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Mark Zidzik
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The #OwnVoices #Author of " #Dracula / Harker: A #Gay #Gothic #Romance " and unapologetic anti-reactionary. Hate my sexual orientation, politics, and book, and see if I care.
Book website: https://markzidzik.com
Author blog: https://markzidzik.com/blog
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Is the irony lost on anyone when a swine says “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”?
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#Trump
Trump snaps at reporter over Epstein files question: 'Quiet, piggy'
US president Donald Trump snapped "quiet, piggy" at a reporter after they asked him a question about the Epstein files.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I have a few quibbles over some details in this essay on E. M. Forster's novel "Maurice," but the author expresses admirable sentiments nonetheless.
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#gayromance #gayfiction
Echoes of Classics
Forster wrote Maurice in 1913 and then locked it away, knowing it couldn't be published during his lifetime because England would imprison him for writing honestly about men loving men. The novel...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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"Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance--Part I": a novella not for the faint of heart.
www.draculaharker.com
#GayRomance #GayFiction #LGBTQRomance #LGBTQFiction #QueerRomance #QueerFiction #GothicRomance #GothicFiction #ParanormalRomance #Vampires #Dracula
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Mike Johnson
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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But no one reads either.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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How can the Gothic survive the present age of cynical, passionless banality?
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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How "to make the perfect man."
#Frankenstein
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How Was Frankenstein Made? Inside Guillermo del Toro’s Hand-Crafted Epic
How the Creature came together, stitch by stitch.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Kim Davis exercising her religious freedom to be a bigoted POS.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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For now, Kim Davis cannot jeopardize same-sex marriage. Here's hoping the sanctimonious hypocrite gets distracted from further court appeals by a fourth divorce and a fifth marriage.
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Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Desire is so needy and grasping.
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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"Dracula/Harker: A Gay Gothic Romance" is not just the tale of the Count and Jonathan Harker. Part II will also feature the love story of Ilse, Countess Dolingen of Gratz, and Lucy Westenra. Read Part I to prepare for the drama to come
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#GayRomance #SapphicRomance #ParanormalRomance
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Land doesn't vote. People do.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Satire? What satire? I don't see any satire here.
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This will definitely make up for the landslide blowout the GOP got handed yesterday.
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The sad truth is I can't write anything scarier than how this looks. But then, "I really don't care, do you?"
#SouthPark #Melania #Trump #MelaniaTrump
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Gay Republicans do to themselves what they desperately wish others would do.
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Gay Republicans defend Greg Abbott removing rainbow crosswalks: They're "politically divisive" - LGBTQ Nation
The group said safety should be prioritized over symbols, but data shows vibrant crosswalks make the road safer.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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"Melancholic Gothic" says it all.
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#vampires #Dracula
Love Song for a Vampire (Cover Melancholic Gothic)
YouTube video by DragonSteel Legion
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November 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Happy Halloween
Halloween gravestone reading “I Did My Own Research” in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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A Halloween treat: "How did Dracula become Dracula?"
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The Origins of Dracula
YouTube video by ESOTERICA
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November 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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"Why Killing Vampires Makes People Happy"? How about people don't kill anyone--undead or alive? Or is that too much to ask in this day and age?
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#vampires #Dracula #undead #Halloween
Why killing vampires makes people happy
John Blair is the author of Killing the Dead, a riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the living.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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A Halloween horror!
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I despise Quincey Morris (as well as the rest of Mina Harker's band of insufferable "heroes")! Nevertheless, I'll read this if only to all the better avenge myself on a fictional favorite son of Texas, which I likewise despise.
‘The Bowie Knife That Killed Dracula,’ Chapter 1: Sacred Silver
The first installment of a serialized novel by William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan, which follows the Texan who slays Dracula in Bram Stoker’s classic.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
markzidzik.bsky.social
Although it's ironic to cite "Game of Thrones" when introducing a video about "The Lord of the Rings," I cannot resist stating that readers "know things" that fascists don't.
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#LOTR #LordOfTheRings #Tolkien #JRRTolkien #MiddleEarth
The Lord of the Rings and the Far Right
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October 31, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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It's Halloween: the most romantic day of the year! Find a cozy crypt and snuggle with your favorite Undead--or, at least, read something brimming with melancholic yearning.
draculaharker.com
#GayRomance #LGBTQRomance #QueerRomance #MMRomance #GothicRomance #ParanormalRomance #Vampires #Dracula
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Anne Rice's novel "Interview with the Vampire" had gay subtext, but Lestat's emotional abuse and manipulation, Louis's self-loathing, and Claudia's very nature in the context of the two men's relationship makes the gay subtext problematic at best.
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#IWTV
Explaining Interview With The Vampire's LGBTQ+ History From The Books To The AMC Show
Sink your teeth into this tale.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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The press secretary vignette has just been added to my reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."
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But for those new to the work, it is best to start at the beginning.
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#GothicFiction #GrimReaper #Horror #Halloween
Death Masks: Vignettes of Anti-Reactionary Retribution—A Reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”
The Guard Death came for the last guard, begowned in the red of the blood the soldier had spilled, first overseas, then at home. Though their pallid face’s lowered lids appeared alluring under ashy…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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What is love but tears and blood drawn by Fate?
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#GayRomance #GayFiction #LGBTQRomance #LGBTQFiction #QueerRomance #QueerFiction #GothicRomance #GothicFiction #ParanormalRomance #MMRomance #Vampires #Dracula #Halloween
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM