The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

‘The Princess Bride’ was released on this day in 1987. From the old site, a look at its creation and legend:

We're reading the stories that have already been submitted. We've got stories that make us laugh, gasp, think hard and occasionally be very puzzled (please read the guidelines!), and we're open for more. Submit your speculative fiction under 5000 words!

✨Jerry 🐉 - Spends 80% of his time sleeping in a pool of sunlight, 20% plotting - Spelunker - Give him your shinies and nobody has to get hurt #Procreate #DigitalDrawing

✨Jerry 🐉 - Spends 80% of his time sleeping in a pool of sunlight, 20% plotting - Spelunker - Give him your shinies and nobody has to get hurt #Procreate #DigitalDrawing

what every horror creator longs to hear

Barnice the Corn Dragon’s close up. A smile to die for! #DigitalArt #Procreate

You died. But you're no longer alone. Play Undead Flames here: maethefinch.itch.io/undead-flames #GameDev #IndieGame #VisualNovel #MultipleEndings #Horror #Macabre #ChooseYourOwnAdventure

you don't make socially relevant/critical art expecting it to magically destroy all the evil in the world, you make it to let conscious people in the present and future know that they're not alone, to preserve our collective memory

fish want me. you want fish. you want fish hanging on your wall #ceramics drop on sept 21, 8pm CT

So what do we do? Where do we go from here? Art and community are lifelines in times like these but fear wrings both hollow

The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.

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Heeeere’s Barnie! ✨🐉 (short for Barnice) - Leo - The dragon equivalent of a corn snake - Just wants to be told she’s pretty - Fastest flier in the realm

Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

Gonna take all my delayed and acute grief and channel it into drawing dragons until the fire goes out

God I forgot how absolutely exhausting my old workout routine was. I usually wind down the evenings doing something creative or at least playing games but all I want to do is collapse

Ding dong... Spooky and creepy authors doing spooky and creepy things to fill your feed during this autumnal season! #Horror #Writesky #Writing

hey everyone: I made a pretty substantial youtube playlist of long videos of just.... walking around. Often fall-related, with rain and parks with leaves and stuff, very atmospheric with that nice autumn aesthetic. great to have on in the background while working www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I’m super late to Hollow Knight (came around seeing the Silk Song hype) and I gotta say for a game that’s touted as incredibly difficult, it ramps difficulty really well. I am a point and click aficionado but somehow this game is still approachable. In the City of Tears now, following my Hornet 🪡

This is the least surprising result, as, with vanishingly rare exceptions, the left doesn't do terrorism in this country, despite the media desperately trying to make it seem like they do. The people who do nearly 100% of terrorism here are the extreme right and the online irony poisoned right

Bluesky isn't a place where trolls come to get mocked and insulted. They love that. Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate. If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

It’s been a journey finding my confidence in my work, but I have so much more now than just a few years ago. I stumbled upon a story I shelved in 2022 based on one bad peer review and reading it today brought me to tears. It’s one of the best things I’ve written. Why did I hide it?

You don’t understand the price of constantly mutilating yourself to suit someone else’s ideals or religion or rules until you finally find yourself through all the fear and pain. I look at the forces of compulsion and compliance closing in and I understand now. I’d rather die than go back

everyone should be safe in public spaces. ideally everyone should also FEEL safe in public spaces! but if your discomfort is based on being racist or homophobic or not wanting to see a homeless guy or a mentally ill person, none of whom are a threat to you, i don't really care how safe you feel.

My underrated favorite comic creator that deserves more love: Guillaume Singelin. His background design is detailed and crunchy, his colors are calming, and his characters strike the perfect balance between stylistically "cute" and angsty! I am devouring FRONTIER right now, and I love it!! ☄️🪐

Hey @dropout.tv Nut Pug plushies when?

I have so many things to polish up and publish and share (retro on game jam, a D&D one shot I wrote and ran for a friend, mainly) but I’m so burned out from the DOING it’s hard to synthesize. I’m giving myself a Self Care September to try to rest and catch up

Now police are monitoring the site. What are we even doing.

Really enjoying the Children of Silent Town so far, art is gorgeous and story is more layered than I got on first impression. Good puzzles too

Wahoo my standees arrived!

I’m taking on icon commissions that I’ll do in between my regular commissions. If you’re interested please fill out this form: forms.gle/FBwkDyAgRPin...

If it's everyone's responsibility to fix themselves on their own, BUT it could be done much better together, BUT we don't owe each other anything, then what's the fucking plan?

beetle knight

I can’t believe I was afraid of the 5e SRD for so long, I think it’s honestly more approachable than the repackaged content from WOTC

I'm so excited to see so many people participate (mainly on Instagram so far!!), such a fun time!!

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Day 2 of Finding My Style: Truckception (Drawing a truck while riding a truck)

Good morning

"The road to self discovery is a long one. It gets a bit shorter when others travel the same road alongside you, so long as you don’t trip each other." maethefinch.itch.io/soul-date

Day 1 of Finding My Style Bleed In, Bleed Out

These three novellas are going to destroy you in the best way. Unsettling paranoid body horror masterpieces. Please drown us in preorders and reward Nadia for being one of the best to ever do it.

Hey! I'm currently looking for more work. If interested, please see my website for more examples of my work: www.chrislewislee.com

I realized two years in that this is the first relationship I’ve been in where I could look back as happily and excitedly as I could look forward

What are four albums that would serve as an introduction to your musical tastes?

Also if you don't make porn, they're already going back to defining being LGBTQ+ obscene and pornographic. They'll do that to everything they don't like.

45 days to go! that's only 15 minutes till the end of the hour