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The Asian pirates are live in London for only a few more days - get thee to the Gatehouse!

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And there you have it: the full line-up for our adventure into time and place at the next edition of Writing the Occult. It's our biggest yet - but will you be brave enough to join the journey? Details 🧵⬇️

…entering hour 6 of waiting on A&E, and just been told I’ve got “at least” 3.5 hours to go. It’s ok. I’ve already been awake for 24 hours. What’s a few more when it’s a 34C day?

Dumpster Fire: I'm Fine, Everything Is Fine!ALT: Dumpster Fire: I'm Fine, Everything Is Fine!static.klipy.com

Our final crew member is the one who's brought us all together: Chief Ink Slinger and Writing the Occult curator Lauren McMenemy has the task of a quick tour through some Fortean time and place. Bermuda Triangle content guaranteed. Meet her (again) ⬇️

Every crew of time adventurers needs its futurist, the one member who can see what things *could* be instead of what's in front of them. We happen to be joined by a Professor of Design & Imagination, who'll share how we can deal with the previous possible futures we're haunted by. Meet Dan Lockton ⬇️

This was much fun! Thanks to Luke Dumas, @ashsmash.bsky.social, @babblewocky.bsky.social and @kierongillen.bsky.social for chatting all things villainy and corruption as part of the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social's power in SFFH event. Bring on the (complex, authentic) baddies 😎

Observant observers will have noticed a distinct theme in the earlier crew announcements for Writing the Occult: Time & Place, and today's speaker is a callback to these... writingtheoccult.carrd.co 🧵⬇️

Just watched Lee Cronin’s The Mummy for the first time, and for the first time I’m left wondering if a film would’ve hit harder in the horror if I was a parent. I mean, it was fine and wasn’t bad or anything. Just felt like it was trying to pull strings I don’t have… 🤷‍♀️

PSA: this massive event happens online TOMORROW, Saturday 25 July. It's free for BFS members or £5 for everyone else. You'll get three hour-long panels discussing how writers use power to control, to influence, and to change, both for good and for ill. 🧵⬇️

New Writing the Occult: Time & Place crew member alert! @aknighton.bsky.social will be in conversation with @stewarthotston.com about how narrative format - TTRPG, LARP, novel, audio, etc - can impact the way time and place behaves in stories. Andrew's going to find out for us. Meet him ⬇️

See you there, perhaps?

member profile time!

I am truly my own worst enemy. The receptionist of the coworking came over to say oh we have member drinks tonight from 4.30 til 6; first drinks on us! I said oh ok thanks for inviting me and put my headphones back in. And yet I complain about a lack of local friends/social life…

Irish people of the sky! Get thee to Limerick next week ⬇️

Time & place sometimes don't make sense - or actually exist, maybe? With the horror of liminality doing big box office thanks to the creepypasta-turned-film Backrooms, we're bringing @alexdavis1981.bsky.social out of the shadows to talk about places that aren't actually places. Meet Alex (again) ⬇️

Disabled horror writer @corinnepwriter.bsky.social has a few thoughts about the state of disability representation in horror...

What happens to stuff between going in the ground & being dug up? Turns out this weird liminal space between time & place has an actual name (taphonomy) & @ritualpurposes.bsky.social is a specialist. She joins the crew of Writing the Occult: Time & Place to cover bog bodies & more. Meet Ellen ⬇️

Eric's got your answers on all things kidlit - the politics of book bans and celebrity authors, yes, but also plenty on actually writing for the young 'uns, too.

I’ve done a lot of essential admin-y things today that I e been putting off, so of course I don’t feel like I’ve actually done anything at all 😭🙃