🦇 Leah Richards 🦇
@plaguedr-richards.bsky.social
☠️ "an aging, deeply unlikeable woman who never had kids," a kitchen witch, and a cat fancier; she/her
☠️ horror & gothic scholar, professor, editor of Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, supernaturalstudies.com
☠️ horror & gothic scholar, professor, editor of Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, supernaturalstudies.com
I'm over the (Full) Moon thrilled that @randomhorror9.bsky.social will be covering Puppet Master 3 next week. As a scholar of the series, its engagement with fucking N*zis, and justifying the series' wild inconsistencies, I'll be taking notes through the entire episode. 🔪
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm over the (Full) Moon thrilled that @randomhorror9.bsky.social will be covering Puppet Master 3 next week. As a scholar of the series, its engagement with fucking N*zis, and justifying the series' wild inconsistencies, I'll be taking notes through the entire episode. 🔪
Without downloading new pics, what’s it like dating you?
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Without downloading new pics, what’s it like dating you?
🎶 Must be the season of the witch 🎶 The next 3 books in my queue, after @shewolfmanc.bsky.social's Unburied, are How to Kill a Witch, That Very Witch, and The Conjuring of America. The fall of patriarchy is my favorite time of year.
November 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🎶 Must be the season of the witch 🎶 The next 3 books in my queue, after @shewolfmanc.bsky.social's Unburied, are How to Kill a Witch, That Very Witch, and The Conjuring of America. The fall of patriarchy is my favorite time of year.
What are the odds that someone will tell me that I look tired today? I am, I do, but no one needs to tell me that. Comment on my cool dress instead.
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What are the odds that someone will tell me that I look tired today? I am, I do, but no one needs to tell me that. Comment on my cool dress instead.
Yesterday was Trey's birthday (observed). Everyone with fur got small pieces of poached, shredded chicken. Look how handsome the shyest and most three-legged of my children is!
September 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yesterday was Trey's birthday (observed). Everyone with fur got small pieces of poached, shredded chicken. Look how handsome the shyest and most three-legged of my children is!
I'm like Snow White of the urban landscape or something. Seagulls, rats, pigeons, squirrels, and the occasional raccoon or possum flock to me. I love them too, and we often chat. This guy hung out with me for a while today. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't show how beautifully iridescent he is.
August 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I'm like Snow White of the urban landscape or something. Seagulls, rats, pigeons, squirrels, and the occasional raccoon or possum flock to me. I love them too, and we often chat. This guy hung out with me for a while today. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't show how beautifully iridescent he is.
While in the grand scheme of the ongoing fascist takeover, the status of a crosswalk is insignificant, I'm glad that folks keep chalking bc it makes space for meltdowns over "forcing us to accept your rainbow of chalk," that notoriously permanent medium that spreads the gay to all who see it.
August 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
While in the grand scheme of the ongoing fascist takeover, the status of a crosswalk is insignificant, I'm glad that folks keep chalking bc it makes space for meltdowns over "forcing us to accept your rainbow of chalk," that notoriously permanent medium that spreads the gay to all who see it.
Learned today via a billboard in Cheyenne, WY, that this exists, but I'm delighted to learn that it's failing pretty spectacularly.
August 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Learned today via a billboard in Cheyenne, WY, that this exists, but I'm delighted to learn that it's failing pretty spectacularly.
Masking on my flight to Cheyenne, where freedom matters more than community care or personal well-being. Hashtag, so brave! Also, so mysterious!
February 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Masking on my flight to Cheyenne, where freedom matters more than community care or personal well-being. Hashtag, so brave! Also, so mysterious!
🖤🐈⬛ FLOW, the animated (and Oscar-nominated) Latvian film that will soon be streaming on Max, is an absolutely perfect, brilliant masterpiece, and now Cat has a statue. 🖤🐈⬛
February 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🖤🐈⬛ FLOW, the animated (and Oscar-nominated) Latvian film that will soon be streaming on Max, is an absolutely perfect, brilliant masterpiece, and now Cat has a statue. 🖤🐈⬛
The Tiger Lillies' caption reads, "In our version of Macbeth the cheap little fascist dictator will be crushed by the witches 🖤 Re: The World"
February 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Tiger Lillies' caption reads, "In our version of Macbeth the cheap little fascist dictator will be crushed by the witches 🖤 Re: The World"
As sabbatical wraps, I know that I'll never be truly happy again, but at least I have stickers on my dope-ass planner. Also, I have a pen that says "Fuck Off" in elegant pink script down the clip.
