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_1https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mtny4u34ns25We are back! Please join @kitgonzo.bsky.social and myself as we take a look at one of Barker’s more unusual short stories: The New Murders In The Rue Morgue. https://youtu.be/1XkI9uJHsbw?is=yRxf3oZg4t3b7ixg22 Aug 2026 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtny4u34ns25https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mtiymuaw522hAnyone else woken up today still massively excited by the prospect of new Clive Barker stories? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clive-barker/three-new-books-from-clive-barker?fbclid=IwdGRzaATzsGRjbGNrBPOwW3Bkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0DMTAwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmuKR8Ur-3ffSDo1Xr1ntuC7FkScwzNGVhWFV0je1rsLWl3ctX__PCo7EiCN_aem_oCmbVI0m8XUikLwh0Tn0Cg&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demonlft5zmc20 Aug 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtiymuaw522hhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mtgp624xe22hMy first published short story collection, originally through Dark Moon Books, as it was (with some stories originally occurring in the periodical, Dark Moon Digest). amzn.eu/d/0djz4K6n19 Aug 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgp624xe22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mtdotlvnhc2iI am telling you now: From within the field of social care and support, I am seeing a ramping up of ableist rhetoric from the right and its various media platforms across the board. .18 Aug 2026 07:26 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtdotlvnhc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3msmzflvmw222If you want any further evidence that TERFs don't give two figs about actual women's rights and only use the label of Feminism as a giant cudgel with which to brutalise trans women,09 Aug 2026 07:03 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmzflvmw222https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3ms3tud3aj22j😭😭😭😭 https://youtu.be/iTtGGytdrFM?is=h2me4yigTXlvP93Y02 Aug 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3tud3aj22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mrkymc7u5227https://youtu.be/P6dUfj46Vcs?is=nfXf1WvwAvE9cPvf26 Jul 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrkymc7u5227https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mrkoehhi3s2oNot gonna lie: It's getting harder and harder to just exist as a queer person right now (and we in the UK don't even have the worst of it).26 Jul 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrkoehhi3s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mrbambgwek2oFleabag is one of those shows thay comes along once in a blue moon. Little I've ever come across so sincerely expresses the experience of being an older UK Millennial. https://static.klipy.com/ii/e293a233a303a98e471f78d04e13a1b0/60/fe/Bs3VvLMH.gif?hh=281&ww=498&mp4=Vcm9ksa6dADt&webm=mLim1kupJdcJ78m0722 Jul 2026 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrbambgwek2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mqrsh3hljs24"Do you love your son? Tell him that I love him too. I love everybody, and everything, I accept everything, and I have become wise, and profound, and good." -Mark, Possession (as played by Sam Neill).16 Jul 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrsh3hljs24https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mqpgrm57ys2lWolverine is no good for Morph at all. Morph deserves better 😡 (X-Men '97 Queer Posting. Which is surprisingly easy. It's a deeply queer show).15 Jul 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpgrm57ys2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mqowzd7h7c2p"Did you really think you could destroy this ship? She's defied space and time. She's been to a place you couldn't possibly imagine. And now... it is time to go back." - Dr. Weir, Event Horizon https://static.klipy.com/ii/4493325008d34b7bf8cd6813cd5c1619/90/6a/W0b5qEmTwccE4fnQB.gif?hh=214&ww=498&mp4=NgqKHFSKwRx5QpF8&webm=z5yGyQ8XbIDp1lnNh15 Jul 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqowzd7h7c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mqo5omyuts25"She'd been shot for simply being true to her nature. No thinking queer could be happy with his complicity in that." - Will Rabjohns, Sacrament. By Clive Barker.15 Jul 2026 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqo5omyuts25https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mqbmw56ydk27See Bryan Fuller's Hannibal. Probably my favourite TV series of all time. Any further instalments can only dilute its Romantic magnificence. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbmw56ydk27https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mqbmc4d7cs27Yeah, bonding with the Celestial technology might've made him nigh-omnipotent, but it did nothing for him aesthetically. Maybe that's why he's so nihilistic: He's bitter about not being hot any more.10 Jul 2026 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbmc4d7cs27https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mqbkw36dn227A hateful, bigoted, pig-ignorant hypocrite that the UK and humanity in general is elevated for the absence of.10 Jul 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbkw36dn227https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mq4xoifiak22Arbitrarily picked up my -very- dog-eared, 1990s copy of Barker's Sacrament from my bookshelf recently, started reading.08 Jul 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4xoifiak22https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mpeapsqxz226It's a weird sort of day, so have a screaming cowboy in the sky. https://youtu.be/uLeAot4Zrxo?is=B-V8Ue9d8WzS9kuP28 Jun 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpeapsqxz226https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mpdjmm3uw22r*Falling off my chair at the hotness of the Hannibal finalé again for the umpteenth time running* https://static.klipy.com/ii/4493325008d34b7bf8cd6813cd5c1619/50/54/LSjDYr23yvSftA.gif?hh=347&ww=498&mp4=SRmHAkk8p3DnO&webm=jup4WAez3LqOlELZ28 Jun 2026 08:11 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpdjmm3uw22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3movbs66das2jIt's too hot and I hate everything. https://static.klipy.com/ii/c3a19a0b747a76e98651f2b9a3cca5ff/e0/58/xQqNv5rY.gif?hh=371&ww=498&mp4=UGkKYHlUhH0hbUdrR&webm=fqEvKFaPqfdA65IMU22 Jun 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3movbs66das2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3moqqciadds26"An end to the stories of frightened old men. It is coming very soon." - Elias Kirchner.20 Jun 2026 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3moqqciadds26https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3monwr6zx4c2iMany thanks to The Fluffenbusters for having me on to discuss one of my favourite films ever made: The incredible, Jim Henson coming-of-age fantasy, Labyrinth: https://youtu.be/DgF-JO3rl8U?is=BKRQih9J0PHlevXh19 Jun 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3monwr6zx4c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3moia2lbkbc2tI'm currently percolating a new podcast as a means of processing existence in 2026 UK as a queer person:17 Jun 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3moia2lbkbc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mo5we75b322uOne of my favourite antagonists in all of Barker's fiction, the man who becomes a demi-god of his own neuroses, Randolph Jaff (AKA: The Jaffe). https://youtu.be/wIQXAtdG2Lw?is=tn7J968--wXGlQSc13 Jun 2026 09:18 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5we75b322u