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/3mlxvuyrygc2cPlease join @timescarcass.bsky.social and myself as we trespass on the bounds of Lovecraft's The Shunned House (arguably a lesser-known work by Howard, but certainly a favourite): https://youtu.be/fJH1s1JB3rM?si=hkmgWoVj-KqJlbwI16 May 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxvuyrygc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mlfvlej5as2hPlease join the fantastic Kayleigh Dobbs and myself as we take a sumptuous bite out of Anne Rice's vampire novels, the 1990s film adaptation and the more recent -spectacular, by the by- series adaptation (with the odd, inevitable stab at Twilight along the way). https://youtu.be/XBd9PkjwBXQ?si=eLU6elol1kF_muze09 May 2026 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfvlej5as2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mlft45sk6s2h"Thin. Insipid. Beyond absurd. I don't even remember what colour its ashes were." - Elias Kirchner, concerning the world where he was born, that he burned to fuel his original apotheosis.09 May 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlft45sk6s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mle4ff4e2k2kTo reiterate: It's the cultish servility of it all I really despise. Those who just give themselves gratis to evident and overt frauds, grifters, shysters of all stripes. I find them pathetic to the point of being repulsive.08 May 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle4ff4e2k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3ml3xdsjv422oIndulging in fantasies of strapping down Reform voters and forcing them to watch Pender's Fen, Lodovico Technique style.05 May 2026 10:15 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3xdsjv422ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3ml22bqyh722oI wrote a short story called "The Last Sane Man" way, way back in my early twenties that ended up being one of the first proper short stories I got published amzn.eu/d/0gPiF88w https://amzn.eu/d/0gPiF88w04 May 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml22bqyh722ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkzv53ch222oI fucking hate Fascists. Hate them. And if you can't bring yourself to honestly and sincerely hate them and everything they stand for, whatever "morality" you pretend isn't worth the breath you waste affecting it.04 May 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzv53ch222ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkzgwick222oI swear to god, our Brexit cultists are as pig-ignorant, deluded and spitefully self-mutilating as your MAGA dregs across the pond.04 May 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzgwick222ohttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkwngzjqxc2uI've only been playing Resident Evil since 1998, when I was fourteen. I've learned for the first time just a second ago -at the age of 42- that Resident Evil 2's "G-Virus" is fully named "The Golgotha Virus," which is very cool.03 May 2026 07:34 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwngzjqxc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkv4o23rhs2uWe - @timescarcass.bsky.social, @elliotchapman.bsky.social abd myself- definitely haven't made it easy for ourselves this season of Not The Same Log: Every text we've tackled has been a polysemic masterwork, and The Thing is no exception: https://youtu.be/8bhMva9Rx4k?si=FTWYCUGQCseNIhci02 May 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv4o23rhs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkubqxqfcs2zPlease join us - @timescarcass.bsky.social, @elliotchapman.bsky.social and myself- for the latest episode of Not The Same Log, in which we were all very tired, and nobody really trusted each other. https://youtu.be/8bhMva9Rx4k?si=zva_mxC2IQP2zbA002 May 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkubqxqfcs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mku6eck5u22bReading Ian Watson's iconic 1980s Warhammer 40,00 novel, Space Marine, in preparation for an impending Fluffenhammer book club. It's brilliantly bat-shit: This was published at a time LOOOOONG before Black Library was a thing, before the background had fully crystallised.02 May 2026 07:59 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mku6eck5u22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkst4kzfgk2sOwing to the sadly imminent closure of Perpetual Motion Machine Publications, my queer, metaphysical horror collections, Born in Blood Volumes 1 and 2, will be going out of print at the end of the month. https://ghoulish.rip/product/born-in-blood-volume-one/01 May 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkst4kzfgk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkskdhpnzk2nKudos to @snipethesorrow.bsky.social and @wib.bsky.social for another superb Codex: Compliant. Also, the Amiga Alien Breed music at the end kicked me square in the nostalgia. Was not expecting that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne_UuzPHH3I01 May 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkskdhpnzk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkhkvil47s2dOh, this is fab! Not only does @arbitorian.bsky.social provide a history of Estuary English accents, he also delves into the historical roots of Orks in fantasy fiction and why they tend to speak with pigeon-versions of those accents. Wonderful stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt1ARLfsUEI27 Apr 2026 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhkvil47s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mkcmz7w2hk22The Lovecraft Retrospectives continues its descent into the abyssal realms of the man's fiction with At The Mountains of Madness. I think people are going to be surprised at my and @timescarcass.bsky.social 's reactions to this ostensibly iconic work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuDc9x4GMQw25 Apr 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkcmz7w2hk22https://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mk3zn24rsc2xPlease join Lex Jones and myself as we discuss his novel, The Final Casebook of Mortimer Grimm: https://youtu.be/aJDI0MB2Cmk?si=KUOPAeVTuEpdomD322 Apr 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3zn24rsc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mk3nfhsixs2gA Plague Champion and Infernal Master from my Death Guard and Thousand Sons respectively. Also, Fabulous Bill. Because.22 Apr 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3nfhsixs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mk3n7yjxdk2gMy friend and compatriot, Echo B. Fortune, once described my work as "viscerally opposed to conservatism" and "a Utopia of freaks," both of which are compliments I couldn't be more pleased with. www.strangeplaygrounds.com https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B00J60BJ82 http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/22 Apr 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3n7yjxdk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mjug5ghvik2x"I've been to the future. I've seen how the world ends. It was neat. See you there soon." - Launchpad McQuack19 Apr 2026 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjug5ghvik2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mjrvrwbzv22uFor the evening crowd: Something gross, something profound. Our - @elliotchapman.bsky.social, @timescarcass.bsky.social and myself- discussion of Cronenberg's The Fly goes to places none of us expected. https://youtu.be/252u3pMYgrQ?si=a9Fak3BFnG7FIK8O18 Apr 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrvrwbzv22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mjr2fn6p2s2uSick-bags on standby for today's episode of Not The Same Log, in which @elliotchapman.bsky.social, @timescarcass.bsky.social and myself take a swat at David Cronenberg's 1986 existential tour de force, The Fly. https://youtu.be/252u3pMYgrQ?si=ymACCw2OSehlvfnh18 Apr 2026 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjr2fn6p2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mjhkes5aac2gYay! @miramanga.bsky.social and @arbitorian.bsky.social return with the Warhammer book club! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2tY1Gv16U14 Apr 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhkes5aac2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social/post/3mjhev2eruc2vMy co-host over at @thefluffenhammer.bsky.social, Adam Nicol, has written a deeply moving tribute to the late, great Ian Watson: https://www.thefluffenhammer.com/articles/in-memorium-ian-watson-1943-?fbclid=IwY2xjawRLERtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR72RYCRdm9NM4CAO61mKyXI_4Z6axH--Y_ytH7Ng_Ed3AA-wcLPqnsbgTN4bQ_aem_WZqPnUV6CeKDZ8DucSgPwg14 Apr 2026 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhev2eruc2v