ok so far for gothtober 1. finished we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson 2. finished the dread of night: supernatural encounters from the british raj by bithia mary crocker & alice perrin 3. started the unworthy by agustina bazterrica trans. sarah moses

I forgot about my novelette 'Breaking Water', which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards in 2016, and follows a journalist and a cook who becomes a 'dead charmer' as they grapple with the spiritual fallout of an epidemic of the undead in Kolkata:

i will be shipping more of these out on friday !!!!! thank you ✨🖤🌙

i don't want to work i want to read yaoi :(

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also i kept getting whiffs of it the entire day EVEN AFTER I SHOWERED. infernal pineapple. i see why scoups uses it to mark his territory.

oh yeah i got samples of 3 perfumes (mostly bc theyre too expensive as full bottles, im looking for other minty perfumes besides my eternal favourite Lush scent Dirty) and i have notes!

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

Speaking of fabulous publications, @thedeadlands.com is also raising funds to produce another year of gorgeous death-related fiction, art, essays, and poetry. psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

You guys know what's a great song?

“After she gave birth, she stopped trying to steal surfboards, leading many to believe her behavior was the result of pregnancy-related hormones.”

Woke up to the absolutely shocking news that my colleague Francesa Orsini, renowned scholar of Hindi literature and a mild and diplomatic person, has been deported from Delhi even though she had a valid visa. No reason was given. Report and opinion in @thewire.in thewire.in/rights/globa...

Indians don't talk about it enough but the ease with which desis uses the n slur, talk about black folks, & treat darker skinned people abroad is disgusting (Kenya's indians were so racist, cricket teams had no black folks when I visited in 2013). Caste extends to other bigotries too seamlessly.

Back in stock in the "Other Indies" section of our webstore: zines by the startlingly original up-and-coming Mumbai-based genderspicy artist Larchtongue www.blaft.com/collections/...

Lee Jinki can be a really sexy beast when he doesn't act cute 'n' all

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

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i wrote some meandering and personal thoughts on being in a liminal place with writing, breaking the cycle of relentless production, and listening

#watercolor #landscape another one! #arttober #octoberartchallenge

Since clarz has me by the Namseok balls today... hey remember when Namjoon stopped after "Wildflower" at Rolling Hall to say, "Makes me miss j-hope. I just miss him." hey remember when they wore lock and key necklaces at the JITB party. hey remember Repair Sonyeondon they'll fix our hearts 😭

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

In other news from today’s Jinki spam, he said he doesn’t like labubus and told us to rely on our brains instead of chatGPT

"The average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. They’re sleeping in their vans, they’re holding down numerous jobs, and they’re playing their guts out every night....they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms..." 1/2

Jinki’s fanboys, an ongoing saga: Fanboy: Oppa, you’re so handsome!!! Jinks: Thank you, hyung-nim! #onew #온유 (I2I4923 twt)

In the documentary ‘Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron,’ filmed with unparalleled access to Studio Ghibli, Kaku Arakawa captures the vulnerability and genius behind master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature.

"How Hayao Miyazaki Creates" (from Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron documentary) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01T...

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Isn't it insane how a feet pic from SHINee can make me so happy?

bought silksong!

because uncreative people don't want to be creative. They don't want to make a film, they don't want to write a book, they don't want to make art. They want to just be a filmmaker, an author, an artist. Art is a means to an end, not the end in itself for them.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride

FUMA BEST SHAWOL

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took a ridiculously long nap yday and i was like WHY am i so sleepy....... if you dont get your designated 6-8 hours of sleep every night ur body will take the earliest opportunity to kick ur ass and make sure u get RESTED

i am so sorry to everyone who knows me i am now a cortis stan 😔 there is something deeply wrong with martin and we stan

Today in the garden.

I just want to add: the chances of an editor not noticing, much less thinking the story is good enough to publish, are incredibly slim, while the consequences for submitting AI to publishers who don’t want it are likely severe and lasting. You might as well try writing the story yourself.

This book is going for a reprint soon and we're going to raise the price. If you want a dose of supernatural romance from the misty northeastern jungles, order now! www.blaft.com/products/miz...

It's all winter here, even in August My heart is running on time, alone on the Snowpiercer I want to go to the other side of the Earth, holding your hand to put an end to this winter How much should my longings fall like snow Before the days of spring return, friend? - Spring Day

the man in the pipe

once again i should NOT be left unsupervised in bookstores............

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@shreedaisy.bsky.social excited to finally get my hands on this and read it!!!!!!!

What are you doing this October? Reading a spooky short story or poem a day with us? I should hope so! Join the #AScareADay challenge (or just pick a few stories to read and get some new authors to be a fan of!) romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...