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Charles R. Bernard
@charlesrbernard.bsky.social
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Author. Anarchist 🏴. TTRPG streamer. Nontheistic Satanist. Chaos Champion of Clown World. Madness Heart Press, Madness Heart Games, and Wandering Monster co-conspirator. He/him cis/pan. Utahn. Juggalo carny. 43 god damn years old.
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Updated version of the "world is a fuck" meme: a xeroxed-looking box of extra strength tylenol. underneath, the text reads "BORN TO AUTISM USA IS A FUCK Kill Em All 2025 I am tylenol man 410,757,864 AUTISTIC BABIES"
September 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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the Gathering of the Juggalos is a special place
photo from the Gathering of the Juggalos: beneath a circus tent pavilion, two Juggalettes (female fans of Insane Clown Posse and related culture) hold a sign reading "GET YOUR NUTS KICKED OFF! $5 for a sexy Juggalette to kick your nuts up in your throat. Only five dollars! You're gonna love it!"
August 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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My debut nonfiction book is depressingly relevant! Black Sunrise on Piss Earth: Fascism and Nihilism in the 21st Century Occult is my exploration of how we got here. All proceeds donated to Food Not Bombs! #WritingCommunity #Books tinyurl.com/GMBSoPE
Art card featuring a repeated smeared-skull pattern on a blue-green background. Text reads "Charles Bernard's Black Sunrise on Piss Earth: Fascism, Nihilism, and the 21st Century Occult"
July 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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My newest novel is out! Bound With Briars is a speculative #horror tale that explores the intersection of crime, punishment, strange new technology and oppressive politics in a near-future American monarchy. Grab it today! #Books #WritingCommunity #SciFi tinyurl.com/BoundWithBri...
Art card featuring a desolate desert landscape. Before it stands a man in dust-colored clothing holding a soft cowboy hat. His head from the nose up ascends in tendrils of pinkish-white vapor. Text reads "Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard"
June 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Retro image from the 1960s: a brunette man in a space suit looks at a space-suit-wearing goat on a 1960s Retrofuturist TV set. The caption below the TV reads "Gary, we're concerned that you're using space drugs"
May 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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My newest novel is out today! Bound With Briars is a speculative horror tale that explores the intersection of strange new technology and oppressive politics in a near-future American monarchy. Pick it up today! #Books #WritingCommunity tinyurl.com/BoundWithBri...
Art card featuring a humanoid figure in dust-colored clothing, holding a soft-brimmed cowboy hat as its face from the nose up dissolves into ascending columns of pinkish vapor. Text reads "Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard"
May 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Photo of a bright green vehicle wrap featuring a very stoned-looking Chocolate Labrador Retriever and the caption "Come meet Buddy the vape dog!"
May 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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hey Will! why did you harass my friend like some kind of unhinged monster?
Screenshot. Will Stancil: "It's a serious policy question: what are we going to do with the (at least) tens of thousands of people out there who have been made into overt sociopaths by the internet?" Thembo: "I think you should probably have your internet taken away" Will Stancil: "I'm going to destroy you and your sociopath friends (:"
April 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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hey Will! why did you harass my friend like some kind of unhinged monster?
Screenshot of a conversation. Will Stancil says: "It's a serious policy question what are we going to do with the (at least) tens of thousands of peoplle out there who have been made into overt sociopaths by the internet? Thembo responds: I think you should probably have your internet taken away Will Stancil: "I'm going to destroy you and your sociopath friends (:"
April 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Meme labeled ""Who Started Punk Rock?"" featuring two women fighting, labeled "Ramones Fans" and "Sex Pistols Fans." Another woman looking on and eating popcorn is labeled "Me knowing it was Avril Lavigne in '02"
March 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Screen cap from X. Unusual Whales posts "BREAKING: Hooters to prepare for bankruptcy, per Bloomberg." Quoting this, DEI Enthusiast responds with a meme showing Atlas holding up a jet plane with the Hooters logo on the side with Atlas labeled "DEI AND WOKE." DEI Enthusiast comments: "DEI and woke were holding up our planes and Hooters all along"
February 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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cowabunga, bitches!
Comic panel showing Count Dracula grinding a rail on a skateboard with a smiley face deck. "Cowabunga, bitches!" exclaims Count Dracula.
February 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Still from the cartoon American Dad featuring a carton of eggs labeled "Chickenpuncher Farms" with a graphic of a grinning farmer knocking out a cartoon chicken on the carton.
