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dlibris.bsky.social
D Franklin
@dlibris.bsky.social
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Weegie bookseller and book enthusiast. SFF reader. Co-head of Programme, Eastercon 2027. Angry queer. Nonbinary. They/them.
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So @damianbarr.bsky.social sent me a postcard to thank me for doing an event for The Two Roberts at the Glasgow School of Art. A lovely gesture! But also, I grew up visiting Prospect Cottage regularly, and made a queer secular pilgrimage there a few years back, so particularly personally resonant.
A picture of a small black cottage with yellow windowframes on a stony beach with beautiful flowers planted around it on the stones. The picture is on top of a book titled The Two Roberts by Damian Barr.
September 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Damn, @tashasuri.bsky.social, Isle is a bit of a brick, isn't it! Thank you @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the advance copy!
A photo of a hand holding up a large size paperback book, The Isle In The Silver Sea by Tasha Suri, with the front cover facing the camera and the right- hand edge visible to give an impression of the thickness of the book. The cover shows the hands of two South Asian women touching, one wearing a gauntlet, over a circular opening through which a castle on the sea is visible. The cover also has a small white circle with the text "Not for sale. This is an uncorrected bound proof from Orbit."
September 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Started today getting up far too early to take apart Edinburgh International Book Festival before rushing myself back to Glasgow for @junodawson.bsky.social's event at Waterstones Sauchiehall St.

Yes, I did just rush from a mad month of book events... to a book event. But as a fan this time!
A photo of the backs of the heads of a crowded audience looking towards a stage on which Kirsty Logan and Juno Dawson are sitting. Juno is speaking into a handheld microphone.
August 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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But this is perfect. Being very clear about putting her money where her mouth is, and the people that arguably implicates, and the ridiculousness of this proscription.
A screenshot of text reading In this context I feel obliged to state once more that – like the hundreds of protesters arrested last weekend – I too support Palestine Action. If this makes me a “supporter of terror” under UK law, so be it. My books, at least for now, are still published in Britain, and are widely available in bookshops and even supermarkets. In recent years the UK’s state broadcaster has also televised two fine adaptations of my novels, and therefore regularly pays me residual fees. I want to be clear that I intend to use these proceeds of my work, as well as my public platform generally, to go on supporting Palestine Action and direct action against genocide in whatever way I can. If the British state considers this “terrorism”, then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC
August 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A particularly pointed example of double standards here from Sally Rooney
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
A screenshot of text, headed with a black bar with text reading The Irish Times. The main text reads "The arrest of a protester in Belfast surely represents a particularly egregious example of political policing. When a storm damaged an infamous loyalist mural in north Belfast last year, rebuilding commenced immediately, and the wall is now once again emblazoned with the iconography of the Ulster Volunteer Force. No arrests were made on that basis, nor has the mural been taken down, though the UVF is a proscribed terrorist organisation responsible for the murders of hundreds of civilians. Palestine Action, proscribed under the same law, is responsible for zero deaths and has never advocated the use of violence against any human being. Why then are its supporters arrested for wearing T-shirts, while murals celebrating loyalist death squads are left untouched?
August 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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A gif of a posh white man in a suit, in the back of a car, saying "you might very well think that. I could not possibly comment". The gif is from the original House of Cards TV series
August 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Hey @404ink.bsky.social look at this beautiful display in BookBar in Chelsea!
A display of shelves alternating Penguin Archive titles with 404 Inklings just inside the front door of a bookshop
July 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Hey @maxgladstone.bsky.social, @amalelmohtar.com! 40!!!!
A photograph of the copyright page of the UK edition of This Is How You Lose The Time War showing it is on its 40th printing
July 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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This is entirely @cnlester.bsky.social's fault
A copy of Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman, a plain white book with blue text of the title, author, and publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions.
June 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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David Lammy is a principle-less coward utterly bought off by a Cabinet position. Monstrous warmongering bullshit.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
A screenshot from the Guardian liveblog posted at 19.36 BST reading "The UK foreign minister David Lammy said that he has spoken to his Iranian and Israeli counterparts on Sunday and said that he “urged a diplomatic, negotiated solution to end this crisis”. “Iran must never have a nuclear weapon. The US has now taken action to alleviate that threat,” Lammy added."
