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Butler for cats. Geek. Author of THE MERRY DREDGERS and BEDFELLOW and THE ATROCITIES.
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"OK Boomer" marks the end of friendly generational relations? It wasn't the 10 million articles blaming poor, underpaid millennials for killing every industry?
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Fed up with older people who just don’t get it, Gen Z has a retort to push back against adults: “Ok boomer” nyti.ms/2PuYXcK
We could have shut down the economy for two months and paid people to stay home. Americans didn't slip. We were pushed.
Rogue: When they come out...does it hurt?
Wolverine: Every time.
Also Wolverine:
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Rich people are always writing finance articles that are like, "You know how you can have more money? Stop paying for those little things that give your life a bit of joy while me and my friends continue to pay you a non-living wage."
Colleges with creative writing degrees need more speculative fiction workshops. Horror workshops, sci-fi workshops, fantasy workshops. More colleges need to stop hiring only white writers of literary realism to teach what writing means and how it's done.
You are fantastic. You are a Scholastic Book Fair. You are a capybara wearing a sun hat. You are a torchlit passageway behind a bookshelf. You are the sensation of plunging your hand into a barrel of dried beans. You are a cosmic goddess devouring the moon.
I'd like to write a fantasy book that's 100% cozy. Just people eating cheese in a magic forest and collecting moss for their hats. There would be no conflict. But would anyone enjoy reading such a book? I don't know...
I hate covid preventing me from going places and enjoying things. I miss the old days when it was anxiety that caused all that.
Someone who's never used a door: "Sure, I'll write the headline. No problem."
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The pandemic is like a doorway. Once you pass through, there is no going back econ.st/3DZ5DFK
It's funny, because caring what people think about your backpack is a thousand times more childish than wearing a backpack.
Sci-fi is when you fall into a wormhole. Fantasy is when you fall into a worm hole. Horror is when worms dig holes into you.
Get out of the cities. Move to a farm at the edge of a secluded forest. Raise a goat named Black Phillip. Sign your name in his book and live deliciously. There is more to life than $8 cappuccinos and gloomy 300 sq foot studio apartments.
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Not all masculinity is toxic, but your tweet certainly is.
I want a VR game where you wander around the Shire and eat cheese and nothing bad happens.
My vote is for Tommy Wiseau to host the Oscars next year.
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My grandmother always said not to give a reason why you can't do something because the other person will try to come up with some solution to change your mind. My grandmother always just said, "No, I don't want to do that" without any explanation. She said that works much better.
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Your creations are an accomplishment, and they're something to be proud of. But you are worthy because you are alive.
BEWARE: As Halloween approaches, we are warning parents to LOOK at your child’s candy before they eat it. Authorities confiscated these snacks that look a lot like the real thing. All are congealed salads filled with teeth.
Space horror is horror. Sci-fi horror is horror. Tea cozy horror is horror. Pickled beet root horror is horror. All horror is horror.
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Yeah...I...I definitely knew that about blankets. I'm not someone in their late 30s who never thought about that...
If Trump continues to talk about bloody civil wars and how much he wants his political enemies to be executed, as many as 3 Republican reps might frown slightly in his direction.
Here's my exciting news! I'm thrilled about this.
OK, I joined Mastodon, Hive, Mammoth, Swarm, Toilet Bowl, Void, Eldritch Cucumber, Flibbertigibbet, Tally-ho, Razzmatazz, the Other Void, Giant Brain, Giant Brian, Egg, the Lost City of Atlantis, the Found City of Atlantis, Cookie Jar, Dimension Number 8364883, Eldritch Pickle...
The first rule of Mime Club is: you do not talk about Mime Club.
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I'm more excited about seeing The Room in the theater than Star Wars.
"How many Snokes should we order?"
"100."
"Do you think they'll sell?"
"Yeah, of course!"
What horror movie have you watched the most times? Answer with a gif.
I sculpted a little ghost out of clay. Once he's dried and painted, I'll put an electric tea candle inside him and his eyes will glow.
Ways to help a writer:
-buy their book
-review their book
-draw fan art based on their book
-launch copies of their book into random wormholes
-gift them a cursed pen that periodically grows tentacles
-bribe a trio of sirens to sing about the book to passing sailors
The summoning is almost complete twitter.com/AnimalsWorId/s
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Reading this is making my chest wither
Me trying to draw legs
Cool news! I've sold a short story to Grimdark Magazine.
Pineapples belong on pizzas. And on burgers, and french fries, and hats, and skulls. Dream pineapple nightmares. Drink this potion and let your body burgeon forth with pineapple flesh. Together we can create Pineapple World.
This has a better twist ending than most books or films.
Sci-fi is when things go beep boop borp and fantasy is when things go weeeaaaarrrrrrrr wooooooo.
You are fantastic. You are an unexpected pizza. You are a series finale that doesn't disappoint. You are a fierce goddess in a jagged wood. You are a seed germinating in wildfire. You are a parade of a thousand Pikachus.
