Eric O. Scott
@ericoscott.bsky.social
Raised by Witches. Mostly writes about Paganism. Union thug, technically a doctor, editor at The Wild Hunt: https://wildhunt.org
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Eric O. Scott
@ericoscott.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hey there, I’m Eric O. Scott. I grew up in a Wiccan coven and have been writing about contemporary Paganism for most of my adult life. I’m the weekend editor at @thewildhunt.bsky.social and my novella, The Lives of the Apostates, was published by Moon Books. I’m also a union organizer in Illinois.
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Every year we watch this movie and every year we find a new joke.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Pottersville.” - @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Every year we watch this movie and every year we find a new joke.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Pottersville.” - @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Pottersville.” - @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social
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This sounds so dumb that I had to look it up sn explanation. The movie was based on a short story, "The Greatest Gift," which was copyrighted separately. The company that produced the movie secured the film rights for it, obvs, but this was a time when copyright had to be actively renewed ...
This comes round every year. It's not actually Amazon's doing, it's a public domain repackager. And the reason they do this is because the film is public domain... except for Pottersville. So they cut that bit out so they can sell it legally.
So, a version of IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE on Amazon cuts 22 minutes of the movie including the entire Pottersville sequence.(via @pematson.bsky.social )
bleedingfool.com/blogs/buy-ph...
bleedingfool.com/blogs/buy-ph...
December 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This sounds so dumb that I had to look it up sn explanation. The movie was based on a short story, "The Greatest Gift," which was copyrighted separately. The company that produced the movie secured the film rights for it, obvs, but this was a time when copyright had to be actively renewed ...
I want to go back to the traditional America of It’s a Wonderful Life, where we look out for our immigrant neighbors and help them buy a nice house for their family and goats.
December 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I want to go back to the traditional America of It’s a Wonderful Life, where we look out for our immigrant neighbors and help them buy a nice house for their family and goats.
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“Hot Teeth” appeared in June 2025’s anthology “Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before” by Space Wizard. It’s a zany heist story, and it might be my favorite thing I’ve ever written. www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbian...
Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before
www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“Hot Teeth” appeared in June 2025’s anthology “Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before” by Space Wizard. It’s a zany heist story, and it might be my favorite thing I’ve ever written. www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbian...
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IT CRIMMAS. MER CRIMMAS.
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
IT CRIMMAS. MER CRIMMAS.
Make a Bond movie academic:
“Doctor?” “No”: The Outcome of My Dissertation Defense
“Doctor?” “No”: The Outcome of My Dissertation Defense
Make a Bond movie academic:
Peer Review to a Kill
Peer Review to a Kill
Make a Bond movie academic:
Live and Let Dissertate
Live and Let Dissertate
December 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Make a Bond movie academic:
“Doctor?” “No”: The Outcome of My Dissertation Defense
“Doctor?” “No”: The Outcome of My Dissertation Defense
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Ron Wilson and Frank Giacoia covered Marvel Two-in-One Annual 7 (1982).
Happy #BoxingDay to those who celebrate!
Happy #BoxingDay to those who celebrate!
December 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Ron Wilson and Frank Giacoia covered Marvel Two-in-One Annual 7 (1982).
Happy #BoxingDay to those who celebrate!
Happy #BoxingDay to those who celebrate!
Every year, after months of lethargy, I am seized by Reading Madness in the week between Xmas and New Years.
...possibly this indicates that the thing interfering with me reading more is, uh, going to work.
...possibly this indicates that the thing interfering with me reading more is, uh, going to work.
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Every year, after months of lethargy, I am seized by Reading Madness in the week between Xmas and New Years.
...possibly this indicates that the thing interfering with me reading more is, uh, going to work.
...possibly this indicates that the thing interfering with me reading more is, uh, going to work.
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It’s a big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s a big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it
From the bottom of my Heathen heart: fuck off with this shit.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
From the bottom of my Heathen heart: fuck off with this shit.
