Alan Fleming
SF fan, co-chair of Unconfined - the 2027 Eastercon to be held in Glasgow (https://easterconglasgow.org).
Also on Mastodon: mastodon.me.uk/@alanfleming (SFF here tech there)
Bit grumpy about Bluesky but it's where SFF's at 🤷🏻♂️
- God to see a great person doing the right thing: buttondown.com/MaxGladstone/archiv…
- Reposted by Alan FlemingHello hello, I'm not quite back on socials yet, but I'd be remiss not to mention the @barnesandnoble pre-order sale. Masquerade, the third book in the Micah Grey trilogy, is eligible, and I believe Emberclaw's paperback, the sequel to Dragonfall, also applies.
- Reposted by Alan Flemingstill at it
- Merry Xmas. Hope you all have as restful end of the year as you can.
- Reposted by Alan FlemingJust a reminder that Eastercon memberships go up on December 1st, 2025. Today is a good day to get a membership. Current membership rates Adult Attending (18+) - £80 Low Income Attending (18+) - £50 Child/Teen (7-17) - £20 Infant (0-6) - Free Apocryphal - £2 Supporting - £40
- Reposted by Alan FlemingSHADOWPLAY, the sequel to the award-winning PANTOMIME, is out now. I had a friend go in and send me some nice things people are saying about it. The Micah Grey trilogy is a whimsical gaslamp queer fantasy with found family. Escape into the circus or step onto the magician's stage.🎪 🔮 🪄 🎩 ✨
- Reposted by Alan FlemingDid you catch our latest newsletter? This month we covered our upcoming rate rise, new volunteers, Novacon, LR Lam’s latest book release, and a had piece from about fandom in Glasgow. Check it out here and be sure to join our mailing list for our news and updates! buttondown.com/eastercongla...
- Reposted by Alan FlemingI seem to have been given the hotel room overlooking the Death Star construction site #bristolcon
- Reposted by Alan FlemingHave you checked out our new Halloween tshirts? Celebrate the spooky season in style with our limited edition design, in black, purple, maroon and navy, available at our shop - easterconglasgow.org/product/east...
- Reposted by Alan FlemingGET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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- A perfect time to get this book! P. Djéli Clark is one of our Guests of Honour at @eastercon2027.org in Glasgow.
- “What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes. “Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!” RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25 Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror “Adam in the garden…”
- LR Lam is one of our Guests of Honour at Unconfined - @eastercon2027.org - read all their work then come primed with thoughts and questions!
- MASQUERADE, the third instalment in the MICAH GREY trilogy, is now 25% off at @waterstones.bsky.social Use the discount code OCTOBER25 at checkout! The MICAH GREY trilogy is a story of found family, queer joy, and self discovery, wrapped in a whimsical gaslamp fantasy🃏🎪
- Reposted by Alan FlemingAnd that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
- Reposted by Alan FlemingJim Caviezel Met Vin Diesel Going to the fair Said Jim Caviezel To Vin Diesel “Ha! You’ve got no hair” Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,” My pate is bare, But this is incidental; For tonsure-free I’d rather be Than totally fucking mental”
- Reposted by Alan FlemingThanks, I love it.
- Remember the simpler times, when JKR’s books were on this list? Then there was the mid-career plot twist!
- ALA Most Challenged Books of 2024 locusmag.com/2025/09...
- Reposted by Alan FlemingCome play with us, 3PO.
- Reposted by Alan FlemingThere are times when the idiocies encountered in a day do more than suggest a martini at cocktail hour, they essentially compel one. This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.
- Reposted by Alan FlemingToday is the UK launch of Pantomime (El’s Version), meaning the first book of the Micah Grey trilogy is now out on both sides of the pond. I’d been daydreaming for years of being to somehow resurrect this series that means so much to me. (Part 1)
- Reposted by Alan FlemingThe Sighthill Stone Circle in central Glasgow. First astronomically aligned megalithic monument to be built in Britain for thousands of years. From the right angle it can look very un-urban. #Glasgow #StoneCircle
- Reposted by Alan FlemingTop entertainment from the 8yo this morning. He just told me this joke: Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”
- Reposted by Alan FlemingOur first newsletter is out and ready for you to read! Come find out everything we’ve been up to since since the vote at Reconnect this year 🤍 easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/
- A popular person replying to themselves can bully other lesser-liked voices out of your timeline here. I don’t like that.
