Nic Wilkinson
@nicwilkinson.bsky.social
The other half of CyNic Stories.
The arty, fonty half.
Bad Sector now available from Amazon in paperback, hardback and KU.
She/Her
See our books: https://cynicstories.co.uk
The arty, fonty half.
Bad Sector now available from Amazon in paperback, hardback and KU.
She/Her
See our books: https://cynicstories.co.uk
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Nic Wilkinson
@nicwilkinson.bsky.social
· Feb 15
Bad Sector by Cy Dethan
"In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie - The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Killed.
Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him… again."
Now available on Amazon
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R
"In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie - The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Killed.
Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him… again."
Now available on Amazon
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R
There is sorcery here!
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
There is sorcery here!
This is my favourite thing from the Internet today!
We have very few eel-related metaphors English now. But there used to be many more.
One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."
Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
🗃️🧪
One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."
Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
🗃️🧪
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is my favourite thing from the Internet today!
As is now tradition* we give a present to the other one on our birthdays. Yesterday for his @cydethan.bsky.social gave me a wild strawberry preserved in a necklace in reference to Ronin by Frank Miller, which was one of the first comics he showed me 💚
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
As is now tradition* we give a present to the other one on our birthdays. Yesterday for his @cydethan.bsky.social gave me a wild strawberry preserved in a necklace in reference to Ronin by Frank Miller, which was one of the first comics he showed me 💚
I see the remake of The Thing is going well over at the Kingston Cote Brassiere Christmas AI extravaganza
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I see the remake of The Thing is going well over at the Kingston Cote Brassiere Christmas AI extravaganza
Hair suddenly got incredibly static about 8pm, crackling and putting its tendrils out
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Hair suddenly got incredibly static about 8pm, crackling and putting its tendrils out
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
Reposted by Nic Wilkinson
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe."
- Carl Sagan.
"... if you don't want to invent a Universe from scratch, store-bought is fine."
- me.
- Carl Sagan.
"... if you don't want to invent a Universe from scratch, store-bought is fine."
- me.
June 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe."
- Carl Sagan.
"... if you don't want to invent a Universe from scratch, store-bought is fine."
- me.
- Carl Sagan.
"... if you don't want to invent a Universe from scratch, store-bought is fine."
- me.
“The moment you explain a myth, it dies. The meaning is in the pattern, not in the telling.”
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“The moment you explain a myth, it dies. The meaning is in the pattern, not in the telling.”
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
I've got to the costume section of my GDT Frankenstein art book and I'm becoming obsessed with Elizabeth's wedding dress - aided by the incredible gatefold page showing all the detail.
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I've got to the costume section of my GDT Frankenstein art book and I'm becoming obsessed with Elizabeth's wedding dress - aided by the incredible gatefold page showing all the detail.
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
Everyone! I just had pickled baby beetroots marinated in orange and cinnamon for lunch and they were unbelievably deeeeeclicious!
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Everyone! I just had pickled baby beetroots marinated in orange and cinnamon for lunch and they were unbelievably deeeeeclicious!
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
Reposted by Nic Wilkinson
Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
Preach, Your Holiness!
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Preach, Your Holiness!
Reposted by Nic Wilkinson
ADRPG attribute auctions, amirite?
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
How to avoid 'The Winner's Curse'
A new book by the Nobel-winning pioneer of behavioral economics offers some advice we can all use.
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ADRPG attribute auctions, amirite?
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
Reposted by Nic Wilkinson
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
I have waxed two more pieces inspired by @cydethan.bsky.social 's Bad Sector.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I have waxed two more pieces inspired by @cydethan.bsky.social 's Bad Sector.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
The Lapwing Stars by Tom Hirons.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Lapwing Stars by Tom Hirons.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
Ooh - look what I've got!
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Ooh - look what I've got!
I mean they'd believe it, post to encourage them or not, honestly, but good Debunking here.
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
🧵
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I mean they'd believe it, post to encourage them or not, honestly, but good Debunking here.
Today I waxed
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today I waxed
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
I've been thinking a lot about Red Riding Hood, menopause, the 3 women and the wolf recently.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've been thinking a lot about Red Riding Hood, menopause, the 3 women and the wolf recently.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I have watched Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro and it is beautiful.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I have watched Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro and it is beautiful.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
Today's adventures in synaesthesia.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today's adventures in synaesthesia.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
This is exactly it.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.
I used to call it 'bathos' when players would undercut tension, fear, or thematic worldbuilding in my #TTRPG sessions with absurd jokes/references. Then I heard Matt Mercer refer to the effect perfectly as: 'slapdickery'
It's too self evident, too tonally appropriate. It haunts me.
It's too self evident, too tonally appropriate. It haunts me.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is exactly it.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.