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@tanngrisnir

Glasgow, Scotland based SFFH fan and sometimes conrunner. Less so these days since disabilities have worsened. Happy to eat tofu, not ashamed to be “woke”. Trans rights matter, queer rights matter, if you think otherwise, awa’ an bileyerheid.

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DC@tanngrisnir· Jul 4

The Needfire by M.K. Hardy. Excellent book of creepy gothic stuff and sapphic longing set in the very north of Scotland in the Nineteenth Century. Damn good.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 28

If you see this, post an archer.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 26

Updated author pic …?

A Talosian from Star Trek: looks human until you get above the eyes then the head is a bulbous thing that looks as though the brain has inflated and expanded the skull.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 26

Interesting difference

Your results:

97% Woke / 3% Chud

36% Techbro / 64% Neo-Luddite

53% Hopepilled / 47% Doomer

80% Davos / 20% Dubai

Your closest match:

Johan Mamdani

Mayor of New York City (2026 – present)

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 25

Blake’s 7 title card:

Has That Planet Changed Shape?

By

Terry Nation

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 24

I do not like this weather.

Close up of a thermometer showing a reading just nudging over 26°.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 23

Here’s some screenshots of the gobsmacking room.

A wall on which a rifle is displayed, and above that two shelves holding four WWII Stahlhelm helmets (there are others not shown)

Above a desk with a laptop is a wall display of eight WWII German military daggers, and on the adjacent wall is… a Waffen-SS poster.

A dummy of a naked male torso (armless) is “dressed” in a white silk scarf, an Afrika Korps cap, and what looks like a water bottle on a thin strap around the neck. Behind this, a red Nazi pennant hangs on the wall, and there’s another wall display of eight military daggers.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 23

These buggers got what they wanted but it isn’t good enough for them.

Front page of the Daily Express. Entire page given over to an image of a chalk cliff on which is displayed the banner: Express Crusade: GIVE US A PROPER BREXIT

Above that, over the blue sky, it says: “Today marks 10 years since Britain voted to leave the EU. As Starmer finally falls on his sword and Britain faces a lurch to the left under Burnham we call for politicians to finally believe in Brexit and deliver the will of the people”

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 23

Visiting the reflecting pool …

B&W photo of the Doctor and Sarah Jane standing by the black “pool” on Zeta Minor (actually a boundary with the universe of antimatter). [From Doctor Who: Planet of Evil]

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 22

It seems David Daker has died. Another sad loss, he was in so much (including Dick Turpin, currently being shown on Talking Pictures). R.I.P.

David Daker on the left in full hair medieval mode as Irongron, talking to the shiny metal helmet that hides the true potatoey nature of Linx, the first Sontaran we ever met. ( Doctor Who: The Time Warrior )

This time David Daker is on the right, and significantly less hairy — his face is fully visible for a start, and his hairline is a bit receding. He’s wearing a black and silver futuristic ensemble that wouldn’t look out of place in Blake’s 7. Beside him are Tom Baker as the Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana. They’re obviously in some sort of space ship. The Doctor’s hand is raised and his expression suggests he’s attempting to calm things down. Rigg (Daker) certainly looks tense, and if he’s not going to lamp someone he’s probably going to shout a bit. ( Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden )

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 21

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

Henriette Gérard as the vampire, an old woman, in Dreyer’s “Vampyr” (1932).

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 21

FFS. If pavements, kerbs, and transport are designed in such a way I can’t use them, it isn’t my “personal struggles” that are disabling me. 😡 archive.li/2026.06.15-1...

According to Tom Shakespeare, a professor of disability research, very few disabled people openly back the social model concept, and many have actively disowned it. Shakespeare has dismissed it as a simplistic ideology which has gone too far and become the litmus test of disability correctness. He argues that it fails to correspond to the everyday experience of disabled people for whom personal struggles are far more disabling than social barriers.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 19

“Unforced errors” is quite a way to describe Starmer’s targeting of the vulnerable and marginalised, authoritarian approach to everything, and telling much of Labour’s core support to piss off. But sure, you go on blaming the media.

Two skeets by Adam Schwarz

An impressive win for Burnham. He'll soon replace Starmer.
He must 1. Deliver, 2. Communicate a simple narrative of change & 3. Prevent big unforced errors.
If he doesn't, his premiership will be tanked by the same online/tabloid campaign of demonisation and disinformation that destroyed Starmer.

Starmer's leadership had plenty of problems. Unforced errors and epically failing to communicate the really good work that his govt has done.
But the "worst PM ever" and fury he's faced is insanely disproportionate and shows how vulnerable Labour PMs are to disinfo campaigns if they don't ace govt.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 19

Did you say …. Stonking Stingray …?

Stingray, the sleek submarine which glides under the sea into the world below, exiting the launch tunnel from its Marinville pen. It is a thing of shiny blue, silver, and yellow, streamlined af and looks like it’s built for speed.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 17

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle. (Based on four of the books by Colin Watson.)

Close up on an old fashioned biscuit tin with an illustration of part of a town, showing a river flowing under a railway viaduct into a wide basin with buildings suggesting docks around it. The railway divides after crossing the bridge, running in front of houses; a street is identified as Edward Crescent. Over the river basin in large letters it says:

Murder Most English

Another view of the biscuit tin. The point of view has pulled back, and we can see part of two of the other sides of the tin, with a section of the river at top left and illustrations of streets, houses, and greenery elsewhere. The lid of the tin has been opened to reveal a very dark interior where deeply suspicious characters in, it seems, black hoods look out and Aaron’s l around themselves shiftily. Against the black surface of the interior of the lid it says:

A Flaxborough Chronicle

Having pulled back from the same view, we can see the whole of the two sides of the biscuit tin, with its pretty depiction of the town, showing the railway curving around at the bottom with a train heading towards the river. Houses and shops are shown as is a large building which might be a cathedral. In the bottom right corner is another large building, possibly a manor house. The lid is closed, only the attractive design of the tin is visible now. Beside the tin is the title:

Coffin, Scarcely Used

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 11

The U.S. celebrations for the country’s 250th anniversary are imminent. Can’t help remembering when I got one of these, 51 years ago, celebrating the 800th anniversary of Glasgow (every schoolkid in the city got one).