My Xmas Eve present to myself was finally finishing @sarahebond.bsky.social’s STRIKE: LABOR, UNIONS, AND RESISTANCE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which was super educational and will provide me with plenty of historical anecdotes with which to annoy my union members at trainings in the coming year.
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
My Xmas Eve present to myself was finally finishing @sarahebond.bsky.social’s STRIKE: LABOR, UNIONS, AND RESISTANCE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which was super educational and will provide me with plenty of historical anecdotes with which to annoy my union members at trainings in the coming year.
Not a sitcom, I suppose, but "The Husbands of River Song" is one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes.
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Not a sitcom, I suppose, but "The Husbands of River Song" is one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes.
With apologies to JM DeMatteis and Mike Mignola.
"Pain. Pain is like love. Like compassion! It is a thing only for lesser men. What is pain to TINY TIM?"
"Pain. Pain is like love. Like compassion! It is a thing only for lesser men. What is pain to TINY TIM?"
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
With apologies to JM DeMatteis and Mike Mignola.
"Pain. Pain is like love. Like compassion! It is a thing only for lesser men. What is pain to TINY TIM?"
"Pain. Pain is like love. Like compassion! It is a thing only for lesser men. What is pain to TINY TIM?"
Hell, this made me cry like a child.
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hell, this made me cry like a child.
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“The New Sound,” my third story of 2025, is a relatively traditional sci-fi short story published in Saros #3. It follows Kath, a trans woman who’s built her life around making music with a cutting-edge aural implant that’s now falling into obsolescence. sarossf.com/issue-3/
Issue #3 - Saros Speculative Fiction
Edited by Em Arata-Berkel “Rewritten in Flesh” by Gio Clairval: obsolescence / biopunk / my body, my choice “The Ladder” by Cailín Frankland: funerary rites / forbidden keys / from underground “The Ne...
sarossf.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“The New Sound,” my third story of 2025, is a relatively traditional sci-fi short story published in Saros #3. It follows Kath, a trans woman who’s built her life around making music with a cutting-edge aural implant that’s now falling into obsolescence. sarossf.com/issue-3/
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If you’re going home to folks who want to talk diets all through the holidays, this one’s for you. 💊
I revisited @megelison.bsky.social's The Book of the Unnamed Midwife and Big Girl this year. Both were sharply relevant reads with so much to rediscover that I felt like I was reading them for the first time. The Pill is more relevant than ever in our age of Ozempic. escapepod.org/2022/11/03/e...
Escape Pod 861: The Pill (Part 1 of 2)
My mother took the Pill before anybody even knew about it. She was always signing up for those studies at the university, saying she was doing it because she was bored. I think she did it because they...
escapepod.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If you’re going home to folks who want to talk diets all through the holidays, this one’s for you. 💊
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If you're killing random Jews at a festival in a Australia in the name of anti-zionism, that *is* an attack on Jewish people as a group, because you've decided that Jews and Zionism are synonymous and killing the one is a blow against the other.
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you're killing random Jews at a festival in a Australia in the name of anti-zionism, that *is* an attack on Jewish people as a group, because you've decided that Jews and Zionism are synonymous and killing the one is a blow against the other.
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“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?”
“Well…”
“Well…”
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?”
“Well…”
“Well…”
Wrapping my kid’s presents. I thought buying this many train tracks was supposed to be subsidized by the infrastructure bill.
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Wrapping my kid’s presents. I thought buying this many train tracks was supposed to be subsidized by the infrastructure bill.
What, THIS grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore?
December 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What, THIS grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore?
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Since it’s official. Thanks 🙏 @newyorker.com. This feels pretty surreal.
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Since it’s official. Thanks 🙏 @newyorker.com. This feels pretty surreal.
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I can't stress to you all enough that Baris Weiss, who just killed a report critical of the Trump regime, once opened a college to teach "verboten ideas" that are unacceptable to mention in the mainstream. (transphobia/racism/conservativism)
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I can't stress to you all enough that Baris Weiss, who just killed a report critical of the Trump regime, once opened a college to teach "verboten ideas" that are unacceptable to mention in the mainstream. (transphobia/racism/conservativism)
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