Ell Huang ♠️🤍💜

In the Dark of the Grove. A small-town / folk horror novel about a man who returns home to sell his family's farm, years after he was kicked out for being gay. But more than just old friends, enemies, and bittersweet memories await him. Essen, Indiana has many secrets yearning for the light #Books

#horrorsky

blender piece/comic depicting an introspective mole

mole's thought

have u even been to a bookstore lately u can absolutely judge a book by its cover

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

a cartoon girl with red hair is looking at the camera Alt: Nimona with her hair down in the dark, looking sad then narrowing her eyes and baring her teeth. A pulsing glow beats in her chest.

Nimona hits harder than I remember.

Tempted to respond to #biblicalwomanhood with #biblicallyaccurateangel.

Omg they look so round, fluffy (feathery?) and cute!

Putting this here too:

Running my art or writing through AI is an instant block. So, if you have the urge to do that, even just to 'see how it looks' don't show me or I'll block you.

I won't be associated with it in any capacity I can avoid and I can absolutely avoid you. It's not even hard.

Selfie of me standing with Tim Jacobus, holding up a sketch that he made with a Goosebumps sign in the background.

I met a childhood hero of mine today. Tim Jacobus is one of the major influences who inspired my love for making art. I remember being beyond wowed by the Goosebumps covers. I stared at the covers and tried to draw them, just as much as I spent time reading the books themselves. (If not more so)

Read Banned Books, says the little kitty. 📚 ❤️ 🐈

An expressive watercolour painting of a rooster

A close up of a watercolour painting of a rooster

A rooster, this was a lot of fun to paint 🎨

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

2 drawings, one of Dino nuggies with fries, and one of a bronto shaped sandwich

Dino lunch!!!

gif of the Bishop from 'The Princess Bride' saying 'Mawwiage' Alt: gif of the Bishop from 'The Princess Bride' saying 'Mawwiage'

Idea: Romance with an established couple. They're passionate and loving but tired and busy so things never seem to line up right for the intimacy they want. The end is better scheduling, payoff is a sex scene. It's been awhile though so it's awkward and possibly laughed through but adorable.

Gray plushie mouse toy in the cats' food dish with the kibble, courtesy of kitten Clover.

Clover makes sure her mousie toys are fed. 🤭 (And, yeah, yesterday we found one in the litterbox, as well...)

I wish there was some way we could summon up the collective outrage of the summer of 2020 without, you know, a global pandemic and a bunch of murderous cops.

For the Student Who Said Grammar Doesn’t Matter When People Are Dying What can kill is unclarity. The misplaced modifier, for instance: Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. Did the wind have no hope? Clearly the writer meant, Having no hope, he wasn’t moved by the wind. But someone no doubt had told the writer about the passive voice, to avoid it at all costs, like passion, and the writer, feeling with a chill how costly life can be when we are passive (the lover’s last knock unanswered at the door), opted for this construction. Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. The difference is between mystery and confusion, between the wind’s stillness and a soul that won’t be opened. And why not? Why can’t the wind hope? I don’t know. I just know it matters. Everything matters. What is erasing what. Who is bombing whom. It took me all day to misunderstand correctly: Forgetting their children, the conquerors destroyed them. —Joseph Fasano

It matters.

Books save lives.

I do love a nice, loud, inviting title card. Some movies should bring them back.

#FilmSky📽️

Today only: any 3 chapbooks for $20. Mix and match your favorite poetry and fiction.

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

cover of Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, on a twinkling pink background, bracketed by the words Bram Stoker Award Finalist and Splatterpunk Award Finalist

Realized my @titanbooks.bsky.social demons are finalists for both the Bram Stoker Awards and the Splatterpunk Awards. I'm proud of this book, both as a fiction collection and because of the personal connection readers have shared about, whether in their demon days or remembering them.

Thank you 🖤😈

Anything with teeth is usually a popular choice for horror. But I have Megalophobia and Cetaphobia, so it’s whales for me. They are absolutely massive compared to anything else on the planet, and they have sonar capabilities powerful enough to kill you if you’re close enough.
#HorrorWritersChat

The spring witch, an old woman with a hat covered in roses, pulls the boat of a young girl towards the ruverbank and her garden. A scene from the Snow Queen, illustrated by Pavel Tatarnikov.

A witch is a forest trapped inside a person 🍃 🍂

“I’d never been so jealous of a cigarette in my life, so envious of ash, to glow from the touch of her lips, to fall at her feet and be completely consumed.”

@barlowadams.bsky.social opens our Issue 42 (the answer to everything!) at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social with a banger! 🔥

Oh this is so beautiful! I love the way the feathers look and how 3dimensional the berries pop