Hinse Mutter

@hinsemutter.bsky.social

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Sci-fi/fantasy author. Publications with Ganymedes, Hiraeth and RAEHorrors. BMus classical double bass. Compositions published with Alry and Periferia (UMMP). Professional cultural organizer. Active community volunteer. He/him.

Photo by myself. It's trees in a forest, shot from below and looking up at a 45-ish degree. Beautiful sun shines through the foliage, bringing out bright green colors against almost black bark. Through the trees we see a bright blue sky and white clouds.
A book held in a hand in front of green and white plants. The title is Drabble Harvest #15. The cover is in earth tones, with a woman in a white see-through-ish veil draped over her.
Image by Frank R. Paul. A huge red robot on large tracks is grabbing at yellow flying machines, catching one in its left hand. We see a blue planet with hills and mountains, and a large yellow-ish planet rising on the horizon.
Black text on a white background. The word 'enshittified' is underlined in red. Partial sentences that can be red are: ... there was not a single gove... ...lions of enshittified pieces...
An almost close-up photo of green plants in a rectangular flower pot. It's made of dark plastic, suspended from the rail on a balcony, next to other suspended pots. There is soft lighting around hitting the balcony and street below: sun filtering through leaves of an unseen tree. There is a red circle around a tiny white dot. The first flower opening up in this batch of green stems and leaves. Go little fella, you can do it!
Escher's 'Relativiteit' (Relativity). A 1953 work that shows the inside (?) of a building where gravity works in different directions. Humans walk up and down stairs etc. in seemingly impossible ways.
Image by Norbert Kowalczyk A black hole, seen partially, rendered in black and white. The accretion disk buzzes and shakes, billions upon billions of lightwaves and particles doing a dance of destruction. It is a titanic, beautiful, monstrous image.
Image by Salim Doukani A spaceship with beautiful bright yellow contours flies through some kind of hyperspace.
Photo by Jon Moore. A tall tree, photographed from below. Brilliant sun shines through the leaves, a play of shadows among the green.
A large parade in nice weather, in a street with houses and lots of trees with shade. People are dressed in a beautiful riot of colors and are walking-dancing to up upbeat live music a brass and drums.
A still from the Netflix show 'Love, Death & Robots'. It's a bowl of yoghurt with grains floating in it in the shape of the words 'TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER'.
Picture by Gabriel Robledo A scared cat in a tree
Two dude musicians, one on the left playing double bass and on the right playing trumpet. - Contrabas, trompet, klassieke muziek, contrabass.
Photo by Gaspar Uhas, from Unsplash. A hand holding a flower at sunset. The flower is burning. It's a beautiful photo.
Two hands holding a book. The book cover is in black and white, scary hands reaching down in the dark. In arterial red it says NEED: Horror Stories You Can't Live Without. In white below: Edited by Ruth Anna Evans.
Astronauts with gun meme. Astronaut 1: It's ALL Eldritch horror? Astronaut 2: Always has been
Image by Logan Gutierrez, nearly black and white, photo plus 3D work. A portal lighting up in the middle of a snowy park. Dark trees on white and brown fields. The portal is shining brightly white, dark metal rims lining it.
In the background we see the cover of the book NEED: Horror stories you can't live without. Up top it says: Best Sellers Rank: #44,953 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #18 in LGBTQ+ Horror eBooks #18 in Horror Collections & Anthologies (Kindle Store) #24 in Horror Collections & Anthologies (Books)
Book cover. Nice, artsy. The book is seen from the front, diagonally. In gold, the title is GANYMEDES 26. We see a room with greyish walls and a wooden table. On the table are pieces of paper, pictures, some kind of magazine, not really clear what the are. All of them with touches of gold. From the bottom of the cover a white box, slightly open with a huge eyeball in it, is looking out. Below it a black label with red words says 'Rare boekjes reeks' (weird little books series) Dominating the cover is a golden frames painting of a goldenish uniform. The person wearing the uniform is missing a face, instead there is lots of smoke coming from the neck, like a chimney.
