god's coldest hole

opens her lips over his, flavors flood his mouth—first chocolate, then sweet rum, then a minty tongue. He gathers her in his arms and lifts her from his lap. Lips locked on hers, slick with filling, he places her on the table, directly atop the gazpacho. She squeals and falls back, pulling him after her. Rattling the cutlery, groping for purchase on the roast duck, he kisses her, leaving a trail of melted chocolate from her neck to her bodice. “Hurry,” she says. She rustles open her skirts with a puff of Fauniche perfume, a delicate, floral scent that perfectly complements the wine lingering on his tongue. (The bishop’s wife, it’s known across the overcity, is an excellent sommelier.) She clutches his hair and pushes his face into her petticoats, where, diligent as a bee, he burrows through petals of lace and silk. --The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

Oh, huh. I wonder how I missed that back when I was trying to find and watch as many horror and horror-adjacent anthologies as I could.

The Karloff one is from the early '60s, and had a mix of crime and supernatural stories.

The Boris Karloff-hosted anthology? I stopped part way through the second season, I think, but the first season was far better than I expected.

Sapphire and Steel has a weird SF premise, but a lot of it may as well be ghost stories. It's very good.

Along those lines, The Stone Tape is a mostly excellent SF horror TV movie with the premise that stones record events. Just beware the ugly bit of anti-Japanese racism mid-way through.

A square trans pride flag with rounded corners that says "Don't Die Wondering"

I just bought a dozen of these stickers to see how they'd come out. If they come out well, I'm going to order a bunch more to give away (in both trans and lesbian) 😊

"'norse symbols are dogwhistles' doesn't make sense because pop culture"
"some of the wokest people are neo-pagan"
That guy doesn't know the first thing about neo-nazis

You haven't studied shit.

Men, why try to look cool reading just any book when you can look bad ass as all hell with one of my book covers?

Art by Matthew Revert on both

Extremely badass illustration technique

Zophar's Domain and Home of the Underdogs did more to shape my taste in games than anything else.

Dir. George A Romero, 1981

She shudders to imagine a life on the fringes of the dead world, without the swarming purr of the city, the limitless human and nonhuman bodies devouring, growing, joining and dividing, an infestation that spreads from the grand maples of Hart Park to the toxic depths where even the bravest exterminators never tread. --The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

The Works of Vermin is great

Stock photo of a middle aged man in a blue windbreaker with "FBI" printed on it in yellow. He's sitting at a laptop. An unholstered handgun is on the table next to him.

Fair enough

Hell yeah, congrats!

She. Brianna Wu is a vile human being, but that's no excuse to misgender her.

Craterellus tubaeformis - Trumpet Chanterelle

Craterellus tubaeformis - Trumpet Chanterelle #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

You could try listening to @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social

"Why is everyone jumping down my throat"

From r/horrormovies, post titled "My fiancé and I finally made the couple's costume we always joked about" and its one person dressed as Mike with his back turned from the Blair Witch Project, the other person dressed as the cellar wall

Reddit - thank you.

Once again, do you understand what happens to cis women during perimenopause and why that's relevant to your ignorant bigotry?

I'm going to throw you a bone here and see if you can't work out the connection: what happens to a cis woman's body during perimenopause.

Oh look, more bullshit.

You don't have a goddamned clue what you're talking about.

And get that fucking rainbow out of your bio, pig.

He chose not to veto it, despite knowing the harm it was going to cause. Fix your heart and stop defending the willful murder of children.

Spoken like a true bigot.