Don't deerspair, friends, we will be BUCK and roe-ing to go! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #WillLiveAGAIN #SOon...

Thanks to everyone who shared, posted, & made deer puns with us! Sadly we didn't make funding this time, but MESSED UP DEER will return- they are always waiting, in the woods. In the meantime, if you'd like a spooky deer for the wall, here you go! www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl... 👁️👁️👁️ 🦌 #art

Well, it's a bummer that @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social and my book of MESSED UP DEER didn't fund this time. Obviously, we're blue. But we're not giving up completely, and hope to revive the project soon when we're ready to tackle it again. Stay tuned, deers! ❤️🦌

Thanks to everyone who backed or shared. <3 I am bereft to not be able to horrify you all with my scary deer...YET. Stay tuned for the next time I Fawn over this project, and hopefully we will (eventually) Get. Them. Deer.

*looks between this and @messedupanthos.bsky.social *

Hey @messedupanthos.bsky.social *eyes emoji*

From @kayv.bsky.social, a story to make you NEVER want to go in the water ever again! Or on a dock. Or in the woods. But especially not in the water, even if it's part of your job... 👀🦌🏊‍♀️ (plus some extra feel-punching and WTF moments!!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Happy Friday, friends! Here we have a teaser for @noirbettie.bsky.social 's creepifying tale that's just like the meme... horror... set in a forest... there's a deer... THE DEER IS FUCKED UP. 👀🦌Prepare for visceral horror! (I promise the cat is okay in the end!) tinyurl.com/messedupdeer

Are you READY for some creepy dark fantasy from Ashe Olivier Deng (@ashesandmochi.bsky.social) featuring dead gods, ugly magic, and of course, (witchy) messed up deer??? OF COURSE YOU ARE. 👀🦌 #TheDeerIsMessedUP www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

LOOK AT HIM. HE'S GOT A LITTLE WEB 🥹

Hey DEER friends! If you've wanted to watch the videos of messed up deer (trailers, teasers... maybe MORE to come 👀) I've now made a YouTube channel to collect them all in once place! #TheDeerIsMessedUP www.youtube.com/@MessedUpAnt...

IT'S WEDNESDAY, MY DEERS! 🦌 We have a teaser trailer for @alexwoodroe.com 's messed up fairy tail—er, tale—about a foolish man who tries to capture a fae bride. SHE IS DISPLEASED WITH THIS. He's doe-ing to rue the day he tried this shit... 😈 #TheDeerIsMessedUP www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

SPACE DEER!!!! 🚀🦌 👁️ yesss... We would love to see ALL settings/time periods/vibes. :D As long as it's got messed up deer! (Deer POV? 👀Oooh...) So yes, dark fantasy is welcome too! (You are gonna DIG Ashe Olivier Deng's story... it's dark fantasy that's fucked up.) Humor is also okay!

Thank you for this information! In that case, we will probably say no to have wendigos used in the theme, so we can be respectful of the Indigenous traditions. (Neither editor is Native.) As always, we appreciate folks sharing things like this to help us make this the best it can be! <3

Thank you, very glad to hear, I definitely don't want to tell folks what to and not to do, but 1- it's nice to have the tools to know what to engage with and 2- it's very heartening to see things like this respected.

Ok, thanks - as a heads up, it's a closed tradition, so it may be good to note if they're being allowed so that folks can know if they want to engage with the anthology - it isn't widely known that it is indeed closed, but can be very offensive for people to see, especially played for horror

And if you're eager to get an ebook AND paperback copy, there's a SUPER early deer special going on for a few more days! tinyurl.com/messedupdeer

also HYPE TRAIN!!! We're at 15% OMG!! 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Want a sneak-peak teaser trailer for @amulderwrites.bsky.social 's #TheDeerIsMessedUP story? 👀🦌 Of course you do. It's gonna punch your heart through your ribs and scare the socks off you. Back the Kickstarter so you can read it (and weep/scream/etc)! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Um hey @messedupanthos.bsky.social

So my friend @probablyharmless.bsky.social is editing and hrnrnrn I may need to revisit a story.

LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! #TheDeerIsMessedUP www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Want to be part of the terror??? 👀 Help us reach our base funding goal so we can open to general submissions (in June) and read YOUR messed up deer stories!! @messedupanthos.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

It's alive... ALLLLIIIVE!!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #horror #booksky Come check out @probablyharmless.bsky.social and my epic horror anthology—full of messed up deer! 🔥🦌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

GONNA BE FAWN-ING ABOUT THIS FOR THE DURATION! 8D

AT LAST! TIME TO STAG-GER OUT OF BED AND SUPPORT SOME MESSED UP DEER!!!!

Since I just finished typing my take on this, I thought some of y'all might be interested by the call:

one more sleep!!!!

I AM A PATIENT BOY I WAIT I WAIT I WAIT MY TIME IS LIKE WATER DOWN A DRAIN EVERYBODY'S MOVING EVERYBODY'S MOVING EVERYBODY'S MOVING MOVING MOVING MOVING PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME TO REMAIN

TOMORROW 😱👀🦌 #TheDeerIsMessedUP @probablyharmless.bsky.social @messedupanthos.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

if I was the first of my people to see a moose I’d go home and be like “so! demons are real”

mom I saw the deer they send to collect debts from other deer

(I made this variant cover) anyway follow @messedupanthos.bsky.social and @probablyharmless.bsky.social as well and make sure you're READY for our May 5th launch of THE DEER IS MESSED UP kickstarter! 👀 tinyurl.com/2ynspd8h

okay, gonna tease y'all with ONE MORE #TheDeerIsMessedUp thing before i sleep. we're gonna have an EXCLUSIVE hardback edition ONLY for the Kickstarter. It will be limited! It will be SHINY AS HELL if you want one? (you want one) make sure you sign up to be notified on launch! tinyurl.com/2ynspd8h

Very fond of this one by Lowry Poletti! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...

I also just recently read "Where the Deer Are" by Caroline B. Cooney from the anthology THIRTEEN (1991) and let me tell you, folks, it is INCREDEERBLE. Scared me in the best way, absolutely fricking LOVED it.

Tell us YOUR favorite short stories featuring messed up deer. 👀Let's spread some cervidae creepiness! #TheDeerIsMessedUP www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

I am BEYOND thrilled to have @carlydraws.bsky.social on board to create the cover art for THE DEER IS MESSED UP! Y'all should take a look at her incredible portfolio! Just *chef kiss* amazing. words fail me. LOOK AT HOW FRICKING BADASS ALL HER ART IS 👀🔥🦌 carlydraws.com

Y'all cannot fathom how GLEEFULLY I cackled when I found the sound of a deer lowing to make this video... 👀🦌@probablyharmless.bsky.social Sign up to be notified when the @kickstarter.com goes live in May! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

only 24 more sleeps before we launch 👀🦌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

" @messedupanthos.bsky.social

I do love me some fucked up deer

*fumbles to adjust microphone while holding a hymnal. nervously nods to church organist, who begins to play* "AS THE DEER PANTETH FOOOOR, THIS ANTHOLOGY~"

Sneak peak at the guidelines for #TheDeerIsMessedUp for our spooky #writer and #poet friends 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer... (full guidelines with additional details will be posted when the submission window opens!)

OKAY Y'ALL I HAVE NEWS. @probablyharmless.bsky.social and I are making THE FUCKED UP DEER anthology a reality!!! Kickstarter is next month! I am so fricking excited!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

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