an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’
i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
Good morning! Yes, this is he
An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper
Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.
I wrote about 10 Criminally Overlooked Found Footage Movies for @macabredaily.bsky.social. Picks include A Film for Friends, Mr Jones, and The Fear Footage (trilogy) www.macabredaily.com/articles/10-...
Yesterday's LA Times piece about Gen Z + physical media reminded me that I should do a better job of promoting what I believe is the world's only regularly updated list of still operating video stores: bit.ly/LGVSDirectory
I always welcome updates + corrections, so please share this far + wide!
I spent way too much time putting together an oral history of “Scotty Doesn’t Know” from EUROTRIP that had been erased from the internet, but now it’s back, with some added commentary
Last year, I also celebrated what I think is the definitive scene in the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise because, in this moment, a legend was born: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/lets-talk-ab... #Fridaythe13th
ICYMI: yesterday, to celebrate the 45th anniversary of MY BLOODY VALENTINE’s US release, I posted a tribute to a bunch of Canadian slashers from the 1980s. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/blood-in-the...
This was a lot fun but took some time so any shares and/or subs would be amazing! 🙏
First off, this thread is amazing.
It also details how Bad Bunny dropped a Taylor Swift-esque number of easter eggs into his show tonight, but all of the worst people you know are still mad because they didn't understand his lyrics
Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.
Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
An old timey illustration from The Chimes, showing a frightened old men surrounded by goblins. The caption reads "What Trotty saw in the belfry"
An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history.
But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels?
Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.
just started doing this, it rules
The Indian TV version of IT was uploaded to Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=flHO...
Adding to this because I would very much like to purchase it as well!
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
the final horror shopping list of 2025 is here! feat. new books from @comptonwrites.bsky.social, @allyoutthere.bsky.social, @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, @datlow.bsky.social, @tkingfisher.com, and more. 2026 list drops later this week!!
What’s the best ghost story from your hometown?
‘Mitchell’ Is Part Of Joe Don Baker’s Legacy, For Better Or Worse - defector.com/mitchell-is-...
B please!
Sorry to "well actually" you, my dearly beloved Fango, but I have to tell you there IS a directory of all the remaining video stores in the world, kept up by yours truly + last updated in January.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This is a brilliant thread on Star Wars.
Mike is truly one of the most important voices in the fight against far-right conspiracy mania. He’s also a lovely individual who wrote one of my favorite books of the past few years.
You should buy it and support Mike’s Patreon as well: bookshop.org/p/books/jewi...
A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”
where does the new york times even find these people
“Must you be the only lonely man-beast in town?”
I’ve said it before, but the magic of “Batman Returns” is that it manages to be both a great “Batman” movie and a great Tim Burton movie.
It’s a portrait of a man who wishes, deep down, that he were a freak.
GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...
Rewatching “Twin Peaks: The Return”, and it feels like a show about the collapse of any sense of connection or continuity in contemporary American life.
This is true even in the show’s structure: “Twin Peaks” is no longer an ensemble soap opera, but a collection of disconnected vignettes.
Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
Screamy Movie
