This is lovely 🍸

Every month could be March! horrificscribblings.com #womeninhorror #creaturefeatures #darkfantasy #darkscifi #apocalypticfiction

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

Never felt more like singing the blues 💙

You might think you know how ugly it will be, but it's worse

Having once spent an hour trying to get a squirrel out of a library, I don't think I can go bigger than bee.

No amount of neurodiversity awareness training will ever make up for the fact that the average person takes it personally when you want to have lunch alone.

Tweeted Rivalry?

The two best butchers in the country secretly pine for each other. Meated Rivalry

doing some research reading for my polar sluts book and i miss when chapters had 87 titles

So happy to see this!

No, for real, can our pets tell when we’re drunk/high? Do we smell sick or off to them? When we smoosh their faces and start crying from the love inside for them, do they know it’s the wine?

Yes defector.com/we-live-in-t...

I have been remembering this and bursting out laughing again and again all afternoon

I have a story in this, with other great authors!

I have a story in this, with other great authors!

NEW SCRIBE ALERT! Kirsty Syder joins HORRIFIC SCRIBES with “Prepped,” a throwback to the fears of New Year’s Eve 1999 and the “prepper” phenomenon that was all the rage... but it takes a sharp turn. horrificscribblings.com #apocalyptichorror #shorthorrorstories @poisonedsugar.bsky.social

imagine being the demon visiting me in my sleep and leaving weird, deep scratches on my body but every day I’m just like “huh wonder where that came from” and move on with my life

The Ugly Stepsister (2025) www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

i’m so lilith-coded

spending my day interviewing trans people for a piece (hopefully coming out next week!) and what a stupid, stupid, mean, absurd state of affairs

I have not been read this year's Yuletide fics because I've spent the last week or so feeling extremely antisocial but this one is fucking incredible archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

Stephen King's tribute to Rob Reiner is extremely worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

The good thing about running Romancing the Gothic independently of any institution and supported only by people's donations is that I have no pressure to cowardice or capitulation. Trans people are right there at the heart of RtG and if you don't like it, that's your problem. Not ours.

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...

hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz

I wrote a short story! I would be happy if you read it. It is very short I promise and I think funny (and a little scary but not that scary I promise). www.coyotemedia.org/more-teeth-t...

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

This is the kind of deep dive, kind of weird, story I always want to do, and that is almost impossible to sell. Another reason to support @coyotemedia.org (to let me do weird things!) www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...

I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant. But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.

Not naming names but fuck a couple of guys in particular

"Horror has emerged as cinema’s most bankable – and experimental – genre" Henry Wong's deep-dive article for Esquire Magazine is well worth a read, and always interesting to see what our very own @alanfrightfest.bsky.social has to say! www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a... #horror #HorrorCommunity

Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt (2022)

Surprisingly moving of @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social episode this week. The sad stuff really sneaks up on ya www.hyperfixedpod.com

This is really good and I agree - Weapons was fun to watch but had little actually going on thematically

New Classic Horror Project: The Fly. It's good! open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...

New Classic Horror Project: The Fly. It's good! open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...

70. Have you read Anne Rivers Siddons' THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR? You should.

This thread is a masterpiece

Started Let the Bad Times Roll this morning, and let me tell you, no one writes bad sex like @aliceslater.bsky.social

Classic Horror Project continues with The Blob! It’s a good one. poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...

Classic Horror Project continues with The Blob! It’s a good one. poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...

My newsletter Episodes is one of my favorite things I do! It's where I write about film, TV, gender, and so many other things. And it helps pay the bills when, say, I haven't been in a writer's room in over a year! And we're having a 40% off sale RIGHT NOW! (thread) episodes.ghost.io/pride-sale

Next up in the Classic Horror Project, Children of the Corn. It’s not great. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books: Stephen King R L Stine John Irving Elizabeth Strout Kate Atkinson Tana French Joanne Harris George R R Martin David Mitchell Paul Tremblay

Reading this post at this exact moment in my life was like a balm to my brain ❤️ ADHD in a 9–5 World: Why Desk Jobs Feel Like a Death Sentence open.substack.com/pub/sorenwil...

This is an excellent podcast that actually scared me (never happens) and also episode 2 reminded me a lot of @soozuk.bsky.social's story of NYE with the masons shows.acast.com/veil

Starting a new thing where I watch older horror movies I haven't seen already. open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...