1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published
1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series
1997 - BBC remake
2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added
2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap
2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next
I'm sorry but April Fool's Day isn't for another few weeks.
I've finally finished the first draft of Ghostkin 2. I'm now printing it out to see if it's any good.
Fingers crossed!
Sounds really good. I've preordered the book.
The cover of The Summer Goddess by Joanne Hall, art by Ken Dawson The image shows the back view of a cloaked (but not hooded) warrior with her sword out. The is standing on the shore of a lake. There are mountains in the distance. Celtic knotwork decorates the corners of the cover.
Coming in April, we are bringing back Jo Hall's award-nominated novel, The Summer Goddess.
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Cover image of a book called The Collected Hulderotica Year One, written by Kaya Skovdatter. Background is a figure in a shadowed figure in a scarf and dress, holding an umbrella. Their face too is covered in shadow, only two unnerving points of light shining out of that darkness. Around the figure is a lush, overgrown forest painted in a variety of greens, and before them is a rock-edged forest pool with the figure's reflection cast in its green-tinged surface. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white.
With two weeks until The Collected Hulderotica Year One is out (03/17), I'm bringing back the pre-order sale! (Also b/c March's rent is overdue...)
160k of queer (trans, pan, poly, +) romance/erotica+, for just $3.95 USD!
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England Athletics is advertising for an admin "delivering programmes that create opportunities for children and young people through the power of Athletics". I'm tempted to apply just so I can ask if the opportunities extend to trans kids as well.
New on my Patreon...
Jack & Jill - Phase 9, Part 34
Tyler just wanted to watch Jill compete. That was his first mistake. His second was following the breadcrumbs to a hallway he had no business being in.
Meanwhile, Holly hosts the lingerie round...
Find it here! bit.ly/4nXgpDS
Fair enough. Idle and Palin would know.
It's such a terrible shame that he's lost it so completely.
Absolute genius. I need to watch Changing Houses again.
What an absolute star. I mean, yuck, but also amazing.
The fact that this is still relevant is nauseating.
Tony Benn: A man who was very rarely wrong and, even when he was, he could articulate his reasons for his beliefs and actions.
@down.blue
The last time he was funny, Connie Booth was writing his lines. Has he ever actually been funny without a partner? Did Graham Chapman (or indeed Connie Booth) ever actually need him?
*new* handle. Ugh.
Yay!
I've just changed my server to @eurosky.social. I don't know if that changes anything for people, but my knew handle is @samarcand.eurosky.social
QR code for the website to donate money.
My mum is knitting every day in March to raise money for Alzheimer's Research.
Please donate whatever you can.
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cover of STRAW SONG by KA Silva, illustration by Sandra Chang-Adair. Punk witch Theo, a young white woman with short orange hair, wields a glowing magic needle & thread. She wears a tight red bodice & ruffled skirt, a spiked collar, and pentagram jewelry. Beside her, the Scarecrow of Oz looks worried, hefting a shovel as a weapon. He wears a formal green jacket, a peaked hat, and straw sticks out around his painted burlap face. They face unseen enemies in a cornfield at dusk.
cover of STRAW SOUL by KA Silva, illustration by Sandra Chang-Adair. The Scarecrow of Oz stands defiant, his formal blue coat open to reveal his stitched burlap body. He tugs a handful of his own straw from his chest. Next to him, modern witch Theo, a young white woman with short orange hair, brandishes a broken bottle and protectively clutches a wicker basket filled with jams & treats. She wears a gray hoodie printed with a pentagram. Spears ring them round in a red-hot cavern deep underground, with stalactites and stalagmites visible behind them.
If you like UF by trans authors with romance, trans & queer heroes, read my dark Oz books STRAW SONG & STRAW SOUL! Transmasc Scarecrow, evil fae, witchery, humor & a touch of horror as Scarecrow & modern witch Theo try to stop monsters & magic from Oz in our world! Most platforms & graythornpub.com
Love the space! Im a trans nonbinary writer if fantasy we novels, including Wanderborn (a queer LitRPG) and A Jewel and Her Thief, a lesbian romantasy!
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The cover of Galeas the Keen by Rien Gray, surrounded by trope arrows on a white marble background.
