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the thing that bothers me is that "extreme horror" isn't a vague vibe, it's a subgenre, with its own specific conventions. if you don't want your stories to have excessive violence or animal death or deal with graphic scenes that's fine, but it's not extreme horror!!

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I will never forget the one submission call that wanted gothic romance but "no incest"

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so few places want anything that's actually challenging or upsetting or knows how to navigate that and it drives me up a wall. if you're going to ask for horror you should be prepared to take on stuff that makes you feel bad!!

I don't do a lot of submitting short stories but when I was sending one around it was SO hard to find a *horror magazine* that would accept a story with explicit violence to animals. I'm sorry but that's ridiculous!!

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Barely a vaguepost because this happens constantly but I just don't feel like you can put out a submission call for "extreme horror" specifically and then list a bunch of things you don't want in it that you find too far. especially if those things are frequent in the genre

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having a rough one but if i believe in anything now it's in making my body mine and trying to live a life that's tolerable so. we keep goin

perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

probably going to go into a slightly unmanageable level of debt for it but I guess I gotta get the hysterectomy ASAP huh

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what bothers me so much about this beyond the obvious is at that point it's. easier to put the meat up than leave it out, surely. you have to actively ignore that you haven't put it up yet

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

every time I'm reminded that some people put actual stock in awards opinions?? it's so boring

cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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You don’t have to take HRT or get surgeries to be trans, but remember that the anti-trans movement is moving mountains to try and prevent your access to those things—pursuing medical transition in one form or another is a subversive act, not a conformist one.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I find it totally unbearable when a genre story stops dead to have some fantasy princess be like "pronouns are important!" in the most straightforward internet-speak terms possible. On a craft level it destroys momentum and believability, and socially, you aren't reaching anyone that way.

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

we've been working on this fish tank for a couple months now and it's reached the point where i've just mail-ordered some snails to kill the current, more annoying snails that I hate

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

yeah, I do agree with that! It's not a moral thing at all, but people clearly feel the need to defend themselves as morally right/just as good for not being well read, and I don't respect that defensiveness. it's silly!

perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

going to start being really mean and say it's not, actually, okay to reread a children's book ten times and nothing else as a grown adult

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

unfortunately I wanted mickey 17 to be way more fucked up and way less cute than it was but I knew exactly how it would go walking in so I can't be too disappointed

perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

like the issue here is that cis people widely do not believe or understand us in any way, and aren't actually cool with us!

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

people love to say that they're fine with trans people, they're just "not sure about the sports thing", except as soon as you dig into that they'll start talking about "biological males"

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Debbie Harry in VIDEODROME

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

watched CRASH tonight. they're saying i'm the most normal guy to ever exist

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

it's very important for normal reasons

perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

happy thursday. today I'm thinking about brandon cronenberg's INFINITY POOL, a movie I think about a normal amount,

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

people believe it so wholeheartedly! it sucks to see/hear it suddenly from someone you've followed or known for a while, as if it's a serious idea and not hyper-conservative bs

perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

everyone has got to stop whining about "porn addiction"

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

David Lynch: "Most films reflect the world, and the world is violent and in a lot of trouble. It’s not the other way around. The films don’t make a peaceful world violent—the violent world made the films."

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

i find myself reading sentences out loud to myself every few pages just to savor them a little more!!

perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

as always the concepts in the book are fantastic but I'm repeatedly blown away by the writing on a technical level. gorgeous stuff

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

reading the new jeff vandermeer book while mildly sick which feels like the best way to do it

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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I have absolutely been in shitty "straight" relationships in the past but even then I feel like I had a baseline understanding of "I should like the person I'm with" that seems nonexistent here

+ the entire subreddits full of women losing their minds because their boyfriend hasn't proposed to them yet, with commenters helping them scheme up how to trick said boyfriend into marrying them, with all the weird baggage about the holy sanctity of marriage, which is terrifying in its own way

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also notable: the thousands of posts from men and women talking about how they can't stand that their partner hangs out with friends of the opposite gender, and everybody in the comments telling them that their partner is cheating and this is unacceptable

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"my boyfriend calls me a bitch every day and has never done anything good for me. how do I fix our loving relationship" what are you people doing

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perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

been scrolling on reddit a little recently for some reason and the main thing i've learned is that straight people fucking hate their partners 90% of the time. jesus

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i would love to continue to write and maybe even publish some sci-fi one day. unfortunately every single sff space is a sickening cluster of cowards

perry m @meatpunkperry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

read the attack helicopter story again this morning on a whim. still runs laps around every other short story/author in those spaces. do you ever think about how every single person responsible for that is still getting successful book deals/blurbs/etc

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quinn @quinnhpm.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

MAKE BORING ART FROM A PLACE OF SAFETY OR MAKE BRAVE ART FROM A PLACE OF FEAR

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cis people have regularly said to and asked me things about myself/my life/my body that they would be rightfully furious if I asked them! it's wild

it's so clear that people cannot wrap their heads around what trans people actually are and want and they sure will punish you for stepping out of line or wanting anything real!

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my workplace is a good one but I don't out myself as trans at work at all anymore. I really don't want to know that you clocked me and you feel bad for me lmao

don't know a better way to describe the state of things. cis people are sympathetic in theory but many of them just do not understand what we actually need or how to help us beyond being performative, and it ends up putting us in harms way a lot of the time!

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