Angela Cleland
@angelacleland.co.uk
Poet | Novelist (as Cleland Smith) | Audiobook Narrator | She/her | 🤖🦄🚀🍸
Been sprucing up the back of our downstairs toilet door. It’s not perfect, but I’m quite pleased with it nonetheless.
December 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Been sprucing up the back of our downstairs toilet door. It’s not perfect, but I’m quite pleased with it nonetheless.
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Is it greedy to want both?
December 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Is it greedy to want both?
My favourite cinema moment will always and forever be when we took my late Granny to see “The World is Not Enough” (I think in the Pearl and Dean cinema in Ashton Lane in Glasgow). The last film she’d seen at the cinema was The Graduate.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My favourite cinema moment will always and forever be when we took my late Granny to see “The World is Not Enough” (I think in the Pearl and Dean cinema in Ashton Lane in Glasgow). The last film she’d seen at the cinema was The Graduate.
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You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.
Has anyone got any suggestions for recent Scottish fiction that might be suitable to use an excerpt from for my GCSE resit students? I’m planning the Burns Night week lessons for spring but they’re not studying poetry. (Might still sneak some in the shorter of the two lessons though!)
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Has anyone got any suggestions for recent Scottish fiction that might be suitable to use an excerpt from for my GCSE resit students? I’m planning the Burns Night week lessons for spring but they’re not studying poetry. (Might still sneak some in the shorter of the two lessons though!)
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"I'm not in denial... I'm in open rebellion."
Same, Ethan Hawke. Same.
Same, Ethan Hawke. Same.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"I'm not in denial... I'm in open rebellion."
Same, Ethan Hawke. Same.
Same, Ethan Hawke. Same.
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Like free books? Like writing about SFF and its visions? Then get involved. ARB does excellent coverage and thoughtful reviews/discussions of so much.
ARB puts up a call for reviews every month, but: at the end of each year, we find ourselves looking at a *long* list of speculative fiction & related non-fiction that we'd love to cover! Do your part to fight recency bias, and claim one of these!
2025 Reviews: Last Call
The Ancillary Review of Books does focus on newly-released works as they are published. However, we very much want to fight recency bias in book coverage, and the idea that books just vanish if the…
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December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Like free books? Like writing about SFF and its visions? Then get involved. ARB does excellent coverage and thoughtful reviews/discussions of so much.
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
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All I want for Christmas is for everyone to get for themselves exactly what they hope for immigrants, disabled and trans people.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
All I want for Christmas is for everyone to get for themselves exactly what they hope for immigrants, disabled and trans people.
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And persists into adulthood.
In a study of 15-year olds, the tendency to claim to know something when they don’t was most common in males from rich families.
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
And persists into adulthood.
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These are wonderful!
Feeling festive?
Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases.
Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
#scicomm #sciart #decorations
Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases.
Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
#scicomm #sciart #decorations
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
These are wonderful!
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Such as our Neil Williamson's Disappointed Skeptics Club!
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thedisappointedskepticsclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-aut...
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Such as our Neil Williamson's Disappointed Skeptics Club!
thedisappointedskepticsclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-aut...
thedisappointedskepticsclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-aut...
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As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors!
Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!
Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors!
Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!
Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!
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10am: at the cinema with @angelacleland.co.uk and coffees, chips, cakes and a massive popcorn. The nerves of a long film - would we feel hungry or need a wee?
Decided to spend the last 9 months of my PhD dressing like Galinda in beautiful dresses. Oh, those dresses.
Decided to spend the last 9 months of my PhD dressing like Galinda in beautiful dresses. Oh, those dresses.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
10am: at the cinema with @angelacleland.co.uk and coffees, chips, cakes and a massive popcorn. The nerves of a long film - would we feel hungry or need a wee?
Decided to spend the last 9 months of my PhD dressing like Galinda in beautiful dresses. Oh, those dresses.
Decided to spend the last 9 months of my PhD dressing like Galinda in beautiful dresses. Oh, those dresses.
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The National Trust wins organisations on social media today.
Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The National Trust wins organisations on social media today.
