Body Electric

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jesper 24 | he/him | aspiring geezer, wannabe librarian, frankenstein enjoyer | 🔞

We can talk forever about the queer other in the symbolism of the monster. For me a monster is about repression, duality, primal instinct. A dark desire made flesh. A warped reflection of the self. #HorrorWritersChat

Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️@stevewestenra.bsky.social · 3d ago

#HorrorWritersChat Question 2: What do the monsters in your work mean or convey? Or, if you don't include anything that could be called a monster, what can monsters mean or do in horror as a genre?

Question 2: Monsters tend to communicate more about those who create or imagine them than anything about the creatures themselves. What do the monsters in your work mean or convey? Or, if you don't include anything that could be called a monster, what can monsters mean or do in horror as a genre?

Image features the bony, clawed foot of a dinosaur--or is it something still stranger?

tfw your crush on your feral priestess and your love for your deity intertwine horribly + she uses it against you and you let her they actually both like each other a lot but it's always filtered through a Lot of baggage and creidhe being a horrible person with big ideas

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Working at a group home while chronically ill is going to kill me one of these days Tbh the worst part is that i actually like it a lot and if my body wasnt deteriorating the way it is i could see myself doing it for a long time