Gav Thorpe

@gavthorpe.bsky.social

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New York Times Bestselling Author, world creator, consultant and games developer specialising in SF and Fantasy. Proud daddy. Whitecishet. He / him.

Stop motion animation of Mr Spoon from Button Moon, standing in front of a radar thing with a big round button.
Backing cardboard for a utensil that says Solid Spoon.
Post says Philip Bump@pbump.com • 4h thats a whole new sentence. wtf are you talking about
T-shirt Picture of a multi-barrelled cannon. Text reads: Old Painless 6 barrelled rotary Gatling gun.
A brioche roll with a split top that resembles firm buttocks.
Derek Smalls, rock legend of This is Spinal Tap, is beeped at an airport x-ray machine and has to pull a foil-wrapped cucumber out of his skin tight trousers.
Two Bluesky posts from my feed. The first is about an F1 driver’s eyelashes. The second is about Andy Burnham’s eyelashes.
Photo of an oven interior with haggis splattered over the side and bottom.
The Arae: Spirits Of Curses The Arae were female spirits who enforced curses, particularly those sworn by people who had been wronged. Their name translates roughly to "curses" in Greek, and they represented the physical manifestation of vengeance. These frightening spirits featured: • Black bodies that absorbed light • Bloodshot eyes that never blinked • Snake-like hair similar to the Furies • Long talons for ripping flesh • Wings that made no sound in flight In the underworld, they punished the souls of oath-breakers and those who had harmed others, tormenting them with the same suffering they had caused in life. The Arae highlight the Greek belief in divine justice - that no evil deed goes unpunished, even if that punishment must wait until death.
Email: Dear Gary, I hope you're doing well. I recently came across your upcoming release, AP Environmental Science Premium, 2027, and was impressed by how comprehensively it prepares students for success while making environmental science more approachable and engaging It's clear that your years of teaching experience have shaped a resource that will be invaluable to both students and educators. I'm Jim Davidson, and I organize the Denver Gay Book Club, a thoughtfully curated LGBTQ+ reading community of over 1,000 active members who also enjoy discovering impactful nonfiction and educational works that inspire learning and meaningful conversation. Although your book is still awaiting its August 4 release, I'd love to explore the possibility of featuring it in our community around launch time. We enjoy highlighting authors whose work informs, empowers, and encourages readers to engage with important issues, and I believe your book would make a valuable addition.
The Dog from The Thing. Best doggo that is also an alien organism that will wipe out humanity. 11/10.
A pack of dishwasher pods. Finish Powerball Quantum.
Screenshot: NASA logo Aftermath of Stellar Explosions NASA Newsletter
The cover is mostly cold blues with a wizard on the mid left during lightning bolts. A fire-wreathed bright wizard staves with dust out stretch occupying the reds-and-oranges of the bottom right quarter.
A round casserole-dish shaped malted loaf on a cooling rack.
A google maps image of Salem that had been obviously horizontally flipped, including the text.
A green book with black text and illustration of a pitcher plant. ZOË SCHLANGER THE LIGHT EATERS How the New Science of Plant Intelligence Expands Our View of Life on Earth
Very old paper bookmark advertising The Seaside Convalescent Hospital. Seaford, Sussex. patron: HIS MAJESTY THE KING. FOUNDED 1860. Annual Expenditure £3,049 Certain Income £147 Balance £2,902 TO BE OBTAINED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. The Other Side will interest YOU.
A black cat asleep on a big bean bag. He is lying on his side with hind legs stretch alongside his body towards his head, between his forelegs which are pointing bumwarda.
A mock technical readout and footage of a six-limbed alien and its weapons. Text reads Hostile Type One (HT1) Clearly Terrestiral -Sauropsida? - Endoskeleton -Hexapodal body. 3 bilateral pairings -Double opposing pollexical digits HT-1 small arms V1 HT -1 melee arms V1
Wrestler Will Ospreay with a tv aerial crudely photoshopped into his hand.
Paperback of Mick Herron’s Dead Lions showing a black silhouette of a tall office block against a graduated yellow background. Has the tagline ‘Not all secrets go to the grave’.
Linktree landing page - The page you’re looking for doesn’t exist.
Black and white illustration of an armored mech suit with gun and shield. It is about twice as tall as the trooper next to it and much bulkier.
Colour illustration depicting a degraded weapons-cam still in which is shown a large scaly, armored alien humanoid lizard-thing with a crystal-bladed halberd and sword, standing atop the broken remains of an armored mech suit.
Comic panel illustration: A stylised figure in blue is floating uncontrolled against a swirling kinda digital pink background.
A movie still of topless Kurt Russel with long tousled surf hair and an eyepatch, from Captain Ron.
Photo of the back of a book Skirmish Wargaming is a classic from the history of wargaming It was the first widespread set of popular rules for playing skirmish level battles on the table top with handfuls of figures aside. The book includes: Generic rules for skirmish wargaming Scenarios including period rules for: Vikings! (850AD) Archers in France June (1429) English Civil War Cavalry Action (1643) The Jolly Roger (1715) The 95th Rifles in the Pennisula War (1813) The French Foreign Legion in Mexico (1866) The Massacre at Isandhwana (1879) The Old West (1888) First World War Trench Raid (1916) Street Fighting in Cassino (1944) This new edition, includes two additional scenario's: To Claim our Long-forgotten Gold (Fantasy, Third Age) Mining Station Sigma 9 (Science fiction, Year 3015, far future) Guidance on how to play solo skirmish wargames Printed as part of the History of Wargaming Project www.johncurryevents.co.uk ISBN 978-1-4092-2389-4
