George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy
@exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social
Writer. Queer. Agent of The Mighty Deep Woke (but don't tell anyone).
Author website:
http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/
Amazon Author Page:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/George-Daniel-Lea/e/B00J60BJ82/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Author website:
http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/
Amazon Author Page:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/George-Daniel-Lea/e/B00J60BJ82/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Andy Serkis as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Renoir may be the most brilliant performance in the history of the medium. When the writing's this brilliant, it deserves nothing less.
a man with a beard wearing a suit and tie
ALT: a man with a beard wearing a suit and tie
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November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Andy Serkis as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Renoir may be the most brilliant performance in the history of the medium. When the writing's this brilliant, it deserves nothing less.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Haven't cried so much owing to a video game for a long, long time.
Haven't cried so much owing to a video game for a long, long time.
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Haven't cried so much owing to a video game for a long, long time.
Haven't cried so much owing to a video game for a long, long time.
Arbitor Ian just gets this setting down to its marrow. He's certainly one of the most considered and erudite voices out there in 40K spaces.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqcv...
EVERY 40k FACTION IS BAD and HERE'S WHY! Warhammer 40,000 Lore
YouTube video by Arbitor Ian
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November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Arbitor Ian just gets this setting down to its marrow. He's certainly one of the most considered and erudite voices out there in 40K spaces.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqcv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqcv...
If you want a taste of the kinds of stories I write, please check out the Strange Playgrounds blog. Lots of stories and scraps of poetry available over there. Looking at bringing it back more consistently in the new year.
www.strangeplaygrounds.com/blog/previou...
www.strangeplaygrounds.com/blog/previou...
Blog Posts
My time amongst the Engines, my years sweating amongst the stinking, steam and shit dreams of others... Barely remembered, now, save in the vaguest sense; as images, as impressions: moments of...
www.strangeplaygrounds.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you want a taste of the kinds of stories I write, please check out the Strange Playgrounds blog. Lots of stories and scraps of poetry available over there. Looking at bringing it back more consistently in the new year.
www.strangeplaygrounds.com/blog/previou...
www.strangeplaygrounds.com/blog/previou...
An episode of The Fluffenhammer in which Adam Nicol and myself discuss metaphysics in the Warhammer 40K universe and Age of Sigmar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzu...
The Fluffenhammer Ep 174 - Big Hats, Small Gods
YouTube video by The Fluffenhammer Podcast
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November 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
An episode of The Fluffenhammer in which Adam Nicol and myself discuss metaphysics in the Warhammer 40K universe and Age of Sigmar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzu...
Woah. And that's only the standard ending. There are at least three more.
To say I'm shocked they managed to bring it home is an understatement.
Silent Hill is back, and arguably smarter, deeper, more transgressive than it ever was.
youtu.be/Ztrt0xPRuJI?...
To say I'm shocked they managed to bring it home is an understatement.
Silent Hill is back, and arguably smarter, deeper, more transgressive than it ever was.
youtu.be/Ztrt0xPRuJI?...
Let's Play Silent Hill F, FINALÉ: To Thine Own Self Be True.
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Woah. And that's only the standard ending. There are at least three more.
To say I'm shocked they managed to bring it home is an understatement.
Silent Hill is back, and arguably smarter, deeper, more transgressive than it ever was.
youtu.be/Ztrt0xPRuJI?...
To say I'm shocked they managed to bring it home is an understatement.
Silent Hill is back, and arguably smarter, deeper, more transgressive than it ever was.
youtu.be/Ztrt0xPRuJI?...
For the Sunday morning crowd, an enthusiastic retrospective on series 1 of the iconic UK series, Knightmare.
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Strange Playgrounds Halloween Special (2025): Knightmare Series 1
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
For the Sunday morning crowd, an enthusiastic retrospective on series 1 of the iconic UK series, Knightmare.
youtu.be/OOE8aAcH0kQ?...
youtu.be/OOE8aAcH0kQ?...
A bit of heady nostalgia for this Halloween evening: A look at the first series of a children's show that enthralled -and traumatised- a generation here in the UK: Knightmare.
