Scribbler Hackit

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

Damn do I ever have exactly that, but it's still in edit. Hopefully there will be more future calls like this. 🤞

🤣🤣🤣 I left out the needed apostrophe on 'Ray! (archaic rendering of Hurray!), and look at the understandable confusion I caused. 🤣

Ray for batshit fic!!

The silver lining of human civilization eating itself from inside is that at least the kitties will outlive us.

Alt text: a gorgeous, grumpy spotted lynx with two even grumpier lynxlings looking on from inside a nearby tree trunk.

On it like a car bonnet.

I have really been tempted to give AHS another try recently and now I know where to start. Thanks!

Yeah: ew.

WE
WARNED
YOU

Oh well… SOLD.

a man with long curly hair and a beard is eating a piece of cheesecake ALT: a man with long curly hair and a beard is eating a piece of cheesecake

I think that’s why Ed Gein is really doing it for me—defending the need for/existence of horror fiction while at the same time making the audience complicit à la Inglourious Basterds.

Yeah, I can see that. It’s a weird intersticial space for us non-Xians who love horror even when the Trinity is the salvation/good guy (eg Exorcist, The Omen, both of which I adore). I kinda like the way the contradictions pull me apart.

I am def putting both your recs in my queue!

I can’t disagree about the medieval Xianity thrust of MM, even as a rank atheist suspicious of it all, for sure! Maybe my studies in medieval EU theatre made me more interested/invested. I’d watch it again happily. I think MF gets real academic/theoretical at times, and that’s the aspect I love.

I think “leaning into other genres more” is okay for me—see early aughts K-horror, which was equal parts or more standard character-driven drama. Really love that. Somehow AHS just sad-tromboned for me, oh well.)

(Unless it’s In a Violent Nature, which I adored, but I like slow stuff, and that’s not a series anyway. 🤣)

Slasher is the one horror subgenre that doesn’t do much for me anymore, unless the 60s/70s art horror Italians are in on it, but I will look for that on your rec!

But the “hard to summarize” of Murphy is spot on. I think the fact his stuff generates such wildly contradictory takes is in itself fascinating…which is distilled to a point in Gein, his latest.

Yeah, I get that. It’s soooo subjective. For me, Midnight Mass and Usher blew my mind (the more so because I know literal Poe scholars personally who were also blown away by MF’s rendering of Usher). Horror TV is still more miss than hit for me, a lifelong horror lover. It’s so weird.

(And Ryan Murphy stuff is quite stinky…until one recognizes he’s doing grand gignol and accepts that GG has a right to exist; that said, most of his stuff misses me…hard. Ratchet and Gein, however, I can’t help loving.)

Tbf I barely made it thru S1. It took me MONTHS. I hear some later seasons have more zest, but AHS S1 was for me proof that horror tv series suffer from a weird blandness that ofc horror books and movies never have.

Until Flanagan appeared, at least.

FFFFFFFUUUUUCK

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Agree, and makes sense, given the underground comic refs at its heart.

Yep, no doubt will earn much scorn, but I like flicks that make the audience complicit that way. Some of those lines are pitch perfect. Lots of layers and reads, so I approve. I love contradiction complexity.

Great title.

Indeed!

My MC because he's very handy with an innate engineering aptitude (which he "wastes" on restoring books ,but I KNOW he cld start a fire and craft a fishing rod if stranded).

(I really am at the point of wanting to take strangers on the street by the collar and insisting they read Wilson’s stuff because this is the kind of creative greatness that mostly gets shut out of SFF trad pub, with a handful of exceptions.)

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Wilson

Mine/SP: kinda historical kinda contemporary (if that makes sense) queer friendship and search-for-love take set in Dublin with LOTS o’ books. myriadofsimonhansen.com

Another’s/TP: which I just finished and must rave abt (poetic Gilgameshian spec fic with unequivocal gay soldiers) (image). READ IT.