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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kink is a way of introducing narrative tension to your sex.

St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They’re calling A Companion in Vice "a strange rectangular object that is vibrating softly and emitting a faint green glow". They’re calling A Companion in Vice "an immediate threat to life and limb."

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You can mitigate 99% of the psychological hazards of the internet by having enough emotional support in close, stable relationships. The trouble is that most people who have those tend to lose the desire to post.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s an angle from which the only thing that really matters when it comes to novel writing is knowing how to get your readers invested in your story and keep them invested.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here on the blurred borders of autumn, fields sing for their due libations of ale and blood. Demand the honouring of our old contracts with them. For harvest needs a balancing and fair payment. Take not corn saints and corn maidens till the tithe is paid. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Equinox

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Companion in Vice is a gothic-noir hybrid novel about psychosexual obsession and mad science, sent for free, a chapter per week, directly to your inbox. Beginning October 9th. FIND OUT MORE HERE - stjohnstarling.substack.com

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s been a long time coming, but at last, we made it. Wipes away a tear.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You’ve got to appreciate the erotic elements of things that are not explicitly or directly sexual, while also not tricking yourself into thinking this somehow makes you above sex.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People just really don’t like it when you’re a guy some maniac pieced together out of mismatched corpse parts.

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Akephallus @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[guy in a labcoat showing rapidly me photos] Lives in a hell of their own creation. Hell of their own creation. Hell of their own creation. Well adjusted. Hell of their own creation. Well adjusted but is currently creating their own special hell. Hell of their own creation.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Posting is simply a matter of recreationally putting words in an order.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unemployed e-celebrities are the wandering rōnin of the modern world.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A large part of what storytelling does for people is inventing ways to give readers permission to explore feelings that they think they are not allowed to have.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No… not the serum *I start slowly and horribly transforming into an unspoiled wetland*

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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is a very good article but I particularly appreciate that they archived Ask Jesus

In some cases, it even pulled down entire publications. Bible Scriptures, a site where BBM had published content attributed to a roster of fake Christian theologians, hosted an AI-powered Jesus, and sold a $97 e-book supposedly penned by a made-up Franciscan scholar clad in a traditional robe — a curious choice, given that Franciscans famously take vows of poverty — has been locked behind a password since May. (BBM sold several other e-books attributed to fake writers on its site Hack Spirit; those volumes are still being sold, but they’ve now been altered so that the author is listed as Lachlan.)

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I bet you would have a great time if I injected you with my experimental serum that turns you feel pain as pleasure, then opened you up and squeezed your heart.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On October 9th, it comes ALIVE. The mad doctor awakens to discover that he has been made into the monster. His assistant's unnatural obsession with him leads to an agonizing betrayal. People close to them start turning up dead.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What good is a novel if it doesn’t scandalize you a little?

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve always found this post funny because “Werner Herzog in a saw trap” is basically what happens in Chapter One of A Companion in Vice.

Tumblr user cheaphalloweencostume: “im gonna put that old man in a situation” and then the old man is 35 and the situation is heterosexual marriage. get real and put werner herzog in a saw trap or stop wasting my time

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A Companion in Vice is actually 100% free of thematic subtext. The Frankensteins are just Frankensteins and the surgery is just meant to be scary mad science stuff. Frankly it’s all a bunch of spooky Halloween nonsense. Don’t worry about it.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Boys love it when you put them in a jar with a leaf and twig to climb on.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The chores required of authors are manifold, the wretchedness of publishing is multiform, overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What's A Companion in Vice about? Well, it's a cozy fantasy novel about, uh, mad scientists (shoves vivisection bench into a nearby closet) the nice kind. Yeah they're just, um, opening a coffee shop together (there’s a crash as one of them injects the other in the throat and he passes out.)

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Having done this for several years now, it's pretty clear to me that one of the biggest problems for the arts in the age of the internet is just how scared writers are of people coming after them because of something they've written - and toning down their writing or not sharing it as a result.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just remember: feelings are NOT real and if you don’t think about them they can’t hurt you.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m in a PotO4PotO (Phantom of the Opera for Phantom of the Opera) relationship. We’re always competing for whose soul is more tortured and who gets to unmask his hideous visage first. We live in adjacent underground lakes beneath the same opera house.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've been pretty quiet about the trans aspects of A Companion in Vice, and, trying now to put some thoughts together, I'm realizing that it's because there's almost no way to talk about the feelings the book is addressing without stepping on some kind of discourse landmine

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A Companion in Vice dares to ask important questions like: Is it possible to piss off every internet poisoned trans discourse poster at the same time? Is being trans like being a franking stein?

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Penis insightful. Penis most frightful. Penis delicious and penis delightful.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just because I’ve built an exact replica of you that I keep in my bedroom and use to play dress-up, that doesn’t mean I like you.

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ @ RCCC : K26 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I finally printed my first little solo project.. It's a flipbook of this animation, with information attached for each Jewish, Greek or Turkish headdress inside. Not a huge project, only 30 pages total, but I'm happy with it. I'll be putting them in my shop on the 15th after I survive tabling RCCC!

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have an important and mysterious announcement for patrons only. Find out what it is here: www.patreon.com/stjohnstarli...

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All the forces of nature are conspiring to prevent me from going to the grocery store this week.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think Dolly Parton died right now on purpose to sabotage Canada.

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the beast with five fingers ✍️ @beastliness.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it's so cool waking up every morning to news of what the mad king has done this time, very 19th century central europe

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In retaliation, I am also implementing universal 50% tariffs across my household (my partner is American.)

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The dark truth at the heart of the human psyche is that people can develop a fetish for anything they feel enough fear and revulsion towards.

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

thankful for the re-release which made this film watchable by modern audiences

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Strategic politics requires that members of a group advocating for themselves take on additional but temporary discomfort and stress for the sake of the advancement of the group - which becomes more difficult the more passive stress is thrust upon the people in question by the thing they're fighting

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I think the battle is long since lost on what the “-coded” suffix means, but I (old movie guy specifically invested in queer coding) seem to be unable to let go of how annoying I find the fuzzy popular use of the term. This is probably a flaw in my character.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Does anyone pronounce AU (the fanfiction category) like a piercing cry?

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It’s literally normal to decorate your gay villain lair with beautiful women trapped in giant crystals.

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Mal [filth edition] @draxoplasm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We hit 50% babeyyyyy!!

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This summer’s hot new craze is nonconsensual body modification. All the kids are kidnapping each other and turning their friends into crimes against nature.

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St John Starling (evil now) @stjohnstarling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Genre media since the 1980s has become so painfully self-conscious.

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