Time to finally sleep.
*closes eyes, rocked by the train, fields rolling past*
*thinks of a certain scene in my story for #TheDeerisMessedUp anthology*
Gdi
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Don't deerspair, friends, we will be BUCK and roe-ing to go! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #WillLiveAGAIN #SOon...
Well... #TheDeerIsMessedUP did not make it... this time.
a HUGE thank you to everyone who supported & boosted the campaign! @probablyharmless.bsky.social and I are grateful for you all
also! this isn't the end of the (nighttime forest) road. Read what's next:
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7 HOURS.
If anyone has about $5,000 and an INTENSE passion for fucked-up deer, you know where to send them. <3
#TheDeerisMessedUp
If you've ever straightened up like "Ooh-" when a whisper of deer / antlers showed up in a film or book or videogame or album art or painting or craft design
And you thought, "I wish there was more of this."
You could have SO MUCH MORE fiction where #TheDeerisMessedUp
And/or a scary crochet deer!
a screenshot from a kickstarter that show 199 backers
Ooooh who wants to be the lucky 200th backer?! 👀
#TheDeerIsMessedUP
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No shade on anyone who did & wants to support us <3 You are all AMAZING and wonderful and I have been SO thrilled to see the support from the #horror and #SFF community for our project!
Seriously, you all ROCK. 🦌 #TheDeerIsMessedUP
OBVIOUSLY I want us to make this final push and clear the finish line (anyone know any rich people who want to fund us overnight??? legit question!) — I want to read ALL your stories!!!
I want to see Carly's art!!! I want all Leigh's plushies to go to good homes!!!
#TheDeerIsMessedUP
OMG we're CLOSE TO 50% and have 3 DAYS LEFT!!!
So, what happens if we *don't* make the deadline this time? I've posted an update about open subs, the project, what comes next, and how to follow along for additional information. #TheDeerIsMessedUP 📚🦌
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screenshot of a kickstarter update: interview with Ashe Olivier Deng! text reads: "It's Friday, my deers, and we have another excellent interview with one of our authors, Ashe Olivier Deng! 🦌👀 Ashe Olivier Deng interview What was your favorite part of writing your messed up deer story? I had a lot of fun coming up with the central image of this story, which I won't spoil here but it was the main image that I was writing toward to bring the story together. I knew I wanted a lot of bloodied deer and probably a little bit of cannibalism in there."
For your weekend entertainment quota... an interview with Ashe Olivier Deng! We talk deer, chronic pain, and cannibalism. 🍴🦌 #TheDeerIsMessedUP
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screenshot from a kickstarter update titled "Exclusive interview: Annika Barranti Klein!" text reads: "Welcome back, deer friends! :D today we have a wickedly short and delightful interview with Annika Barranti Klein! Are you ready??? Annika Barranti Klein interview What was your favorite part of writing your messed up deer story? i have a confession: i wrote 70% of "salt lick" on the day i sent it in. i did not do this on purpose! although i often leave things to the last minute, it has never been quite as literally last minute as this before. i had the honor of judging a writing prize this spring, and was so busy reading the submissions that i simply did not have time to do anything more than jot down ideas until suddenly it was now or never. this was terrible, but the fact that i finished was wonderful. i can't believe i pulled it off!"
WHAT'S UP MY DEERS. Today we have some unsettling thoughts from @noirbettie.bsky.social about cervidae and hunting and also horrifying realities! 🦌👀 #TheDeerIsMessedUP
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Every DAY I just read or watch a little TV and keep coming across little FLICKERS of messed up deer. A GARNISH of messed up deer.
And EVERY DAY I look wistfully at #TheDeerisMessedUp KS, hoping that either a wealthy benefactor has materialized or the common people have risen up, clamoring for deer.
a screenshot that reads "exclusive interview: Alex Woodroe!" in the header. body text: "We're delighted to talk to Alex Woodroe today about messed up deer, folklore, and whether or not she's doomed if she meets an effed up deer IRL... alex woodroe interview What was your favorite part of writing your messed up deer story? That I got to tap into some old-old-old folk stories. For us it's not about the creature being evil, it's just about how nature and humans are often incompatible, with dramatic outcomes, and I loved getting to showcase that."
Want a dose of Romanian folklore and facinating history... with MESSED UP DEER?? Check out this interview with @alexwoodroe.com for #TheDeerIsMessedUP! 🦌👀
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Another rec from my #TheDeerisMessedUp interview was for Several books by @sgj.bsky.social but honestly. If you have not seen the messed up elk in his books by now? Really. What are you doing? Go read THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS immediately.
And line up some more spooky cervidae content by backing today!
Six more days to raise over half the goal for #TheDeerisMessedUp anthology...
I arrived at work, and this was just...there. Waiting, on my desk.
I never even lifted the pen.
