Aves, ABD in Spooky
@avesferatu.bsky.social
They/she. Horror writer. PhD candidate, views mine. Researching Found Horror (film/internet), Monstrosity, & Queerness. Queer/Texan/Mad. Academic w/ HWA. 1/2 of With Teeth Press. Oft mistaken for a vampire.
Merry Creepmas, and a tolerable new fear 🖤☠️🎄
December 25, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Merry Creepmas, and a tolerable new fear 🖤☠️🎄
Honestly, I’m just excited people will finally understand what my handle is referencing.
December 17, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Honestly, I’m just excited people will finally understand what my handle is referencing.
I’m here (in Salem), I’m queer, I might fall asleep embarrassingly early tonight, but I am super stoked for the #AmericanNightmares symposium to start tomorrow. 🖤💀🐈⬛🐦⬛ #SSAG #SoStuAmeriGothic
March 20, 2024 at 11:59 PM
I’m here (in Salem), I’m queer, I might fall asleep embarrassingly early tonight, but I am super stoked for the #AmericanNightmares symposium to start tomorrow. 🖤💀🐈⬛🐦⬛ #SSAG #SoStuAmeriGothic
Today is conference prep day, which means I managed to pack my suitcase yesterday but I’m still grappling with whether my presentation itself actually makes sense.
March 19, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Today is conference prep day, which means I managed to pack my suitcase yesterday but I’m still grappling with whether my presentation itself actually makes sense.
Basically just finished a dissertation chapter draft to look up and remember all the other commitments I’ve made. And they’re fun commitments!! But my brain feels like scrambled egg, so we’ll see how this goes
Anyway, here’s Paranormal Activity if demon was actually Pitbull, because.
Anyway, here’s Paranormal Activity if demon was actually Pitbull, because.
March 14, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Basically just finished a dissertation chapter draft to look up and remember all the other commitments I’ve made. And they’re fun commitments!! But my brain feels like scrambled egg, so we’ll see how this goes
Anyway, here’s Paranormal Activity if demon was actually Pitbull, because.
Anyway, here’s Paranormal Activity if demon was actually Pitbull, because.
(semi-related, I’m trying to finally set up my personal website to have a place to post things, and I feel like the only person alive who finds wordpress has a bit of a learning curve :’D)
January 3, 2024 at 11:30 PM
(semi-related, I’m trying to finally set up my personal website to have a place to post things, and I feel like the only person alive who finds wordpress has a bit of a learning curve :’D)
I’m gearing up for the National Humanities Center Podcasting Institute that starts next week, and I’m super stoked to be participating this year! 🦇✨
January 3, 2024 at 11:29 PM
I’m gearing up for the National Humanities Center Podcasting Institute that starts next week, and I’m super stoked to be participating this year! 🦇✨
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A lot of heterosexual dating problems seem to boil down to the man wanting his girlfriend/wife to be a child and his mother at the same time. He wants to control her but also wants her to take care of him. Fortunately most women have clued into this being a fundamentally Bad Deal and recipe for harm
December 22, 2023 at 10:14 PM
A lot of heterosexual dating problems seem to boil down to the man wanting his girlfriend/wife to be a child and his mother at the same time. He wants to control her but also wants her to take care of him. Fortunately most women have clued into this being a fundamentally Bad Deal and recipe for harm
Idk, patriarchy impacts all, but there are some men who cry about being single that I think could stand to have to dig themselves out of that hole on their own.
Anyway, if you’re a lady, try Jane Ward’s “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” It forgets bi people exist, imho, but still makes good points.
Anyway, if you’re a lady, try Jane Ward’s “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” It forgets bi people exist, imho, but still makes good points.
December 23, 2023 at 12:40 AM
Idk, patriarchy impacts all, but there are some men who cry about being single that I think could stand to have to dig themselves out of that hole on their own.
Anyway, if you’re a lady, try Jane Ward’s “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” It forgets bi people exist, imho, but still makes good points.
Anyway, if you’re a lady, try Jane Ward’s “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” It forgets bi people exist, imho, but still makes good points.
Cishet men have spent political eons shit-talking and degrading the gender they’re supposedly attracted to, taking away their rights, and now wonder why so many women are refusing to date them.
December 23, 2023 at 12:27 AM
Cishet men have spent political eons shit-talking and degrading the gender they’re supposedly attracted to, taking away their rights, and now wonder why so many women are refusing to date them.
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terribly annoyed that all the prose writers (derogatory) who describe their work as "ghibli vibes" seem to have missed miyazaki's internal struggles with growing up as part of a fascist system that contributed to one of his greatest fascinations (flying) as well as. well. he feels guilt about it too
December 10, 2023 at 6:11 AM
terribly annoyed that all the prose writers (derogatory) who describe their work as "ghibli vibes" seem to have missed miyazaki's internal struggles with growing up as part of a fascist system that contributed to one of his greatest fascinations (flying) as well as. well. he feels guilt about it too
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Mainstream media and pundits helping Far-Right politicians who have been instrumental in laundering the most extreme, violent antisemitic conspiracy theories launch a full-on new McCarthyism under the umbrella of “fighting antisemitism” - we are so far down the road to a very, very dark place.
“One down, two to go” - Stefanik raises a McCarthyite cheer after President of Penn resigns
December 10, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Mainstream media and pundits helping Far-Right politicians who have been instrumental in laundering the most extreme, violent antisemitic conspiracy theories launch a full-on new McCarthyism under the umbrella of “fighting antisemitism” - we are so far down the road to a very, very dark place.
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THIS.
