This week, #HorrorWritersChat will be all about the kind of #horror we write and our influences. Join us! Wednesday 14 January 2 pm ET (USA) / 7 pm GMT (UK) How? Answer four questions, chat in the comments, share posts, then promote your work in the outro. 🩸📚 Discover new horrors #AmWriting

Have you submitted a smut to NYGEL yet? 👀 We want you to expand our horizons, write something off the beaten path, unexpected and unorthodox, hot and tingly and weird 🐙🦖🤖😈 ✨️the sex must be The Point💦 ✨️must be speculative👽 ✨️consent is sexy🔥 ✨️don't play it safe✌️ www.nygelmag.com/submissions

hi this gig is full of bands i’ve either seen (and are very good) or i’ve heard extremely good things about i know 90% of the people that follow me are Americans and 90% of the remaining 10% are still nowhere near Leeds, but…

Physically I'm in Leeds, but emotionally I've been a 23-year-old man on a Halifax pier for over a month. youtu.be/s0CvSIhF_tA?...

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

RIP Renée Nicole Good. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

2026 is upon us, #HorrorWritersChat! And it is my privilege to start our new, weekly tradition for this year! And what better horror to explore, than the horror of the self's transformation... through new beginnings. Tonight!

Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

Historically, signs of collapse in an empire include desperate, meandering resource campaigns, spiraling debt, and civil unrest. Debt is exacerbated by severe political corruption and endless wars for assets (oil/natural gas) When social safety nets fail and inflation rises, people eventually revolt

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

it’s all i’ve got

We see you.

[remembering that BOXING HELENA (1993) was a real movie that people paid to go to in movie theaters and they ate popcorn and everything]

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Santa is real. A fear submitted by Hannah to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thanks! #comics #deepdarkfears #santa #christmas

#TodayInQueerHistory December 25 (2016) Remembering George Michael; pop star and all around good egg who passed #OTD. George did a lot for charity. Royalties from hit Jesus to a Child supported Childline. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me supported HIV charities. He often donated anonymously too.

It's been a very long month of loss and grief. I want to get back to the business of living but I don't quite know how.

Wishing everyone at Naughty Dog a very Merry Unionize Right The Fuck Now Holy Shit

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

SPECIAL GORE APPEAL! One of our organisers urgently needs to rehome this lovely pair. Please share with anyone in 2h drive of Leeds and the GORE spirits will bestow upon you a Yuletide blessing... #adoptacat #cats #leeds #sheffield #manchester #nottingham #yorkshire #nottinghamshire #derbyshire

I know this is the worst time of year to try and get animals adopted, but it would mean so much to me if people in the UK could share.

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

Absolutely isolating myself but very angry that everyone is respecting that.

True that…. theconversation.com/what-looks-l...

Lost a young friend this month. So unexpectedly. They left behind their two sweet cats, who were only just starting to bond. We can't keep them and need help. If you're anywhere in the north or Midlands please share. #leeds #nottingham #yorkshire #midlands #adoptacat #manchester

Whenever someone quotes a transphobic op ed from a British paper it always looks like this.

Processing life by spending too much on a single Xmas ornament.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

HORROR SUBMISSIONS OPEN 🔥 An anthology to honour the creator of #HorrorWritersChat, Matt aka MG Mason, is in the works. Theme: CAMPFIRE HORROR FOR ADULTS Deadline: December 31st, 2025 See attached FAQ for details --- Please direct questions about this anthology to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social

It literally feels like the past 5 days have been 6 months long.

It's here! THE ULTIMATE LIST OF SELF-PUBLISHING RESOURCES Includes: > Programs & tools for + writing, planning, manuscripts, graphic design > Platforms > Communities & Organizations > Marketing > Indie Book Reviewers & Book Bloggers #amwriting #AuthorSky Scroll down for more resources! 1/5

Happy Tuesday!

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

My rule of thumb is that any illness that's: - invisible - chronic - unpredictable - hard to test - culturally new - requires employer adjustments, and /or - welfare support Will be attacked as illegitimate by conservatives. Claim's of "over-diagnosis" are tactic a of delegitimation.

"Temba, his arms wide"

Watching one of my comfort movies, The Hunt (2020). Sometimes you just need Betty Gilpin, you know?

GIFT IDEAS 🎁 "These are the queer books your parents warned you about" > multiple genres > so queer 🌈 > award-winning "demented shit" [complimentary] #BookSky

Couldn’t really be more starkly apparent that the choice is now Billionaires or Democracy, IMO. We can have one or the other but not both, as this system is currently constituted.

#HorrorWritersChat Q4 Now to The Horrors. In his blog post CREATING PERSONAL MEANING IN A DARK WORLD IS HOW WE TAKE A STAND, Matt said “finding joy in being a creative person is an act of rebellion.” Share a creative outlet that brings you joy and/or feels like an act of rebellion.

Telling every new cis woman I meet "oh I thought you were trans" to root who is a real one or not

Opération militaire spéciale pour de-terfiser les îles britanniques

I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?