Emma Butler
@emmabutler.bsky.social
Creator of horror drama podcast The Rue Papers, & author Michelle Birkby
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S2 Ep11 Ghostlight
Podcast Episode · The Rue Papers · 18/10/2025 · 25m
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Next Rue Papers is out and this is Co-written and performed by @owenstaton.bsky.social telling the most wonderful and creepy ghost story
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I’ve got myself tickets for Matthew Bourne’s Red Shoes for Christmas and it’s going to be wonderful
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’ve got myself tickets for Matthew Bourne’s Red Shoes for Christmas and it’s going to be wonderful
Film makers turn the fucking lighting up so I can actually see people’s faces challenge
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Film makers turn the fucking lighting up so I can actually see people’s faces challenge
Now that I’ve read arrival, I can watch arrival
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Now that I’ve read arrival, I can watch arrival
Always fun when watching Peter Laws Into the Fog and he talks about a really scary experience in a place that I know…not unsettling at all…
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Always fun when watching Peter Laws Into the Fog and he talks about a really scary experience in a place that I know…not unsettling at all…
Went to Waterstones - new collection of Penguin Horror books. Like Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton or Moths by Rosemary Ashe. Very difficult not to buy everything on the shelf
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Went to Waterstones - new collection of Penguin Horror books. Like Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton or Moths by Rosemary Ashe. Very difficult not to buy everything on the shelf
I would like to congratulate myself for completing a task on one afternoon that I was sure was going to take at least two weekends. Yay me! Take that ADHD. I can now mess about for the rest of the weekend.
I have no idea what to do myself now…
I have no idea what to do myself now…
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I would like to congratulate myself for completing a task on one afternoon that I was sure was going to take at least two weekends. Yay me! Take that ADHD. I can now mess about for the rest of the weekend.
I have no idea what to do myself now…
I have no idea what to do myself now…
Frankenstein, as often happens with Guillermo Del Toro films for me, invaded my brain to the extent I dreamed about it all night, not just the beauty and the horror of it, but the deep emotional impact it had on me
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Frankenstein, as often happens with Guillermo Del Toro films for me, invaded my brain to the extent I dreamed about it all night, not just the beauty and the horror of it, but the deep emotional impact it had on me
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Mary Shellys Frankenstein is in ny top 2 books of all time, in part because she write it in a crowded lodging house in Bath. She wrote the first four chapters in the weeks following the suicide of her half-sister Fanny. Her first child died in infancy, and /1
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Mary Shellys Frankenstein is in ny top 2 books of all time, in part because she write it in a crowded lodging house in Bath. She wrote the first four chapters in the weeks following the suicide of her half-sister Fanny. Her first child died in infancy, and /1
Ha, if you log viewing Frankenstein on Letterboxd you get flashes of lighting on your phone screen.
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Ha, if you log viewing Frankenstein on Letterboxd you get flashes of lighting on your phone screen.
I found Del Toro’s Frankenstein simply astounding. The emotion - the horror - the layers of symbolism and meaning - the allusions to art and literature and previous adaptations - Elizabeth - a Creature that felt like Mary Shelley’s Creature for once #Frankenstein #FrankensteinSpoilers
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I found Del Toro’s Frankenstein simply astounding. The emotion - the horror - the layers of symbolism and meaning - the allusions to art and literature and previous adaptations - Elizabeth - a Creature that felt like Mary Shelley’s Creature for once #Frankenstein #FrankensteinSpoilers
Interesting that the action has been moved to Edinburgh, given the history of medical learning and medical horror in that city #Frankenstein #FrankensteinSpoilers
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Interesting that the action has been moved to Edinburgh, given the history of medical learning and medical horror in that city #Frankenstein #FrankensteinSpoilers
Guillermo del Toro is one of the very few filmmakers to make me feel genuine horror. Not scared or uneasy - horror. Yet at the very same moment I am often breathless at the beauty of the film and moved by the genuine emotion
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Guillermo del Toro is one of the very few filmmakers to make me feel genuine horror. Not scared or uneasy - horror. Yet at the very same moment I am often breathless at the beauty of the film and moved by the genuine emotion
Me sitting here watching all the ‘get a new kitchen/sofa/living room for Christmas’ ads shouting ‘you don’t need that! Go to Paris instead! Learn to horse ride! Go axe throwing! Do something more fun than a new kitchen PLEASE’
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Me sitting here watching all the ‘get a new kitchen/sofa/living room for Christmas’ ads shouting ‘you don’t need that! Go to Paris instead! Learn to horse ride! Go axe throwing! Do something more fun than a new kitchen PLEASE’
Dracula getting closer and closer to that final ending and I always forget how much Mina has to battle him as they get closer and closer. How much she is like and yet unlike the Brides. (I adore Mina, and the re:dracula adaptation is the only that does her justice)
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dracula getting closer and closer to that final ending and I always forget how much Mina has to battle him as they get closer and closer. How much she is like and yet unlike the Brides. (I adore Mina, and the re:dracula adaptation is the only that does her justice)
Oh, that weird moment when you start playing a podcast and hear the same sound effect you’ve just spent an hour editing into your own podcast. All being haunted by the same ghosts, are we?
