Remember the stories that your father used to tell you: about witches that lived in forests that boiled globular children in giants pots and you knew that you were never meant to identify with the children, that he was teaching you a lesson about survival and hatred and living on the margins of temporality. And you must have thought, what a good lesson for a moment like this. Here you were with a stove and a pot and a child in the shape of your father. You were cooking your ancestors into their beginnings.

Cat Ingrid Leeches

@leeches.bsky.social / @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social

is karl ove knausgaard the most normal norwegian because if so then boy howdy are yall in trouble

MN state is being denied access to evidence

It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism

If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Fuck ICE. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy.

we are open 💅

Photo of a black and white cat on a green and brown climbing tree. Her face is obscured by a shelf.

We’ve been playing hide and seek for quite some time, and I think I’ve been defeated by a master.

My students have had strong responses to Bloodchild by Octavia Butler and Toddler Hunting by Taeko Kono. There are some Angela Carter stories that definitely hit the spot too. Please, let me know what you end up teaching! I’d love to read along.

I read a lot of short story collections but I can’t think of any that are fucked up enough for this syllabus, but maybe a practitioner can @hughsheehy.bsky.social @maeganpoland.bsky.social @leeches.bsky.social

A picture of my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen.

A picture of a page from the book. The story is “Ichor.” There’s a simple illustration of a witch.

An illustration from my book

Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.

I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.

My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.

🚬🐀✨ thank you, that really means a lot!

Thank you!

You would be so lucky if that happened to you. The stars would be in your favor! You’d make cool art and have neat friends.

Anyway, here’s my schtick: embrace “bad” literature! Not everything that you read has to be “excellent” or “good” to be worth your time. What is the worst that can happen? You’ll be infected? You’ll let the stink of bad taste accumulate inside you and ooze out your pores? We’ll all smell your sins?

A picture of my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen.

A picture of a page from the book. The story is “Ichor.” There’s a simple illustration of a witch.

An illustration from my book

Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.

I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today.

My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.

Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting

i mean i wouldn't be mad...

cough, i just so happen to edit @beestung.bsky.social / @alocasiamag.bsky.social / @anmlymag.bsky.social

💜💜💜

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic

brb going on book tour with my emotional support imodium

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

Note that says: the surveillance is the punishment.

Found this in a notebook today & couldn’t remember what prompted me to write it, or even what meeting I was in when I wrote it.

I had a nightmare that was a mash up between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild.

😬

This boy cravin’ salad

Inside a Wild West Brothel Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 10/14/2025 · 42m

Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen!

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A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore.

Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.

i think there should be a program that pairs the emotionally needy with recovering alcoholics who haven’t made new friends sober yet. sort of a big brother/sister program for impossibly dysregulated people

Things that have the same energy:
1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list.
2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.

It is likely a coral snake! But I left the baby alone, and luckily avoided stomping on ‘em accidentally.