They also said that I should start a YouTube channel, lol.

Today I started teaching Bad Cree by Jessica Johns in the writing lab and the youth are LOVING it.

A series of pictures of Katy O'Brian in a black barbarian woman outfit posing on a rock with a sword.

Oh my gawd I just found this barbarian woman photo shoot Katy O'Brian did a few years and again: her. Movie. With battle axe. Now.

Watching Audition at the Brattle and seeing men angrily walking out during the leg amputation scene. Like there haven’t been thousands of movies with violence against women before that.

Also, White Christmas is my favorite queer Christmas movie.

Carol is a Christmas movie. Fight me.

Reblog by @octoberland · 1 image 💬 4  🔁 26  ❤️ 110 · Thank you so much @orneltec! This was such great insight! And what a good catch. I hadn't even noticed the flip in the forest scene. Perhaps I can convince you slightly above 4…

@realgdt.bsky.social Hello! No idea if you read fan theories at all but we'd love it if you weighed in on this (regarding the use of mirrors and flipped images in your Frankenstein):

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I was able to donate using my phone! Thank you!

Sorry, one more question: Is there a way to donate to you guys without using PayPal?

Every genre type will push you and your craft. Write a western. Write a thriller. Write a body horror. Write alt history. Write Victorian. Get yourself out of your rut. Ride a train and write a train story. Ride an elevator in a really tall building. Go.

#writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife

Would it be weird to write a whole ass book about @realgdt.bsky.social ‘s Frankenstein? Because I just watched it for the 5th time and I don’t think anything has moved me so much in my life. A mere blog post could not contain everything I have to say.

I ended up listening on Spotify. Thank you so much for the replies!

Sneak Peek: Relive the Beauty and Horror of FRANKENSTEIN in RUE MORGUE #227 Nov/Dec Xmas 2025 Issue! - Rue Morgue One of the most fertile imaginations in the genre today, director GUILLERMO DEL TORO breathes new life into Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, the movie, he says, that he was born to make. Plus! The BOULET BROTHERS team up with actor/writer DAVID DASTMALCHIAN to bring you HOLIDAY OF HORRORS; Brandon R. Grafius’ SCARED BY THE BIBLE and Matt Rogerson’s THE VATICAN VERSUS HORROR MOVIES; PUZZLES OF DOOM and lots more!

Relive the Beauty & Horror of FRANKENSTEIN in RUE MORGUE #227 Nov/Dec Xmas 2025 Issue! One of the most fertile imaginations in the genre today, director GUILLERMO DEL TORO breathes new life into Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. ON STANDS NOW! https://ow.ly/1UiF50XkGFO

Weird. I’m using an iPhone and it says that the latest episode is from November 21st. I have it set to show all episodes and I even turned my phone on and off

Is PseudoPod no longer on Apple?

PseudoPod 1005: Do It It’s early March 1993 and Generation X sorely needs an antihero. Not a folk hero, you fucking hippies. Not a sponsored, manufactured musician in Chuck Taylors and unwashed hair, not even if he’s a…

“It’s early March 1993 and Generation X sorely needs an antihero.”

Do It, by Paul Tremblay

Narrator: Rosie Sentman
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis

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This story was first published in the anthology ‘120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era’

your job isn't to outsmart the reader, it's to reward them for paying attention

Body Horror Transformation, infection, contagion, and mutation run rampant in these fleshy nightmares that render the human form unstable, uncanny, and sublimely grotesque. While David Cronenberg established himself as the reigning king of body horror with gloriously gooey, thematically provocative cult favorites like The Brood and The Fly, master directors ranging from Ken Russell (Altered States) to Claire Denis (Trouble Every Day) to William Friedkin (Bug) have each put their own stamp on a genre that posits the body as a site of trauma, desire, and uncontrollable change. FEATURING: Eyes Without a Face (1960), Matango (1963), The Face of Another (1966), Shivers (1975), Eraserhead (1977), The Brood (1979), Altered States (1980), Possession (1981), The Fly (1986), Trouble Every Day (2001), Bug (2006), Teeth (2007)

BODY HORROR • Coming to criterion channel in October!

What do you call a bear without teeth?
A gummy bear.

Fango mourns the passing of the great Graham Greene. Greene, a Canadian First Nations actor and recording artist, is best known to horror and genre fans for his work in THE GREEN MILE, THE TWILIGHT SAGA, and ANTLERS, with a long and esteemed career across multiple genres.

<whispers> Queer horror

Had a brush with a zombie cult, but escaped with a little new-age help #ZombiesRun

If you’re making SINNERS your whole personality…

Don’t let these books ROT on your #tbr : THE REFORMATORY by @tananarivedue.bsky.social, THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social, & BLACKHEART MAN by Nalo Hopkinson.

Psst no big deal but director Ryan Coogler has also been recommending #BHH 😏

Dear Ryan Coogler, Now I need a movie about those Choctaw vampire hunters. Please and thank you. All my love, Jen

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

America, watch and learn.

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES.

Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

I don't have much time to post on social media much anymore but to be fair I also need to integrate BS as a new habit (thanks autism and ADHD!). But I'm alive and like many of you, trying to figure out how to navigate our reality. I spend most of my free time at NAGLY working with LGBTQ+ youth.