Reading horror books, watching horror movies, writing horror novels. Afraid of making phone calls.
Horror can be cathartic. Horror can be subversive. It can help us understand the human experience. It can help us shine a light on beliefs and norms and systems that cause people pain. It can help us find strength. It can expand our consciousness. Horror can be so many things.
Not every story is a morality play. Not every protagonist is a paragon of virtue or heroism. Stories can be cathartic. Stories can be subversive. They can help us understand the human experience. They can shine a light on beliefs and norms and systems that cause people pain.
Thank you to #POTUS for reminding us that true patriotism is about inclusiveness and creating systems that benefit everyone in our country.
You are fantastic. You are a Scholastic Book Fair. You are a capybara wearing a sun hat. You are a torchlit passageway behind a bookshelf. You are the sensation of plunging your hand into a barrel of dried beans. You are a cosmic goddess devouring the moon.
How do you get in?
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London to get 'world's first' infinity pool with 360-degree views cnn.it/2Ir3uI0
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OK, there might be a tiny bit of conflict. They might break a teacup.
I'll never stop thinking about how we could have shut down completely in March and paid people to stay home and we would have all but conquered this plague by the end of April.
I don't know who needs to hear this but as you grow older, there's a portrait of you in an attic somewhere that's slowly transforming into a raccoon in a bonnet. It serves no magical purpose.
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Shapiro seems to love white supremacist policies as long as they're not called white supremacist policies.
Face swaps make me feel joy and horror simultaneously.
Ted Cruz not wearing Nike products only makes the brand more appealing. Does he...does he think he's some sort of fashion influencer?
This is pure, unmitigated evil.
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BREAKING: In light of Biden's victory the Trump admin is fast tracking the Oak Flat Land Exchange in Ariz to deliver the land, & all the sacred cultural sites of the Apache, to mining giant Rio Tinto before the new admin takes office.
Media, DM me for scoop/footage/photos.
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The true meaning of the holiday season is to ride giant bats around at dawn.
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It's as if people with a conscience don't like those who embrace white supremacy and the torture of children
Because he dared to dream, and never stopped believing.
This is such a haunting photo. Whatever you think about Skeletor's record as an overlord of evil, it's impossible not to feel sorry for him as a person.
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My biggest problem with the whole Cruella thing is that rich people who do terrible things don't do so because their parents were killed by dogs. They do terrible things because they care more about themselves and their objects and their properties than the welfare of others.
I'm always happy to see intelligence and compassion going hand-in-hand. #POTUS
I don't want to know how many people viewed my tweet. I want to know how many demons my tweet summoned.
The Hamburger Helper strips off his clothes and gazes out at his hamburger kingdom. At last, he feels free.
Ignoring a powerful Nazi sympathizer and white supremacist like Trump won't end well
Brenda, succeeding in a goal that is morally bankrupt is only a victory for heartlessness.
Your writing pseudonym is your favorite word followed by your least favorite word.
Being fully vaccinated doesn't mean that you won't get covid. The vaccine prevents hospitalization and death. It mitigates the damage the virus can do. With enough of us vaccinated, we'll reach herd immunity and we'll decrease the mutations and variants.
I hate when I bite into a doughnut and find myself with a mouthful of bones.
Today is the perfect day to trade eyes with a chicken.
We're sitting around this big bonfire telling jokes, telling stories, sharing news. Musk says, "This fire must be magical. We should charge people to sit here." It's not the fire that's magical.
If you're a trans/non-binary writer, reply with a link to one of your books or stories here, and let's all help spread the word.
Or, if you're a reader, feel free to post a link to a book you like by a trans/non-binary writer.
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I don't have a SoundCloud, but if you want to help me be a less poor millennial, here's my Shirley Jackson Award nominated gothic novella
I'm going to watch Dune in my garden projected on a worm, the way the gods intended.
You are fantastic. You are a gothic menagerie of poltergeists and cryptids. You are a fantasy film populated by weather-beaten puppets. You are a cosmic horror-themed light show put on by bioluminescent squid. You are a moss-caped goddess riding a capybara through a misty wood.
I for one welcome our furry overlords. twitter.com/TheMikeOG/stat
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You are fantastic. You are a gothic menagerie of poltergeists and cryptids. You are a fantasy film populated by weather-beaten puppets. You are a cosmic horror-themed light show put on by bioluminescent squid. You are a moss-caped goddess riding a capybara through a misty wood.
Here are the ghosts I designed/sculpted. They're finally done.
The doll I found in my attic when we first renovated is more terrifying than Annabelle or any other horror doll.
Ways to help a writer:
-buy their book
-review their book
-construct a diorama based off a scene in their book
-juggle copies of their book at a haunted circus
-feed their book to a cosmic bookworm with a billion teeth
-read their book aloud to a basement of faceless mannequins