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Tam

@vastarien.bsky.social

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Some kind of weird bird thing? Horror films & literature; post-punk/goth; joyful cliché (they/them) 🖤

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Taking a break, not sure when I'll be back.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Pembrokeshire/Ceredigion borders are amazing. Coast path, too.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hard To Be A God will definitely be a treat for you. I wish I could read that novel again for the first time.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thus is amazing, thank you. Going to check out Exclusion Zone Botanist and others! May I recommend the novel Nova Swing, which is a cybernoir response to Roadside Picnic? M. John Harrison is outstanding.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Looks like where I grew up in west Wales. Beautiful.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 05/08/2026

a lot of talk about people getting more insane but nobody willing to link it to the day in middle school when we were led into a cave to glimpse our future self and decide whether or not we believed in determinism. sometimes I think I’m still back there. what “choice” did I make?

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

May attract stray cats.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Track this poster down and make them explain why Tenet is better than The Shining! That would be hilarious.

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I really hope its a nothing burger and the entire UK just shrugs and refuses to adapt or change in any way. I just don't trust the British not to do the cruellest, stupidest things, because... *behold the entire history of Britain*

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 04/08/2026

Twin Peaks: Sarah Palmer crawls down the stairs.

Sarah Palmer crawls down the stairs. Twin Peaks S02E07 - Lonely Souls.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Strange and surreal ideas with undercurrents of the gothic & bleakness... or frank and unsaccharine visions of the best of us.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

19. If I'm not enjoying it, I'll stop reading it. No hot takes here.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yes, any time period can be interesting. I'm a sucker for the first 30 years of the 20th Century.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

17. Eh, changes all the time too. For now: A Comet In Moominland; Watership Down; Johnny & The Dead; I Want My Hat Back; Howl's Moving Castle.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

16. 5 - parenting an infant has given me less time to myself.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

15. If you haven't already, please read Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. Proto-Weird fiction in a sweltering setting, an exploration of naked tyranny and broken alien consciousness.

Cover of The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells. The Island is the cap of a massive underwater human skull with an elongated bestial jawbone.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

14. Yeah, all the time.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

13. No

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

12. Sure. Ninteen Eighty-Four and the Handmaid's Tale were particular favourites. But also enjoyed Tom's Midnight Garden, Carrie's War, Macbeth, The Canterbury Tales, Othello, The Owl Service.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

11. An impossible number. Eichmann in Jerusalem and William Burroughs Letters 45-59 were the most devastating and intriguing, respectively.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

10. Not really, even books I don't ultimately enjoy have good parts - Gideon the Ninth for example, was silly but had a nice Gothic atmosphere and interesting ideas.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

9. These days, in bed in the evening.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

8. I can't remember that. Probably some reading homework book. The fist book i read in a single day was Danny, Champion of the World.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

7. No, have always read, but Redwall and later Discworld got me obsessive.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

6. Making my way through Joel Lane's The Lost District. Frankly my reading is much slower these days, life gets in the way.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

5. All over, like finding hidden gems in second hand stores

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

4. Horror, but if I'm looking for weird shit in a commercial bookstore it's in general Fiction, Philosophy or bookseller's recommendations.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

3. Easy answer is Horror, but subgenre... Weird Fiction I think, over Cosmic horror which is a fine runner up.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

2. Silly Question, changes all the time. Top 5 from various points in my life: Slaughterhouse 5, The Invention Of Morel, Teatro Grottesco, A Scanner Darkly, The Tombs of Atuan.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

1. I don't really re-read books as an adult, but if it's anything, it's Gormenghast.

Cover of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake showing steps in a castle interior

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🎶Oooo gimme that engagement bait.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Whole sequence where him and his cheeky accomplice bounce ideas for abusive texts off each other. Rhymes 'herpes itch' with 'fuckass bitch'. Wins a Tony.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"This isn't some communist daycare centre! What about your mother, doesn't she want you?"

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The energy I bring to Bluesky

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Caveira Skeleton Crawls and Drags Itself

Alt: Skeleton Crawls and Drags Itself across a city sidewalk.

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Oleg Bulakh | Commissions open @olegbulakh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

wip

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm a stopped clock here, but Seventeen Seconds/Faith/Pornography is the peak of music for me.

Cover of seventeen seconds by the cure

Cover of faith by the cure

Cover of Pornography by the cure

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

downplay a book or movie: The Hasty and the Unwell.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wait, the confederacy was 95% Native American tribes? Fucking wild.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Lifechanging* (*possibly for the worse, we'll see how these heart palpitations pan out.)

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Slavery could easily be reworked with some thought about the setting you want to play in and what ideas you want to convey. Knowing WotC though, it could be 'here's a species that just loves being slaves' hastily re-written when everyone shouts at them.

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The sun needs to explode and do us all a favour

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

'Could a depressed person make *this*?'

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I thought Travis was occasionally very funny, but it was a stopped-clock tells the right time twice a day thing.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Everyone who has ever seen the exorcist three ever at some point in their lives alone in their house- "I BELIEVE IN SLIME!!!"

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's Mädchen Amick right? (remembers) Oh right, Kyle looks great here (remembers) oh, Joan Chen. (remembers)...

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Rhea Seehorn, immortal vampire.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two ducks, one lying down, definitely just resting, probably not dead, the other one standing nearby with no bad intentions whatsoever.

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Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The accusations of scenery chewing here show me that still not enough people have watched The Exorcist III.

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. With none of those big franchises.

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Lost Highway David Lynch

Alt: A house on the beach exploding backwards in Lost Highway by David Lynch

Tam @vastarien.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

'Despite everything, it's still you' is a pretty bittersweet message, but one worth internalising.