June 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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'People are dead but my son had to postpone his wedding and who is to say which is the greater tragedy?' The man is a fucking sociopath!
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
A screenshot from a Guardian liveblog, written by Julian Borger, posted at 13.47 BST, reading "Benjamin Netanyahu has just left Soroka hospital in Beer Sheva. He toured the site and gave a statement to the press. According Ynet news, he said: “The entire people of Israel are paying a price. We are going through a blitz, and we are going through it in an astonishing way.” “There are personal costs, people have been hurt, families have lost their loved ones. Each of us bears a personal cost, and my family has not been exempt – this is the second time that my son Avner has cancelled a wedding due to missile threats. It is a personal cost for his fiancee as well, and I must say that my dear wife is a hero, and she bears a personal cost.”"
June 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Sorry, let me be clear: bombing a hospital or a civilian population centre is the mark of a terrorist tyrant, is it? Fascinating, fascinating
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
A screenshot from the Guardian news liveblog, posted at 7.20 BST and updated at 7.37 BST. The screenshot reads "Hospital attack by 'terrorist tyrants', says Netanyahu Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will exact the full price from the “tyrants” in Tehran. “This morning, Iran’s ‘terrorist tyrants’ launched missiles at Soroka hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in central Israel,” he said in a post on X"
June 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Wear your Locked Tomb fandom with pride with this awesome knitted hat @aeriefaerie.bsky.social is making for the Genre Creators For Trans Rights auction! One flesh, one end, bitch!
www.32auctions.com/organization...
A segment of a black knitted beanie. In white it has a skull wearing aviators with the roman numeral 9 on the forehead, and the word ONE beneath it.
June 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I mean.

"Serious".
The cover of a Tingler. It shows a muscled conventionally attractive white man wearing only white shorts and glasses next to a phone the same size as him with the face of a different conventionally attractive white man emerging from a white screen. The title is Journalist Pounded By The Physical Manifestation Of An Egregiously Mishandled Group Text From Members Of The Tromp Administration Containing Highly Sensitive Government Information
May 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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How do they rise up? #GNUTerryPratchett
A clay egg-coloured egg with the text Freedom Truth Justice Reasonably Priced Love carved into it and coloured in a dark pigment.
May 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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My clothbound and special edition Terry Pratchett collection, plus other Pratchett items including swamp dragons and a Glod figurine. That's the slipcased spectacular Ultimate Discworld Companion, there.
May 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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My original Terry Pratchett collection and associated nonfiction, plus some additional entries with interesting introductions, and a crocheted Death of Rats made by @aeriefaerie.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Massive, massive thanks to @rhi.bsky.social and @terryandrob.bsky.social for this amazing addition to my Discworld collection, shown here with my somewhat worn and very read two-decade-old copy of Monstrous Regiment.
