Kiyash Monsef

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

small cabin on tree stumps. Tree stumps look like chickenfeet

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals.

I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.

We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!

imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

Tied with "horaltic" for best bird-related word

What, no We Will Rock You?

Not at all surprised to see that these paintings were a big influence for Robert Eggers on The Witch

Very cool!!! Congrats to both of you!

I Saw the TV Glow is one of the most haunting and haunted movies I've ever seen. This series sounds bananas.

How have I never seen this painting before?

A post it note stuck to a laptop keyboard with "67" written in ballpoint pen on it.

So I'm writing at a cafe in an unfamiliar city, and this little kid, maybe 9 or 10, came up to me with a pen and a stack of post-it notes and asked me if I wanted his autograph, and so of course I said that yes, I absolutely did.

This is what he gave me

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

These are the coolest trees I've ever seen in a painting.

So satisfying, and so narratively perfect

It's so good! Reminded me of watching Misery in the theater. And it sticks the landing SOOOO hard.

"There is a Fountain/It Don't Make Sense"

Oooh love me some Lord Dunsany! That guy was weird before we knew what to call it.

"Taxi" has gotta be similarly ubiquitous. Taxi and coffee.

Kids had an interesting choice for our next bedtime read aloud, but I'm always game for a challenge.

It only took until "hval" before they realized they'd made a mistake.

Happy Winsor McCay's birthday!

Screenshot of a comment from a Word document: Kiyash Monsef Please 50% stet this. The words following "something about" are a complete sentence in invisible quotes. We do not need the word "who" but I think we also don't need that comma that was there before.

What you get when you #copyedit me: fractional stets and invented punctuation

This thread was inspiring.

I've never run anything more ambitious than short creative workshops for middle school kids, but even those can be electric. We're wired to be creative. Too often I think that circuitry gets bypassed by everyday life.

But it's still there.

Ahh thank you for the reminder! We missed the fun on Saturday.

A house with trees behind. A person approaches the house holding a lantern that reflects in the stream running beside. Print is in blue tones.

'Country House at Negishi' - Takahashi Hiroaki, ca. 1936.
#JapaneseArt

LEO NARD BERN STEIN

Hand-painted celestial escape in the Méliès fantasy THE KINGDOM OF THE FAIRIES.

The film was available as an entire presentation or as separate sequences. Fairy extravaganzas were big business on the stage but the movies made them available to all.

I prefer to think of it as "being earnest" but it's probably cringe to say that.

I'm sorry you're facing these questions. It sucks. We have taken our kids out of school every year on lockdown drill day. I know this awful conversation is coming sometime, but we are determined that they should feel safe in school for as long as possible.

Weapons is a helluva good time. The atmosphere is relentlessly creepy, the acting is excellent, the story is expertly told. Unsettling, funny, gross, and hugely satisfying. Reminded me of seeing Misery on the big screen.

YouTube video by Movieclips The Limey (11/11) Movie CLIP - Colours (1999) HD

Just here to say The Limey is a really really good movie and Terence Stamp was perfect in it.

Lots of moments that have stayed with me from this film but this one is the one I think about most often

youtu.be/tJLdaKUBGzo?...

One of the loveliest things anyone's ever said about my books, and a more perfect description of the thing I try to do with stories than any I would have come up with. 🙏 🙏 🙏

The final line of this verse is such a 🗡️