Sign in

Chris Tannhauser

@hivegod.bsky.social
394 followers 127 following 601 posts

finger firmly on the pulse of the void author of SCREAMS LIKE MEAT 🤖🍖

PostsRepliesMedia
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today was feeling samey until I remembered this existed
m.youtube.com
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1 11 (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Sigue Sigue Sputnik Official
010
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Jennifer O'Toole @cellsdividing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You're free!
0137
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*Duke Nukeum voice* Come get some.
My setup for the Sinister Book Fair.
2294
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Torrey Pines State Beach
San Diego, California
020
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (do it, it’s like flexing and spitting bullets out of gunshot wounds) Traveller (Classic) Eat the Reich DCC Dying Earth Cyberpunk 2070* *homebrew
031
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We have a sack of severed heads, silent, heavy, unwieldy. When we get the angel’s head—golden-haired and halo-plucked, with an unending snarl—someone throws it in with the rest where its thrashing and seeping resurrects the entire mass into a chorus of wailing. #dreams
000
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 15/09/2026
Talked so another dad at the kids’ climbing today. We got along fine talking about old Swedish roleplaying games and heavy metal. Really clicked. Then he told me he was listening to some kind of audiobook/graphic novel story made entirely by ai, so I kicked him in the dick and everyone applauded.
4812
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Happy Breakaway Day! With special recognition for the episode that put a big dent in my childhood…
Space: 1999 S1 E4 “Dragon’s Domain” — NEVER SLEEPING AGAIN
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is who I’m hiring for my next book cover, no contest.
341
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last four characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
They asked me to come back! So I brought The Black Sun Incident, a choose-your-own-adventure joint with five ways to die, only one of which is okay-ish.
scifihappyhour.podbean.com
Ep.049, Guest Chris Tannhauser – Cult Writer. Cosmicism Without Cthulhu: Updating Lovecraftian Dread for a Post-Disclosure World. Body Horror Renaissance. Writing the Scene: The Black Sun Incident | S...
Episode 049. (02:40) Guest Chris Tannhauser – Cult Writer. (16:50) Cosmicism Without Cthulhu: Updating Lovecraftian Dread for a Post-Disclosure World. (53:58) The New Weird's Body Horror Renaissance. ...
100
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New short story! "The Bride’s Prosthetic"—she just needed a little something extra to feel complete… (Content warning: Misogyny, ableism, narrative whiplash.)
doomthinkequations.blogspot.com
The Doomthink Equations
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the real death of superman
010
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Plan a horrorfest using only your first name. Cabin in the Woods Heredity Ritual (The) In the Mouth of Madness Substance (The)
020
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New pages—lots of ‘em. Full story in the alt text.
I tend to look at my calendar the way a medieval peasant might: there's stuff that happens every season, there's stuff that happens "in a while", and then there's the blazing now. As you might expect, this gives rise to situations—like when spacetime folded over and I realized that someone horrible had given me two deadlines inside the same week! (Reader, you know that horrible someone was me.)

Now-me figured that future-me could handle this—no problem—so he fucked current-me by reading comics and watching movies and sleeping instead of writing his ass off. As the deadlines loomed I fantasized about getting sick or breaking an arm or just not doing it. In the same way the living envy the dead in apocalyptic scenarios, I envied those hollow saps who lean on AI.

Instead, I made my oblations at alien altars and summoned my muse (the sexy librarian one with the sneer) and had her strap me in. I banged out The Bride's Prosthetic and presented it at a literary salon on Saturday to much acclaim. (Said an author with nine published novels: "One word: Eeew.")

Halfway there. Now all I had to do was finish up a choose-your-own-adventure joint for a podcast on Tuesday, where I'd been invited back because the last time I was on was their most downloaded episode, so no pressure. I mean, it's just a bunch of short paragraphs scattered like one of Burroughs' cut-ups, right? But you have to produce the text, then map it all out and make sure it works, which is a recursive process where the map pushes the paragraphs and the paragraphs push the map and and and... Yeah, it's a nightmare hallway.

Again, fantasies of lost limbs and house fires so I wouldn't be a liar when I let them know I couldn't possibly make it.

But I did. We recorded last night. It was a hit.

It turns out past-me was right, goddammit.
110
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
LET’S FUCKING GOOOO PS. Dig that spooky bookmark!
320
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
boardgamegeek.com
Karmic Debt | HiveGod's Yell Matrix
010
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reading Jack Kirby’s Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! (1972), and as a parent I’m shocked at the number of times he’s been knocked out cold—four times so far, and we’re only in issue #7. He really needs to sit out the next six months or so of the post-apocalypse.
Kamandi, the titular child, taking yet another shot straight to the dream bean.
130
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ran my 136th session of this last night—the fourth in our current campaign, where the game became self-aware (the point where the players take the reins and actively drive the thing). Which AI will they aid—the evil one or the awful one? What about the 10,000 miners caught in the middle?
This 1977 copy belonged to my friend Glen who kept it at my house during the Satanic Panic when such things were being burned in the church parking lot. Can confirm it’s got the Devil in it.
110
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Violence is the race for the eye.
010
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I may or may not know some scrappy kids who painted BUCKAROO BANZAI in that exact location after sweating bullets talking to cops while pretending to be out of gas with backpacks full of spray cans… Also, one of them may or may not have been nicknamed “Perfect Dave” due to his bleach-blond hair.
120
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
love love love this stuff
110
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is Spider-Man Annual #14 from 1980, a comic book that had an outsized impact on my childhood, with a whole mess of elements that still resonate within me to this day...
Three great tastes that taste great together!
110
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Had an absolute blast running this! (Gory details in the alt text.)
“I dance up the building façade as the Waffen-SS troops piling out of the back of the truck fire wildly with their MP 40s, pocking the brick in a zigzag trail just behind me as I reach the roof and backflip behind the fountain in the center of the square—only to burst from around it with a feral scream and seize two of the Nazis by the throats, taking them off their feet and dropping to one knee to slap their heads against the ground so hard their helmets ricochet off the cobbles like flying gore gongs—following through, I scoot forward on my butt and kick the leather-trenchcoated SS officer square in the chest with both feet, sending him out of frame through a third story window; then I kip up, snatch the tarp from the back of the truck and matador it over the wire across the alleyway, giving the rest of the team momentary concealment from the advancing Tiger tank!”Also: If yer gonna drink blood, then for fuck's sake grab a Nazi by the ankle, karate chop his leg off at the knee and absolutely house the stump in your mouth as you juice box him—don't just "suck a neck", again.

The good news is that the players had to lick Hitler off the walls and ceiling at the end, so mission accomplished!
110
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Last play was a year ago—I need to get this back to the table soonish…
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Great thread—her punchline is why I write.
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
all I want out of a board game is for one wizard to be able to take a dump on another wizard’s porch and ding dong ditch
130
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Mitch McConnell briefing his staff
Cadaver Synod, Pope Formosa and Stephen VI, 1870 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens
010
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Speed 36 (2340)
3927
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
ATTENTION:
telephone pole / town cryer 
Arcata, CA
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
WHO WANTS TO LARP A CAVE PAINTING
141
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Details in the alt text #Dreams
I’m at a convention for has-been superheroes or retired professional wrestlers—it’s not clear which, and could go either way, with flamboyant costumes straining against herniated paunches, and faces that have seen the hard end of too many punches, drugs, motel rooms and rented love.
 
For some reason I’m responsible for two small children who are currently being looked after by other con guests while I luxuriate in the swimming pool.  Suddenly, an earthquake rocks the city, buildings swaying in time with the sloshing pool water.  It’s raining glass, everything’s going haywire—a car crashes through the fence and plunges into the pool.  There’s a family of three trapped inside; I dive down and assist in getting them all back to the surface... where the mom and little girl are choking on something, and with great effort the mom pulls an entire bulldog puppy out of her mouth and throat, while the people resuscitating the little girl are pulling kitten after kitten out of hers, really reaching in there, like to the elbow, to get the last one.  They were apparently driving with their pets in their mouths, a current TikTok trend.
 
But now they’re all safe, hugging and crying, when the dad says, “Mrs. [unintelligible], I know you don’t know me,” it is now obvious he’s attached to a curvy orange exoskeleton, clamped to his neck, he’s dangling from it like a hanged man in a cage of spider legs, “but something must be done—they have machines that find icons!” He screams this last part, produces an assault rifle, and begins firing into the crowd.  From the reaction I guess they’re pro wrestlers after all—it’s pande-fucking-monium in every direction but toward the shooter.
 
I secure one of the kids I’m responsible for and try looking for the other, working to keep the sounds of automatic weapons fire and screams as far from us as possible.
010
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Finally getting around to donating this shirt
130
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Picked this up so I can have it at my estate sale too!
061
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Is it wrong that I want to write way more Power Girl/Punisher stories
Power Girl and Punisher
7163745
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
voted “most likely to bring a revolver” in Hot Streak
030
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The raw wattage of artistic power in the writing and on the stage was simply stunning.
010
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
we don't usually see each others headers, but here's mine. quote post with yours (if you feel like it)
020
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Jennifer O'Toole @cellsdividing.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Drawing is some of my earliest memories. I wasn't born good at it, but my dad did it and I just loved making pictures. Free art books at the library (the draw 50 books were my favorite) as well as cheap pencil and paper also made it easy for me to pursue.
0154
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with
free flying lessons
110
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
BUT STILL KICKEN ASS - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELETIN IN DUNGEON "TO TIRED TO ATTACK ADVENTURERS, TOO OLD TO FIGURE OUT A NEW JOB, HATE LIVING IN NASTY DUNGEAN, NOT ENOUGH GOLD TO GET A NEW PLACE " BUT STILL KICKN ASS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
0541134
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
the toddler has entered her cosmic horror period
“Is that hair?”

“No—eyes.”
030
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Jennifer O'Toole @cellsdividing.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It's finally over, the spell is broken! Show this to someone who is cursed.
cute artwork of a cat with a hot dog and meme text that says if you see this the curse has been undone you are free
03316
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Four-ish cultural artworks to answer Why You Are Like This:
000
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Corpse flower!
360
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
New short story! "Love Is a Beehive"—even serial killers need love… (Content warning: Women who take what they want, weak male characters, straight-up porn.)
doomthinkequations.blogspot.com
The Doomthink Equations
220
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Working on my latest manuscript for a literary salon on Saturday and man, was it ever a slog at the end. Weeks back, I started with a solid premise and the "clay on the wheel" stage was delightfully juicy... but when I woke up this morning it was rough.
120
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Hey folks. Matt Maxwell here. I'm a fantasy writer (among other genres). Kickstarting my new novel, My Gifts Are Hungry. A girl runs away from home to find a house that's been waiting for someone like her for a long, long time. Gets weirder from there. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hig...
kickstarter.com
My Gifts Are Hungry
Not all houses are haunted by the dead. New Hazeland for 2026.
054
Reposted by Chris Tannhauser
70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Check out her article on the Houston Blacklight here! www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
Long ago, a Houston company's art graced the walls of America's stoners
Once upon a time, a Houston head shop's trippy posters were on the walls of hippies and stoners across America.
04713