Halloween Every Dave

@DaveHiggins@sunny.garden
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Speculative Author | Curious Mind | Purveyor of Abstruse Nuance | Cat Cushion
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If you've been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you.

Maybe your employer has changed their policy on which loo you can use. Perhaps you've been asked to leave the changing rooms at the gym.

Let us know at: https://tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #TransAlly

Netanyahu's government and Hamas are sacrificing children to their aching sense of inadequacy.

#israel #palestine

Voice Like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson

“Pearson blends art with occultism, creating a tale that is about the moral questions of why one seeks the power of creation rather than whether that magic is real.”

More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/voice-like-a-hyacinth-by-mallory-pearson/

#horror #PsychologicalThriller #LGBTQ

Voice Like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson

Pearson blends art with occultism, creating a tale that is about the moral questions of why one seeks the power of creation rather than whether that magic is real. For Jo Kozak the start of her fin…

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Primordial World: Book 10 by Baileigh Higgins

“Higgins combines realistic descriptions of prehistoric landscape and life with a plausible image of a post-apocalyptic human society that blends modern sensibilities and pre-industrial behaviours.”

More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/primordial-world-book-10-by-baileigh-higgins/

#adventure #PostApocalyptic #dinosaurs #ScienceFiction

Primordial World: Book 10 by Baileigh Higgins

Higgins combines realistic descriptions of prehistoric landscape and life with a plausible image of a post-apocalyptic human society that blends modern sensibilities and pre-industrial behaviours. …

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AHAB (All Harpooners Are Bastards)

Not a better way to do it. Not a worse way to do it. Just a different way for people who like something different.

Happy #PrideMonth.

Judas Priest, "Diamonds and Rust": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHyl8a394-M

#metal #LGBTQ

Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust (Epitaph - Official Live Performance)

YouTube
Old, but still relevant and still funny.

Protector by Andy Peloquin

“Peloquin contrasts the immediate and longer-term moral impact of actions, creating fantasy that is not about good vs evil but about whether it is right to disdain immoral behaviour if it means allowing evil to happen unchallenged.”

More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/protector-by-andy-peloquin/

#DarkFantasy

Protector by Andy Peloquin

Peloquin contrasts the immediate and longer-term moral impact of actions, creating fantasy that is not about good vs evil but about whether it is right to disdain immoral behaviour if it means allo…

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Not In Our Name is a group of cis women who have published a statement protesting against the systemic, political and media attacks on trans people. It focuses on rejecting the fallacy that attacking trans people (trans women in particular) is anything to do with protecting women or with feminism.

If you’re a cis woman and would like to support them, you can sign the letter here https://chng.it/QCvdH587zM

Sign the Petition

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

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Dracoheim Confidential: Tales From the City of the Dragon by Misha Burnett

“Burnett removes the special ring fence that exists around magic in many fantasy tales, creating a world where it is as much a skilled profession at the heart of society as the mundane branches of engineering are in ours.”

More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/dracoheim-confidential-tales-from-the-city-of-the-dragon-by-misha-burnett/

#UrbanFantasy #Noir #Thriller

Dracoheim Confidential: Tales From the City of the Dragon by Misha Burnett

Burnett removes the special ring fence that exists around magic in many fantasy tales, creating a world where it is as much a skilled profession at the heart of society as the mundane branches of e…

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