@poisonedsugar.bsky.social
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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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The good thing about running Romancing the Gothic independently of any institution and supported only by people's donations is that I have no pressure to cowardice or capitulation.
Trans people are right there at the heart of RtG and if you don't like it, that's your problem. Not ours.
Trans people are right there at the heart of RtG and if you don't like it, that's your problem. Not ours.
We still have some talk spaces for next year's Romancing the Gothic online talk series.
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers
In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…
romancingthegothic.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The good thing about running Romancing the Gothic independently of any institution and supported only by people's donations is that I have no pressure to cowardice or capitulation.
Trans people are right there at the heart of RtG and if you don't like it, that's your problem. Not ours.
Trans people are right there at the heart of RtG and if you don't like it, that's your problem. Not ours.
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
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If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
The Horses: A poetic and moving story of community and isolation in the wake of a disaster
A poetic and moving story of community and isolation in the wake of a disaster
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
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hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz
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I wrote a short story! I would be happy if you read it. It is very short I promise and I think funny (and a little scary but not that scary I promise).
www.coyotemedia.org/more-teeth-t...
www.coyotemedia.org/more-teeth-t...
More Teeth Than a Mouth
MOUTH did not do interviews. MOUTH was a reclusive genius. MOUTH was the mind behind all your favorite songs.
www.coyotemedia.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I wrote a short story! I would be happy if you read it. It is very short I promise and I think funny (and a little scary but not that scary I promise).
www.coyotemedia.org/more-teeth-t...
www.coyotemedia.org/more-teeth-t...
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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This is the kind of deep dive, kind of weird, story I always want to do, and that is almost impossible to sell. Another reason to support @coyotemedia.org (to let me do weird things!) www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...
Where Did the Fairyland Dandelions Go?
For more than 45 years, three huge steel and bronze dandelion puffs reached for the sky outside Children’s Fairyland only to disappear without a trace. COYOTE went on a quest to find them.
www.coyotemedia.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the kind of deep dive, kind of weird, story I always want to do, and that is almost impossible to sell. Another reason to support @coyotemedia.org (to let me do weird things!) www.coyotemedia.org/where-did-th...
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I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant.
But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.
But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.
Hello new people! My latest project was a 10+ year labor of love and it would mean the world to me if you checked it out. www.tested-podcast.com
It’s a narrative, deep, complex and suspenseful story of gender, sports, science, and “fairness.”
It’s a narrative, deep, complex and suspenseful story of gender, sports, science, and “fairness.”
TESTED – A surprising history of women’s sports
www.tested-podcast.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant.
But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.
But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.
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Not naming names but fuck a couple of guys in particular
We have become slaves to the idea of being able to sound convincing
I have a real grudge against the Enlightenment. Sure, the scholars of the Enlightenment pushed Western society towards democracy, pushing us into a theoretically more egalitarian future, but they…
buff.ly
September 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Not naming names but fuck a couple of guys in particular
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"Horror has emerged as cinema’s most bankable – and experimental – genre"
Henry Wong's deep-dive article for Esquire Magazine is well worth a read, and always interesting to see what our very own @alanfrightfest.bsky.social has to say!
www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a...
#horror #HorrorCommunity
Henry Wong's deep-dive article for Esquire Magazine is well worth a read, and always interesting to see what our very own @alanfrightfest.bsky.social has to say!
www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a...
#horror #HorrorCommunity
From ‘Weapons’ to ‘Sinners’: The Reasons for 2025’s High-end Horror Resurgence
In an unpredictable landscape, horror has emerged as cinema’s most bankable – and experimental – genre. With a spree of intriguing releases and some of the industry’s most exciting directors attached,...
www.esquire.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"Horror has emerged as cinema’s most bankable – and experimental – genre"
Henry Wong's deep-dive article for Esquire Magazine is well worth a read, and always interesting to see what our very own @alanfrightfest.bsky.social has to say!
www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a...
#horror #HorrorCommunity
Henry Wong's deep-dive article for Esquire Magazine is well worth a read, and always interesting to see what our very own @alanfrightfest.bsky.social has to say!
www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a...
#horror #HorrorCommunity
Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt (2022)
right so I'm finally going through my last roll properly and as discussed previously I believe my camera has recently become haunted, and I am now more convinced of this than ever, I mean how else do you explain the shutter doing *that* precisely *there*
August 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt (2022)
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Surprisingly moving of @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social episode this week. The sad stuff really sneaks up on ya www.hyperfixedpod.com
HyperFixed | HYPERFIXED
Alex Goldman's new podcast, Hyperfixed, gets to the bottom of life's most intractable and annoying problems and has fun along the way..
www.hyperfixedpod.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Surprisingly moving of @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social episode this week. The sad stuff really sneaks up on ya www.hyperfixedpod.com
This is really good and I agree - Weapons was fun to watch but had little actually going on thematically
I finally sat down and wrote an actual movie review for once and it's about Weapons johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/weapons-20...
Weapons (2025): Firing Blanks
I wrote an actual review for once.
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is really good and I agree - Weapons was fun to watch but had little actually going on thematically
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New Classic Horror Project: The Fly. It's good!
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
Classic Horror Project: The Fly (1958)
Help me...
open.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New Classic Horror Project: The Fly. It's good!
