M.H. Bottils

I write speculative fiction and make electronic music inspired by nature around Cape Town. In to: hauntology, alternate history, eco-horror.

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BOOK REVEAL
This is 'End of the Continent', a choose-your-path novel set in an alternate history of Cape Town.

All illustrations by Shannon van Schalkwyk

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@canefires That would be lovely

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@canefires Yes, if they work. But I've bought Olga's book already as a result of your endorsement

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@canefires Cruel.

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@TheCinesthetic And it was all filmed in Cape Town!

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@alutas_theory I agree

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Tomorrow at Entanglements in Observatory, me and Stanley will perform 3 improvised songs using a small synth, lots of reverb + delay, and some field recordings on a tape loop. This is a clip of an early practice session. 

Audience will get to pick the chords randomly from a bag.

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Marlene van Wyk talks about documenting old storytellers in the Brandvlei area of the Northern Cape.

📍 @Suidoosterfees in Cape Town, presented by @ATKVSA and @JakesGerwel

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By die @Suidoosterfees praat @CrystalOrderson oor die launch vannie Kaaps dictionary wat laas maand by die Kasteel gebeur het

[Paul Franz @plfrnz]

There I saw one I knew, and called him, crying:
Stetson! You who were with me in the ships at Mylae.
That corpse you planted last year in your garden:
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh, keep the dog far hence, that's friend to men,
Or with his nails, he'll dig it up again.
You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!

[Nem @Nemzsi]

thank you black mold. thats a wonderful idea black mold

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@Lex_cat11 Nice to see our beloved hyrax there. How about another South African fav: agama.

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@mylitnet Elke dag 😊

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@canefires She's a keeper 💚

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@hellosami One of the great joys in life is using a search engine in this way

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@Werriefication Daarso

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@MageVivika @tremblegay @cannibality Me too, I closed my right eye now. And the shape of the view from left eye is identical to Figure 1. Can even see some eyebrow hair.

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@emberscutegflol Listening through them now, never heard of Billy Woods before

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@emilykmay Damn, it's only through your tweet that I realised now that "10/40 venster" was not a concept invented by my childhood church here in South Africa. I see an Argentinian evangelical strategist coined the term in 1989. My church had a map on the wall with that rectangle in red.