How To Become The Dark Lord and Die Trying, by @djangowexler.bsky.social@maxgladstone.bsky.social@robertjbennett.bsky.social

Look I’ve listened in on Nino teaching this class in the next room like…eight times now??? And I STILL keep hearing smart new useful things!!! Trust me, there’s no better way to celebrate Spooktober than to let my boo teach you all about tropes and terror.

NCninocipri.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 4:26pm

I was just told that my horror writing class's enrollment is low enough that it might get canceled 💀 If you or anyone you know is interested in getting to know the genre in a fun and accessible way, please check it out! www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...

Thrills & Chills: Horror Story Writing With Nino Cipri

In this four-part seminar, trace the roots of the horror genre and begin crafting a story of your own. Course Description The horror genre is a funhouse mirror, offeri...

i keep saying "we are all calvin's dad now" but mostly i just mean me

NSgriph.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 4:42pm

Calvin’s dad thought leader

This is the Kris Kristofferson song that's always playing in some sawdust-floored room in the back of my mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Xl...

Kris Kristofferson - To beat the devil (Breakthrough, 1989)

YouTube video by biggestkkfan

The right spends a lot of time these days trying to explain to the left what Masculinity really is like we haven’t had a prime fucking example for the last 50+ years.

Don't know why Amazon's juicing the price of the hardback but you can get eight years of incredibly hard work for less than $10, folks. Bisexual Disaster Necromancer Tries to Grow Up, fails a lot. www.amazon.com/Warden-Danie...

The Warden: A Novel (The Warden Series, 1)

The Warden: A Novel (The Warden Series, 1)

Gov. Tim Walz is a Star Wars reader and if someone could let him know that three Star Wars authors will be in Minneapolis Friday night to sign books at the Barnes & Noble in HarMar Mall we would be overjoyed to sign all the things for him. Plus I have already voted for Harris/Walz

Recommend this thread for a bunch of reasons but particularly because it often troubles me how little most non-Evangelical people seem to understand Evangelical Christian Speak (not at all their fault, who’d WANT to) and I think the Evangelical right gets away with more bullshit as a result

AValana-m-vincent.netSep 29, 2024 5:43pm

"Faith is one avenue that has been known for thousands of years to deepen the self past where we might expect it to go." Again, this is very much a culture wars, Western Canon-defending reference to things that are central to CT readers' worldviews which "have been known" for "thousands of years".

I believe the ancient ones say: “read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.” - Bigolas Dickolas

This Is How You Lose The Time War I have heard consistently very good things about it and I'm finding out why