Brian Psiropoulos 🌱🍉📎
@psionotic.bsky.social
English PhD. Victorian Gothic fiction and its pop culture descendants. Also games, comics, and sometimes tennis. on a darkling plain
Manuscript submitted to a publisher. Now we wait! (We don't really wait, we start working on the next thing so we don't go insane from the anxiety, preciousss).
These people are monsters and worse, without exception.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
goodnight horror fam 🖤😈🫶
Waking up at 4am and remembering you have to finish your book in a couple hours but then realizing why what you had planned to do doesn't really work. There goes any chance of getting back to sleep. :(
You can log on to Bluesky where the Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians, and Culture critics are all yelling at one another about The Odyssey you can log on to X where people are debating if women are "real people"
Guess who owed $229k in student loans but just got his golden letter?
Me sowing... :( theonion.com/a24s-elden-r...
A24’s ‘Elden Ring’ Film Stalled After Red Phantom Named TwinkPunisher Invades Set
BLÁSKÓGABYGGÐ, ICELAND—Expressing regret that the interruption would delay the highly anticipated video game adaptation, the producers of A24’s upcoming Elden Ring film announced Tuesday that the proj...
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Current project at around 22k words, with a couple of chapters (maybe 2-4k) remaining. This will put it longer than *The Great God Pan* (22k) and *The Poor Clare* (23k), but probably a touch shorter than *Carmilla* (28k). I think it's pretty good, too bad novellas are so hard to sell!
Invented a new portmanteau for all you teaching types. It serves no purpose whatsoever evalugraded I'm sorry/you're welcome
Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”
Why would I ever get a PS6? -No disks, making dozens of my ps4 and ps5 games unplayable on it -Going to be $1k, probably -They wasted this whole generation chasing the live service dragon, so good new releases have been rare -They still charge $ for online play in the year of our God of War 2026
One of the best things about having started to write again is that I've gotten back into frequent contact with my grad school bestie, also a writer. We've been giving each other notes on the work, and just talking about music and life and whatever. It's been really great. Missed that kid.
Never bet against: a) #10 -and- b) England's inability to win when it matters
I don't drink a lot anymore, a combination of an attempt to get healthier and being on buproprion, which isn't a good mix I had a single 16oz 10% alcohol beer at a party on Saturday, and as always, got a little spin-y chatty loud At one point I believe I said "FUCK THE ATLANTIC!" I stand by it
I've now seen every English language Villeneuve film. Are the earlier French films worthwhile? Which is/are best?
I'm two-thirds through Lucy Rose's *The Lamb*, and while perhaps a bit over-written, it is quite the page-turner, and I have absolutely no idea where it's going.
"Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain."
I wrote 1300 words today. What's it called when you're impressed by yourself? Satisfaction? Pride? What even are these feelings, I've never seen them.
Mob Not Angry At Monster, Just Disappointed https://theonion.com/mob-not-angry-at-monster-just-disappointed-1819569945/
Well, the current project is officially the longest piece of fiction I've ever written. This isn't saying much, since I'm still shy of 10,000 words, but progress is being made, and we're probably looking at novellete/novella length (hopefully the latter).
My cab driver in Staten Island was a Reagan-Bush-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that by nominating Mamdani-aligned candidates, Democrats had just thrown away any shot at getting his vote.
Going to start submitting the story next week. You never know, of course, but I'm happy with it. ...Meanwhile, the novella I'm working on is humming with some significant Cronenberg vibes. The method (to quote the Ranged Touch crew) is paying off.
I'm officially Cape Verde-pilled. Go Blue Sharks.