Man, thanks to everyone out there sharing love for BLACK PHONE 2. Were super proud of the film and so happy so many of you who saw it dug it. Much love and thank you! Can’t wait for the rest of you to check it out!

From #FantasticFest - Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill have done it again, with Black Phone 2, a fast-paced throwback supernatural horror story. Read our review:

I've been reading THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT slowly, savoring it to keep the stories from blending together. Just got to "Wrong Fucking Place, Wrong Fucking Time" by @crobertcargill.bsky.social, and holy hell, is that a standout. Can this be a movie? I want it to be a movie.

Time once again for the annual post: I’m at Fantastic Fest. If you are too, come say hi. Every year people message me saying “Oh, didn’t want to bother you.” Please, bother me. I want to meet you! Also, if you’re not here, I’m gonna be hella slow to respond online.

Hello everyone!❤️I would really love to clear these last Christmas items for my Kindergartners😍Any help is greatly appreciated 🩷🫶Items as low as $6!☺️ #clearthelist #title1 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The best thing Kimmel could do right now is do what the Right does when it is deplatformed: replatform yourself on another service, go live, and dunk on the administration harder than ABC would ever have allowed him to. Go full South Park on them. Do an hour on Patel lying under oath about Epstein.

It was never about FREE SPEECH. It was always about the protection of HATE SPEECH.

Melinda Snodgrass told me how George cooked up the idea for Wild Cards. They were playing one of the early superhero RPGs and Melinda was a player in it. One night George said out loud "I'm putting so much work into this game. There's got to be away to make money off it." So he invented Wild Cards.

A novelist had a hit in the 70s leading to a huge payday & a splashy book launch. That book failed. He went to 80s Hollywood & wrote for a TV show. Cancelled after 2 seasons. He wrote for another show. Cancelled after 2 seasons. Movies & shows failed. In the 90s he went home & wrote Game of Thrones.

If you choose to be a writer, you will fail. And that's okay. It's the sticking around despite those failures that will define your "career" - whether it be amateur or professional.

Rejection and failure are a principle part of being a writer. Scripts won't get made, jobs will go to other writers, stories won't make the cut for anthologies, publications will pass on your pitches. Even your favorite writers see failure on the regular. It's why every success is so delicious.

Nyx is feeling MUCH better, gang. She's back to her old appetite, energy level, and is endlessly getting into Jess's plants - as is tradition. Thanks for all the love and check ins.

Four absolute Redford bangers. Guy rarely missed, but he will be.

IT'S FINALLY HERE!! Thor & Loki: Epic Tales from Marvel Mythology! This isn't a novel-- It's an in-universe retelling of classic Norse myths through the bardic bragging of Thor and Loki, with added Marvel comics stories like Thor: Frog of Thunder. Buy links: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/delil...

I'm just an avid role player who spends WAAAAAAYYYY too much on table top gaming. The book dropped today and I've spent my morning coffee read blowing through it.

Okay, so that was a resounding yes. I'm in. Once I'm back from Fantastic Fest, I'll do a deep dive to find out how best to stream and I'll do the occasional Q&A sessions to talk you through your novels, screenplays, short stories, or whatever. Watch this space.

Also out today is the marvel Multiverse Avengers Expansion. Easily one of the most useful books to date. In addition to missing Avengers stats, there are rules for iconic weapons, battlesuits, team bases, teamup abilities, power stunts, and stats for the Black Order! Most useful expansion TD? Maybe.

An important read. I myself labelled him as an Ultra Conservative in a skeet, and he was not. I was an idiot to say anything without confirmation. It turns out, he was weirdly apolitical, going back to my initial reaction that he might have just hated Kirk. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

My favorite Robert Redford acting trick is that he would clip off the end of a line the audience already knew the end of, pause as if thinking, then start the next line as if he was interrupting himself. It's why his acting feels so naturalistic. He feels improvised while not shitting on the script.