A copy of the UK original hardback edition of Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett and a copy of Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes by Rob Wilkins, on top of which, obscuring both a bit, are a postcard showing Death and Terry Pratchett playing chess drawn by Paul Kidby which reads "Professor Sir Terry Pratchett OBE 1948-2015" and at the bottom of which reads ""DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING," said Death. "JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.", and a pin badge of a caricature of Terry Pratchett's head in his characteristic black hat. A book held open to show the title page of Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, signed by Terry Pratchett; on the left hand page facing is a cartoon showing, to quote Terry Pratchett's own description within the book, 'a huge figure, with a large sword, a monstrous monocle and a moustache as wide as a coathanger, menacing a much smaller figure armed with nothing more than an instrument for lifting beets - in fact there was a beet stuck on the end of it. At least, was clearly what had been happening right up to the point when the smaller figure, wearing a not bad attempt at an Ins-and-Outs shako and a face that looked slightly like Polly's, had kicked the other one squarely in the groinal regions. A sort of balloon was coming out of Polly's mouth, containing the words "That for your Royal Prerogative, you Blaggard!" The balloon issuing from the mouth of the ogre, who could only be Prince Heinrich, said "Oh my Succession! That such A Small Thing could hurt so Much!" And in the background a fat old woman in a rumpled ballgown and a huge old-fashioned helmet was clasping her hands to an unbelievably large bosom, staring at the fight with a mixture of concern and admiration, and ballooning "Oh my Swain!" I fear our Liaison is Cut short!"" Next to the book is a postcard showing Death and Terry Pratchett playing chess drawn by Paul Kidby which reads "Professor Sir Terry Pratchett OBE 1948-2015" and at the bottom of which reads ""DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING," said Death. "JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH." A black hardback copy of Monstrous Regiment, without dust jacket showing gold lettering on the spine, held upright with its spine showing at a slight angle from vertical as it has warped from over two decades of reading, next to a hardback copy of Monstrous Regiment in its dust jacket. The image on the dust jacket is an illustration by Paul Kidby showing four soldiers wearing Redcoat-style uniforms, one of whom is also wearing an opera cape and with fangs, and a troll wearing a busby, raising a white flag. The image is posed in the same style as the famous photograph of American troops raising the flag over Iwo Jima. A lightly battered black, dust jacketless hardback that, by context, is a copy of Monstrous Regiment, next to a copy of Monstrous Regiment in its dust jacket
May 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
dlibris.bsky.social
Oh, yes, for sure, respect is definitely what I feel from a government whose leader just said trans women aren't women, and whose equalities minister seems to think trans women are immune from violence against women. Respect.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
A screenshot of text reading Rishi Sunak made jokes at the expense of trans people, she says. By contrast, she claims, the Labour government will ensure trans people are treated with respect.
April 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Fucking great time to be trans, huh...
A screenshot of a series of headlines on the Guardian home page, illustrated with a blurred image of a hospital ward. The first headline, tagged NHS, reads "NHS warned it must change guidance on single sex spaces after court ruling". The second headline, tagged rail transport, reads "British Transport Police amends strip searching policy after supreme court ruling". The third, tagged UK, reads "Trans activists accuse head of UK equalities regulator of 'overreach' for suggesting bans". The fourth headline, tagged explainer, reads "How will UK judgement on legal definition of womanhood affect policy?"
April 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Yes, this is indeed both pleasure reading and prep reading, for my one panel at #Eastercon, on portal fantasy, moderating @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social, @cstross.bsky.social, Edward James, and Guest of Honour Jeannette Ng
A screenshot of a panel listing in dark mode. The panel is titled Into The Painting: The Joys of Portal Fantasy and is scheduled to be held on Monday 21st April at 12.30 in ICC Hall 1A. The panelists are listed as D Franklin (moderator), Edward James, Jeannette Ng, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Charles Stross. The panel description reads "From CS Lewis' Narnia to Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan, SFF is full of stories about people from this world visiting another. What do we love about this genre? What are the attractions of stories about people from our world slipping into others? What stories do these ideas make possible that Tolkienesque secondary world fantasies can't tell?" The panel will be streamed and available to catch up after the convention for members.
April 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Today's @thebookseller.com email newsletter has an interesting juxtaposition
A snippet of an email with two headlines. The first headline reads Taylor & Francis to use AI translation tools to publish books ‘otherwise unavailable in English’, with a lede reading Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books “that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers”. The second headline reads Society of Authors condemns ‘appalling’ use of pirated books in AI training.
March 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The aubergine teal real is working up *beautifully* into a shawl
A photograph of a segment of a crocheted shawl made of treble stitches and puff stitches (UK terminology). The yarn is a beautiful teal with flashes of aubergine.
March 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Absolutely wonderful event tonight seeing @riverssolomon.bsky.social talk about their incredible Southern gothic novel Model Home, and their career as a whole, at the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social! First time visiting the shop, too, and it looks amazing
A photo, through the backs of the heads of the audience at the event, of Rivers Solomon, a Black nonbinary person dressed in all black, cross-legged on stage talking to Rebecca Wojturska, a white woman in a black top, all in a well lit, light, and welcoming bookshop space
March 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Zeal & Ardor remain a fucking spectacular live act, not a single miss in the set and Manuel Gagnieux really knows how to handle a Glasgow crowd now. Incredible night.
March 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM