Louie Stowell
@louiestowell.bsky.social
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
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Louie Stowell
@louiestowell.bsky.social
· Mar 30
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I have a newsletter! If you'd like to keep up to date on my books, events, news, book-themed activities for kids and occasional Doctor Who and other fandom thoughts, sign up here! louiestowell.substack.com #KidLitUK
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Updating the group chat
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Updating the group chat
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If you can help please do!!!!
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you can help please do!!!!
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
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This book is SO good
Just finished the proof of The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social, out 15th Jan - now that's an adventure story as adventure stories are meant to be! Death! Monkeys! Jewels! Danger! A subtle deconstruction of colonial childhood narratives! #KidLitUK #UKKidlit
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This book is SO good
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Mei Matsuoka, Pragya Agarwal & Phyllis Ramage are judges for the 2026 IBC Awards. Worth £30,000 @ibc-reads.bsky.social Awards recognise UK children’s book authors & illustrators whose books authentically reflect the diverse backgrounds & experiences of readers.
booksforkeeps.co.uk/pragya-agarw...
booksforkeeps.co.uk/pragya-agarw...
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Mei Matsuoka, Pragya Agarwal & Phyllis Ramage are judges for the 2026 IBC Awards. Worth £30,000 @ibc-reads.bsky.social Awards recognise UK children’s book authors & illustrators whose books authentically reflect the diverse backgrounds & experiences of readers.
booksforkeeps.co.uk/pragya-agarw...
booksforkeeps.co.uk/pragya-agarw...
Just finished the proof of The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social, out 15th Jan - now that's an adventure story as adventure stories are meant to be! Death! Monkeys! Jewels! Danger! A subtle deconstruction of colonial childhood narratives! #KidLitUK #UKKidlit
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just finished the proof of The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social, out 15th Jan - now that's an adventure story as adventure stories are meant to be! Death! Monkeys! Jewels! Danger! A subtle deconstruction of colonial childhood narratives! #KidLitUK #UKKidlit
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More folk horror from Facebook marketplace
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
More folk horror from Facebook marketplace
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I survived gaza gencide, but I came out to find that everything I knew my home, my work, my city is gone.
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I survived gaza gencide, but I came out to find that everything I knew my home, my work, my city is gone.
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
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Please help Adham survive the winter ❤️🙏
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Please help Adham survive the winter ❤️🙏
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Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
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Mamdani will implement sumptuary law. Ladies will have to carefully measure how many ounces of gold are in their girdles, and wearing pearls on hats will be banned except for wives or courtesans of foreign mercenaries.
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mamdani will implement sumptuary law. Ladies will have to carefully measure how many ounces of gold are in their girdles, and wearing pearls on hats will be banned except for wives or courtesans of foreign mercenaries.
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Palestinian folklore is full of places where you can easily stumble into other realms. High Places tm, and ruins that involve caves or other entrances into the ground are common places to encounter the supernatural (or spiritual, if you like).
Palestinian folklore is full of places where you can easily stumble into other realms. High Places tm, and ruins that involve caves or other entrances into the ground are common places to encounter the supernatural (or spiritual, if you like).
Are there any portals in Palestinian folklore? What form do they tend to take, if so?
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
bsky.app/profile/anna...
Palestinian folklore is full of places where you can easily stumble into other realms. High Places tm, and ruins that involve caves or other entrances into the ground are common places to encounter the supernatural (or spiritual, if you like).
Palestinian folklore is full of places where you can easily stumble into other realms. High Places tm, and ruins that involve caves or other entrances into the ground are common places to encounter the supernatural (or spiritual, if you like).
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Perhaps the weirdest thing about Palestinian ghouls is that there's a story, which is our version of Rapunzel, which is about a beautiful woman who is the daughter of a ghoul! soniasulaiman.com/2022/11/24/p...
Palestinian Folktale: Nani, Daughter of Nani.
