GRIMDARK SHREK UPDATE: it's been a tough winter and my dawg Christopher Bown and I are getting through it with some illustrated ultraviolence fantasy-fic

the best part of being a guest speaker at the hs horror writing workshop was when the kids asked if we *actually* thought The Blair Witch Project was real-- I took great joy in explaining to them that there was a fake TV special that fully warped my reality lmao

Hahahaha! Yes!

Was a BLAST

the homie Emma was very proud of her framing here hahaha

I was the guest speaker for a class of horror writing high schoolers yesterday and it was surreal! My biggest takeaways were that they hate AI with a passion (based) and will shower you with finger claps (nice)

Release the Horse paperback cover.

Release the Horse paperback back copy.

Release the Horse - by @matthewmitchell.bsky.social
Published by @filthyloot.bsky.social
This is a killer collection. Ozarkian horror exploring the darkest corners of American rot.
Favorites include Muscular Devotion, Little Man, and The Band.
Seek this one out.

my new book RELEASE THE HORSE got a killer review in the latest issue of BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE 🙏

hahahaha holy shit

do any other lapsed CoS stans look back at photos like this and ask themselves: wtf was I thinking?

I probably keep it too light on social media (we can talk dystopian shop off-mic) and there are so many more pressing things to post about...but we DO all understand what the WB purchase means for our only culturally and politically important industry, right?

bye, bye Western cinema 💔

just here to say I love this thread and I celebrate your old punk soul every goddamn day -- HAPPY HALF CENTURY, PAL

dawg, I am dying rn 😭

"very cool writer" posts their music taste and immediately loses half of the aura

ope, big bearded man season in swing AKA its cold and biology begs you to hit on the fat guy 🎅

James Cameron for the Last 16 Years:
"If you don't like this furry shit, you can get the fuck out."

James Cameron as of Last Month:
"So, what would you think if I maybe never went back to Pandora?"

always watching

truly brutal, what a fuckin bummer

read some good fiction in memory of Daniel Woodrell today

hometown hero, an incredible talent, and the writer I looked up to most

when I tell folks I get paid to write, I think it's important to include that I also have to work full-time at a grocery store for health insurance

'Merican artists need to stop fibbing when it comes to the harsh reality of this world, even if it makes you sound less cool

DAMN STRAIGHT (and nu metal children lmao)

hahahaha it's always the ones you least suspect and love the most
💔💔💔

lmaoooo me if Sam says he's anything other than a kind man with hobbies and interests

if anyone over 25 refers to themselves as a punk, you should stop talking to them

totallyyyyy-- if there's no Ice Queen Bride of Frankenstein sequel in the next three years, I'll be excited to revisit this and just pretend that the ship lifting isn't a dealbreaker

it feels like the Marvel movie hating homies have fallen for an MCU entry in a Frankenstein's clothing lmao I agree that the production design RIPS, but, like, so does Black Panther's or whatever

still a bloodless, sexless, superhero origin story!

listening to positive FRANKENSTEIN takes from normally rational friends and lovers

it ruuuules hahaha

dawg, I could not have asked for a more personally affecting review lmao bless @southwestreview.bsky.social and the incredible Andy fuckin Davidson