Books to film 📚=🎞️ Mrs Frisby & the Rats of Nimh (1971) by Robert O'Brien was adapted to film by Don Bluth as The Secret of Nimh (1982). The animated film adds tension, "magic" (as the book is science focused), & a simpler motive for the Rat society's desire for independence. 🐀🧪✨ #filmsky #booksky

Boosting for Ibrahim - if you can help please do, copy & share his link! gofund.me/44ee9092

Today starts banned books week. 💙📚 Be naughty, read a book. Share book joy. *applies all year

all my dreams are coming true (I'm finally writing a story about lichen)

I'll just pretend it's not about to be 85 all weekend because I really wanted to do some baking 🫠 Also, I'm so tired of wearing shorts!!!!!!

Spent most of today watching Kona & waiting on a call from his vet and/or telling myself he's come this far so he Is. Doing. Fine. A rough morning, but we're surviving. Meanwhile, here's a reminder that this little #voidcat has serious bills, & every bit helps. #blackcats 🐈‍⬛🐾 gofund.me/cc30927c0

Opossum and snake from ‘Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri’ (often shortened to Thesaurus). The four volume set of books is based on Dutch apothecary Albertus Seba’s cabinet of curiosities. Published in Amsterdam, 1734-1765. Newberry Library 📚 #animalart #naturalhistory #bookhistory

I love when my currently reading matches 💅🏻💖💛🖤 Bunny is a re-read and I’m loving how creepy/disturbing The Black Lord is so far 🧌 @tenebrouspress.bsky.social #horrorreads #booksky #horrorlit

New on our site: 4 Books About the Nuclear Apocalypse, curated by HOWL member Franklin Philips! howlsociety.com/2025/09/27/4...

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

My favorite part of the new hades game is info dumping about the gods and goddesses to my husband. Also why tf did they make Circe into a cute furry??? She’s supposed to be a “dreadful goddess”??

Hey USA folks, we're in peak #BirdMigration time! If you have control over exterior nighttime light sources, please turn them off. Every little bit helps mitigate light pollution. Lights at night often disorient/redirect/slow down progress otherwise. Keep all these beauties on the safest track! 💖

For #WorldCassowaryDay : Two #cassowaries by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, Japan, 1760-1849) L: c.1820-40s, drawing from Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything britishmuseum.org/collection/o... R: 1849, woodblock print from V3 of Hokusai Gafu www.catawiki.com/en/c/1261-ja... #BirdsInArt

It’s that time of year when fiber arts really start calling my name. I just mended a hole and I need more. Maybe I’ll try knitting a hat soon 🧶🪡

I’m either titling this novella something literary or totally blunt like “freaky bitch in the Midwest”

3 days left to enter the giveaway! 100 free copies to be given away! 18 weird horror stories per copy! Who will be the lucky winners, envied by all? Could one of them be...YOU? 👀

They changed my favorite pens & they’re terrible now. Only fellow left handers know my my pain. It takes forever to find something smooth that doesn’t smear ink everywhere. Now I have to start the search all over again. I’ve used these pens since high school 🫩

This week we discuss 𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧, by author, actress, director and feminist political organizer Amber Tamblyn! Join us on Discord as we read this poetic critique of victimhood and the media cycle.

jesus christ

My five yo Catholic-self could have told you it’s sacrilegious to claim the date of the rapture.

Watching the final episode of Mad Men bc I love to suffer, but this line is imprinted in my brain. I think about it everyday. Also I forgot how much halloween decor this last episode has.

I’m happy to have new poems with the avant-garde zine @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors.

Can’t really fault a gal for having dreams #misery

You ever make a playlist so good you clean the whole house just to listen

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

If you, like me, are having a hard time sustaining much attention for reading these days (who can blame us?!) and you want to support cool DIY art, pick up our zine freak bundle. Bite-sized horror, Weird fic, and oddities, plus art by me! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...

Idk how people debate on the internet anymore. I don’t have the emotional capacity to handle Cincinnati Chili discourse at this point.

obsessed with the cool kiwi from these stamps , new zealand truly is a magical place

I love listening to the critically acclaimed, 2005 album: Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River.

I had a vivid dream of rescuing and rehabilitating a baby opossum last night. It was incredible 😭 why does my brain torture me like this

Currently reading the ARC and holy hell...this book is fantastic. No spoilers but the first story is one of the best I've ever read.

most of the time I'll get a rejection and will immediately move on without much thought. other times I'll be so thoroughly embarrassed someone read my work that I want to bury myself in a hole. why!!

And remember kids, a weird book with a 3 star rating in goodreads is probably really really good

Also had a ghost flash piece published yesterday 👻✋🪸

Cover reveal for the Monstrous Angels anthology coming out in November!! I'm so excited for folks to see my story 😇🔥❤️‍🔥 @conquestpublishing.bsky.social #horror #religioushorror #horrorlit #womeninhorror #books #newreleases #blueskyreads #booksky #horrorfantasy #horrorromance #fallenangels

this is his face when he gets wet food! commission to @cryptidbean.bsky.social

The seductive lure of short-story open submissions when you’re trying to finish your novella 🫩

Hello! Some new spooky speculative flash from me in the new issue of @theargylelitmag.bsky.social out today!

me too, girlie

Redwall Vibes

planning on various forms of escapism so hard this weekend.

This is a fire emblem positive household, I hope the maps are fucked up and hard.

AUTUMN APPROACHES

Gretchen made a pithy remark about the death of Charlie Kirk, a man who explicitly advocated for the demographic that includes her and me to be killed by vigilantes. He gets Democratic governors popping a half mast, she gets to lose everything all over again

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

what genre of horror is: you’ve gone nose-blind and your place actually stinks? Haunted house? Psychological horror?

The biggest recession indicator I've seen is that not enough people have preordered this dang book! It's really good!

WWWD

I've already ruined my day with my own hubris (stood too close to the window when the baby turkeys were sun-bathing so they ran away)