Kanishka
@ddworfe.bsky.social
Newbie writer of sci-fi & horror, beverage nerd, lawyer, forever DM.
(Also neurodivergent & disabled & other things)
(Also neurodivergent & disabled & other things)
Very late to this, I just watched Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Dreams in the Witch House. I loved Rupert Grint but hated the version they've put forth as a whole. It's one of my favorite stories by Lovecraft, along with Erich Zann, ATMM, Hypnos etc. GDT sorta botched the whole thing.
June 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Very late to this, I just watched Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Dreams in the Witch House. I loved Rupert Grint but hated the version they've put forth as a whole. It's one of my favorite stories by Lovecraft, along with Erich Zann, ATMM, Hypnos etc. GDT sorta botched the whole thing.
Coffee Grinder Love was exquisite! A bad cup of chai over a bad cup of coffee anyday xD
Our May issue should be arriving any day now! While you're waiting though, take a look at the full table of contents.
May 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Coffee Grinder Love was exquisite! A bad cup of chai over a bad cup of coffee anyday xD
It's Dalit History Month and to start off, here's a poem about Begumpura, translated from Sant Ravidas's poem originally in gurmukhi script.
(Unsure if this is the exact translation, it's the more popular one that I know of at least)
(Unsure if this is the exact translation, it's the more popular one that I know of at least)
April 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It's Dalit History Month and to start off, here's a poem about Begumpura, translated from Sant Ravidas's poem originally in gurmukhi script.
(Unsure if this is the exact translation, it's the more popular one that I know of at least)
(Unsure if this is the exact translation, it's the more popular one that I know of at least)
And you wonder why your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself with you.
#HorrorWritersChat
Sometimes we forget that we are, to an extent, what we write. Especially horror authors. So now you can face your own fear. Which one are you preferring?
Sometimes we forget that we are, to an extent, what we write. Especially horror authors. So now you can face your own fear. Which one are you preferring?
April 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
And you wonder why your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself with you.
One elbow injury into a week of sickness to a week of deliberation and pulling myself back up, here we are with a totally unforeseen shoulder injury again.
This year just keeps on giving...
This year just keeps on giving...
March 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
One elbow injury into a week of sickness to a week of deliberation and pulling myself back up, here we are with a totally unforeseen shoulder injury again.
This year just keeps on giving...
This year just keeps on giving...
Similarly, Dr. Ambedkar Chair professorships, grants, scholarship positions should be for DBA folx. Columbia Law School famously has a visiting faculty position under his name and I have not heard of a single DBA professor having being awarded the position. (I'd love to know if someone has though)
unpopular opinion: it's weird for an award named after Octavia E. Butler to not be specifically for Black women.
March 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Similarly, Dr. Ambedkar Chair professorships, grants, scholarship positions should be for DBA folx. Columbia Law School famously has a visiting faculty position under his name and I have not heard of a single DBA professor having being awarded the position. (I'd love to know if someone has though)
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unpopular opinion: it's weird for an award named after Octavia E. Butler to not be specifically for Black women.
March 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
unpopular opinion: it's weird for an award named after Octavia E. Butler to not be specifically for Black women.
New interconnected (vampire?) stories by @mimimondal.bsky.social!! I can't wait to read 😁
Ooo there is new work (3 new works!) from @mimimondal.bsky.social, with a dazzling Osheen Siva illustration, breakfast sorted rubinmuseum.org/spiral/issue...
Spiral Magazine: Issue 9 | Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
Discover how the mutual dependence of everything and every experience permeates our world and connects us all.
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March 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New interconnected (vampire?) stories by @mimimondal.bsky.social!! I can't wait to read 😁
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Happy pub day to Charlene Elsby and the absolute monster that is The Organization is Here to Support You.
This bureaucratic horror satire novella will scratch the itch if you're into Kafka, Ballard, Murata, and/or stuff like Severance. Upsetting and brilliant shit.
Grab one www.weirdpunkbooks.com
This bureaucratic horror satire novella will scratch the itch if you're into Kafka, Ballard, Murata, and/or stuff like Severance. Upsetting and brilliant shit.
