“She opened the door for the first time on a Tuesday morning, half-expecting to find a dusty, maudlin display of old trinkets on dressers with cobwebbed mirrors, rumpled bedclothes, and stopped clocks; a Havisham-esque grotesquerie.”

Less than a year until my next talk for Romancing the Gothic. Get that date in your diaries!

It's the end of the year so it's time for the top ten new talks from Romancing the Gothic for 2025! I'll start with 10 and build up to 1. Hopefully something for everyone! Gather round, Goths!

You all are using the plagiarism chat bot for "research" while I'm here perusing databases of menus from the 1890s. We are not the same. I'm better than you. That's the subtext. Add me to more anti-AI block lists please because I don't want to interact with your lazy, fascist asses

For folks interested in writers from Pittsburgh, mystery novels, and/or spiritualism in the 1920s

Evening sketch (fountain pen on paper)

What if every single person just turned into a crow?

Wealth should have a cap. Once you've made, I dunno, $100 million dollars, that's it. Congratulations, you won Capitalism. You benefitted from society so much, you'll never have a material worry again. We'll name a dog park after you. Everything past that goes into a "social benefit fund."

Reminder to be inclusive to those who need/benefit from alt text. You can enable requiring it so you don’t forget

You can snag all my stories for 5 bucks over on itch during the Winter Sale! ❄️ This includes a new novella about a 40-something lesbian inheriting an apartment fully furnished with homophobic ghosts. There is a cat. 🐈‍⬛️

Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small I FINISHED #WEALDANDWEN It is done. It'll be 'out' in four days. There's other things but I've been trying to write the Children of Mar off and on since I was twelve. Now I have one book down, three to go!

Do you sells works on itch.io? Do you have a work starring one or more characters on the aromantic spectrum? Then we want YOU! to submit your works to a bundle of works starring arospec characters to run during Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Deets: duckprintspress.com/resources/du... 🌈📚

Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small - my third Romancing the Gothic talk - my third RtG writing workshop - great new hairstyle - attended a Joan Jett concert - found out that I have OCD - my fourth RtG talk - flash fic accepted for publication

For folks interested in writers from Pittsburgh, mystery novels, and/or spiritualism in the 1920s

This feels like an attempt to trick me into posting pictures of my ass on the internet, and I’m not falling for it.

A Romancing the Gothic first! I have put the whole schedule for 2026 up in advance! You can already book tickets through March but you can see what's coming (and note it in your diary!) for the whole year! What a talk schedule! romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...

On A Path · 2021

In these days when the world is celebrating and filled with gratitude, there are still people living in hardship, cold, and fear. We are among them. Your sharing today is not just a post it is a real chance to help a family struggling to survive 🙏🎁 chuffed.org/project/1520...

The situation is getting worse. Please help us buy blankets and mattresses. Winter is getting colder and the rain is flooding the tents. We need your support and donations... @mommunism.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Ahmed's family lived in a tent for so long that his kids are shocked by stairs, and opening the apartment door💔 Please don't let them lose this chance at shelter. Without rent $, they will be forced to live not even in a tent, but on the street 0/350 gofund.me/124a7c49 paypal.me/AhmadAlsbaihii

THREAD. A selection of haunting encounters I have had with folk horror creatures and ghosts during walks in the British countryside. You will find the full descriptions of these disturbing incidents in the alt text. 1. Weeping Fence Banshee.

Welcome back, artists! Quote Post with an old piece that you still like!

Do you like reading ghost stories at this time of year? Me too! ✨️

If you want to help displaced families in Palestine but feel overwhelmed and unsure where to start, The Sameer Project has been on the ground helping provide food, tents, warm clothes, bedding, and other life-saving necessities Every donation to the fundraiser below helps families this winter

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Sara is a nurse who has been working in Nasser Hospital. She has three children Muhammad, 6, Ziad, 5 and Ammer who is just 11 months. Muhammad and Ammer both need medical care outside of Gaza and she is looking for someone to help with that.

GhoooooOOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOsts!

Snow & wind & woods. #art

For my birthday I’d like to find indie and self-published queer SFF, if you have written one or know one that fits, please LINK below Brief: scifi: military, space opera fantasy: epic, political horror: scifi/ fantasy horror erotica with any of the above: yes NO: urban fantasy YA steam/clockpunk

🎵 🎶 Santa baby, just kill the gen A.I. industry, for me 🎶 🎵

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

More gingerbread cookie art

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

You can get my latest novella half off or in a bundle with everything else in my store for 5 bucks during the itch Winter Sale, which runs until January 5th! I'll never debut a new work this way again, so if you want to grab something new cheap right out of the gate, check it out! ✨️

A bit of ridiculousness as a timeline cleanse (not entirely sure you will thank me 😜) A #Paranormal Dad Joke: Why was the séance canceled? . . . . . . . It got a bad rap. 👻👻👻

Sadie is a sad, anxious lesbian in her 40s with nothing of her own. When she inherits a friend's apartment, she uses the unexpected gift to make a new life. She even adopts a cat. But when she opens a room that's been shut up for years, she learns the gift has strings even the giver couldn't sever.

Human artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you ☠️⛩️

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar Ghostly hare White pencil & pastel on black paper😈🎨🦇

Happy Winter Solstice! The only day of the year with enough darkness!

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

You actually DON'T have to use it to know why it's bad, & if you do, you're the incurious one. The facts that it needs to use plagiarized work to run, that it's terrible for the environment, & that it exploits the labor of impoverished people are all readily available to anyone who looks at all.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

The Submissions window for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is open for another three weeks! Get all the deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...