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Thomas S Brown

@tomsbrown.bsky.social

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Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance. Pro EU, passionately anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Hullo. I've illustrated games, comics, books, albums, magazines, etc. Been an illustrator since age 13. (And a lunatic since birth) The world needs enchantment, and I'm here to do my best to provide it. If you have a project I'd be suited for in 2026, I'd love to talk with you. thomassbrown.com

Thomas was raised by books in much the same way that Tarzan was raised by apes but with much less dramatic results. He got his first professional illustration gig when he was thirteen and has been working in the field since then. (Taking time out for meals and such.)

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 46m

Wow!!!!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Understatement.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 2h

Nice photo though!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Aaaand puddle witch is taken and going to a good home!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 4h

Words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social

PUDDLE

Scrying first: the patient water stills
To show me what it thinks I need to see.
Then, scrying done, I jump, and dance, and yell
And whoop - it’s puddle-sploshing time for me!

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 4h

-Thread-
Puddle
8th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

A Young witch stomping through a puddle.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 5h

Yours then! Ta!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Want! Rapturous reading. Strange and charming.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 8h

Did... Did they put spaghetti on a waffle at you?

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 8h

This is what it sounds like..

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 8h

Shockingly, still available.
Good morning. New witch for you later on.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

-Thread-
Archway
7th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

An archway of woven sticks with a quartered circle. Floating in the centre of the shape, a hat and cloak with eyes where the head would appear.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 8h

If you need an example of getting this right, go take a look at @badhandbooks.bsky.social .

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 1d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 19h

Goodnight.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20h

Goodnight from Badbury, rain flooding down its hill like black tears in memory of ancient battles. Goodnight from DI Callaghan and DS Nokes, having a cup of tea and a pink wafer debrief in the police canteen after their run in with the Ashcourt Gutterbloods. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 20h

Can absolutely understand that.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 21h

Because I am nothing if not perverse, I read my first @scalzi.com book because I follow him here, and not the other way around. I need ALL of them now. No, I mean right now.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 21h

Why is my website image soooo blurry ?

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 22h

You have my... Pencil! I'm in!

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 22h

Public service.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Aug 23

My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA.
I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe.
What's going on right now is not normal.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23h

Hear, hear!!

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23h

My first gig with @badhandbooks.bsky.social and my discovery of the amazing writing of @inkwellmonster.bsky.social .

Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 23h

This chilling depiction of The Tooth Fairy haunts @inkwellmonster.bsky.social's Stoker nominated collection, ROOT ROT & OTHER GRIM TALES. Illustrations (including the cover) by @tomsbrown.bsky.social.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

A sketch of a ghoulish-looking tooth fairy spilling dozens of teeth from her hands.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23h

PLEASE

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23h

Yuss!!!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23h

Eek

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Worlds collide.

Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Can see why!!