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Odin Meadows

@odinmeadows.bsky.social

author of weird horror and strange speculative fiction (and poetry). odinmeadows.com

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Salon Sinister@salonsinister.com · 3mo ago

Let's whet that appetite with a cover reveal 👅 Our second issue is a buffet for the freaky, and we can't wait to serve. Please, have a seat. Salon Sinister Issue 2 | Cover by Anni Jyn @annijyn.com | Available for free digitally June 4 | Physical release shortly after

A painted/pen drawn/watercolor piece of art featuring a close up of a woman's face. The face is white while her lips are black and there's blood coming from her mouth and eye that's curling and twisting away. Her visible eye has no pupil to the right of her is pink/yellowish swirls of color almost reminiscent of organ meat along with teal, orange and yellow dots scattered near the black border. Text reads: Salon Sinister Issue 2 in an unsettling scrawl, and the other text in a green box reads "available for free June 4"
Frost Zone Stories@frostzonestories.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Book 1, 1 year sale. Paperback price reduced here: www.frostzonestories.com/p/issuesbook... Authors: Elizabeth Guilt, Katie Marie, Stephen McQuiggan, @odinmeadows.bsky.social @micahcastle.com Lena Ng, @marcruvolo.bsky.social @kristalstittle.bsky.social Amelia Gorman, James Owens 1/2

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PRICE TEMPORARILY LOWERED ON PAPERBACK on Amazon Canada, UK, and USA, Also on Lulu for most destinations - Happy one year anniversary Frost ...

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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6mo ago

‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?

HOPE, FOR ME, COMES FROM THE PAST’ BY ESSAYIST REBECCA SOLNIT ‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters? People tend to think hope is fluffy and frail, but it’s the force that has kept people going in the worst circumstances, the commitment to pursue the possibilities even when they seem remote. There are so many things hope is not: it is not optimism, which assumes that the future will be fine, and which requires nothing of us, any more than cynicism, despair, defeatism and doomerism do. It is not a prophesy of the future, since it arises in part from recognising that we make the future in the present and that it will be shaped by countless factors, visible and invisible, including our own participation. It is not an upbeat feeling or a feeling at all, since people in the worst circumstances have hoped that their efforts to free themselves might be met with success, that their bleakcondition might not be permanent or that their children might live to see a better time. second half of text with second post/photo
Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Too much theoretical/critical writing on horror (and, by extension, rightly or wrongly, on weird fiction) hinges on the _why_ of reception/response (“why do people read/write this stuff”), instead of the _how_ of poetics and formalism (“how is this stuff achieved/conveyed in the text”)

Brian Hugenbruch@the-lettersea.com · 7mo ago

Also, just to up the fear factor: more iambic pentameter. Because nothing screams “I’m being drawn inexorably into the gaping maw of an elder god” than the unceasing, plodding rhythm of human progress.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 8mo ago

1. Earlier this year, Yale and CCMC capitulated to the Trump administration and ended care for trans youth. Now, 10 families are suing them for violating state law. Hospitals cannot be made to believe throwing trans people under the bus is risk free. Our latest story.

Families Bring Legal Challenge Against Yale, CCMC For Capitulating To Trump On Trans Youth Care

Yale New Haven Health and Connecticut Children's Medical Center abruptly ended care for transgender people earlier this year.

erininthemorning.com

Paul T. Levin@paultlevin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Salon Sinister@salonsinister.com · 11mo ago

The Salon is now open... The first issue of our queer horror magazine is official live and ready for you to consume. Step inside. Lose yourself. Find your new favorite writer or artist within. We have such sights to show you🖤 t.ly/MGy-2

Text on the right side of the image reads, "Welcome to Salon Sinister: A Queer Horror Lit Mag" ""The work featured in this issue is a look inside the minds of those directly affected by the fascist regime in the United States. The contributors in this issue are strong representatives of a population that not only faces daily persecution, but still finds ways to exist boldly and beautifully under threat." Below that reads, "Contributors: Abigail Waldron, al dsym, Amber S., A.V. Shurling, Bee Delores, Christine Makepeace, Ciaran Flake, E.L. Rey, Elizabeth R. McClellan, Ell Huang, Garrett Emerson, Genevieve Hugenbruch, Jay Zimmerman, Jaylan Salah, Molly M., Odin Meadows, Tera Freeman, Trevor Kassis." The right side of the image is the cover of the new free horror lit magazine "Salon sinister" which features a figure cloaked in black with a pale hand emerging within the folds that has pink painted nails. Instead of a face there are big, unnerving teeth seeming to break through the paper. The words "Salon Sinister" are written across the front of the figure in either lipstick or blood. Hard to say which...
it’s me, aslynn@aslynnromano.com · 12mo ago

Hi, I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner and I endorse this message. People who make you feel bad about being open about your mental illness need to sit with their discomfort and not project it back onto you. Their stigma is not your problem. You are a bright shining star despite your struggles. 🫶🏻

Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"keep your mental illness to yourself lol nobody needs to know about that" sounds a lot like keep your sexuality to yourself. being open about bipolar/psychosis has improved my well-being considerably. it's made me healthier bc it gave me a pathway towards self-acceptance and advocacy/meaningfulness

🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱@oddoblivion.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Art isn’t “instinctive” you aren’t born with knowing how to draw. There’s nothing humiliating about putting in the work to learn a new craft.

Samyaza Panoptes@seraphsriddle.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Honestly this is an excuse. I know plenty of people who are not “naturally gifted” who do art. It requires effort to learn. I feel you did not approach it correctly or think things happen over night. Also hard work and skill is not “naturally gifted” as that undermines their efforts to draw. 1/2