Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚
@vrling.bsky.social
Recovering academic (archaeology/evolution).
Author of King Street Run, a fantasy-satire on the flogging of academia for profit: https://books2read.com/King-Street-Run
No DMs.
Old buildings, Old books, Gothic everything, Animals, Vegans, Classic Who
Author of King Street Run, a fantasy-satire on the flogging of academia for profit: https://books2read.com/King-Street-Run
No DMs.
Old buildings, Old books, Gothic everything, Animals, Vegans, Classic Who
Pinned
📚💙 For those who like their sci-fi laced with satire and dark humour, my new novel "Paradox Lost" will be unleashed by @elsewhen.press in 2026. Please form an orderly queue at your nearest book shop and always remember to heed the crush barriers 😜
Anamorphosis is a perspective trick where an image only appears normal when viewed from a particular angle.
I don’t know the orange-in (get it? origin? 🙄) of this tangerine GIF but it was via psychologist Richard Wiseman: richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/t...
I don’t know the orange-in (get it? origin? 🙄) of this tangerine GIF but it was via psychologist Richard Wiseman: richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/t...
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anamorphosis is a perspective trick where an image only appears normal when viewed from a particular angle.
I don’t know the orange-in (get it? origin? 🙄) of this tangerine GIF but it was via psychologist Richard Wiseman: richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/t...
I don’t know the orange-in (get it? origin? 🙄) of this tangerine GIF but it was via psychologist Richard Wiseman: richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/t...
Reposted by Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚
“High earners and [successful] entrepreneurs” is a set of people defined by how much they take, Kier mate.
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“High earners and [successful] entrepreneurs” is a set of people defined by how much they take, Kier mate.
The squirrel has stashed his prize monkey nut where no one else could possibly find it… next to the pvc screen inside the hedgehog’s feeding station.
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The squirrel has stashed his prize monkey nut where no one else could possibly find it… next to the pvc screen inside the hedgehog’s feeding station.
💙📚 If you like cutesy timey-wimey books then you’ll hate my novel King Street Run 😬
KSR is an adult fantasy (no, not *that* sort of adult). A satire that takes an irreverent look at life, being working class, and what to do when attacked by gargoyles. And it’s stuffed with easter eggs.
Ta-daaah!
KSR is an adult fantasy (no, not *that* sort of adult). A satire that takes an irreverent look at life, being working class, and what to do when attacked by gargoyles. And it’s stuffed with easter eggs.
Ta-daaah!
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
💙📚 If you like cutesy timey-wimey books then you’ll hate my novel King Street Run 😬
KSR is an adult fantasy (no, not *that* sort of adult). A satire that takes an irreverent look at life, being working class, and what to do when attacked by gargoyles. And it’s stuffed with easter eggs.
Ta-daaah!
KSR is an adult fantasy (no, not *that* sort of adult). A satire that takes an irreverent look at life, being working class, and what to do when attacked by gargoyles. And it’s stuffed with easter eggs.
Ta-daaah!
"His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity."
- Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity."
- Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
H.R. Wakefield, in one of his finest short ghost stories, accidentally sums up the Right's obsession with a make believe past:
"Men, in such a pass, if they cannot look forward for succour, look back."
- “The First Sheaf” (1939)
#Booksky
"Men, in such a pass, if they cannot look forward for succour, look back."
- “The First Sheaf” (1939)
#Booksky
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
H.R. Wakefield, in one of his finest short ghost stories, accidentally sums up the Right's obsession with a make believe past:
"Men, in such a pass, if they cannot look forward for succour, look back."
- “The First Sheaf” (1939)
#Booksky
"Men, in such a pass, if they cannot look forward for succour, look back."
- “The First Sheaf” (1939)
#Booksky
Or "The Brain In A Jar" nebula, as I like to call it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Or "The Brain In A Jar" nebula, as I like to call it.
“A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!”
~ Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
~ Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
At what point will they stop this nonsense?
