Was going to say Eden Lake but then lots of people in the thread saying Irreversible and, well.
(I went on a date with someone who said it was their favourite film. There was no second date. I may have moved house not long after too)
(I went on a date with someone who said it was their favourite film. There was no second date. I may have moved house not long after too)
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Was going to say Eden Lake but then lots of people in the thread saying Irreversible and, well.
(I went on a date with someone who said it was their favourite film. There was no second date. I may have moved house not long after too)
(I went on a date with someone who said it was their favourite film. There was no second date. I may have moved house not long after too)
Yet more record shop dreams. Anything to do with the owner of the first indie I worked for having died over the weekend?
Might alphabetise something today. For old times sake.
Might alphabetise something today. For old times sake.
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Yet more record shop dreams. Anything to do with the owner of the first indie I worked for having died over the weekend?
Might alphabetise something today. For old times sake.
Might alphabetise something today. For old times sake.
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Bleeding Hearts 2 cover from @stipanmorian.bsky.social!
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Bleeding Hearts 2 cover from @stipanmorian.bsky.social!
Reading the new @helleborezine.bsky.social short story anthology and realised I’ve never read any Ramsey Campbell before.
Can anyone give me a steer on a good place to start with his back catalogue?
Can anyone give me a steer on a good place to start with his back catalogue?
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Reading the new @helleborezine.bsky.social short story anthology and realised I’ve never read any Ramsey Campbell before.
Can anyone give me a steer on a good place to start with his back catalogue?
Can anyone give me a steer on a good place to start with his back catalogue?
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I like that this treats America like a long-fallen empire whose only remnants are these haunted artifacts.
Like Yu-Gi-Oh personas of ancient egypt but applied to The Burger Reich.
Need us to fast-forward to that future fr.
Like Yu-Gi-Oh personas of ancient egypt but applied to The Burger Reich.
Need us to fast-forward to that future fr.
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I like that this treats America like a long-fallen empire whose only remnants are these haunted artifacts.
Like Yu-Gi-Oh personas of ancient egypt but applied to The Burger Reich.
Need us to fast-forward to that future fr.
Like Yu-Gi-Oh personas of ancient egypt but applied to The Burger Reich.
Need us to fast-forward to that future fr.
Trailer.
Black screen.
White text: PLAY IT.
First note of “As Time Goes By” played on piano.
White text: AGAIN.
Black screen.
White text: PLAY IT.
First note of “As Time Goes By” played on piano.
White text: AGAIN.
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trailer.
Black screen.
White text: PLAY IT.
First note of “As Time Goes By” played on piano.
White text: AGAIN.
Black screen.
White text: PLAY IT.
First note of “As Time Goes By” played on piano.
White text: AGAIN.
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Our Soot Stained Heart #1 is coming out in a week!
#2 is ready for printing. I've read it again today and I think it's great. We are all very proud of it!
@jhagg.bsky.social @madcavestudios.com
#2 is ready for printing. I've read it again today and I think it's great. We are all very proud of it!
@jhagg.bsky.social @madcavestudios.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Our Soot Stained Heart #1 is coming out in a week!
#2 is ready for printing. I've read it again today and I think it's great. We are all very proud of it!
@jhagg.bsky.social @madcavestudios.com
#2 is ready for printing. I've read it again today and I think it's great. We are all very proud of it!
@jhagg.bsky.social @madcavestudios.com
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Depeche Mode/Sisters Of Mercy
Ozomatli
Godspeed
Chic
Steps
Depeche Mode/Sisters Of Mercy
Ozomatli
Godspeed
Chic
Steps
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Madness
Limp Bizkit
Chris Cornell
Queens of the stone age
Green Day
I purposely left out my child's first nativity concert from last year...that doesn't define me
Madness
Limp Bizkit
Chris Cornell
Queens of the stone age
Green Day
I purposely left out my child's first nativity concert from last year...that doesn't define me
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Lorde
Prince
Tiny Ruins
David Bowie
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Lorde
Prince
Tiny Ruins
David Bowie
Siouxsie and the Banshees
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Depeche Mode/Sisters Of Mercy
Ozomatli
Godspeed
Chic
Steps
Depeche Mode/Sisters Of Mercy
Ozomatli
Godspeed
Chic
Steps
ZARJAZ issue 5 now available for pre-order, and, would you believe, I’ve got two stories in it.
ZARJAZ is a labour of love, featuring characters from the galaxy’s greatest comic, 2000AD, and with their kind permission.
zarjazvol3.blogspot.com/p/buy-vol-3-...
ZARJAZ is a labour of love, featuring characters from the galaxy’s greatest comic, 2000AD, and with their kind permission.
zarjazvol3.blogspot.com/p/buy-vol-3-...