There was and there was not a king and queen who were childless. One day a dervish came by who was selling mountain apples. He cried his produce saying they would help the childless to conceive. Th…
soniasulaiman.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Perhaps the weirdest thing about Palestinian ghouls is that there's a story, which is our version of Rapunzel, which is about a beautiful woman who is the daughter of a ghoul! soniasulaiman.com/2022/11/24/p...
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There is also a very rare belief that the Palestinian djinn are abandoned, rejected human beings that were miraculously saved from death by God hiding them in another dimension. It reminds me of beliefs abt the Tuatha de Danaan having once been inhabitants of Ireland.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
There is also a very rare belief that the Palestinian djinn are abandoned, rejected human beings that were miraculously saved from death by God hiding them in another dimension. It reminds me of beliefs abt the Tuatha de Danaan having once been inhabitants of Ireland.
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Some reasons for my theory are explained in this booklet I wrote: soniasulaiman.itch.io/paranormal-p....
Paranormal Palestine #4 The Bride (djinn and sidhe) by Sonia Sulaiman
A special issue about the Irish sidhe and the Palestinian djinn
soniasulaiman.itch.io
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Some reasons for my theory are explained in this booklet I wrote: soniasulaiman.itch.io/paranormal-p....
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The way you deal with the djinn in Palestine is very similar to the relationship between the Irish people and the sidhe. One example: if food of any kind touches the ground, you retrieve it by asking permission supposedly from the beings who live in the ground itself.
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The way you deal with the djinn in Palestine is very similar to the relationship between the Irish people and the sidhe. One example: if food of any kind touches the ground, you retrieve it by asking permission supposedly from the beings who live in the ground itself.
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Yes! I have my own little pet theory about the Palestinian good/little folk. Being Irish as well, it couldn't really escape me that a few of the big players as well as lesser known beings are very like the sidhe. In particular, I think the 'Arus (Bride), and the djinn. bsky.app/profile/timt...
Does Palestinian folklore have "little people", like Dwarves, elves, or fairies?
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Yes! I have my own little pet theory about the Palestinian good/little folk. Being Irish as well, it couldn't really escape me that a few of the big players as well as lesser known beings are very like the sidhe. In particular, I think the 'Arus (Bride), and the djinn. bsky.app/profile/timt...
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Was in Abney before a remembrance thingie and saw a lot of white poppies. Stoke newington's brand is strong.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Was in Abney before a remembrance thingie and saw a lot of white poppies. Stoke newington's brand is strong.
@hjparmstrong.bsky.social cheers for boosting my essay request!
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
@hjparmstrong.bsky.social cheers for boosting my essay request!
Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
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One of my favourite reads this year! Thanking @louiestowell.bsky.social for the heads-up 🤗
I’m proud to announce that DON’T TRUST FISH has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration out in the UK. Proud to be part of such a special book written by @unshavedmouse.bsky.social Congrats to all the nominees❤️ @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #carnegies2026
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One of my favourite reads this year! Thanking @louiestowell.bsky.social for the heads-up 🤗
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People say this government is sloppy and inconsistent on messaging, and that's simply not true. They're tight as a drum on "Stupid kids need to stop hoping for any sort of future and resign themselves to cruelty and immiseration"
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
People say this government is sloppy and inconsistent on messaging, and that's simply not true. They're tight as a drum on "Stupid kids need to stop hoping for any sort of future and resign themselves to cruelty and immiseration"
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I know a teacher who's a primary school sex ed specialist, and her first class is always "write down all the dirty words you know on the board and we'll all say them". I would love this both as teacher and pupil.
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I know a teacher who's a primary school sex ed specialist, and her first class is always "write down all the dirty words you know on the board and we'll all say them". I would love this both as teacher and pupil.
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When I taught yr7, we did Midsummer Night’s Dream, and I would start the first lesson with a rousing chant of “ass bosoms” just so we could all get over the fact those words would appear frequently. Also, it was hilarious.
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
When I taught yr7, we did Midsummer Night’s Dream, and I would start the first lesson with a rousing chant of “ass bosoms” just so we could all get over the fact those words would appear frequently. Also, it was hilarious.