I picked up a first ed paperback of The Jewel in the Skull by Moorcock and started reading it...

And it reminds me just how *wild* older scifi and fantasy was, I love it and I miss this stuff. Everything feels so ossified now, the conversation at a standstill between past and present

I mean, it's the time of year for ghost stories, after all!

You know you're a grownup when your favorite gift was socks lol

Merry Whatever, and hope each of you has a lovely day of Dark Blessings Filled with Joys, whether you're celebrating anything or not. 🤘🏼😈🖤

Death is a nowhere lined with lightning

damn, Peter S. Beagle

this is what fantasy can and should do

feral and wild and poetic imagery

truth.

psst, if you're looking for a last minute gift for a disabled loved one, why not a chilling little thriller about the disabled and the dying turning to vampirism for a cure?

#disability #horror #vampires

pauljessup.com/books/cancer-eats-the-heart

it is the time of year when new books means rearranging my library and dusting the shelves

this will take days

I will love every minute of it

"If you ask me what my brother looked like after he was dead, I can tell you that he looked like Mantegna's foreshortened Christ, in paisley pyjamas."

I've read this line about 30 times in the past 5 minutes. What an image. AI could never.

DAYAMN look how pretty!

I'm currently working on a novel and at the end of an average day, I'm wiped out. The sheer amount of analysis, synthesis, making of connections, layering of prose, deepening of characterization, supplemental research... all the mental work is intense and exhilarating. Which is just to say, fuck AI.

Also, the idea that this can't be gamed is laughable. "Quantitative data sets" off a survey like this one is a laughable thing to state.

*looked at the new Steam Machine*

man, valve has no idea on what makes a good controller

those gamepads look unwieldly and uncomfortable

insane that Edge and Opera override any affiliate links you click on and insert their own affiliate code, stealing any money that would've gone to an affiliate otherwise (like a podcaster, youtuber, etc)

oh my giggling gremlins of #HorrorWatch, what shall we chose for our fourth Black and White Horror film in December?

oh my giggling gremlins of #HorrorWatch, what shall we chose for our fourth Black and White Horror film in December?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/BRSLUg/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The City of the Dead (AKA Horror Hotel)
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/BRSLUg/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Terror Creatures from Beyond the Grave
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/BRSLUg/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Man Who Laughs
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/BRSLUg/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

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yuuuuuup

omg too accurate

Prufrock is difficult.

I grow old…I grow old…
That rough beast’s hour is foretold.

Shall I take up falconry? Do I dare the goshawk’s screech?
I shall wear thick leather gloves and walk along the beach
I have seen the falcon’s gyre widen out of reach

I do not think mine will return to me.

This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy

Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity

every time I saw an ad for Honey, I always thought "hmmm. That sounds like honeypot, I think this is a scam"

oh damn Deputy So and So passed

suicide

damn

democracy into oligarchy was the blueprint.

the democrat party to conservative lapdogs was r&d.

the republican party to the maga was a test run.

the constitution into toilet paper was a wet dream.

up next: the proletariat into a willing serfdom...

& we all watched it unfold to plan.

It's interesting how the promotional materials were all "Ohhh scary girl in a mask!", leading one to think she's the villain. But the truth is sadder and more haunting and complicated. That's what struck me on first watch.

#horrorwatch

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