January 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
As sabbatical wraps, I know that I'll never be truly happy again, but at least I have stickers on my dope-ass planner. Also, I have a pen that says "Fuck Off" in elegant pink script down the clip.
How I arrived on BlueSky.
January 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
How I arrived on BlueSky.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
This is completely accurate.
This is completely accurate.
January 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
This is completely accurate.
This is completely accurate.
If you need AI to help you imagine Space Cats, I'm sorry for your awful life.
January 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
If you need AI to help you imagine Space Cats, I'm sorry for your awful life.
I'm on a late-sabbatical, pre-MLA writing retreat, which is awesome, except that there's terrifying seasonal decor all over the house, including this horrorshow in the living room, as though Elf, singular, on a Shelf weren't a sufficiently hellish panoptic tradition.
January 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I'm on a late-sabbatical, pre-MLA writing retreat, which is awesome, except that there's terrifying seasonal decor all over the house, including this horrorshow in the living room, as though Elf, singular, on a Shelf weren't a sufficiently hellish panoptic tradition.
Me facing 2025.
December 27, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Me facing 2025.
🎄❄️ May this holiday be good, but neither the high point of your year nor the last time you were happy going forward. ❄️🎄
-- Cheers from me, the Mari Lwyd, and the cats 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈
-- Cheers from me, the Mari Lwyd, and the cats 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈
December 24, 2024 at 6:19 PM
🎄❄️ May this holiday be good, but neither the high point of your year nor the last time you were happy going forward. ❄️🎄
-- Cheers from me, the Mari Lwyd, and the cats 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈
-- Cheers from me, the Mari Lwyd, and the cats 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈
Happy Christmas Adam to all who celebrate by mocking the patriarchy and those who uphold it.
December 23, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Happy Christmas Adam to all who celebrate by mocking the patriarchy and those who uphold it.
"And so it was decided... that once every year when the weather got chilly, that Finn, Jake, the Ice King, BMO, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Cinnamon Bun, Peppermint Butler, Phil, a candy cane man, one of the gumdrop girls..." -->
December 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
"And so it was decided... that once every year when the weather got chilly, that Finn, Jake, the Ice King, BMO, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Cinnamon Bun, Peppermint Butler, Phil, a candy cane man, one of the gumdrop girls..." -->
My feline familiar Fionna, the nicest (though rage-filled when the mood takes her) fluffbutt in the world. 💕
December 11, 2024 at 3:45 PM
My feline familiar Fionna, the nicest (though rage-filled when the mood takes her) fluffbutt in the world. 💕
Damn, I missed Max Headroom Signal Intrusion Day. I think more of my weirdness dates back to that incident than I might think.
November 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Damn, I missed Max Headroom Signal Intrusion Day. I think more of my weirdness dates back to that incident than I might think.
There's a mural of Blodeuwedd in Blaenau Ffestiniog, which I'm taking as a sign that the writing that I produce this weekend, periperally related to Blodeuwedd, will be magical.
November 22, 2024 at 3:32 PM
There's a mural of Blodeuwedd in Blaenau Ffestiniog, which I'm taking as a sign that the writing that I produce this weekend, periperally related to Blodeuwedd, will be magical.
While I'd have loved a sunny day to wander Aberystwyth, this is a nice day for a 4 hour, 3 bus trek to Blaenau Ffestiniog/Tanygrisiau.
November 20, 2024 at 11:21 AM
While I'd have loved a sunny day to wander Aberystwyth, this is a nice day for a 4 hour, 3 bus trek to Blaenau Ffestiniog/Tanygrisiau.
And then Suzzanna, about the Indonesian scream queen, and Children of the Wicker Man, about both the film and the peripheral impact it had on the director's family.
November 18, 2024 at 9:36 PM
And then Suzzanna, about the Indonesian scream queen, and Children of the Wicker Man, about both the film and the peripheral impact it had on the director's family.