- Sorry, I was wrong. It was fifteen.
- See, here, when you reply to yourself, it takes over everyone’s feed. I just had eleven spaces in a row taken by a thread. Had they been individual posts, other posters would have got a look-in.
- People need to not reply to themselves here. Cos how that appears to people is the post, the reply, the post with the reply; and the more you do the worse it gets. (Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)
- The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: wow, he didn’t half telegraph that unmasking or the logic. Liked the characters, liked the world building but that plot was lit up in neon “look here!” signs. Average.
- It felt like a cup of tea afternoon. Like the mug? You can get one (as well as other things) here: easterconglasgow.org/shop
- I may have found a cross-platform Bluesky client I like. Finally.
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- Reposted by Alan FlemingWant to help shape the future of fan cons? Glasgow 2024 is offering up to 18 bursaries (for aspiring & experienced conrunners alike) to attend SMOFcon 42 in Stockholm this December! Deadline: 31st August 2025 (1/2)
- Reposted by Alan FlemingSo all y'all con running types @glasgow2024.bsky.social has bursaries to help folk get to @smofcon42.bsky.social Fan cons are run by volunteers and this is our chance to help folk come together & support each other to run amazing fan cons for the whole community. #FansMakeWorldcon #FansMakeFanCons
- Reposted by Alan FlemingPride is upon us and the campaign for Wrath Month launches in 48 hours. Join the riot. 💙📚🪐📚🌈🚀💫
- Frustrated with #Murderbot. I don’t mind short episodes, or episodes released weekly, but I *do* mind short episodes released weekly.
- Reposted by Alan FlemingI got the best readers—hands down. Stay on point.
- Hi folks! Is there any way on here to hide peoples’ reposts from my feed? I get so many people reposting the same thing: some control of this would be good.
- Badly-parked flying saucer at Zurich Airport yesterday.
- Reposted by Alan FlemingJoin Unconfined, the 2027 Eastercon, now and get our early bird rate, only available in April! Early Bird Rates: 🔹Full Adult Membership: £85 🔹Discounted Adult: £55 🔹Young Adult (16-25) and Student: £20 🔹Under 16: £5 🔹Apocryphal: £5 registration.easterconglasgow.org/members/regi...
- Reposted by Alan FlemingFull Reconnect Commitee Team at the closing ceremony of 2025 Eastercon, Reconnect.
- Reposted by Alan FlemingI have some News. Myself and my husband @alanfleming.org are thrilled to announce we will be co-chairing UNCONFINED - the 2027 Eastercon, to be held in Glasgow! easterconglasgow.org
- Reposted by Alan FlemingWe’d love for you to join us too - join the fun and become a member here registration.easterconglasgow.org #glasgoweastercon #eastercon2027 (2/2)
- Reposted by Alan FlemingWe’re Unconfined, the 78th Eastercon! We’ll be in Glasgow in 2027 and we’re very excited to see you there! We’ll be at the Crowne Plaza hotel, 26th-29th March 2027, and we’re thrilled to be joined by our guests of honour; P. Djeli Clark, L. R. Lam, Mark Meenan, and Tamsyn Muir 🦄 (1/2)
- Reposted by Alan FlemingDifferent peerage, it seems. You’re speaking of the Earldom of Arran in the Scottish peerage, while the various Arthurs Gore are Earls of Arran in the Irish (or “Irish”) one.
- Nine days short of three years after moving (back) to #Glasgow, @davidbamford.bsky.social and I have just finished refurbishment / redecoration or our flat! OK there's one new carpet (and new windows but we don't talk about those) to do, but it *feels* like we're done.
- *of* our flat, natch.
- Interesting food & wine pairings here in Aldi today.
- Given a substantial percentage of the population is non-white, or non-straight, or non-cis, you’d think the pictures and profiles of the heaps of obvious bot followers I now have to block daily would have be more diverse, wouldn’t you?