Hinse Mutter's "Self-checkout": near-future flash fiction, yet it makes you think, and of all the stories, I felt it had the greatest impact; a third generation immigrant just NEEDS to help a homeless person - even as the system has just reclassified her as an illegal alien. Brutal ending.
Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler (GSFC) and Erin Grand (UMCP) Swift’s UV Portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory viewed our neighboring spiral galaxy Andromeda, also called M31, in ultraviolet light. The image was made from 330 images from Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope. Some 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a small galaxy in orbit around M31. Dense clusters of hot, young, blue stars sparkle in the disk beyond the galaxy's smooth, redder central bulge.
Meme, one panel. The director from the movie The Truman Show is staring at the big screen, looking at his show and creation. The caption reads 'Why won't my characters behave?'
A blurred out view of some writing. The words that are visible are 'chapter 1, Hunebed D53'. Hunebed is the Dutch word for dolmen.
Meme, one panel. Batman hits Robin in the face mid-sentence. "I want to do some more research..." -"Just write!!!"
Meme image. Still image from that boat hijack movie. The hijacker looks at the captain (off-screen) and points at his own eyes with two fingers, saying: "Look at me, I'm the writer now".
Banner for the 2026 Locus Awards. Black and purple, with white lettering. In big letters it says 2026 LOCUS AWARDS WINNERS. To the left there is a statuette, that winners got with their names and category on it. To the right it says 'Trophy art by Shaun Tan', underneath a nice drawing of a space ship going up in space and flying past heavenly bodies. Locus awards, scifi, fantasy, science fiction
A 3D mockup of the book NEED. We see the cover of the book: a black and white horror cover with many hands reaching down, towards the big, bold title in arterial red. The cover is rendered in paperback, e-reader and on a phone.
A Goodreads page of a to-be-published book. To the left the cover: scary, in white, black and red. The title of the book is 'Need: Horror Stories You Can't Live Without'. It lists over 20 authors (sorry, too many to type, link to the page in the message with this image). I am one of the mentioned authors. Book hits the digital shelves on the 10th of June 2026!
Photo by Jeff W, free from Unsplash. A pumpjack in a field, with bright yellowish and green foliage around it. Dark clouds in the back as this old metal thing stands solitarily (is that a word?) in its field.
Meme, two panels. Old guy behind a laptop, holding a mug, smiling. 1. Some days, things just go well. 2.I wrote 1200 words today and am proud.
4 panels, a man standing next to a board with text on it. Top left panel: enthusiastic man, board says 'My boyfriend is an artist!' Top right panel: man explaining with gusto, board says 'He also writes poetry.' Bottom left panel: man looking creepy happy, board says 'Dutch poetry.' Bottom right panel: man looks at the board, sad. Board says 'Dutch poetry.'
The cover of the book NEED in versions for e-reader, book and on your phone
The cover of the book NEED. Harsh white, black and arterial res colors. Hands reaching down in the dark.
Iridescent colors swirling on a dark background
My mother and father last year ❤️
A highly stereotypical drawing of stone age people, assembled on a rock formation and looking nonplussed on our main dude, Grungho, who is presenting them with his latest invention: the wheel.
Photo by Cohen Berg. A cute dog sits in a car in the driver's seat. The dog might be looking nonplussed, or even overwhelmed, by the human-only steering wheel.
A picture I took last week in Berlin, at the Tiergarten. In the foreground we see a 'steppe', planted in the park. The camera looks into the sun, whose rays are only barely blocked by a beautiful tall tree. The whole picture is lush with greans from all the trees and grasses, bright blue skies, and some reddish pink blossoming of a tree in the medium distance.
Drawing by Rick Guidice (NASA) An O'Neill cylinder. A kilometers long cylinder in space featuring a fully livable 'natural' habitat.
Photo by Arjan de Jong. A Dutch landscape. Morning fog across grass fields. Windmills and houses appear from the mist. Beautiful colors and shadows.
