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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 1m

there's a hole! at the bottom of the lake! there the halloween costumes come from!

christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

shout out to my roommate for going to europe for two weeks right when I have the motivation to turn our entire common room into a temporary craft room

three cardboard squares painted metallic gray arranged to look like vent slats

a head-sized paper mached box with the front cut out for a face

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

there's a hole at the bottom of the lake where the halloween costumes come from

the very beginnings of a cardboard and painters tape mask that will eventually be the Little Death vent mask from Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

been doing some film photography lately and having a really nice time with it

a photograph of light pink roses against a brick wall with a black framed window

a photograph of a boat on a lake in the distance with lilac bushes in the foreground

a photograph of a young man in a red shirt sitting in a fallen tree trunk at the edge of a rocky lake beach

a photograph of a stone cairn with boats on a lake in the far background

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

great time to rec some of my favorite reads of the past ~6 months

book cover of The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

book cover of Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

book cover of Radiant Star by Ann Leckie

book cover of This River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

adding to this the latest new dish, a yuzu miso asparagus tart

a puff pastry tart with asparagus and feta on it

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

on my "beautiful seasonal produce dinners" game lately

two bowls of brightly colored food, each with a bright pink pile of beets with scallions on top, a pile of oyster mushrooms, and some bread

two plates of food: toast with ricotta and seared radish, spring vegetable risotto, and a strawberry/cucumber/corn/chickpea salad

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

as a fun behind the scenes tidbit, this is the tumblr post that inspired the entire character for me

a screenshot of a tumblr post by despair-the-zero that says "we need less insane rat men in fiction. if you have an insane rat man character do everyone a favor and make him into a woman. we need more insane rat women. just real greasy nasty freaks"

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

back on my "gender crisis" bullshit

“gender crisis” enacts an encounter with gender that is characterized by several key traits: (1) it is playful; (2) it is repeatable, rather than final; and (3) its temporality is marked not by steady linear progression, but by a state of stasis followed by the sudden and unexpected rupture of falling blocks. Like “Teen Witch,” it frames the encounter as a constant process of re-discovery and self-analysis. But unlike “Teen Witch,” the encounter is prompted not only by internal self-exploration and embodied action, but also by compounding forces in the external world: gravity, the movement of others through the space, the slant or slope of a table or floor, the gentle shaking of nearby footsteps. The moment of “becoming” is not just about how one feels, but how the world, sometimes completely unwelcome, moves us.

It represents any gendered understanding of the self as existing within a constant state of precarity, resolved only by the willingness to confront its instability over and over again. It figures transness as a form of falling, a cascading of blocks, a tumbling that crucially calls to mind not only the constant interplay of interactive forces such as gravity simultaneously supporting and pulling down on the blocks at all times, but also the act of childlike play. The collapse of a tumbling block tower elicits a kind of delighted surprise, a spontaneous laughter, a relief to the build of tension that grows and grows as pieces are removed and the tower grows taller and less steady. The collapse of a tumbling block tower elicits a desire to rebuild it and start again.

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

this might be one of my best halloween costumes yet

Christine dressed as No Face from Spirited Halloween, wearing a black hooded dress, a white mask with an open mouth and purple markings, and black gloves, offering several strings of gold beads towards the camera

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

getting these @pamwishbow.bsky.social houses in the mail has been the absolute highlight of my week

a row of wood-block houses painted to look like haunted houses, shops, and graveyards

a red-orange wood-block painted to look like a ghost tour shop and a yellow wood-block house

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

couldn't figure out a better way to upload this but please enjoy

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

last step before I distribute my dissertation tomorrow: finally heeding my advisor's advice to "learn the difference between 'that' and 'which'"

a screenshot of a Google Docs find+replace window for the word "which" at 7 our of 526 results

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

it's about a girl in a shipwreck, a victorian medical student, and a seaside town where the tide never comes in! it's about grief and awe and the vast strangeness of the world and the ways our bodies betray us! it's full of public domain art that I took an x-acto knife to! what more can you ask for?

a scan of a black and white zine page — half of the page is covered in a ripped image of an oil painting of a shipwreck. the other half says "ebb tide." the bottom is labeled "issue #1, by christine prevas"

a scan of a black and white zine page featuring a wood engraving of a ship on rocky waters. text at the bottom of the page says "The story I want to tell you begins on a ship."

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

also I did just remember today that I had at one point started making this, and now that I’m re-reading the Sprawl trilogy alongside Shelved by Genre it may be time to revisit this

a ttrpg title page that reads “ICEBREAKER: a Cyberpunk hack of Errant by Christine Prevas” in a cyberpunk-esque font

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

this is the FIRST SCENE OF THE MOVIE

a screenshot of Edith from Crimson Peak, with subtitles that say "A man that feeds off land that others work for him"

a screenshot of Edith from Crimson Peak, with subtitles that say "A parasite with a title"

a screenshot of from Crimson Peak, with subtitles that say "This parasite is perfectly charming, handsome, and a good dancer"

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

it's about BOTH OF THEM, apparently

Then, there is his incestuous relationship with his sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain) and how their love for each other drives them both mad, creating a very toxic relationship that they each share. This relationship transforms into the moral lesson that del Toro wants us to understand from his narrative: that love can make people go mad, and this is embodied closely by the Sharpes. And yet, Thomas changes, thanks to meeting Edith as he attempts to betray his sister, whom he loved, and thus willingly dies in order to save Edith from his sister's wrath.

