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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Unknowable: Darkland is what might happen if Documentary Now! and @nightvaleradio.bsky.social met at Action Park and decided to hang out.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Bluesky chums and algorithmic acquaintances in NYC. Anyone want a big discount on two tickets for Red Bull’s Titus Andronicus tomorrow (3/18) evening? Price negotiable, I don't want them to go to waste! Message me if you’re interested! (We’re still going, just not tomorrow night.)

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A whole #openaccess issue! The new Supernatural Studies has folk horror in NIGHTBREED, house-love in THE LITTLE STRANGER, witchy girls of the 2010s & sapphic animated vampires in CASTLEVANIA. @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-jou...

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of Supernatural Studies journal with a gloomy drawing of a green lawn surrounded by stones and fencing leading to a big stone altar.

On the right, an image of the character Carmilla, a female vampire with long white hair in the TV animated series CASTLEVANIA. She is holding a golden chalice as if making a toast.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Why do Uber drivers who pick me up AT a hotel NEAR a train station expect me to know more than they do about the trip? I don't know which streets are one way or how else you could cross a river.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This was filmed near Llanberis, in North Wales, so I'm hiraething all the hiraeth right now. It's been more than a year, I need to get back soon. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🪨🖤

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Apparently, "a little of everything" is an official position in 1970s Welsh-language filmmaking--see the opening credits for Gwaed ar y Sêr. (Working on my @igagoths.bsky.social abstract.)

Screenshot of text over an audience watching a stage, opening scene of Gwaed ar y Sêr: Tipyn o Bobeth CERI EVANS

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If, in your assessment, last night's performance "wasn't political," I assume that you also don't know what words like diversity, equity, inclusion, radical, left, fascist/antifascist, and indoctrination actually mean.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It seems pretty clear to me that someone in my building is summoning the Old Gods of Winter. Probably in cahoots with that damn prognosticating groundhog.

Small folk horror snowman in front of my building.

A folk horror scaresnow in back of my building

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The Chomsky that I cut from a propaganda slideshow (for teaching) was from Manufacturing Consent, and I guess that's irony, and/but/so yes, he can be replaced.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

An unexpected bit of cheer in Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025). (I went in spoiler-free.)

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Federal agents were assaulting women: striking them, shoving them to the ground, pepper spraying them. Alex Pretti acted in solidarity with those women rather than in loyalty to other men who had strength of arms and state power. A betrayal to white supremacist patriarchy he was murdered for.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I did wonder if @sorchanf.bsky.social was confused by her American friends' wild enthusiasm about Teen Vogue, our conviction that that was the peak of being cited as an expert, or if the whole world had long ago turned to them for truth and accuracy. #RIPteenvogue

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Heading to #MLA2026, where I'll be dividing my time between "please don't tell me how I can use GenAI in my classes" and Gothic Studies. I'll share details on my collective's AOI & AI teaching session, a list of Gothic and adjacent sessions, and the Gothic Studies forum social event details later.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Oddly, no, but presumably only because we weren't doing conferences yet. 🌑🐺

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My 8th grade besties and I got *matching* generic sports jerseys made at the t-shirt shop at the mall, grey with maroon 88 (our HS graduation year, another thing ruined by effing nzis). If only I'd thought to wear it without pants, I could have been the nerdy but cute slashee in a masterpiece.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Okay, but credit where it's due, she gave us a pretty dope Cinna-bon mot with "witchcraft bandana."

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I think I always knew that I was really meant to be an RPG gal, but I've had it confirmed by a six-part series of podcast episodes. What skills or powers does menopause give a character?

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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Little Mari teaches Ickle Krampus the proper way to steal hats. They have lots of fun.

A little mari holds a hat in her mouth and a small krampus does the same

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

How is actively competing for a book prize so that you can publicly and virtuously refuse it different from deliberately talking a class so that you can write an essay using vague religious beliefs in place of evidence so that you can file discrimination charges?

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm over the (Full) Moon thrilled that @randomhorror9.bsky.social will be covering Puppet Master 3 next week. As a scholar of the series, its engagement with fucking N*zis, and justifying the series' wild inconsistencies, I'll be taking notes through the entire episode. 🔪

Title slide for a conference presentation on the Puppet Master franchise and fucking N*zis

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Without downloading new pics, what’s it like dating you?

Two frogs in chairs at a table. One asks, "Are you doing okay?" and the other replies, "No, but I am hilarious."

This is like dating me.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🎶 Must be the season of the witch 🎶 The next 3 books in my queue, after @shewolfmanc.bsky.social's Unburied, are How to Kill a Witch, That Very Witch, and The Conjuring of America. The fall of patriarchy is my favorite time of year.

Cover of Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy by Hannah Priest

Cover of How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women by Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell

Cover of That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas

Cover of The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic by Lindsey Stewart

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

What are the odds that someone will tell me that I look tired today? I am, I do, but no one needs to tell me that. Comment on my cool dress instead.

Cool spooooooky dress plus bonus look at my dope jacket.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This is a thing I'll be doing next weekend. You could come if you're interested.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The pun is irresistible, so possible #Peacemaker spoiler. I did nazi that twist coming.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

At Brooklyn Paramount seeing Wet Leg to kick off a week of anniversary-ing. (21 years, thank you for asking, and no, reader, I never married him.)

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yesterday was Trey's birthday (observed). Everyone with fur got small pieces of poached, shredded chicken. Look how handsome the shyest and most three-legged of my children is!

A handsome orange cat sitting. If you look closely, he has three legs as well as a lemur tail.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I think my goal for this AY is to have a meeting that can only be described like this.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I learned, seeing this play, that "Bella Ciao" can make me cry. Read our review, and see if you can tell where John acknowledged the scene but protected my reputation as a steely bitch through skillful use of language.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Just as television in the 70s led me to believe that I should be worried about quicksand on the regular, the Final Destination films--which we're marathoning--have me wondering how I haven't died every time I spill water, given the apparent normalcy of worn cords and faulty sockets.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I'm like Snow White of the urban landscape or something. Seagulls, rats, pigeons, squirrels, and the occasional raccoon or possum flock to me. I love them too, and we often chat. This guy hung out with me for a while today. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't show how beautifully iridescent he is.

A beautiful iridescent black NYC pigeon.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

While in the grand scheme of the ongoing fascist takeover, the status of a crosswalk is insignificant, I'm glad that folks keep chalking bc it makes space for meltdowns over "forcing us to accept your rainbow of chalk," that notoriously permanent medium that spreads the gay to all who see it.

Dumb post about the Pulse crosswalk and "forcing us to accept your rainbow of chalk."

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Learned today via a billboard in Cheyenne, WY, that this exists, but I'm delighted to learn that it's failing pretty spectacularly.

Image promoting white supremacist crypto, PepeCoin.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Movie pitch: all the Brontes are emperor penguins, except Branwell is played by a Muppet.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Don't you just love a day wherein you learn something new about your ice cube tray? 🧊🧊

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Everyone should have a song that makes them happy under any circumstances. I have two: "Mr Blue Sky" by ELO and this one, a jaunty, profane lil banger. youtu.be/th4Czv1j3F8?...

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ALESTORM - Fucked With An Anchor (Official Video) | Napalm Records

YouTube video by Napalm Records

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🦇 Leah Richards 🦇 @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I'm in a train station pub and they're playing Old Crow Medicine Show's version of "Wagon Wheel" instead of the lesser Darius Rucker version, and I'm very happy, considering I'm in a train station pub.

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