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Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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This is the most American thing I've read in a while (complimentary 😂)

Exactly! Cassowaries are the birds that really cemented the reality for me that birds are dinosaurs! They're beautiful! But also it's a good idea to give them a wide berth

Two panel comic of a person with glasses looking down at an open book. First panel reads: I think I might be bad at this. In the second panel they are scribbling in the book with a pencil. Text reads: I’m gonna do it anyway

Nothin else for it

I used to just be into horror and was more alt and cool
Now I infodump to my partner about medieval shit
And cassowaries

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

I genuinely wouldn't know what to do with a view like this! Gorgeous!

This is the way

I love this regardless!

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once..

Hamlet - Act 5, scene 1

St Peter, Chelmarsh

Glass by C. E. Kempe 1892

#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

Carving up some weekend fun🤘🔪💥🎃🖤🧡

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

An animal skeleton runs across a cover. Cover is for The Other Shore.

What the fuck do I do with myself now, Rebecca???

The Other Shore: Stories is, hands down, one of my favorite reads this year.

Profane Illuminations II: John Langan, Rebecca Campbell, B. Catling Zachary Gillan Short stories, like weird fiction—or, weird fiction, like short stories—thrive in the productive ambiguity of spaces opened and never closed. The advantage of short stories, Joanna W…

Profane Illuminations II: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social on weirdness and open-ness in Langan's LOST IN THE DARK (@wordhorde.bsky.social), Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE (@stelliform.press), and Catling's A MYSTERY OF A REMNANT (@swanriverpress.bsky.social)

A skeletal figure floats off the ground, wrapped in a cape made of autumn leaves. It wields a scythe adorned with a harvest of gourds.

Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.

Photo of a small black cat lying on a burgundy blanket with a pink pattern of surreal faces and leaflike shapes

Cat On a Jim Woodring Blanket (2025)

youtube thumbnail, video is titled "Everybody eat the Pear peacefully" featuring several bees, flies, and beetles eating a squished pear on the ground

a better world IS possible

The full wrap of This World of Vile Wonder. The artwork is ‘Astronomer by Candlelight’ by Gerrit Dou.

Paperback of THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER: HORROR TALES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION available now!

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A photo of the cover of the book on top of a bunch of other books. Skeleton holding binoculars.

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a cartoon scene from spongebob squarepants with the words where are we on the bottom ALT: a cartoon scene from spongebob squarepants with the words where are we on the bottom

The best way anything can happen:

What inspired you and Matt to start Tenebrous?

This is going to be a priority read. So curious.

The world is so filled with beauty and wonder and I feel very strongly both that it should be a kinder place to live in and that it is within our power to make it as such

Frightening face carved into a turnip to place a candle in "In 1943 the National Museum of Ireland received a turnip lantern from a schoolteacher, Rois Ní Braonáin who was teaching near Fintown, Co. Donegal. She stated that it was the type that was always made in that locality around 1900. This plaster-cast model was created and painted by the museum artist, Eileen Barnes. Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition." https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9

Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland

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