Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social
It's Briar! Hi! I'm an American werewolf and writer living in London. Website: briarripleypage.xyz Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io
i think i was thinking of the rack or something, like a specific device that did something awful people weren't otherwise capable of doing to one another. you could "break" someone on a big rock, tho, or on a particularly heavy piece of furniture. anything
did you ever read about what "breaking on the wheel" actually was, it was just kind of repeatedly hitting them with a big wooden wheel like off a cart. i thought it would involve rotation or spinning or something integral to wheels. the same effect could be replicated with a heavy stick
Obvious solution: let me do a Pinky and the Brain comic and I'll do a parody, following the Animaniacs tradition of parodying things the target audience could not know or care about
Shaenon K. Garrity@shaenon.bsky.social · yesterdayI wish I had the art chops to do a graphic novel adaptation of Riddley Walker but I'm not there yet Someday
Children being taught from a very early age to recognize and deal with their emotions. I'm honestly kind of excited to see what the world looks like when the people in charge have been raised since toddlerhood to express Big Feelings nonviolently.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 2d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
art with trans flag colors colorpicked from a photo I took of the sky at 7 PM interesting exercise, even if I still prefer more saturated, bright, or vivid colors!
you either grow up diagnosed and get told you're an abnormal person who isn't capable of anything or you grow up undiagnosed and get treated like someone who doesn't deserve to have problems. either way you lose
A very happy belated birthday to the spectacular MAEJ and its author--the Dale-est of Dales and crafter of the hemi-colon, @stromberg.bsky.social. This book is one of our press-prides and required reading for anyone who loves a challenging fantasy! 🌟✨🌠 traumbooks.com/maej/
I will never say “Humina humina humina, aaawoooogah!!! Boi-yoinggg!!!” because what if I died right after. Those would be my last words
cozy horror is when my husband and I went to a Halloween haunt with several different “experiences” last weekend, & one “experience” was SO pleasant & relaxing to us both that we were shocked when it suddenly ended “with no scare”
found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this
okay so I thought of ONE novel that fits both my definition of cozy & my definition of horror (though not the common definitions of either) and it is: The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas!
Briar Ripley Page@flameswallower.bsky.social · 2d ago(when i talk about "my definition" of cozy: in the past, stories i've described as cozy have tended to be maybe more what others would call "chill" or "low conflict, low stakes," with clear affection for their characters and settings. they aren't necessarily "happy" or "upbeat" stories though!)
i've said before that i don't think horror, the emotion and genre of art, is synonymous with being afraid/being scary-- i think it's a kind of apocalyptic and sublime feeling, so it can have a lot of emotional inflections in addition to fear, and doesn't have to particularly emphasize fear. anyway
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today is your reminder that the 'Guennol Lioness', a proto-Elamite statuette, confirms evidence that humans have been hot for massive furry women since at least 5000ish BCE, contemporary with our invention of the wheel and the first cohesive writing systems
frielf@goblin.fans · 3d agoarchaeologists have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric little freak
yeah if you forget to do the dishes sometimes it's because you're hopelessly evil. yeah. Sister Mary-Beth is gonna give you a cocaine and rose water enema and if that doesn't work we're going to just burn you in the town square. because you're 22 and suck a little bit
yeah you're gaslighting everyone every time you fuck up. did you know that? yeah. if you don't have the hang of being an adult by the time you're, how old are you, 21? yeah. it's because you are An AbuserTM and you're going to go to hell
yeah if you just moved out of your parents house for the first time and struggle to balance working a job and doing chores that's because your soul is corrupted. yeah. yeah. it's because your soul cannot be washed clean.