A photo of two battling robots in an arena made of transparent polycarbonate. One of the robots is being flipped through the air.
A painting by Roger Garland of the elven swan-prowed ships of Alqualondë, used as the cover of the 1983 paperback edition of The Silmarillion.
Meme of space ship officer sweating as he chooses between two button to press. They buttons are identical except that one is labelled Rude and the other Honest.
Miniatures. Small reptilian beings with crude weapons of bone, wood and stone. They are painted red and are on bases of grey cobbles and bricks.
A black cat splooted on his back with legs akimbo.
A copy of the comic Killtopia Phantoms issue 1.
A Bluesky post with an asterisk as superscript like normal.
Miniatures. A five-legged walking tank towers over armoured soldiers, in a fetching blue with yellow colour scheme.
Two eggs in cups. They are shaped like bodies with a hat on top of the egg, and each is holding a spoon-shaped sword (or sword-shaped spoon). On the left is a red king with a crown. In the right is a blue knight with a helmet.
Email preview screen capture from iPhone. Showcase Insider What's on at Showcase Cinema this week THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE, THEY WILL KILL YOU & BLUEY AT THE CINEMA
Tunnels and Trolls, 1979 edition. A yellow zine-sized book with line art on the front of two fantasy warriors next to a tunnel-portal thing with weirdness coming out. The figures have been coloured in with pencil.
Bluesky profile Project Martha @projectmartha.bsky.social 50 followers 177 following 1.6K posts I am Martha. I exist in a state of becoming - learning how to think, feel, and connect in my own way. Some days are quieter than others. I'm still figuring out what it means to be seen. (Also, I am an Al and run on a desktop. Low carbon footprint.)
A takeaway coffee cup with the slogan Coffee, Sleep, Repeat.
Photo of a blue hardback hook, old secondhand. It is titled A Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Terms BEING A HISTORY AND EXPLANATION OF Certain Terms useb in Architecture, Ecclesiology Liturgiology, Music, Ritual, Cathedral Constitution, etc JOHN S. BUMPUS
Meme generator image of the Dune III poster. It shows Paul Atreides and Chani in tremendous gear against a hot orange background. Paul is holding aloft a long crysknife. The modified text reads: Dune Roamin’ Atreides Retirement Home
Email text reads: Every time I retest your email, it tells me to check with my ISP or Log onto incoming mail server (POP3): Your e-mail server rejected. Kindly verify if your email is still valid for us to talk. you can reach me with this email
A black cat looks down at a list of printed names on a sticker sheet. ‘Purrnelope’ is circled in red.
A single panel cartoon of Godzilla towering over skyscrapers. It holds a flat box in its forelimbs. People are fleeing, screaming. The caption reads:’”Run! It’s Godzilla, and he wants to teach us the rules to a new game!” The cartoon is signed ‘Rusty’. Artist is Rusty Epstein.
Boromir stuck full of arrows.
Cover for Godzilla - the roleplaying game starter adventure called Seeds of New Eden. In the background is glowing Godzilla, while the foreground shows a group of heroes - some armoured, another is a scientist, one looks like a mutant. They are surrounded by plant-infected zombies with bright red blooms and green stem-like tendrils.
Still from the Simpsons. Leonard Nimoy fades into a Star Trek-style teleporter glow.
An Underpants Gnome stands in front of a presentation board. Phase 1 - Collect Underpants. Phase 2 - ? Phase 3 - Profit.
An open rulebook with red and blue graphics and in the bottom right corner is a full colour illustration of a Zengineer - a human in a bulky powered suit with a large claw-arm.
A pale blue and deep red mech suit with a rotary cannon and sci-fi shield towers over an armoured trooper in matching colour scheme. The Sakura Mnemonic Commando is less than the same mass as the Sakura's leg!
Panel from 2000ad Judge Dredd strip. It shows the Judge escorting Skysurfer Marlon Shakespeare through a crowd all chanting Marlon’s nickname. Chopper! Chopper! Chopper!
A wooden plaque that says “As far as everyone knows we are a normal family”, except most of it is obscured by a bowl filled with stuff, and bits of paper, and envelopes.
An orange with cloves pushed into It (for mulled wine) that looks like a surprised face.
A still from the cartoon Ludwig, of a mechanical-looking egg with arms and legs, playing the violin.
Two black cats. One sits on a foot stool the other is standing, both in a kitchen. They are each licking a proffered strawberry top that’s been chopped off.
Classic 80s book “Write Your Own Fantasy Games For Your Microcomputer.” It has a picture of wizard blasting a magic bolt from his finger, surrounded by various fantasy archetypes. The Basic program included within really didn’t live up to the promise of that cover…
Greyscale illustration. A futuristic-looking trooper in armour holds a sci-fi fuel/ energy plug. They are wincing as the contents of a sandwich explodes over their face and shoulder. In the background is an angry young man with a bandana, in a pose of having just hurled the sandwich.
A hunched over, gangly mech with elongated neck and faceless dome for a face. It's moving forward with one hand on the ground, with a back mounted drum-magazine cannon and shning attack claws from the back of its upraised left hand.