Words From Darran
Punk-ass book jockey. Smol science writerer. Invisible ghost in the streets, visible ghost in the sheets.
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- Reposted by Words From DarranIf we talked shit about Neil Gaiman back when the allegations first dropped, let’s chat again. Fuck this guy.
- Reposted by Words From DarranLooking for a children’s fantasy author who was NOT mentioned in the Epstein files?
- Reposted by Words From DarranThis is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.
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- JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- i hate googling "how to make my eye stop twitching" and it says more sleep and less caffeine. i wanted a magic pill answerrrrr.
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- MF Doom will return in Avengers Doomsday
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- live scenes of me trying to live my life when i have to go get a filling in an hour
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- my friend coming out of the loos after the cinema last night to hear me say "i do wish they'd done a bit more with the satanism" her: that is the most Darran thing i could've walked back to hear. well done.
- i did two days in the office (up at 6am) with socialising after each (bed at midnight) in a row and now
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- 7,377 loans of my silly little books from libraries last year! what a mad stat!! that's LOADS!!! Stars rain down glory upon the humble wonderful Public Library.
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- went into tonight's dnd with minimal prep and vibes and was very stressed but the RP from those players man. what a table.
- the Fallout TV show managing to be both SHAMELESS fan service and also great storytelling on its own merit is so much fun to me. i am kicking my heels in delight every time a reference to the games gets made whereas usually i'd be cringing myself inside-out.
- Reposted by Words From DarranI felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
- a bunch of onions washed up on Brighton beach this morning i don't remember this Lovecraft story
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- made this for a tumblr gag but i'll crosspost it here for a handful of likes (2)
- Reposted by Words From Darrannothing more properly honors Scott's memory than a crude cartoon drawn incompetently by a plagiarism robot
- i feel so vindicated lmao
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- Reposted by Words From DarranPerhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.
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- Reposted by Words From DarranOn one hand, Columbo is a police lieutenant, which is bad. On the other hand, Columbo makes more sense if you view him not as a cop but as some sort of supernatural entity, like a fey
- i'm reading a classic sci-fi novel atm and it is very good but also has that "older SFF novel doesn't seem to believe in queer people" thing going on which i was about to put down to age but then i remembered Ursula K Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness 20 years earlier sooooo no excuse
- it has begin.
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- every year i end up completely hyperfixated on a dad rock song to the point of near-insanity (last year it was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd). we already have a strong candidate for 2026 as i've listened to Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits twice a day every day so far this year
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- sometimes you plan a dnd session for weeks with battle maps and so much prep and it's just okay and then other times you go in 100 words in a word doc and a wing and a prayer and it's great
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- just successfully kicked a football back to a group of kids while i was out on my walk 2026 is my year
- in one final act of indignity from 2025 i absolutely forgot to hang up my laundry yesterday so it's been sat in the machine all night yay
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- Reposted by Words From DarranWe can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
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- just learned from the book i'm reading that the Swiss doctor who first described nostalgia called it "a neurological disease of essentially demonic cause"
- "Annecdotal evidence"
