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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

it was so nice chatting with @mdelgadia.bsky.social about @darkertimes.bsky.social! we chatted about the subscriber drive, the joys of being edited, and how much we both miss websites - check it out: scare-me.beehiiv.com/p/darker-times

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Behind the Scenes of DARKER TIMES With Co-Founder Emily C. Hughes

Talkin' shop about the brand-new horror site, in the midst of a summer subscriber drive!

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

having OCD is so stupid. what do you mean my mental health and emotional wellbeing depends on me scrubbing obscure items in my house

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Force feeding myself oatmeal at 5:30 in the morning to keep my ancient (32 year old) body from careening off schedule

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Sometimes I feel like a big dummy for trying to write about culture, and then the Atlantic publishes a brain dead take that gives me the confidence boost I need to continue blogging

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Crow 🔞 @bookishcorvid.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

@sgj.bsky.social Stephen Graham Jones will be like let me write a story about a man in a situation after he kills an animal he knows he shouldn’t and I eat it up every single time

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

Newsweek’s infamous 17 July 1995 cover: “Bisexuality: Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.”

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Had a really wonderful conversation with one of my favorite authors, David Sodergren (@paperbacksandpugs.bsky.social) about the incredible freedom of self publishing, Scotland as an underused horror setting, and a lifetime of loving the genre: scare-me.beehiiv.com/p/david-sode...

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Scottish Novelist David Sodergren on the Punk Rock Possibilities of Self Publishing

The fiercely independent horror author reflects on a lifelong love of horror.

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Tomorrow! I interviewed Matt Kirkland, the creative mind behind @draculadaily.bsky.social 🦇 💌 Subscribe to read it first thing tomorrow: scare-me.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Humbly requesting a setting for social media apps that plays all inspirational weight loss content backwards. I am proud of all of you but my ED rat brain cannot be trusted

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

so encouraged by Mamdani’s victory in New York and also appalled that autocorrect and closed captioning cannot seem to spell his name right

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

my computer is always muted so WHY did it start playing Tron Cat at top volume while Jack is on a work call ☠️

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Jack and I are both so dumb it’s incredible we function in society. We’ve been trying to hang curtains for like 3 hours

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BJ ColanGIALLO @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's Juneteenth, so an evergreen reminder that HORROR NOIRE is mandatory horror film history. xoxo @fangoria.bsky.social www.fangoria.com/review-horro...

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Review: HORROR NOIRE Is Mandatory Horror Film History

For Juneteenth, a look back at the influential 2019 documentary on Black Horror.

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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

our queer book fair was rained out so we're trying again on Sunday, this time at Access Oasis accessible garden in Astoria! *hundreds* of free LGBTQIA+ books plus: free snacks and zines from people's bodega, free button- and patch-making from qns collab, and more. tell yr friends!!

the rolling library and access oasis present
free queer book fair
june 22nd 12-5pm
2410 hoyt ave n astoria

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

One of the funniest, weirdest, most meta books I’ve read in ages. And a beautiful cover design! What more could you ask for!

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I can barely express how gutwrenching it is to steal health care away from trans kids and essentially force them into conversion therapy defector.com/on-bridges?g...

Dysphoria and all the surrounding feelings are notoriously difficult to describe clearly, so here is the best metaphor I can come up with for what I want to talk about. Imagine, when you were a kid, that there was an intersection in your neighborhood that you regularly had to walk across, and it was a dangerous endeavor every time: There's no crosswalk, the cars don't respect speed limits, and everyone runs red lights or turns without looking. You did what you could to survive these perilous journeys, but maybe not every kid got to the other side unscathed.

Imagine, then, that years later you passed through your old hometown and found that, since you left, a stylish pedestrian bridge had been built at this intersection. You see a bunch of kids, and they're laughing with each other as they use it to cross safely, not even aware of all the times that you, years ago, just barely missed getting smashed by a car.

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET 🪦🌈 I love this beautiful anthology and recently had the chance to speak with its creator, Joe Vallese, for my newsletter!

My hand holding a copy of IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET: QUEER REFLECTIONS ON HORROR with a bookshelf and my black cat in the background.

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Katrina Lehto @lithera.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

As of 2025, Seattle's population is approximately 764,753. 10% of Seattle showed up at /this/ protest and there were more than just this one.

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Phantasmag @phantasmagpress.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Subscribe to the awesome Scare Me! Newsletter to read our little Q&A and much more spooky goodness 🖤

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Phantasmag @phantasmagpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Phantasmag Issue 3 is now available to pre-order! www.phantasmag.com/shop/p/phant... #horrormagazine #queerhorror #thesubstance #nosferatu #yellowjackets

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

tomorrow on the newsletter! I interviewed the genius team behind @phantasmagpress.bsky.social 💀 ✨ truly a dream to learn more about my favorite indie magazine, made specifically for and by queer horror fans

Two copies of Phantasmag, an indie magazine, on a background of green fabric. Both magazines are shades of purple with black illustrations of horror imagery, including chains, gravestones, and skulls.

