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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Very late to this, I just watched Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Dreams in the Witch House. I loved Rupert Grint but hated the version they've put forth as a whole. It's one of my favorite stories by Lovecraft, along with Erich Zann, ATMM, Hypnos etc. GDT sorta botched the whole thing.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Coffee Grinder Love was exquisite! A bad cup of chai over a bad cup of coffee anyday xD

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It's Dalit History Month and to start off, here's a poem about Begumpura, translated from Sant Ravidas's poem originally in gurmukhi script. (Unsure if this is the exact translation, it's the more popular one that I know of at least)

Begumpura

by Sant (saint) Ravidas

The regal realm with the borrowers name: they call it Begumpura, a place with no pain,

No taxes or cares, none owns property there, no wrongdoing, worry, terror or torture.

Oh my brother, I've come to take it as my own, my distant home where everything is right.

That imperial kingdom is rich and secure, where none are third or second - all are one;
They do this or that, they walk where they wish, they stroll through fabled palaces unchallenged.

Oh, says Ravidas, a tanner set free,
Those who walk beside me are my friends.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

And you wonder why your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself with you.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One elbow injury into a week of sickness to a week of deliberation and pulling myself back up, here we are with a totally unforeseen shoulder injury again. This year just keeps on giving...

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Similarly, Dr. Ambedkar Chair professorships, grants, scholarship positions should be for DBA folx. Columbia Law School famously has a visiting faculty position under his name and I have not heard of a single DBA professor having being awarded the position. (I'd love to know if someone has though)

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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

unpopular opinion: it's weird for an award named after Octavia E. Butler to not be specifically for Black women.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

New interconnected (vampire?) stories by @mimimondal.bsky.social!! I can't wait to read 😁

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Weirdpunk Books @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Happy pub day to Charlene Elsby and the absolute monster that is The Organization is Here to Support You. This bureaucratic horror satire novella will scratch the itch if you're into Kafka, Ballard, Murata, and/or stuff like Severance. Upsetting and brilliant shit. Grab one www.weirdpunkbooks.com

A photo of 5 copies of Charlene Elsby's The Organization is Here to Support You.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Oh well, it was the ides of march after all. No wonder I was sick.

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james folta @jamesfolta.com · 15/03/2025

Controversial Firebrand Politician Gaius Julius Caesar Dead After Senator-Involved Stabbing

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Illness (hopefully) has taken it's course. It's the weakest I've become in the past 3 years. Barely able to eat, consequently barely able to move. I hope to become well enough in the next few days to get back to life as usual. I miss being mobile and working out.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I don't like what I've written, perhaps I've read it too many times, perhaps it is inherently trash. I really liked it when I was done with it, then with edits and first reads it ended up becoming boring to read.

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Fred Coppersmith @handle.invalid · 15/03/2025

I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend! I'm reading Laird Barron's 'Procession of the Black Sloth', Beckett's 'Imagination Dead Imagine' and @premeemohamed.com 's 'Four Hours of a Revolution'.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It is @lairdbarron.bsky.social 's birthday today, as I got to know from my feed. It is also the day that my first cosmic horror story received a hold notice, it's the first ever personal response I've received. To celebrate both occasions, I shall recite to people around me 'Shiva, Open Your Eye'.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I have started to dislike watching shows. Watching something is synonymous for me with eating food for most OTT content consumption takes place at lunch/dinner. However, I cannot stop watching Severance. It's devastating, visceral, emotionally breaking, but SO immersive.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A witch doctor tries to tame an invisible spirit. A murder victim speaks from beyond the grave through a haunted melon. Three zombie-slayer women drive a gold Ambassador w/ lethal mods à la Fury Road through post-apocalyptic Chennai. All this & more in ANTI-CASTE SF www.blaft.com/collections/...

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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

New! Click here for the eBook To order in the USA: Powell's Books An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the dias...

