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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness)

@zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social
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He/him. Writer. Creativity shaman. Artist. Musician. Teacher. From twisted fiction, poetry and artwork to dark aleatoric music and video projects. See more at: writingdarkness.carrd.co

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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 13h
Anaal Nathrakh song name appreciation post: - Between shit and piss we are born - I wish I could vomit blood on you... ...people - Libidinous (a pig with cocks in its eyes) - Create art, though the world may perish - A firm foundation of unyielding despair - You can't save me, so stop fucking trying
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Name a band using only emojis 🌴🍆⛈️
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is your brain full of mind vampires?
A comic all in red, depicting a man with a cut out of his brain with a vampire skulking inside of it. 
Big text at the top says "is your brain full of mind vampires? you are not alone."
The vampire says "bleh! bleh! I am 2000 years old. Bleh! your only desire now is to find my amulet."
The man says "Dang, gotta find that amulet."

Further text at the bottom says "there is no cure for mind vampires but there is support and management. Know the warning signs, get help early."
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me watching all of the Fox X-Men dying in the first 5 minutes as Marvel only has the actors for one day: ‘This is one of the darkest movies ever made’
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Writing Darkness @writingdarkness.ca · 20/09/2026
Our next book club read starts in October! Want to join along with us? 💙📚 www.patreon.com/WritingDarkn...
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Book Club — Michael McDowell's The Amulet | Writing Darkness
Since he is best known for writing Beetlejuice (1988), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), and the novelization of Clue (1985) one might
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Writing Darkness @writingdarkness.ca · 01/10/2026
The newest Consuming Darkness article is out now! Wanna know what Jamie paired with our movie club features? The recipes are all right there for easy printing! www.patreon.com/WritingDarkn...
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Consuming Darkness — Autumn Awakens into Madness | Writing Darkness
Welcome to Consuming Darkness where we make delicious snacks for dark and disturbing movies! Every month I share the recipes I paired to ou
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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ALL OF THE PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE 'John Dies at the End' SERIES ARE $2.99 THIS MONTH IN EBOOK FORM! Catch up before Book 5! Search your device for: John Dies at the End This Book is Full of Spiders What the Hell Did I Just Read If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe
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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You'll want to check this out! 👇
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the problem with trying to imitate the opening speech from Patton is that you're actually trying to ape George C. Scott. And I don't care who you are, you will never sound tougher or more manly than George C. Scott. It's a fool's errand.
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Writing Darkness @writingdarkness.ca · 30/09/2026
Exciting News from Writing Darkness Magazine! The upcoming second issue will be featuring the first part of @ohhellkell.bsky.social 's novella Rakasa and an exciting new serial, Cryptid Fight Club written by @leahfromsd.bsky.social Get the first issue now at www.patreon.com/WritingDarkn...
Art for Rakasa
By Kelly WarnerArt for Crytid Fight Club 
Two Cryptids Enter
By Leah Simmons
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.
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BOO!👻 LAO GATE! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Other men who are knives, for context
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sure, agents struggle to accomplish even the most basic tasks and Facebook recently got caught pretending they built agents by outsourcing tasks to poorly-paid contractors but what if they were cute? What now, skeptics?
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caden cockburn @cadencockburn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
screenshot of google search "Is tweety a boy or girl"
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stovey @doorhook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Galatea from Claymore. the text reads “A SICK ASS SWORD WOULD FIX ME.”
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.
Screenshot from the paywall on a Wired article that reads: “You’ve read your last free article.”
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 10/09/2026
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Rick @combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 28/09/2026
Newtype January 1994
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Gavin G Whiz @loveatra.in · 28/09/2026
A running trend throughout the history of InfoWars is whenever Alex Jones watched a new movie he liked, his conspiracy narrative would noticeably shift to be a lot like the plot of that movie. He has a hard time keeping fiction and reality separated. Onion InfoWars has genuinely fucked with him.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tweet from Alex "Tropical" Forrest 🚉🌴 (@380kmh):

while u begged for treats I studied the blade

(picture of a dog wearing a cloak and in possession of two swords, one in its mouth)
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Illoumalnati @illoumalnati.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's a brief 60s X-Men plot where Jean leaves the team for college and has a normal guy boyfriend. He gets sorta forgotten about but I like to think years later Dark Phoenix is hovering over NY screaming that she is fire and life incarnate and he's like "oh that's crazy, I used to date that girl"
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River Wilde @riverwilde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm published in the latest episode of the 4lph4num3r1c podcast by @zoeticpress.bsky.social. Buzz over and give it a listen! #podcast #horror #wild #haunting #publish #published #author #authorsky #writing www.zoeticpress.com/4lph4num3r1c...
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Episode 28: Wild World — Zoetic Press
Politics can be a messy business, even in the animal kingdom.
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hence why I resigned today.
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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026
if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
RoboCop versus the Terminator 1 (3434)
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amazing Spider-Man 262 (3430)
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Serving in the Senate also badly warps their perspective. They see the other side as their coworkers / colleagues rather than existential opposition figures who are hollowing out the constitution. They should have pledged total non-cooperation after J6.
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Art by Dave Dorman for Aliens: Tribes graphic novel written by Steve Bissette (Dark Horse, 1992).
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I find it weird when people can't laugh at the art they enjoy. It's like not being able to laugh during sex, just seems robotic and weird.
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Demonizing addicts and homeless people because they lower property values? That's a block.
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How many panic attacks does it take to get to an edited resignation letter, Mr. Owl?
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Tootsie Pop Owl Counts to 3
ALT: Tootsie Pop Owl Counts to 3
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 05/06/2023
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You should make cut-ups. The human brain creates meaning out of the madness that poisons ai www.patreon.com/WritingDarkn...
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In the Eye of the Mythos — Chapter 1: The Unnamable Wardrobe | Writing Darkness
We were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth-century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying-ground in Arkham and spe
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/09/2026
They're taking everything we write, all our little thoughts, and using it to teach AI to act and write and live like us which is why i write so much about wanting to die. See you in hell stupid robot
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 24/09/2026
Watch the final trailer for CLAYFACE. Only in theaters October 23.
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
RIP blooddebts
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have basically just retreated in a cocoon this evening and, frankly, I recommend it.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Four panel comic. Panel 1: two guys playing basketball outside. Guy 1 looks off to the side and asks, “is someone in the window?” Panel 2: a creepy ghost woman stands in the upstairs window of a house, watching them. Panel 3: Guy 2 calls up to the creepy ghost, “you wanna hoop?” Panel 4: the ghost is outside playing basketball with them. She bricks a shot from the free throw line. Guy 2 says, “that’s H-O-R.”
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Christopher Broker @christopherbroker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Had such a massive panic attack yesterday it's sorta just hanging over today and making it extremely difficult to get started on anything.
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Zachary Robert Long (Writing Darkness) @zacharyrobertlong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Boy howdy am I excited to introduce people this October to the perfectly paced and out-of-its-mind awesome The Amulet by Michael McDowell. www.patreon.com/WritingDarkn...
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Book Club — Michael McDowell's The Amulet | Writing Darkness
Since he is best known for writing Beetlejuice (1988), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), and the novelization of Clue (1985) one might
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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Simon Bisley
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 21/09/2026
finally, tech layoffs I can get behind. keep it up folks, apparently you're destroying morale at the cop camera company mashable.com/tech/flock-o...
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Flock offers workers voluntary buyouts amid backlash
The surveillance is apparently offering a "generous" severance package.
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