Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope
@strangelibrary.com
A useless hanger-on in horror (they/them/she/her)
I cannot donate to your campaign, sorry.
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Inquiries: caiuscaligula@strangelibrary.com
ebegging: https://ko-fi.com/readerwrites
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tor.com/author/sam-reader
www.the-gamers-lounge.com
www.strangelibrary.com
Inquiries: caiuscaligula@strangelibrary.com
ebegging: https://ko-fi.com/readerwrites
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Greater evils have to continue to exist and be all-pervasive because if we ever defeated them, we'd have to turn our gaze to the lesser evils and grifters on our own side and none of them want that.
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Greater evils have to continue to exist and be all-pervasive because if we ever defeated them, we'd have to turn our gaze to the lesser evils and grifters on our own side and none of them want that.
The more I'm forced to look at this, the more I grow to love it and realize that it's kind of part of my aesthetic to some extent.
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The more I'm forced to look at this, the more I grow to love it and realize that it's kind of part of my aesthetic to some extent.
Hey, I got a thing up today! Unfortunately can't pin this one due to eligibility graphic stuff
We've all got a favorite dragon... Falkor, or Toothless, or maybe Smaug? But what about the truly horrifying dragons lurking in the pages of horror, weird fiction, and dark fantasy, waiting to unleash chaos and destruction?
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reactormag.com/six-sinister...
Six Sinister Serpents to Put the Fear of Dragons Back Into Readers - Reactor
There is nothing warm and fuzzy about these horrifying creatures...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Hey, I got a thing up today! Unfortunately can't pin this one due to eligibility graphic stuff
I was disappointed that not only did How To Blow Up A Pipeline not contain any practical information, but the guy who wrote the book never once blew up a pipeline or even wanted to, but was perfectly happy to let others blow up a pipeline while he sat in the comfort of his home.
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I was disappointed that not only did How To Blow Up A Pipeline not contain any practical information, but the guy who wrote the book never once blew up a pipeline or even wanted to, but was perfectly happy to let others blow up a pipeline while he sat in the comfort of his home.
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
Stop experiencing existence around me, it just makes me upset because I can only experience the external world as a yearning for what was, even if that was is only ten seconds old
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Stop experiencing existence around me, it just makes me upset because I can only experience the external world as a yearning for what was, even if that was is only ten seconds old
Might as well, right?
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Might as well, right?
It's a shame Where Winds Meet is all I'd want from a wuxia-focused Ghosts of Tsushima-style game, because the "smart customization" feature is AI.
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It's a shame Where Winds Meet is all I'd want from a wuxia-focused Ghosts of Tsushima-style game, because the "smart customization" feature is AI.
I want someone to pick up the scrapped Bloodlines 2 and publish it
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I want someone to pick up the scrapped Bloodlines 2 and publish it
Top 5 film genres:
- Quippy action bullshit where the heroes mostly get out okay all mostly written by the same guy
- Horror but it's funny
- Horror but it's grotesque
- "this is almost surreal"
- Unnerving fairy tale
- Quippy action bullshit where the heroes mostly get out okay all mostly written by the same guy
- Horror but it's funny
- Horror but it's grotesque
- "this is almost surreal"
- Unnerving fairy tale
Top 5 film genres:
- someone finds an evil book and reads it out loud
- loss or aimlessness is cured through platonic love and conversation
- people fighting but it looks like dancing
- fraud supply teacher starts student rock band for personal gain
- Keanu Reeves in computer or out of time
- someone finds an evil book and reads it out loud
- loss or aimlessness is cured through platonic love and conversation
- people fighting but it looks like dancing
- fraud supply teacher starts student rock band for personal gain
- Keanu Reeves in computer or out of time
Top 5 film genres
-some Swedish person is really going through it in an isolated location near a body of water
-someone's mind and viscera are really going through it somewhere in Toronto
-Japanese criminals are doing something weird (and it's probably a metaphor for the occupation) 1/2
-some Swedish person is really going through it in an isolated location near a body of water
-someone's mind and viscera are really going through it somewhere in Toronto
-Japanese criminals are doing something weird (and it's probably a metaphor for the occupation) 1/2
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Top 5 film genres:
- Quippy action bullshit where the heroes mostly get out okay all mostly written by the same guy
- Horror but it's funny
- Horror but it's grotesque
- "this is almost surreal"
- Unnerving fairy tale
- Quippy action bullshit where the heroes mostly get out okay all mostly written by the same guy
- Horror but it's funny
- Horror but it's grotesque
- "this is almost surreal"
- Unnerving fairy tale
Why I view "anyway (people I don't like) read at a fifth grade level and this is proof" as a red flag in arguments.