The next book in my sapphic knight romance series is up for preorder, if anyone wants a butch/femme take on the Fisher King legend with lush prose and high heat ⚔️
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"It’s weird that what I’m feeling now is so much worse than when I stood at Mom’s grave, but it is. Maybe because all that’s in the graveyard is a body she left behind two years ago, and inside these rooms part of her is still alive. I need to see that part, and I’m not sure I want to." - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
"The shape of something white and flat glints before me. Teeth. The ground rolls. I’m standing on a tongue. The lips part slowly, letting in a ghostly light that feels like a sheet against my skin. It’s the light of the monsters in the forest, hypnotic, almost audible in its brightness. I stare until the image sharpens, until the breeze tickles my skin and I’m not inside the mouth anymore, but on a road watching Nor walk into the forest." - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
"The glow of the bears’ eyes is so beautiful, so peaceful. And how bad would it be, really, to be devoured? To know your small death would feed an army of forest critters? What other meaning could I hope to find out there in the big scary world, being alive? Living is hard. It takes so much effort. To die, all I have to do is stand here and wait. And beautiful. Dear God will it be beautiful. Jaws clamped around my neck, the beatbeatbeat of my heart, the beatbeatbeat, the beatbeatbeat of my heart, the beat beat beat of my heart, the beat beat . . . .beat . . . hey The jaws closing, the puncture of thin skin, the pulse of blood down the neck, claws raised to swipe open my chest, my ribcage, my heart Swipe right for supper And I’ll melt over time into the earth and the pine needles, diffused into root and moss, and the trees will sing songs of me, and the words they make will sound like heyheyhey." - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
"It never stops being weird, someone being there and then suddenly not, like you could step into yesterday and find them walking to the corner store, or if you tilt your head at exactly the right angle you’ll see them in your living room watching The Day the Earth Stood Still. They pat the seat beside them, like they caught your reflection in the screen, but it was just a shadow, and you snap out of each other’s worlds the way we forget even our most vivid dreams in the haze of morning. It feels like they’ve existed longer than they haven’t, though the reverse is true. Sometimes, it happens even with people who are still alive, and the pull inside you when you glimpse a stranger who looks like them, almost, until they turn around or speak or crook their elbow all wrong is like a hand clasped and then severed at the wrist." - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle
Thanks so much for this!
If you like found fiction, slightly oneiric, campy books, I have a queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber who travels to an isolated island that may house the monsters he swears aren't real: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...
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Hi, I'm Luana! I'm trans and write sword & sorcery - mostly free, always queer, sometimes trans! You can find all my stuff at:
luanawrites.carrd.co
(The trans ones are "Hedging Your Bets", a medieval meet-cute, and "Staku-ra's Hoard", a pirate adventure)
I released a queer cyberpunk novel set in Minneapolis last month! If queer women deuteragonists, healing your traumas, flipping the bird to broken systems, and a cat with a prosthetic leg are your jam, give it a try!
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My first very trans novel was recently published!
Come for the magic sex-switch tropes, Stay for the anti-fascist beat-down 😁
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Title is Lamentations of The Dead Dreamer To Break a Fae Big dark purple skinned lady doing the big gay look at a little gay Fae gorl with hair like starlight and pale skin.
Title is Lamentations of The Dead Dreamer To Break a Reaver Pearly skin lady with horns and a few tattoos and SO MANY HEADWIGGLES and the same gerl from before but upsidedown in gay ways!
Hii and hallo and if you'd like some Trans Lesbian romance and smutt and fantastical worlds our stuff might just be for you!
Everything is pay what you want!
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my first book is up for preorder and is releasing in full on march 15th! cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
a hand holding a white candle with wax dripping over the fingers Red text reads "Hot Blood"
a pitchfork leaning against a wooden fence, photo filtered to have a dreamy or magical feel to it. text reads "country witches make do" with the word "witches" replacing a crossed-out "girls" and a pentagram painted over the "A" in "make"
dusky forest with fireflies blackletter text reads: "the wild wood's consort"
lower half of a woman in a bikini (that can barely be seen due to her pose) kneeling on a large rock over luminescent water with bioluminescent tentacles reaching toward the rock/the woman from the dark depths. title reads "New Depths"
🏳️⚧️ ICYMI 🏳️⚧️
I posted four FREE #erotica shorts (totaling 18.5k) for the #TranshetJam over on itch this month 😋
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if you enjoy any of my work, remember to share with your friends! (or enemies, I'm not picky)
#queer #transhet #monsterfucker #teratophilia #tentacles #consentacles
Thank you for the artshare. Here’s the demo for my transmasc horror romance!
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