Teesside University was crowned University of the Year at the #THEAwards 2025. Paul Croney, Teesside’s vice-chancellor and chief executive, dedicated the award to “the amazing staff at Teesside University, who always deliver despite all the challenges that we face”
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!”
~ Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
~ Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
"Let’s not go grave-digging among memories merely for the sake of making conversation."
- Oliver Onions, The Accident (1911)
- Oliver Onions, The Accident (1911)
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Let’s not go grave-digging among memories merely for the sake of making conversation."
- Oliver Onions, The Accident (1911)
- Oliver Onions, The Accident (1911)
If you're not familiar with Jake Yapp's oeuvre, track down Dora Dale Pleased To Meet You and go from there. You could also give his podcast a listen.
#Podcast #Comedy
#Podcast #Comedy
I am restarting my podcast, 'Not Today, Thank You' tomorrow. Well, midnight tonight. Eckhart Tolle gonna make you holler, Greedy Pigs In Space, & a book recommendation (Paradox Lost by @vrling.bsky.social , if you can't be arsed to listen)
If you CAN be arsed, subscribe: podnews.net/podcast/i6vne
If you CAN be arsed, subscribe: podnews.net/podcast/i6vne
Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You
Listen to the politics audio show Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You from Swanburst Media in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Overcast and other podcast apps
podnews.net
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
May I waft you in the direction of the marvellous @jakeyapp.bsky.social who lavished unbridled praise upon his ARC of Paradox Lost: “It’s really good! I’ve read about three or four pages but that’s pretty good going for me.”
So, you can rest assured that the first four pages are stonking stuff!
So, you can rest assured that the first four pages are stonking stuff!
I am restarting my podcast, 'Not Today, Thank You' tomorrow. Well, midnight tonight. Eckhart Tolle gonna make you holler, Greedy Pigs In Space, & a book recommendation (Paradox Lost by @vrling.bsky.social , if you can't be arsed to listen)
If you CAN be arsed, subscribe: podnews.net/podcast/i6vne
If you CAN be arsed, subscribe: podnews.net/podcast/i6vne
Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You
Listen to the politics audio show Jake Yapp presents: Not Today, Thank You from Swanburst Media in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Overcast and other podcast apps
podnews.net
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
May I waft you in the direction of the marvellous @jakeyapp.bsky.social who lavished unbridled praise upon his ARC of Paradox Lost: “It’s really good! I’ve read about three or four pages but that’s pretty good going for me.”
So, you can rest assured that the first four pages are stonking stuff!
So, you can rest assured that the first four pages are stonking stuff!
📚💙 For those who like their sci-fi laced with satire and dark humour, my new novel "Paradox Lost" will be unleashed by @elsewhen.press in 2026. Please form an orderly queue at your nearest book shop and always remember to heed the crush barriers 😜
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📚💙 For those who like their sci-fi laced with satire and dark humour, my new novel "Paradox Lost" will be unleashed by @elsewhen.press in 2026. Please form an orderly queue at your nearest book shop and always remember to heed the crush barriers 😜
Fave book quotes: “I feel absurdly young,” he said without a sign of affectation, “and yet I’ve been looking for you a thousand years and more.”
- The Touch of Pan, Algernon Blackwood (1917)
#Booksky
- The Touch of Pan, Algernon Blackwood (1917)
#Booksky
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Fave book quotes: “I feel absurdly young,” he said without a sign of affectation, “and yet I’ve been looking for you a thousand years and more.”
- The Touch of Pan, Algernon Blackwood (1917)
#Booksky
- The Touch of Pan, Algernon Blackwood (1917)
#Booksky
"To say that we could not work without a capitalist is as false as to say that we could not mow a meadow unless all the scythes belonged to one man."
- Robert Blatchford, Merrie England (1893)
- Robert Blatchford, Merrie England (1893)
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"To say that we could not work without a capitalist is as false as to say that we could not mow a meadow unless all the scythes belonged to one man."
