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Edpool
@edpool.bsky.social
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Mercenary writer monkey, author, reviewer, social commentator, collector of nicknames. He / him.

My blog: http://hatboy.blog
My books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B008M6BBM0
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I'm morbidly curious as to whether there's anyone else in the centre of the Ted Lasso / Sonic the Hedgehog Venn diagram with me.
A meme template reading "inside you are two wolves". On the left, Roy Kent from Ted Lasso. On the right, Agent Stone from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise. Two immaculate sides of a well-groomed coin.
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Confirmed, someone in Finland is wearing your merch and feeling pretty smug about it.
A tubby middle-aged dude with a grey beard wears a blue T-shirt with the slogan "Mark's Comics (are your comics!)" based on a fictional comic book store in a book written by Drew Melbourne. The T-shirt model may be safely considered a load-bearing customer demographic for this kind of thing.
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Arts and crafts time!

#AI #GenAI #HumanMade #SayNoToSlop
A comic panel with a cartoon kangaroo sitting in an armchair, working on something with a pencil. A floating robot egg thing, representing "A.I.", floats next to the armchair and says "Would you like me to help with that?" "Help how?" the kangaroo asks. The egg steals the kangaroo's paper with a little robot arm, feeds it into a mouth slot, then makes a straining sound. It turns around, displaying a surprisingly tight pair of gymnastic buttocks. In the final frame, the egg is looking pleased with itself and the kangaroo is sitting with a big sloppy shit in its hand, that the egg has evidently made using his stolen work. The egg looks pleased. It is a metaphor probably.
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Drop some eyes.
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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I like your enthusiasm but your (I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say copy-pasted) messaging could use some personalisation. I liked the one you sent to the funko pop maker about their book.
A copy-pasted bluesky reply that reads "Congrats, I really enjoyed coming across your book, it has a great vibe and strong potential. Do you love hearing new ideas? From what you’re building, I thought of an idea that could complement your story and make it even more impactful. Would you be open to hearing it?" A copy-pasted bluesky reply that reads "Congrats, I really enjoyed coming across your book, it has a great vibe and strong potential. Do you love hearing new ideas? From what you’re building, I thought of an idea that could complement your story and make it even more impactful. Would you be open to hearing it?" A copy-pasted bluesky reply that reads "Congrats, I really enjoyed coming across your book, it has a great vibe and strong potential. Do you love hearing new ideas? From what you’re building, I thought of an idea that could complement your story and make it even more impactful. Would you be open to hearing it?" A copy-pasted bluesky reply that reads "Congrats, I really enjoyed coming across your book, it has a great vibe and strong potential. Do you love hearing new ideas? From what you’re building, I thought of an idea that could complement your story and make it even more impactful. Would you be open to hearing it?"
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I'll start!

These are the kinds of drawings I've got in the book. This big ol' girl is called an aki'Drednanth. They're a telepathic yeti type creature that can store their minds in ice and reincarnate. This one is wearing a freezer suit covered in souvenir stickers of the places she's been.
A drawing of a large alien creature known as an aki'Drednanth, a kind of large yeti or ogre species. They are very large and prefer to live in below-freezing temperatures, which is why this one is wearing a refrigerated suit. The suit is covered in an assortment of stickers from tourist destinations she has visited while exploring in space. Aki'Drednanth are telepathic and technically immortal, as they can transfer their consciousness into cometary ice when their bodies die, then "re-fleshulate" into newborn pups at a later date. As a result, the cometary ice is full of "Drednanth", the between-lives Dreamscape versions of the creatures, all waiting their turn to be aki'Drednanth again.
September 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"Colouring With Contro" is a sort-of-rhyming A-B-C colouring book featuring characters and creatures from my sci-fi series "The Final Fall of Man" and related tales.
The screen-capped back page of my book (it says "copyrighted material" at the top but I am the copyright holder, along with Amazon I guess, so it's fine). The top part of the page has an author photo of me looking shaggy and disreputable, and the author text: "Andrew Hindle is an author, technical writer, husband, father and science-fiction enjoyer. You'd think as a technical writer he might have structured that sentence so it was more difficult to misinterpret in a weird way, but you'd be wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong." Beneath this disturbing and probably sleep-deprived introduction, the book blurb reads: "Join your old pal Contro on a colouring book A-B-C of the Final Fall of Man universe and meet some familiar faces along the way. Unless you have no idea who your old pal Contro is and none of the Final Fall of Man books are familiar to you in the slightest, then it's just going to raise a lot of questions. Either way, enjoy!"
September 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Very excited to see how you handle this crazy collection of stories! Here's a picture of me cosplaying as Tabo Norid to celebrate.

