I continue to adore the Kiss of the Spider Woman movie and I hope it develops the cult classic status it deserves

I can do this one-like-one-answer style or you can just tell me which ones you want answers to tumblr-style, I'm easy :D

Q3. I'm not necessarily writing my own trauma into my fiction (for one thing my family is still alive and it would not go over well 😂) but inevitably the colors, the shades, the pain and joys make it in. Sometimes I don't even notice until my therapist points it out years later. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 8h ago

Making it personal. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - In what ways has your own history (past) impacted or inspired your horror writing? Examples: giving a character your childhood trauma, reimagining an experience with a different ending.

Q2. Buried horrors from the past are a major theme of my current stories. A protagonist whose world is (literally, physically) unraveling because of her buried grief. Ghosts of colonialism past and present, trapped in the moments of their death. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 9h ago

Even fictional characters have a past. Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - How much history, how much of a past, do you give your horror characters? Share an example.

Q1. I'm Sophia! I write contemporary gothic full of hungry ghosts, haunted families, and the shadows of war. I haven't read much historical horror. But I read a fair bit of old folklore and 19th / 20th century Gothic, especially by Black and SWANA writers. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 9h ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

70. Million. Dollars. And the genocide lovers still could not buy the election. I’m so proud.

People constantly saying “this will start World War III” makes me feel insane because some of y’all really believe the West and its proxies can bomb and starve millions and millions of people throughout the world but it’s not a world war until the Western countries are at risk

I need sleep but Michigan

Shit like this would honestly be laugh-out-loud-funny if it weren't for, y'know, the hundreds of thousands of people they've slaughtered.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2d ago

Basically the height of caricature at this point: Israel is demanding that as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, it be allowed to continue attacking Gaza.

Shit like this would honestly be laugh-out-loud-funny if it weren't for, y'know, the hundreds of thousands of people they've slaughtered.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2d ago

Basically the height of caricature at this point: Israel is demanding that as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, it be allowed to continue attacking Gaza.

I will be speaking at @laworldcon.bsky.social in Anaheim in a month, and I'd love to see you there!

The Hadestown pro shot has been extended and I don't like telling people what to do but you GOTTA see it you just GOTTA

The Hadestown pro shot has been extended and I don't like telling people what to do but you GOTTA see it you just GOTTA

Humans have always loved to make Art of A Lil Guy

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · last wk.

WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2

I got an R&R that advised me to lean into the horror, and I have no idea how to write to genre so I am just going through each scene and being like "can I make this More Terrible" which? Honestly? Incredibly fun. Put the tiny people in a jar and shake harder.

I will be speaking at @laworldcon.bsky.social in Anaheim in a month, and I'd love to see you there!

This sounds SO fun and creepy

P.C. Verrone@pcverrone.com · 6d ago

THE BLOND is coming!!! ⏱️ I’m SO excited to share that @catapultbooks.bsky.social will be publishing my second novel! If you love Cloud Atlas, messy queers of the past, and books that feel like you’re exploring an archive, then you’re in for a treat…

I’ve been dreaming for a long time of offering an advice column — not just a basic “do this” but something stranger, blending somatic guidance and mystical wisdom and a touch of poetry. Would you be remotely interested in reading that? What kind of questions would you ask me?

Hadestown: still good

Watching Hollywood trailers get whiter and whiter is real depressing.

Why do pistachios and cardamom make literally everything better?

Every time I think I have a sense for the devastating evil the US is inflicting upon Cuba, I learn something worse.

Every time I think I have a sense for the devastating evil the US is inflicting upon Cuba, I learn something worse.

There are few things as infuriating as the process of advising desperate, dying people on how to tailor their cries for help so that numb and easily distracted Westerners might take notice.

I went down a rabbit hole learning about rice, does anyone want a big rambling thread about rice?

I had a lot of frustrations with this season but I'm still SO excited

Comicsbeat@comicsbeat.bsky.social · 2w ago

SDCC ’26: QUEEN OF THE DAMNED to follow THE VAMPIRE LESTAT on AMC AMC's Immortal Universe announced Interview with the Vampire Season 4, AKA Queen of the Damneed Season 1, at SDCC 2026.

In response, to the settler attacks Netanyahu has ordered the IDF to "accelerate the legalization of farms and outposts in the West Bank and establish new ones" and launch an "intensive" military operation. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

IDF set to launch West Bank offensive after deadly Israeli-Palestinian clashes

Following the incident – where two Israelis and two Palestinians were killed – the IDF imposed a full closure on Nablus and nearby villages. The army said that it conducted 'targeted operation' at a N...

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I like when liberals argue that the US is too mean to Netanyahu and not mean enough to, uh, Iran.

Okay white people are trying to correct my rice thread again so now you all have to read it again. 😂 (To be clear there is an error in the rice thread. I got Humboldt’s place of origin wrong. I corrected this two months ago, and yet 🤷🏽‍♀️ But hey could be worse I could have mixed up China and Japan)