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

Dreams in the Witch House is not considered Lovecraft's best (including the racist characterizations), but to my lucid-dreamy self it is an interesting description of (somewhat) relatable experiences.

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

I was originally enticed by the early scenes, but as the plot progressed, I realized that it was going to turn into another "save a loved one from the netherworld while the witch hunts you" story. (That said, I did enjoy the bit where Brown Jenkin is let loose into the world)

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

Gone are the non-Euclidian dimensions, the gradual unraveling of the dreams and the witch house itself. Most of all, gone are the realms of the unfamiliar, the perspectives brought forth by Gilman's slow recognition of the unfolding other world.

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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 · 04/05/2025

It's one of my favorite pieces of modern horror/fantasy fiction. Leaves a taste in the mouth that doesn't go away for quite a bit.

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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 @unrealfred.bsky.social · 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

Reciting this was a pleasure. I gleaned much from it that I had missed earlier, as is always the case with re-reads. It contains frighteningly beautiful metaphors for existence. Happy birthday Mr. Barron. Hope I get to read more of your works in the years to come.

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

"They prayed because to slight Shiva in their supplication was to risk his not inconsiderable fury. Yet, the priests knew if Shiva opened his eye and gazed upon the world it would be destroyed."

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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

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

I have also discovered that there is a movie, I shall be watching it for sure.

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

I forgot to mention, I found it interesting that none of the characters are fully described. I know the basic features of Constance, but barely any of Merricat and Charles. It makes for a very theatre of the mind experience. I love it.

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

I also like that there was no particular flashback into the past like "oh look at what dad did so I'll kill him". It's a very present piece of writing, similar to how experiences link us to the past. Not episodic thoughts but more a mix of the present with sensations and feelings from the past.

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

I think this is what I like about Shirley Jackson, she's somehow able to make disruption familiar and real, yet frame it from a character's perspective. Makes me feel kinda like an empath.

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

As much as I feel that the book is about isolation and a kind of senselessness of hatred and violence, I feel it's also about mental illness and living in conservative/orthodox families with mental illness. Merricat/Mary Katherine's character feels familiar yet alien in so many ways.

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

I probably read it as a teen once on some online website (vk or some piracy website) in the early days of the internet, I have vague memories of it. But I probably did not get past the first few pages. I finished it in two sittings this time and it broke me somehow.

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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 see this has become my twitter now

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

I hate the foreboding sense, the dread that I feel thinking if a simple low fever is something more, that even a GP visit is not sufficient to put my mind at ease about it.

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

Not to mention the constant worry if current illness is related to forever illness/condition.

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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

It was so simple, short, yet left me feeling so much.

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

It deals with aspects of gender so well, without providing a direct commentary on it. There's so much to say, the female character's overbearingness, the gender roles being played on, the figure that enters their lives, the sudden change in atmosphere, and most of all, the end.

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

Out of everything I've read, what left me most unsettled was 'Like Mother Used To Make'. It made me cry silent tears by the end. I was distraught, for the protagonist, the house, and at the feelings it evoked inside of me.

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

I read all the famous ones - Summer People, The Lottery, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Witch etc. Currently reading The Haunting of the Hill House.

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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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