It's easy to make a fun cosplay when you make up the character, but it also means I have no excuse for putting him in a big coat.
Shot from the back of sci-fi character Tabo "T-Bone" Norid, an alien whose species evolved from cows. A long-haired humanoid with bull horns, and a bulky black jacket covered in souvenir patches of all the different space travel destinations he's visited.
August 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Ooh, I actually have a #WIPSnip from my actual #WIP this time! This one's from my in-progress highdark fantasy (don't know if I coined that or not, probably not).
Text snippet from Andrew Hindle's up-coming work: She reflected, philosophically, that her people referred to Malaks as grubs as an insult. To the Malaks, the term was synonymous with ‘child’. Indeed, the Malak word ton, for their young, meant ‘grub’. She'd seen Malak young, both the translucent newly-hatched from the egg and the juveniles wobbly on new-grown limbs as they crawled out of the sludge of the creches. At barely a year old, they were considered adults. To them, Zern's – what had it been, now? – two hundred and eleven years was an unimaginable, yawning gulf of generations. A creature like Kankren … it was hardly any wonder they thought of him as a kind of terrible God. She wasn't even sure they were wrong, much of the time.
August 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for August 12th is "split" - I'm late to the party because of time zones and such, and it's not a #WIP except insofar as my entire collection of published works are connected, but I always liked this little passage from "Eejit".

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Clipping from "Eejit, by Andrew Hindle, featuring the word "split": And no, they didn’t sleep. They did, however, get bored, and so Decay was playing a game of Metak with the computer. Or, if the events of the past day and a half – from which he had been almost entirely excluded – were to be believed, with the Tramp’s prodigal synth, which had gone insane and joined forces with bla bla bla, the humans had done a lot of earnest, purposeful, adorable babbling and Decay couldn’t possibly have given less of a fuck even if modern physicists had discovered a way of splitting the fundamental subatomic fuck-particle. If there was something out there, Sally would shoot it in the face and that would be the end of it. It hadn’t made the computer any less fiendishly clever on the Metak board. Decay had long since stopped using the full translation of his Blaran name – General Moral Decay (Alcohol) – because people got confused and kept asking him if he was actually a General and why, since General outranked Captain, he wasn’t running the ship.
August 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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In this snippet, the loyal family butler Jarvis encounters the Archangel Gabriel. Who was made into an Angel at least hundreds of thousands of years ago, if not more. Also contains a pop culture reference from the late 22nd Century.

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A snippet from the novel "Bad Cow", which for some unfathomable reason failed to sell. In it, the Archangel Gabriel talks to a butler named Jarvis in the late 22nd Century. Readers are cowards. Cowards I say! -- “Yeah, indeed,” the apparition said. “You going to let me in, Loadsworth?” Jarvis thought about it for a few moments, his treacherous feet trying to walk out from underneath him all the while. The glorious, horrible ape-Angel stood and squinted up at him with deep amber eyes, its leathery black face worn and folded and almost infinitely sardonic. “Loadsworth was the head footman,” he heard himself say weakly, “the butler in Putnam-Finchley Common was just called ‘The Butler’ and never actually appeared on - ” “Yeah, no shit,” the creature said. “Why do you think I went with ‘Loadsworth’? Look, I think I should be getting credit for delivering a cultural joke from the right century at this point.”
July 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I'm pretty sure there was a typo in this "anything A.I. can do, humans can do better" challenge but happy pride moth I guess.
HAPPY PRIDE MOTH This very happy and colourful moth is holding its favourite lamp, to which the artist added a "G" to make it a GLAMP.
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I just finished creating a colouring book that I made using paper, pencil, pen and gimp editor for the scans (eraser took and paint bucket tool). It was delightfully soothing to draw in this style and I'm considering doing more. Screw Clippy's weird grandchild, there's no such thing as A.I.
A woman sits in a starship Captain's chair while a man at the helm looks like he's just said something sassy. They are Commander Z-Lin Clue and helmsman Zeegon Pendraegg, but that's not important right now. Ignore the dashboard bobblehead. It's a replica of a Burning Knight.
June 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Oh boy do I have art. My latest book, The Cursèd Playground, is an illustrated adventure in which a mixed crew of different species work together to circumnavigate the galaxy. If you like spotting sci-fi tropes, this one's for you.
May 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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OH DEAR LORD THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL

My Kickstarter goodies from @carmenloup.com, featuring but not limited to their wonderful @spsfc.bsky.social #SPSFC entry "The Audacity", has arrived in my grubby little hands.
The Audacity, the graphic novel, along with the Audacity trilogy in paperback, by Carmen Loup. Mostly featuring May and Xan and I'm afraid they're too pretty for my alt text fu to do justice to. But they're books and they're gorgeous.
April 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Your blog posts get comments?

Maybe I've had comments turned off for twenty years.
April 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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My latest book, "The Cursèd Playground", is out now. Still waiting for a review (or even a rating). Short-form humourous adventure stories for people of all ages who have a love of #scifi and can appreciate a solid trope.

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The crew of the ACS Conch plan on landing on a dinosaur planet. “That’s it,” Captain Hartigan stood and pointed aft. “Anyone who doesn’t want to come on a dinosaur safari, off the bridge. We’re separating the Nella in two minutes.” Scrutarius and Captain Pelsworthy started immediately for the door, before stopping and looking back. “Just us?” Devlin asked in surprise. “That’s a low sane-person count, even for one of our missions.” “I should be there in case the Captain injures himself when he falls and gets his leg stuck between two fallen logs,” Bonty said, “as well as assisting him in his transparent attempts to justify this scientifically.” “I don’t plan on leaving the shuttle,” Galana said, “but I will be ready to pilot through the trees and pick up the Captain and the rest of the landing party without slowing down as they flee from a nest of hungry juvenile megafauna and the enraged adults protecting them. The Captain may have an injured leg, and may be carrying an unhatched egg under one arm in this scenario, and I will need to be there in person to make last-minute changes to the flight path and speed to adjust for egg weight, shell thickness, severity of leg injury, and other variables.”
April 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Best Star Trek Crew, Wrong Answers Only
The fictional TV show within a TV show, "Space Heroes" from 2012's run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Unironically the best companion show to the animated Star Trek Original Series. Images show Donatello posing in homage to Captain Ryan on the TV screen, and admiring a poster of "Space Heroes III: The Resurrection of Mindstrong" a parody of "The Search for Spock".
March 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Post a meme made by you

