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Lou Morgan

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Novelist & scriptwriter. HMS Erebus nerd, Branwell Brontë enthusiast. Welsh. Does all own stunts. Half agony, half hopeless.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · Nov 8

Sing it again, brother.

Still from the American version of The Office, with Steve Carrell as Michael Scott saying “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.”

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 8h

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 21h

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 21h

I think you’re completely right, obviously, but it still makes me grumpy (not at you!)

Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 22h

I guess - but it feels like trying to crunch down the ideas in a book and consume them with no real context or process is a bit of an exercise in defeat. (It’s gobbets, she says, going full History Boys. Gobbets.) And it’s why so many people misquote Caroline Bingley from Pride & Prejudice.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t get stuff like this. If the point of reading a book is reading the book, then what’s the purpose of it? It’s not like we’re all cramming for exams or having to wade through stuff teachers have chosen. If you don’t want to read a particular book… just don’t. There’s no gotcha if you haven’t!

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KISSman @kissman.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, applause

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I think you should’ve earned some kind of medal for this.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen this before, years ago, and it was fine- but now? Absolutely not. Knee-wobblingly scary. It must be a “getting older” thing because I started rewatching a Fred Dibnah climb I’d seen when I was little, and had to turn it off partway through because my stomach started to feel a bit peculiar

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent news! Our Kickstarter campaign has been selected as a Project We Love by the Kickstarter team.
www.kickstarter.com/...

Kickstarter's Project We Love badge. It is circular with the words in an outer rim and a throbbing heart in the centre.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

(It’s actually perfect listening for October, ideally late at night with a storm howling outside…)

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

My first Big Finish - in fact, my first ever audio - script was for Torchwood (it was The Vigil, which was a Tosh story which also had *delightful* Hugh Skinner as the worst dude in the world). I loved every minute of it, and I’ll always be grateful for that story, and all the others that came after

Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 2d

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I might actually do a spooky reread of them all!

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

I love these books so much (also: possibly my favourite fictionalised version of Branwell)

Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social · 5d

You spooky season reminder that I wrote a quartet of gothic mystery novels that imagine that before they were authors, the Bronte sisters were amateur sleuths.

The Bronte Mysteries by Bella Ellis

Buffy in Bonnets, if you will.

Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Pears have precisely two states: unripe green rocks, and overripe weirdly grainy liquid. They move from one to the other with nothing in between, like some kind of fruit-based sublimation

Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

The writer’s life: cake tomorrow and cake yesterday, but never cake today. But fixing plot every bloody day without fail

Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

As long as you’re doing it while drenched in Quercus, you’ll be fine

Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the things that upsets me the most about The State Of Things Right Now: there are so many children, so many babies, who are going to suffer - and possibly even die. And it’s almost entirely preventable.