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"Ashlyme the portrait painter...kept a diary...He was a strange little man to have got the sort of reputation he had. At first sight his clients, who often described themselves as victims, thought little of him."

- M. John Harrison, "In Viriconium"

Mattie. Grumpy geek from the English Midlands; queer, nonbinary, feminist; vegetarian, atheist with pagan tendencies. Sometime writer of ghost stories, speculative poetry, essays on fantastical fiction. Fond of Art Nouveau, Doctor Who, old synthesisers, weird fiction, and natural history. Dislikes rightwingers, crowds. Resembles a smallish Jarvis Cocker. Natural habitats: canals, real ale pubs, second-hand bookshops. Can be recognised by the trail of liquorice cigarette papers, spilt tea, and bad puns.