Happiness is a fresh Champion order.

As a person who has smelled a gangrenous corpse fart, my thoughts and prayers are with the Scalzi household now.

Stop by and support sad goths in the rain!

If you're in the Richmond area, stop by and support your local morticians!

I'm attending a panel on item-writing for funeral service education. My conventions are very different these days.

hahahaha fuck them up!

guess what, beloveds? our resident necromancer (and licensed mortician) @stillsostrange.bsky.social is attending the American Board of Funeral Service Education conference WHICH MEANS you can ask the BOARD ITSELF a DEATH question! for an issue of the deadlands 🫶 psychopomp.com/aan/

The world is a trash fire so I need more hobbies.

I want to love fungi. They're so amazing. But I cannot love cadaver mold.

If your child falls into the gorilla enclosure you’re gonna need a new child. We only have the one gorilla.

I once worked with an embalmer who was so paranoid about bodies leaking that I used to joke I'd come into work one night and find she'd cocooned all of day shift in plastic wrap and hung them from the ceiling. This is now me and mold.

"A job for every corpse; a cadaver for every school!" join us, beloveds, for a very special Ask a Necromancer with @stillsostrange.bsky.social C’est ici de l’empire de la Mort read on! psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Today's the day! I've added this photo to my Funeral History slides. Sometimes the internet was almost worth it.

NON FICTION Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen by Robin Wheeler Ask a Necromancer: C’est ici de l’empire de la Mort by @stillsostrange.bsky.social

OH MY FUCKING GOD this is so good for renaissance music reasons for arranging reasons, DAMN for 'it's One Night in Bangkok as if Kit Marlowe wrote opera' reasons, especially

Adding this to my slides on holy relics next semester!

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

I need to set the arterial system to music so my students remember it.

8th graders aren't really the age group I'd choose to talk to about a career in mortuary science, but it turns out they enjoy playing with modeling wax.

What happens in the group chat stays in the group chat…until it doesn’t. CONFESSIONS FROM THE GROUP CHAT IS OUT NOW! Want copies of my cozy Deer Hill Anonymous books of your own? You can order from anywhere, request at your library, or get a signed copy from my friends at One More Page.

This week I'll be working a career fair for thousands of 8th graders. Pray for me.

As someone on day 3 of a migraine, this is a little too close to the bone

Book bub deal for A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES! www.bookbub.com/books/a-phil...

The handsome skeleton on the left is Fred. His friend with the hat doesn't have a name yet. Suggestions?

photo by @stillsostrange.bsky.social

The WFA-nominated collection of weird fiction by @stillsostrange.bsky.social is $1.99 in ebook currently! www.bookbub.com/books/still-...

Norwegian home invasion.

today we learn about formaldehyde with @stillsostrange.bsky.social in today's Ask A Necromancer! "To be clear, a dead body in and of itself is nothing to be afraid of, even a smelly one. [...] Dead is not the problem; it’s the pathogens that may still be alive." ⬇️💀🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

The things I find in my classroom.

"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I'm sharing some of my early Ask a Necromancer essays on Patreon, and hopefully answering new questions. Check it out, all you morbid children. www.patreon.com/posts/130698...

I forgot to share the final version of my emotional support severed head from last semester.

Remmick is a perfect gentleman about everything... except banana flavored amoxicillin. I'd probably choose violence too if someone tried to squirt that down my throat, so I can't really blame him.

Does anyone know anyone in a driveable-from-Richmond area who could adopt my handsome friend? My house is at cat-pacity, and I don't want to turn him back outside knowing he's FIV+.

Cat update: Remmick got in a carrier more politely than any cat I know. Poor baby is FIV positive and needs antibiotics for his mangled ear, but is otherwise doing well at the vet.

Guess who came in for dinner? Now I just have to convince him to get in a carrier tomorrow morning without murdering me.

This is Remmick. He believes in equality. He wants to come inside. He wants your stories and kibble. He's going to receive some bonus healthcare next week. If anyone has a few extra dollars they could contribute to fellowship and love (and vaccines and flea treatment), we would be truly grateful.

I'm going to start posting flyers around campus inviting people to join me in donning dinosaur costumes and benignly rampaging.

Yesterday I got MOHS surgery. The process was pretty cool and the doctor didn't mind my constant nerd questions. The local anesthesia and Tylenol have definitely worn off now, though.

Okay, context for my severed head collection. The head on the left was my (in progress) final project for Restorative Art in mortuary school. He was made with Plastilina art clay. The head on the right is my current project, using Dodge's modeling wax. (1/?)

I'm making a new friend!

The dead need your questions! Does anyone have queries for the Necromancer? @thedeadlands.com

Calling yourself king doesn't make you a king. Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, hearing the lamentations of their women...until one day you can wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia on a troubled brow. That makes you king.

Hacksilver riddled with a dragon, saved his family's farm, and won the secret to raise his dead. Nothing prepared him, though, for the long cold winter when the dead walked... Next week. "The Witch and the Wyrm" by @matociquala.bsky.social! Art by Zelda Devon Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social

Goodreads is doing another Tomb of Dragons giveaway, now through March 10, open to U.S. residents, 60 ARCs of The Tomb of Dragons, go! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Happy 1st birthday to the audiobook of A THEORY OF HAUNTING! To celebrate, it is being offered at a 70% discount now through March 2: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

oh skeleton joy!! it's that time, beloveds! are you ready? "More recently [...] people have been asking if I’ve seen The Autopsy of Jane Doe." Ask a Necromancer: The Autopsy of a Horror Film by @stillsostrange.bsky.social psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Today is the publication day for the ebook of The Orb of Cairado! Please admire the gorgeous artwork by Thomas Canty. subterraneanpress.com/the-orb-of-c...

Weather conditions in Richmond today led to campus closing and me working from home. This has also delayed our cadaver delivery. I have new and unusual problems these days.

1. Artist (yes, that's vague) 2. Studio Art 3. English Lit 4. Mortician/Mortuary Science instructor