Alys Wilfred Earl
@alysdragon.bsky.social
Writer, aesthete, reprobate.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
Also, while I was poking about the internet about these books, I read part of an ancient review that described the murder mystery as the most conservative of genres, and it’s been troubling me.
Because there *is* something innately conservative about the genre, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
Because there *is* something innately conservative about the genre, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Also, while I was poking about the internet about these books, I read part of an ancient review that described the murder mystery as the most conservative of genres, and it’s been troubling me.
Because there *is* something innately conservative about the genre, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
Because there *is* something innately conservative about the genre, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
More on this - in both cases the victim is killed on their work premises, with an unrelated object from those premises placed upon them to make a point about their death/character in a way that may or may not be done by the murderer.
I mean, there are so many echoes between them that I always had them muddled in my head? Thought the company launch and the Thames tunnel were in A Certain Justice, and the fertility clinic was in Original Sin.
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
More on this - in both cases the victim is killed on their work premises, with an unrelated object from those premises placed upon them to make a point about their death/character in a way that may or may not be done by the murderer.
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It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
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2.3.1
In which we examine the fortunes of Mr Richard Thornton…
forthenby.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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This magazine is a great read and just a genuinely beautiful object, and also happens to have some words by me in.
Just noticed I must have ticked a box as our new issue is currently discounted on DriveThruRPG & only around £2 there
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
Wyrd Science (Vol.1, Issue 7) - Wyrd Science | DriveThruRPG
The award winning Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games...
In this issue...
Roleplaying Games & the Cold War! What can they tell us ...
www.drivethrurpg.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This magazine is a great read and just a genuinely beautiful object, and also happens to have some words by me in.
It’s weird having moderately bad pain, and fatigue with no brain fog. It’s like, I can think perfectly clearly. I just… can’t really move and everything is sore.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It’s weird having moderately bad pain, and fatigue with no brain fog. It’s like, I can think perfectly clearly. I just… can’t really move and everything is sore.
One of the… best? worst??… one of the THINGS about having cats is that sometimes you are a fellow and participant in their space and sometimes you are merely part of the landscape.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
One of the… best? worst??… one of the THINGS about having cats is that sometimes you are a fellow and participant in their space and sometimes you are merely part of the landscape.
School: We’re migrating to a new contact platform, which will be able to do EVERYTHING the old platforms could do in one simple place! We will no longer be using any of the other platforms!
Me: *tried to send an absence notif*
New platform: Nope.
Me: *tried to send an absence notif*
New platform: Nope.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
School: We’re migrating to a new contact platform, which will be able to do EVERYTHING the old platforms could do in one simple place! We will no longer be using any of the other platforms!
Me: *tried to send an absence notif*
New platform: Nope.
Me: *tried to send an absence notif*
New platform: Nope.
Think I’ve recently, and quite by accident, read three almost consecutive P D Jameses, and my god, that A Taste for Death through to A Certain Justice arc is *dark*, and working through a very definite set of concerns.
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Think I’ve recently, and quite by accident, read three almost consecutive P D Jameses, and my god, that A Taste for Death through to A Certain Justice arc is *dark*, and working through a very definite set of concerns.
Y’know, I think I’m going to start grading painfully bad literary criticism on the internet. Not to the writer, or even publicly - that would both be mean, and open me up to similar attacks, as I too, have dreck ok the internet - but to myself, quietly: “I’d give it a low 2:2.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Y’know, I think I’m going to start grading painfully bad literary criticism on the internet. Not to the writer, or even publicly - that would both be mean, and open me up to similar attacks, as I too, have dreck ok the internet - but to myself, quietly: “I’d give it a low 2:2.”
P D James and the doomed Marks and Spencer’s meal of Unequal Love.
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
P D James and the doomed Marks and Spencer’s meal of Unequal Love.
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Mornin you lot. This week's vlog is all about Agents of Secrets and Lies, the first book in the Summer Realm series that I've been working on with @wombat37.bsky.social @purplequeenpub.bsky.social and @lisashambrook.bsky.social with fab cover art from @kiturnix.bsky.social
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Big Book News! 📚
YouTube video by Victoria Pearson
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November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Mornin you lot. This week's vlog is all about Agents of Secrets and Lies, the first book in the Summer Realm series that I've been working on with @wombat37.bsky.social @purplequeenpub.bsky.social and @lisashambrook.bsky.social with fab cover art from @kiturnix.bsky.social
youtu.be/KvV-MFPLaoM?...
youtu.be/KvV-MFPLaoM?...
Endless fucking nightmares with my name….
I was bitching last night about how I’ve got four names current in professional spaces (A W, Alys Wilfred, Alys, and Fred) well *guess* how much fun I’ve just had trying to sign on to the smart new integrated system for the Sprogs’ school???
