The time has come: voting is now open for this year's British Fantasy Awards! Here's what you need to know before opening up the form... britishfantasysociety.org/voting-opens... #britishfantasyawards #fantasycommunity #horrorcommunity #scificommunity #booksky

Y'all need to get the fuck off Substack.

It's up! You can book! My new course with the University of Liverpool starts in May! 'Transformations of the Gothic' Online. Open to all. You can join from anywhere. No previous experience necessary. Just bring a love of the subject! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

I spend way too much time marinating in self-loathing and convincing myself I'm not worthy of anything good because of every mistake I've ever made from the age of 9 up to last week for this many other people to walk around going "heehee look I 'wrote' a novel using AI, off to watch Harry Potter"

The overlap between the authoritarian practices of the gender critical and this brewing moral panic about neurodivergence and “overdiagnosis” is fascinating.

ORDER WINDOW EXTENDED BY A DAY! You have an additional 24 hours to bag your copy of The Thing Expanded. Ends midnight 25 March. #HorrorSky thethingexpanded.com?sca_ref=1067...

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

Don't read PinkNews. Don't click or share their posts If they want reporter free news it can be consumed by a reader-free audience

After careful consideration, we've decided that Titus is already home. Also, Nebula will be going to live with her human's mum and be her grand-creature forever! It's been hard, thank you everyone who shared we're so grateful and lucky to have such a great community.

@stephaniegarcia.bsky.social hey bud, it's me, from the trash cat-related scenario from this weekend. Message me when you have a sec?

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

I still have £105 due and I need to add the money to my bank by 4pm Commissions, tips, and boosts welcome! I'm very stressed rn ko-fi.com/goblinbuns

Our current Trans+ healthcare was not built to help trans people, but to limit the number who can medically transition, and to give power over this to cis people

We really need help. My fiancé’s mom, who we care for, has a large mass between her lungs and her left lung collapsed. She needs another bronchoscopy. We were turned away from a PCP over insurance confusion. We’re struggling with living and medical costs. Even sharing helps. ❤️ ko-fi.com/bixbyte

ART ART ART! (Proudly won at the Leeds Scalarama fundraiser)

Please share - and donate if you can! I'm helping to raise money for Isaac - a Black trans kid seeking vital healthcare in England. Isaac is lucky enough to have a very supportive family, but they have all been screwed time and time again by the NHS and UK authorities. Any contribution will help!

If you want a copy, preorders are available through cateyepress.com Reviewers can still request a copy on NetGalley for a few more days!

I don't keep track of how genre trends reflect socio-political anxieties in Dad Lit. Can someone explain to me what it means that there seems to be a sharp uptick in 90s style spy thrillers?

OK so -- it's Women in Horror Month, and I've added the main WiHM page to my website menu. The direct link: women-in-horror.carrd.co I've got 34 features so far, but I'm open to more -- if I've sent you a feature form link you can still complete it. If you want to do one, I've got time & space.

The petition calling for a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence in Britain has surpassed 100,000 signatures, meaning it must now be considered for a debate in parliament. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

@unaofthepeatbog.bsky.social thanks so much for sharing, love <3

The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.

@sharoncurtis.bsky.social thanks for sharing, bub ❤️

Hello, I'm Gabby, fosterer & re-homer of cats. After a friend passed in Dec, we took in their precious babies. Typically, we don't struggle to find homes but this time we've hit a wall. These cats are AMAZING & we will deliver to anywhere in the UK for a perfect home where they're loved forever.

*inserts dril tweet*

#HorrorWritersChat Thank you Mary! THE THING EXPANDED is a new documentary about John Carpenter’s masterpiece. As the author of a book about The Thing, It has been an honour to serve on this new film’s advisory circle. To order a copy, follow this link: thethingexpanded.com?sca_ref=1067...

#HorrorWritersChat If you’re looking to read more diverse horror fiction, I highly recommend that you check out diversityhorror.com And give them a follow here @diversityhorror.bsky.social

#horrorwriterschat Much like the adage "I support women's rights & women's wrongs" I <3 queers who are doing their best & their worst at the same time. Is your beloved wife caring for you as you convalesce & also feeding the monster under the neighbourhood? Yes, but listen before you judge!

#horrorwriterschat I think the thing that comes out in my writing is feeling dissociated or removed from community by memories of being othered (which is a really generic thing to say, but no one here is being paid to be my therapist so don't worry about the details)

#horrorwriterschat I think all my characters are intrinsically queer, and all my characters are inherently marginalised, but I've made the double-edged failure of not writing a black person as someone who does not have that experience.

#horrorwriterschat I'm Gabby, I write horror that helps me process The Horrors. Sam from Victor Lavelle's Lone Women (and his mom) have my heart forever.

Really great way to not only meet other horror writers and hear about their cool projects, but also gives you a chance to think about process and genre tropes!

KILL THIS ZINE is a weaponized semi-automatic prose mini-zine series built to be cut open & stitched together again as a KIYS (kill it yourself) exercise in Burroughsian surrealist “literature” & the first 2 installments are LIVE NOW on kofi for free/PWYW: ko-fi.com/caninebrainz...

I feel like people heard "kill the cop in your head" and folks just increased their mind police's budget

we are 80% funded (if you were curious) 80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey 80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear 80% off is a going out of business sale please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u join us! get fiction! 👇

It's an opinion that should by default get you put on a watch list and dumped on an island away from regular folk.

I believe in you, little guy

Goths for Breakfast is a fantastic day of online talks and workshops supporting a good cause. Check out the programme - so much range!

Lor Gislason’s COSMIC DYKE PATROL is now in stock at our bookstore. All webstore preorders currently being packaged. It’s a beautiful time to be a fan of gross, goopy sex. @lormaggot.ca

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#horrorwriterschat When I open my eyes they burn from the stench of decay. I'm surrounded by mounds of rot & on the horizon I see the tip of the black mausoleum pierce the clouds & know instinctively it penetrates the earth so much deeper. I hear rustling & something calling my name. I need to run.

#HorrorWritersChat WIP is a short piece that happens in an end-times dream logic space. It's about being left behind, being isolated by an inability to understand emotional devastation, and the debilitating weight of having to go on when you just wish you'd been taken out in the first wave.

#horrorwriterschat I've been exclusively writing in dreamscapes these days. Fever Dream was one of my fave novels of last year and it & life inspired some short work about the absolute screams of agony nightmares can be, and how our work can really lean into that.

I am #excitedtobehere at #horrorwriterschat 1) Gabby 2) grief horror ATM 3) Nightmare with a trunk that had to be sat on at all times or the monster would escape OR the one where I'm chasing my dad through doors that lead around the world until I realise it was just wearing my dad's skin.

Was chatting with friends about how Epstein shit has got us triggered to our eyeballs + BS of navigating survivor-led support spaces while being trans &/or queer. So far I've got Consortium as a potential search engine for support, but if any northern queers have info on group support please lmk?

Hello, ghouls, it's the first newsletter of the year! buttondown.com/ghoulish/arc...