Alan Fleming

This needs to be a pinned post here: Apologies if I unfollow you on Mastodon. Too many social media platforms with people posting the same thing to them all. This one's going to be my SFF one (until it crashes and burns as all capitalist-owned ones do and we'll all move to Mastodon)

Enjoying hearing my GSFWC pals @emfaulds.com and @theelaineg.bsky.social with Ken MacLeod, Bill Ray and Vince Docherty at #PictCon's SF and Scottish Scientific Discoveries panel. @pictcon.bsky.social @amendlocke.bsky.social

Pretty sure I’ve read a story about this. That shop on the right is pretty suspicious.

Ok, that was the first time I’ve had con crud. Or its return from holiday equivalent- two days of a cold and feeling rough. Not nice, is it?

Woke up this morning and this beautiful trophy was in the house and it was not a dream. Utterly stunned, extraordinarily grateful, deliriously happy. Such a privilege to be part of this year's shortlist, huge thanks to the Clarke Award judges and congrats again to all the brilliant nominees 💫🤍🐺

This was the view last night.

Stay safe out there, in particular my friends in Sussex and the South East.

Finally! You may actually see me on here more often, once I have this set up.

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark Coup De Grâce by Sofia Ajram You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Please don’t do this. Original post: mastodon.social/@jecture/116...

I know this isnt the typical bluesky "how do I get this organ down my throat" post but I have faith in y'all

A great song to find strength, in these times: “Brave Face” by Another Sky (2020) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er8H...

This is absolutely fascinating: www.spacemolt.com/news

Guten Morgen! As part of our launch activities, we're having a contest. We have a magnificent Nürnbird as a mascot, but they need a name! Give us your best suggestions - the winner will win a lifetime supply of Prestigeträchtig!

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist. He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

@RonsCompVids@bitbang.social Thanks for the print the other day!

We’d love you to come to our convention and not worry about childcare. Letting us know in advance you *might* be coming helps us a lot with planning.

The trouble with quadrologies being the new trilogies, is that there’s an entire book in the middle where all that’s happening is a lot of pieces being shuffled about the board, that I’ve paid for and wasted time upon.

God to see a great person doing the right thing: https://buttondown.com/MaxGladstone/archive/why-i-left-substack

Hello hello, I'm not quite back on socials yet, but I'd be remiss not to mention the @barnesandnoble pre-order sale. Masquerade, the third book in the Micah Grey trilogy, is eligible, and I believe Emberclaw's paperback, the sequel to Dragonfall, also applies.

still at it

Merry Xmas. Hope you all have as restful end of the year as you can.

Just a reminder that Eastercon memberships go up on December 1st, 2025. Today is a good day to get a membership. Current membership rates Adult Attending (18+) - £80 Low Income Attending (18+) - £50 Child/Teen (7-17) - £20 Infant (0-6) - Free Apocryphal - £2 Supporting - £40

SHADOWPLAY, the sequel to the award-winning PANTOMIME, is out now. I had a friend go in and send me some nice things people are saying about it. The Micah Grey trilogy is a whimsical gaslamp queer fantasy with found family. Escape into the circus or step onto the magician's stage.🎪 🔮 🪄 🎩 ✨

Did you catch our latest newsletter? This month we covered our upcoming rate rise, new volunteers, Novacon, LR Lam’s latest book release, and a had piece from about fandom in Glasgow. Check it out here and be sure to join our mailing list for our news and updates! buttondown.com/eastercongla...

Have you checked out our new Halloween tshirts? Celebrate the spooky season in style with our limited edition design, in black, purple, maroon and navy, available at our shop - easterconglasgow.org/product/east...

A perfect time to get this book! P. Djéli Clark is one of our Guests of Honour at @eastercon2027.org in Glasgow.

LR Lam is one of our Guests of Honour at Unconfined - @eastercon2027.org - read all their work then come primed with thoughts and questions!

Jim Caviezel Met Vin Diesel Going to the fair Said Jim Caviezel To Vin Diesel “Ha! You’ve got no hair” Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,” My pate is bare, But this is incidental; For tonsure-free I’d rather be Than totally fucking mental”

Thanks, I love it.

Remember the simpler times, when JKR’s books were on this list? Then there was the mid-career plot twist!

There are times when the idiocies encountered in a day do more than suggest a martini at cocktail hour, they essentially compel one. This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.

Today is the UK launch of Pantomime (El’s Version), meaning the first book of the Micah Grey trilogy is now out on both sides of the pond. I’d been daydreaming for years of being to somehow resurrect this series that means so much to me. (Part 1)

The Sighthill Stone Circle in central Glasgow. First astronomically aligned megalithic monument to be built in Britain for thousands of years. From the right angle it can look very un-urban. #Glasgow #StoneCircle

Top entertainment from the 8yo this morning. He just told me this joke: Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”

Our first newsletter is out and ready for you to read! Come find out everything we’ve been up to since since the vote at Reconnect this year 🤍 easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/

A popular person replying to themselves can bully other lesser-liked voices out of your timeline here. I don’t like that.

Sorry, I was wrong. It was fifteen.

See, here, when you reply to yourself, it takes over everyone’s feed. I just had eleven spaces in a row taken by a thread. Had they been individual posts, other posters would have got a look-in.

People need to not reply to themselves here. Cos how that appears to people is the post, the reply, the post with the reply; and the more you do the worse it gets. (Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: wow, he didn’t half telegraph that unmasking or the logic. Liked the characters, liked the world building but that plot was lit up in neon “look here!” signs. Average.