Fuckin' RIP to the realest one to ever do it today. The grim darkness of the far future demanded the wild, black vitality of Salvator Rosa, the brooding vastness of Gustave Doré, the innate fuckedness of Felicien Rops and the kaleidoscopic palette of Gustave Moreau, and they got it all in Blanche.

John Blanche passing is hitting me shockingly hard. The GOAT. The father of Grimdark. Every story ive heard of him is of a passionate and caring man, and he always loved creating the dark and nasty, but beautifully grotesque. Im fucked up about this. Thanks John...

I actually FUCKING LOVE doing social SCIENCE research.

Ugh, we're doing social science today.

One remaining Elvanse and the a three way split between finishing a story draft (possible masterpiece), starting PhD attempt 2 and applying for some damn jobs. The calculus of desire to do the thing against medium to long-term practical implications is really too much for this early on a Wednesday.

On The Cure's Chicago show, instead of chanting "one more song" or w/e after the first encore the crowd just does the *woo-doo-doo-dooo-doo-doo* bit from Caterpillar for three straight minutes until they come back out and do Three Imaginary Boys (in case you needed any more reason to check this out)

I love Kathryn Mohr

Writer friends - are there any horror/weird fiction places that might be open for stories now or any time soon (or just places whose work you like or think is cool)? I'm reassembling my submission links folder after losing it a couple of months back.

Just wrote ~12 hundred words of the dumbest, horniest and most viscerally upsetting prose I think I've ever committed to the page. Pride month here typically skews July-wards but I guess I picked up something in the aether nevertheless.

Omg, check this Elric of Melniboné cosplay from 1987

The pipeline of *worried about phone being stolen* to *projecting anxieties about phone being stolen onto others* to *fantasising about stealing every phone I see* is so real.

[Watching friends do the dumbest shit imaginable] Good to see you commit to something

Weirdly cinematic dream about a guy in hell where he repeatedly has to stand under a panel in the ceiling that bursts spiders down on him, intercut with flashback scenes of an office party where the sin that condemns him to this fate took place, and there's a parallel shot of balloons falling.

Cryptids overrun Shoreditch (dramatic improvement)

Acid Horizon in The Quietus!

Now that WS is back and people maybe remember who I am, just a brief reminder - things I can do: - Write/research (fiction, arts, social sciences etc.) - Edit (text, podcasts, whatever) - Technically sound design Things I cannot: Become gainfully employed via routes available to normal people

I endure by a singular credo: Nobody who can confidently explain to me what "Traitors" is deserves to outlive me.

Now that WS is back and people maybe remember who I am, just a brief reminder - things I can do: - Write/research (fiction, arts, social sciences etc.) - Edit (text, podcasts, whatever) - Technically sound design Things I cannot: Become gainfully employed via routes available to normal people

I've finally figured out what I'm going to pitch for a thing.

Gen x? Gen z? I'm genuflecting before the Christ

Fuck I miss Rip Torn

I am listening to Soundgarden's Down on the Upside on CD rn guys

Gwar website, find out if Gwar were playing London. I eventually got my wish circa 2003 on the War Party tour.

Looks like he's in the Backrooms

Bought a book secondhand off Abe and it came with a Betterhelp flyer inside. Feels like this should be illegal.

That gum you tolerated is back in style

NEW EPISODE ALERT! We're doing A Scanner Darkly (2006 but talking extensively about the 1977, too) soundcloud.com/wyrdsignalpo...

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Hey look at this!

I wondered when I'd get an opportunity to post this image

While I categorically don't want anything good to happen to Kier Starmer ever, I feel like Wes Streeting undergoing a months long, breathlessly publicised "humiliation conga" scenario would not be a terrible thing for our souls right now.

Big things coming soon! [it's sadposting]

Weird question but where do people actually look for jobs? I generally only consult like a handful of places because everything else just seems to have a low level aura of scam about it.

"Sure, is that USB-C?"

Seeing a proliferation of dudes with the Ch*tGPT app visible through the lock screen, presumably so as to skip the extra step of unlocking the fucking phone before they outsource their critical thinking skills to it.

w/ or w/o Space Marines involved?

Sneaking off to another room to look at PDFs after another painful reminder about how low my tolerance for being around people who aren't loser artist fuckups talking about their lives has become.

How has no one done Garak in Hellraiser yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kztk...

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often sucks

warehouse wally by william wegman -- well well well

This book has been a beautiful nghtmare to write and literally only exists on the strength of my conviction that the central conceit was legitimately cool enough to warrant more than a short story (a form to which I am manifestly better suited) so I do hope someone can eventually read it.

I may have just plotted out the final chapter of the book I've been working on and off the last three years. There are some earlier sections to re-write/write in and an epilogue to put together and every chapter is another albatross around my neck to edit but shit this might eventually be a thing.

Oh shit you guys!

Exciting News: I did an entire book review for a reader position at an (in hindsight pretty lame) indie publisher only for them to close applications early. So I decided to share my thoughts on Kathe Koja's The Cipher with all of you instead. dracula.church/newsletter_a...

Is this gonna be another Speed Racer (2008)? I just have to deal with this information until there's some totally out of nowhere cultural renaissance that retcons it into a cult classic

How is it that there was an adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth starring Shea Wigham and Alanis Fucking Morissette and I am only now, in the year 2026, finding out this information?

Exciting News: I did an entire book review for a reader position at an (in hindsight pretty lame) indie publisher only for them to close applications early. So I decided to share my thoughts on Kathe Koja's The Cipher with all of you instead. dracula.church/newsletter_a...

The inclusion of a literal Witch of Endor (played by the inimitable Siân Phillips of Dune and I, Cladius fame) is the most Gene Wolfe-coded a Star War has ever got and ever will

Maybe my whole struggling/failed writer shtick is just a smokescreen for my real passion (getting fucked up alone every night)

Meatsick and desolate