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2020: The Rental Runner-up: Underwater

Poster of the movie The Rental. A dark blue background and the image of a house with lights on, but the image is upside-down and there's a person falling from it, into the blue darkness.

Poster of the movie Underwater. Black background, green-blue light in the liwer center. The figure of a person wearing a submarine suit walking by the surface of the bottom of the ocean. There's big sharp teeth coming from the soil in front of the person.

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2021: Finch Runner-up: Silent Night ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Poster of the movie Finch. A bearded man wearing a very used hazmat suit, a medium-sized dog and a robot are looking towards us from an apocalyptic landscape.

Poster of the movie Silent Night. A very well dressed family is celebrating the end of the year around a table, the room decorated with faity lights. The father is holding a champagne flute in a toast.

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2022: The Menu Runner-up: Attachment ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Poster of the movie The Menu. A couple is sitting at a restaurant table surrounded by the chef who wears a white jacket and a crowd formed by staff and other clients.

Poster of the movie Attachment. Over a green background two young women are sitting in a bed, holding each other. Their legs are intertwined, their hands touching the other's forearms and their heads connected by the foreheads.

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2023: No One Will Save You Runner-up: Strange Darling ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Poster of the movie No One Will Save You. A house in front of a dark forst in the night. There's a blue beam descending upon the house from the sky and a human figure floats inside the beam.

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2024: Alien Romulus Runner-up: The Substance ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Poster of the movie Alien Romulus. An all-red image in which a facehugger is clutched to someone's face.

Poster of the movie The Substance. A naked woman lays over her side on the floor of a completely tiled white bathroom. Her head rests on a folded white towel and his back has a long opening along her column, closed with chirurgical thread.

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No you're not. Not the real deal, neither have scared me, ever. Fascinated, yes, but scared... 😏

Screenshot of said fake Stephen King commenting the same paragraph to various posts:
"Your book seems truly captivating! As a fellow author, I'd love to learn more about it."

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13. 22 years old I visited Switzerland with a friend, we stayed at my uncle's near Geneva. I wanted to see the Matterhorn/Zermatt so we drove 12 hours to Cervinia, a village on the Italian Swiss side. It was night when we arrived so we slept in a hostel. We woke up surrounded by thick clouds, 1/2

Majestic view of the mount Matterhorn, or Zermatt, with a lake reflecting the mountain and sky on the front part of the image.

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This is the people I'm here for.

A screenshot of a Bluesky feed where we can read three consecutive posts:

1. Bluesky is not an echo chamber. It's a place where conversations continue and thrive. Carry on.

2. Don't give up, people.

3. Do not obey in advance. PASS IT ON.

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Improvised air-frier biscuit, gluten & fat free. Delicious!

A homemade biscuit opened in two halves, one of them covered with clementine jam. There's a bowl of soy latte behind the plate with the biscuits.

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11. I'm a child of the woods. My childhood summers consisted on a tent, a pillow made of a backpack full of clothes and a bowie knife. 30 days x 14 years camping old-style in the mountains. No car, no phones—again, the 70s. Rocks & trunks as seats. Only us & the wilderness. I've never been happier.

A little girl about 5 or 6 year old sitting on a stone landmark signalling the border between Spain & France on the Pyrenaic mountains. She's wearing a t-shirt and shorts, hiking boits and a beret, smiling happily to the camera. There's mountains everywhere on the background.

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Post a movie gif from the year you were born

Poster of the movie Belle De Jour directed by Luis Buñuel, where a young Catherine Deneuve wearing only a white bra is laying on a white surface covered in what looks like blood.

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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Autumn sunset between two rows of naked trees. The sky is red and orange and the trees' silhouette is black.

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3. When I was 20 me & my friends spent 2 hours at a police station dressed as buccaneers. It was carnival at 5 am & someone opened our car, stealing stuff from it, so we went to file a report. It was funny, the officers in there had a blast with us—we were still a bit tipsy so we shared some laughs.

Photo if three young women disguised as buccaneers inside a dance club. They're wearing white blouses with ruffled lace sleeves and collars, black vests and black pirate hats.