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Strange Playgrounds Halloween Special (2025): Knightmare Series 1
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A bit of heady nostalgia for this Halloween evening: A look at the first series of a children's show that enthralled -and traumatised- a generation here in the UK: Knightmare.
youtu.be/OOE8aAcH0kQ?...
youtu.be/OOE8aAcH0kQ?...
Re-watching the TV adaptaion of Dan Simmons's The Terror for the first time in quite a few years. Not only had I forgotten what an insanely brilliant production it is, but also how harrowingly bleak.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyIr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyIr...
What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? The Terror
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Re-watching the TV adaptaion of Dan Simmons's The Terror for the first time in quite a few years. Not only had I forgotten what an insanely brilliant production it is, but also how harrowingly bleak.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyIr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyIr...
It was bleak and psychologically troubling before. Now it's going places I sincerely did not anticipate. Hooray for the return of the smart, incisive, transgressive Silent Hill game.
youtu.be/aBDDcVNHdzc?...
youtu.be/aBDDcVNHdzc?...
Let's Play Silent Hill F, Part 13: Ow.
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It was bleak and psychologically troubling before. Now it's going places I sincerely did not anticipate. Hooray for the return of the smart, incisive, transgressive Silent Hill game.
youtu.be/aBDDcVNHdzc?...
youtu.be/aBDDcVNHdzc?...
Both my Mother and my boss have read my work.
Seriously don't know how to feel about that.
www.strangeplaygrounds.com
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
Seriously don't know how to feel about that.
www.strangeplaygrounds.com
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
George Daniel Lea: books, biography, latest update
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October 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Both my Mother and my boss have read my work.
Seriously don't know how to feel about that.
www.strangeplaygrounds.com
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
Seriously don't know how to feel about that.
www.strangeplaygrounds.com
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
You need to watch this. I only saw it for the first time last year, and I'm still not over it. This was broadcast into UK homes at prime-time during 1974, as a "Play For Today."
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
You need to watch this. I only saw it for the first time last year, and I'm still not over it. This was broadcast into UK homes at prime-time during 1974, as a "Play For Today."
One of the most moronic arguments I've come across from Reform cultists goes something like: "The Tories screwed us over, Labour are screwing us over. Let's give Nigel Farage a chance!"
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
One of the most moronic arguments I've come across from Reform cultists goes something like: "The Tories screwed us over, Labour are screwing us over. Let's give Nigel Farage a chance!"
Reposted by George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy
Trumpism is fascism but it is post-ideological fascism, fascism as pure form, emptied of content. To the extent it has any content, it is hopeless, despairing, vengeful nihilism. This is fascism as it appears after the neoliberal cultural counter-revolution reduced politics to process & structure.
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Trumpism is fascism but it is post-ideological fascism, fascism as pure form, emptied of content. To the extent it has any content, it is hopeless, despairing, vengeful nihilism. This is fascism as it appears after the neoliberal cultural counter-revolution reduced politics to process & structure.
What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? The Thief of Always
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"It's less about what they believe and more about what they can get the cult to believe."
Got it in one. It doesn't matter how contradictory, absurd, incoherent or flat-out false their statements evidently are. It's never mattered.
Got it in one. It doesn't matter how contradictory, absurd, incoherent or flat-out false their statements evidently are. It's never mattered.
October 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
"It's less about what they believe and more about what they can get the cult to believe."
Got it in one. It doesn't matter how contradictory, absurd, incoherent or flat-out false their statements evidently are. It's never mattered.
Got it in one. It doesn't matter how contradictory, absurd, incoherent or flat-out false their statements evidently are. It's never mattered.
Reposted by George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy
... @gnofhorror.com hear from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social on the impact Barker's Weaveworld had on him, @crimereads.bsky.social select ten horrors which take place on means of transport, & @horrortree.com hear from @angelaslatter.bsky.social on writing fear through grief!
Happy reading, friends!🎃
Happy reading, friends!🎃
October 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
... @gnofhorror.com hear from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social on the impact Barker's Weaveworld had on him, @crimereads.bsky.social select ten horrors which take place on means of transport, & @horrortree.com hear from @angelaslatter.bsky.social on writing fear through grief!
