Blaise Balas
@blaisebalas.bsky.social
Writer and creator of So Desensitized (https://buttondown.com/blaisebalas/archive/), published in What Sleeps Beneath, Twin Peaks, comics and horror lover, AI hater, Sleepaway Camp defender 🔪🩸
Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone, and happy Stranger Things finale to all who celebrate! Coming on here to do a quick plug for my #strangerthings post from before s5 aired to celebrate this wonderful show. Check it out!
#strangerthings5 #horrorsky #horrorwriting
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Totally Tubular Thinger Strangs Spectacular!
Hi all, and welcome back to So Desensitized! I took a little break, as you may have noticed, to get myself back together after the Spooktacular took a bit...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone, and happy Stranger Things finale to all who celebrate! Coming on here to do a quick plug for my #strangerthings post from before s5 aired to celebrate this wonderful show. Check it out!
#strangerthings5 #horrorsky #horrorwriting
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#strangerthings5 #horrorsky #horrorwriting
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#HorrorWritersChat
I don’t have a lot to promo because all my fiction is stuck in query/submission hell, but I do have a blog! So check out So Desensitized (buttondown.com/blaisebalas/archive/) (esp. the very relevant Stranger Things post) and the rest of the cool stuff on here!
I don’t have a lot to promo because all my fiction is stuck in query/submission hell, but I do have a blog! So check out So Desensitized (buttondown.com/blaisebalas/archive/) (esp. the very relevant Stranger Things post) and the rest of the cool stuff on here!
December 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
I don’t have a lot to promo because all my fiction is stuck in query/submission hell, but I do have a blog! So check out So Desensitized (buttondown.com/blaisebalas/archive/) (esp. the very relevant Stranger Things post) and the rest of the cool stuff on here!
I don’t have a lot to promo because all my fiction is stuck in query/submission hell, but I do have a blog! So check out So Desensitized (buttondown.com/blaisebalas/archive/) (esp. the very relevant Stranger Things post) and the rest of the cool stuff on here!
#HorrorWritersChat
He knew she wouldn’t be able to come with him. He’d known it the whole time, but he’d hoped anyway. She couldn’t go with him, she was never going to, and he figured he could be alright with that. Even without her home, there would always be enough water in the kettle for her tea.
He knew she wouldn’t be able to come with him. He’d known it the whole time, but he’d hoped anyway. She couldn’t go with him, she was never going to, and he figured he could be alright with that. Even without her home, there would always be enough water in the kettle for her tea.
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
He knew she wouldn’t be able to come with him. He’d known it the whole time, but he’d hoped anyway. She couldn’t go with him, she was never going to, and he figured he could be alright with that. Even without her home, there would always be enough water in the kettle for her tea.
He knew she wouldn’t be able to come with him. He’d known it the whole time, but he’d hoped anyway. She couldn’t go with him, she was never going to, and he figured he could be alright with that. Even without her home, there would always be enough water in the kettle for her tea.
#HorrorWritersChat
Our family motto is ‘Always Bring A Book’ so I think I’d have to say my books. I wouldn’t go without at least one of them.
Our family motto is ‘Always Bring A Book’ so I think I’d have to say my books. I wouldn’t go without at least one of them.
Q3, #HorrorWritersChat.
We're inundated with fireworks and a cat who is remarkably unbothered for a change. She's powered by spite today.
Anyway. Questions questions.
We're inundated with fireworks and a cat who is remarkably unbothered for a change. She's powered by spite today.
Anyway. Questions questions.
December 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Our family motto is ‘Always Bring A Book’ so I think I’d have to say my books. I wouldn’t go without at least one of them.
Our family motto is ‘Always Bring A Book’ so I think I’d have to say my books. I wouldn’t go without at least one of them.
#HorrorWritersChat
I think it would absolutely be my past, but I also think I’m OK with that. Which is kind of how it goes for my characters too.
I think it would absolutely be my past, but I also think I’m OK with that. Which is kind of how it goes for my characters too.
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
I think it would absolutely be my past, but I also think I’m OK with that. Which is kind of how it goes for my characters too.
I think it would absolutely be my past, but I also think I’m OK with that. Which is kind of how it goes for my characters too.
#HorrorWritersChat
Here we go! I’m Blaise Balas, I write a lot of nonfiction on my blog So Desensitized, and a lot of body horror and atmospheric, haunting horror. I think if I were bound to a threshold I’d be forced to haunt my house most likely.
Here we go! I’m Blaise Balas, I write a lot of nonfiction on my blog So Desensitized, and a lot of body horror and atmospheric, haunting horror. I think if I were bound to a threshold I’d be forced to haunt my house most likely.
Here we go, #HorrorWritersChat!
Q1.
New Year’s Eve is a threshold.
Horror understands thresholds better than hope does - because something always comes through.
Q1.
New Year’s Eve is a threshold.
Horror understands thresholds better than hope does - because something always comes through.
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
Here we go! I’m Blaise Balas, I write a lot of nonfiction on my blog So Desensitized, and a lot of body horror and atmospheric, haunting horror. I think if I were bound to a threshold I’d be forced to haunt my house most likely.
Here we go! I’m Blaise Balas, I write a lot of nonfiction on my blog So Desensitized, and a lot of body horror and atmospheric, haunting horror. I think if I were bound to a threshold I’d be forced to haunt my house most likely.
Did a little #johnconstantine art! Recolored and wrote on my favorite comic panel ever, from Hellblazer 50 written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Will Simpson. I love this character and his complexities so much it’s unreal <3
#johnconstantine #comicart #hellblazer #comics
#johnconstantine #comicart #hellblazer #comics
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Did a little #johnconstantine art! Recolored and wrote on my favorite comic panel ever, from Hellblazer 50 written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Will Simpson. I love this character and his complexities so much it’s unreal <3
#johnconstantine #comicart #hellblazer #comics
#johnconstantine #comicart #hellblazer #comics
Get in losers, we’re going to read my new blog post about Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 and what it indicates about the current horror climate ✨🎄🔪🩸
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#horrorwriter #terrifier3 #horrormovie #arttheclown #christmashorror #theexorcist #horrorblog
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#horrorwriter #terrifier3 #horrormovie #arttheclown #christmashorror #theexorcist #horrorblog
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Get in losers, we’re going to read my new blog post about Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 and what it indicates about the current horror climate ✨🎄🔪🩸
buttondown.com/blaisebalas/...
#horrorwriter #terrifier3 #horrormovie #arttheclown #christmashorror #theexorcist #horrorblog
buttondown.com/blaisebalas/...
#horrorwriter #terrifier3 #horrormovie #arttheclown #christmashorror #theexorcist #horrorblog