I don’t know man, if everyone else has to be dumb in order for you to be the smartest dude in the room, you’re doing it wrong
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Why I view "anyway (people I don't like) read at a fifth grade level and this is proof" as a red flag in arguments.
There's someone I know who hasn't yet grown out of the "I hate everything unless it's unpopular or agrees with me" phase and they're smart, so I like when we agree, but also it's like "oh god why do we agree on this thing"
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
There's someone I know who hasn't yet grown out of the "I hate everything unless it's unpopular or agrees with me" phase and they're smart, so I like when we agree, but also it's like "oh god why do we agree on this thing"
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Here's some news @slimyswampghost.bsky.social and I have been dying to share! ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS will be out 02/14/26! Featuring stories by @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social and many more!
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Here's some news @slimyswampghost.bsky.social and I have been dying to share! ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS will be out 02/14/26! Featuring stories by @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social and many more!
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Thrilled to announce that possibly one of the most TropiWeird of my short stories, "Blanquitos" will be published in a forthcoming issue of @typebarmagazine.bsky.social!
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thrilled to announce that possibly one of the most TropiWeird of my short stories, "Blanquitos" will be published in a forthcoming issue of @typebarmagazine.bsky.social!
Fuck "The Writer's Barely Disguised Fetish," give me "The Writer's Barely *DISGUSTED* Fetish"
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Fuck "The Writer's Barely Disguised Fetish," give me "The Writer's Barely *DISGUSTED* Fetish"
The amount a free-to-play game's plot goes hard is inversely proportional to how much that game looks like cutesy goonerslop on the surface. This post brought to you by Nikke being "Consider Phlebas but with titty gunners."
The exception is of course Reverse:1999, which is its own thing.
The exception is of course Reverse:1999, which is its own thing.
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The amount a free-to-play game's plot goes hard is inversely proportional to how much that game looks like cutesy goonerslop on the surface. This post brought to you by Nikke being "Consider Phlebas but with titty gunners."
The exception is of course Reverse:1999, which is its own thing.
The exception is of course Reverse:1999, which is its own thing.
Describing my career tonight as "I do short story analysis at the Peppermint Hippo for singles" is probably a little too disparaging
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Describing my career tonight as "I do short story analysis at the Peppermint Hippo for singles" is probably a little too disparaging
My problem with the concept of "writing essays for myself" or "just write it on your own" is because I don't want to pay money to work on something literally no one will read
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My problem with the concept of "writing essays for myself" or "just write it on your own" is because I don't want to pay money to work on something literally no one will read
Watching zealots of the neocatholic ideology talk about "why would anyone choose to be catholic" is hilarious
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Watching zealots of the neocatholic ideology talk about "why would anyone choose to be catholic" is hilarious
The idea that anyone is loyal to a system of belief is frankly so naive as to be dangerous in the current era
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The idea that anyone is loyal to a system of belief is frankly so naive as to be dangerous in the current era
I'm thinking from now on I'm just not trusting any goth from England who quotes Bertholt Brecht. Seems like all of them are just creeps.
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I'm thinking from now on I'm just not trusting any goth from England who quotes Bertholt Brecht. Seems like all of them are just creeps.
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If you've read my occult novel Colossus with a Poison Tongue, please help me out by giving it a rating on Goodreads! If you haven't, the ebook is 99 cents on Amazon & Kobo. Links below.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you've read my occult novel Colossus with a Poison Tongue, please help me out by giving it a rating on Goodreads! If you haven't, the ebook is 99 cents on Amazon & Kobo. Links below.
Something by Peter Sotos and something different by Peter Sotos
Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Something by Peter Sotos and something different by Peter Sotos
Oh, shit
if you can donate to leslie's gfm here, that will help his family cover funeral expenses and loss of income for a little bit. thanks
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November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Oh, shit
To watch? Sweeney Todd, it's a ruthless and fun satire of class and politics that's blunt as fuck while still being entertaining and having some finesse to it.
To perform? Guys and Dolls. Those songs are so much fun to sing and you can basically get a speaking part and act weird.
To perform? Guys and Dolls. Those songs are so much fun to sing and you can basically get a speaking part and act weird.
what is the best musical of all time and please explain yourself so i know whether or not to be angry at you
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
To watch? Sweeney Todd, it's a ruthless and fun satire of class and politics that's blunt as fuck while still being entertaining and having some finesse to it.
To perform? Guys and Dolls. Those songs are so much fun to sing and you can basically get a speaking part and act weird.
To perform? Guys and Dolls. Those songs are so much fun to sing and you can basically get a speaking part and act weird.