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Neil Willcox, Looking For The Other 98 Saints
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Neil Willcox, Looking For The Other 98 Saints @neilwillcox.bsky.social · Dec 14
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
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Night of the Hats
Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006
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A moment from the British satirical magazine PRIVATE EYE. (12/n)
A column clipping from PRIVATE EYE. "A longboat full of Vikings, promoting the new British Museum exhibition, was seen sailing past the Palace of Westminster yesterday (see page 16). Famously uncivilised, destructive and rapacious, with an almost insatiable appetite for rough sex and heavy drinking, the MPs nonetheless looked up for a bit to admire the vessel."
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
(Canonically, btw, Teabot is the first robot because the Small Robots scientists were stuck for an idea at the start of the project and decided a cup of tea would help, so they made a robot to get it.)
January 30, 2026 at 1:45 PM
neilwillcox.bsky.social
I watched it all the way through when the BBC re-showed it; compelling in the way that they used every penny of the money, and a bit more (hence the seams showing)
jmritchey.bsky.social Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 19h
Seeing the AI 1776 trailer and thinking of the attendant excuse of "we wouldn't have the budget for this without AI" in relation to I, Claudius. Where the seams show, dodgy age makeup, an Ancient Room the size of a Hampton Inn lobby, and how it's still one of the best TV series ever made.
Actors in rayon togas in front of Roman marblework that owes more to Homegoods than antiquity, and it does not matter in the least. Seriously, watch I, Claudius if you haven't.
January 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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burnyourbones.bsky.social
At long last we have created the Wrong Trousers from classic film The Wrong Trousers
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 AM
neilwillcox.bsky.social
Even a stopped calendar is right once a week
raccoonrunning.bsky.social Raccoon Running with Scissors @raccoonrunning.bsky.social · 5h
Everyday can be a Friday if you don't care about calendars.
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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mel.bzky.team
january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
zenithedtom.bsky.social Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · Dec 20
Signs and portents
A wall behind some traffic lights with a mural of Mr Blobby that’s been partly stripped off leaving an ominous pink and yellow polka dotted silhouette
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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spaceoperaplots.bsky.social
The TwoOne System is under siege by the ISSA coalition. You and your ship have been ordered to deliver much needed supplies, but as you are officially neutral you must not only avoid the ISSA blockade but disguise your identities.
January 30, 2026 at 12:44 PM
neilwillcox.bsky.social
It's still #goblinweek and that means there's time for a postcard story about goblin heaven
The gods ignore goblins, and when they do not ignore them they despise them. In return the goblins ignore the gods, except when they could not. When a stray thunderbolt destroyed the village of Goblynmyre the goblins could no longer ignore them. So Captain Rustcomb put on his helmet and gave a speech. The gods had gone too far. Goblins would not put up with it. He would lead goblins bold enough to lay siege to the Heaven and demand satisfaction. The goblins agreed and sent word to their kin, who sent word to their kin, and they sent word to their kin and until the goblins marched on Heaven millions strong. They sent heralds up the mountain, where the sun shone on the gleaming towers of the gods and they received no reply. Captain Rustcomb had them build ladders, stripping forests, and sent them up into the sky, towards the colourful peak of the Chromatic Gods. But as more and more goblins climbed them their weight broke, stranding the goblins on the slope where they made camp. So Captain Rustcomb had the goblin miners to dig tunnels into the mountain of heaven, to undermine the walls of the chiaroscuro peak of the Anachromatic Gods. No matter how deep they delved the goblins could not get close, and the deeper they dug, the larger the camps, forming new villages underground. At last Captain Rustcomb had the goblin engineers build great catapults and shot goblins up towards the third peak of Heaven, the one that we do not talk about. But when they opened their parachutes they were blown off course to join the camps of ladderers on the slopes. In exhaustion Captain Rustcomb sent forth the heralds again, to ask the gods for a truce. But when they arrived at the gates after the arduous climb they received no answer. A new age of the world had begun and the Titanomachy started. Gods and monsters had left Heaven and now stalked the world, fighting for their manifold causes. That is why if you travel to the peaks of Heaven, you will find no gods, but many, many goblins.
