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Martha Saffronhouse
@not-in-the-story.bsky.social
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media fan, horror, c-drama
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Drop something pink
Zhu Yilong in a pink velvet smoking jacket staring pensively through the window.
November 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Such a wonderful way to spend October! I am allowing myself one story a day. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social
Cover of the fabulous Gemma Files' newest anthology LITTLE HORN STORIES
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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You've been kidnapped. Characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to save you. Who's coming to rescue you?

Yeah probably nobody is getting out of this alive but what a way to go
Baby Zhu Yilong as the good-hearted incompetent Hua Wuxie "As Flowers Fade..."
August 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Posting my warm summer morning picture
A fluffy black dog on a long leash stands on the side of the road looking at the sun shining through the trees. It's going to be a hot day
July 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The Ur-example of caretaker horror, perhaps. (The Innocents of course, 1961) And seconding Fréwaka's excellence. I loved it!
Black and white photograph of Deborah Kerr in The Innocents, long blonde hair, holding a three prong candelabra reflected in the window glass behind her
April 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Just received the most beautiful books I've ever gotten from @swanriverpress.bsky.social — and everything they print is gorgeous — but the 3-volume Fitz-James O'Brien is in a class by itself

Something beautiful to keep the darkness at bay while a mad orange god king moans and gibbers on his throne
A fluffy smoke black Persian cat named Harriet with judging, golden eyes sits behind a three volume set of the collected Fitz-James O'Brien spread out across a battered coffee table with other stacked books. Dark green slip cover with golden highlights, (much like Harriet's eyes) startlingly beautiful: FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN An Arabian Night-mare and Others (1848-1854) Cover page: An Arabian Night-mare and Others (1848-1854) by Fitz-James O'Brien Swan River Press Dublin, Ireland MMXXV 17/00
April 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Post a movie from your birth year

Never heard of this one until I went looking — probably with good reason — but look at that star lineup!
Movie poster from 55 days at Peking with Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven all depicted in a very dramatic painting, a fiery background and a melee in the extreme foreground featuring scimitars and a canon
February 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Excuse me for interrupting your game but have you noticed that spot of sunlight on the wall??!
A smoke colored Persian with enormous golden eyes sits in front of a paused game of "slay the spire" on an iPad
February 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Maggie is not terribly concerned about where I am going to sit but she is certainly settled in for the evening
A border collie mix named Maggie is settled down in the comfy chair and is not terribly concerned about where I am going to sit
January 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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This is lovely, and unsurprisingly, one of the best appreciations I've seen, rooted in Lynch's mistrust of words.
It's why David was not just a filmmaker: He was a painter, a musician, a sculptor and a visual artist - languageless mediums. When you are outside language, you are in the realm of feeling, the unconscious, waves. That was David's world. Because there's room for other people - as the listeners, the audience, the other end of the line - to bring some of themselves. To David, what you thought mattered, too.
January 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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If you see this repost with the first #cdrama you watched
Shen Wei walks up to Zhao Yunlan in a graveyard
January 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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New book from @swanriverpress.bsky.social just arrived so I immediately settled down for the first story (as one does!) Seasonally appropriate and utterly chilling. Happy Christmas to all and make sure the cellar door is locked!
Picture of the short story collection by Helen Grant: atmospheric disturbances
December 3, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Quote with your current read! Here's mine #booksky

Such a dark and unsettling collection of horrors. Obviously, I couldn't be happier!
Steve Toase collection of short stories "dirt upon my skin" Wider view of short story collection with the looming black Persian over it
October 27, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Reskeet with a favorite book from childhood.

Checked this out from the school library in fifth grade and it gave me nightmares for weeks. I have read horror stories ever since trying to recapture that delicious terror. (Author is Scott Corbett)
Cover of library book with red-orange cover. The red room riddle: a ghost story (by Scott Corbett) line drawing of a bulldog which totally belies what a terrifying book this was to a fifth grader
August 24, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Look on my works ye mighty and despair
Brown eyed border collie mix looking oh so very fierce and fluffy golden eyed black Persian looking even more terrifying.
March 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Turns out a yawn was on the way.
Gray tabby sitting on the shelf yawning
February 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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World feels overwhelming even with fandom. Here's a picture of Bogart with his nose scrunched up.
Gray tabby with his nose wrinkled and eyes crossed, just about to yawn or sneeze
February 29, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/TV
Lieutenant Uhura firing a phaser from Star Trek: the animated series
December 31, 2023 at 9:18 PM