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If you like weird, sad poetry that tells a story, you should check out my new chapbook from Bottlecap Press!
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I bet the Creed he looked up was AI-generated.

The poster for Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. We see half a dark-haired girl's face, slightly out of focus, with a drop of blood dribbling from her mouth.

Day 7
Movie: A sweet, gentle romantic comedy about finding love when no one understands you. Great music, too.
Vampire: Literally me as a vampire! I also love how her family comes together to support her (eventually) even though she lives outside their norms.
#31NightsofVampires

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

And on a more depressing note, I wonder how much that horse girl energy was influenced by Tolkien's WWI experience. He probably had to see so many horses just discarded on the battlefield, maybe without even getting names...😥

One of my favourite parts of Return of the King is when we find out that Bill's okay. Because I was legit worried up until that point.

Poster for the AMC+ TV show Interview with the Vampire. Louis and Lestat are all up in each other's space, staring with shiny eyes off into the gaslit distance.

Day 6
Episode 1: Fascinating changes to put the story in a modern context. Unsure how I feel about the interview itself, but Louis is already 10× more sympathetic than the OG (or Emo Brad Pitt).
Vampire: Lestat is properly predatory, but, I worry, too clever. Time will tell.
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Poster for Interview with the Vampire (1994). Half of a pale, fanged face is seen above a nighttime city street.

Day 5
Movie: Surprisingly close to the nastiness of the book, but doesn't quite capture the depth of its nihilism. And it's a tad less gay, while retaining plenty of camp.
Vampire(s): Brad Pitt is a boring mope. Kirsten Dunst is a prodigy. Tom Cruise is just being his best self.
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Phobos - The Doctor scares a fear god to death! A fun, fast-paced adventure, like the rest of this series so far. The shorter format only allows for fairly simple stories, but they've all got great pacing.

The poster for Nosferatu (1922). A fun-looking guy stares out of a shadowy painted backdrop.

Day 4 (delayed by travel)
Movie: Timeless. Some of the most beautiful uses of shadow and light I've ever seen. Will have to re-watch when I'm less jet-lagged.
Vampire: Obviously, the most classic type. I love how independent he is--no need for familiars when you can tote your own coffin!

The Italian poster for Mimí: Prince of Darkness. Main feature of the poster is a side view of the main character, a gaunt young man with the hand of a skeleton over his mouth. The rest of his silhouette is filled in with pictures of the rest of the cast.

Day 3 (delayed by travel)
Movie: A sweet romance between two outcast teens slowly devolves into a bloody Gothic tragedy. I loved the atmosphere, but wanted a bit more substance.
Vampire: Another case of not-technically-a-vamp (probably), but he sure can dress like one!
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On a grayscale background of a stack of books are the Banned Books Week Coalition, Unite Against Book Bans, and Let Freedom Read Day logos. Text reads: October 11, 2025. Banned Books Week. Oct. 5 - 11, 2025. UniteAgainstBookBans.org/let-freedom-read-day

#LetFreedomReadDay is in ONE WEEK! On 10/11, take at least ONE action to help defend books from censorship and speak up for those who make them available. Find resources/tools + actions you can take in just 5 mins: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-read-day #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans

The poster for Vampire's Kiss (1988). Nicolas Cage in '80s yuppie garb stares open-mouthed through some kind of torn paper or something.

Day 2:
Movie - Much better than the memes led me to believe. A bizarre, but shockingly smart, black comedy about how patriarchal power dynamics warp reality.
Vampire - In some ways he's not really a vampire, but in other ways, he's the realest vampire of all, ya know?
#31Nights31Vampires

Poster for Let the Right One In (2008). A vaguely human, ambiguously feminine figure places a hand on fogged glass.

I've decided this year's Spooky Season is going to be all about vampires.

#1 - Movie: A moody, beautiful, bloody fable about the perils of puberty.
Vampire: Classic lore (except she doesn't seem to need vampiric baptism to turn people), definitely a monster, ambiguous in multiple ways.

Sedlec Ossuary, a medieval Czech Chapel decorated with human bones, seen from outside. It's built in a Gothic style, with four black spires topped with golden skull-and-crossbones symbols.

Starting off spooky season by visiting a spooky place!
(Actually a very beautiful and reverential place, but, ya know--skeletons.)

Related: did you know that binging early Supernatural is the best way to dissociate on a 12-hour flight? It's recommended by doctors or something.

Out of all the "before they were famous" actor cameos on genre TV, Sterling K. Brown on Supernatural is one of the most interesting to revisit. Even in 2006, he seemed like an Oscar-nominated actor who somehow wandered onto a CW set.

Obviously, Catherine Tate could've done it.

I think my love for Vigilante in the Peacemaker show has reached an embarrassing level...

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Middle Earth lore, especially as it relates to Biblical cosmology and Tolkien's war experience
2. Doctor Who
3. How and why horror fiction is the key to understanding human history and culture

Immortal Beloved - Eight & Lucie land on a planet where some geezers are cloning themselves to live forever. Way too much exposition for such a simple concept. Paul McGann gushing about his son's acting debut on the CD extras is cute, though.

Image of the Fendahl also deserves a mention.

We have reached that all-too-brief season of the year when I can actually enjoy being outside. This is great news for my fitness goals and terrible news for my skin.

I went and published a poetry chapbook! It's got a sestina in honour of David Lynch, and a sneaky little Cybermen reference (I won't tell you where)! bottlecap.press/products/dre...

Dreaming in the Wastes, by S.L. Alderton Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. No Eden is free from decay, and no Apocalypse is devoid of beauty. In this ever-changing world, life and death often blend and tangle together in t...

Only $10 for a physical copy, $3.50 for digital download! bottlecap.press/products/dre...

The Long Walk into the dark Before The Hunger Games, before Squid Game, before Battle Royale, and even before The Running Man, Stephen King came up with possibly the simplest and most brutal version of the familiar “dea…

Wrote about The Long Walk. Can't stop thinking about The Long Walk.

Horror of Glam Rock - A short and sweet base under siege story with some nods to '70s music--and, more importantly, Bernard Cribbins! A back-to-basics episode for a back-to-basics new series.

Sylvester McCoy showing up to an anti-Trump protest has to be one of the most on-brand things a former Doctor has ever done. I 🖤 him so much.

I'm jealous of those covers!

Main difference between the Long Walk dystopia and our current one is that our fascists aren't smart enough to ban Kierkegaard.