Nic Wilkinson
@nicwilkinson.bsky.social
The other half of CyNic Stories.
The arty, fonty half.
Bad Sector now available from Amazon in paperback, hardback and KU.
She/Her
See our books: https://cynicstories.co.uk
The arty, fonty half.
Bad Sector now available from Amazon in paperback, hardback and KU.
She/Her
See our books: https://cynicstories.co.uk
And then, to my delight, The Mouse family that live by the brambles posted them taking a bite of a strawberry as well!
*The tradition was started many years ago by Cy when he couldn't wait weeks til Christmas to give me a present (a carved dragon stick) he had bought for me.
*The tradition was started many years ago by Cy when he couldn't wait weeks til Christmas to give me a present (a carved dragon stick) he had bought for me.
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
And then, to my delight, The Mouse family that live by the brambles posted them taking a bite of a strawberry as well!
*The tradition was started many years ago by Cy when he couldn't wait weeks til Christmas to give me a present (a carved dragon stick) he had bought for me.
*The tradition was started many years ago by Cy when he couldn't wait weeks til Christmas to give me a present (a carved dragon stick) he had bought for me.
Read the beautiful Absolute of it yesterday again. It's not his most technically accomplished work but it's so full of passion and possibility.
Here is the page
Here is the page
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Read the beautiful Absolute of it yesterday again. It's not his most technically accomplished work but it's so full of passion and possibility.
Here is the page
Here is the page
As is now tradition* we give a present to the other one on our birthdays. Yesterday for his @cydethan.bsky.social gave me a wild strawberry preserved in a necklace in reference to Ronin by Frank Miller, which was one of the first comics he showed me 💚
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
As is now tradition* we give a present to the other one on our birthdays. Yesterday for his @cydethan.bsky.social gave me a wild strawberry preserved in a necklace in reference to Ronin by Frank Miller, which was one of the first comics he showed me 💚
I see the remake of The Thing is going well over at the Kingston Cote Brassiere Christmas AI extravaganza
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I see the remake of The Thing is going well over at the Kingston Cote Brassiere Christmas AI extravaganza
Hair suddenly got incredibly static about 8pm, crackling and putting its tendrils out
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Hair suddenly got incredibly static about 8pm, crackling and putting its tendrils out
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
"There'll be a frost tonight" says I like a proper weather witch.
And now I look out the window and its stars and sparkles!
My hair is never wrong about the frost.
So...who wants a bit of this Turkish Delight?
“The moment you explain a myth, it dies. The meaning is in the pattern, not in the telling.”
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“The moment you explain a myth, it dies. The meaning is in the pattern, not in the telling.”
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
Alan Garner in the essay “Inner Time” in The Voice that Thunders
I've got to the costume section of my GDT Frankenstein art book and I'm becoming obsessed with Elizabeth's wedding dress - aided by the incredible gatefold page showing all the detail.
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I've got to the costume section of my GDT Frankenstein art book and I'm becoming obsessed with Elizabeth's wedding dress - aided by the incredible gatefold page showing all the detail.
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
The costume designer is Kate Hawley.
The incredible layers of fabric and of meaning...it makes me swoon!
Everyone! I just had pickled baby beetroots marinated in orange and cinnamon for lunch and they were unbelievably deeeeeclicious!
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Everyone! I just had pickled baby beetroots marinated in orange and cinnamon for lunch and they were unbelievably deeeeeclicious!
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
From Sainsburys if you want some of your very own.
I have waxed two more pieces inspired by @cydethan.bsky.social 's Bad Sector.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I have waxed two more pieces inspired by @cydethan.bsky.social 's Bad Sector.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
The Lapwing Stars by Tom Hirons.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Lapwing Stars by Tom Hirons.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
Ooh - look what I've got!
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Ooh - look what I've got!
Today I waxed
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today I waxed
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
I've been thinking a lot about Red Riding Hood, menopause, the 3 women and the wolf recently.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've been thinking a lot about Red Riding Hood, menopause, the 3 women and the wolf recently.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I have watched Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro and it is beautiful.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I have watched Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro and it is beautiful.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
Today's adventures in synaesthesia.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today's adventures in synaesthesia.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
Just came home with my best ever bag of shopping:
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just came home with my best ever bag of shopping:
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
It's true, though.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's true, though.
"Rìgh na feansa ~ king of the fence"
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"Rìgh na feansa ~ king of the fence"
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
Sssh...the first little fire spirits of winter have arrived 🔥
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sssh...the first little fire spirits of winter have arrived 🔥
Glamour's not working, Mr Not Cat!
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Glamour's not working, Mr Not Cat!
Oh no!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Oh no!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
It's Chippiversary!
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It's Chippiversary!
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
Time is a flat circle
In 3 days it will be 33 years since I met @cydethan.bsky.social
Tonight we return to Night City 25 years later in real & game time now it's 2045 and The Time of The Red.
Welcome exiled Russian Medtech/Ripperdoc Medea Rezz, she's here to rebuild you, to get you into the action.
In 3 days it will be 33 years since I met @cydethan.bsky.social
Tonight we return to Night City 25 years later in real & game time now it's 2045 and The Time of The Red.
Welcome exiled Russian Medtech/Ripperdoc Medea Rezz, she's here to rebuild you, to get you into the action.
October 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Time is a flat circle
In 3 days it will be 33 years since I met @cydethan.bsky.social
Tonight we return to Night City 25 years later in real & game time now it's 2045 and The Time of The Red.
Welcome exiled Russian Medtech/Ripperdoc Medea Rezz, she's here to rebuild you, to get you into the action.
In 3 days it will be 33 years since I met @cydethan.bsky.social
Tonight we return to Night City 25 years later in real & game time now it's 2045 and The Time of The Red.
Welcome exiled Russian Medtech/Ripperdoc Medea Rezz, she's here to rebuild you, to get you into the action.