Grab one www.weirdpunkbooks.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy pub day to Charlene Elsby and the absolute monster that is The Organization is Here to Support You.
This bureaucratic horror satire novella will scratch the itch if you're into Kafka, Ballard, Murata, and/or stuff like Severance. Upsetting and brilliant shit.
Grab one www.weirdpunkbooks.com
This bureaucratic horror satire novella will scratch the itch if you're into Kafka, Ballard, Murata, and/or stuff like Severance. Upsetting and brilliant shit.
Grab one www.weirdpunkbooks.com
Oh well, it was the ides of march after all. No wonder I was sick.
March 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Oh well, it was the ides of march after all. No wonder I was sick.
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Controversial Firebrand Politician Gaius Julius Caesar Dead After Senator-Involved Stabbing
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Controversial Firebrand Politician Gaius Julius Caesar Dead After Senator-Involved Stabbing
Illness (hopefully) has taken it's course. It's the weakest I've become in the past 3 years. Barely able to eat, consequently barely able to move. I hope to become well enough in the next few days to get back to life as usual. I miss being mobile and working out.
March 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Illness (hopefully) has taken it's course. It's the weakest I've become in the past 3 years. Barely able to eat, consequently barely able to move. I hope to become well enough in the next few days to get back to life as usual. I miss being mobile and working out.
I don't like what I've written, perhaps I've read it too many times, perhaps it is inherently trash. I really liked it when I was done with it, then with edits and first reads it ended up becoming boring to read.
March 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I don't like what I've written, perhaps I've read it too many times, perhaps it is inherently trash. I really liked it when I was done with it, then with edits and first reads it ended up becoming boring to read.
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I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.
March 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend!
I'm reading Laird Barron's 'Procession of the Black Sloth', Beckett's 'Imagination Dead Imagine' and @premeemohamed.com 's 'Four Hours of a Revolution'.
I'm reading Laird Barron's 'Procession of the Black Sloth', Beckett's 'Imagination Dead Imagine' and @premeemohamed.com 's 'Four Hours of a Revolution'.
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend!
I'm finishing up Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword (history/saga-type storytelling is catnip for me), and excited to crack open Amal el-Mohtar's The River Has Roots next.
I'm finishing up Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword (history/saga-type storytelling is catnip for me), and excited to crack open Amal el-Mohtar's The River Has Roots next.
March 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend!
I'm reading Laird Barron's 'Procession of the Black Sloth', Beckett's 'Imagination Dead Imagine' and @premeemohamed.com 's 'Four Hours of a Revolution'.
I'm reading Laird Barron's 'Procession of the Black Sloth', Beckett's 'Imagination Dead Imagine' and @premeemohamed.com 's 'Four Hours of a Revolution'.
It is @lairdbarron.bsky.social 's birthday today, as I got to know from my feed. It is also the day that my first cosmic horror story received a hold notice, it's the first ever personal response I've received. To celebrate both occasions, I shall recite to people around me 'Shiva, Open Your Eye'.
March 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It is @lairdbarron.bsky.social 's birthday today, as I got to know from my feed. It is also the day that my first cosmic horror story received a hold notice, it's the first ever personal response I've received. To celebrate both occasions, I shall recite to people around me 'Shiva, Open Your Eye'.
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I've added all the paintings to my ko-fi shop which you can find here: ko-fi.com/vesperdoom/s...
Shares help so much, and I appreciate each and every one of you. (this is so hard to do)
Shares help so much, and I appreciate each and every one of you. (this is so hard to do)
March 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I've added all the paintings to my ko-fi shop which you can find here: ko-fi.com/vesperdoom/s...
Shares help so much, and I appreciate each and every one of you. (this is so hard to do)
Shares help so much, and I appreciate each and every one of you. (this is so hard to do)
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Check it out! New from @anjalialappat.bsky.social @darknlightzine.bsky.social
darknlight.com/projects/int...
darknlight.com/projects/int...
Interview with R.T. Samuel: On The Fundamentally Anti-Caste Nature of Science Fiction - Dark 'n' Light
Anjali Alappat sits down with R.T. Samuel, the editor of The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, to discuss science fiction in India, looking beyond language barriers, reframing what speculative fiction is, ...
