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Down to just 400 left to go? Yay. This is pretty much just our food and gas budget for the trip. And any other expenses, so if it gets pushed past the goal number, I certainly won't be complaining, as it'll mean a bit more time to recover in. If you can still kick in anything, please do.

What a lovely review! Thank you so much, Disco! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Halloween image from RiffTrax featuring zombie Vanilla Ice and Mummy Rollergator

Happy Halloween from your pals at RiffTrax!

Parents be sure to check your kids’ candy before they eat any!! There might be good stuff in there.

I'm truly delighted every time people realize that that "Godspeed! You Woke Moralists!" guy is a giant piece of shit.

Some folks will put up with any level of misogyny from even the most unimpressive men as long as they call themselves leftists and can crack a 2 chuckle joke every now and then.

Folks, this is an amazing read! Victoria is such a mess and so in over her head and I think she’s going to have all of Ravenkirk under her stylish heel by the time this series wraps

A candy bar split in 2 with book covers badly photoshopped into the middle !PARENTS! Check your kids' candy this Halloween! Some sick bastards are hiding their published works inside candy bars to get kids hooked on humorous scifi novels. If you find Red Darkling or Bonkpocalypse in your kids' Snickers or Twix, don't let those spoiled brats have all the fun. Remove the books carefully and read them yourself while scarfing that sweet, sweet HFCS. This message brought to you by the No Bandwagon Left Behind ad council

A goth woman in a black and purple dress looks on in shock as a large black tarantula crawls across a stone shelf. Behind her, mist rises, obscuring the houses in the background. A full moon hangs just above her head. Illustrated by Lauren Walke. Text reads: Top - Vivian Moira Valentine Middle - Shadows Over Ravenkirk Bottom - 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm

A promotional image for Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm by Vivian Moira Valentine. It depicts the book's cover, featuring a goth woman and her faithful tarantula against a misty cityscape. Text reads: "A funny, flirty, freaky paranormal romp with everything to satisfy both the goth and the goth-at-heart reader, Shadows over Ravenkirk is the most fun I've had reading in ages!" - Bitter Karella, Creator of The Midnight Pals From the author of the acclaimed books, The Amelia Temple Series Haunting your favorite bookstore October 31.

A moodboard for Shadows Over Ravenkirk by Vivian Moira Valentine. It depicts a scary Edwardian mansion, a woman in a black dress lighting candles, Christopher Lee as Dracula, and the demon Astoroth as depicted by Mike Mignola in the Hellboy comics.

OUT NOW!

The first book in my Gothic paranormal fantasy serial Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm is available today wherever books are sold!

Join Victoria as she investigates her mysterious inheritance in a haunted seaside town!

books2read.com/SOR1

Mirrored werewolf transformation with a key tied around the wrists of the two characters. A graveyard scene is bellow, ferns flowers surround them

Loup Garou (werewolf) transformation inked in time for Halloween

It's Halloween, and the entire first Episode of Scarlet Hollow is free for you to explore on Steam.

Its branching narrative web is so intricate that you'll see less than 15% of the game in a single playthrough.

So get lost for a bit, and see where the road takes you.

Welcome home.

Trump two happened because NYT cynically platformed every worst reactionary centrist impulse as “just asking questions” pieces. WaPo wants to leapfrog to the top of that niche, and that’s specifically why Bezos bought the paper— to convince liberals it’s virtuous to hate the poor in advance of 2026.

This year's Halloween costume is an effective book marketer.

#bsnm 📢📚💙

The best way for married people from different cultural backgrounds to navigate complicated relationship issues is IN PUBLIC, very PASSIVE AGGRESSIVELY, with maximum CREEPY SOCIOPATH vibes. Tell complete strangers that your beloved is ON HER FUCKING OWN, no skin off your nose.

We have less than two days until Nov 1. Give, volunteer, and spread the word.

The Republican party’s new slogan!

The Angry Noodle - Posts for the speculative, cooked to al dente. *noodle noises* The home for writers, lovers of speculative fiction, and all-around angry noodles. Posts available when I'm cooked to al dente.

Hi.

I can't find my old post about it to pin it, so fuck it, we making a new one.

I write about a mix of speculative fiction and social issues, as well as writing prompts, worldbuilding, and the occasional review of books or TV shows.

Link here if you're interested. 🙂

theangrynoodle.com

And, as always, there is The Thread

My books, The Amelia Temple Series, tend to get referred to as YA, so I won't rec them, but I do have a queer gothic serial starting tomorrow that I think is really great

Sadhbh Frost's debut novel The Wolf Bane just came out. I had the privilege of beta reading it and it's fantastic

The works of Abra Conwell (writing as Jessica Conwell) are always at the top
of my list

Ghost Flower starts a series, but I would read Cluster and Three Sharp Knives first. They aren't supernatural at all, but lead into the others and are VERY good

Okay. Four days left, and a minimum of 2,105 left to go. Please, help signal boost this if you can. Tag in all those cis friends who say they care and want to support. Bend some of your parasocial relationships a litte. Anything, if it helps. Here's the link again: gofund.me/74494d4f

Remember my thread about Vance?

Remember how I talked about the people of Appalachia being so important to unions and workers’ rights?

This is what I was talking about, and this is what Vance knows nothing about.

world leaders approach the president like they’re trying to give a cat ear drops

I had this conversation with my dad a couple of months ago. He said we need to get back to our founding principles, back to the Constitution.

I said, “If the Constitution has to have amendments for women and Black people to have rights, then maybe we need a better founding document.”

Now look, I understand your point, but I feel you're being very unfair to my pet dead white man (1/27)

My granddad called them “neckerchiefs”.

BREAKING NEWS Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately' The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada. Oct. 29, 2025, 9:46 PM EDT by Katherine Doyle | NBC NEWS

I’m watching the Netflix nuclear war movie right now and saw this lol anyway wear your nice clothes now, don’t save them

And on Sunday, they all went to church.

Too many people want politicians to be their heroes. They think the right one will single-handedly save us.

Community will be what saves us, not some goober cosplaying as a progressive while sporting a Nazi tat and working for Blackwater.

See... it's been 10 months since I last read @pairofclaws.bsky.social 's Three Sharp Knives, and it cuts deep enough that I keep getting echoes of it returning to my brain.