BUY Vol 3 PROG 5
The thrills continue in ZARJAZ Prog 5! With a scrotnig Slaine cover from art-droid Jack Bates, Prog 5 will be available mid-November! Pre-or...
zarjazvol3.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ZARJAZ issue 5 now available for pre-order, and, would you believe, I’ve got two stories in it.
ZARJAZ is a labour of love, featuring characters from the galaxy’s greatest comic, 2000AD, and with their kind permission.
zarjazvol3.blogspot.com/p/buy-vol-3-...
ZARJAZ is a labour of love, featuring characters from the galaxy’s greatest comic, 2000AD, and with their kind permission.
zarjazvol3.blogspot.com/p/buy-vol-3-...
The big penny drop moment for me using social media is appreciating that people with any following over the multiple hundreds has good reason to treat almost any interaction with guardedness.
Had a conversation on here yesterday with someone who was clearly literally incapable of understanding 'but do you not understand that the same *person* who sees your reply sees ten others, and this shapes all their responses'.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The big penny drop moment for me using social media is appreciating that people with any following over the multiple hundreds has good reason to treat almost any interaction with guardedness.
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If you’d like to get your hand on “one of the most starkly affecting comics you’ll read this year” (Broken Frontier), 5 MORE MINUTES is now available from my online shop:
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you’d like to get your hand on “one of the most starkly affecting comics you’ll read this year” (Broken Frontier), 5 MORE MINUTES is now available from my online shop:
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
hannahberry.bigcartel.com/products
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#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
Dance Our Way Out Of Our Constrictions: INTRO ’78
Previously on Discourse 2000: After successfully helping launch war comic Battle, editor Pat Mills had the opportunity to launch a new kind of boys’ comic at publishers IPC – Action, a title which tur...
freakytrigger.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
There was a sweet old man who used to come into our shop who was convinced that Boris Karloff was his uncle. Every day a new story.
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There was a sweet old man who used to come into our shop who was convinced that Boris Karloff was his uncle. Every day a new story.
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
“They tried to hang him, you know”
“Who?”
“Uncle Boris. But they couldn’t. He was too tall…!”
“They stole his teeth”
“Did they?”
“They were made of wood!”
When I ran a chain of record shops, I have no regrets about discouraging Christmas music being played.
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
The onslaught of piped in Xmas music is workers rights issue. It was THE thing I complained to management about when I worked @ B&N.
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
When I ran a chain of record shops, I have no regrets about discouraging Christmas music being played.
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
“Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”
Reader, it was of interest.
Someone asked to see one of my chimney drawings, so I might as well see if it’s of interest to anyone else :)
Ha - the allure of a chimney. I’ve been promising myself that I’ll revisit them and share at some point. In the meantime I’ve got one on my phone, so here y’go.
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reader, it was of interest.
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So honored to have a Bleeding Hearts 1 variant from @shadex6.bsky.social, one of the all time greats. Just look at how much work was put into that -- what a privilege! And that's on top of the perfect main cover from @stipanmorian.bsky.social & another brilliant one from legendary Jae Lee!
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So honored to have a Bleeding Hearts 1 variant from @shadex6.bsky.social, one of the all time greats. Just look at how much work was put into that -- what a privilege! And that's on top of the perfect main cover from @stipanmorian.bsky.social & another brilliant one from legendary Jae Lee!
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
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They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
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Fear of A Black Thanet.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Fear of A Black Thanet.
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What a fucking beautiful moment.
Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What a fucking beautiful moment.
Been working through these slowly and they are fantastic. Unsettling and odd and often, I’m not sure I could say exactly why.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
I just finished the latest episode of Fake Documentary Q, and it may be one of the best yet.
The sheer confidence of the creators doing a haunted house story set during the daytime, and still have it be effective, really shows how great this series is.
The sheer confidence of the creators doing a haunted house story set during the daytime, and still have it be effective, really shows how great this series is.
HELTER SKELTER (English Sub)
YouTube video by フェイクドキュメンタリー「Q」
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Been working through these slowly and they are fantastic. Unsettling and odd and often, I’m not sure I could say exactly why.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
There’s one about a man who has someone leaving flowers outside his door which really bothered me.
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OK I've got enough done to announce that DISCOURSE 2000 will be BACK BACK BACK next weekend covering
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
OK I've got enough done to announce that DISCOURSE 2000 will be BACK BACK BACK next weekend covering
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
DAN DARE
THE VISIBLE MAN
COLONY EARTH
MACH 1 & MACH ZERO
WALTER THE WOBOT
JUDGE DREDD: THE CURSED EARTH
DEATH PLANET
ANT WARS
#2000AD
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Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.