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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 11m
bsky.app/profile/dara... when I worked in the round tower in kilkenny I was told the tradition was to tell americans that "the elevator is broken" but I thought that was stupid so I pivoted to telling them most of it was actually underground "like an iceberg".
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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey I got 2466 followers on my art account, can it reach the Bolaño number?? 2666??????
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DRACULA FLOW @draculaflowbot.bsky.social · 14h
Dracula Flow meme

The bugs are back
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 15h
this was intended to be a two part joke where I followed up with the picture, taken this year, of me beside the painting but I look even worse than usual in it so you'll just have to imagine it
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 15h
met this guy this year, great to link up after covering him on the podcast. surprisingly down to earth and very friendly bsky.app/profile/will...
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Rick @combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 07/10/2026
Welcome to Bugtown I wanted to do something with the passing of Matt Howarth, and his comics (especially series) are spottily available online and I have 24 issues of Savage Henry this just made sense as a thing I could do. This thread will collect those as I have time. tinyurl.com/y52ekvxv
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 22h
Somehow didn't mention this on any of the 100 minutes of this episode but this is also a funny film to watch after a decade+ of folk horror saturation. It's so disinterested in folklore of any kind that it's barely mentioned, instead favouring heavy Wiccansploitstion.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't what to tell you how seriously I considered this for a millisecond.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazing straw to pick to break the camel's back
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
hahahahha
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
just uploaded a new episode for patreon subscribers.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm afraid you're going to have to publish a minimum of over 50 books in both litfic and specific before I unconditionally accept your paraphrasing of a point you've heard jeff vandermeer make that doesn't line up with my own experience. Harsh, I know, but sadly I don't make the rules.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
tbh I think SFF's rules, pseudo-scientific basis and stated aims often provide refugee for those who built an early identity around being a precocious reader and reacted violently the 1st time they felt challenged by english as a subject, maybe by subtext or a style they struggled to navigate.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Due to how much SFF builds on other genres/forms of literature, even relatively serious SFF critical spaces are full of complete mischaracterizations of genres/forms and their attendant cultures, either as shorthand or comparison. Usually a thinly veiled grudge against something they read for school
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the whole "the humble genre fan will happily read literary fiction of any sort yet not a single conceited soul from the ivory tower that is People Who Are Relatively Normal About Books will dare to crack an Algis Budrys tome" is one of the funnier lies SFF people insist on repeating ad infinitum
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Ballroom of Romance, Glenfarne, Co. Leitrim (ca. 1980s) Photo: Bobbie Hanvey / Boston College
Non-descript mid century building with large painted sign saying Ballroom of Romance. Rainbow Centre.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywh2... Guess again. bsky.app/profile/andr...
youtube.com
Brian Catling's performance at The Royal Albert Hall 1995
YouTube video by Goldmark Gallery
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/ange...
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hear the divinity student is a thinly-veil autobio of his time in Dru Hill
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The first time I touched down there I saw a load of middle-aged returning locals in expensive walking gear passing the time while waiting for their taxi by smiling and nodding with approval while a distressed guy got searched by a cop with a dog. maybe the most Exactly What You'd Expect place ever.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hated them when they came out but I've softened on them a little. But yeah, they're fine but they're not The Information like the actual books are.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good observation, I think The Man Who Cried I Am might be the bridging work here. No need to credit me, though I do enjoy the image of myself sitting here going "you making an obtuse observation???? about two works of art??? by DEAD GUYS??? i'm gonna need a taste. This is an SFULTRA town, baby"
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/aaro... Since SFULTRA began, my thoughts on Science Fiction have complicated quite considerably. My thoughts on Steampunk, however, have only become more definitive.
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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For Baltimore magazine, I profiled writer David Simmons, who mixes street fiction with horror (think Richard Price meets Stephen King meets Iceberg Slim). His new short story collection "Fetty On The Switches" released by CLASH in June, is excellent www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/arts...
baltimoremagazine.com
David Simmons Revives Baltimore’s Hallowed Horror Genre—With a Twist
Why the author’s hardboiled horror has afforded him cult status among local literary types and Internet gorehounds alike.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
say what you will about the 31 murders to midnight series, I was going crazy with the posters bsky.app/profile/noch...
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/noch...
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
come on, even for podcasters, no one has ever been this unemployed bsky.app/profile/noch...
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
say what you will about the 31 murders to midnight series, I was going crazy with the posters bsky.app/profile/noch...
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've got an episode on Colson Whitehead's HARLEM SHUFFLE up on the Patreon for FREE in order to improve your Tuesday! Join @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @kearse.bsky.social as they chat about the first book (and come back for the next two eps on the next two books!) www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is unreal, great song!
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a guy who subsequently ostracized us because lisa have long covid was inconvenient for his being an anti-vaxer once spoke to me throughout most of a laurel halo live set in a fairly small room. I should have known then that something was up
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
that's the overegged bit! I'm okay with that! well, maybe if it hard cut after he says "no" too fast the first time she invites him in
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Saw the new manhunter: final cut restoration. got to be one of the fucking films, imo. Still, bit dismaying to see it repeat the error of the director's cut: blowing past a great, if a little over-egged, final shot so it can wrap things up with the usual two treacly minutes of hug-your-dad bullshit
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
personal computing, magazine, cover art (1978) archive.org/details/Pers...
a man in a trenchcoat and rimmed hat, wearing shades with a smoke in his mouth, is secretly opening his trenchcoat to show a computer inside that says 'they say elephants never forget...' on the screen in bold white caps text, as he looks the other way. a man standing close by in a suit, tie, rimmed bowl hat, seems aware that he is being shown this, even though he is not directly looking at it. a hand protruding from behind his back is pressing a key on the keyboard (or typing). behind them is an elephant, its trunk reaching for the computer.
red text:
cloak and dagger
with your personal computer
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/noch... was trying to describe this cover to someone recently, they asked where they could hear it, I panicked thinking I'd inadvertently doxed myself and so, in a move I think the man himself would've enjoyed, I hard pivoted to "ah listen, he died" as if he'd taken the mp3 with him
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/thea... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
(that article is really an illustration of how annoying it must be to be a Rolling Stone writer 20 years after the collapse of the monoculture. It's like the writer is still squatting on the www.chairs.com url and it's just hit them that the seven figure payday from Big Chair is never coming)
chairs.com
chairs.com
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/denn... this is how I feel when I meet people who claim they don't watch Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
new episode up for patreon subscribers
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
someone mentioned school reunions recently, realised my 20th is imminent and I can only recall maybe 10 of the 120 people in my year. Yet I've no issue remembering most of that "WHERE I'M FROM JILL DANDO IS HOW IT CAN GO. AIN'T A MOVIE ROUND HERE. I KNOW REAL RAMBO" english frank freestyle from 2011
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Even I like this guy. in fact, I watched this immediately upon waking up this morning. good stuff.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I thought he was a Peace endorser!
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
few people can execute being a dickhead so flawlessly and at such a high level. sincerely one of the greats.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I actually decided against going to see a reading because I feel conflicted about enjoying his work and, tbh, I avoid signings and reading whenever possible.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The demon dog: an indefensible man who will always be in my personal top five writers probably. Hoping to cover him somehow next year (though who knows).
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And finally, a few more inscribed copies of James Ellroy's Suicide Hill (1986), including a copy signed to Eddie Bunker who wrote the novel Straight Time was based on and played Cardoza in Big Bill Lustig's underrated banger Relentless.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Four inscribed copies of James Ellroy's Suicide Hill (1986) (including my personal favourite) "DEAR VAGABOND DOG, SLASHMARKS ON YOUR GRAVE"
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Four inscribed copies of James Ellroy's Brown's Requiem (1981) (his debut novel, written while he worked as a caddie) "CADDYSHACKS DRIP BLOOD"
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two more inscribed copies of James Ellroy's Because The Night (1984) "PSYCHO SEX SHIT"
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