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MJ's J †Johnson shares their latest thoughts on @bbdragula.bsky.social.

#Dragula is now streaming on @shudder.com.
My Mother Was a Drag Monster: Meltdowns for everyone! — Moviejawn
by J †Johnson, Staff Writer There’s drama, drama, and more drama this week on Dragula Titans .
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November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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We love Pam because she knows it’s her fault (it’s also Henry’s fault, but he doesn’t know it). In today’s Friday Feature, we revisit the tragedy of Pamela Fitzgerald in Ginger Snaps.

Read about Pam’s Halloween night: www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature

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October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @eversonpoe.bsky.social are joined by JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social to sink our teeth into @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s novel Cuckoo. We talk unknowable monsters, family horror and ecological colonialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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“Millicent Pawlowski, the Happy Medium, stands between the crowd and the police and opens her mind to the glowing cyclone which fills nearly half of the sky above her.”

Buckle up: today we feature @lilliekoi.bsky.social's “Under the Gyre”🌪: www.culdesacofblood.com/lillie-e-fra...
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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We love when good horror fills the theater & we go there together. But will we make it through the night? Today’s Friday Feature is Sinners.

www.culdesacofblood.com/friday-feature
@raygonne.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Sounds familiar (same shit, diff decade). from Peter Mara’s most excellent recent book, Queer Slashers
April 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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For Trans Day of Visibility MJ’s J †Johnson shares an Alice Maio Mackay Double Feature.
Transgender Day of Visibility 2025 – Alice Maio Mackay Double Feature: I can fucking feel you, demon — Moviejawn
by J †Johnson, Staff Writer What if we are who our best friends see in us? What if we aren’t what people who don’t love us try to make us into? And as Spencer (Lewi Dawson) puts it in Alice Maio Mack...
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March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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It’s the Season 6 finale, with JJ from @culdesacofblood.bsky.social ! JJ reads our Buffy tarot cards, and we talk a lot about witchcraft and Dark Willow using @margaret.bsky.social’s book The Sapling Cage as our guide. Plus, who is the real big bad of season 6?
www.buzzsprout.com/1902224/epis...
Episode 62: Daddy's Home - Fangs for the Memories
It’s the Season 6 finale, with JJ from Culdesac of Blood! ! JJ reads our Buffy tarot cards, and we talk a lot about witchcraft and Dark Willow using Margaret Killjoy’s book The Sapling Cage as our gui...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I loved this episode! So cool to talk about Buffy with JJ and we loved bringing in Margaret Killjoy’s (@margaret.bsky.social) book The Sapling Cage, to enrich our witchcraft convo!
March 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Make your own evil and meet us in the subway as Anna Bogutskaya joins us to chat about slimy creatures, pink socks, and brand new boats in Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession.
Because you say "pod" for me.

Listen Now > tinyurl.com/yc63k3yw

#LadyKillers #horror #femalekiller #Possession
March 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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“You can hear a calliope in the distance somewhere but you know there’s no circus in town.” Today, we present two confessions & a bitter ending, all in the strange light of sometime past midnight & before a reasonable hour: three prose poems by Rich Boucher.

www.culdesacofblood.com/rich-boucher
March 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@tendersubject.bsky.social just caught up on ep 32 (Society) & you all made the whole film fascinating, not just the shunting part. love the point about rich people missing out on everyday solidarity/belonging & seeking a gross absorptive/extractive substitute
March 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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JJ wrote about making monsters, zines, & CDSOB over here. Thanks to rob for reaching out & reading🖤🔪🎃
February 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Had lots of fun writing about the director’s uncut version of what’s becoming one of my favorite horrors🖤⛏️❤️
MJ's @raygonne.bsky.social says, "MY BLOODY VALENTINE is a love letter to holiday horror and a stone cold slasher classic that warms even the blackest of hearts with its goofy premise and doomed working class horndogs." #MyBloodyValentine #ValentinesDay
MY BLOODY VALENTINE's Harry Warden still hates V-Day (and so can you) — Moviejawn
by J †Johnson, Staff Writer With Heart Eyes around the corner, we look back at the original Valentines hater.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pump up the Jam comes on at the bar & the person next to me sez to their buddy “i need to learn the words of this song”
February 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
inside you there is one Elisasue
January 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
i just want you to know how happy i am to have my wm-d6c back in working order so i can play dungeon synth tapes & finish reading this brilliant book by @margaret.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just finished reading Absolution, which is Aliens to Alien’s Alien, & has sent me back through Acceptance & promises to also throw me back to Annihilation, etc. What a ride! Thanks @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
My final @bbdragula.bsky.social Season 666 commentary just went up @moviejawn.bsky.social and I wrote some additional thoughts about it over here.
J †Johnson on Substack
I wrote about the radical & magical potential of drag in my final commentary for Dragula Season 666 @MovieJawn. I’m proud of this serial I’ve been writing for the past 10+ weeks, and not just because ...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:32 PM
in 2025 let’s stop fucking around with fascists
November 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM