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Luke F. Shepherd
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Pulpy genre boi. SFF writer. He/Him

Skills include: distance running, disassociation

Things I am bad at: writing about myself in third person, the rule of 3

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It’s not Christmas without the Christmas Whale*

*He’s definitely a whale shark, like, unequivocally, and I’m trying to keep it together that I didn’t notice that before now. It’s my own personal Mandela effect (…just me being unobservant)

Anyway, merry festivities to all those inclined!
My seasonal best mate, the Christmas Whale SHARK… my god he’s so blatantly a shark… how didn’t I SEE this before?! It’s ok, it’s ok, I’m fine. IT’S FINE. Anyway, he’s purple and blue and glittery so he nestles in the pines nicely and sparkles in the coloured light. My existential crisis aside, he’s great.
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I won’t be home for Halloween as I’ll be at WFC, but you better believe I still got my (tiny, eensy-weensy) pumpkin carving in. 🎃
Two MASSIVE pumpkins and a GIANT lantern sit aglow, casting ghostly shadows.
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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✨🎃COMING 31 OCTOBER🎃✨

Chthonic Matter's ‘Harvest The Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror’

14 killer stories for you to enjoy, including ‘And In The Firelight I Will Find You’ my re-imagining of the myth of Montol that might get me run out of town, but I'm absolutely stoked with how it turned out!
A promo image for Harvest The Night. The book cover sits on the right. Black with a yellow title, an obsidian bird nestles in a grey mangle of twigs… or is it an eye leering from the face of the long dark night? On the left, golden text reads: ‘Her teeth gleamed in her jaws, pearl and bone. All of it, bone. Horses always seem much bigger in real life’ By Luke F. Shepherd, from ‘And In The Firelight I Will Find You’ A backdrop of a skull, crabs and seaweed hint at the horrors hidden in the rest of the tale.
October 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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When life gives you lemons, make a fuckin Xenomorph
A gigantic sculpture of a Xenomorph, made of lemons and oranges, as part of the Lemon Festival in Menton, France. It even hisses too. It doesn’t move, but frankly I’m glad about that.
February 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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And, the pièce de résistance, my very first collection of TINGLERS.
What an introduction to the Tingleverse @chucktingle.bsky.social
A tome of literary magnificence sits atop an old oak commode. It is the book: ‘Not Pounded By Anything - six platonic tales of non-sexual encounters’ from two-time Hugo award nominee Chuck Tingle
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Very happy with my birthday book haul courtesy of my awesome partner
5 books on a wooden table. Books left to right: Orbital by Samantha Harvey In Ascension by Martin MacInnes Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Kraken by China Miéville
February 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Just Dan Simmons casually nailing GenAI in 1989
Picture of a page from Hyperion, by Dan Simmons. Text reads: ‘The AI loved it,’ said Tyrena. ‘That’s when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it.’ I sat up. ‘Couldn’t we have sold copies to the TechnoCore?’ ‘We did,’ said Tyrena. ‘One. The millions of AIs there probably real-time-shared it the minute it came in over fatline. Insterstellar copyright doesn’t mean shit when you’re dealing with silicon.’
February 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The first reads like a description from a horror novel; the second, an uncomfortably prophetic vision for 2025; and the third… same my dude, same.
A translated label on some slippers, text reads: Use and Maintenance instructions. Bogey: Wipe the vamp of coarse hair brushes; use shoe polish, often soaked, global oil, exposure, fire, the shoes deformation, fracture and delamination of the net surface; The shoes belonging to the leisure class, not to do strenuous exercise.
January 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Behold the Christmas whale. His baleen tingle with festivity for you all.
A majestic, bejewelled whale bauble in its rightful (prominent) place upon the Christmas tree. It is bathed in the glow of colourful LED lights.
December 24, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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I guess I’ll see your brat summer and raise you a:
According to Spotify, August was my Theatrical Fantasy Dark Classical phase. What does that say about me as a person? That, dear reader, is for you to decide
December 6, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
A view across a bay with a calm sea. The jagged peaks of the far coastline are softened in shadow, backlit by the burnt peach haze of the setting sun.
November 15, 2024 at 11:00 PM