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shaderaygun
@shaderaygun.bsky.social
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A Pittsburgh reporter and aspiring novelist who loves horror, Kaiju and tabletop games 🏳️‍🌈
He/Him
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There really needs to be a way to say what interests you DON’T want to see. I don’t give a shit about sports, so why is that all I see?
List of trending topics on Bluesky. They’re all sports.
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Draculas, also known as Alien Carmilla, from the series Return of Ultraman.
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Time to finish off my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge for the year! The grand finale is “The Sudbury Devil,” an American colonial-era indie horror movie by one of my favorite YouTubers, @atunshei.bsky.social
13/13
#Horror #HorrorMovies
Poster to The Sudbury Devil.
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Penultimate on my 13 Days of #Halloween Challenge for this year is some television. I’ve been periodically watching the first season of Night Gallery throughout the month and am now on the final episode. Let’s see how it turns out.
12/13
#Horror
Title card for Night Gallery.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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First Jack O’Lanterns of the new house!
#Halloween
Two Jack O’Lanterns, one with a traditional scary face, the other depicting a cat sitting in a UFO.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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This was not an expected part of my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge, but I’ve been requested to watch this by another. So next up is Chopping Mall, a movie which was described to me as “dumb as hell.” Let’s see how dumb…
11/13
Poster to Chopping Mall depicting a group of teenagers armed with weapons by robots loom over them.
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Back into the world of literature for my 13 Days of #Halloween Challenge as I finish up the last 30 pages of Hell House by Richard Matheson, considered one of the best haunted house stories.
10/13
#Horror #HorrorNovels #GhostStories
Cover to Hell House by Richard Matheson, depicting a three-story, menacing looking mansion in red.
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Review: While long lines meant I could only do three out of the six houses, they were all a blast, especially the new one. The really pulled out all the stops for Detached and it might be my new favorite.
Kennywood sign with skeletons clinging onto it.
October 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Back at Kennywood Phantom Fright Nights checking out its new haunted house. This, it’s counting on my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge!
9/13
Crowds gather at the entrance to Kennywood during its Phantom Fright Nights Halloween season.
October 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Coming up on the final week of my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge and I've got to get into overdrive to meet the goal. So tonight, I'm playing the indie #horror game Last Report. Normally I don't handle horror games too well. Let's so how much this one spooks me.
8/13
#HorrorGames
Cover art to Last Report, depicting a shadowy creature lurking over a cabin in the middle of the woods at night. The creature has tendrils slithering down the cabin.
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Halfway through my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge and it’s time for a Lovecraftian comedy: Cast a Deadly Spell, a TV movie which aired on HBO in 1991.
7/13
#Lovecraft #Horror #HorrorMovies #HPLovecraft
Poster to Cast a Deadly Spell, depicting a noir detective smoking a cigarette while a woman’s legs are crossed in a sensual manner from behind a door in the background.
October 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Time to get literary for my 13 Days of #Halloween Challenge! I’ve been reading the final five H.P. Lovecraft stories I haven’t read yet, available in the 1989 version of “The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions,” and I’m now up to the last story, “The Night Ocean.”
6/13
#Horror #Lovecraft
Dustjacket to Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, depicting a strange creature in an alien-looking tomb.
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Back on my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge with a showing of Ju-On: The Grudge at a giant screen cinema. Been trying to get more into J-Horror and this seems an ideal way to do just that!
5/13
#Horror #HorrorMovies #JuOn #TheGrudge
Digital poster for Ju-On: The Grudge.
October 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Post-Game: Welp, we ended up with one death, and funnily enough on the last roll of the game. But the adventure turned out as great as I thought it would be and we got a really exciting chase out of it.
A chase in progress from Call of Cthulhu. Several horrible monster miniatures are in pursuit of some hapless investigators.
October 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Next up on my 13 Days of #Halloween is an RPG adventure! I’m running The Crack’d and Crook’d Manse out of Mansions of Madness, an adventure I’ve been long looking forward to subjecting to my players. Let’s see if they survive…
4/14
#Horror #CallOfCthulhu #TTRPGs
Leatherette cover to Mansions of Madness.
October 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Tonight’s entry in my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge is The Anityville Horror (the original), a classic of the haunted house genre.
Hope being home alone as I watch this won’t prove detrimental to my ability to sleep tonight…
3/13
#Horror #HorrorMovies #HorrorFilms
Poster to The Amityville Horror, featuring a house with two windows glowing like eyes.
October 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Next up on my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge is Evil Dead… IN CONCERT! While I’ve seen the movie before, I’ll be seeing it with live musical accompaniment, counting as a new experience, and one I’m sure will be groovy.
2/13
#Horror #HorrorFilms #EvilDead
Photograph of the stage for Evil Dead in Concert. A projector displays the concert logo over a stage full of instruments.
October 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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It's October, which means spooky season has begun, and so has my 13 Days of #Halloween challenge!
Throughout the month, I'll try to have 13 new horrifying experiences, ranging from new horror movies, spooky books or scary haunted houses!
I'm starting off with "Jack the Ripper" (1959).
1/13
Poster to the 1959 film "Jack the Ripper" depicting a figure with a knife standing over a scantly-clad woman, as well as various scenes from the film.
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Just point out that Super Sentai had a non-binary Ranger not too long ago and that should shut him up.
Rita from Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger sitting in their throne. The captions on screen read “Is sentenced to life imprisonment… for murder.”
September 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Awesome Alien Baltan commission I got from @bozorobo.art
Fan art of Alien Baltan from Ultraman showing the alien firing off a blast of red energy.
September 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Build a trilogy out of 3 unrelated films.

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Gojira (1954)
Poster to Tora! Tora! Tora! depicting Japanese fighter jets flying low over the ocean. Everything is tinted red. Poster to the film Oppenheimer depicting the titular historic figure standing before an atom bomb covered in wires. Flames creep in from the edge of the frame. Poster to Gojira depicting the titular monster breathing his heat ray down onto Tokyo while major characters look on. Jets swarm around Gojira and he crushes one in his claw.
September 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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You know, looking at it, it’s really weird we live in a world where Link got a motorcycle before Samus did.
#Metroid #MetroidPrime4
Link from Legend of Zelda in Mario Kart racing on a Tri-Force themed motorcycle. Samus from Metroid Prime 4 on her motorcycle.
September 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Wrong, but only because Lake Dredge Appraisal is slightly better.
Title screen to The Onion’s Lake Dredge Appraisal series.
August 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as Holy.

I was between these two, so gonna post both.
Promotional shot from Gojira (1954) featuring the titular monster surrounded by artillery cannons and holding a Zero plane. Image from Gojira (1954) featuring the titular monster in silhouette before destroyed/burning electrical towers.
August 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Saw my first @nightvaleradio.bsky.social live show last night! And I definitely picked the right one to start out with, being a big fan of slasher movies. Highly recommended!
Cecil Baldwin performs on stage. Jeffrey Cranor and Cecil Baldwin perform on stage. Symphony Sanders and Cecil Baldwin perform on stage. Cecil is wearing a crow beak mask with feathers around the eyes.
July 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM