Sal O'Shea (they/them)

This weekend some friends and I came up with the concept of neurodivergent poltergeists and now I cannot stop thinking about it. #HorrorWriters

HOLYOKE AGAINST ICE/ HOLYOKE CONTRA ICE On June 17th, 2025 The following resolution went before Holyoke city council https://www.holyoke.org/.../holyoke-city-council-meeting.../ 70. Jourdain, Vacon- Ordered, that the following Resolution of...

HOLYOKE AGAINST ICE/ HOLYOKE CONTRA ICE!

#holyoke #sanctuary #fuckice #ma #holyokema #handsoff #WESTERNMA

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HOLYOKE AGAINST ICE/ HOLYOKE CONTRA ICE · The Real Majority Holyoke On June 17th, 2025 The following resolution went before Holyoke city council https://www.holyoke.org/.../holyoke-city-council-meeting.../ 70. Jourdain, Vacon- Ordered, that the following Resolution of...

I'm attending The Real Majority Holyoke's event, “HOLYOKE AGAINST ICE/ HOLYOKE CONTRA ICE” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/therealmajor...

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Pick one area of need where you can help in your community. Then do that. I learned this from you, @prisonculture.bsky.social. A few times a week, I get out of the house and help in education, the area I picked. This weekend I'm helping at the Friends of the Library book fair. Beats doom-scrolling.

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

Have you listened to any audiobooks lately? I would love to hear your thoughts on audiobook narration via the link above.

Hi everyone,

As part of my dissertation, I am researching audiobook narration.

If you have listened to an audiobook within the last two years, or have previously been a frequent audiobook user, I would really appreciate your thoughts!

You can find the survey here:
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In my horror work, the one common theme when it comes to friendship is ✨mutual trauma✨

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In my horror work, the one common theme when it comes to friendship is its necessity. We can't save the world alone. We can't defeat evil alone. Only when decisively and confidently organised, can our collective talents and skills bring down even the worst of monsters.

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSS my moment has come!

Friendship is the catalyst in all my books. Much more so than love, romance: it's the friends who step forward and do the right thing.
And sometimes it's the friends you don't expect. Richard and Mina, Emily and Gemma, Brandon and Magali.

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#HorrorWritersChat Listen to the friend who knows what they're talking about.

...found family is often stronger and more supportive than biological family (especially for the outcasts in a homogenous community).

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Me typing this out: "Do I... do I ship them now?"

How about two different time periods in the same work?

I think Becky (ND teen in the 1980s) and Frankie (GNC teen in the 1810s) would get along well. Both of them are "say what you're thinking" types, and I think Frankie would help Becky realize she's braver than she realizes.

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Greetings #HorrorWritersChat

I’m Mary, writer of cosmic, gothic and Weird horror.

What I write won’t be for everyone, so I don’t know what folks might say about my writing.

But if my obituary doesn’t say “weird” at least once, I’ll haunt them until it does 👻

Queer ghosts would necessitate queer death which I try to avoid because we have enough of that across genres. That said, a *small* percentage of my ghosts are queer in some way. #HorrorWritersChat

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I write weird fiction, cosmic horror, sci-fi, and urban fantasy, queer romance, sometimes with a sense of humor influenced by Douglas Adams and Christopher Moore. My obituary would say “that was weird.”

Good afternoon, #HorrorWritersChat, I'm back!!

I'm Vesper Doom, a queer, autistic writer of queer, autistic Horror/Scifi/Fantasy.

Obituary will include these words about my writing: "evocative", "sensory," and "dark."

Hellllllllll00000000000oooo #horrorwriterschat

It is I, Yanni. Back to let you know that I write dark stuff, various genres of horror, and well, anything I want really.

My obit is easy: What. The. Fuck.

Hoi, welcome back! I am J. Neira, cozy horror author, rural Minnesotan hicklib, & slush reader for Graveside Press!
Gosh, my obituary. "Cozy horror." "Compassionate horror." "Anti-AI."
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#HorrorWritersChat - My name is Trish Wilson and I'm the Media Director for The Horror Zine. I write quiet horror and horror comedy. I also write erotica, sometimes erotic horror. My obituary in three words?

Slippery When Wet

I'm Sal and I write about ghosts and the queer people who see them. I would hope that my obituary would use the terms "spooky," "gay," and "gayer" to describe my writing someday. I worry that instead the three words will be "never been published."

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Get the Facts: The Truth About Transition-Related Care for Transgender Youth | A4TE As extremist lawmakers in state after state try to attack our transgender community’s basic health care, the misinformation is rampant.

"(bans on transition-related health care) attack our most basic values of privacy and control over our own bodies, and they’re based on misleading or even outright false ideas."

Fantastic article from @transequality.bsky.social in 2023 dispelling myths about transgender youth.

FEMA giving out $600M to states so they can build migrant detention facilities Administration has leaned on local partners in GOP-led states to rapidly scale up immigration detention system

FEMA is using our taxes—intended for disaster relief—to build concentration camps.

While they shift focus towards creating “more facilities like Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’” they’re failing to support Texas and are intentionally withholding critical relief from states with Democratic governors.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Also spare some hate for tricia mclaughlin, who as the spokesperson for all of DHS's outrages gets up every day to slander the victims with totally insane lies while the media can't muster anything stronger than "she provided no evidence for these claims"

Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador He called it "an encounter with torture and death."

Absolutely horrific. Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador

Munroe Bergdorf On Trump 2.0 And The War On Woke: “Your Exhaustion Is Precisely The Point” “To me, witnessing Trump’s accelerated targeting of trans people feels like looking into the future and seeing what will happen to our politics here – if we don’t start fighting back together.”

“In controlling trans people’s freedom of identity, the establishment is sending a warning shot to all of those who dare to live a life outside of prescribed gender roles and expectations. Freedom for trans people, ultimately, means freedom for everyone.”

Freedoms for all of us require solidarity.

Me joining Bluesky: I wonder if there's a chat specific to ND writers.

Me having done like two QWC: Oh yep, here it is.

This is so real. I also feel this with cis-het characters sometimes.