They could really be doing more to promote this, and I'm lucky I saw it listed in the @hwany.org newsletter. It's a big damn province, but even from KW, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social is nevertheless my "local" and they're expanding. Let's help 'em out <3 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

Absolutely blown away by this story, no words

Oh shit y'all, MARK THEM CALENDARS

I say this as an arachnophobe... Samantha is adorable. Check her and these stories out for queer gothic tingly feels

Hot DAMN few things make me happier than discovering more queer horror presses

Found from @acbauer.bsky.social who wants to get this creative anthology off the ground. I'm getting behind it, who's with me? www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

Oh it's TDOV, I should maybe get out and... *looks around*

Oh heck! Not going to be gauche and toot my own horn this time, but May Leitz is out here making great work, who I found by way of Jane Schoenbrun, and you'll find amazing writers at places like @othersidespec.bsky.social and @neonhemlock.bsky.social and oops character limit

The Dirty Third killin it as usual, H-Town forever

Feels weird to feel hopeful about the NDP lol

Actually, I've got a question, I'm really curious about y'all's perspective. I'm in my mid-40's, well on my way to being out of touch with emergent cultures. Always was to a certain extent, of course. But as artists, writers, people who do culture work, what are you doing to stay informed?

I haven't been here long, and I have avoided social media generally for the last decade, but it's interesting to me that whereas I used to primarily block an account for bigotry or whatnot, here, so far, I've only blocked accounts that post AI art. The bigotry doesn't seem to find me.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Trying to flood the zone with submissions, so that when rejections come, no single one feels all that significant or serious ALSO winds up meaning you get ... ALOT more rejections. Grit my teeth, send somewhere else, log it in the grinder.

Absolute cinema

Medical appt's and meeting with day job boss taking too much brain power. But... once free from both, finish and hopefully polish up my short submission to @neonhemlock.bsky.social ... clock is ticking!

So I'm from Virginia. I currently live in TN and I also lived here as a teen. It's a little complicated. Anyway, the Rutherford County PUBLIC library is where I spent a lot of time as a tween/teen. It shaped me. It saved me. This is a PUBLIC LIBRARY not even a school. And I'm proud of *Luanne.

Just learned about this artist, while wondering if I could find music that hits like industrial doom and also would help me focus on Lent meditations on my commute to the day job. linguaignota.bandcamp.com/merch

19-year-old Siouxsie Sioux during her very first performance at the 100 Club in London, 1976 Photo by Barry Plummer #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #siouxsiesioux #punklegend #history #punkrockhistory

Going to bed so I can be fully refreshed and ready to go to @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social tomorrow!! Very excited to do some reading, sign some books, and of course, shop for some new friends for my own shelves 👀

Good morning, BlueSky

Get yourself some trans magical girl adventures why not

calling all authors! #amwriting

Annoyed at myself for losing it, but someone here started an interesting question. What art would you make it you didn't need to be paid for it? And it actually ended up provoking a kind of fear in me to think about.

Hope you all made it in. I got mine submitted just under the wire. May we all find our audience, wherever they read.

YES! Cannot WAIT! Not only more of the perfect Barbara Crampton, but more MORE anti capitalist horror!

We're sad to learn the news of Australian filmmaker Jamie Blanks’ passing. The director of URBAN LEGEND and VALENTINE was a devoted fan of horror, and enthusiastically left his mark on the genre he loved. Our condolences to his friends, family and fans.

I can't relate to visual artists through their medium, but this notion of being addicted to your art, absolutely. Sharing that it might help others.

Ahem. Saving this one for later.

Oh heck, so many... but recently, due to Cosmic Horror Monthly requesting submissions for a tribute issue, I can say that the work that has drawn the most out of me personally and spiritually in the last year was inspired by C L Moore. No Woman Born is one of those rare works that made me feel seen.

I supported this, because the premise is intriguing, and we all NEED more successful, serious anthologists out there to give our work space to breathe and find its audience. Get on this!

#HorrorWritersChat Howdy! I mainly write body, cosmic, existential and extreme horror and love an unreliable narrator. I recently delighted in reading Girl Flesh by one of my strongest inspirations to keep at this writing thing, May Leitz.

Thought provoking and valuable. I don't go in for the extended scab metaphor here, feels misused, as if its history as a term of labor organizing is being intentionally ignored, but the thesis is crucial to sit with and think about. I've got a contrarian streak that wants to argue this topic.

Fascinating and visionary read

Absolutely, and not just as a horror writer. After a tough email from the day job boss, listening to something like Author and Punisher feels like taking steel wool to the inside of my brain, and keeping that space immaculate, clean, and safe from the kind of things that could make me feel a spiral.