A small light brown mug with a stylised image of a tree incorporating a bird, a bell, and a fish (representing the city’s arms), over the text “Glasgow 800”.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 11

Post a cartoon you remember that no one else remembers:

Black and white image of Gigantor, a huge robot, with bulky body and powerful arms of shiny metal, flying through the air at speed. There’s a small crest on its head and it even has a pointy metal nose between its eyes. Its head seems to join its body just below the nose so no mouth is visible.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 10

Unexpected present arrived 🙂

On a dark blue cloth, a dragon with wings spread: it’s in pale blue and pink with bright yellow eyes. Cute and they know it.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 10

New boss, same as old boss.

From The National: "Andy Burnham has pledged to make 'greater use' of migrant detention centres if he succeeds Keir Starmer as Prime Minister"

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 9

Nice to see the police box has been spruced up.

Glasgow police box, freshly painted a bright blue.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 8

Mine no longer exists, the C.S. Lewis quote used to be on the wall of the café in the Argyle St Waterstone’s.

Image of the header of my BlueSky account. The user image is a close up image of a blue eye. The header is a photo of a block text painted on a brown wall in a lighter tone, using different fonts:

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 6

No mention of PE…

Peter Cushing as Dr. Van Helsing holding up two chunky candlesticks at right angles to form a cross to fend off the great evil.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 6

This one

A packet of Ginger Nut Biscuits with Mcleod’s replacing the Mcbities name and a cartoon vampire face on the biscuit with a zombie hand rising behind it.

DC@tanngrisnir· Jun 5

This is shocking. Even to ask this is shocking. How can people who lack the capacity to make decisions about their care & treatment *possibly* give valid consent to their confinement?

Does the Minister of Health for Northern Ireland have the power to revise the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice ("the Code") so that persons aged 16 and over who lack capacity to make decisions about their care and treatment can give valid consent to their confinement through the expression of their wishes and feelings?

DC@tanngrisnir· May 31

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book/day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (But may be some ruminations or reminiscences.) (20/20) Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Complete Stories and Poems of
EDGAR ALLAN
POE — a hardback book. The cover is dominated by a large drawing of a raven, its tail at bottom right and head towards top left; its head is turned to look to the right of the cover. The drawing is coloured in dark blue apart from its eye, which is bright red. To the left and beneath the bird the background is blue; above and to the right the background is a subdued green.

DC@tanngrisnir· May 30

Cover of a Hungarian edition of the book:

Karinthy Ferenc – Epepe

Against a white background is an illustration, vividly coloured in Sixties/Seventies style, showing the outlines of two figures. In the foreground is a man wearing a check shirt, just behind and beside him is another figure, possibly a woman. The man is coloured orange, as is the woman’s shirt, her face is green, however in the centre of her face is an orange circle with concentric circles stone and within it: it looks very much like a representation of a compact disc (which it is not likely to be!); behind and above the figures are coloured bands crossing the image diagonally, and some large blue shapes — possibly letters — floating above the people.

DC@tanngrisnir· May 30

The cover of Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy. The cover illustration is a drawing in a very simple style of a jumble of buildings crushed together claustrophobically. The central mass of structures is coloured blue-grey, and from the tall, apparently residential, tower in the centre a massive chimney is belching out white smoke. To one side a pylon juts up from behind the buildings, with some cables running off out of the picture. The background — again, almost entirely buildings — is coloured and orange-red tone. There is a very small segment at the very top of the picture which might be sky.

Across the middle, sloping upwards from the left along the line of the broadest building’s roof, is the book title. Lower on the right and sloping down along another roof is the author’s name.

‘A Central European classic to be discovered and relished.’ – Eva Hoffman

‘A masterpiece.’ – Magazine Littéraire

‘A stunning novel. Funny, nightmarish and jubilant.’ – Libération

DC@tanngrisnir· May 29

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book/day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (But may be some ruminations or reminiscences.) (18/20) The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by H.P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror, by H.P. Lovecraft

The cover illustration shows a broad band of sandy yellow, along its top is arranged the silhouettes of a town with angular roofs and the shape of a church; slightly closer at one end is the outline of a tree, branches bare, and the low humps of gravestones.

Above the land, the sky goes from pale to deep blue, with a crescent moon near the top right, partly overlain with the title.

A large figure of someone in a long, black coat dominates the picture. The clothes seem old fashioned (19th or maybe even 18th century). The figure goes from almost completely transparent at the bottom to apparent solidity at the head; the shadowy town is visible through the middle of the figure, at roughly waist level.

What is most striking about the figure is that it has green, claw-like hands and a broad, green inhuman face, like some sort of cross between human and fish or perhaps frog.

DC@tanngrisnir· May 28

Cover of the Methuen paperback of Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

The Flaxborough Novels

“Sharp and stylish and wickedly funny” — Literary Review

The cover is illustrated with a picture drawn in a gently comic style of a morose looking man in black coat and wearing a black top hat, clearly an undertaker; beside him is a short woman, apparently working class, who is obviously speaking volubly. There is something in her eyes which suggests she might not be wholly in touch with reality.

DC@tanngrisnir· May 27

I’ve had two editions of this, and I think on the whole I prefer the later one, in Penguin Classics style. I find it interesting that these stories can work so well despite the underlying philosophy being one I don’t share.