cass | in my cryptid era

Just walked past something labelled as “the ultimate video game bus” and I must admit that I didn’t know video game buses of any quality level existed.

Protect trans Americans of all ages. If you support these fucking Nazi pricks, you're one of them.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Going on Shark Tank to pitch a big box for billionaires who love setting money on fire to shovel cash into, where from their POV it looks like it's combusting, but actually it's being funneled into the wallets of anyone who has to keep a running tally as they add basic staples to their grocery cart.

I can attest to this! It's not just restaurants, either--there are almost always bags available from bakeries and grocery stores as well, and the grocery stores will often have specific produce/meat/dry goods bags on offer. Definitely worth downloading if money is tight 💚

Many thanks to @mikeflanaganfilm.com for taking the time to talk to a roomful of writers at the @wgfoundation.bsky.social library tonight! You're one of my favorite screenwriters, & your advice on sustaining horror in TV will stick with me. Loved hearing about the genesis of The Life of Chuck, too!

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Thank you. Crossing my fingers that it will be a painless process.

Sigh. Someone shared the Film Freeway link in a writers group I'm in, and in my overtired, desperate for work state the "award ceremony at the Guild Theater" part convinced me it was legit. Seeing this 2 hours later I have no idea how I missed so many red flags. Time to try to get a refund, I guess🙃

America’s pastbedtime

DODGERS BABEYYYYYY!!!!!!

Scam Busters please help I was told this baseball game would be 9 innings long

Shoe scraper gets MVP I’m calling it

the only thing that involves more pitches without anybody winning is a screenwriting career

[slaps side of game 3] you can fit at least two full ball games in this thing

…i started making this during the 15th inning 🫠 hashtag baseball

The [time to eat an entire sheet of tiramisu in bed] meme, edited to say “time to play some extra innings YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA” and then quoted with “illness.” Baseballs have been edited over the photo of tiramisu.

Fun fact the time between now and the beginning of this game is the same as between the beginning of this game and the construction of the pyramids

I can no longer remember a time before this game.

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

Guess what happened to me AGAIN.

This time the scammers forgot which fake company they were posing as between the job listing & the email address they contacted me from.

I'm so goddamn tired.

Screenshot from Werewolves Within (2021). Park Ranger Finn Wheeler inspects some structural damage inflicted by a werewolf.

Screenshot from The Black Phone (2021). The Grabber grins in his demonic mask.

Day 16 was a double feature for me! I watched Werewolves Within, which I'd never seen before, and which was an almost perfectly balanced comedy-horror directed by Josh Ruben. Loved it.

Also rewatched The Black Phone in advance of seeing the sequel later in the week. Just as creepy as I remembered.

Screenshot from Vivarium (2019). The Boy watches a strange black and white pattern on a TV screen.

For day 15, I watched Vivarium. It wasn't for me.

Screenshot from #Alive (2020). Joon-woo sits with his back against a blood-smeared apartment door.

Day 14 was another rewatch of the South Korean zombie movie, Alive. You'll just have to imagine the hashtag in front of the title, because I don't want to summon a stream of bots by hashtagging a seemingly random word.

Big fan of this one. Highly recommend.

I got extremely behind on updating this series of posts, so I'll start a new thread from here.

For day 13 I rewatched They Live, which was probably a bit of a lazy choice seeing as I very recently caught a screening of it at my local horror movie night... but honestly? It's a classic for a reason.

Anthony Oliveira as the Babadook being manaical

"the Babadook, like most queer people, has made a zine"—@meakoopa.bsky.social

I want to ask the people blasting jesus-centric country music next door if they think it’s neighborly to make so much noise after midnight, but I fear that passive-aggressively complaining about the noise will make me even more of a giant dork than the people blasting jesus-centric country music

What Does POTS Stand For? POSTURAL: Related to the position of your body ORTHOSTATIC: Related to standing upright TACHYCARDIA: Increased heart rate SYNDROME: A group of symptoms

It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid.

POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.

Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

…do I even want to know what I’ve missed?