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Tanweer Dar

@tanweerdar.com

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Indie author & artist (No AI). Teacher. Muslim. I love nature, walking, gardening, house plants, history, art, poetry, books and films of all kinds (especially horror). Love for all, hatred for none. Website: tanweerdar.com Birmingham, UK

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

Perfect #reading for #Halloween!

Reviews:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thought-provoking and creative
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thrilling & Ruthless
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We need more books like this
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Couldn't put it down

#Cyberpunk #Fantasy #SciFi #Contemporary #Horror #Indie #BookSky #PromoSky

Check out my books on my website: tanweerdar.com/books

Front cover of my short story collection, 'Neon Nightmares', featuring a pink, red and blue 'glitched' skull on a black background.

Front cover of my dark fantasy novella, 'Kingdom of Blood', featuring chess pieces on rocks - all tinted red.

Front cover of my Sci-Fi horror novella, 'In the Heart of the Void', featuring a bleak, dark starscape.

Front cover of my contemporary horror novella, 'Apex', featuring my artwork of a snarling black panther on a black background.

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Mohammed @mohammedlz.bsky.social · 3d

This is our camp torn tents, barely standing, yet our only shelter. Life in Gaza is unbearably hard, but I still dream of leaving one day to continue my studies and build a better future for my family. 💔
🌿 Link in bio to help.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 6h

New digital painting:

Gothic Arch in Moonlight

© 2025 Tanweer Dar

#Art #DigitalArt #Krita #NoAI #Gothic #Dark

My digital painting of a gothic arch, overgrown with foliage/creepers, with a full mooning shining above.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 8h

Terrifier

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 8h

Literally. Everything happening now is a direct result of 45 years of neoliberalism. Trump and Farage are the symptoms. Reagan and Thatcher were the disease.

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 11h

Determined to do some #art today. Probably something suitably gothic, both befitting the season and related to my new #WIP. Might even be the front cover if it turns out decent.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 11h

I lived in Darlington for a year. This makes me so sad. I have such fond memories of both the place and the people.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost!

Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members.

That's +26,000 members in the last week.

Hope is feeling normal again....

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12h

🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳

Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.

Are you in?

Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

150,000
Green Party Members

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 11h

#PennedReveries #vss365

The way he looked at her
The way he called her 'buttercup'
The way he tilted his head
They way he moved towards her
The way his lips curled
As he smiled
She knew
He was a #creep

#Poetry #Horror

David Middleham @dmiddleham.bsky.social · 27d

Here's October's #pennedreveries writing prompt list...

RTs appreciated 🙏

#writingprompt
#WritingCommunity

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 11h

#DavidsMonthOfHorror

Day 27 - 2020s (so far) horror

#MovieChallenge

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ALT SAKHER 🍉 @4sakher2.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve lived through two years of hell — and I’m still not free.
I lost everything in this war: my home, my health, my peace.
I’m not just tired… I’m completely broken.
But I’m still here, still trying to survive, still trying to help my family.
More talk in the first comment⬇️⬇️
GFM: gofund.me/f116bf44

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 13h

Is that what happened to RFK Jr?

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 23h

If you're not absolutely terrified by this, you should be...

#AI

AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian share.google/Yv47z9IwPRn6...

AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say

Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

My next read is 'Hex' by Thomas Olde Heuvelt.

#Books #Reading #Horror #Fiction #BookSky

Kindle ebook cover of 'Hex' by Thomas Olde Heuvelt - featuring a silhouette surrounded by branches and a ghostly female face in the background.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

I was uncertain whether to give this a go, but after this review I'm going to pick it up!

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

#PennedReveries

With a heavy heart
I kneel, read the epitaph
My soul is aching

#Poetry #Haiku

David Middleham @dmiddleham.bsky.social · 27d

Here's October's #pennedreveries writing prompt list...

RTs appreciated 🙏

#writingprompt
#WritingCommunity

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

a man in a vest and tie is holding a cup of coffee .

Alt: Victor Frankenstein salutes with a cup of tea.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

If you see this, post a Frankenstein ('s Monster).

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

#Sunday #Skircle

skircle.me

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 1d

The mission is to get a perfectly preserved cadaver with a mysterious implant back to her home world, but will the reward be worth it?

☄️Firefly x Dracula
⚰️Sci-fi Gothic Mystery
💉Female Doctor MC
🖤No Romance
⌛️ Short read

books2read.com/u/bxx9kP

Ad for the Sarcophagus of Lamia with a picture of a blonde woman resting on red velvet to the right.

The text says:
The Sarcophagus of Lamia
A gothic sci-fi adventure!
For only 99 cents

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

Working on Chapter 3 of my new #WIP this afternoon.

All I can tell you is that I've been researching early 19th century carriages, events in Punjab during the reign of Ranjit Singh, and the ruins of English monasteries.

#AmWriting #Gothic #Fiction #WritingCommunity

Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

My ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of 'One by One' by Freida McFadden.

#Books #Reading #Horror #Thriller #Mystery #Fiction #BookSky

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Tanweer Dar's review of One by One

4/5: I've only read one other Freida McFadden book ('Never Lie') before this one, and I wasn't sure what to expect. In many ways, there was a similar style and process. McFadden certainly knows how to...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships

🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

these violent nights by rebecca crunden kindle cover; image shows a neon city with four black figures, two men and two women; there's a moon in the background around the text.

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · 1d

Thanks @bookspotlight.bsky.social

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Tanweer Dar @tanweerdar.com · Sep 27

As #Autumn arrives and #Shocktober creeps up, read my novella 'Apex' for a quick but brutal trip to the English countryside where something that shouldn't be there is lying in wait...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A great read!'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Great little book'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Wowser'

#BookSky #Indie #Horror

➡️ mybook.to/Apex

Front cover of my novella, 'Apex', featuring my digital painting of a snarling black panther on a black background.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

This is my ✨ worst ✨ month of book sales in over a year. Boo hiss. So! To avoid being sad and moaning, I want to help out others also struggling to get notice on their books/art. If you are also having a bad sales month, drop your links below! 📚💙

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