This reminds me of that guy I dated who went to India for a semester abroad in college and his biggest cultural takeaway was wiping his own ass with his hands because (according to him) Indians don't use toilet paper? AFAIK he is middle-aged and still hand-wiping.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

A beautiful person I had the great fortune to know left this earth yesterday. She was one of the most unique, intelligent, vivacious, GOOD people I have ever met. That’s all. Hold your loved ones close, pet the cat, feed the birds. Water your garden. Raise a glass.

Watershed She digs, scraping rock, trying to get as much root as possible. She has decided to #shift the bee balm from one end of the wild patch to the center. She needs to spread the red clots of their flowers, to smell their herbal sweetness and forget what and who was buried there. #vss365

Me: Smell that? Kid: yeah...what is it? Me: Canada's on fire. Kid: AGAIN?!

I love my sister forever and always but her commitment to hot pepper relish makes sharing a small tiny fridge in our upstate house me want to stab all the things. (Don’t we’ve get me started on the hot sauce.)

Word.

William Shakespeare@shakespeare.lol · last mo.

This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise

Q4: L. P. Hartley, who AFAIK isn't problematic like ol' Lovecraft and wrote some supremely unsettling psychological horror, specifically the collection The Travelling Grave. "The Killing Bottle" and "A Change of Ownership" are 2 stories that haunt me still, long after reading... #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A revival is due. It’s time for them to receive their flowers 🖤💐 Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Shine a light on an underrated horror creator from 1900-1999 (20th century) Who are they? What do you love about their work? --- Outro in 10 mins.

Q3: Oh jeez, there are quite a few dead ones, aren't there? I've been going down an old-timey hole, so I am going to say Mary Butts, who is not a horror writer per se, but she wrote some weird shit and she died at 47, in 1937, and I think we could make some weird beautiful shit together.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Collaborations with those who have gone before. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - Which dead horror creator would you want to collab with? Why? What would you create together?

Q2: Can't say I have brought any back from the unpublished grave because so many of my tales still lie behind the file drawer door...🤦‍♀️ However there is one I have about a racist cop who gets got that I have plans to take down to the bones, as it were, and rebuild anew... #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kill your darlings...so you can necromance them back to life! 🖤 Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - What unpublished plots or characters have you “resurrected” to use in a new story? Why did you bring them back?

Hallo! It's been a minute since I've been able to dive into the #HorrorWritersChat, albeit a bit late... My name is Justine, I write weird shit, and... Q1: "Hodge" by Elinor Mordaunt (c.1921). Strange, sad, Frankenstein-esque tale of unearthing an early human from the tide pools. Poor Hodge.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello and welcome to Horror Writers Chat! Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... Share a favourite horror story that has a theme of resurrection. Zombies, vampires, dead coming back "wrong"...share your faves.

I love how-to-draw instructions, but I gotta say this one takes a bit of a leap from steps 3 to 4. 🐀

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/

#notsushi

でんか@k-hermit.com · 2mo ago

つやつやのタカラガイ 中身がでてきたらガラっと印象が変わります🐚

All Clams Are Bivalves All Cows Are Bovines All Cops Are…

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Two new subreddits I joined today are r/bellhat and r/beebutts and I have no regrets.

I know this is not WHY we do it, but I just got a story accepted for the first time in ages and it feels...good. I can feel good about this, right? RIGHT?! And it's not even one of my horror/genre/effed-up ones...🤔 #amwriting

Skipping to Q4, #horrorwriterschat, forgive me. I love stories that are creepy AF but aren't strictly "horror" per se. One in this vein is "Pelt" by Carol Emshwiller. Technically sci-fi, but the atmosphere/tension/bag of yuck, as well as the perspective (told from a dog's POV) all scream: eeek.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Strange and unusual horror. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Share the name of a strange or unusual horror story that you love. Any medium (novel, short story, film, song, comic, etc.) What do you love about its strangeness? No, you can’t pick your own story. --- Outro in 10 minutes.

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat 🤔 Hmm. I would say when I began my parenting-a-human-child journey I did not quite anticipate how much inspiration for creepy/weird stories would come from the experience. I guess a nice bonus to having a human child!

