This Pride Month, we are celebrating queer history! Discover more about the varied aspects of queer history; from activists to TV and film representation and literature with our Pride Month Reading List 🌈 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/pride-month-...

Here is the 2025 winner of the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies @katherineprentice.bsky.social, plus our honorable mention recipients @ami-n.bsky.social and David Martinez. Congratulations all (& to runner up Sophie Dungan!). Thanks @fantastic-journal.bsky.social!

It's June, so I would like to share with everyone my gay #F1 cars. These are keychains, badges and stickers you can get in a variety of different Pride colours. There's even a bundle deal! Check 'em all out over on hayleymulch.com/collections/... #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #BSNM

you said it snufkin #sketchbook

Last week, Northumbria University's Horror Studies Research Group held our annual international conference, Horror Studies Now. For anyone who missed it, here is our annual highlight reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxm5...

@horrorstudies.bsky.social - how great to see the article in The Chronicle - well done, everyone! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e... #Horror #HorrorStudies

"a goofy movie": a humble title. why it's not even necessarily "the" goofy movie. we simply, respectfully offer you this story for your consideration "doug's 1st movie": the hubris of icarus. the unbridled audacity to imply that this is only the 1st chapter of the Doug Cinematic Universe. pathetic

New games writing zine! The Oath #1 is OUT NOW! 6000+ words! Cover and illustrations by @itmeanspencil.bsky.social, some words and layout by @thethirstymage.com. First issue only $1! 14 pages, PDF/epub. Shares appreciated! stuartgipp.itch.io/the-oath-1 stuartgipp.gumroad.com/l/oath1

Wonderful few days attending Horror Studies Now at Northumbria Uni. Huge thanks to @horrorstudies.bsky.social for the invitation and such stellar organisation and all the participants for such a range of exciting talks. Caught up with old conference friends, made new ones. A fab time!

Day 2 Part 3: a superb session chaired by the lovely @maxgee1284.bsky.social: Disability and Neurodivergence. Catherine Pugh - Extraordinary Body in Post-Apocalypse Narratives, Darren Gray on 'Occupied Flesh' and the wonderful Marcella Rees-Gray on 'Growing up Wild.' @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Day 2 Part 2 at Horror Studies Now26 - a mind-blowing session on Horror and Performance with Alanna Thain, Heather Kelley and Jose Nateras. So many ways to tell horror stories...exploring new forms and sparking ideas - truly revelatory @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Day 2 Part 1: more thought-provoking papers at Horror Studies Now26 - I started my day listening to the wonderful Mars Nicoli @marsnicoli.bsky.social and then a fantastic paper from Sam Dubois on Transness in horror @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Heading to the Horror Studies Now conference today? Looking to expand your #HorrorStudies reading? From #FolkHorror on #film to horror in comics, our new #Horror Studies reading list brings together our bestselling titles, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04... @horrorstudies.bsky.social

An excellent first day of papers, friends and discussions at Horror Studies Now26 - the amazing Dr. Chi-Yun Shin's plenary, a splendid session on Temporalities with Marie Krebs and Frankie Wakefield and a fantastic plenary from Prof. Adam Lowenstein to round off the day. @horrorstudies.bsky.social

OKAY QUEEN?

THE OATH issue #1 will be released to my Patreon supporters and to my itch store on MAY 30th 2026 6000+ words of games writing and great illustrations. Most words by me, cover and interior art by @itmeanspencil.bsky.social, layout and some words by @thethirstymage.com

Who can I message in #comics that requires a cover artist and/or is offering paid cover work, please? I’d like to take on some professional work, as I might be available this summer for doing some. My work can be checked out here ⬇️ thank you. #artistsupport #artistsonbluesky #coverart #art

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Love art Fuck AI

Heading to the #Horror Studies Now conference next week? @horrorstudies.bsky.social Drop by the MUP stand to meet @mlhouston.bsky.social, browse our #HorrorStudies books, and find out more about our brand new *Foundations of Horror Studies* series, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

I announced it on Patreon but I may as well tell you here as well: THE GIPPOCRATIC OATH is going to be a zine I'm releasing on my Patreon as well as available on my itch store. It's gonna be essentially a stream of consciousness and it's gonna cost you a buck. I'll show you more soon.

Okay seems we're back! bsky.app/profile/hayl...

Excellent

And there’s the impetus to finally use a different search engine. Google’s been steadily getting worse at the one job it should be doing, and this all sounds deeply vile. Fuck this pathetic, desperate railroading of alleged AI.

The Horror Studies Research Group are hosting the Horror Studies Now conference next week. Want to dig up more from the world of horror studies? Check out reading list MI6022: The Modern Horror Film. northumbria.rl.talis.com/index.html #NorthumbriaLibrary @horrorstudies.bsky.social

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Hello, I've got the formation of an itch(.)io shop going where you can buy some #gaming fanzines and artbooks made by me. I'll be adding more stuff in the near future, but if you like my work, toss some coin my way please? itmeanspencil.itch.io

New merch for AmiKon! Sparkly space animal sticker ✨🦊🦜🐰🐸 #StarFox #VideoGames #Design #Stickers #Merch #Convention #Art #ArtSky #HylysArt

There are few things I want to see less in IMAX than these cockwombles. Not even a screen that big could handle their fuckin egos.

Dog experiences the beach for the first time . 😍

Let's ignore politics and wish a Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough, 100 years old today.

KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS. Director’s Cut. Restored and Remastered. In Theaters October 16.

Repost to make it die faster

These guys have Gary right pissed

We have so many stories penned by visionary sci-fi writers; cautionary tales about humanity getting itself debilitatingly addicted to shit like this because we can be VERY STUPID. "But what if," opines An Idiot, "you could spend 90 minutes watching 'yourself' mack on a hot dead chick? Ah? AH?!"

Behold the snake.

Between the "male loneliness" beat and the "passport bro" beat, there sure is a lot of ink being spent on pieces of shit who can't find friends or dates because they're sentient piles of hot wet trash

The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.

A dragon used to fly around Edinburgh, terrorising locals and eating their livestock. One day it ate so much, it lay down for a sleep and never woke up. Its body became the hill know as Arthur’s Seat. #mythologymonday #Scotland art: 'Sleeping Dragon' by Stephen G. Rae

#portfolioday postd as I want to raise money for my holiday to Japan in November and even a small nixer helps #🎨sketch #webcomic I drew this series of silly pages for Merry Hell, a webcomic by @stuartgipp.bsky.social

When you're leaving the cinema but there's a mid-credits scene

The really rather lovely NESbook, plus its associated bookmark and art cards are now in my possession! Not pictured: the pins that are now in my cork board. The book will be available on the Ninty Media store soon, and you’d better believe I’ll let you know.

*Three Year Post-Doc opportunity*: 'The Horror of Place-Based Harms’ Details here: tinyurl.com/5cfr8xnb Deadline: 05/07/2026, 11:59 PM #horrorNU

The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

April 6th, my birthday, is the first Draw Merry Day in a good while - possibly over a year. Q&A Q: Do I have to draw Merry? I hate her! A: No. You can draw someone else from Merry Hell. Or nothing at all, I’m not your dad. Q: Does it have to be good? A: Of course not. Is the original?

In a wild deviation from the expected result, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is.....decent! We are through the looking glass here, people.

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

Hello. It is me. I am Bear, from Sega's hit 1988 game, Altered Beast. I hope your day is going well. Do you have any honey. Hello