A gentleman 🍄

Core memory unlocked

It's so funny when people are like, "adapt or die!" re: creatives using AI because, you know, generative AI is heating and polluting so much that it's likely we will all literally die if you keep using it to make shitty art.

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The only Don that I would ever recognize as a king

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Sick day today and it is so fun to turn over in bed midday and find my dog Wolfgang in my partner’s spot like it’s the end of Newhart

This is an outstanding resource and very clear rundown on a) why Substack is bad because people apparently still need to be spoonfed in 2026 and b) the MYRIAD options to use instead

Green Goddess Atheist!

Disco Elysium rocked face for many reasons but one was because it wasn't afraid to actually say things with meaning

While reading the news from Budapest, take a moment to look at this photo of Hungarian-American Bela Lugosi at an antifascist rally in Los Angeles during the war.

Time to repost this: How DiC's Sailor Moon Shaped Me, a Straight Boy From the South share.google/CjmS0PI2ZRrA...

Fellow Indie authors! Friendly reminder that I make premade covers and custom covers at affordable rates!

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

Courtney and I both write historical fiction / historical romance. Our entire career has to navigate delicate dances of women trying to have some kind of control over their financial destiny in eras when that was nearly impossible. Some women managed it, most could not. This point is key to freedom:

Okay only tangentially related but hear me out: A modern day Dr. Who episode with the premise of Freakazoid’s Candlejack episode but taken 100% seriously, twisted into full blown horror, and also Candlejack is a terrifying boogeyman monster that eats kids at a summer camp

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Name 4 non-person things that make your life livable (I am counting my dogs as persons) 1 Books 2 Walks 3 Baths 4 Scary movies

Instant block. I do not want your theft-based, planet-killer writing hollowed of lived experience. Fuck off and keep on fucking off till the waves swallow you. AI always means Arseholes Involved. You will find nothing but derision and harsh curses for it in Hookland.

"What do you expect them to dooooooo?" Since when has being on the losing team absolved you of your responsibilities as a leader? Also, it's not my fucking job to figure out what they can do. It's literally their job, though.

Butlerian Jihad Now.

I'm SO glad we actually DID GET VEILGUARD. IF this IS the final BioWare game I'll ever get to play, then let it be a game brimming with HOPE, with the BELIEF in GOODNESS and the COURAGE to fight for a BETTER WORLD. Veilguard is IMO BioWare's most SIGNIFICANT game. It has no equals in this.

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

Bookmail joy!

#ZineMail Psyched to get my contributor copies of issue 1 of @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Includes my essay about RACE WITH THE DEVIL: “Don’t (Satanic) Panic on the Highway to Hell” This is a sharp-looking production and one that any folk horror fan worth their salt will wanna get.

My hottest take: conservative-coded romances make money because they offer an uncritical fantasy of happiness in a fascist hellscape as long as you conform and don’t challenge systems of power. Straight white readers find comfort in them, especially because they reassure them everything is fine!

The Gutter's own Carol Borden has some thoughts on masculinity and folk horror in Eye Of The Devil (UK/USA, 1966)! culturalgutter.com/2026/04/09/i...

That’s bedtime reading sorted for a while… @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social @theharvestmaid.bsky.social #folkhorror

Book launch for Beneath the Bluebonnets! Come play with us: www.rosetteatx.org/upcoming-eve...

editor: you need to rewrite me: why editor: because we need plausible characters me: whats the problem editor: You're claiming its actually possible to turn the Iranian govt and the Catholic Church into sympathetic figures within 12 months???

This is a big misunderstanding. During this ceasefire I’m still allowed to kill you and your allies. You allow us gasoline so our country can continue operating. I am good at diplomacy and widely viewed as the serious one.

A movie couple that absolutely would have had a podcast.

A movie couple that absolutely would have had a podcast.

Brutal.

Excited to learn more. (From 1980.)

Check out the call for proposals for @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social issue 2:

Those old scientists and their lack of social messaging. Propah 'tainment.

The witch sits the river and listens to the gossip it has heard on journey from source. She learns to make her magics fluid, to overcome all barriers. She learns every flow rate has its use. When to rage, when to be placid. She sits the river and becomes wiser. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Criselda Vasquez’s evocative and loving portrait of her parents captures their dignity and pride so beautifully in “New American Gothic” (2017). Her father was taken by ICE on March 31st. Please help her and her family bring him home by sharing: www.gofundme.com/f/27wnkd-hel...

🚨🌎 APOCALYPSE UPDATE 🌎🚨 💥 END OF CIVILIZATION… EXTENDED 💥 ⏳✨ +2 WEEK FREE TRIAL JUST DROPPED ✨⏳ 🔥 FINAL WARNING (AGAIN) 🔥 📢 chaos now in installments 💀 panic rescheduled 💅 see you at the NEW end of the world besties 💅

I see that in the link to the Parts Unknown Iran episode the video has already been pulled down. You can watch the whole thing here for now. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=832...

I actually got my copies YESTERDAY but apocalypse, Armageddon, call your congresscritters… ANYWAY. Loooook! Crossroads Issue 1: The Long Decade! Proud to be included and can’t wait to feast on everybody’s brilliant work! 💚 @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social #folkhorror

Although I've been dissociating for some time now, I've had what I can only describe as a low level panic attack all day today, ever since I saw that post. I don't think it's the end of the world... but unless Fate intervenes, it's about to be the end of somebody's world.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

i drew this a couple years ago to vent about the state of things and people said i was "doomposting" but honestly things haven't gotten any better so the feeling remains

We will not be complicit in a barbaric genocide and destruction of civilization. The 25th Amendment should be invoked today. And Congress needs to reconvene and take back their War Powers immediately.