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Oh, that weird moment when you start playing a podcast and hear the same sound effect you’ve just spent an hour editing into your own podcast. All being haunted by the same ghosts, are we?
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It's the Lord's Day so let me introduce you to the Lloyds Bank coprolite, an 8inch long, 2 inch wide* fossilized turd dating to the 9th century found in York, on display at the Jorvik Viking Center.
*like my college boyfriend in that it is a very well endowed piece of shit
*like my college boyfriend in that it is a very well endowed piece of shit
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's the Lord's Day so let me introduce you to the Lloyds Bank coprolite, an 8inch long, 2 inch wide* fossilized turd dating to the 9th century found in York, on display at the Jorvik Viking Center.
*like my college boyfriend in that it is a very well endowed piece of shit
*like my college boyfriend in that it is a very well endowed piece of shit
Sometimes I wonder how many ghosts make a night time racket only to have the person wake up, shout at the cat, and go back to sleep. And the ghost is screaming ‘it’s not the bloody cat! It’s me!’
And the cat just sits there smirking at the ghost and occasionally tipping over a vase
And the cat just sits there smirking at the ghost and occasionally tipping over a vase
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Sometimes I wonder how many ghosts make a night time racket only to have the person wake up, shout at the cat, and go back to sleep. And the ghost is screaming ‘it’s not the bloody cat! It’s me!’
And the cat just sits there smirking at the ghost and occasionally tipping over a vase
And the cat just sits there smirking at the ghost and occasionally tipping over a vase
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Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...
Oh god, I’ve seen the Bearskin hoodie ad. Not sure why it’s being promoted to me but actually I quite like it. But - with the slightly joking voice over, the poses, the ‘man looks better in a bearskin’ it also feels quite gay. Which is a very good thing
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Oh god, I’ve seen the Bearskin hoodie ad. Not sure why it’s being promoted to me but actually I quite like it. But - with the slightly joking voice over, the poses, the ‘man looks better in a bearskin’ it also feels quite gay. Which is a very good thing
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Have you ever wanted to do a course with me?
Wanted to explore women's writing in the long-eighteenth century?
Over a year, all online, costing a mere $55 dollars!!!!!
Now's your chance!
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Wanted to explore women's writing in the long-eighteenth century?
Over a year, all online, costing a mere $55 dollars!!!!!
Now's your chance!
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12 Books Your Regency Heroine Should Read – Regency Fiction Writers
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November 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Have you ever wanted to do a course with me?
Wanted to explore women's writing in the long-eighteenth century?
Over a year, all online, costing a mere $55 dollars!!!!!
Now's your chance!
regencyfictionwriters.org/academe/12-b...
Wanted to explore women's writing in the long-eighteenth century?
Over a year, all online, costing a mere $55 dollars!!!!!
Now's your chance!
regencyfictionwriters.org/academe/12-b...
Watching some of Into the Fog and why the hell were Ouija boards ever considered a fun harmless game for kids to play with? How did someone look at this board designed to contact the dead and thought ‘yeah, this so perfect for emotionally turbulent teens’
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Into the Fog with Peter Laws
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November 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Watching some of Into the Fog and why the hell were Ouija boards ever considered a fun harmless game for kids to play with? How did someone look at this board designed to contact the dead and thought ‘yeah, this so perfect for emotionally turbulent teens’
youtube.com/@intothefog?...
youtube.com/@intothefog?...
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If we don't hit our goal (which is looking increasingly likely), we cannot make season two.
Even if you can't donate, a share or review goes so far. This is a project Fio and I are so proud of, and we really want to see it through to the end.
Season one is already available for free online!
Even if you can't donate, a share or review goes so far. This is a project Fio and I are so proud of, and we really want to see it through to the end.
Season one is already available for free online!
The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two
Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!
www.kickstarter.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If we don't hit our goal (which is looking increasingly likely), we cannot make season two.
Even if you can't donate, a share or review goes so far. This is a project Fio and I are so proud of, and we really want to see it through to the end.
Season one is already available for free online!
Even if you can't donate, a share or review goes so far. This is a project Fio and I are so proud of, and we really want to see it through to the end.
Season one is already available for free online!
Not sure the particular health insurance company currently using the song ‘Enola Gay’ as background music for the ads knows what that song is about
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Not sure the particular health insurance company currently using the song ‘Enola Gay’ as background music for the ads knows what that song is about
It’s a real winter sky out there. Grey skies in summer, you know the sun is still up there. Grey skies in winter - its grey all the way up, not a touch a warmth, the sun is a myth, a dream you once had
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It’s a real winter sky out there. Grey skies in summer, you know the sun is still up there. Grey skies in winter - its grey all the way up, not a touch a warmth, the sun is a myth, a dream you once had