Nelson Stanley

@notasentence

Romany. Angry. Stories in Ogerog Annual #1, Seize the Press, The Dark, Northern Gravy, Weird Horror #9, Old Moon Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, other places...

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Nelson Stanley@notasentence· 25d

Have a picture of Lola, mate. Five years ago, traversing the Nantlle Ridge.

Eryri, October 2021. The top of the Nantlle Ridge in strong wintry sunshine. A stupid middle-aged man in a St. Pauli baseball cap & aviators stares off at something out of shot; a bulldog-bull terrier cross in a special doggo-climbing harness attempts to clamber over his left shoulder, either staring at the same thing or, possibly, trying to get at a distant sheep.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Jul 11

Walter de la Mere getting narratological in "Pretty Poll":

"What are we all but ghosts—of something? And who's telling this story for *you*, pray, but your ghost of *me*?"

-Walter de la Mere gets narratological, "Pretty Poll".

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Jun 3

To distract for but a moment from the unremitting horror of this world, it's Lola's 13th birthday today. Here she appears in her annual guise of "Burfday Kween", after a fishy breakfast.

A small elderly black & white French bulldog cross (obviously the most beautiful animal ever to have existed) contemplates the ineffable whilst sitting on a very old sofa. The text "happy birthday Lola!" has been added to the bottom of the picture, & various graphical objects have been superimposed on the photo to emphasise the celebratory nature of the occasion. Upon the dog's head has been drawn a rough representation of a crown in MS Paint. The dog is very, very regal indeed.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· May 2

Pleased to announce I've got a brand new story in May's issue of The Dark Magazine. www.thedarkmagazine.com/mercy/

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Apr 27

Just a reminder that if anyone can sneak me into the Tokyo Dome to watch Naoya Inoue vs Junto Nakatani, I'd be eternally grateful.

Undisputed super-bantamweight champion of the world Naoya Inoue at the final press conference for his fight with the challenger, three-division world champion Junto Nakatani, ahead of their title fight on Saturday at the Tokyo Dome.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Apr 18

Our fearless 4th estate. x.com/NicholasGuya...

Screenshot of Nicholas Guyatt's Twitter post: "Mandelson phoning into his old Times Radio podcast in January 2025 to complain about the security vetting. Stick around for Hugo Rifkind's penetrating follow-up question."

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Apr 16

Headline from Press Gazette: "Guardian pulls quotes from interview in which academic compared 'anti-gender ideology' to fascism."

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Apr 10

This you?

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Mar 17

Newspaper headline from fash rag The Times: "Labour ditches plan to let AI firms use copyrighted works" sub-head: "Ministers abandon opt-out policy after backlash from Sir Elton John & Sir Paul McCartney..."

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Mar 9

A large flat-headed screwdriver & a double-handed prybar.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Mar 8

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Feb 9

A screenshot of Alan Macelod's Twitter post, in which he's responded to this publication's facile attempt at deflection by posting a happy beach holiday photo of the disgraced people trafficker & sex-crime helper Ghislaine Maxwell enjoying herself on holiday in the laughing company of the owner of The Atlantic, which is the publication attempting to posit that the rich & powerful of this world are not inhuman scum who look out only for each other & would sell us all down the river in seconds.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Dec 5

Ian Boal has the answer (specifically, the definition of community as "who gets to sleep on the warm ventilation grates & who does not").

"Community: The maximum shibboleth. A mantra used affirmatively across the entire political and cultural landscape; NPR once interviewed a spokesman from "the organized crime community." There is an implied antithesis to "the state" (with its suggestion of power, authority and central decision), in favor of the local and the face-to-face. The results can be grotesque: the release of asylum and hospital inmates to "the community" often means, in reality, warm ventilation grates. The "communitarian" right would rather nobody noticed that the shattering of communities is a direct effect of capital moving away in obedience to the logic of the very system they endorse."

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Nov 17

Lola & me, scrambling along the Nantlle ridge, 2021.

Y Garn in the sunshine, with me & my little dog Lola resting on the 45 degree slope in the mid-ground.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Nov 17

Because she is Undisputed Heavyweight Poasting Champion of the World, it's hard to remember sometimes that Joyce Carol Oates is also a remarkable fucking writer.

Quote from the JCO story "The Bingo Caller": "Mother has been dead for years. I won't say what her sickness was but you can guess, it went on forever, and after she died I took all my things—I had this funny career going. I won't bore you with the details—all my papers—stories and notes and such—and burnt them in the trash, and I've been at home every day and every night since, and I felt good when I burnt the things and good when I remember it, and—and I feel good right now," Rose says defiantly, finishing her drink. "So I know what I did was a sin."

