John Birmingham

Hats will be enforced

A very Smokey martini

Alrighty then. Better wrap this research job up if I’m gonna get back home to run the Nats.

Ok I’ll do it. I’ll lead the National Party. My first big policy change? All Nats must now chew a long piece of straw whenever they are in Parliament or on TV.

Picture of a news headline: Littleproud says Iranian footballers shouldn’t bring the values of tyranny into the country. Not pictured, the gigantic flaccid penis, emerging from his head while he spoke.

Could this guy be any more of a fuckwit?

Have a #MapMonday bonus, this is my most recent creation, based off of @birmo.bsky.social's AXIS OF TIME: RELOADED SERIES, where a fleet of modern warships from 2021 get sent back in time to 1942, inadvertently triggering WWIII in 1954.

Oh no. May have researched too many cocktails

Now I have to try this!

They’re never gonna give up the subs. But what’s really weird is the refusal in the face of brute reality to acknowledge and adapt to mass drone warfare.

In the future everyone will be cancelled for fifteen minutes

I’ll have to go back tomorrow for the recipe

Down to work at 2 Lam Son.

My spies are also known for eating macaroons

I’ll find out In July

I arrived in Ho Chi Minh to research cocktails because the spies in my trashy spy romance novels drink A LOT of cocktails.

Cam on!

It’s useful to me. Some other writers do not dig it

Sadly, I fucking LOVE me some emmies

Back in Fai, my fave bar in Hue and they are kicking out the disco classics. YMCA. Do stop til you get enough. Disco Inferno. And man, I hated that shit when I was young but I now miss the joy and energy and most of all the optimism. It was a way better timeline than this moron fascist hellscape.

Persian. Because human perfection would offend God

Seriously thinking of something like that

Just read and enjoyed a piece including, oddly, a couple of typos. The sort you don’t get in AI slop. It made me think of an email I had yesterday from a reader about typos and missing words in my last two books. Initially mortified, I’m now thinking of leaving them in as organic proof marks.

Once every dozen or so posts just drop in something cool, or from, or about your book. I’ll be a nice time line cleanser for most.

And her little brother, Adolf.

The famous local noodle dish is Bun Bo Hue, but that’s probably not it.

Walking around Hue. Just got invited to a wedding.

Even though it’s for work, I do so enjoy walking around a city I don’t know - in this case Hue in Vietnam, but it does make me sad to think about all of the cities we’ve previously bombed and shot the shit out of (inc Hue) and all of the cities America is doing that too right now.

Like an Arnott’s Lemon Crisp but without the cream center. THE LEMON FLAVOR IS MYSTERIOUSLY IN THE PURE CRACKER

If you were in Vietnam rn they would give you free lemon crackers and order you to enjoy happy woman day. It just happened to me and I complied

I saw this and immediately assumed it was about pulling an all night writing session

Try rewriting it from a different POV