Happy reading, friends!🎃
Happy reading, friends!🎃
Reposted by George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy
Good morning, my lovelies, it's the start of a new week and the start of my October holiday.
To kick off a week of horror, we have a review of Pyres by Kev Harrison.
gnofhorror.com/pyres-by-kev...
@kevharrison.bsky.social
To kick off a week of horror, we have a review of Pyres by Kev Harrison.
gnofhorror.com/pyres-by-kev...
@kevharrison.bsky.social
Pyres By Kev Harrison: A Fiery Supernatural Thriller With Political Bite - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Pyres by Kev Harrison arrives as a compelling supernatural thriller that masterfully blends ancient mythology with contemporary political commentary.
gnofhorror.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Good morning, my lovelies, it's the start of a new week and the start of my October holiday.
To kick off a week of horror, we have a review of Pyres by Kev Harrison.
gnofhorror.com/pyres-by-kev...
@kevharrison.bsky.social
To kick off a week of horror, we have a review of Pyres by Kev Harrison.
gnofhorror.com/pyres-by-kev...
@kevharrison.bsky.social
Please join myself and Kayleigh Dobbs as we almost, sorta, kinda get to our chat about Stephen King 😅
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Strange Playgrounds: Almost Sort of Kinda Stephen King (With Kayleigh Dobbs)
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
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October 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Please join myself and Kayleigh Dobbs as we almost, sorta, kinda get to our chat about Stephen King 😅
youtu.be/LBB8lj3Rim4?...
youtu.be/LBB8lj3Rim4?...
I can't begin to express how intimidated I was to sit down and write this: Weaveworld may be THE most important book of my life; it changed so, so much when I originally came by it at the age of 11.
Weaveworld’s Magic: How Clive Barker’s Novel Fights Fascism and Celebrates Queer Identity: A My Life in Horror
I’m honoured to work with such great writers. This essay from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social is immense and a must read.
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I’m honoured to work with such great writers. This essay from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social is immense and a must read.
gnofhorror.com/weaveworld-s...
Weaveworld's Magic: How Clive Barker's Novel Fights Fascism And Celebrates Queer Identity: A My Life In Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Clive Barker's Weaveworld is more than a fantasy novel, it's a sacred text of queer awakening and a radical critique of fascism. and why its celebration of magic and desire forever alters its readers.
gnofhorror.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I can't begin to express how intimidated I was to sit down and write this: Weaveworld may be THE most important book of my life; it changed so, so much when I originally came by it at the age of 11.
I'm sharing this again because I think it's absolutely necessary people understand what this vile, abusive, cruel, fraudulent cult is actually up to:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5TL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5TL...
Born into Scientology - Claire & Marc Headley Pt. 1 | Ep. 2065
YouTube video by Mormon Stories Podcast
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October 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I'm sharing this again because I think it's absolutely necessary people understand what this vile, abusive, cruel, fraudulent cult is actually up to:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5TL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5TL...
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“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” - Ray Bradbury
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” - Ray Bradbury
It's quite explicitly about patriarchy, defying prescribed gender norms etc. As such, and in drearily predictable fashion, it's got the usual crop of insincere, reactionary, grifting chuds foaming at the mouth. Which is one of the most ringing endorsements I can give.
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youtu.be/KMbBykcYvCE?...
Let's Play Silent Hill F, Part 2: Repressed RAAAAAGGGE.
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It's quite explicitly about patriarchy, defying prescribed gender norms etc. As such, and in drearily predictable fashion, it's got the usual crop of insincere, reactionary, grifting chuds foaming at the mouth. Which is one of the most ringing endorsements I can give.
youtu.be/KMbBykcYvCE?...
youtu.be/KMbBykcYvCE?...
Also, for the similarly perverse in that they're up and about this time on a Sunday morning, @kitgonzo.bsky.social and I discuss what might be the knock-out horror film of the year:
youtu.be/gqwphOUFZh8?...
youtu.be/gqwphOUFZh8?...
What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? Bring Her Back
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Also, for the similarly perverse in that they're up and about this time on a Sunday morning, @kitgonzo.bsky.social and I discuss what might be the knock-out horror film of the year:
youtu.be/gqwphOUFZh8?...
youtu.be/gqwphOUFZh8?...