It's going to take decades to get Texans to trust the Dems again, because they just plain abandoned us. "Why do you keep voting for Republicans?" people ask. "Because the Democrats didn't field, let alone fund, candidates" is the answer, and now people don't bother to vote at all.
It's going to take decades to get Texans to trust the Dems again, because they just plain abandoned us. "Why do you keep voting for Republicans?" people ask. "Because the Democrats didn't field, let alone fund, candidates" is the answer, and now people don't bother to vote at all.
If national Dems had any fucking sense, they would spend a shitload of money, time, and effort in Texas to flip this state and give the Dems our 40 electoral votes. But we are always written off as a red state. It's not true. We are a non-voting state. Make sure TX non-voters know about this.
December 10, 2023 at 1:52 AM
THIS.
It's going to take decades to get Texans to trust the Dems again, because they just plain abandoned us. "Why do you keep voting for Republicans?" people ask. "Because the Democrats didn't field, let alone fund, candidates" is the answer, and now people don't bother to vote at all.
It's going to take decades to get Texans to trust the Dems again, because they just plain abandoned us. "Why do you keep voting for Republicans?" people ask. "Because the Democrats didn't field, let alone fund, candidates" is the answer, and now people don't bother to vote at all.
If I ever again say I’m going to write about the absence of something in an academic context, I want someone to put me in a jet-powered trebuchet and fling me into the sun.
December 5, 2023 at 7:26 PM
If I ever again say I’m going to write about the absence of something in an academic context, I want someone to put me in a jet-powered trebuchet and fling me into the sun.
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Forget it, Jake. It’s Lavender Town.
August 2, 2023 at 1:08 AM
Forget it, Jake. It’s Lavender Town.
1. Isn’t/wasn’t Ken on trial for fraud IIRC?
2. Regardless, Ken, you literally have so much other shit you could be doing, speaking as a Texan.
3. Cool. Cool cool cool.
2. Regardless, Ken, you literally have so much other shit you could be doing, speaking as a Texan.
3. Cool. Cool cool cool.
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton says he's opening an investigation into Media Matters
November 21, 2023 at 5:51 AM
1. Isn’t/wasn’t Ken on trial for fraud IIRC?
2. Regardless, Ken, you literally have so much other shit you could be doing, speaking as a Texan.
3. Cool. Cool cool cool.
2. Regardless, Ken, you literally have so much other shit you could be doing, speaking as a Texan.
3. Cool. Cool cool cool.
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Trans people should be remembered while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be celebrated while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be supported while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be alive & well.
Trans people should be celebrated while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be supported while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be alive & well.
November 21, 2023 at 1:57 AM
Trans people should be remembered while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be celebrated while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be supported while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be alive & well.
Trans people should be celebrated while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be supported while we're alive & well.
Trans people should be alive & well.
Super excited to say that I’ve been accepted to present at the Society of the Study for American Gothic’s “American Nightmares” symposium in Salem, MA this March! I’m looking forward to a fabulous spooky time with my fellow Aca-Goths! Goth-ademics! Whatever word we decided on!! 🖤💀🦇
November 15, 2023 at 10:14 PM
Super excited to say that I’ve been accepted to present at the Society of the Study for American Gothic’s “American Nightmares” symposium in Salem, MA this March! I’m looking forward to a fabulous spooky time with my fellow Aca-Goths! Goth-ademics! Whatever word we decided on!! 🖤💀🦇
are the skydiving babies being airdropped to that Santos guy or what?
November 15, 2023 at 12:30 AM
are the skydiving babies being airdropped to that Santos guy or what?
general update: still working on my dissertation, still working on my fiction WIPs too, still on the job market (#Academic, #AltAc, any) and oh, man :'D what a time.
anyone by chance need a Queer Gothicist/writer who can cover film studies, digital #Horror, and Southern Gothic? (/kidding /unless!)
anyone by chance need a Queer Gothicist/writer who can cover film studies, digital #Horror, and Southern Gothic? (/kidding /unless!)
November 14, 2023 at 7:31 PM
I've been kind of quiet here, I know, but today I got to give a guest lecture that I had a lot of fun with, *and* I think I got some news I was really hoping for, so this is me going on the record and saying that sometimes good things can happen despite Everything!!!
November 14, 2023 at 7:14 PM
I've been kind of quiet here, I know, but today I got to give a guest lecture that I had a lot of fun with, *and* I think I got some news I was really hoping for, so this is me going on the record and saying that sometimes good things can happen despite Everything!!!
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October 14, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Today is our donation drive for Texas prisons! Consider donating!!! ghoulish.rip
Ghoulish Books
9330 Corporate Drive
Suite 702
Selma, TX 78154
Ghoulish Books
9330 Corporate Drive
Suite 702
Selma, TX 78154
on an entirely unrelated note, a friend recommended having a playlist of spongebob background music on while at work, and you know what… yeah, it does kind of help. don’t know what that says about my job. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
October 4, 2023 at 6:04 PM
on an entirely unrelated note, a friend recommended having a playlist of spongebob background music on while at work, and you know what… yeah, it does kind of help. don’t know what that says about my job. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m just an english grad student, but it feels shady that people are trying to say ch*tgpt “democratizes” writing skills for underprivileged students. they’re still dependent on something external, it doesn’t really address the lack of resources central to that skill gap. it’s barely a bandaid.
October 4, 2023 at 5:27 PM
I’m just an english grad student, but it feels shady that people are trying to say ch*tgpt “democratizes” writing skills for underprivileged students. they’re still dependent on something external, it doesn’t really address the lack of resources central to that skill gap. it’s barely a bandaid.