- Robert Blatchford, Merrie England (1893)
- Robert Blatchford, Merrie England (1893)
Reposted by Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚
From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
Like everything else right now, it's the tail wagging the dog. If today's publishers were yesterday's the greatest books would have been rejected: Lord of The Rings, 1984, Brave New World: "Thanks for your submission but it's not commercial. Too 'ideas-y'"
Thank goodness for small presses!
#Booksky
Thank goodness for small presses!
#Booksky
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Like everything else right now, it's the tail wagging the dog. If today's publishers were yesterday's the greatest books would have been rejected: Lord of The Rings, 1984, Brave New World: "Thanks for your submission but it's not commercial. Too 'ideas-y'"
Thank goodness for small presses!
#Booksky
Thank goodness for small presses!
#Booksky
I saw James Watson give a lecture at the Sanger Institute about ten years ago. To channel some rhyming slang, I thought he was a complete Francis Crick.
On the passing of James Watson
Intellect & morality are distinct; abundance in one doesn’t guarantee the other
His book 'The Double Helix' is engrossing & troubling portrayal of scientific research
Dr Rosalind Franklin died in 1958, 10 years before this misogynistic portrayal
Intellect & morality are distinct; abundance in one doesn’t guarantee the other
His book 'The Double Helix' is engrossing & troubling portrayal of scientific research
Dr Rosalind Franklin died in 1958, 10 years before this misogynistic portrayal
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I saw James Watson give a lecture at the Sanger Institute about ten years ago. To channel some rhyming slang, I thought he was a complete Francis Crick.
Reposted by Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚
Such a great book 😊❤️📚
Incredibly humbling to read such a warm review of King Street Run, thank you! 📚💙
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Such a great book 😊❤️📚
Incredibly humbling to read such a warm review of King Street Run, thank you! 📚💙
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Incredibly humbling to read such a warm review of King Street Run, thank you! 📚💙
Two great things in one! Mindscape is a terrific podcast that covers everything from quantum mechanics to black holes and Daniel Whiteson (physics prof, science communicator, and all round smartie pants) hosts the brilliant @dandkuniverse.bsky.social podcast.
Mindscape 334 | Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social on the Physics of and by Aliens. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Two great things in one! Mindscape is a terrific podcast that covers everything from quantum mechanics to black holes and Daniel Whiteson (physics prof, science communicator, and all round smartie pants) hosts the brilliant @dandkuniverse.bsky.social podcast.
🤷♀️The right-wing obsession with Lord of The Rings. Palantir named for the seeing stones, M*sk's Hobbit rant. Forever trying to appropriate and corrupt what their crooked minds can't understand; art, creativity, principles. The only simple parallel in LOTR is between the right wing and Morgoth/Sauron.
a man with long hair and a crown on his head is looking at something .
ALT: a man with long hair and a crown on his head is looking at something .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🤷♀️The right-wing obsession with Lord of The Rings. Palantir named for the seeing stones, M*sk's Hobbit rant. Forever trying to appropriate and corrupt what their crooked minds can't understand; art, creativity, principles. The only simple parallel in LOTR is between the right wing and Morgoth/Sauron.
📚💙 If you stand on Midsummer Common in Cambridge at midnight on Halloween and say the names of the 31 Colleges, the lost Michaelhouse will appear.
#Halloween #Books
#Halloween #Books
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
📚💙 If you stand on Midsummer Common in Cambridge at midnight on Halloween and say the names of the 31 Colleges, the lost Michaelhouse will appear.
#Halloween #Books
#Halloween #Books
Isn’t crossbreeding Farage how Sauron created Uruk-hai? 🤔
Just heard Harriet Harman say Zack Polanski is a cross between Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn which means you can add potty Blairite fossils to the ever growing list of political degenerates tugging their collars over him.
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Isn’t crossbreeding Farage how Sauron created Uruk-hai? 🤔
Speaking of ballrooms, this is “From The Depths” by William Balfour Ker (circa 1906).
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Speaking of ballrooms, this is “From The Depths” by William Balfour Ker (circa 1906).