff like this. If the point of reading a book is reading the book, then what’s the purpose of it? It’s not like we’re all cramming for exams or having to wade through stuff teachers have chosen. If you don’t want to read a particular book… just don’t. There’s no gotcha if you haven’t!

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KISSman @kissman.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, applause

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 2d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

I think you should’ve earned some kind of medal for this.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve seen this before, years ago, and it was fine- but now? Absolutely not. Knee-wobblingly scary. It must be a “getting older” thing because I started rewatching a Fred Dibnah climb I’d seen when I was little, and had to turn it off partway through because my stomach started to feel a bit peculiar

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent news! Our Kickstarter campaign has been selected as a Project We Love by the Kickstarter team.
www.kickstarter.com/...

Kickstarter's Project We Love badge. It is circular with the words in an outer rim and a throbbing heart in the centre.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

(It’s actually perfect listening for October, ideally late at night with a storm howling outside…)

www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/t...

31. Torchwood: The Vigil - Torchwood - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian G...

www.bigfinish.com

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

My first Big Finish - in fact, my first ever audio - script was for Torchwood (it was The Vigil, which was a Tosh story which also had *delightful* Hugh Skinner as the worst dude in the world). I loved every minute of it, and I’ll always be grateful for that story, and all the others that came after

Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 Click https://bgfn.sh/t26news for the full info on the future and legacy of Torchwood.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

I might actually do a spooky reread of them all!

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

I love these books so much (also: possibly my favourite fictionalised version of Branwell)

Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social · 6d

You spooky season reminder that I wrote a quartet of gothic mystery novels that imagine that before they were authors, the Bronte sisters were amateur sleuths.

The Bronte Mysteries by Bella Ellis

Buffy in Bonnets, if you will.

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