I was bitching last night about how I’ve got four names current in professional spaces (A W, Alys Wilfred, Alys, and Fred) well *guess* how much fun I’ve just had trying to sign on to the smart new integrated system for the Sprogs’ school???
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Endless fucking nightmares with my name….
I was bitching last night about how I’ve got four names current in professional spaces (A W, Alys Wilfred, Alys, and Fred) well *guess* how much fun I’ve just had trying to sign on to the smart new integrated system for the Sprogs’ school???
I was bitching last night about how I’ve got four names current in professional spaces (A W, Alys Wilfred, Alys, and Fred) well *guess* how much fun I’ve just had trying to sign on to the smart new integrated system for the Sprogs’ school???
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We've had to wait a long time to get to this point! With this new pair of Cochrane systematic reviews, the weight of the evidence has tipped very heavily in favor of HPV vaccination.
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
This Evidence Fundamentally Shifts the Debate About the HPV Vaccine - Absolutely Maybe
We’ve had to wait a long time to get to this point. If cervical cancer develops after HPV infection, it will take…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We've had to wait a long time to get to this point! With this new pair of Cochrane systematic reviews, the weight of the evidence has tipped very heavily in favor of HPV vaccination.
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
#Vaccines
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My pink half of the drainpipe
keeps me safe from you
keeps me safe from you
One of my favourite kind of gate post finials - an arrowhead cap carefully half-painted for the house on one side only. Is this a very British approach? Slightly passive-aggressive vibes, but I always admire the crisp neatness of such a division.
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My pink half of the drainpipe
keeps me safe from you
keeps me safe from you
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I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
Just amazing night @argonautbooks.bsky.social, wonderful to read with and meet so many great trans performers, and share so much grief, and joy, and survival.
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Just amazing night @argonautbooks.bsky.social, wonderful to read with and meet so many great trans performers, and share so much grief, and joy, and survival.
While I *do* advise, if you need to use a cane, getting a ‘dress’ one that you like having with you out and about, it *will* attract a lot of compliments which can be a bit awkward.
Like, yes, thanks, I need it to walk long distances…
Like, yes, thanks, I need it to walk long distances…
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
While I *do* advise, if you need to use a cane, getting a ‘dress’ one that you like having with you out and about, it *will* attract a lot of compliments which can be a bit awkward.
Like, yes, thanks, I need it to walk long distances…
Like, yes, thanks, I need it to walk long distances…
Realising one reason I’ve not managed to sell my second novel is because I’ve written a fantasy novel with twinky nonsense of a MMC who everyone instantly likes, but the *real* protagonist is a woman who is cold, and difficult, and morally compromised and I’ll give no damn ground on that.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Realising one reason I’ve not managed to sell my second novel is because I’ve written a fantasy novel with twinky nonsense of a MMC who everyone instantly likes, but the *real* protagonist is a woman who is cold, and difficult, and morally compromised and I’ll give no damn ground on that.
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Speaking in Brighton this PM, Zack Polanski has announced that Green Party of England & Wales membership is now over 170,000 - which means over 100,000 people have joined the party since his election in September
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Speaking in Brighton this PM, Zack Polanski has announced that Green Party of England & Wales membership is now over 170,000 - which means over 100,000 people have joined the party since his election in September
Come to Argonaut Books this Sunday for an evening of readings from trans and non-binary writers to mark Trans Day of Remembrance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
QUILL Presents - Trans Day of Remembrance Readings Evening
Join us for an evening of powerful readings commemorating Trans Day of Remembrance
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Come to Argonaut Books this Sunday for an evening of readings from trans and non-binary writers to mark Trans Day of Remembrance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quill-pres...
If you’re thinking about buying jewellery for anyone for Christmas, can I put in a word for Nova Silver?
Norwich based, indie shop, they do all sorts of weird and wonderful things (as well as more classic designs) at very very fair prices.
www.novasilver.co.uk
Norwich based, indie shop, they do all sorts of weird and wonderful things (as well as more classic designs) at very very fair prices.
www.novasilver.co.uk
Nova Silver Jeweller
www.novasilver.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you’re thinking about buying jewellery for anyone for Christmas, can I put in a word for Nova Silver?
Norwich based, indie shop, they do all sorts of weird and wonderful things (as well as more classic designs) at very very fair prices.
www.novasilver.co.uk
Norwich based, indie shop, they do all sorts of weird and wonderful things (as well as more classic designs) at very very fair prices.
www.novasilver.co.uk
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Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
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Oh, look. That thing that was always going to be a total disaster turns out to have been a total disaster.
I will never not be angry about this.
I will never not be angry about this.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh, look. That thing that was always going to be a total disaster turns out to have been a total disaster.
I will never not be angry about this.
I will never not be angry about this.
God’s Smallest Boy:
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
God’s Smallest Boy: