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Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Aca-Christmas-Horror-Colleagues I’ve an emergency for an essay on eco-horror and Christmas involving supernatural or magical creatures, pointing to a pagan/folk horror past. Can’t involve ghosts but can be in any media. If interested drop me a message to: baconetti@gmail.com

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's been a rough week of burning the candle at both ends, but I've finished writing a feature length script - the first piece of creative writing I've attempted since the end of my undergrad. I've got a first draft and I'm determined to make the thing after all it's put me through!

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Opening Final Draft for the first time in nearly a decade and I'm completely lost. I need to sit through a pile of YouTube tutorials before developing my notes. What a way to kill the momentum, technology...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Renovating my room (making it livable after years of being entombed by media) has led to me finding and finally sorting my old comic collection. The sickness is back. I may currently be addicted to filling in the decade-long gap via Ebay...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We're doing an information event at The Playhouse in Derry on the 30/04! If you are working in the creative industries in the North West region and want to learn more about our funding process/opportunities, come along and hear all about it. Make sure to reserve a ticket through eventbrite

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'm editing a chapter on Santa Slashers and I completely forgot that I wrote a lengthy diatribe about how Santa doesnt exist. It should probably be taken for granted but its also too depressing to chop up. Good editing practice and what amuses me have come into conflict once more

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I don't think this subtitle is as enlightening as it could be

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

damn if that ain't some bars

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

When a pipe bursts at midnight and you try to investigate:

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Today I learned that Muscular Christianity has made a theory-based comeback. It's one of the funnier concepts i discovered during my PhD, but I can only imagine how dangerous its resurgence probably is

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

After sleeping off the Christmas/Boxing Day flu, I'm finally ready to get stuck into the 50th anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five. No matter how many times you read it, you get something new. So it goes.

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

One thing I hate about reporting/research into the manosphere is that they rarely examine the influence of the mythopoetic movement. New media misogyny is a very successful rebrand of the nonsense spewed by Bly and his fellow Jungians, but is discussed as if it popped up out of nowhere

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It's always fun find out that a service doesn't work after you've started paying for it. The BFI Player got me excited, only to let me down

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I don't know why everyone thinks that Oz adaptation is a musical? Ariana Grande hasn't shown up once, but there's been a shit load of Nazis and violence

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a group of men are sitting in a row wearing hats and shirts .

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My research contract ended today and the last lecture of my teaching contract is in half a week. I've already started watching a boxset and destroying my fragile sleeping pattern. Welcome back to my new annual tradition in academia: unemployed in time for Christmas

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We've reached that point of the night where my writing feels like it's genius, but will turn out to be over-tired and over-confident nonsense. This would be fine if it wasn't for an official report...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Foyle Film Festival has been interesting this year so far. I haven't been able to go see everything I've wanted, but I've caught the highlights: Seven Samurai, The Way of the Dragon, and Frewaka. Unfortunately, I had to ditch Old Boy tonight as I've a pile of marking to get through

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm watching Viy (1967) for the second time this semester to prep for tomorrow's Euro horror lecture and I'm just realising that I have to somehow jam together my loves of post-fascist Western horror and Soviet/Warsaw Pact horror in a two horror slot. It was pure hubris to think I could do it

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Okay, so trying to find online versions of Belarusian horror films seems to be a no go. The amount of viruses I might have just infected my laptop with will certainly be a shock in a few months

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's genuinely hilarious that the creative team behind The Boys believe they're making punk rock art... while being bankrolled by one of the single most powerful corporations to ever exist.

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a man in a superhero costume with the words stop it on the bottom

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

After a chat about parallel releases at the Elm Street conference, I've finally done the research. Time Cut lethargically uses time travel to establish an aesthetic and literally nothing else, whereas Totally Killer dedicates to letting it bleed into every aspect of the text.

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Oh no, Cobra Kai have finally stooped low enough to create a deepfake/AI slop ghost of Mr Miyagi. A great show is forever tarnished in its closing moments

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

That's the last conference of the year done (but I MIGHT be planning a bit of a Black Christmas soon). I'm so glad to have got the chance to present on the environments of Elm Street just in time for the original films 40th anniversary! Until next time, horror pals...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Spotify Wrapped is a direct attack on my mental health. I'm just going to assume that they're gaslighting me

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

One terrabyte sounds massive until you start ripping blurays. I haven't even got one module worth of films to be cut up before it was filled. Maybe I should stop relying on talking over horror clips 😅

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Lesson planning has pulled me out of the weird film slump I've been in. All that reading i was going to do has been replaced by a week long binge of first-time watches. So many monsters, such little time to cover them...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

I've got my own horror module this semester! I can't wait to get really weird with it. The possibilites of which fucked up clips I can talk over are endless...

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