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I revisited Shirley Jackson's 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle' and it breaks my heart to read it now, when I can understand it. The feelings of desolation and misery that she can evoke are unparalleled I feel. It's not even fear, rather a profound sense of sadness and loss that comes forth.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This was a beautifully written book that haunted me for several days after I finished reading

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is an astonishing story. These are the true heirs of the legal brilliance and enduring justice of Ambedkar. Wow.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The worst thing about shit like this is that they're counting on having lowered standards and blitzed attention spans so thoroughly with content-hose programming that this garbage becomes acceptable and beyond the notice of most 'consumers'. I hope people don't let that happen. & fly the 🏴‍☠️.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I hate people who compare being sick WITH a continuing, added, chronic illness to someone having the flu taking a 'break' from work. Like, no my frenemy I cannot be happy and watch X show cuz I'm barely able to sleep and shut out the pain WITH meds.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Chronic illness is horrible. It makes normal life horrifying. Yet, my fever dreams have somehow managed to trump the general fear I experience. I feel like I'm the man from 'Dreams in the Witch House', (with a normal cat instead of a human faced rat).

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Of all the weird/spec. fiction authors I found much too late in life (Lovecraft, Butler, Douglas Adams), I lament not discovering Shirley Jackson earlier. @chmmagazine.bsky.social is doing a tribute edn. and I was curious to know why-hence spent the last week with her stories. It was an experience.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What are the 'horror classics'? Having chatted about this briefly yesterday I've been pondering what might constitute the outline of a 'canon' – essential novels and stories that help us appreciate and understand the genre. So, here's a first take, after a couple of disclaimers. 👇

Like, zoinks! A creepy old bookstore with lots of creepy old books.

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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF GUJARATI PULP FICTION and THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF are both out! Blaft's mailing room is a little backed up rn, in the meantime you can order from Champaca! champaca.in/products/the... champaca.in/products/the...

The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction front cover. Shows a garba dancing scuba diver taming a Jalrakshas (sea monster).

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF front cover. Ambedkar mech head by Priyanka Paul.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I think most of my favorite books that I read as a preteen, and a lot of books I read as a teen, are unreadable for me as an adult. That seems like an important lesson.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Winter is my favorite season as it's spooky and inspires good writing. It also wreaks havoc on my neurocrazy musculoskeletal condition. This makes me think about life the universe and everything else. Then I write more with twitchy cold skeleton hands.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? Hmm, I think I'll be okay 🥹

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Some authors of longform Weird and weird horror: Eric LaRocca Daniel Kraus Carson Winter Monika Kim Jennifer Thorne CJ Leede Delilah Dawson Clay McLeod Chapman Mae Murray Sofia Ajram Hailey Piper Shortform: Joe Koch Ria Hill Sasha Brown Zines: Skull&Laurel Weird Horror Cosmic Horror Monthly

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Ugh there's so many! MR James was my introduction to horror, mum bought the book after an hour of begging her. I think I will be Number 13, for I too am annoyed at neighbours dancing their demonic dances, investigate, then stay huddled in a friend's room to pass off the scare I received.

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This was the first year I submitted stories to magazines, one was rejected and the other is still under consideration. I really liked the first one. Motivated to redo it and submit, deals with death and the afterlife and upper caste eyes.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Our sister imprint Violet Lichen is open for queries! Send in your weirdest, most wonderful speculative fiction before the mid-winter window closes on January 10th! 🔮🕯🕸🌙📚 Submission guidelines and details can be found in Marissa's blog post linked below, or here: violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Launch events for THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF: Dec 21: Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore Jan 5: Community Library Project, Delhi Jan 29: The Common Press, London Link to buy if you're in a different city or can't make it: www.blaft.com/collections/...

Champaca Bookstore event for The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF 5th January 2025. 5 to 6:30, the Community Library Project, South Extension, Kotla, Mubarakpur

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF Jan 29 7 pm The Common Press, London

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Kanishka @ddworfe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Eagerly awaiting my copy of the book! To me this is one of a kind as aside from @mimimondal.bsky.social I've not come across many dalit futurist/anti caste lit in SF/Horror. The younger me would be immensely happy to find identifications I'd been searching for in SF for so long 🥹

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 14/11/2024

Hello new folks! I see a lot of "Hey, is there a starter pack to help me find [interest/group/my people]?!" Here's a big #directory of #StarterPacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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