February 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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why did you delete this lil bro
Screencap of "luigi mangione updates" deleted post quoting Charles' post with the statement "Hell no!"
December 14, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Have you read my debut #novel, A Baptism for the Dead? In the 19th Century American frontier, powerful forces gather to counterpoint the golden trumpet song of destiny. Pursued into a landscape of death and madness, what can salvation mean? tinyurl.com/ABaptism
Art card featuring a skeletal angel Moroni with black wings blowing his horn. Text reads "A Baptism for the Dead by Charles R. Bernard"
December 11, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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here, everyone, have ahegao Batman
Image of Batman making an ahegao face with his tongue out and eyes rolled up.
December 8, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Did you know that my fourth novel is a piece of historical fiction about 1970s America, mass death, cosmic terror, and (among other events) Jonestown? It's true! "He Led Us Into the Wilderness and Spoke to Us" is available now; review below! #Books #WritingCommunity #Horror tinyurl.com/HeLedUs
Art card featuring a ghostly choir standing before a steaming jungle above which rots a sign: Welcome to the People's Temple Agricultural Project: JONESTOWN. Text reads "He Led Us Into the Wilderness and Spoke to Us by Charles R. Bernard"
November 16, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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My nonfiction book about fascism, nihilism, and the 21st century occult is out! Pick up your copy of "Black Sunrise on Piss Earth" by yours truly! All proceeds will be donated to Food Not Bombs! In paperback or just $4.95 for the ebook! #WritingCommunity tinyurl.com/GMBSoPE
Art card featuring a repeated blurred skull pattern on a blue-green background. Text reads "Charles Bernard's Black Sunrise On Piss Earth: Fascism and Nihilism in the 21st Century Occult"
October 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Have you read my debut #novel, A Baptism for the Dead? In the 19th Century American frontier, powerful forces gather to counterpoint the golden trumpet song of destiny. Pursued into a landscape of death and madness, what can salvation mean? tinyurl.com/ABaptism
Art card featuring a skeletal Angel Moroni and the text "A Baptism For The Dead by Charles Bernard"
December 24, 2023 at 3:20 PM
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Saturday, Dec. 2, I'll be at The Printed Garden in Sandy, UT (9445 S. Union Square Ste A) at 4 PM for a book signing in honor of Utah Authors Day 2023! Come say hi - I'll have books for sale and my signin' pen all warmed up!
Art card: "Find authors around in the state in your local bookstore and libraries - Utah Authors Day - December 2nd, 2023" Text card: "The Printed Garden" 9445 S Union Square Suite A, Sandy. Books available to purchase at the location." Utah Authors Day Art Card featuring images of authors appearing at event, including Charles R. Bernard
November 29, 2023 at 10:17 PM
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Wed. 10/11 at 8:30 PM CDT, join Wandering Monster on twitch.tv/WanMonCast for COCAINE OWLBEAR (tinyurl.com/WMOwlbear) from Jacob Blackmon and Mike Lafferty! We're vibrating and rapidly clacking our beaks with excitement for this one!
Image featuring frenzied owl and text: Wed. 10/11 at 8:30 PM CDT Wandering Monster plays Cocaine Owlbear - twitch.tv/WanMonCast
October 9, 2023 at 6:11 PM
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it's not a fetish dammit Utah is prepping
State-by-state breakdown of relatively popular fetishes with Utah listed as "Gas Masks"
September 9, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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Wed. 9/6 at 8:30 PM CDT, join Wandering Monster on twitch.tv/WanMonCast as we play TLD RPG (tinyurl.com/BBTLDRPG) with creator Billy Blue! Lean, mean, #OSR-inspired high fantasy? Let's see what devours me!
Promotional graphic: Wednesday September 6 at 8:30 PM CDT Wandering Monster plays TLD RPG on twitch.,tv/WanMonCast
September 4, 2023 at 6:40 PM
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Charles R. Bernard, raggedy jackass, eats a hot dog while wearing a hot dog ball cap
September 4, 2023 at 3:19 AM
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Wed. 8/30 at 8:30 PM CDT, join Wandering Monster on twitch.tv/WanMonCast as we play TimeDicks (tinyurl.com/CalTiDi) from Caleb Nelson! Time-traveling detectives! Future-past flatfoots (flatfeet?)! What could go right?
Art card with text reading "Wednesday, August 30th at 8:30 PM CDT Wandering Monster plays TimeDicks on twitch.tv/WanMonCast
August 28, 2023 at 6:02 PM