*trembling* Help
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#Horror #Horrorlit
WANT TO HEAR MY (probably too deep) THOUGHTS ON DEER? Of course you do! Who wouldn’t? Back #TheDeerIsMessedUP today!
It's completely messed up that this kickstarter for an anthology about messed up deer hasn't funded yet. There's time to save the messed-up deer! The deer know where you live... #TheDeerIsMessedUP
screenshot of a Kickstarter update titled "Exclusive Interview: Kay Vaindal!" text reads: "Welcome back to another exclusive interview with one of our authors, Kay Vaindal! 👀 We talk about the favorite parts of writing about messed up deer and what kind of were-cervidae Kay would be... Q: What was your favorite part of writing your messed up deer story? A: I really liked playing with a setting that’s familiar to me, but I hadn’t written on before. I write about Maryland constantly, but I mostly stick to the watery parts. When I heard Messed Up Deer, though, I wanted to channel my Appalachian roots a little bit and get into the magic of that ancient world up there. I still stuck to the watery parts, though."
Wanna hear some messed up deer facts and thoughts from @kayv.bsky.social ? Well, backers of #TheDeerIsMessedUP are in luck — we've got our second interview posted and it's a banger! 🦌 👀
Check it out:
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One interview question for this antho was about our favorite deer where #TheDeerisMessedUp.
So as a little teaser, let me repost one that makes me Laugh every time I remember it exists. These CGI deer from The Ring Two.
Feel free to quote-post with your favorite messed up deer, & check out the KS!
a graphic showing the upper half of a deer's head rising out of a murky puddle of water, its eyes glowing green against a misty forest; the text reads "What Not To Do With A Deer In the Woods" by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
meme showing a man increasingly losing his shit with the text "horror, it's set in a forest, there's a deer, the deer is fucked up"
New story day! "What Not To Do With A Deer In the Woods" is my #horror story about, well, #TheDeerIsMessedUP. ^-^
Includes:
- horror 👀
- in the woods 🌲
- there's a deer 🦌
- the deer is fucked up 😱
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As I've probably made Obvious this month, I could gush about my #TheDeerisMessedUp story for ages.
Now they let me do so Officially!
Back now to hear a bit about my writing process for "Advice Every Midwesterner Knows." Namely, how I set out wanting to write a story that felt like a panic attack.
screenshot of a Kickstarter update. text reads: "We passed 5k!!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT? You all are INCREDIBLE! :D As a treat, we have an exclusive mini interview with Allison Mulder about her messed up deer story... enjoy! (And always drive carefully at night...) What was your favorite part of writing your messed up deer story? One of my favorite ways to generate ideas is taking a kind of story I love, and thinking, “How can I do this in a way I haven’t seen before?” I’ve read and watched a lot of messed up deer, but once I thought of my particular variety of weird deer, I could hardly think of anything else. I’m so looking forward to other people thinking through just how weird they can get… With “Advice Every Midwesterner Knows”, I layered that onto one of my favorite horror scenarios—a character driving at night, on a road that may as well be the only one left in existence, when suddenly…" there's a header image that shows the upper half of a deer head with glowing green eyes and text in red and white that reads "Allison Mulder interview"
EXCITEMENT TIME! All #TheDeerIsMessedUP Kickstarter backers get to read an exclusive mini interview with @amulderwrites.bsky.social about her fucked up deer story! :D It's so creepy! (The story. And maybe the interview...)
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ICYM, There's a new surprise reward tier available!
A sketch of the forthcoming original cover of #TheDeerIsMessedUp anthology from @carlydraws.bsky.social !
(I have to go to bed so, like, it'll be a few hours BUT keep it up!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP will live!!)
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...and the show I was watching with a friend had a messed up deer ghost get devoured by mushroom spores!
And I found this journal at the bookstore!
And and and
Deer, everywhere you look!
Looking BACK.
#TheDeerisMessedUp
I don't even know if I can handle reading this (certainly not after dark!) but I'm excited to see it existing!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP
What is that sound? The threatening drag of antlers against the window? Peek through that tiny gap in the curtains… but you’ll only really see it if you support this project!! #thedeerismessedup
Quick UPDATE for #TheDeerIsMessedUP — we're so close to 40%!! Can you help us get to the finish line???
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Since I got involved with #TheDeerisMessedUp anthology, messed up deer are Everywhere I look.
The song I'm listening to randomly has a two-headed deer visual, I pass an ominous deer logo on my commute daily, I flipped way back in my sketchbook and found DEER.
No one can resist, is what I'm saying.
12 days to go, and ~a third of the way funded.
We must Continue to pass hat around, because it will not fit over any antlers!
Thanks to everyone who gives it a look! <3
(And remember to check out the reward tiers for a special edition and some truly impressive crochet deer!)
#TheDeerisMessedUp
