Gavin Inglis

@gavininglis.bsky.social

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Writer. Spoken word guy. MC. Game creator and enthusiast. Into code, type, maps, music, magic and architecture. http://www.gavininglis.com/

A view through trees of wildfire on Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. Murky green foliage forms a frame around a hillside aglow with orange light. Plumes of flame rise from the gorse.
Interior view of Synopsis Scriptorum Ecclesiae Antiquae, published 1953. It contains a fold-out timeline of writers from 60 AD to 460 AD, labelled in Latin. The rows record Roman emperors, notable events, popes, and geographic regions. Between 360 AD and 410 AD a startling amount of detail is included. The Jack Reacher book, Never Go Back, is not pictured.
An email acknowledgement. It shows a five-pointed star and the text "You're attending Canyon of Blood Listening Party".
A grid of coloured index cards displays our collective recall of an unwatchable foreign art house movie, constructed during the game 'Kaleidoscope' by Jackson Tegu. An unreliable friend described it as "A surrealistic, Tarantinoesque film visually obsessed with slugs." The characters are Tiny, an immense retired hitman struggling with his mental health; Cleopatra, a sinister teenager who carries a scythe and is followed by ravens; Sharon, a stressed single mother who used to work in human resources but who now tries to make it as an assassin; and the mysterious Barbour-clad Gardener, who smokes a pipe and seems both central and peripheral to the confusing narrative. The film sets philosophical monologue over images of mental breakdown, and the rare glimpses we get of domesticity are often interrupted by bursts of shocking violence. Is the opening scene of gunmen loading live slugs into pistols meant to be taken literally? Or is it simply a metaphor which fuels later reflections on bureaucracy and guilt?
A card from the Pokemon trading card game discarded on an urban pavement. It features a cunning-looking blue and black monkey hanging from a tree. The monkey wears a pink headset which seems to be emitting purple energy. The monkey has a special ability called "Adrena-Brain". Flavour text explains that the monkey "uses psychokinesis to induce intense dizziness".
A forty-year-old cardboard standup counter for the Golden Heroes RPG. It features a gold man looking away from us, arms upraised, wearing a pink cape and boots. The tag reads, "Eldritch".
The downs and downs and the downs and the down downs and the downs-tempted events and the down-down and the down-down and the down-down and the down-down and the down-down and
A ouija board displayed in a charity shop window. It features the usual alphabet, numbers and yes/no/goodbye keywords. However its styling is unusual. The font is cheerful and multi-coloured, the background is a rainbow, and the corners feature a happy sun and moon. The overall impression is of a toy intended for very young children.