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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: The Beef-Ifty 2s The Flaming Chips Gipsy King's Hawaiian Rolls

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 10/09/2026

Stocking up on essentials to ride out the heat wave...

My white and tabby cat Journey sitting inside my dilapidated rolling shopping cart.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 07/09/2026

Me: Ah, a cool drizzle. What a lovely... Rain:

The rain today being aggressive. (But it's still nice.)

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 06/09/2026

Sunset was gorgeous and fiery tonight, but evening really brought the drama!

Dramatic evening clouds lit up by the last bit of the sunset (Santa Monica, CA).

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 02/09/2026

I sold a guitar yesterday that I never play, and today I took the guitar money and bought myself a couple pairs of new Skechers, and I feel like this has the vibe of a really dumb O. Henry story. "I sold my guitar to buy you new shoes!" 🤗 "Oh, I...I sold my feet to buy you music lessons." 🥲

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 28/08/2026

The only solution to this problem is MORE DATA CENTERS.

Screen shot of a tweet from Ben Noll, showing that Southern California currently has the highest humidity in the US, comparable to the Amazon rainforest.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 27/08/2026

You're pen pals with Roy Kent. Every letter is just "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...." #badfanficideas

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 27/08/2026

Please sit with this & view full screen if you can.

Picasso's Guernica reimagined as crop art of the Minneapolis ICE invasion by artist Jennifer Nelson. She has replaced Picasso's cold, stark monochrome pallette with luscious earth tones, and centered a thunderbird-like symbol among images of community observers, both alive and murdered, from which the bird rises. Her artist's statement reads, "I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti's mouths are actually their last words in morse code: "I'm not mad at you," and "Are you okay?"

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 24/08/2026

I have a cat who's talky and another who never meows (unless he's running on the cat wheel). Lately, I've noticed that Mr. Talky will sometimes meow when the food bowl is empty. I'll fill the bowl and he'll ignore it. The other cat, who was lurking silently nearby, will trot over and start eating.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 23/08/2026

I lucid dreamed unintentionally for the first time this morning. Running around a parking garage looking for a thing. I thought, "All I do is run around til I wake up. I want to find the thing this time!" Found it around the next corner (a tiny spaceship) then got woken up by a loud tow truck. 🙃

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 23/08/2026

30% water 40% iced mint tea 15% diet Dr Pepper 10% iced coffee 5% horchata

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 19/08/2026

Horror Writers of America. I was getting so excited, because I almost have enough publication credits now to join as an Active Pro Member. Happy Wednesday! 🫠

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 17/08/2026

Suffering the Other is open for pre-orders! This charity anthology benefits National Immigration Project, and Transgender Law Center. I'm very honored to have a story of mine included in this wonderful collection! ❤️

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Suffering the Other (anthology)

**PRE-ORDER OPEN, EXPECTED TO SHIP IN OCTOBER** A new benefit anthology of dark weird fiction based on the concept of othering -- the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundam...

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 12/08/2026

On every phone and computer screen, the message appeared in every language: Your Free Trial of SUN has ended. To continue using SUN, please add a payment method to your account. SUN Basic is 300 quatloos per zinglon. Upgrade to SUN+ fewer ads tier for only 600 quatloos/zg. #horrorwriterschat Q3

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 12/08/2026

I have a couple WIPs, and, um... nothing? But I'm a pantser. One protagonist just inherited a house that was HQ for a swanky 1970s cult. Another protagonist is talking her way into scrubbing dishes and sweeping floors at school for dark magic, so she can rescue someone. #horrorwriterschat Q2

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 12/08/2026

I'm Marigold. I write mostly weird horror with medium to low gore. Space in general freaks me out, but I also love it. A meteor shower to me is creepier than an eclipse. Where have those meteors been, what did they encounter, and what are they bringing back to us? #horrorwriterschat Q1

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 08/08/2026

A player of a game designed by a solo dev found out upcoming information about the game by asking Google AI to "speculate." The information was only stored in the game dev's private Google Docs. www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

Meme photo of Julia Louis-Dreyfuss laughing nervously and saying, "What the fuck?"

