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It's probably been that long since I watched it through. I'd forgotten the whole thread with the elder brother/apprentice and how emotionally wrecking it is. So very well done in its disturbing-ness.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 8h

Objectification *for* being conventionally attractive, and objectification as *not* conventionally attractive... are fundamentally both just being viewed as a thing. But we both know this. It makes me want to rant uselessly and why bother; she is blind and vile.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 14h

Today's nap-dream involved attempting to contain a serial killer (unsuccessfully) and I woke up with my heartrate double normal. My brain does not appear to comprehend the idea of *resting* during nap. C'mon, dude. You're missing the whole point here. I don't even like slasher flicks!

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 14h

There are people who should just stop talking and never start again, and she is one of them. So many things wrong with that statement I'm just *system error*.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 14h

Absolutely creepy. The kid's parents falling down and getting up again (with the flower on the dad's nose!). Internet Archive's got the whole thing--I may have to watch it again. I'd forgotten how disturbing Kuruku's voice is.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 14h

I haz a Rhell! Been meaning to pick it up for a while. Check out the most excellent sale if you like inventive-solution puzzles.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 15h

My ballet knowledge *does* in fact begin and end with Nutcracker (and barely that), but some of the performances in this thread now have my attention. Giselle and Dracula especially.

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“E.C. Horror” Myers @ecmyers.com · 22h

"It’s magical; I walk into a bare room, and when I walk out, I’m somewhere else that looks pretty much the same. Except for that one world, with the pteranodons . . ." Multiverse matchmaking—what could possibly go wrong? Find out in my story "Carbon Dating," fresh at @morningtransport.bsky.social!

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 02/10/2026

“My husband is home again." This House of Hopes, This House of Bones by Cynthia Zhang Narrator: Kitty Sarkozy Host: Scott Campbell Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2026/10/02/p... This story is a PseudoPod original. C/W: domestic violence, murder

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PseudoPod 1050: This House of Hopes, This House of Bones

My husband is home again. I cannot hear him well, not with the ringing in my ears and the throbbing headache making every movement agony, but the ghosts keep me informed. There he is…

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

I really need to get some work done but I keep one-more-chaptering Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning. I usually wait until I finish a book to say something about it, but this is fantastic.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

Lord Kuruku is *still* terrifying. Too much reality in his metaphor.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Congratulations to Rati Mehrotra! “The Teleporting Disaster Fairy” is a 2026 WSFA Small Press Award Finalist! You can read it here! buff.ly/J2pHgC3

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick. One moment she was brushing her teeth in front of the bathroom mirror in her apartment in Toronto, wishing she had the money to go on vacation, and the next moment she was thrown upward,

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My newest story "Duet of Tears and Laughter" is out now at @translunartl.bsky.social! This story of two villages separated by a mirror-clear lake is full of soft feelings. It's about connection and hope and showing up in hard times. I hope you love it: translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/08/15/d...

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Duet of Tears and Laughter by Jo Miles

There exist places where the walls between worlds grow thin. Places like this one, where two villages press together like lips on opposite sides of a glass: Renna-tal and Renna-ba, both perched on …

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For fans of "found media" tales, this story is GREAT! I love how it unfolds! 🦾 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum" by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum

I am not here to talk about how i got my arm, i am looking for hel p trying to fix it . Apologies for typos the f fingers lag a lot

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

The rat-dog things in Willow. I promptly had a nightmare about being chased by them that I have never forgotten. Honorable mentions: Critters, Killer Klowns, and Lord Kuruku (Unico in the Island of Magic).

