Ryan Van Ells

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I try not to let my writing be defined by tropes, positively or negatively. The lives of my characters are, hopefully, complicated and multi faceted and their arcs are defined by their personal journeys while being conscious of any negative trope that could be cropping up as I go

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A constant theme for my writing is that feeling of walking into a place and knowing you're visibly an outsider, that sense that you're subject to derision and scorn for being you in a place not made for you. I think that aspect of the queer experience resonates broadly

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Let me introduce you to Carmine and Prince Aurum!

Carmine is the secretary at the old detective agency. It's the only job she can get in Arkham as a black woman. Her real dream is to run her own circus. She can be closed off but at heart is a playful trickster and creator.

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One of my Black characters is Simon, host of the Simon Speaks radio show. He investigates paranormal encounters.

One of my ace characters is Valentina. She hosts a forbidden Halloween party as part of her plot to overthrow the conservative mayor who has banned Halloween.
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Hi everyone! I’m D. A. Jobe and I write horror and dark sci-fi.

My favorite characters are siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood from NOPE, one of my favorite all time horror movies.

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Lucas is a Mexican-American trans man living in New Jersey who just celebrated his 17th birthday when his older sister got into an accident and sadly passed. The story revolves around his journey through grief and self-discovery while still living under a patriarchal household.
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Hi. I'm Anna. I write mostly cosmic and eco-horror.

I especially liked Zoey in Deadly Beloved - you can listen on the season 21 finale of the No Sleep podcast.

I enjoyed her wit and resilience.

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Rachel from my story, For Keeps, out next year. There's 3 reasons why Rachel should finish with Tabitha, not including Gracie the tattoo. Will she, though?

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In my story "A Knight Errant" our hero is the queer knight torn between his duties and ambitions of a Knight Errant in semi-Arthurian England and his queer self. Questions of queerness and place in society magnify identity issues that are central to that and so much of my work

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Hey, I'm Anna and I am the author of The Assassins Raven and its sequel The Kings Raven, which is coming out very soon.

I like Blade

Candyman. I loved the same actor in the Final Destination franchise too, he was great. 💙 🕯

I'm James Ryan and I'm a horror writer-of-all-trades...

Hands down, Candyman and Blackula, although just about any character Tony Todd or William Marshall played would do me. The main characters in GANJA AND HESS stayed with me, too.

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I'm Trish Wilson, Media Director for The Horror Zine. I write quiet horror and horror comedy. My favorite Black horror character is Ben from "Night of the Living Dead". My favorite LGBTQ+ character is Countess Mircalla Karnstein in "The Vampire Lovers".

Hi all, I'm The Last Something. I mainly write supernatural horror. Monsters, ghosts, all types of ghoulies. If it's gross and eats people, I'll write about it.

The cast of Sinners is an easy answer, but I'd also like to include Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Here this week! I'm Blair, and I'm a comic book writer/illustrator, lately a lot of horror-related comics.

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I’m Ell, I write ace horror, and omg Adelaide and Red from Jordan Peele’s US. Lupita Nyong’o absolutely KILLING it.

I was just watching an analysis last night on why US is such a brilliant, subversive take on traditionally classist slasher tropes too!

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Hello, I'm Ryan. I write all kinds of horror.

Favorite is a hard one but I'm going to go with Sethe from Beloved by Toni Morrison. Incredibly moving and complex work and character

FFer Read of the Day: "Beyond Those Shadowed Hills" by @shedric.bsky.social in @chmmagazine.bsky.social

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Do not seek comfort. Seek knowledge. Seek growth. Seek honesty.

These are painful. They require us to see ourselves as we are, not as we wish to be. But we cannot become the people we wish to be without facing the work and struggle needed to transform and evolve. Pain is the awareness of life.

If you have work on the final Stoker ballot, congrats. If you had something in the preliminary ballot, congrats. If you published something last year, congrats. If you managed to cope with the constant tire fire and get any writing done, congrats. If you wrote today, congrats.

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Thanks for the fun chat!

Plugging my drabble which won the December drabble contest from Anomaly and is up today!

www.patreon.com/posts/decemb...

You feel the darkness latch on and sink into you, growing tendrils and vines harmonizing in concert with your heartbeat, your exhalations, your vengeance.

This is going to be fun.

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My characters have to embrace their darkness. It is the only option left to them as the culmination of their decisions

Cosmic tinnitus

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Jack's darkness stems from uncertainty, an anxiety manifested into all his life decisions that he won't make the right ones, which drives him to not see how his action, or inaction, impacts the people around him. Like many people, it's not innate evil, but selfishness

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Hello all, I'm Ryan. I write horror and dark fantasy. The darkest part of me is the thread of existential dread that thrums through everything

December Drabble Contest Winner: "Subscription Model" by Ryan Van Ells | Anomaly Get more from Anomaly on Patreon

New drabble dropping today. My piece "Subscription Model" is on the Anomaly patreon for free!

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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Earlier today, federal agents shot and killed another civilian in Minneapolis. Join us tomorrow, January 25, at 2 PM to protest ICE. Stand in solidarity with our neighbors in Minnesota and immigrant communities. We demand that ICE stop terrorizing our cities and get out of our communities.

hi if you have a castle or a secret mansion or some other sort of set up and you've been dying to host a writing residency please hit me up, i will organize one for you

bodies of water and/or turrets are key
or wine cellars and cemeteries

if you have the vibes, i will handle the bureacracy