46 years ago, Gary Gygax took us to the Keep on the Borderlands, a module most every old school D&D player set out to conquer. Today WotC has dropped a new Starter Set taking us back to that iconic adventure. If you’ve never played, this is the set for you and will teach you and your friends how.

Four absolute Redford bangers. Guy rarely missed, but he will be.

HACK. THE. PLANET.

For the uninitiated, you literally click on the link & watch. If you sign up for an account, you can ask questions or make comments in chat, and subscribe to get an email when the channel is about to go live. I would not be charging of course, so following my channel wouldn't require more than that.

Several of the creatives I'm a fan of occasionally jump on Twitch and talk shop (not gaming, just talk), and I quite enjoy it. So I've been thinking as of late: would anyone want me to hop on Twitch every once in a while to talk writing advice with y'all? Any interest in that?

Been chatting with @hatf.bsky.social since yesterday about their terrible situation. If you can help with monetary or logistical support for their case, I'm certain they would greatly appreciate it.

This too shall pass.

We’re about a month out from Black Phone 2 so here’s some revenge bedtime procrastination art feat. Mr Grabs. @crobertcargill.bsky.social

Me and my little stoned girl.

Nyx has been at the Vet with us for 9 1/2 hours, but got the all clear from her X-rays and woke up from sedation to her favorite - peanut butter. Had to share.

Very much so. With a movie it’s easier just to get started and write the script. With a series you want to start with a bible and pitch document as networks typically don’t buy complete series.

Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title. That Girl is Literally on Fire

Nyx isn’t feeling well this morning, so we’re spending our Sunday at the emergency vet. She’s in good spirits, but frustrated we’re not letting her play with all of the other dogs. Everyone here is falling in love with her, though.

Hey writer bluesky! I am looking for someone who has decent sea legs in dark/serious horror and someone else with decent sea legs in action films to co-write two different projects with me. I just prefer collaborating to doing things solo and these are two genres I feel I need more experience.

There are cult movies and then there are movie cults. This is the latter. A love letter to movie going, AT THE DRIVE-IN tells the story of the @mahoningdit.bsky.social in Leighton, Pennsylvania, the last remaining all-35mm drive-in in the U.S.A., now screening on ARROW in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪! bit.ly/MahoningAP

A LOT of new folks in the feed today, so a brief re-introduction: Everybody calls me Cargill, even my wife. I'm a professional novelist and screenwriter. I post a lot about writing, movies, horror, tabletop gaming, and my dog Nyx. I try to stay positive on main & keep the doomposting to a minimum.

This has been a dark, hard, bleak week, but y'all gave me life today. Thanks for all the love and kind words. Each of you is a beautiful light in the world and you help keep the dark at bay.

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

Oh shit. This is rad.

Hell yeah! Finally score myself a hard copy of Daggerheart. Hearing interesting things about it. Looking forward to diving in and checking it out.

Passed $10,500 with ten days to go! If you've ever wanted original Munchkin art, THIS is the charity ride you want to back. Can't announce where the art will come from, but this is a big one! EVERY donation helps local farmers get farm-fresh food to low-income households! tinyurl.com/BikeRide2025

The sad truth is that Trump's & the media's refusal to hold Fuentes & his Groypers accountable, instead turning their sites on the trans community, makes the assassination of Charlie Kirk, from the Groyper perspective, a resounding success. Anyone who thinks this is a one off isn't paying attention.

TFW you were hired for your lack of morals and skill at covering up crimes rather than your ability to solve them.

If you're as angry as I am about how our trans brothers & sisters were treated this week, remember that not all of them got the loving parents we did & end up on the streets. Maybe today is a great day to donate to a local shelter & give trans kids a roof over their heads and the love they deserve.

Oh shit. This is rad.

Seeing A LOT of new names in the follows with trans flags. Welcome and much love to you all!

To add to the places "The Grabber" is appearing, @crobertcargill.bsky.social : The Coke "Freesytle" machine display at my local AMC Theater!