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

I've been exclusively using Libre for a decade now, and it makes a perfectly good drop-in replacement for MS Office. This lovely decision is just a cherry on that sundae.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

Hmmmm. I have a butternut. I think I also now have a plan.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

I didn't remember him at the time, but him remembering *me* has mattered to me. I don't think of myself as memorable at all.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

This is adorable. Also reminds me of the one random time I was going through an airport after a visit home and the TSA guy stopped me and said hey, I remember you, we went to (my elementary school), you were a couple years ahead of me. You never know who might remember you, decades later.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

Apparently I am entirely out of the gloop on this one! I'll have to educate myself.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

Nap-dreams are a whole Thing, goddamn. One with my dead mother (very much alive in the dream) having a whole meltdown rant at my long-suffering father. One that was for damn sure some eggshell-chipping. I just wanted a nap, brain. I just wanted a nice restful nap.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

I'm going to start looking for better choices. Their prices beat what I can get at Kroger, but I *have* a Costco membership even if it's a Long Dang Drive, so that's a maybe. Something super local would be lovely, though, hm.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 05/10/2026

I'm not sure quite what I just read and how much of it was intended and how much is just my brain is melted because of just having woken from a nap with Wow Those Were Dreams but it was certainly an interesting reading experience. Splort.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

At least somebody's happy!

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

Yeah, their packaging has gotten more and more "throw everything in the box and maybe it'll arrive mostly intact." I'd rather have slower delivery and fewer maggots, guys.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

And with strange aeons even death may die. I'll... have to think about that.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

Second time in a row this has happened. Last time it was subtle and there were So Many Maggots before I noticed. I guess "even worse this time" is actually better? Souring pretty hard on Chewy at this point. And really not in the mood to wade through their AI helpchat.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is Huckleberry, an animal ambassador at the Nashville Zoo. Huckleberry is a Javan ferret-badger (Melogale orientalis) & I think he is amazing, but you need to meet the rest of the ferret-badger crew (babies incoming 😃). Let's learn about ferret-badgers!

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

"Alt text is contextual" means if I post a photo of my dog with a toy on a thread or forum about digital photo editing, my alt text is going to very briefly skim over the details of my dog and the toy and I'm going to describe other qualities of the image, like background blur, sharpness, tint, etc.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

Followed by some mild updating of the Latin note, and boy do I need to refresh my Latin. My four college semesters of reading-only Latin were way, way too long ago.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 04/10/2026

Random facts added to my notes vault today (French, which is sadly lacking so far): "WTF is 'jour' coming from? That's nothing like any word for 'day' I know in Romance lang--" Etymology: Latin 'diurnum.' Ah-HAH. It's just a jour- vs. diur- thing. Bonus fact: Journal is the same root!

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 03/10/2026

Stress levels never really drop these days, but at least I have cats. This one is *utterly obsessed* with being brushed right now, and cat, I really need to work. I know you're using the Brush button constantly because I keep saying no to Kibble and Treat, but-- --that *face*. #Caturday

A black and white cat making a squinty-eyed, slightly jaw-dropped, bristle-whiskered face of bliss while having the top of her head brushed with a cylindrical-type brush.

Same mostly-white-faced cat with eyes completely closed and face forward, little teefies visible in the little gape between a smudged black chin and a pure black nose pad, head tipped up into the path of the brush.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hate that AI has removed curiosity and rabbit holes for people. No don't ask that damn bot, instead spend four hours reading everything you can on a weird topic and getting lost in tangents like nature intends!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 01/10/2026

This guy is DESPERATLY cute. (And yeah, fierce...)

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 01/10/2026

And there's IronFox if you want to be particularly paranoid.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 01/10/2026

My absolute favorite part about being a dev! Makes me giggle every time. Oh, you set overflow: hidden? Haaaah.

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I'd let it get away from me. Very satisfying!

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 01/10/2026

Dishes done! All of them! Which considering this morning they were a giant demoralizing mountain of Everything Needs Washing, and I extra-hate doing dishes, is... nice. Thanks for providing a bit of extra crowtivation. ;)

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Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com · 30/09/2026

Reminded a dragon, too. Ahhhh, squeaky clean. Now to see if I can get some of these bleeping dishes done.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic