Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper
@neilwillcox.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades
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Night of the Hats
Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site.
1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
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If you want to feel old, we are now further from the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent than the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent is from the formation of the Solar System.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you want to feel old, we are now further from the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent than the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent is from the formation of the Solar System.
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“I need compelling worldbuilding and a hard magic system to make my fantasy world” NO YOU DON’T! You need a plot outline and interesting characters based on insecurities or fetishes don’t get distracted!
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“I need compelling worldbuilding and a hard magic system to make my fantasy world” NO YOU DON’T! You need a plot outline and interesting characters based on insecurities or fetishes don’t get distracted!
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It's Day 9 of our retrospective and here's The Nadaists by F Malonche in which M-360 must sacrifice something she loves - yet in the austere space habitat the Nadaists live on, what is there to give Lord Otorongo?
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It's Day 9 of our retrospective and here's The Nadaists by F Malonche in which M-360 must sacrifice something she loves - yet in the austere space habitat the Nadaists live on, what is there to give Lord Otorongo?
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After ten years away building stations around the gas giant of Mons Frigia, the first batch of workers are returning home to the planet of Saint Martin. However several of them seem to have completely changed and you have been asked to investigate if they are imposters.
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
After ten years away building stations around the gas giant of Mons Frigia, the first batch of workers are returning home to the planet of Saint Martin. However several of them seem to have completely changed and you have been asked to investigate if they are imposters.
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Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
Monster Of The Week 298 is BadMovie, we thought it would be bad but... just totally disjointed to the point of incoherence, a new low for movie night, we'll be talking about this one for years which is something I guess.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Monster Of The Week 298 is BadMovie, we thought it would be bad but... just totally disjointed to the point of incoherence, a new low for movie night, we'll be talking about this one for years which is something I guess.
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[Jedi hand gesture]
Stop caring about Star Wars.
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
[Jedi hand gesture]
[Jedi hand gesture]
Stop caring about Star Wars.
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
[Jedi hand gesture]
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Lets talk about cuneiform - it's old. It started around 3000 BCE and ended around 80 AD. That was in use longer than it has currently been extinct. And it was dense! It was used to commemorate temples or to complain about copper.
The pictures do not show how SMALL these tablets are!
The pictures do not show how SMALL these tablets are!
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Lets talk about cuneiform - it's old. It started around 3000 BCE and ended around 80 AD. That was in use longer than it has currently been extinct. And it was dense! It was used to commemorate temples or to complain about copper.
The pictures do not show how SMALL these tablets are!
The pictures do not show how SMALL these tablets are!
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I watched Leverage Redemption, and in my review get hung up on the redemption theme, but, like the show, manage to squeeze a few new ideas out of it. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-wa...
I Watch TV: Leverage Redemption
Leverage: Redemption (Season 3) The revival of Leverage (in which five thieves with various skills and personalities, used fun heist...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I watched Leverage Redemption, and in my review get hung up on the redemption theme, but, like the show, manage to squeeze a few new ideas out of it. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-wa...
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Hour Of The Dragon is something like 70,000 words so that's one thrill per 70 words on average.
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hour Of The Dragon is something like 70,000 words so that's one thrill per 70 words on average.
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FF#26 and Saros #4 have arrived!
Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26
Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!
Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26
Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
FF#26 and Saros #4 have arrived!
Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26
Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!
Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26
Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!
Me At Karaoke Night: Have you got anything thematically resonant? A song that speaks to this moment in the story?
Karaoke Guy: Don't worry, I've got you man [Puts on I Was Kaiser Bill's batman by Whistling Jack Smith] www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AY3...
Karaoke Guy: Don't worry, I've got you man [Puts on I Was Kaiser Bill's batman by Whistling Jack Smith] www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AY3...
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Me At Karaoke Night: Have you got anything thematically resonant? A song that speaks to this moment in the story?
Karaoke Guy: Don't worry, I've got you man [Puts on I Was Kaiser Bill's batman by Whistling Jack Smith] www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AY3...
Karaoke Guy: Don't worry, I've got you man [Puts on I Was Kaiser Bill's batman by Whistling Jack Smith] www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AY3...
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If you like an author’s work, tell them. Buy their work. Follow them home and make them dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. Or maybe something with shrimp. Run them a bath. Not too hot. Buy them a sea monster toy for the bath. Rrwarrr! Feed them grapes. But not in the bath. That would be weird.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you like an author’s work, tell them. Buy their work. Follow them home and make them dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. Or maybe something with shrimp. Run them a bath. Not too hot. Buy them a sea monster toy for the bath. Rrwarrr! Feed them grapes. But not in the bath. That would be weird.