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Scenes from Los Angeles

nude woman stands next to Mexican Flag in the middle of a cross walk, holds signs - one reading TRUMP I AM YOUR MOTHER and the other, showing cosmic eye in pyramid, reading I AM GOD

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Downtown Los Angeles

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Downtown Los Angeles qqq

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Dorina @dorina.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

ICE didn't exist before 9/11 and has been violating human rights on a daily basis under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Undocumented immigrants pay taxes into the same system we do, which should be funding healthcare, not war. Love to my city of LA. Peace to everyone except fascists✌️

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m 36 subscribers away from a big newsletter milestone and whenever I hit it, I’m getting a Silent Hill tattoo 💉

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

recently I fell down a liminal space rabbit hole—so I tracked down the creator of one of the genre’s best known images scare-me.beehiiv.com/p/interview-...

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Interview: Artist Jared Pike on Dream Pools and the Allure of Liminal Spaces

We discuss creating eeriness in liminal spaces, going viral, and...accidentally starting a cult?

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

✨ tomorrow! 6am PST ✨ my interview with Jared Pike, the artist who created the Dream Pools, is going live on the newsletter

Dream Pool 10 by Jared Pike; a white tiled staircase spirals into a pool of clear aqua water, with a dark tunnel vanishing into shadow on the back right wall.

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

Reggie Watts statement, 1 of 2:

“I was disappointed to see that Thom's statement centers his hurt feelings and frames his fans' demands for him to speak up as a "social media witch hunt," instead of recognizing the urgency of their call for him to speak out against the world-historical humanitarian crisis in Palestine. I hope Thom will reflect and decenter himself from the public outcry against the genocide, because if he and his artistic legacy stand for love and humanity as he asserts, he can come to see his fans' actions as an act of loving solidarity with suffering people-a needed affirmation of our humanity in these dark times.”

Reggie Watts statement 2 of 2:

“I also want to address Thom's repetition of a common rhetorical tactic of those who are devoted to maintaining the status quo, that one cannot speak up or demand an end to the genocide unless they fully understand the deep
"complexity" of this historical conflict. I urge Thom's fans to reject this conviction-neutralizing, demobilizing sentiment and trust their hearts. You don't need to be a geopolitics scholar to know that starving children and slaughtering families is wrong. Your membership in the human family gives you authority and, indeed, responsibility to speak up. All positive change starts with conscious and loving people raising their voices and working together to bring a better world into existence. Please keep fighting until our sisters and brothers in Palestine are free.”

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

my copy just came in the mail, stokeddd to read this one 🩸🩸🩸

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

this week on Scare Me! I sat down with Jared Pike, the artist whose liminal Dream Pools have launched a thousand copycats and memes www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjB9...

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The Pool Rooms (Found Footage)

YouTube video by Jared Pike

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

we're halfway through the It read along over on my newsletter, which means it's time to unpack all my feelings about (imo) chaotic bisexual Richie Trashmouth Tozier: scare-me.beehiiv.com/p/stephen-ki...

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Stephen King Reading Journal 🎈 Richie Tozier, Pennywise, and Queer Readings of IT (Part 3)

Is Richie canonically queer—or was I imagining it all along?

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

my hottest take is that hannibal and dark shadows have extremely similar premises: normies have trouble identifying a monstrous killer because they're ~european~

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“Trans dignity is a losing issue for Democrats, Palestine freedom is a losing issue, the dignity of the homeless and immigrants is a losing issue.” I do not fucking care! Fight for it anyway or give up. What else are we fighting for if not?

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

there are so many other, better ways to dunk on RFK riiiight there. use ‘em!

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I'm not ashamed to admit I was VERY afraid to watch Saw, until @youaregood.bsky.social (ft. Sarah Marshall, @alexsteed.bsky.social + @jamellebouie.net) persuaded me to give it a shot. now I can't believe I ever lived without the pure joy it brought into my life! more thoughts here: bit.ly/3FmRid1

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Every Saw Movie, Ranked [With Guest Author Marie-Reine Pugh]

We spent the past year watching the entire Saw franchise together and we have thoughts.

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

this thread is a wonderful example of Chuck Tingle's profound ability to defuse the rage and hate that permeates so much of social media. he is so deft at turning these flash points into moments of measured reflection that encourage critical thought and self awareness

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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

our free queer book fair is JUNE 7TH!! if you're in NYC and have any LGBTQIA+ books to donate, please msg me! we are *drowning* in young adult but could use more picture/board books, adult fiction & nonfiction, and middle-grade. also any queer books in spanish!

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

update: finished it last week and wow, what a story! it will 1) dredge up dad feelings 2) make you laugh and 3) viscerally remind you that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is horrifying

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes

Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

last fall, as the days grew short and dark and the anniversary of my mom's suicide approached, I decided to read @stephenking.bsky.social 's IT. I had a hardcover copy on my shelf and needed a project to get me through a period when even deciding what to read was probably going to feel challenging

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

my TBR is out of control but full of absolute bangers. finally read Sayaka Murata’s wonderfully weird Earthlings, rescued from my town’s library book sale last October

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, hardcover edition, held in front of a white wall

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Going to tell my boss that “attending meetings” and “doing work” is performative and I will not be shamed for abstaining

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Michelle Delgado @mdelgadia.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

for no reason other than my own entertainment, I'm spending Sunday night ranking every Saw movie. criteria include: presence of John Kramer / Amanda (+), presence of Scott Patterson / Detective Hoffman (-), quality of fake blood, how funny my texts were while watching

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

The United States canceled an order for lifesaving peanut paste that was meant to keep 500,000 Yemeni children alive.

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

HEY SPEAKING OF CANCER

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