Making It Wyrd
@makingitwyrd.bsky.social
A trio of scholars putting a gothic spin on pop culture. Books, films, music - we're making it wyrd 👻
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If you missed this week's talk on powerful and vulnerable women in supernatural k-dramas... you can find it here
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
Women from Nightmares: Vulnerability and Powerful Women in K-dramas with Soumili Hazra
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you missed this week's talk on powerful and vulnerable women in supernatural k-dramas... you can find it here
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
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A little snippet of what we get up to on tiktok. Here is ep 1 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine - Sabrina Carpenter
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A little snippet of what we get up to on tiktok. Here is ep 1 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine - Sabrina Carpenter
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I'm getting through the last months of my phd by making teaser trailers for it. I would urge you all to do the same
October 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'm getting through the last months of my phd by making teaser trailers for it. I would urge you all to do the same
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Been thinking about temporal pandemonium and gothic repetition in video games recently. What game does it best (and why is it @undertale.com)?
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Been thinking about temporal pandemonium and gothic repetition in video games recently. What game does it best (and why is it @undertale.com)?
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Excited to finally be able to share my book with the world!
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️
The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️
The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Excited to finally be able to share my book with the world!
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️
The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️
The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
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Do you enjoy k-dramas?
Do you enjoy the Gothic?
Do you enjoy powerful supernatural women?
Do we have the talk for you! This Saturday at 10am and 4pm British time. Online and free to access!
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Do you enjoy the Gothic?
Do you enjoy powerful supernatural women?
Do we have the talk for you! This Saturday at 10am and 4pm British time. Online and free to access!
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Select tickets – Women from Nightmares: Vulnerability and Powerful Women in K-dramas with Soumili Hazra – Zoom
Women from Nightmares: Vulnerability and Powerful Women in K-dramas with Soumili Hazra – Zoom, Sat 8 Nov 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Do you enjoy k-dramas?
Do you enjoy the Gothic?
Do you enjoy powerful supernatural women?
Do we have the talk for you! This Saturday at 10am and 4pm British time. Online and free to access!
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Do you enjoy the Gothic?
Do you enjoy powerful supernatural women?
Do we have the talk for you! This Saturday at 10am and 4pm British time. Online and free to access!
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
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Finally beginning to get ideas for research I want to pursue after my PhD is over. Taylor Swift studies, the ecology of His Dark Materials, and ecophobia in Lorde's Solar Power need to watch their back 👀👀👀
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Finally beginning to get ideas for research I want to pursue after my PhD is over. Taylor Swift studies, the ecology of His Dark Materials, and ecophobia in Lorde's Solar Power need to watch their back 👀👀👀
Been thinking about temporal pandemonium and gothic repetition in video games recently. What game does it best (and why is it @undertale.com)?
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Been thinking about temporal pandemonium and gothic repetition in video games recently. What game does it best (and why is it @undertale.com)?
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Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻
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Recommendations
We have an ever-evolving list of gothic media recommendations for you to look through, both classical and contemporary. Let us know if you think we should add anything extra to these lists, we̵…
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October 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻
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An old tradition ... Fine Folk or Follow Friday #FF: @treadwells-books.bsky.social @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social @sebbyb.bsky.social @philh.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social @julianneregan.bsky.social @mjpcuervo.bsky.social @lazaruscorporation.co.uk @edkarshner.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/recommendati...
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/recommendati...
Recommendations
We have an ever-evolving list of gothic media recommendations for you to look through, both classical and contemporary. Let us know if you think we should add anything extra to these lists, we̵…
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Pumpkins on every corner, maybe a skeleton, if you're lucky. But something's wrong. It's Halloween, but you don't FEEL it. But then, tears of joy in your eyes, you remember makingitwyrd have rec lists with all kinds of spooky media. Halloween is saved! 👻👻👻
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/recommendati...
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/recommendati...