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
New Classic Horror Project: The Fly. It's good!
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
Classic Horror Project: The Fly (1958)
Help me...
open.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New Classic Horror Project: The Fly. It's good!
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
open.substack.com/pub/poisoned...
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70. Have you read Anne Rivers Siddons' THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR? You should.
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
70. Have you read Anne Rivers Siddons' THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR? You should.
This thread is a masterpiece
Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the mid
Elon Musk: [emerging from bushes] eyyyyyy stephano king
Clive Barker: hey look it's stephen's friend
King: for the last time, clive, we aren't
King: sighhh
King: fine
King: elon what do you want this time
Musk: eyyyy i disrupt da hamburger
Elon Musk: [emerging from bushes] eyyyyyy stephano king
Clive Barker: hey look it's stephen's friend
King: for the last time, clive, we aren't
King: sighhh
King: fine
King: elon what do you want this time
Musk: eyyyy i disrupt da hamburger
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This thread is a masterpiece
Started Let the Bad Times Roll this morning, and let me tell you, no one writes bad sex like @aliceslater.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Started Let the Bad Times Roll this morning, and let me tell you, no one writes bad sex like @aliceslater.bsky.social
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Classic Horror Project continues with The Blob! It’s a good one.
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
Classic Horror Project: The Blob
It creeps and leaps and glides and slides
poisonedsugar.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Classic Horror Project continues with The Blob! It’s a good one.
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
Classic Horror Project continues with The Blob! It’s a good one.
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
Classic Horror Project: The Blob
It creeps and leaps and glides and slides
poisonedsugar.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Classic Horror Project continues with The Blob! It’s a good one.
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
poisonedsugar.substack.com/p/classic-ho...
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My newsletter Episodes is one of my favorite things I do! It's where I write about film, TV, gender, and so many other things. And it helps pay the bills when, say, I haven't been in a writer's room in over a year!
And we're having a 40% off sale RIGHT NOW! (thread)
episodes.ghost.io/pride-sale
And we're having a 40% off sale RIGHT NOW! (thread)
episodes.ghost.io/pride-sale
Episodes by Emily St. James
A newsletter on culture, identity, and many other things by critic and writer Emily St. James
episodes.ghost.io
June 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My newsletter Episodes is one of my favorite things I do! It's where I write about film, TV, gender, and so many other things. And it helps pay the bills when, say, I haven't been in a writer's room in over a year!
And we're having a 40% off sale RIGHT NOW! (thread)
episodes.ghost.io/pride-sale
And we're having a 40% off sale RIGHT NOW! (thread)
episodes.ghost.io/pride-sale
Next up in the Classic Horror Project, Children of the Corn. It’s not great.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Classic Horror Project: Children of the Corn
Beware the eleven terrible sequels that walk behind the rows
substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Next up in the Classic Horror Project, Children of the Corn. It’s not great.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books:
Stephen King
R L Stine
John Irving
Elizabeth Strout
Kate Atkinson
Tana French
Joanne Harris
George R R Martin
David Mitchell
Paul Tremblay
Stephen King
R L Stine
John Irving
Elizabeth Strout
Kate Atkinson
Tana French
Joanne Harris
George R R Martin
David Mitchell
Paul Tremblay
Fun!
Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books
The first 10 to come to mind!
Georgette Heyer
K J Charles
Jordan Hawk
Martha Wells
Ann Radcliffe
Cat Sebastian
Bernard Cornwell
Catherine Cookson
Jane Austen
Robin McKinley
Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books
The first 10 to come to mind!
Georgette Heyer
K J Charles
Jordan Hawk
Martha Wells
Ann Radcliffe
Cat Sebastian
Bernard Cornwell
Catherine Cookson
Jane Austen
Robin McKinley
Oooh, I like this one! Pleasingly challenging, even though books are my job…
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than 5 books:
Frances Burney
Julian Barnes
Hilary Mantel
Agatha Christie
Leila Slimani
Philip Pullman
Jane Austen
Angela Carter
David Mitchell
Zadie Smith
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than 5 books:
Frances Burney
Julian Barnes
Hilary Mantel
Agatha Christie
Leila Slimani
Philip Pullman
Jane Austen
Angela Carter
David Mitchell
Zadie Smith
June 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books:
Stephen King
R L Stine
John Irving
Elizabeth Strout
Kate Atkinson
Tana French
Joanne Harris
George R R Martin
David Mitchell
Paul Tremblay
Stephen King
R L Stine
John Irving
Elizabeth Strout
Kate Atkinson
Tana French
Joanne Harris
George R R Martin
David Mitchell
Paul Tremblay
Reading this post at this exact moment in my life was like a balm to my brain ❤️ ADHD in a 9–5 World: Why Desk Jobs Feel Like a Death Sentence open.substack.com/pub/sorenwil...
ADHD in a 9–5 World: Why Desk Jobs Feel Like a Death Sentence
I’ve spent over a decade in tech marketing. On paper, it looks like success. Inside my brain, it feels like a slow unraveling.
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reading this post at this exact moment in my life was like a balm to my brain ❤️ ADHD in a 9–5 World: Why Desk Jobs Feel Like a Death Sentence open.substack.com/pub/sorenwil...