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I’m down too to share lore. Most of it I've already shared it on 🧵 but you Blueskyers are new to it... 😏 1 like = 1 piece of Rous lore

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For someone who doesn't like—much—musicals and whose primal instinct when watching a romantic scene is to snort audibly and exclaim "yeah, right" with a heavy dose of sarcasm in their voice, I've absurdly enjoyed this delightful movie. Monster, I've been rooting for you since your first line. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Poster of the movie "Your Monster".
Over a white background there's a painted red heart with a splash on one side, symbolizing blood. In front of it a couple is hugging romantically. She's a white young woman with brown shoulder-lenght hair wearing a green jacket. He's a lion-looking humanoid monster with brown mid-back hair and wearing a brown suit jacket and white shirt. They're looking at each other's eyes with love.

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You know you've nailed the vegan vanilla custard recipe when Miss Uptight licks the pot clean 😉

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A.R. Millner @armillner.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The last one, Carol, seems legit on her posts but if you look at her replies... 😬 She's been doing this using several author's names

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Using a gif, spoil an event that happens in one of your books without context.

A person is lying on the floor over a pool of blood, their face stained with blood too, saying "so far, so good"

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A.R. Millner @armillner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Who's ready for another session of Writing With Cats? 🐱 #WritingCommunity #writer #writing #amwriting

Three cats curled asleep over a beige blanket between their human's legs. One is a female tortie, other a white malw with big dark tabby spots on his side and head and other us a male ginger.

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A.R. Millner @armillner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I don't know what that is but it reminds me of this one, named Rockefeller. He was foulmouthed, sardonic and hilarious. 😁

A white old man, a Spanish famous ventriloquist named Jose Luís Moreno, wearing a light blue jacket is holding the puppet of a corvid dressed with a black smoking suit and top hat, white shirt and white shoes. The name of the puppet is Rockefeller.

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A.R. Millner @armillner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

SCAM ALERT!!! #WritingCommunity Aaand here they are! I hadn't get one of these since I'm in Bluesky but I guess vultures are everywhere. These kind of accounts disguise like publishers, promoters, reviewers, etc, offering their services in exchange of money. IT'S A SCAM, BLOCK AND REPORT.

Screenshot of the comment left by Dorothy R. Powell, with handle @dorothy10.bsky.social, to a post from A.R. Millner:

"Hello, I'm reaching out to express interest in your literary work. I'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss your book with you."

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quote with the 4 scariest films you've ever seen 😱

Poster of the movie His House. There's an orange background with clouds, a tree and water on the floors. We can see a couple of color wearing humble clothes sitting at a table, eating. Behind them we see a big portion of the wallpaper is missing and several ghostly faces are hanging from the ceiling.

Poster of the movie Cube.

Over a black background there's a squared passage illuminated with white stripes of light that reflect on the walls of the tunnel as a reddish orange light. There's a bald white man entering the tunnel.

Poster of the movie Us.

A young woman of color wearing a red shirt and a brown leather glove is looking at us with a deranged expression while holding a mask that looks exactly as her face but with a serene expression.

A young white woman is looking intently as us with a big smile, but it isn't a happy smile. Her expression makes her look dangerous and her eyes show malice.

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I love @jbthwaite.bsky.social books. They are original, different from what's usually out there. If you like sci-fi, gaslamp mystery, LGBT characters with intense personalities and alternate worlds, give them a chance! #HorrorWritersChat

Question four

We are all about community and mutual support here, so for World Kindness Day pay another indie author a compliment about their work.

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That it feels very real, multidimensional. The characters are complex and the scenes feel like a movie, they are immersive. #HorrorWritersChat

Question three

World Kindness Day was the 13rd.
What was the kindest thing anyone has ever said about your horror work? A review, anything you like!

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Dave Garrison, the main character of my current WIP, is being a pleasure to write. Despite being a hard-boiled detective with a dark secret and a difficult past, he would rather take the blunt to spare the innocent. He fights to reveal the truth because he cares about fairness. #HorrorWritersChat

Question two

Yesterday was International Men's Day. Tell us about your favorite character who identifies as a man, and how that character demonstrates a positive masculinity.

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