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Happy #BlackCatDay #BlackCatAppreciationDay all!🐈⬛
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy #BlackCatDay #BlackCatAppreciationDay all!🐈⬛
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
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October 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The next Best Gothic Novel Ever battle is here!
We are firmly in the 21st century with this one...
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Vs
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
👻👻👻
Vote in the comments
We are firmly in the 21st century with this one...
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Vs
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
👻👻👻
Vote in the comments
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The next Best Gothic Novel Ever battle is here!
We are firmly in the 21st century with this one...
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Vs
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
👻👻👻
Vote in the comments
We are firmly in the 21st century with this one...
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Vs
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
👻👻👻
Vote in the comments
As we approach Halloween, it's the perfect time to read about the most terrifying thing in the world: daily life.
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Ferris Bueller and the Terror of the Mundane
When putting the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off into a gothic context your mind might go to the theory that Ferris is a figment of the perpetually anxious Cameron’s imagination (see a brea…
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October 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
As we approach Halloween, it's the perfect time to read about the most terrifying thing in the world: daily life.
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/f...
makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/f...
A tale of murders, secrets, cults and floor plans... Strange Houses is contemporary urban gothic out of Japan and is the perfect October read!
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
A tale of murders, secrets, cults and floor plans... Strange Houses is contemporary urban gothic out of Japan and is the perfect October read!
episode 2 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine is here! Today we look at Charli xcx and the Abject.
Do not despair, this is the introductory episode on Charli - we have more to say!
Do not despair, this is the introductory episode on Charli - we have more to say!
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
episode 2 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine is here! Today we look at Charli xcx and the Abject.
Do not despair, this is the introductory episode on Charli - we have more to say!
Do not despair, this is the introductory episode on Charli - we have more to say!
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CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES remain a long-term fascination for many, and that'll be the topic of the next WRITING THE OCCULT event on the 29th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th... #monster #monsters #creatures #cryptids
October 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
CRYPTIDS AND CREATURES remain a long-term fascination for many, and that'll be the topic of the next WRITING THE OCCULT event on the 29th November! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th... #monster #monsters #creatures #cryptids
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Picked up these beauties by @icysedgwick.bsky.social after the Fantastic Folklore event on Friday. The TBR list is getting unreasonable 😅
October 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Picked up these beauties by @icysedgwick.bsky.social after the Fantastic Folklore event on Friday. The TBR list is getting unreasonable 😅
An excellent night of folklore on Friday with @stonelands.bsky.social @icysedgwick.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social! Now to keep our eyes peeled for stone megaliths, grey ladies and singular gloves...👻👻👻
October 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
An excellent night of folklore on Friday with @stonelands.bsky.social @icysedgwick.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social! Now to keep our eyes peeled for stone megaliths, grey ladies and singular gloves...👻👻👻
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Folklore on a Friday! Can't wait to hear this talk from @icysedgwick.bsky.social @stonelands.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social as part of the Lincoln Book Festival
October 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Folklore on a Friday! Can't wait to hear this talk from @icysedgwick.bsky.social @stonelands.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social as part of the Lincoln Book Festival
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A list of horror by Canadian authors to kick off October.
Horror by Canadian Authors — a community-created list from LindseyJS
This long (but not exhaustive) list will give you a great start on horror by Canadian authors.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A list of horror by Canadian authors to kick off October.
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Everyone, get behind this if you're able to. It's going to be a brilliant, brilliant anthology!!
Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain.
👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com
👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Everyone, get behind this if you're able to. It's going to be a brilliant, brilliant anthology!!
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I will not piss on anyone’s chips, but as a project which celebrates the English gothic and the weird every day of the year, I sigh heartily at the start of October. Celebration of the dark and strange should never be calendar constrained. #October
October 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I will not piss on anyone’s chips, but as a project which celebrates the English gothic and the weird every day of the year, I sigh heartily at the start of October. Celebration of the dark and strange should never be calendar constrained. #October