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#9: It, by Stephen King

I had never read this before but thought the TV and movie adaptations were interesting enough and the book is just so much more than what was put on screen. It's not without flaws but the amount of creativity in monster design and immersive settings was impressive!

Cover art for Dathan Auerbach's "Penpal"

#10: Penpal, by Dathan Auerbach

Apparently this story was converted from an online episodal horror project into a full-length novel. While that aspect of it shows in it sometimes being disjointed, it's a really interesting and atmospheric read.

To carryover a tradition that I used to have on the other site for #SpookySeason, I'm going to list my top 10 favorite scary stories that I've read so far this year:

Cover art for Matt Dinniman's novel: The Gate of the Feral Gods

Cover Art for Martha Well's Rogue Protocol.

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Paddington in IT (2017)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1641

Also revisiting King's short stories after The Dark Tower is a fun little exercise in detail picking

Tender is the Flesh is NOT for the squeamish

Cover art for Agustina Bazterrica's "Tender is the Flesh"

Cover art for Steven L. Peck's "A Short Stay in Hell"

Cover art for Stephen King's "Everything's Eventual"

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#AllThingsServeTheBeam

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I’m sure JRR Tolkien sold a lot of books. But did he have a commemorative plaque on a bookstore toilet? I think not.

FYI: do not upload classified material to AI

Met an icon today

Paddington in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

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Email subject saying Strava is acquiring Runna

Boston Accent Tech News

Trump spending cuts hit two sea level rise protection projects in Boston - The Boston Globe Fortifying Boston's coastline against rising sea levels just got tricker after the Trump administration slashed federal spending for climate resiliency projects in the city.

Moakley Park in South Boston and Tenean Beach in Dorchester are among the coastal resilience projects impacted by the end of FEMA's BRIC grant program: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/s... #climate #climateresilience #coastalresilience #slr #sealevelrise #trump #FEMA #federalfunds

FEMA quietly removes access to New England coastal erosion hazard tool FEMA has not explained why some climate products have been hidden from view, but the New England regional director told Nantucket that it is “to ensure the alignment" of FEMA actions with Trump direct...

Today in "where has the federal data gone?" – the FEMA Coastal Erosion Hazard viewer that covered all of New England is now "unavailable."

Just last fall the gov't was touting the maps as a critical planning tool. #mapoli

The next season of The White Lotus should take place at a motel in New Hampshire equidistant from the North Conway outlet mall and the glacier caves.

We need Ted Rack more than ever right now.

Paddington in Airbud (1997)

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Saturday is for sunbathing. #nature

Zelenskyy: "It's not just that the war began somewhere between our countries. The war began when Russia brought this war to our country. They're not right. They didn't respect our territorial integrity. They brought the war to our families. Ukrainians want to hear a position of the US on our side"

Paddington in X-Files S3 Ep20: Jose Chung's from Outer Space

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Willy-nilly is an English-language idiom and a slang which describes an activity, an action or event that is done in a disorganized, unplanned, or vacillating manner.[1][2][3] The term is derived from Shakespearian expression "will ye, nill ye", which is a contraction that means “whether one wants to or not.”

🚨 Paddington is now on Letterboxd 🚨

lmao straight up wrong call