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Lauren Bolger
@renbolger.bsky.social
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Horror writer startled by most sounds. Kill Radio out now with Malarkey Books. The Barre Incidents out Oct 2025!
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
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His eyes say “toss it, or you’re dead to me”
A closeup of a cat staring intently to the left of the camera with a pompom in his mouth
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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This is my profile image bc I get proud of myself for asserting myself when really I’m doing the absolute bare minimum. This is Martin Prince in The Simpsons, getting all sassy because his water dish is empty.
A still of Martin Prince holding up his water dish, complaining that it’s empty. From season 5 ep 19 of The Simpsons, my favorite ep, titled Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Badassss Song where he gets fired and befriends Bart, and is temporarily replaced by Ned Flanders. Meanwhile the school devolves into chaos
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Back on my Kpop shit while I work from home. ATEEZ is my fave ❤️🧡
Zero: Fever Part 1 album cover by ATEEZ. The cover is a red-to-yellow horizontal gradient with the word FEVER repeated 5x, alternating between solid black and thin black outline with no fill. Letters in the word are stretched out for each iteration of the word.
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Woooot it’s gonna be here today @kathleenpalm.bsky.social!
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Cool birds (sandhill cranes?) just chilling, poking around in the woodchips outside of work.
Cool birds (sandhill cranes?) just chilling, poking around in the woodchips outside of work. Long skinny legs, white bodies, red patch around their eye, long slender necks and skinny dark colored beaks
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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This year has been rough as heck. can I have a different one? Here were some highlights. When my kids gleefully made a game out of trying to hog the blue easy chair and also most things my cats do
My kid trying to drag my other kid out of an easy chair by her leg. They were laughing, I promise. My two cats gazing out the window of my daughter’s room
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Romantic weird funny dramatic magic. Such a fun rewatch after a long long time
Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor as Satine and Christian in Moulin Rouge during their duet/love song medley Richard Roxburgh and Jim Broadbent as The Duke and Harold Ziegler performing a cover of Like a Virgin as hilariously as you could possibly imagine Richard Roxburgh roaring ferociously in song with wind in his hair as hilariously as you could possibly imagine
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Had fun with this guy last night! Loading the new opening scene I wrote last night onto the ole laptop.
My AlphaSmart! The screen on it says “sending file 4.” It’s plugged into my laptop and loading text onto it (that part is not pictured)
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Oh my god I thought it said “Mary Shelley Reveals”. Jesus Christ, I almost lost it
A still from Frankenstein with a headline that says “Mary Shelley Expert Reveals the One Thing Del Toro Got Right About Frankenstein”
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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This is the stuff I have to write down just to get out of my system so I can continue with the book. Just goofy dialog with no point.
Dialog written on lined notebook paper “What scares you the most?” “Dogs wearing pants.” “Oh come on, Sydney, be serious.” “I am being serious! It’s unnatural!”
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Zombie miners 🧟
Dark Fantasy 🐉
X-Files vibes 👽
Romance 🌹
Sometimes you can have all four of those. Not always, but sometimes.
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Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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This is a very humorous account. probably not intentionally so?
A screen shot of a FB account called “FedEx Manager’s.” The main pic is a guy with a white button-down and a red lanyard sitting in a chair and talkin’ business. The bigger background pic is 3 FedEx drivers standing next to a FedEx semi with the cab door open
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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These towels are TRIPLE THIRSTY. Just thought you should know. Watch out or you’ll get hoovered up. *nods head vigorously*
A package of Triple Thirsty paper towels! Jewel brand, which is called Signature. Jewel is a grocery store chain with locations in Illinois
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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This morning’s listen. A cover album. In which Tobias Forge chose to cover Televison, Iron Maiden, Genesis, and Tina Turner all on the same album and killed ittttttt. Jesus He Knows Me, Phantom of the Opera, and See No Evil, especially.
The Phantomime album cover. A Satanic pope, but kind of a metallic industrial look. He looks skeletal and has his fingers crossed in front of his chest with fingers spread.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Ramen noodles with tons of stuff in it tonight. I overcooked the eggs again but the kids wouldn’t have eaten them with runny yolks anyway
Ramen bowl! mama brand chicken ramen, chives from a pot on the deck, chicken, yellow and red sweet peppers cooked with garlic and shallots, and a hard boiled egg split in half
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I got my kid a Tamagotchi for her bday and I take care of it on days I WFH so it doesn’t die. This is the one I got when I was a kid and I didn’t like it bc it was weird looking. When she gets home, I can’t wait to tell her she has the same pet I did and it grew into a floating head with a duck bill
My hand holding a Tamagotchi that consists of a disembodied head with flapping duck bill.
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Idk if it’s ok to share Goodreads reviews but this one was posted on IG so I wanted to share it. Thanks to TabathaReads on Instagram for the kind words about The Barre Incidents!! 💜💜

Here’s the order link if you want to give it a try!
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A copy of The Barre Incidents on a dark background with bits of wood behind it *COSMIC HORROR REVIEW* I love how original this story is! While I don’t usually gravitate toward books that include fantasy, the fantastical elements here were incredibly well done. The eerie atmosphere, the blend of grief and otherworldly mystery, and the tension in Barre all pulled me in right away. Kara is such a compelling character. I could see myself in her at certain points, especially as she wrestled with grief, disbelief, and the unsettling realization that some legends might actually be true. The author does a great job layering emotional depth with haunting visuals and undertones. It’s dark, strange, and beautifully written! A great read for anyone who loves cosmic horror with heart.
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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They were out of white and silver but it still looks kinda neat IMO
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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One day this plant pot that i decided was a pen holder many years ago will bust completely open and we will mourn its passing but until that day, it will quietly soldier on thinking every day “I could have held a life. A beautiful, delicate, green little life. But my path did not lead me that way.”
A pot with lots of pens and pencils and pairs of scissors crammed mercilessly into its center
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Feels like somebody’s watchin me today
A cat with brown, gray, and white fur, sitting and looking very alert on a couch. He’s looking at a Pom Pom A cat with brown, gray, and white fur, peeking from around the corner, on some stairs from behind the drywall.
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Peter B Parker in a spider suit with the face mask off, saying “I can never remember, so I always call it a goober. Give it.” The frame underneath just says “A goober.” with just a hand holding the override key, in the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
October 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Listening to Woodland Rites yet again by @greenlungband.bsky.social bc I can’t get enough. Incredible album art is by Richard Wells aka @slipperyjack.bsky.social
Album cover for the album Woodland Rites by Green Lung. Lithography looking print by artist Richard Wells. Humans and beasts join hands to form a circle in a wooded clearing. The bands name is in red and prominent against the minimally colored art. Looks almost black and white but maybe has a very slight green tint to it.
October 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Little baby, big jumps
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Really weird math but this is the 100th time the kids have wanted a Minecraft themed party and they’re only turning 8 and 10.
Kitchen table with paper decorations involving Minecraft. Balloons, plates, napkins, tablecloth, and a birthday banner
October 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Playing Calico for the first time and we had a visitor
Game pieces for Calico, a game where you make a quilt out of patterned tiles and different cats have different patterns they like so if you quilt a certain # of patterns in a row you get a cat to sit on it.
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM