I'm sharing links in my reading thread this month to audio versions and written versions of the stories I'm reading. It seems to be making them invisible somehow but do check them out to see if there's anything you fancy diving into!

Not put off by crashing and burning last month, I am setting another ambitious target. Let's see if I can actually make it this time! 5 novels 2 novellas 15 short stories 50 articles 1 play 1 poetry collection 1 graphic novel

Spoiler alert: I could not do this xD A real crash and burn this month. Just had to make my piece with the fact that my brain was being a potato 2 novels 3 novellas 6 short stories 14 pieces of juvenilia 2 non-fiction books 43 articles

It is a good day to Pride hard, friends! Share far and wide. You can get YELEN & YELENA in this bundle. 🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3678/pride...

Couldn't make my talk on the Egyptianised Gothic last weekend? Well now you can catch it on YouTube 👇

I would mostly miss lesbian vampires week. Tsk tsk. If only I remembered when my classes were so I didn't double book myself. ALAS. How are people feeling about Sunday watchalongs though... is this a better day? #TransformationsOfTheGothic

I'm back! Did you miss me? #TransformationsOfTheGothic Just in time for consumption.

This is really one of the most Hammer openings ever Haunted looking man Weird woman Mist Dodgy castle Flaming torches Lace cuffs Check, check, check #TransformationsOfTheGothic

And we're off! #TransformationsOfTheGothic (Wrong film, right sentiment)

me reading Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu #TransformationsOfTheGothic

me reading "Queen of the Cloven Heart" by Hailey Piper #TransformationsOfTheGothic

8 minutes until the next #TransformationsOfTheGothic watchalong. Today, it's the 1970 classic 'The Vampire Lovers'. I'll be starting off with you all but joining in properly later. Looking forward to it!

This. The closet was nearly my casket. We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.

This. Is. Amazing.

The first half of @romgothsam.bsky.social's Transformations of the Gothic course, in anime screenshots

Ditto

My happy place is discussing vampire literature, the Gothic, female rage, and stupid men getting eaten, of an evening... Thanks to Transformations in the Gothic run by @romgothsam.bsky.social

Guess the author 'He's making the most of the fine morning...& at noon & drinking-time sitting down on a cock to eat his bread & cheese & drink his pot of ale.'

If you missed this weekend's talk on women writing Egyptianised Gothic... you can catch it here A REALLY good introduction with the fantastic @drjaysullivan.bsky.social youtu.be/llprkJHY2-8

I honestly just can't with academia. The way we solve this crisis is to become more elitist and less supportive to our own students? Cool. As the OP says 'Great look'.

I do have sapphic vampires on the brain this week because that's the subject of our class on Wed (reading Carmilla and Queen of the Cloven Heart) so I am excited to see not one but two upcoming talks on this topic (check out the quoted thread for the 2nd) 🖤

See a talk, share a talk! There's a whole list of upcoming free talks here. Please help me get the word out. Find one you're interested in and share :)

See a talk, share a talk! There's a whole list of upcoming free talks here. Please help me get the word out. Find one you're interested in and share :)

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo #TransformationsOfTheGothic

They are such knobs, I hate them. Leave him alone! Going after him with chemical attacks now. Fucking up an ecosystem for shits and giggles #TransformationsOfTheGothic

The creature is very responsibly trying to eradicate this violent invasive species and everyone is being super mean about it. #TransformationsOfTheGothic

What a surprise. Mark is a 'you owe me' guy #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Our boy's in love and they set him on fire for it #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Everyone getting picked off by the creature except problem number 1 and problem number 2 #TransformationsOfTheGothic

I think we all know that someone needs to smack Mark upside the head with an oar. This man is so murdery. #TransformationsOfTheGothic

I'm sorry to the hunters getting picked off one by one but also... #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Leave him be, you bastards! #TransformationsOfTheGothic

For anyone who suffered through this with me (or on their own) this whole net scene is giving me traumatic flashbacks to Orca #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Kissing on the work trip. Tsk tsk. Keep it professional. #TransformationsOfTheGothic

I can't imagine an archaeologist watching this with anything but complete and total horror #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Living for the ultra dramatic music and just a webbed hand wreaking havoc #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Having read a load of 'Mummy stories' this week where they are literally blowing tombs up, I feel like this week is just me being haunted by terrible colonial grave-robbing practices. #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Ok, well, I did not remember that The Creature from the Black Lagoon takes us back to literally the beginning of time xD #TransformationsOfTheGothic

And...we're off! #TransformationsOfTheGothic

I PASSED MY PHD WITH MINOR CORRECTIONS!!! #PhD

Excited for today's 7pm (BST) watchalong of 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon'. Who's joining me? #TransformationsOfTheGothic

Today I applied for an entry level training job in academia. After 10 years teaching in Higher Education. I will be over here staring into the void if anyone needs me.

I have simply watched too many versions of Wuthering Heights in the last year so this week's Thursday 7pm BST watchalong for #TransformationsOfTheGothic will be... Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) We're watching the pre-history of our second story of the week!

Recording my workshop on Writing Queernormative Worlds on Saturday for the WriteHive conference in July and I do not have time this week for shenanigans 🌈📚

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

I think all my books will now have in-joke Easter eggs thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social course on romance! I managed to sneak in a cravat for my new magical realism romance novel! 😹

This was a fab talk. Don't miss it!

Have you signed up for this talk yet? It's on Saturday. Come explore early tales of Egyptian horror, Egyptomania, and women getting vengeance