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ideas for horror stories can come from the strangest of places. Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - what has been the most unusual or unexpected inspiration for one of your horror stories? Share the strange origin story.

Hallo, lovelies of #HorrorWritersChat I'm Justine and I'm here to say...I write weird shit almost every day... Q1: I think it was Dalí who would nap in a chair holding an object and when it fell, it'd wake him up and he'd run and write down whatever vision came to him from his hypnagogic state...

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. This week, our theme is: Strange and Unusual. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... Share a strange or unusual horror writing tip that actually works. A completely unhinged writing tip that works is also good. #AmWriting

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Actual names@actualnames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ilse Kuhnt Dignus United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007

Anyone else thinking as Air Force One is on its way to China, “Hey maybe we’ll get that Logan Roy we’ve all been waiting for?”

Succession: Tom Eats Chicken Wings

Alt: Succession: Tom Eats Chicken Wings

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So was wondering what the nuclear fallout would be from a certain distance for a "light" bomb in a story I'm noodling this a.m. and came across this site. And now I can't stop blowing things up. ☄️ #amwriting #rabbithole #5amwriterclub nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

nuclearsecrecy.com

Semester Abroad They reach the coast at dawn. Tired, hungover, they sleep in the sand like puppies, then wake to wander the palapas for food. They have #affection for one another now, after surviving 6 hours on cliff-side roads for paradise, whose name translates to “beach of the dead.” #vss365

Thoughts and prayers for the kitchen from which the child announces “I just made 2 quarts of lemonade” at 6:30 a.m.

a woman in a long skirt is running through a flooded area .

Alt: A gif of a woman in a long skirt is hopping through a flooded area holding up some bags

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Rising The child is up early and at his piano, learning the Nutcracker. It's April. Out her window the oak is settling into its spring #jade. The toys march across her ceiling. Sugarplums dance, the flowers will soon begin a waltz. In an hour, it'll be breakfast and backpacks. She can wait. #vss365

Obsessive deep dives down the internet tubes will do it usually. So much original source material is now available with a few choice key words...And I am especially grateful to my two local library systems for maintaining some amazing online archives... #horrorwriterschat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Let’s do the time warp again. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - You’re writing a story set in the past. What is your process for ensuring your worldbuilding and characters are as historically accurate as possible? > research? > feedback? > time-travel?

Like my working life, my written life is scattered hither and yon and I write a little bit of everything, all of it weird. Been dipping back down the poetry hole lately. #horrorwriterschat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We contain multitudes. Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - Other than HORROR, what else do you write? > other genres? > non-fiction? > blogs? > letters? How does being a horror writer help with your other writing?

Hallo! I'm here...And by here, I mean my native Brooklyn, NY, where I live and write weird things my son isn't allowed to read...yet. Currently reading: More Deadly Than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror, ed. by Graeme Davis & Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat! Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write... and share what you’re reading or watching this week. It doesn’t have to be horror.

I seldom work on the romance stuff anymore in my editing life but of course I would have a real saucy one up on the monitor when the kid comes in to work on his bday invite. ("F--ks me hard against the wall" being the choice phrase he read aloud.) Gah! 🫠

Dive When Joe surfaced he did not expect to see a child in the glare of his headlamp. How had they gotten there? Joe saw no equipment, no dry suit. They wore shorts, a tank top. Joe climbed from the #water, looked more closely at the cave, then the child, who smiled at him with sharp teeth. #vss365

Hallo #HorrorWritersChat Scrambling to get my shiz together for seder night BUT I'll attempt to get thru a few questions... I am a frayed nerve living in the States in Brooklyn, NY, and I write weirdness. Fave imprisonment horror: the waking up in a locked room with no memory of getting there.

Gree_@greethewriter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Your eyes dart between your reflections. They capture you perfectly – in moments of shame. Guilt. Loss. Grief. On and on. In perpetuity. A question gnaws in your mind. Tell us who you are, what do you write, and what is your favourite imprisonment concept in horror? #HorrorWritersChat