January 30, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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orcwriter.bsky.social
#BookSky, I'm looking for recent and upcoming titles in the sub-genre of ancient historical fiction (straight HF, so no alt HF or historical fantasy), similar to GATES OF FIRE and the like. I'm most interested in Classic Mediterranean, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Phoenician, etc. Can you suggest any?
January 30, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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This story by @katefrancia.bsky.social is great fun!
www.castofwonders.org/2026/01/cast...
Cast of Wonders 671: Poets of Painswick (Staff Picks 2025) | Cast of Wonders
Monday, 1st of June Dear Mama, I am sorry to tell you that Fanny is out hunting Poets again. It’s such a bore. She’ll be tiresome when she gets back, obv. sans Poets. No good telling her we don’t have...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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I watched Q The Winged Serpent in which detectives David Carradine and Richard Roundtree discover a series of killings is being perpetrated by a horrid looking flying lizard that may be an Aztec God. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-wa...
I Watch Films: Q The Winged Serpent
Q The Winged Serpent In New York (1982) detectives Shepard (David Carradine) and Powell (Richard Roundtree) are investigating odd, rit...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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hunterfelt.bsky.social
The bad news is that this site is almost certainly filled with feds by now. The good news is that we can give them all fetishes that will absolutely make them question their entire lives. This is the plot to pretty much every Grant Morrison comic by the way.
January 30, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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Looks like I made this joke when I saw the 1998 adaption nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2024/12/dece...
January 29, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Still the greatest video ever made. Sorry. I don't make the rules...
January 29, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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translunartl.bsky.social
A brief reminder of what we published last year!
translunartl.bsky.social Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Dec 15
We've come to the end of our look back at the year. Translunar Travelers Lounge published two issues with a total of twenty eight stories. If any of these have stayed with you then please consider them for awards, reading lists, or perhaps you might write a review.
January 14, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Looks like I made this joke when I saw the 1998 adaption nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2024/12/dece...
January 29, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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I'm going to watch the previous adaptions www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pM...
January 29, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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I read The Hunting Of The Phoenix by S L Harris in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social a story about loyalty, betrayal and destruction. Also a phoenix. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-re...
I Read Stories: The Hunting Of The Phoenix By S L Harris
The Hunting Of The Phoenix by S L Harris in Kaleidotrope Rufus, the Captain Of The Guard has returned and the city is in flames. The ...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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It's #goblinweek and Goblin Winter has been over so long, you probably think I made it up
The first page of my story Goblin Winter, a fictional season, links to a readable version are in the next post The second page of my story Goblin Winter, a fictional season, links to a readable version are in the next post
January 29, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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idilsukan.bsky.social
Does anyone know a card game designer?- I would love to pick their brain about a cool thing I’m making
January 29, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Story submission Thursday!
January 29, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Mike. @dumbmike.bsky.social I like when people in your notifications jump into a conversation that started ages ago. It's like hosting a party, and then eight months later you're digging through boxes in the basement for your old space heater and a hand grabs you in the dark. A guest that never left has been living down there. Nov 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
January 19, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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cnlester.bsky.social
All justifiable snarking aside, this is why free artists' residencies are so important for broadening the field of who gets to be an artist. Having one to two weeks a year where there all there is is the work and the express permission to get obsessive and weird about the work is life-changing.
alexdecampi.bsky.social Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 1d
Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc

like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
quote from Haruki Murakami: “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. “But to hold to such repetition for so long—six months to a year—requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: The Captive Castaways Mickey, covered in chains, looks down at a tube that rolled over to him, Opium written on the side. Mickey: Good gosh! Opium!
January 29, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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"Florence Craye ran her Powered by the Apocalypse homebrew the other night, Jeeves. Have you played PbtA, Jeeves?" "I have not yet had the pleasure, sir." "Nor have I, Jeeves. Not a twenty-sider to be had. One would think dice technology hadn't advanced since the days of Parker Brothers." I took a harrowed sip of my energy drink. "I tried to roll initiative and was called an 'incurable gamist.'" "Most distressing, sir." "Give Bertram Wooster dungeons, Jeeves. Give him dragons. Give him dice by the handful. I'm a simple man, Jeeves." "Yes, sir."
January 28, 2026 at 8:14 AM