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Oliver Gerlach

@olliegerlach.bsky.social

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Comics writer: ●OFF MENU/ THE RESTAURANT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Little Bee/Faber) ●DEVLIN WAUGH (2000AD) ●YOUNG MEN IN LOVE (GLAAD award winner) ●RED SONJA And more! Oggerlach.wordpress.com Open for work! Email on my site. Rep: Stephanie Winter, KOMM

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · Mar 15

Did you know: a few months ago, @kelsijosilva.bsky.social and I released our first graphic novel? 240 pages of beautiful, welcoming YA fantasy about how the restaurant industry chews people up. Buy it here:
UK:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
US:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Off-Me...

The Restaurant at the Edge of the World a book by Oliver Gerlach.

Heartstopper meets Nimona meets Legends & Lattes in this stunning graphic novel where Soup must battle her evil boss in a fantastical cooking competition. At seventeen, Soup is at a crossroads, ea...

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 29m

But also now you've got me thinking about a Robert Pattinson Dionysus and I am quite into it

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 29m

Your wheelhouse for NERDS

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 33m

Horrible metaphor! But it DOES make sense

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 36m

...yes? Yes.

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 38m

I'm having so much fun writing about the fun Dionysus that nobody bothers putting into fiction. The star-haunted god of raw-flesh feasts, the primal shape-shifting nightmare that never sleeps.

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 1h

We'll take the filth as unspoken but recognised!

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 1h

WASHABLE LINOLEUM FLOORS. I am prepared for making a mess while writing at all times!

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 2h

I'm half way through draft 2 and it is getting everywhere and making such a mess!!

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 2h

It turns out that yes, after a break of a few years, I WILL voluntarily write another 80,000 words about Dionysus

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 2h

It turns the things I spent years of my life exploring in doctoral research are... really fun when applied to fiction writing? If this book ever sells I'm going to be completely unbearable.

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing but respect for posting this at 11PM.

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 22h

This is pretty much the plot of the entire HALLOWEEN series tbh

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 23h

Lilith’s calls for her brother Orion to aid her. There are men in the wood.

Original art done in 2023

My work, digital. A women with a single antler floats in the air whilst summoning a gigantic wolf god with the Orion constellation in his forehead

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

Monster High is releasing a Xenomorph doll. I’m not kidding. It’s $85

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 2d

love goddess

fanart of Aphrodite from Hades 2, wearing a modern days outfit - purple micro jean shorts, pink crop top -, lots of jewelry (necklaces, rings, earrings, ankle bracelet), her hands joined on her knees, sitting, her luscious hair floating behind her, her eyes shining pink, smiling
also flower & heart tattoos on both her arms

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 2d

I really like the Jenkins era - takes a while to properly settle, but there's also a lot of lovely small stuff in there.

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I am INTO THIS

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

I think that's probably a very good way to look at it!

Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

I am APPREHENSIVE about what other people will think of this book but I am having fun with it!

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Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes writing about Dionysus means having a glass of wine and some olives and putting on some very hostile techno and writing about dismemberment for a few hours. Normal Wednesday night things.