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February 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Check it out! New from @anjalialappat.bsky.social @darknlightzine.bsky.social
darknlight.com/projects/int...
darknlight.com/projects/int...
I have started to dislike watching shows. Watching something is synonymous for me with eating food for most OTT content consumption takes place at lunch/dinner. However, I cannot stop watching Severance. It's devastating, visceral, emotionally breaking, but SO immersive.
February 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I have started to dislike watching shows. Watching something is synonymous for me with eating food for most OTT content consumption takes place at lunch/dinner. However, I cannot stop watching Severance. It's devastating, visceral, emotionally breaking, but SO immersive.
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A witch doctor tries to tame an invisible spirit.
A murder victim speaks from beyond the grave through a haunted melon.
Three zombie-slayer women drive a gold Ambassador w/ lethal mods à la Fury Road through post-apocalyptic Chennai.
All this & more in ANTI-CASTE SF
www.blaft.com/collections/...
A murder victim speaks from beyond the grave through a haunted melon.
Three zombie-slayer women drive a gold Ambassador w/ lethal mods à la Fury Road through post-apocalyptic Chennai.
All this & more in ANTI-CASTE SF
www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
New! Click here for the eBook To order in the USA: Powell's Books An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the dias...
www.blaft.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A witch doctor tries to tame an invisible spirit.
A murder victim speaks from beyond the grave through a haunted melon.
Three zombie-slayer women drive a gold Ambassador w/ lethal mods à la Fury Road through post-apocalyptic Chennai.
All this & more in ANTI-CASTE SF
www.blaft.com/collections/...
A murder victim speaks from beyond the grave through a haunted melon.
Three zombie-slayer women drive a gold Ambassador w/ lethal mods à la Fury Road through post-apocalyptic Chennai.
All this & more in ANTI-CASTE SF
www.blaft.com/collections/...
I revisited Shirley Jackson's 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle' and it breaks my heart to read it now, when I can understand it. The feelings of desolation and misery that she can evoke are unparalleled I feel. It's not even fear, rather a profound sense of sadness and loss that comes forth.
February 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I revisited Shirley Jackson's 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle' and it breaks my heart to read it now, when I can understand it. The feelings of desolation and misery that she can evoke are unparalleled I feel. It's not even fear, rather a profound sense of sadness and loss that comes forth.
This was a beautifully written book that haunted me for several days after I finished reading
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BlackHistoryMonth edition
Day 12/20
'The Reformatory' by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
#BlackSky #BlackBookSky #BlackAuthorsMatter #HorrorSky
Day 12/20
'The Reformatory' by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
#BlackSky #BlackBookSky #BlackAuthorsMatter #HorrorSky
February 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This was a beautifully written book that haunted me for several days after I finished reading
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This is an astonishing story. These are the true heirs of the legal brilliance and enduring justice of Ambedkar.
Wow.
Wow.
Dalit researchers Dr. Kshipra Kamlesh Uke & Dr. Shiv Shankar Das won ₹127 Cr compensation—India’s first intellectual property case under the SC/ST Atrocities Act.
Their fight was for every marginalized scholar erased by caste oppression.
Read more:
Their fight was for every marginalized scholar erased by caste oppression.
Read more:
Meet Kshipra & Shiv Shankar: Dalit Researchers Who Won ₹127 Crore Compensation in India's First Intellectual Property Case Under Caste Atrocities Act
Nagpur- Imagine someone who has never studied law or stepped inside a courtroom, suddenly becoming a party in a case—representing themselves, arguing not just f
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February 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This is an astonishing story. These are the true heirs of the legal brilliance and enduring justice of Ambedkar.
Wow.
Wow.
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The worst thing about shit like this is that they're counting on having lowered standards and blitzed attention spans so thoroughly with content-hose programming that this garbage becomes acceptable and beyond the notice of most 'consumers'. I hope people don't let that happen. & fly the 🏴☠️.
Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
February 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The worst thing about shit like this is that they're counting on having lowered standards and blitzed attention spans so thoroughly with content-hose programming that this garbage becomes acceptable and beyond the notice of most 'consumers'. I hope people don't let that happen. & fly the 🏴☠️.
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