A gorgeous image of outer space. Black, with thousands of pinpricks of white and blue stars dotting it. Huge red and dark blue nebulae glow brightly, swirling stately and uncaring.
image by Evgeny Ozerov from Unsplash Part of a person's face, gazing to the left, towards a screen that we cannot see. The screen projects green numbers, hundreds of them, in binary, on top of the other wise dark face.
Photo by Nick Nice. A view of red fields, as if the picture has been color corrected and all of the trees and grass on it have been turned to stark arterial red mixed with white.
Image by Adtiya Vyas on Unsplash. Black, dark, with fuzzy snow drifting close to the camera and far away. Cold, bleak.
A 3D mockup of the book NEED. We see the cover of the book: a black and white horror cover with many hands reaching down, towards the big, bold title in arterial red. The cover is rendered in paperback, e-reader and on a phone.
A picture I took of clouds in the sky. Dark, brooding, swirling masses colliding and flowing into each other.
A picture I took of a cherry blossom tree, blooming. Light blue sky with a close-up of a dark brown tree, with lots of pentagonal white flowers blooming, many of them with shades of pink on them. It's hopeful, beautiful, upbeat.
A photo of officer Crabtree, played by the actor Arthur Bostrom, from the series 'Allo 'Allo! A white background with a man in front of it, wearing a uniform.
A photo by Thomas Fore (free to use via Unsplash) It's a bright blue sky with a green hot air ballon in front of it. It's very green, and in black has a mouth, nose and eyes drawn on it of the stereotypical Alien head.
A gigantic kraken next to a puny submarine.
And one more epic shot of the hoverbike trooper in the large, majestic hallway of the library. Their pose seems provocative, playful, looking over their right shoulder. In the background stalls carrying books and art and such. All under a gorgeous rounded roof with a floor of white and black towels.
The two board members of the Harland Award, giving speeches at the award ceremony. A man dressed in black, very chique, and a woman wearing a colourful ensemble and an amazing hat (that came with it's own light source!!!) in front of the logo of the award.
Kindori - Space Whales from Spelljammer Majestic whales swimming through space. Space is a scintillating mass of colors, nebulai, and planetary bodies.
Whites, browns and light blues. A man wearing beige pants and a blue shirt sits on a brown leather couch, staring off into the distance. We see him in profile, from the side. He's sitting in a tall room in a museum. No other people are visible. Far away we can perhaps spot some paintings.
Image by Julia Kadel Tentacles in water. Dark, near black water, with bright light blue foregrounds. Bubbles floating up, while white and blue tentacles twist and turn. Are there too many tentacles? Are they gigantic?
Photo by Alexandre Debiève A motherboard (from the inside of a PC, seen from close up, above to the side. It's almost like the view of a bird as it swoops over a scifi city.
A field of human bones under a bleak sky. Smoke rises up from among the bones.
Photo by Yusuf Onuk, via Unsplash. A field, covered in orangy yellow grains and grasses. A dark dog stands in it, half of it swallowed up by the stalks.
A screenshot of Satie's tongue-in-cheek 'A musician's day'. We don't know how much of this was his real schedule. He was certainly quite excentric. But the second part of this writing of his contains ever more obviously funny and weird things (not pictured for focus and clarity and stuff). A MUSICIAN’S DAY An artist must regulate his life. Here is my precise daily schedule. I rise at 7:18, am inspired from 10:30 to 11:47. I lunch at 12:11 and leave the table at 12:14. A healthy horse-back ride on my property from 1:19 to 2:35. Another round of inspiration from 3:12 to 4:07. From 5:00 to 6:47 various occupations (fencing, reflection, immobility, visits, contemplation, dexterity, swimming, etc.). Dinner is served at 7:16 and finished at 7:20. Afterward from 8:09 to 9:59 symphonic readings out loud. I go to bed regularly at 10:37. Once a week I wake up with a start at 3:14 A.M. (Tuesdays.) I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, shredded bones, the fat of dead animals, rice, turnips, sausages in camphor, pastry, cheese (the white varieties), cotton salad, and certain kinds of fish (skinned).
A photo from the BRL report from the 1950s. Black and white, glossy, metallic. Computers, mainframes, consoles, in an office space. No humans visible.