My analysis of the intergenerational racism and trauma in @gradyhendrix.bsky.social’s THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES is available in TOXIC NOSTALGIA ON SCREEN: Undead Memory in the 21st Century, edited by @baconetti.bsky.social.

Another publication credit: “Some Girls White: Taking the ‘urban’ out of ‘urban fantasy’ in the Chicagoland Vampires series”, from VAMPIRES AND THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE 21st CENTURY, edited by @baconetti.bsky.social.

It was hot outside, I wrote about it for @theipaper.com.

My piece for @theipaper.com today. #Oasis

Sorry, but at this point if you genuinely think there's no difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, you are actually too stupid to function.

Where is @papercutsshow.bsky.social to give me head pats for what is the finest headline I’ve written this year

Thank you for articulating in one click exactly what engages me about Taylor Swift

For this evenings viewing pleasure… some sea star butts!

#JDVance #Project2025 #Trump

What they want, always, is someone else to do the work and make hard choices and maintain an orderly society for them so they can brag about keeping their hands clean and lament how horrible it all is. Three elections they’ve done this now, and two of them ended with Trump presidencies.

mistyped "fairy tales" as "fairy takes" and now I'm imagining Fae Twitter

changeling discourse. infographics about circumventing iron and salt. ragebait about leaving out raw milk instead of cream. memes about leading travelers off the path.

Instead of reading Politico, did you know you can just smash your forehead with a hammer?

If you have seriously created a list of one left-leaning woman’s followers with the express purpose to mock or block them and encourage others to do so, you’re doing me the favour of blocking you in advance. You absolute nards.

In case you were wondering, that’s what a President looks like. Take a good, long look. It’s going to be awhile before we see it again.

We are all Doug. 👀

(meme seized and redistributed)

New followers! We are creating a gothic fiction list that includes texts from all over the world. Please leave your African Gothic fiction picks in the comments! (RT for further reach maybe?) lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/fiction/

Hello as a vampire scholar [For full details, see my published works.gif] I must add critical commentary to The Discourse and the fact #Lego has announced the preorder for the #TwilightSaga Cullen House:

Blame a woman because the press was trash? No.

Hear me out…

Amanda Palmer:

Amanda Palmer:

#HarrisWalz2028 I said what I said

Vice-President Kaine don’t PLAY

*gag*

The thing about growing up, I realise, is that we have to look back on the things we loved and see them for how problematic they are. It helps to have a set of work that makes it easy for critical readers developing their skills to interrogate and dismantle. Sad that’s all HP is worth now.

I loved him. I still love his work because I’m not letting him take that from me. But his poetry? His poetry was always piss. ALWAYS. I knew it then as a dopey 20something fangirl with an English lit degree and I know it know as a 50something with a PhD in that shit. Even stans have perspective.

It’s a tossup between all the men going BUT WHAT SHOULD WE DOOOOOOO, as if they have to be told “don’t rape and assault us”, and those who feel bold enough to decry Gaiman as if they’re “one of the good ones”…. *Gaiman* was one of the good ones. But the reality is, there are no “good ones”.

I also know a lot of men will read it and be horrified and put him firmly in "monster" category and absolutely not reflect on their own behaviour in any way or how their own actions/attitudes towards women may have caused harm. That's what fucking kills me over and over.

Is there a reason BlueSky won’t allow me to ditch followers? Even blocking doesn’t remove them. Like no offence ladies but I am not interested in barely 19s living in places so warm they don’t need clothes who are up for adventure and no I don’t want to see your OF. Stop making it weird.

Dear Sarah and your Highly Successful Sixth Form in SE #London: SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS DO NOT “TAKE UP” YOUR TIME. THIS IS YOUR FUCKING JOB. ALL CHILDREN DESERVE ACCESS TO LEARNING. Regards, PhD Mum to #autistic #adhd #dyslexic child repeatedly failed by #Lewisham who is still smarter than you

Can someone please help? I know this can be repaired but I don’t #knit so not sure how. (I do #crochet though) I love this cardie and the thread is still intact but I think the whole damn thing will unravel with one more catch

Glad I didn’t do it, and I hope no one else ever does. Make him take YOUR name if it matters so much.

Pfft y’all are NEW. Clearly weren’t paying attention to the absolute muppets in Parliament going “why won’t Ireland leave the EU too and stop being so difficult” when the Tories were “delivering” Brexit. Imperialists really do think they’re offering you a good deal when they’re threatening you.

Sure… when they weren’t gaslighting the ever-loving fuck out of her.

Prove you’re even real

I have spent at least three years following insta accounts to see how to style a bookshelf that is actually full of books but doesn’t look messy as shit and the answer appears to be “move into a high-ceilinged home with large rooms and install a sliding ladder” so yeah, I REALLY really hate this

yeah sorry I am going to be very out of town. Have fun tho

2025… off to a great start

This Carter Center photo from a highly specific angle that hides that terrible man behind a pillar is FEEDING ME 🤣

Breaking news: Keir Starmer has beaten up Elon Musk in a Tesco car park. A crowd waved England flags and cheered as Starmer mercilessly twatted two shades of shit out of that thick, lying, ketamine addled racist. Fact checkers who claim this didn’t happen are just “politically biased”.

Los Angeles is burning to the fucking ground because White people just can’t do the right thing and I am tired of the fucking excuses no politician is responsible for your lack of civic engagement and your lack of community fuck you for even trying to place blame anywhere else

I’m reading (via audiobook) “We Used to Live Here” by Marcus Kliewer and it’s making me shout at the characters like I’m listening to a political podcast so it seems pretty good so far I guess. 💙📚 This has been Cat’s Unsolicited Book Reviews.

Jess Phillips is on the front bench, right next to shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper. Clear sign of support and loyalty from Starmer.

This is who runs this account