Ryan Vance
@ryanvance.bsky.social
Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast.
www.ryanvance.co.uk
www.ryanvance.co.uk
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I'm currently available for everything book design, from covers to typesetting to ePubs - with narry a single speck of AI included. Check out the rest of my work and give me a shout over at www.ryanvance.co.uk!
Aphantasia in literature: Kingsley Amis (‘All the Blood Within Me’, Complete Stories, Penguin Classics)
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Aphantasia in literature: Kingsley Amis (‘All the Blood Within Me’, Complete Stories, Penguin Classics)
“Not available in Northern Ireland.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“Not available in Northern Ireland.”
Over the last five days I have achieved only 16 hours of sleep (out of a recommended 40), caught a 24 hour stomach bug, been told by the dentist they don't know what's up with my gums soz, and had a doozy of a freak-out about my employment prospects in 2026. Not optimal! Not peak! Yet we continue!
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Over the last five days I have achieved only 16 hours of sleep (out of a recommended 40), caught a 24 hour stomach bug, been told by the dentist they don't know what's up with my gums soz, and had a doozy of a freak-out about my employment prospects in 2026. Not optimal! Not peak! Yet we continue!
An optimistic part of me hopes there's a ceiling to how much of our world can be flooded with shitty aesthetics and blatant errors, because people are often willing to overlook their own mistakes, but not everyone else's.
Then I remember Funko Pops.
Then I remember Funko Pops.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
An optimistic part of me hopes there's a ceiling to how much of our world can be flooded with shitty aesthetics and blatant errors, because people are often willing to overlook their own mistakes, but not everyone else's.
Then I remember Funko Pops.
Then I remember Funko Pops.
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Today is Black Friday. Why not buy something full price from an independent artist or creator you like? Or shop in your local indie store?
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
Shop | Tom Humberstone
Shop for comics, prints and more by award-winning comic artist and illustrator Tom Humberstone, creator of the graphic novel Suzanne.
tomhumberstone.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Today is Black Friday. Why not buy something full price from an independent artist or creator you like? Or shop in your local indie store?
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
My comics, zines and prints are here: tomhumberstone.com/shop
No discounts or price drops. Any orders this weekend will get a small sketch though
“Are these strange manipulations a reaction to a crisis,” Zeeb-Lanz asks, “or an effort not to let a crisis happen?”
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“Are these strange manipulations a reaction to a crisis,” Zeeb-Lanz asks, “or an effort not to let a crisis happen?”
I suppose no media has reached out to Starmer’s niece and her wife for comment on their assault? No? I suppose they wouldn’t have anything interesting to say about their uncle’s government’s slashing of queer support? Okay cool, run another piece about Kier having a nice time at their wedding, cool.
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I suppose no media has reached out to Starmer’s niece and her wife for comment on their assault? No? I suppose they wouldn’t have anything interesting to say about their uncle’s government’s slashing of queer support? Okay cool, run another piece about Kier having a nice time at their wedding, cool.
Today we are spinning a giant game show wheel with segments marked hangover, flu, sleep deprivation, caffeine withdrawl, and single-leg-romanian-deadlift-regret. Terrifyingly, there is one segment marked YES.
November 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today we are spinning a giant game show wheel with segments marked hangover, flu, sleep deprivation, caffeine withdrawl, and single-leg-romanian-deadlift-regret. Terrifyingly, there is one segment marked YES.
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I had no idea so many of you felt the same way about the budget as nerds do about Marvel costumes.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I had no idea so many of you felt the same way about the budget as nerds do about Marvel costumes.
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We've got a great essay but from the great @gavia.bsky.social about how hagsploitation made a surprising comeback in horror this year www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
2025's Biggest Horror Trend Is A Regressive Step Backward
With two of the biggest horror movies of the year, the "hagsploitation" genre made a big comeback. But is it the one we wanted?
www.inverse.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We've got a great essay but from the great @gavia.bsky.social about how hagsploitation made a surprising comeback in horror this year www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
Would genuinely chew off my own arm, and a few arms belonging to others, for £7k paid over 18 months for a book deal, tbh.
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Would genuinely chew off my own arm, and a few arms belonging to others, for £7k paid over 18 months for a book deal, tbh.
The Bee and the Birds
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Bee and the Birds
Octopus Energy up to their usual shenanigans, increasing our direct debit eleven days before our next payment, which can't be reversed ten days within that payment. We moved to a fixed tariff earlier in the year so it's not increased as much as it used to, but still agog that this is legal.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Octopus Energy up to their usual shenanigans, increasing our direct debit eleven days before our next payment, which can't be reversed ten days within that payment. We moved to a fixed tariff earlier in the year so it's not increased as much as it used to, but still agog that this is legal.
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Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
Giving Alias a rewatch 25 years on and tell you what, at 17 years old I did not understand camp, tomfoolery and terrible wigs enough to fully appreciate this show.
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Giving Alias a rewatch 25 years on and tell you what, at 17 years old I did not understand camp, tomfoolery and terrible wigs enough to fully appreciate this show.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
The microplastics in my body unionised by Ross McCleary
The microplastics in my body unionised while I was staring at the ocean;they took matters into their own hands,making pickets in the alcoves ofmy prefrontal cortex, replacingfuzzy void yesterdays with...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
“I like gridlock the length of Paisley Road West, actually.” Glasgow council during Ibrox matches.
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“I like gridlock the length of Paisley Road West, actually.” Glasgow council during Ibrox matches.
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In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
Today's GenAI Book Group scam is from someone inexplicably called Ryan Organizer, sending emails from Seattle at 4:30am in the morning. I respect the grindset mindset but that's just tooooo much, man!
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Today's GenAI Book Group scam is from someone inexplicably called Ryan Organizer, sending emails from Seattle at 4:30am in the morning. I respect the grindset mindset but that's just tooooo much, man!
You know, you simply can't fully comprehend how many stand-up comedians you know by name until you're doing the index for a book on the last five decades of stand-up comedy. There's so many of them. Like, so, so many. And they just keep coming. The fruitfly of the entertainment industry.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You know, you simply can't fully comprehend how many stand-up comedians you know by name until you're doing the index for a book on the last five decades of stand-up comedy. There's so many of them. Like, so, so many. And they just keep coming. The fruitfly of the entertainment industry.
Displeased by rubbery cucumber.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Displeased by rubbery cucumber.