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FLASH SALE – get up to 50% off incredible 2000 AD Apex Editions 👉 https://bit.ly/442Ta3Q These oversized artbooks show you original art by McMahon, O'Neill, Dillon & Ranson as you've NEVER seen it before! Sale ends 7 December!
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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FLASH SALE – get up to 50% off incredible 2000 AD Apex Editions 👉 https://bit.ly/442Ta3Q These oversized artbooks show you original art by McMahon, O'Neill, Dillon & Ranson as you've NEVER seen it before! Sale ends 7 December!
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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"Every family, every person has their own traditions. Their own level of solemnity. Their on level of joy. Their own way of doing things. "Normal" is what we make it."

As someone that's spent the past 15+ years really trying to define Christmas for myself, that hit kinda hard.
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: The Krampus!
The Krampus was a rural giftgiver who would deliver presents to good Alpine children and stuff the naughty ones into his basket and take them back to his lair, where they would be forced to spend the next year making toys for good kids. 1/
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Happy Advent to you and your kin! And everyone else's kin too, come to that. As every December so far this decade, I'm going to do an Advent Calendar of beautiful and brilliant carols, with each day's added to a YouTube playlist and also to the ongoing Spotify one, now in its sixth(!) year.

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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People on a barely liveable wage will look on in total apathy as their managers and directors rock up in cars worth 4X their yearly salary, yet descend into apoplectic rage at the mere idea of a disabled/unemployed person possibly having just one nice thing in their life.

Truly incredible scenes.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Deconstructionists: Batman is a selfish manchild who is as disturbed as the villains he fights.
Batman: [makes things better in real life]
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I keep forgetting to say - on the blog I wrote about being called a contrarian for doing history, why misunderstandings of the "Dark Ages" ignore materialist circumstances and also just, you know, any history at all whatsoever.
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On contrarian history
Unfortunately, though I have made the world’s best booty shorts and deployed them with great skill and aplomb, there are still those in our society who refuse to heed my message, and also to learn …
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November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Now available in my shop -- a PDF of Book I of my expansive new mythology of Christmas, encompassing the life, death, and rebirth of St Nicholas!

If you've heard me mention my "Silmarillion of Christmas," this is it (NB they are only similar in scope, not tone)

www.patreon.com/posts/new-yu...
The New Yuletide Treasury Book I | Benito Cereno
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November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The Mari Lwyd Christmas Cards are back in stock

10 packs available

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November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It’s that time again - the M. R. James ghost story Christmas countdown! 👻
There are 31 days until Santa arrives, so if you read one* story a day, you’ll finish the Collected Ghost Stories in time to get merry.
Like a haunted advent calendar! ❄️
#Christmas #GhostStories
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Five years on, @benitocereno.bsky.social's video lecture series THE MAGIC AND LEGENDS OF OLD CHRISTMAS is still the best and most accessible general survey of Christmas-adjacent holiday traditions and characters from around the world (predominantly central Europe).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9E...
Magic and Legends of Old Christmas part 01: Christmas starts earlier than you think
YouTube video by Benito Cereno
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Let’s never forget rationing ventilators and Zoom funerals. Boris Johnson and his cronies partied while our loved ones lay dying alone. COVID-19 was the worst public health crisis in a century. We should have locked down earlier. To some of us, PPE was not a get-rich-quick commodity.
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Coming in February

BLOOD & THUNDER 10

Someone is probably going to kill Blood and Thunder with the galaxy’s most dangerous weapon.

So, of course...they gotta follow him.

Cvr A @ejsu28.bsky.social
B @kharyrandolph.bsky.social
C @hainingart.bsky.social
D @ericafails.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Yes, yes, with the Watchmen and the V For Vendetta and the Killing Joke and all (makes furious hand gestures in air) *that* but I'm not convinced Alan Moore ever wrote a better page than this.
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Oh, hello! Looks like this has been officially announced at last!
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Check this out -- a preview of STARTLING TALES OF SANTA CLAUS 2025 with all six covers and the first page of all six stories

media.lunardistribution.com/files/lunarm...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM