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If you see this, post a comics cover you love.
Uncle $crooge and Donald Duck "The Universal Solvent" Don Rosa Library V 6 The ducks are surrounded by flame and melting goop; Donald is frightened, Scrooge is trying to hide under his umbrella, and the nephews are awe-struck, scared, and curious.
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Okay, here we go. There's this in the 1976 Writing Well:
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I see some Frankenstein defenders are trying to claim that movie dislikers just don't like GDT's Mexican Catholic sensibility (iow "you're racist!") to which I can only say that in Spanish-language Catholic Bibles Genesis is at the beginning, not the middle.
The monster with a big Bible open to the middle as the subtitles read "I read about a man named Adam, and a woman named Eve,"
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Convincing you to read my novel with the first few sentences. (No clean break after first sentence, sorry!) Share yours if you want.

KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST

Why not a @bookshop.org link today?

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The Master doesn’t make it rain much anymore, except for when he lets me fish and provides a drizzle to lure my little prey up to the surface of the water. Even the Master can’t keep it from raining naturally though, and so it was raining hard, and inconveniently, and I waited out the lightning storm under a tree, which was a foolish thing to do. I could have died, but the path down to the island’s cliff face was washing away, so I could have died trying to run for home too.
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Darn, infinite forgiveness ruined my trolling of the too-cozy-with-Trump archbishop
An insta story of Archbishop Elpidophoros holding up his new US citizenship and my note reading "Carry this at all times in case of ICE, father" An image of the archbishop "liking" my Insta story
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead. 🪶
A pestrel maybe regurgitating into the maw of its offspring. Gray and white with yellow beak; the offspring is fuzzy.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Now the world may know! My one-act play "The Failure of the Century"--a bit of a Lovecraftian A Christmas Carol--will have a staged reading as part of the Talos V Science Fiction Theatre Festival!

Dec 13th! The theatre is also a pub! Details:

www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/whats-on.html
Cyborphic presents The Failure of the Century (WIP) by Nick Mamatas H. P. Lovecraft is dying to write. But the controversial horror writer cannot bring himself to finish his magnum opus, "The Shadow Out of Time", and it’s eating away at his stomach. Then over one long and shadowy Christmas night, Lovecraft receives three visitors at his tiny Rhode Island bedsit—his younger colleague Frank Belknap Long; then his estranged wife Sonia Greene; and finally the Crawling Chaos himself – the witch-cult king, the pharaonic Outer God, Nyarlathotep! “The Failure of the Century", a blend of Lovecraftian Horror & A Christmas Carol, is the first play by award-winning Greek American writer & Hugo-award nominated editor Nick Mamatas. Nick is the author of instant cult classic Move Under Ground and the Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence. His latest novel, Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest, is an anticolonial sci-fi revision of Shakespeare’s play. Presented as part of Talos V Science Fiction Theatre Festival The Failure of the Century (WIP) Written by Nick Mamatas Directed by Kira E. Wiggins Other Cast & Crew TBC Date & Time: Saturday 13th December @1.30pm Running Time: 50mins Content warnings: Age 16+, early 20th century discussions of race & sexuality, mental illness (also black and white gestural drawing of Lovecraft, eyes sparkling/weeping, scratchy title reading H.P Lovecraft is: The Failure of the Century, Art by https://www.instagram.com/grossandcolorful)
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
Philip K. Dick gets it right again.

Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
From A Scanner Darkly: "Let's hear it for the vague blur!" the host said loudly, and there was mass clapping. In his scramble suit, Fred, who was also Robert Arctor, groaned and thought: This is terrible. Once a month an undercover narcotics agent of the county was assigned at random to speak before bubblehead gatherings such as this. Today was his turn. Looking at his audience, he realized how much he detested straights. They thought this was all great. They were smiling. They were being entertained. An Icegov tweet offering up a photo of new ICE training graduates--"American heroes" with their faces blurred out.
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
nmamatas.bsky.social
As far as I know, good Christian widows dress like this, but I do acknowledge that every Protestant is a devil-worshipping monster who craves only misery and sups on blood and tears, so there may be cultural differences.
A bw photo of four women in black, with long dresses and scarves, walking down a road paved in marble stones. If you are a Western devil you may perceive these women as nuns. They are not.
October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
There are some goofy pulp stories that until just now felt unrealistic because they end with the main character scribbling in their diary, "The monsters are at the door! No no no..."

