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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · 21d

I can get 3 minutes and 20 seconds into Wonderwall before noticing that it’s playing

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you for getting me onto SNW, by the way. I’m still on S1, but loving it deeply

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jul 22

I’ve deliberately made the ground insubstantial so I could fall through it, which was very exciting, but I got such an adrenaline burst that it woke me up

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jul 22

I’ve had several lucid dreams. I tend to break them by pushing them a little too hard, like flying up in the air and trying to force my subconscious to generate an entire view of the city

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jul 21

Took my daughter to a “Jack and the Beanstalk” pantomime yesterday. Jack was about to sell his cow to a couple of thieves for a bag of beans. “Should I trust these men?” Jack asked the audience. “Noooo!” a young voice piped up from the back of the auditorium. “They’re going to screw you!”

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jul 20

THIS is the way to do it

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jun 26

I wrote and directed this movie! It’s coming out in cinemas across South Africa tomorrow. If you know any kids who like dinosaurs, aliens or cute jungle animals, this might be up their street. (The first movie is available on Showmax in ZA, and on Netflix everywhere else in the world)

Poster for the animated movie “Jungle Beat 2 The Past”

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jun 13

For all my friends out there with anxiety, a hysterically funny primer: youtu.be/h5SavjMFRLg?...

I'm Happy You're Here: Anxiety!

YouTube video by I'm Happy You're Here

youtu.be

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Jun 11

Great article from my cousin @mellow-belly.bsky.social about OCD, whiteness and Kinshasa

Jo Jackson @mellow-belly.bsky.social · Jun 10

One of my favourite pieces for #Substack: "The glow of my victory has worn off and I see the city not as an exercise in overcoming my demons, but as a city in and of itself. And it troubles me deeply."

Whose Body is a Temple?

OCD, a real-life apocalypse and the "heart of whiteness"

mellowbellypress.substack.com

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · May 21

Yes but snacking rules

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · May 16

Keeping myself amused at the Franschhoek Literary Festival with homemade bingo cards with all the authors names

Sam Wilson at the Franschhoek Literary Festival holding a stack of homemade author bingo cards

Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · May 16

Went to to the movies yesterday and found a poster for a movie I directed! Coming 27 June.

Sam Wilson standing in front of a poster for Jungle Beat 2 The Past

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · May 12

Huge and well deserved!

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · May 3

Sorry, update, we're officially over 20k on the auction alone because buyers have been adding donations to their final payments! 😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️ + £1000 raised @easterconuk Belfast

Screengrab of final auction results: £20083.25

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · May 2

In the meantime, she's ALSo got the new auction Genre Creators for Trans Rights Part 2 up at the same link, now live and running til 7 June. www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans. This time our charities are Gender Intelligence in the UK and Gender DynamiX in South Africa

Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA

Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

www.32auctions.com

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · May 2

Oh hey, today is your LAST chance to get your hands on any and all of the gorgeous things donated by brilliant people in our community in Part 1 of the Genre Creators For Trans Rights charity auction. This phase of the auction ends midnight BT, today, Friday 2 May www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans.

Books and cool items on offer at the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Online auction

Books and cool items for the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction

Some of the featured items on the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Charity Auction, inclkuding books, a desk, a dedication in KJ Charles' new book.

Handmade things of beauty donated for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights online auction. Images clockwise from top right, handspun Kent Romney yarn in trans colours, a hand-painted fan, a handmade music box inspired by Good Omens, which is a white wooden bench with a bird perching on it and a black hat resembling Terry Pratchett's iconic hat, a crocheted pink whale held aloft by a person's hand.

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · May 3

I’ll be back at Comic Con Cape Town on Sunday with a great panel of local authors. If you’re around, see you at the Pop Taku stage at 12pm!

Flier for Sam Wilson at Cape Town Comic Con. Wow, I hope this descriptive alt text is never used to train an AI

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 30

Then they realise that people in the future are using Aorist Rods to burn the present, and they quickly have to destroy all knowledge of Aorist Rods before the people in the future do it. Anyway, doesn’t sound at all like any modern technology, I don’t know why I mention it 2/2

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 30

Douglas Adams’ short story “Young Zaphod Plays It Safe”, mentions Aorist Rods, which are a cheap form of energy that burn the past as fuel. Some people object to this, and are accused of progress-blocking sentimentality. 1/2

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 27

Congratulations!

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 21

Self-promotion continues unabated

A poster for Sam Wilson at Comic Con Cape Town, 1 to 4 May at the CTICC

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hey everyone! I’m back at the Franschhoek Literary Festival this year, on the panel MY WORLD, MY RULES – "In a genre where almost anything can happen, how do you decide what that will be?” Saturday, 17 May, 10 am

www.webtickets.co.za/v2/EventCate... #flf2025

Author Sam Wilson looking frankly a little smug

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 7

"The First Murder On Mars" includes a mention of fire opals. As a small part of my thanks for all her support, I bought Kerry a fire opal. Kerry and Megan-Jayne McFall designed a setting for it based on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover, which had a hidden message:
DARE MIGHTY THINGS.

The parachute of the Perseverance rover with the hidden message encoded: DARE MIGHTY THINGS

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 3

All pterodactyls sound like hadedas, this is fact

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Sam Wilson @samwilsonwriting.bsky.social · Apr 3

Here’s the trailer for the movie I wrote and directed! Coming to South Africa on the 25th of April! youtu.be/Tqi64U-g9ak?...

JUNGLE BEAT 2 THE PAST Official Trailer

YouTube video by Indigenous Film Distribution

youtu.be

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