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raBOOdya 👻 🦇 🎃 @rabidya.art · 01/10/2026

drawing spooky guys this month message me if you want one. $15, digital delivery. all proceeds will go to Frank's (americas favorite dog) recent emergency vet visit. www.patreon.com/rabidya/post...

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 23h

had someone i had never met (or encountered, at all) say they remembered me from livejournal and i have no idea how to actually feel about that.

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Garrett Young ✸ doctop @doctop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i’m about to do an artists residency on a very limited budget and i just found out it’s gonna cost $200 to check my bags 😬 if you’re feeling generous anything helps. vemmo - doctopmaru papal - doctopmaru@gmail cshapp - doctopmaru thank you.

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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 05/10/2026

I am hereby bogposting as far as that's possible, short of posting from nearby or within an actual peat bog. Anyway, please enjoy my extended take on what peat bog and bog body stories tend to have in common beyond really tremendous motifs.

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From the bog, an exhumation: Towards a paradigm for bog-centric speculative fiction

Understanding common themes and motifs in fiction about peat bogs, bog bodies, and the secrets exhumed from them.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

so far, i've read two stories by pamela durgin (whose first novel, 'desert radio,' is just out from word horde) and i sm so deeply excited to read more from her a powerhouse combination of aickmanesque irrealism and the rot that sits under the very idea of 'california.' real good stuff.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

also! i finally watched 'the substance,' all the way through, and it really does feel like being screamed at foe two hours and twenty minutes, as if everyone behind it were deathly allergic to subtlety.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

reminder: my opposition to capital punishment begins with the notion that we cannot allow the state to have power over whether or not we live and die.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

watched 'buffet infinity' and almost loved it (it's unfortunate that, while leaning into the avant garde, it didn't trust its audience enough to full commit to the bit.)

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in a discussion about poetry in translation, the other day, one of my fellow honkies decided to exclaim that my focus on work in translation was 'imperialist' and 'colonizing' and then said fellow white person tried to engage in THE DISCOURSE and, let me tell you, it was exhausting.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

sometimes i wonder what it's like to forget, to not feel so laden with memory that it feels like a physical weight, a millstone 'round the throat.

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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reposting because I really truly unironically love this, and I hope you all remember that it’s ok to accept help ♥️

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.

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kitty @kittyred.net · 29/09/2026

If you like power cat check out my cool link rubymayvalentine.net/money

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My 15th Bugs Bunny piece is up. There's some great stuff in this short revolving around Bugs using hypnosis to turn Elmer Fudd into a doppelganger of himself, breaking the fabric of accepted Bugs Bunny cartoon reality. A pretty good early Freleng/Maltese Bugs short.

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The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)

Premiering in cinemas on October 31st, The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) isn’t soaked in Universal Monster or German Expressionist gothic imagery like future Bugs Bunny scare-fests Hair-Raising Har…

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Uncharismatic Megafauna @liminalitea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This whole thread really articulates why I find a lot of current horror (and genre fic in general) so offputting.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(.:.SOFT TEETH 4.:.) should be ready for print by the end of this week. 40 pages of poetry, art, dreams, curses, and slivers of memoir. 1/4 sized. $10, north america. $14, elsewhere.

stars and skull rubber stamps over illegible text.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was a fascinating issue to put together. Waste is so ever-present in capitalist society that we rarely stop to think about what it actually is, or what it could be instead.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

to be clear, i fucking love vegetables.

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 15/09/2026

If we're going to do Latine Heritage Month, we're gonna make it books, baby. Going to share some of my faves and some from writers you should be reading.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it's weird that more people don't really talk about bow much of ligotti's work is about how american capitalism really fucking sucks.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nobody talks, everybody walks.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we shall break the legs of pan, and take our knives to his hooves, slicing them to silver slivers, our mouths fill with the joy of his leaving.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ligotti's 'the town manager' really captures the utter emptiness of our current ownership class, just grift upon grift with absolutely nothing behind the shell game, where even the grifters have no idea what they're doing. at all. everything is all cash grabs and futility, moloch and mammon.

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For PEOPLE, I wrote about haunted houses written by Latine authors. Includes novels by Leopoldo Goût, Isabela Livino, Juan Martinez, Vincent Tirado, Samanta Schweblin and more! 🖤 10 Haunted House Books by Latine Authors, Just in Time for Spooky Season (Exclusive) people.com/10-haunted-h...

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10 Haunted House Books by Latine Authors, Just in Time for Spooky Season (Exclusive)

‘Something Followed Us Home’ editor and author Cynthia Pelayo recommends 10 books by Latine authors that explore homes and other places where we may sleep as places of fear and dread

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the thing of it is, is that transphobes are the world's biggest cowards and will never create anything of value.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

reread ligotti's 'purity,' for the first time in ages, and it still nauseates me. . everything feels so stickystuck in time, like we're all simply waiting for the axe to fall against our necks. . i've been more quiet, lately, than usual, and it's not for reasons of peace. . it's all just so heavy.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interview with The Beat! Thanks to my pal @danmorris.bsky.social for giving me the chance to go on about my new book about A N X I E T Y and comics

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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

starshipsofa.com/starshipsofa... My short story “Hydraulic” was first published in Spicy Slipstream Stories (ed. late Jay Lake and @nmamatas.bsky.social ) It was published in 2008 and I think it aged reasonably well! Give it a listen.

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StarShipSofa 787 Kit Sedia — StarShipSofa

Kit (formerly Ekaterina) Sedia is a critically acclaimed writer of speculative fiction and noir, and a World Fantasy Award winning editor. He is the author of s…

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a note on THINKING HORROR 3 and why it's not had any forward motion: 1) i have a debilitating anxiety disorder and being disabled in the US means spending a good part of every day just struggling to remain aboveground. 2) both of my parents have cancer (and my father is, to put as fine a point...

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

also! i just remembered how, after i first discovered ned's atomic dustbin, i called myself a grebo for, like, three weeks (to be fair, i was very young and did not yet know the world beyond the river.)

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i am a lifelong insomniac but i also greatly enjoy the late night, when it's all quiet but for the chorus of the life, outside, and the cat sleeps so deeply. this is a recursive consternation, i suppose, but i least i can enjoy the time i'm not sleeping (even if i inevitably feel awful in the morn.)

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote about Backrooms and Walter Benjamin (also Freud, liminality, memory, and capitalism) www.darkertimes.com/walter-benja...

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

Or, why I stopped worrying and learned to love Walter Benjamin in the Backrooms.

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