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I have a Patreon where for £5 a month, you get access to a huge collection of writing advice, behind-the-scenes stories on the writing of each of my books, a monthly newsletter, a chat forum, and general updates and early warnings of new books and events.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I have a Patreon where for £5 a month, you get access to a huge collection of writing advice, behind-the-scenes stories on the writing of each of my books, a monthly newsletter, a chat forum, and general updates and early warnings of new books and events.
www.patreon.com/cw/GarethLPo...
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CHECK IT OUUUUUUUUUT!
I am *so* delighted with this cover, it's amazing! June 2026 still feels like a long way off, but I'm really looking forward to everyone meeting Kitt Carver, Two-Tongue Derna, Sulian the Swallowmage, and the rest of the cast.
And, of course, the slydewasps.
I am *so* delighted with this cover, it's amazing! June 2026 still feels like a long way off, but I'm really looking forward to everyone meeting Kitt Carver, Two-Tongue Derna, Sulian the Swallowmage, and the rest of the cast.
And, of course, the slydewasps.
We are thrilled to reveal the cover for THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS by @mikebrooks668.bsky.social! 🐝
A smart-talking bunch of rogues and dropouts are thrust into an epic quest to save the future and meddle with the destinies of empires.
Coming June 2026!
A smart-talking bunch of rogues and dropouts are thrust into an epic quest to save the future and meddle with the destinies of empires.
Coming June 2026!
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
CHECK IT OUUUUUUUUUT!
I am *so* delighted with this cover, it's amazing! June 2026 still feels like a long way off, but I'm really looking forward to everyone meeting Kitt Carver, Two-Tongue Derna, Sulian the Swallowmage, and the rest of the cast.
And, of course, the slydewasps.
I am *so* delighted with this cover, it's amazing! June 2026 still feels like a long way off, but I'm really looking forward to everyone meeting Kitt Carver, Two-Tongue Derna, Sulian the Swallowmage, and the rest of the cast.
And, of course, the slydewasps.
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UK FRIENDS, let's not forget with all this Mortedant talk that tomorrow, HEART OF THE WYRDWOOD is released in paperback so if you've been waiting you can complete what I promise is a very, very strange but hopefully rewarding, journey.
Heart of the Wyrdwood: The Forsaken Trilogy, Book 3 : Barker, RJ: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Heart of the Wyrdwood: The Forsaken Trilogy, Book 3 : Barker, RJ: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
UK FRIENDS, let's not forget with all this Mortedant talk that tomorrow, HEART OF THE WYRDWOOD is released in paperback so if you've been waiting you can complete what I promise is a very, very strange but hopefully rewarding, journey.
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Incredibly good poem in the latest @perversemag.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Incredibly good poem in the latest @perversemag.bsky.social
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I love these, because they illustrate the (now) somewhat alien Victorian codes of sentiment and emotional expression (let's foster tenderhearted feelings by looking at something cute but sad), but you just know there were a few outliers who received these and interpreted them as a threat.
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I love these, because they illustrate the (now) somewhat alien Victorian codes of sentiment and emotional expression (let's foster tenderhearted feelings by looking at something cute but sad), but you just know there were a few outliers who received these and interpreted them as a threat.
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Scots Gaelic is the most goth of Gaelics.
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Scots Gaelic is the most goth of Gaelics.
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Come see me in Birmingham on the 3rd (this Weds) from 5pm at Waterstones Birmingham. I'll be tired, I'll be wired and I'll be delighted to see anyone at all! :-)
Another chance to see @stewarthotston.com on 3rd December at 5pm at @waterstones.bsky.social Birmingham with lots of other authors. Free - no need to book Details at www.waterstones.com/events/save-...
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Come see me in Birmingham on the 3rd (this Weds) from 5pm at Waterstones Birmingham. I'll be tired, I'll be wired and I'll be delighted to see anyone at all! :-)
Got a new cat flap with an app that records what the creatures are up to. It’s given us a fascinating insight into their wild evening.
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Got a new cat flap with an app that records what the creatures are up to. It’s given us a fascinating insight into their wild evening.