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

every day I get books about Roman Polanski

a stack of 7 academic books, all but one of them about Roman Polanski

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Roger Ebert's one-star review of The Tenant is *so* funny

Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" was the official French entry at Cannes last May, and in the riot to get into the press screening one man was thrown through a glass door and two more found themselves amid the potted palms. It's a wonder nobody was killed in the rush to get out.

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I made this for Sam but I’m honestly tempted to keep it

Christine in a subway station wearing Wirt’s
cape from Over the Garden Wall

a full length mirror selfie of Christine wearing the cape over gray jeans and a white tshirt

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

this ended up being the scariest costume I’ve ever made, this mask haunts me in my sleep every night, the Uncanny Valley is real and it’s a shitty painted mask of Divine’s face. Happy Halloween!!

just the Divine mask and a pair of clip on dangly diamond earrings

the red dress hanging up a garment rack along with the mask

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

“Could you give us some of your political beliefs?” “Kill everyone now. Condone first degree murder. Advocate cannibalism. Eat shit!”

Christine sitting down in a red body con dress with a huge tulle ruffle at the bottom, wearing a mask painted to look like Divine’s makeup in Pink Flamingos

Christine in the same outfit but instead of wearing the mask they are biting it between their teeth and sneering

Christine with the Divine mask on top of their head, wiping smeared makeup off their own face

Christine sitting and holding the mask partially obscuring their face

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

need to make a friend who is 6'4" so I can be her for Halloween next year

a screenshot of Samantha Sloyan as Bev in Midnight Mass

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

how could I forget last year’s!

Christine wearing a crocheted tank top and glowstick necklaces, with fake blood on their face, dressed as Alice from Bodies Bodies Bodies

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

& a few miscellaneous Halloween looks as well

Christine in a baseball tshirt with stage makeup slashes across their face to look like they’ve been attacked by a werewolf

Christine with vampire fangs and fake blood dripping down their chin

Christine with skull face paint dressed as Harrow from the Locked Tomb series

a selfie of Christine where most of their face cut off in which they are dressed in a ghostbusters costume as Kate McKinnon’s Ghostbusters character

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

going through some of my of halloween costume pictures in preparation for this year

Christine in a wig, glasses, and an orange turtleneck dressed as Velma from Scooby Doo

Christine in a wig, glasses, and a black
and white Hawaiian shirt dressed as Richie Tozier from It, Chapter 1

Christine in a burgundy suede and leather jacket, with colored highlights in their hair and holding an eye dropper of blue
liquid, dressed as the Grave Robber from Repo: the Genetic Opera

Christine in a red wig and black blazer holding up an FBI ID badge, dressed as Dana Scully from The X-Files

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

I’m at the Acropolis Museum again and I have to share the meme I made when I was here five years ago

a meme of the dad from Fairly Odd Parents with text that says “and this is where I’d put the Parthenon Marbles… if I had them”

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

rosy fingered dawn, the wine dark sea, etc etc

the sun beginning to rise over the island of Kea in the distance, take from a ferry

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

I’ve never been to Zagori before but now I never want to leave

a selfie of Christine standing in front of the Volos Gorge

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

oh, you know, just getting a little work done during our downtime

a picture of Christine’s mom sewing at a wooden table on a stone porch, with Christine’s notebook and pen lying on the table

a picture of the view from that porch, of the mountains in Zagori, Greece

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

boy band ass photos of my friends

a disposable camera photo of five people walking down a wooded road away from the camera

a disposable camera photo of four people standing on an elevated deck on a house in the woods, taken from ground level

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Apple TV is so bad at marketing but I need to make sure its new show The Changeling doesn't get buried — based on one of my all time favorite horror books by Victor LaValle, the first three episodes were released today and they're remarkably good

A screenshot of LaKeith Stanfield in Apple TV+'s The Changeling. He is standing in a library looking over a railing.

A screenshot of Clark Backo in Apple TV+'s The Changeling.

A screenshot of Adina Porter in Apple TV+'s The Changeling.

A screenshot of LaKeith Stanfield in Apple TV+'s The Changeling.

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

I wanna see your tattoos! RP with your favorites. My two most recent are the most exciting—one to celebrate the five year anniversary of @unexploredcast.bsky.social and the other inspired by Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House 👻

a thigh tattoo of an ornate old fashioned straight razor with “DeWitt” written in the handle, letters crossed out so that it just says “wit”

a selfie of Christine showing off an upper ark tattoo of a spiral staircase with three oleander blossoms woven through the railing

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

my six year old niece is texting people with autocomplete from my dad’s phone and she definitely just send me a lyric from an unreleased Planet of the Bass verse

a screenshot of a text message that reads “ROBOT IS SO GOOD TO HAVE THE WORLD ON A FLOOR”

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

First off, The Unexplored Places is an actual play podcast about exploring weird worlds and making bold choices, currently in its third season, Ruin's Gate—a weird western about a precarious frontier town at the edge of a demon-infested wasteland. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

The cover art for The Unexplored Places, a red pattern of stars and lines over a parchment-colored background with the title overtop.

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Introduction time! Hi all, I'm Christine (they/them), a horror enthusiast, PhD candidate, writer, and the host/GM of the actual play podcast @unexploredcast.bsky.social I'm terrible at social media, but doing my best! See the following posts for more info on the stuff I do.

A picture of Christine, a white person with long brown hair and a tattoo of a spiral staircase on their upper arm

A picture of Christine, a white person with long brown hair, dressed as a vampire, with fangs and blood dripping down their chin

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