I want someone to pick up the scrapped Bloodlines 2 and publish it

Top 5 film genres: - Quippy action bullshit where the heroes mostly get out okay all mostly written by the same guy - Horror but it's funny - Horror but it's grotesque - "this is almost surreal" - Unnerving fairy tale

Why I view "anyway (people I don't like) read at a fifth grade level and this is proof" as a red flag in arguments.

There's someone I know who hasn't yet grown out of the "I hate everything unless it's unpopular or agrees with me" phase and they're smart, so I like when we agree, but also it's like "oh god why do we agree on this thing"

Here's some news @slimyswampghost.bsky.social and I have been dying to share! ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS will be out 02/14/26! Featuring stories by @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social and many more!

Thrilled to announce that possibly one of the most TropiWeird of my short stories, "Blanquitos" will be published in a forthcoming issue of @typebarmagazine.bsky.social!

Fuck "The Writer's Barely Disguised Fetish," give me "The Writer's Barely *DISGUSTED* Fetish"

The amount a free-to-play game's plot goes hard is inversely proportional to how much that game looks like cutesy goonerslop on the surface. This post brought to you by Nikke being "Consider Phlebas but with titty gunners." The exception is of course Reverse:1999, which is its own thing.

Describing my career tonight as "I do short story analysis at the Peppermint Hippo for singles" is probably a little too disparaging

My problem with the concept of "writing essays for myself" or "just write it on your own" is because I don't want to pay money to work on something literally no one will read

Watching zealots of the neocatholic ideology talk about "why would anyone choose to be catholic" is hilarious

The idea that anyone is loyal to a system of belief is frankly so naive as to be dangerous in the current era

I'm thinking from now on I'm just not trusting any goth from England who quotes Bertholt Brecht. Seems like all of them are just creeps.

If you've read my occult novel Colossus with a Poison Tongue, please help me out by giving it a rating on Goodreads! If you haven't, the ebook is 99 cents on Amazon & Kobo. Links below.

Something by Peter Sotos and something different by Peter Sotos

Oh, shit

To watch? Sweeney Todd, it's a ruthless and fun satire of class and politics that's blunt as fuck while still being entertaining and having some finesse to it. To perform? Guys and Dolls. Those songs are so much fun to sing and you can basically get a speaking part and act weird.

I view used books as a vast, underground river, where things wash up when they're ready to find you, or when you're sharp-eyed enough to fish them out. Online marketplaces feel a little like cheating, though. Then it's less about finding and more finding at a specific price point.

No discussion of the world's misery can be had if those discussing it are unwilling to honestly admit the ways they have visited that misery upon others knowingly and to their own advantage.

Oh, man, I'm so glad my period novel Withering Hoots got adapted into a movie with all the weird dough-kneading and erotic wall-licking scenes intact. *checks title* Oh, fuck

Once again, the strange is when the theremin goes "wee woo," the weird is when the theremin goes "woo wee," and the eerie is when the theremin is hacked apart by the hatchets of the proletariat revolutionaries for being the instrument of bourgeoisie scum

"Oh, hey, that new book sounds really cool—" "By Richard Chizmar and his son" "ok pass i guess"

From a recent LARP: "What did you say, Alan? You have stroker awards?" "Yes, Bob, two Bam Stroker awards."

Someday I swear I'll keep posting my own thoughts and not just charging dead ahead into conversations with @philbybear.bsky.social. Someday. Probably when I have something of my own I don't feel exposed saying other than "we recreate the shapes of those who harmed us"

There is a full page in King Sorrow where Hill just explains the plot of The Dead Zone while staring straight into the camera.

"plot is like chemical farming" encapsulates my issue with a lot of modern criticism

Understand: Whenever Columbo is talking about his wife, you have to imagine Kate Mulgrew doing all those things he's talking about. That's canon.

big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...

The Lost District by Joel Lane. Unfortunately made me demand a lot more from a lot of things I've been reading, both with criticism and fiction.

It's a bitter coincidence that the day I post this rant that's probably a prelude to an essay I shouldn't write is also the day I read the words "believers in the church of found family."

So the thing that got me about Sinners other than the mythic America stuff was that Remmick and his coven aren't as simple as most analyses make them out to be.

If people are submitting things for awards, could I suggest perhaps picking something from this year? I'm sure I don't "deserve to win all the awards" but I put in the work and maybe one of them's worth something? reactormag.com/tag/dissecti...

Solidarity only lasts as long as the foxhole does, and then those with more start sharpening the bayonets and sizing up the backs of those with less.

Sinners is a movie about the American dream as a mythic construct and I will not elaborate at this or any other time.

Having to explain to someone that Marion Zimmer Bradley is fantastika's answer to Roman Polanski is exhausting

Homeless? No, I said "politically HOPELESS." Turns out I'm impossible to like or root for.

"The clay dries fine and soft, in the late spring and summer. It climbs and billows with the breeze. Raises up in the midday air and spreads out over the whole county like a tent. Whips into small cyclones and settles indoors. The red dust is a given. We don’t fight it the way we used to."

How much of a loser do you have to be to get your ass kicked by Joyce? Jesus.

Stop telling women to Simila

I'm assuming there's a sequel to Space Opera because we all fell asleep and thus couldn't stop it

When people on here talk about helping others I get at least a little of the same vibe as that one guy who kicked Henry Rollins while he was asleep and then when Henry later came looking for him started talking about "punk unity" to try and stop from getting his ass beat.

Any serious discussion and criticism of weird fiction must reckon with the fact that Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw exists, a book that is incredibly weird and unnerving, in places moreso than most "weird" fiction, and yet explains everything and leaves very little ambiguity to its proceedings.

Desperate to commission and edit an anthology called The Great God Bang, where submitters have to follow the plot structure of The Great God Pan, but every story has to end with a massive gangbang with participants across the entire gender spectrum

Reading The Book of Love and begging someone, anyone, to throw Laura in a dumpster and yell "NO. BAD." at her

My two favorite Bush albums are Hounds of Love and Sixteen Stone

I think my issue with a lot of criticism these days is that people tend to roast a thing for being what it isn't rather than focusing on what it is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTMA... So turns out I do have a favorite vtuber

I'm instinctively distrustful of anyone who decides to make their books into NFTs.

A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025