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📚 I'm that friend with books. and survival supplies. she/her 🎙️ host SPOOKY & STRANGE podcast 💀 co-ghost AUTOPSY OF A HORROR MOVIE

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Joined June 2019
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I read weird fiction and talk about it! Horror, scifi, fantasy, speculative, short stories, poems, novels I try to find the sweet spot of: - interesting & diverse authors - available free online/at libraries - weird, thoughtful, strange
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It's cool watching what amounts to our generation's public squares constantly being ruined and our connections severed
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Like fictional horror is great and all but we've watched real life communities DIE
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Anyway, another entry in "why are Millenials like this" 🌟
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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On Juneteenth, we commemorate the anniversary of the delayed but welcome news of freedom reaching the enslaved Black folks in Galveston, Texas. It’s a reminder that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope — and a reason to keep building a country that lives up to its highest ideals.
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Hellllooooo, spooky friends! I chatted with @HaileyPiperSays about all kinds of horror, from Victor LaValle, to spooky coastlines, and even reality sinkholes Listen now: pod.link/1469388636
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📣📣 Strange Horizons fund-drive update! 📣📣 After making our base goal, we've hit our first stretch goal, WHICH MEANS that in 2024, we will bring you a special issue on Japanese SFF, edited by the incomparable @rikka_zine! Thank you for making it so. kickstarter.com/projects/str…
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Hellllooooo, spooky friends! I chatted with @HaileyPiperSays about all kinds of horror, from Victor LaValle, to spooky coastlines, and even reality sinkholes Listen now: pod.link/1469388636
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Warning, this video might enrage you, because the book bans and creeping christofascism around the US is deeply troubling and Rachel highlights a lot here youtu.be/W-idESkqAuo
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Please RT! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be opening to Novella (17,500 to 40,000 words) submissions from May 1 to May 15! We will also be reopening to short story submissions (750-10,000 words) from May 1 to May 7! WE WANT TO READ YOUR GORGEOUS WORDS! uncannymagazine.com/submissi…
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Yeah.. I don't want to be a part of any "what genitals were you born with?" book clubs, thank you Like.. that's never come up in any of my previous book clubs. At all
When we were trying to understand what anti-trans women in our shop were going on about, BOOK GROUPS CAME UP SEVERAL TIMES. Women were afraid of having trans women show up to their book clubs. But as far as we know men can come to book clubs focused on women writers...so?!?
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Tomorrow I’ll be doing an AMA on @Reddit at 12pm ET on r/Horror. Come talk Lone Women, writing, comics, or you can ask me why I have a skull on the bookshelf behind me. Should be fun. @OneWorldLit
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Seen this take a few times 🏁 "It's not the authors opinion, they're just writing what the character thinks" OK, but the *author* decides how much of that characters POV is represented, and how others respond in story
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It's weird that some authors try to hide behind "I'm just reporting what the character said" When they are the ones crafting each sentence in support of larger themes and meaning
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These are certainly not unique thoughts, I probably read someone else say it and it's just finally clicked together in a matrix moment.. So let me know who I owe reference to
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"Let's lock these writers up" 😆 youtu.be/1oTqm3ih7t8
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It's my great pleasure to announce the SIXTH annual World SF bundle for @storybundle! storybundle.com/scifi titles by @silviamg @aliettedb @MSeabraCoelho @anyasy @EugenBacon @TheNirYaniv @Francesco_Verso @Shingaibelike @premeesaurus & supporting @englishpen! RTs appreciated!
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If you, like me, process this kind of stuff through fiction, THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean did a really good job building a fictional world around a story of escaping fundamentalism
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And by "this stuff" I mean stories of ex Mormons, ex Fundies, etc, the real life horror stories I've been lurking in these YouTube spaces for a few months, just listening
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