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 03/08/2026

Anybody else notice lately that when you buy food packaged in resealable bags, some of the bags just don't seal? I've had this happen in the past couple weeks with Bob's hot cereal, Temptations cat treats and TJ's dried fruit. Companies really out there just not giving one single shit anymore.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 02/08/2026

Somebody across the street has been spinning 80s pop hits for going on three hours now, and I am LIVING FOR IT! 📻

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Stacey Q - Two Of Hearts (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 01/08/2026

Everybody's always singing the praises of a dry wit, while my clammy, moist wit gets no love at all.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 01/08/2026

Meanwhile, I can't even get the courtesy of a form rejection from agents who requested fulls and partials from me more than a year ago...

From Publisher's Lunch: Seven-Figure Book Deal Canceled over AI Suspicions and What the Actual Fuck Do You Mean This Book by a Debut Author Got All the Way to a Fourteen Way Auction and NOBODY NOTICED????

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 20/07/2026

I started a #snailmailclub (posthouse.se/glowinthedark) I also made this little animation. It's two seconds long. It took me FIVE HOURS. I'd forgotten why I don't do animation very often... 💀 (Audio is from The Giant Claw. And also me eating chips.)

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👻 Sign up for the Glow in the Dark zine club!👻 Hey, you! Are you nostalgic for the 1980s, even though you weren't born until decades later? Do you like eating chips in bed at 3am, while watching old m...

TikTok video by Glow in the Dark Zine| Artist

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 14/07/2026

I do not want another Carrie remake. I want Mike Flanagan to make a proper miniseries for my very favorite Stephen King story -- The Langoliers. Samantha Sloyan should play Laurel Stevenson. And Kate Siegal was incredible in House of Usher, so she should be a gender-bent Craig Toomey.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 13/07/2026

The unladylike goose honk that I uttered when I saw this image...

It's that meme of the girl holding hands with a guy, but the guy is looking back at another girl. Except it's Mitch McConnell holding hands with Death, and Death is looking back at Lindsey Graham.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 06/07/2026

My cat sounds like a door slowly opening into a haunted house.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 05/07/2026

#QueryTracker needs a checkbox on the query submission form where you can let the agent know you're fine with them responding with just, "No thanks."

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 05/06/2026

Final Destination, but the protagonist already knows they have precognition. They also have telekinesis. So, it would be like Tina fighting Jason in Ft13th: Part VII, but they'd intuit all of Death's Rube Goldbergian schemes. Also the movie takes place on a gigantic cruise ship. In this essay I will

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 31/05/2026

I'm at the market, and this lady in front of me is buying like 10 bags of chocolate chips. She tells me unprompted that she eats them all day every day as sugar-free snacks. They're sweetened with xylitol AND monkfruit. My digestive tract could never. It would be like Raging Waters in there. 🌊💀🌊

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 30/05/2026

🐯Mountain Lion Watch 2026🐯 So, as of 4pm, they haven't caught the mountain lion. It's just chilling in some lady's yard, and has been for hours. Poor lil bean! ❤️ www.youtube.com/shorts/NcjWF...

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Mountain lion spotted in Santa Monica backyard

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 29/05/2026

🐯Mountain Lion Watch 2026🐯 Mountain lion sighted about a mile and a half from my apt. I can hear and see helicopters circling. My cat just escaped the litter box, sling-shotted a poo off his butt, and ran under the bed.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 25/05/2026

“The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution.”

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 20/05/2026

I'm pretty sure Kermit the Frog is actually some type of salamander.

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 19/05/2026

Why are Funyuns NEVER on sale? 🧅

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 17/05/2026

AI is a dystopian, planet-destroying, brain-eating fascist juggernaut peddled by bubble-dwelling, wealth-hoarding, gaslighting dipshits. #eattherich

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 09/05/2026

Why is it that a centaur = (upper half person) + (lower half horse), but a minotaur = (upper half bull) + (lower half person)?

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Marigold @marigoldrowell.com · 02/05/2026

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. 📺 The Brak Show Bunheads Don't Trust the B... The Good Place The Loop Miranda MST3k The Powerpuff Girls Selfie Spongebob Squarepants Stargate: SG-1 Supernatural (S1 to S5) Taskmaster Vicar of Dibley Wonderfalls

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