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Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.
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REMINDER: This is the LAST call for submissions for our Winter Issue!
SUBMISSION Link: sffsouthasia.moksha.io/publication/...
Merry submitting!
P.S There is no theme for this issue.
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
SUBMISSION Link: sffsouthasia.moksha.io/publication/...
Merry submitting!
P.S There is no theme for this issue.
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
REMINDER: This is the LAST call for submissions for our Winter Issue!
SUBMISSION Link: sffsouthasia.moksha.io/publication/...
Merry submitting!
P.S There is no theme for this issue.
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
SUBMISSION Link: sffsouthasia.moksha.io/publication/...
Merry submitting!
P.S There is no theme for this issue.
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
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i catalogued all the staves in dragon age 1-3 and one of them is voiced by @errant-signal.com : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVL...
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
i catalogued all the staves in dragon age 1-3 and one of them is voiced by @errant-signal.com : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVL...
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Hoping to see this one on some awards lists - check it out!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
Bone-eater Earth was in @unchartedmag.bsky.social.
If we don’t get our act together, Mother Earth is gonna make some big decisions for us. So, hey, maybe we consider degrowth, instead?
CW: amputation, rude language, techbros
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
If we don’t get our act together, Mother Earth is gonna make some big decisions for us. So, hey, maybe we consider degrowth, instead?
CW: amputation, rude language, techbros
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
Bone-Eater Earth - Uncharted
I lose my finger during the private flight back from Japan. It isn’t the whole finger, of course, just the bone. When I drugged myself into oblivion at the start of the flight, it was totally fine. Wh...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hoping to see this one on some awards lists - check it out!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
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Thank you so much to @translunartl.bsky.social for giving my oracle a safe space to deliver this message to Herakles. Herakles will forget all about it, but I hope you won’t.
We hope we aren't displaying too much hubris in suggesting you have another read and consider it for any year end lists, awards and even divine honours? translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/1...
12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Demigod, by Danai Christopoulou
Being a demigod is very taxing for the psyche. You end up seeing things that aren’t there, killing things that aren’t there. Shh, it’s okay; it wasn’t your fault.
translunartravelerslounge.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Thank you so much to @translunartl.bsky.social for giving my oracle a safe space to deliver this message to Herakles. Herakles will forget all about it, but I hope you won’t.
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Fashions in Stupidity: @mishagw.bsky.social interviews K. J. Parker about his latest novella, MAKING HISTORY (@tordotcom.bsky.social
Fashions in Stupidity: K. J. Parker on Making History
Misha Grifka Wander K. J. Parker is a pseudonym of British novelist Tom Holt. He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, …
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November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fashions in Stupidity: @mishagw.bsky.social interviews K. J. Parker about his latest novella, MAKING HISTORY (@tordotcom.bsky.social
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Best review of my career - feeling exhausted, beyond thankful, and convinced that the arts are one of the most important sites of culture change and political fight we have to use:
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/cn-l...
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/cn-l...
CN Lester’s Transpose: SUBVERSE review: 'An extraordinary piece'
Directed by Trans Like Me author and musician, CN Lester, Transpose: SUBVERSE at the Barbican Centre’s Pit is a genre-defying performance.
www.attitude.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Best review of my career - feeling exhausted, beyond thankful, and convinced that the arts are one of the most important sites of culture change and political fight we have to use:
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/cn-l...
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/cn-l...
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Thinking of making a horror movie about a man who keeps discovering 12-inch rulers in his home. It's a found footage film.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thinking of making a horror movie about a man who keeps discovering 12-inch rulers in his home. It's a found footage film.
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On Day 8 of TTL's look back at our legendary 2025 lineup it's 12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being A Demigod by @danaiwrites.bsky.social with a look at the labours, the myths, the pain and the tragedy - and perhaps we'll even learn whose fault this all is.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On Day 8 of TTL's look back at our legendary 2025 lineup it's 12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being A Demigod by @danaiwrites.bsky.social with a look at the labours, the myths, the pain and the tragedy - and perhaps we'll even learn whose fault this all is.
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A courier ship reports being fired upon and so failed to deliver its message. You and your ship are dispatched to investigate; on arrival the outpost claims they have seen neither courier nor torpedoes and offer to let you verify their scans records for the periods.
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A courier ship reports being fired upon and so failed to deliver its message. You and your ship are dispatched to investigate; on arrival the outpost claims they have seen neither courier nor torpedoes and offer to let you verify their scans records for the periods.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM