The Deer Is Messed Up

Don't deerspair, friends, we will be BUCK and roe-ing to go! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #WillLiveAGAIN #SOon...

OMG YES!!!!

Thanks to everyone who shared, posted, & made deer puns with us! Sadly we didn't make funding this time, but MESSED UP DEER will return- they are always waiting, in the woods.

In the meantime, if you'd like a spooky deer for the wall, here you go!

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Well, it's a bummer that @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social and my book of MESSED UP DEER didn't fund this time. Obviously, we're blue. But we're not giving up completely, and hope to revive the project soon when we're ready to tackle it again. Stay tuned, deers! ❤️🦌

Thanks to everyone who backed or shared. <3 I am bereft to not be able to horrify you all with my scary deer...YET.

Stay tuned for the next time I Fawn over this project, and hopefully we will (eventually) Get. Them. Deer.

*looks between this and @messedupanthos.bsky.social *

Hey @messedupanthos.bsky.social *eyes emoji*

From @kayv.bsky.social, a story to make you NEVER want to go in the water ever again! Or on a dock. Or in the woods. But especially not in the water, even if it's part of your job... 👀🦌🏊‍♀️ (plus some extra feel-punching and WTF moments!!)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Happy Friday, friends! Here we have a teaser for
@noirbettie.bsky.social 's creepifying tale that's just like the meme... horror... set in a forest... there's a deer... THE DEER IS FUCKED UP. 👀🦌Prepare for visceral horror! (I promise the cat is okay in the end!)

tinyurl.com/messedupdeer

Are you READY for some creepy dark fantasy from Ashe Olivier Deng (@ashesandmochi.bsky.social) featuring dead gods, ugly magic, and of course, (witchy) messed up deer??? OF COURSE YOU ARE. 👀🦌 #TheDeerIsMessedUP

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LOOK AT HIM. HE'S GOT A LITTLE WEB 🥹

Messed Up Anthologies Run by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor of FennWolf Press; we publish themed anthologies, beginning with THE DEER IS MESSED UP.

Hey DEER friends! If you've wanted to watch the videos of messed up deer (trailers, teasers... maybe MORE to come 👀) I've now made a YouTube channel to collect them all in once place! #TheDeerIsMessedUP

www.youtube.com/@MessedUpAnt...

IT'S WEDNESDAY, MY DEERS! 🦌 We have a teaser trailer for @alexwoodroe.com 's messed up fairy tail—er, tale—about a foolish man who tries to capture a fae bride. SHE IS DISPLEASED WITH THIS. He's doe-ing to rue the day he tried this shit... 😈 #TheDeerIsMessedUP

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SPACE DEER!!!! 🚀🦌 👁️ yesss...

We would love to see ALL settings/time periods/vibes. :D As long as it's got messed up deer! (Deer POV? 👀Oooh...)

So yes, dark fantasy is welcome too! (You are gonna DIG Ashe Olivier Deng's story... it's dark fantasy that's fucked up.)

Humor is also okay!

Thank you for this information!

In that case, we will probably say no to have wendigos used in the theme, so we can be respectful of the Indigenous traditions. (Neither editor is Native.)

As always, we appreciate folks sharing things like this to help us make this the best it can be! <3

Thank you, very glad to hear, I definitely don't want to tell folks what to and not to do, but 1- it's nice to have the tools to know what to engage with and 2- it's very heartening to see things like this respected.

Ok, thanks - as a heads up, it's a closed tradition, so it may be good to note if they're being allowed so that folks can know if they want to engage with the anthology - it isn't widely known that it is indeed closed, but can be very offensive for people to see, especially played for horror

Thank you for this information!

In that case, we will probably say no to have wendigos used in the theme, so we can be respectful of the Indigenous traditions. I appreciate you reaching out!

promotional image showing an ereader and a paperback with mock-up covers of a creepy deer, with yellow banners on either side reading "early deer special! ebook & PB for $25!"

And if you're eager to get an ebook AND paperback copy, there's a SUPER early deer special going on for a few more days!

tinyurl.com/messedupdeer

screenshot of the stats on THE DEER IS MESSED UP Kickstarter for May 6th, 2025 — it shows a statistic of 15% funded, 61 bakers, and 28 days left to go

a promo graphic for THE DEER IS MESSED UP showing a deer with white eyes and broken antlers rising from a shadowy pool of water in a misty woods

also HYPE TRAIN!!! We're at 15% OMG!! 👀

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if you think it counts as a deer, sure! (although we'll be sure to clarify in the guidelines as well — thanks for asking!)

whooo!!

Want a sneak-peak teaser trailer for @amulderwrites.bsky.social 's #TheDeerIsMessedUP story? 👀🦌 Of course you do. It's gonna punch your heart through your ribs and scare the socks off you.

Back the Kickstarter so you can read it (and weep/scream/etc)!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

😂🤣🦌🦉

Um hey @messedupanthos.bsky.social

So my friend @probablyharmless.bsky.social is editing and hrnrnrn I may need to revisit a story.

LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! #TheDeerIsMessedUP

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THE DEER IS MESSED UP An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.

Want to be part of the terror??? 👀 Help us reach our base funding goal so we can open to general submissions (in June) and read YOUR messed up deer stories!! @messedupanthos.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

THE DEER IS MESSED UP An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.

It's alive... ALLLLIIIVE!!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #horror #booksky

Come check out @probablyharmless.bsky.social and my epic horror anthology—full of messed up deer! 🔥🦌

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