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Nov 16

If you see this, post a comics cover you love.

Cover of July 1984's 2000AD, advertising the first publication of "The Ballad of Halo Jones"; the cast are arrayed with Halo front & centre, either side of the masthead: "Where did she go? OUT. What did she do? EVERYTHING."

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Nov 11

The fact the cunt's pushing *Blinkist* to do this, a service designed so rich morons can appear well-read, is delightfully on-the-nose.

RatboyGenius on Twitter, commenting on how, after Joyce Carol Oates pointed out Elon Musk is an uncultured wasteland of a human being, everywhere you go on Twitter there are promoted adverts about how much Elon Musk reads.

Quoth they: "LMFAO this fuckin ad I just got... Joyce BBQ'd his illiterate ass so bad he's pushing ads about how he reads books, actually".

Below is a Twitter-promoted listicle from some fucking awful dystopian nightmare outfit who provide summaries of books so you don't have to read them.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Oct 27

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Illustration, by M. Fitzgerald, from the original serialisation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla", published in The Dark Blue, 1872; Laura & Carmilla encounter the funeral procession of a young girl. The former looks away in woe, the latter looks on with... something else on her mind.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Oct 21

Sun setting from the foot of Pendle Hill.

An evening redness growing in the west, from the base of Pendle Hill, Lancashire. The Pennines loom into the murk as the sun dies under low cloud.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Oct 17

Went up Pen-y-Ghent. 10/10, would climb up again. PS: View on the way *up* was priceless; as you can probably tell the cloud was too low to see fuck-all from the top. Still awesome, mind. PPS: Lola walked down the other side, in case you were wondering. PPPS: She was uninterested in Hull Pot.

$A middle-aged Gyppo clambers up the steps on the path up Pen-Y-Ghent, his small bulldog Lola strapped into a special kind of back-pack contraption for small\aged\spoilt dogs (she's all three).$

The same middle-aged Gyppo at the top of Pen-Y-Ghent, having climbed so far up that he's now in the clouds & the beautiful view is obscured. Metaphor for life, or something. He did, at least, not have a bulldog on his back at this juncture.

Lola gazes in wonder across Hull Pot, rumoured to be the "largest natural hole in Britain" (all jokes RE: the author possessing the largest natural hole in Britain to the usual address), probably at some tasty-looking sheep on the far side.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Oct 13

Pendle Hill, Lancashire, on Saturday afternoon.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Oct 10

Twitter user TheTumboy opines: "It's funny that the main argument for AI is usually not that it's good or useful, just that it's inevitable so we might as well learn to live with it. Even its advocates talk about it like it's a plague."

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Oct 4

I know that shithole passed into self-parody long ago, but they're outdoing themselves recently:

A screenshot showing the recent headline from The Guardian: "'Surprisingly creamy': as a fermentista, how could I resist making ant yoghurt", which if you told me Viz had made it up I would've replied "Ooh that's a bit on the nose, innit?"

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Sep 24

Recycling The Scum headlines from 20 years ago? Farrage must be pissed up...

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Sep 23

There's a pol prof (I think!) in Flying Rodent's mentions being all "He's gone too far!" & it's such a fucking tell that this is the bit he objects to—an entire class cannot conceive that being mates with a war criminal 'cos he was nice about yr. Star Wars book might look a bit off to a human being.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Sep 23

Ye fuckin' [elder] gods, those Clark Ashton Smith covers...! www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...

French edition of Clark Ashton Smith's "Abominations of Yondo", showing the cover illustration by Jean-Michel Nicollet: it shows an undead wight-king in repose; there's a fucking horrible worm-fluke-snake thing with a near-human face coming out of the wight-king's crown.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Sep 22

The Elric of my dreams.

Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, Last Emperor of the Dragon Isle, Kin-slayer, looking *fabulous* in his quartered cloak. Art by Yoshitaka Amano.

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Sep 21

Pic for reference:

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Sep 18

The Spectator promoting fascism? Heaven forefend! Why, their lovely editor Fraser Nelson is everywhere w/o comment or censure, & all the other journos & politicians in Britain ensure they're seen every year at the Spectator garden party...!

The Spectator's Facebook page, advertising an article entitled "A Fascist Takeover of Greece? We Should Be So Lucky!".

Times of Israel front-page; headline: "Respected British magazine publishes defence of Nazi German troops". I hope you can guess which magazine this is from the context...

Nelson Stanley@notasentence· Sep 17

Can't even project an image of a known paedophile palling up to the US President without being arrested in this country.