the thing that bothers me is that "extreme horror" isn't a vague vibe, it's a subgenre, with its own specific conventions. if you don't want your stories to have excessive violence or animal death or deal with graphic scenes that's fine, but it's not extreme horror!!

I will never forget the one submission call that wanted gothic romance but "no incest"

so few places want anything that's actually challenging or upsetting or knows how to navigate that and it drives me up a wall. if you're going to ask for horror you should be prepared to take on stuff that makes you feel bad!!

I don't do a lot of submitting short stories but when I was sending one around it was SO hard to find a *horror magazine* that would accept a story with explicit violence to animals. I'm sorry but that's ridiculous!!

we love to see it!!!

having a rough one but if i believe in anything now it's in making my body mine and trying to live a life that's tolerable so. we keep goin

sick as hell!!!

what bothers me so much about this beyond the obvious is at that point it's. easier to put the meat up than leave it out, surely. you have to actively ignore that you haven't put it up yet

oh my god??

every time I'm reminded that some people put actual stock in awards opinions?? it's so boring

yeah, I do agree with that! It's not a moral thing at all, but people clearly feel the need to defend themselves as morally right/just as good for not being well read, and I don't respect that defensiveness. it's silly!

going to start being really mean and say it's not, actually, okay to reread a children's book ten times and nothing else as a grown adult

"dark academia"

like the issue here is that cis people widely do not believe or understand us in any way, and aren't actually cool with us!