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Ever Dundas

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Writer: Goblin | HellSans Rep: Jenny Brown Associates Inklusion Guide co-founder Obsessed with Pearl Jam, Suede, The Sisters & Bauhaus #AutisticAF #QueerCrip #TransAlly (banner photo: The Abomination 🖤 from Lynch's Dune) https://linktr.ee/EverDundas

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · Nov 18

If you lovely creatures would like to know a bit more about me, I was interviewed for The Times this time last year on the run up to the fabulous Push the Boat Out fest

(though, personally I think ‘Ever stopped eating corpses aged 7’ is a better headline)

“Ever Dundas: ‘I was asked to be pals with Paris Hilton’
The author on a strange encounter with a TV producer, being a ‘boring hermity bookworm' and her Interview with the Vampire obsession”
Phot of Ever by Cinn Curtis: Ever in a black coat, pale skin, bright green hair
Interview by Ashley Davies, Wednesday November 15 2023, 12.13am, The Times

Ever Dundas is an Edinburgh-based author whose debut novel, Goblin, won the Saltire Society's First Book of the Year award in 2017. Her latest novel, HellSans (2022), is a dystopian thriller.
What's your earliest memory?
Collecting worms in a bucket and losing them down the back of our couch. Chaos later ensued when they emerged.
What has been your most memorable Scottish gig?
Seeing Manic Street Preachers play The Holy Bible in full at Glasgow Barrowland and Edinburgh Usher Hall. Utter ecstasy.
What's the best meal you've had in Scotland?
If it counts as a meal, espresso coffee with my husband's to-die-for vegan cinnamon rolls.

What's your favourite place in Scotland?
St Conan's Kirk (next to the aptly named Loch Awe) because it feels otherworldly. Walking through the entrance is like walking through a portal to a fantastical realm. I first visited on the way back from Iona to celebrate my mum's 70th birthday. I wrote about St Conan's magic for Burning Eye Press.

What's your favourite TV show or film (and why)?

I love too many to have a favourite, but I'm currently obsessed with the deliciously queer Interview with the Vampire series. Sam Reid as Lestat is mesmerising.

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This is generally the kind of thing that happens whenever I attempt small talk

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A brilliant piece by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social on Dystopian Medicine

"it’s when society feels at its most unstable that we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction... because these stories provide us with a space in which to explore our growing fears."

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing from stories such as Hiron Ennes' Leech and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, author @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social reviews the popularity of medical horror, placing it alongside the return of dystopian fiction:

reactormag.com/dystopian-me...

Dystopian Medicine: Why Medical Horror Has a Hold on Us - Reactor

When society feels at its most unstable, we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction...

reactormag.com

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 1d

This is brilliant, Laura! Thanks so much for including HellSans 🖤💛 and now I have more fabulous books to read...

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 1d

I was looking at my x-rays at the dentist and said “It’s cool being able to see your own insides” and now I’m on some ‘potential serial killer’ list

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s rather grim proof note:

P415 line 24: delete “people”

Sorry, people.

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 2d

@klschroeder.bsky.social I thought you might appreciate this

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 2d

and follow her on insta, where she talks about her process

www.instagram.com/rona_innes_a...

Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful piece by my talented friend Rona Innes

You can support her art here:

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Rona...

Beautiful painting of an otter in water, surrounded by bubbles, their head just above the surface looking up at a firefly

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 2d

She's the best 💚🦎💚

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 3d

It's that time of year again... spooky advent calendars illustrated by me back in the Etsy shop! Borely Rectory Christmas cards with the same design available very soon if you want one / some of those as well. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/1801...

An advent calendar based on an imaginary vintage greetings card of Borley Rectory at Christmas, complete with ghostly nun and Harry Price

An advent calendar window depicting two vampiric choirboys and Mark Gatiss with fangs in front of a gothic arched window.

An advent calendar window featuring an illustration of Krampus

An advent calendar window featuring an illustration of two ghostly youths peering out of a window

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 11d

As Julia Bascom writes,

“…[the parents] think the problem was that they treated their child like they were intellectually disabled, & they weren’t. But that’s not the problem. The problem is that they thought their child was intellectually disabled, and so they didn’t treat them like a person.” 40/

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 11d

Many autistic people have clinical-level anxiety, and may learn to self-soothe through stimming or creating elaborate, predictable, & therefore safe, routines. Try to understand why your child may be behaving differently than their peers, instead of making them feel bad about their differences. 35/

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 11d

Also: Become educated about autistic learning styles. Not all autistic kids are math prodigies or "little professors." In fact, studies show that most don’t have superior math skills, but rather average or below-average math skills. (I KNOW.) 36/

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, that's lovely to hear, thank you.

I cried at the end of Ch9 too (and I'm not usually a crier when it comes books). I adore wee Hecate 🖤

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 The Tower, The Moon, The Gun @horrorculturist.bsky.social · Feb 24

Do one thing every day to make the world a worse place for evil people.

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 5d

I'm reading it now; it's brilliant. Ch 8 just made me cry.

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 5d

Suede: Big Frog

(next album cover?)

black and white photo of a mannequin dressed as dandy frog in a shop window, with Edinburgh old town building reflections

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 9d

Childhood books & television really led me to believe that the isolation of illness was going to at least be tempered by thrilling, shimmering time slips, faithful little ghost friends & ancient spirits of the deep green earth visiting neglected wisdoms on my languishing, bed-mouldering, lonely self

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Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline @mickeybiz.bsky.social · 13d

Happy Princess Bride Day!

Set of Princess Bride Nesting Dolls from 2020. (Still available)

#tradart #illustration #moviesky #princessbride #fanart

Grid of photographs from different angles of a wooden nesting doll illustrated with characters from The Princess Bride.

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 13d

They're wonderful

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 15d

Shadow portalage.

Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 15d

The Swanage Dimetrodon

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24d

It was always hard to explain to those that couldn't hear it, but The Hum was more than a sound. It was a transmission, a song told through the lines. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. It taught us. It transformed us. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave ex-Pylon Person/Child of The Hum #Pylons

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 24d

Portal number 815.

A photo of a stick suspended from tree. Beyond, fields, a tower and woods. Grey sky above.

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 26d

Monsta brings all the pigeons to the yard

Fabulous creature with a teddybear body, worm arms, a crow foot and a doll foot, pigeon wings, and a shrew head. They're in a park with pigeons pottering in the background