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Tanweer Dar

@tanweerdar.com

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Indie author & artist (No AI). Teacher. Muslim. I love nature, walking, gardening, house plants, history, art, poetry, books and films of all kinds (especially horror). Love for all, hatred for none. Website: tanweerdar.com Birmingham, UK

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 16d

As #Autumn arrives and #Shocktober creeps up, read my novella 'Apex' for a quick but brutal trip to the English countryside where something that shouldn't be there is lying in wait...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A great read!'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Great little book'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Wowser'

#BookSky #Indie #Horror

➡️ mybook.to/Apex

Front cover of my novella, 'Apex', featuring my digital painting of a snarling black panther on a black background.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 16h

What an absolutely gorgeous creature, and what a spectacular photograph!

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d

My most recent interview with @locusmag.bsky.social was in February this year. You can read a sizeable extract on their website.

locusmag.com/feature/gare...

Gareth L. Powell: Big Universe

GARETH LYN POWELL was born September 3, 1970 in Clifton, Bristol, England; he grew up in Bristol, and lives there still. He studied humanities and creative writing at the University of Glamorgan (l…

locusmag.com

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 17h

سُبْحَانَ ٱللَّٰهِ

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 20h

This ☝🏽

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 21h

Ooh, I like this!

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 21h

The mission is to get a perfectly preserved cadaver with a mysterious implant back to her home world, but will the reward be worth it?

☄️Firefly x Dracula
⚰️Sci-fi Gothic Mystery
💉Female Doctor MC
🖤No Romance
⌛️ Short read

books2read.com/u/bxx9kP

#BookSky💙📚 #ScienceFiction #Scifi #Mystery #Books

Ad for the Sarcophagus of Lamia with a picture of a blonde woman resting on red velvet to the right.

The text says:
The Sarcophagus of Lamia
A gothic sci-fi adventure!
For only 99 cents

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 22h

Love it!

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 23h

#PennedReveries #vss365

Ever since I saw them
In the river
With their red bellies
And razor sharp teeth
The have always been
On my mind
Little hands flashing
In the water
Bringing terror
Piranha

#Poetry #horror

David Middleham @dmiddleham.bsky.social · 12d

Here's October's #pennedreveries writing prompt list...

RTs appreciated 🙏

#writingprompt
#WritingCommunity

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 23h

That's wild!

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

When you park up just to take a picture of a tree, because it's just so stunning...

#Autumn #Tree #Photography

Photograph of a tree with vivid red and yellow leaves.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

#DavidsMonthOfHorror

Day 12 - in black and white

#MovieChallenge

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

#Sunday #Skircle

skircle.me

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 2d

My verse novel Hekate has spent 3 weeks on the NYT bestseller list, but also it has been #1 and #2 on the Indie bestseller list because Indie bookstores and booksellers have championed the book so much. Words cannot express how much that means to me.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 2d

Right?!

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 2d

#PennedReveries

Everyone's always looking
For something more
Continuously searching
For a brand new shore
Never finding
The peace they're looking for
Because that is lying
In their own core

#Poetry

David Middleham @dmiddleham.bsky.social · 12d

Here's October's #pennedreveries writing prompt list...

RTs appreciated 🙏

#writingprompt
#WritingCommunity

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 2d

#DavidsMonthOfHorror

Day 11 - zombies!

Easily Arnie's best film. Genuinely moving, as well as being a zombie film.

#MovieChallenge

Image from theatrical poster of 'Maggie' (2015), with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Wade Vogel in the foreground, looking to the side with concern, and his daughter Maggie played by Abigal Breslin in the background looking at us with infected skin.

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It's Sakher 🍉 @sakher23.bsky.social · 2d

My name is Sakher, and this is my new account — after my old one was suddenly taken down.
For the past 4 days, I’ve been silent… not because I wanted to, but because I lost my only voice — the place where I used to speak to the world.
More talk in the comments….
GFM : gofund.me/f116bf44

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Nasrullah Anwar @noorajahangir.bsky.social · 2d

Why should writers and readers attend Conventions? I talk to @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social and @robincmduncan.bsky.social from the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social to find. youtu.be/nDo37TTCbes

Why You Should Go To World Fantasy Con?

YouTube video by Noor A Jahangir

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 2d

#PennedReveries

N
No
Not
Not f
Not fa
Not fal
Not fall
Not falli
Not fallin
Not falling

Fallen

#Poetry

David Middleham @dmiddleham.bsky.social · 12d

Here's October's #pennedreveries writing prompt list...

RTs appreciated 🙏

#writingprompt
#WritingCommunity

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 2d

Sorry for your loss.

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 2d

Surely there is ease after hardship.

Surely there is ease after hardship.

Qur'an: 94:6-7

Yes, verse 6 is repeated in verse 7. Pretty significant.

As it is said, this, too, shall pass.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #Islam #Wisdom

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 2d

#DavidsMonthOfHorror

Day 10 - haunted house

#HauntedHouse

Still scene from 'The Grudge' (2004) with Sarah Michelle Gellar as Karen Davis in the foreground and Takako Fuji as Kayako Saki in the background.

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 3d

#DavidsMonthOfHorror

Day 9 - sci-fi horror

#MovieChallenge