Until just now.
Donald Trump post on Truth Social dated 10/29/25 and time 9:43: South Carerdddd
October 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
"You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke"
Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarch. A man in a white beard, with white and yellow robes and a big round crown. He holds a twisted scepter and is on a decorates throne with lots of filigree and leaf.
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Don't worry, I've altered the tattoo now so it looks like Laozi.
Caligula! John Hurt in make-up from I, Claudius, blond curls etc.
October 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula
Cover of the Todd Grimson novel Stainless; vampire woman on right, black clothing and hair and pale outstretched neck, black slits for eyes and red lips. Black and red background. https://www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/stainless
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
nmamatas.bsky.social
Last night I must have been visited by the ghosts of Billy and Benny McGuire
two hire scooters parked in parallel on a sidewalk Classic pic of "the world's fattest twins" on motorcycles--cowboy hats huge thighs etc
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
Litcrawl tonight, triple threat match! All three rounds, baby!

Blondie's Bar at 5!
Latin American Club at 6:30!
Dog Eared Books at 8!
5:00pm PDT 01. The World With Different Words (Authors & Performers: Mamatas) Nicholas Mamatas • T. K. Rex • Giovanna Lomanto • Gwendolyn Maia Hicks • Chloe Smith 6:30pm PDT 37. The Fabulist Presents: Strategies Against the Dark Dreams of Empire (Authors & Performers: Mamatas) Nicholas Mamatas • LeeAnn Perry • Cynthia Gómez • Katie Flynn • Khan Wong 8:00pm PDT 52. Write from the Gut: Best Lines (Authors & Performers: Mamatas) Tongo Eisen-Martin • Kim McMillon • Nicholas Mamatas • Sophia Kercher • Alexandra Kostoulas • Kim Shuck
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This guy disabled quoteskeets.

And no, if you OWN a farm you are not in the working class. You could be FROM the working class, but Platner's father was an attorney—both for the government and private practice—and his mother owned one and a half restaurants.

Platner just has a beard.
Does "working class Mainer" inherently mean that his parents and grandparents on all sides of his family had to be like steel workers or something? The guy owns an oyster farm. That's working class enough that I think it's fair to describe himself that way. The Nazi tattoo is another story.
October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
What in the name of Annihilation-meets-Pokemon is this supposed to be?
A dog and squiggles and god I dunno.
October 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
a shipping box labeled Epstein Files/Top Secret
October 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
Define "perfect ending"?
October 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
nmamatas.bsky.social
I know what you sleazeballs want and it's fee--books! Books, I meant to type books!

Kalivas!

Klickyvas: indiepubs.com/products/kal...
My beautiful foot next to my marvelous novel.
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Me, and Kalivas!
@toril.bsky.social and Hotblood!
Barnes & Noble Presents @booksinc.bsky.social Alameda!

10/24, 6:30pm!

Even more exclamation points, as in the sentence "Bring money!"

If you're all good we'll go to the anime sushi restaurant after. (Like I said, "Bring money!")
1344 Park Street, Alameda. 510-522-2226 Plus our covers (cartoon cowboy centaur for Toril, big blue letters for me)
October 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Oh yeah? Well I'm going to draw Batman sucking my dick! Take THAT!
Daniel Warren Johnson commission of a drawing of Absolute Batman putting an ICE agent in a sleeperhold. Chuck Dixon post of Batman, the word "ICE" on his chest, restraining some masked people, one of which has the word ANTIFA on his sweater. The art is by Sergio Cariello; Dixon commissioned it. The post is headlined "Batman takes down some jokers."
October 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I'll be on reddit on r/horrorlit in thirty minutes for an AMA. Please bring questions.
Me posing like the cover of 120 Murders with my reddit verification taped to my glasses.
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I can't believe this guy didn't hand draw a QR code leading to his new album.
White marker on a glass door of a defunct music store reading The owner of this store kicked me out for no reason in 2020. --I'm releasing my 8th album and still signed to a record label--look at you! Closed!!! HA!
October 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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FOUR million followers
Top half of a tweet by Benny Johnson saying that "Noem stares down an army of Antifa" Benny Johnson's twitter page showing that he has FOUR MILLION followers
October 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM