A whole #openaccess issue! The new Supernatural Studies has folk horror in NIGHTBREED, house-love in THE LITTLE STRANGER, witchy girls of the 2010s & sapphic animated vampires in CASTLEVANIA. @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-jou...

Why do Uber drivers who pick me up AT a hotel NEAR a train station expect me to know more than they do about the trip? I don't know which streets are one way or how else you could cross a river.

This was filmed near Llanberis, in North Wales, so I'm hiraething all the hiraeth right now. It's been more than a year, I need to get back soon. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🪨🖤

Apparently, "a little of everything" is an official position in 1970s Welsh-language filmmaking--see the opening credits for Gwaed ar y Sêr. (Working on my @igagoths.bsky.social abstract.)

If, in your assessment, last night's performance "wasn't political," I assume that you also don't know what words like diversity, equity, inclusion, radical, left, fascist/antifascist, and indoctrination actually mean.

What the fuck??!!

It seems pretty clear to me that someone in my building is summoning the Old Gods of Winter. Probably in cahoots with that damn prognosticating groundhog.

The Chomsky that I cut from a propaganda slideshow (for teaching) was from Manufacturing Consent, and I guess that's irony, and/but/so yes, he can be replaced.

An unexpected bit of cheer in Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025). (I went in spoiler-free.)

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Federal agents were assaulting women: striking them, shoving them to the ground, pepper spraying them. Alex Pretti acted in solidarity with those women rather than in loyalty to other men who had strength of arms and state power. A betrayal to white supremacist patriarchy he was murdered for.

I did wonder if @sorchanf.bsky.social was confused by her American friends' wild enthusiasm about Teen Vogue, our conviction that that was the peak of being cited as an expert, or if the whole world had long ago turned to them for truth and accuracy. #RIPteenvogue

Heading to #MLA2026, where I'll be dividing my time between "please don't tell me how I can use GenAI in my classes" and Gothic Studies. I'll share details on my collective's AOI & AI teaching session, a list of Gothic and adjacent sessions, and the Gothic Studies forum social event details later.

Oddly, no, but presumably only because we weren't doing conferences yet. 🌑🐺

My 8th grade besties and I got *matching* generic sports jerseys made at the t-shirt shop at the mall, grey with maroon 88 (our HS graduation year, another thing ruined by effing nzis). If only I'd thought to wear it without pants, I could have been the nerdy but cute slashee in a masterpiece.

Okay, but credit where it's due, she gave us a pretty dope Cinna-bon mot with "witchcraft bandana."

I think I always knew that I was really meant to be an RPG gal, but I've had it confirmed by a six-part series of podcast episodes. What skills or powers does menopause give a character?

Little Mari teaches Ickle Krampus the proper way to steal hats. They have lots of fun.

How is actively competing for a book prize so that you can publicly and virtuously refuse it different from deliberately talking a class so that you can write an essay using vague religious beliefs in place of evidence so that you can file discrimination charges?

Check out our review on Thinking Theater NYC of NYC Panto's "The Wizard of Oz," at Parkside Lounge through December 20th: www.thinkingtheaternyc.com/2025/11/revi...

I'm over the (Full) Moon thrilled that @randomhorror9.bsky.social will be covering Puppet Master 3 next week. As a scholar of the series, its engagement with fucking N*zis, and justifying the series' wild inconsistencies, I'll be taking notes through the entire episode. 🔪

Without downloading new pics, what’s it like dating you?

Several-- that's how he stayed alive.

🎶 Must be the season of the witch 🎶 The next 3 books in my queue, after @shewolfmanc.bsky.social's Unburied, are How to Kill a Witch, That Very Witch, and The Conjuring of America. The fall of patriarchy is my favorite time of year.

What are the odds that someone will tell me that I look tired today? I am, I do, but no one needs to tell me that. Comment on my cool dress instead.

This is a thing I'll be doing next weekend. You could come if you're interested.

Our first panel at @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social 2025 is the premiere of #TractionParkMassacre. 🎢🎡🔪 #GetYourGeekOn

@bsfwriters.bsky.social hosts its final WDS of the series: DEATH REIMAGINED w/ @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social @smartinez-conde.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social and @csecooney.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/1712374200... #Halloween #stories #brooklyn

The pun is irresistible, so possible #Peacemaker spoiler. I did nazi that twist coming.

I wish I could see this. While it's possible that I'll be in Aberystwyth and maybe London this fall, the dates don't line up. Sigh.

Save the date! @csecooney.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @smartinez-conde.bsky.social @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/we-demand-...

At Brooklyn Paramount seeing Wet Leg to kick off a week of anniversary-ing. (21 years, thank you for asking, and no, reader, I never married him.)

Yesterday was Trey's birthday (observed). Everyone with fur got small pieces of poached, shredded chicken. Look how handsome the shyest and most three-legged of my children is!

I think my goal for this AY is to have a meeting that can only be described like this.

I learned, seeing this play, that "Bella Ciao" can make me cry. Read our review, and see if you can tell where John acknowledged the scene but protected my reputation as a steely bitch through skillful use of language.

Just as television in the 70s led me to believe that I should be worried about quicksand on the regular, the Final Destination films--which we're marathoning--have me wondering how I haven't died every time I spill water, given the apparent normalcy of worn cords and faulty sockets.

I'm like Snow White of the urban landscape or something. Seagulls, rats, pigeons, squirrels, and the occasional raccoon or possum flock to me. I love them too, and we often chat. This guy hung out with me for a while today. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't show how beautifully iridescent he is.

While in the grand scheme of the ongoing fascist takeover, the status of a crosswalk is insignificant, I'm glad that folks keep chalking bc it makes space for meltdowns over "forcing us to accept your rainbow of chalk," that notoriously permanent medium that spreads the gay to all who see it.

I'm thisclose to giving up on the only job that I ever wanted. This addresses why. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Learned today via a billboard in Cheyenne, WY, that this exists, but I'm delighted to learn that it's failing pretty spectacularly.

Movie pitch: all the Brontes are emperor penguins, except Branwell is played by a Muppet.

Thanks to the Journal of Supernatural Studies for including my review here. If you’re interested in horror films or Marxism you should check this book! www.supernaturalstudies.com/reviews/book...

Don't you just love a day wherein you learn something new about your ice cube tray? 🧊🧊

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

Everyone should have a song that makes them happy under any circumstances. I have two: "Mr Blue Sky" by ELO and this one, a jaunty, profane lil banger. youtu.be/th4Czv1j3F8?...

I'm in a train station pub and they're playing Old Crow Medicine Show's version of "Wagon Wheel" instead of the lesser Darius Rucker version, and I'm very happy, considering I'm in a train station pub.

A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door. Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.

The news today is just one what-the-actual-fuck after another.