(I couldn't pick just one)
A picture of then MP Keir Starmer and a goofy lil pink octopus plushy, with the caption "Sir Keir Starmer MP (left)" Lisa Simpson standing angrily in front of presentation board that reads "Candy corn is just fudge" Protest sign following the Russian invasion of Ukraine (which did in fact fucking happen no matter what certain unutterable numbnuts from the USA will try to tell you), where the red is wiped off the Russian flag, making it look a little too much like the Finnish flag for comfort. Awkward monkey meme, with Finnish flag implying it is Finland, looks awkward. Suomi mainittu. Commodore Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean, with map of globe on his head to represent the world, says "you forget your place, Australia." Will Turner, with Australian flag on head to represent Australia, stands in front of drunk and weird Captain Jack Sparrow, with British flag on head to represent Great Britain. Australia says "it's roight here mate, between youse an whatever dumb shit this cunt done." The meme represents the Australian colony's endless loyalty to its dumbarse empire daddy.
March 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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What a perfect opportunity to share one of my favourite little snippets. The city of Advent, in the woeful remains of distant-future USA, is near and dear to my heart and I find myself thinking about it a lot right now. #WIPSnips #reputation #WhatReputation #GiantErection
The elevator ascended into the mushroom-domed uppermost level and slowed to a halt on the edge of the great curve of treated plating, then opened to reveal the interior of the roof. The space was dominated by indoor garden and a few art fixtures, the entire level winding its way upwards in a spiral to follow the swell of the dome. Its central peak, beneath the dome’s apex, was occupied by a painfully-well-preserved oak tree that Constantín had been told was over a hundred years old. “Wow,” Skelliglyph was looking up at the sweep of decorative ramp-terrace, and the huge expanse of the dome into which they’d just ascended. “I am officially impressed.” “A real eye-opener, isn’t it? There are a lot of different species of endangered plant - ” Constantín began proudly. Skelliglyph shook his head. “I wasn’t talking about the rooftop,” he said. “When I left, Advent had a reputation for being a bit of a Puritan enclave. How did you manage to convince them to let you build a giant erect penis in the middle of their city?” Constantín spluttered. “It’s not - ”
March 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money!
Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill. Every song on this album was a certified banger even though I don't think we referred to them as "certified bangers" back then.
February 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Here you go! Jemily Boxbutt, station administrator, spacedocks of Chool.
A space station administrator named Jemily Boxbutt. Alien species that kind of looks like a rabbit but totally isn't a rabbit
February 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I'll get in on that action.
Celeborn and Galadriel riff a little bit on the way he totally seemed to have been killed before this scene in the Lord of the Rings movies. Rings of Power, gotta love it am I right? "It's a remembrall," says Neville Longbottom or whatever his name was from the Harry Potter series. Holding up a ball that is reddish and glassy. "The smoke turns red when you've forgotten something. The only problem is I can't remember," he continues, and we zoom in on his face for the final panel, "WHERE GONDOR WAS WHEN THE WESTFOLD FELL." Two ladies, labelled as "Gil-Galad" and "Celembribor" (which I think is misspelled, isn't it "Celebrimbor"? Oh well), ask "Uh ... whatcha got there?" in the first panel. A man (labelled "Elrond") with a smoothie in one hand and an ostrich (labelled "Mithril") by his side, says, "A smoothie" in the second panel. A meme of Edpool's own creation, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee on a packet of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" only the label has been expertly edited to read "I can't recall the taste of Butter!"
February 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I mean screw this guy, he seems like the worst, but his meme template is pretty solid. Happy Mutuals Day, which is a thing I just made up that probably already exists but oh well.

#MutualsDay
McMahon escalation meme. Mild interest face text: Your post gets a like Positive shock face text: They're someone you follow Unsettlingly orgasmic wow face text: They follow you back LASERFACE text: Their follower to follows ratio is 10:1
February 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Wait until you get a load of my aliens. This one is the ship's doctor (actually a veterinarian so she can patch up humans), having an alien mid-life crisis and deciding to ride the tactical officer (a giant cybernetic shark).
Chief medical officer Bonjamin Bont, an alien being with four arms and webbed ears and an extremely round body, is riding on the back of a huge cybernetically enhanced shark (tactical officer Wicked Mary), in a pair of silvery standard-issue uniform underpants while undergoing a period of developmental alien silliness.
February 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM