Before this week, I'd never read any of Rachel Harrison's books before. Having just finished 'Black Sheep', it appears I may soon be going out and buying all of them 😍
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Before this week, I'd never read any of Rachel Harrison's books before. Having just finished 'Black Sheep', it appears I may soon be going out and buying all of them 😍
my hot writing take is that playing with POV is neat and you can do what you want. present tense first! close third! first-person-direct-address with bits of omniscient third! anything is legal if you look good doing it!!
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.
Gothic text treatment with a red skeletal graphic overlay with a spooky, dark forest photograph background. Text reads "An Agent's Guide to the Banshee of Clan Murtagh, a gothic love story, 82,000 words, adult horror, by Anna Hirsch."
Tropes & comps: Irish folklore, she's the monster, generational trauma, only one grave. The yearning in the time of plague found in Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Catholicism vs the Supernatural in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the medieval horror of Between Two fires by Christopher Buehlman, the death-crossed lovers of Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers.
The pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s banshee for the first time in a decade, he knows one of his own is fated to die. Yet, his family doesn’t believe his warnings, and why would they? The last time Ciarán heard the banshee, he didn’t tell a soul until after his younger cousin tragically died under his watch. He’s been the family pariah ever since. Desperate for redemption, Ciarán hunts down the banshee in search of answers. She’s equal parts frightening and alluring, and in his struggle to confront her, he inadvertently triggers the banshee’s memories. Memories of when she was a servant of his household, decades ago—a woman named Deirdre. In hopes of learning whose death she foretold, Ciarán tenuously agrees to help Deirdre remember who she was. They begin meeting by moonlight, and with every clandestine encounter, his macabre desire for Deirdre grows. When the devastating bubonic plague befalls the Murtagh household, and Deirdre’s memories reveal a dark scandal in the family’s history, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his family’s side in their final hours or embrace the seduction of the death-bringer. But fate demands more than death, and Deirdre is no longer the only ghost cursed to haunt Clan Murtagh forever.
The first line: I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I'd heard her for years.
HAMNET x NOSFERATU
🖤 The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family falls in love with the banshee who’s haunted his household for generations—but as the bubonic plague closes in, he must choose between the living and the dead.
💌 SmoochPit 2025 Mentee
#QuestPit #Q #A #H #HFic
A photo collage of early 1900s images (all black and white) - a luxury liner, a mirror with a hand and face trapped inside, a woman in a straitjacket, a sitting room on a luxury liner, a woman reading a book, a ghostly ship
When their luxury liner sinks, Edith is rescued by a passing ship.
But one by one, the other survivors disappear...people the crew insist were never on board.
Terrified & unable to escape, Edith must hurry to unearth the ship's sinister secrets or become its latest victim…
#A #H #HF #QuestPit #W
Feed Me Your Heart - Intro Page
Themes for Feed Me Your Heart
Comps for Feed Me Your Heart
Pitch for Feed Me Your Heart
Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back.
🫀 Cultish magic
💀 Deadly personality tests
🧌 Scandinavian folklore
🖤 Romance á la OUABH
WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES
#YA #F #DF #Q #QuestPit
A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” card featuring the word SLUGABED with its pronunciation and definition (“one who lingers in bed through laziness; a sluggard”), alongside a black-and-white sketch of a person sitting up in bed near a window, wrapped in rumpled blankets, looking weary and disheveled.
Slugabed [SLUG-uh-bed]
(n.)
- One who lingers in bed through laziness, a sluggard.
Used in a sentence:
“Up at last rose the slugabed, with hair all afflunters and the unsteady indignity of a corpse newly exhumed, grumbling that only villains wake before noon.”
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Writing #WriteSky
A rough section from draft 2 of my horror WIP 'Project Soap'. My MC and her love interest have just met for the first time and are now about to catch a thief together. May also be about to descend into moderate violence.
“Simpler, but also bolder and bloodier, than its predecessor, The Bone Temple is a more-than-worthy sequel.”
Alex Garland and Danny Boyle's zombie saga continues with Nia DaCosta's #28YearsLater: The Bone Temple – in UK cinemas tomorrow.
Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies...
A moodboard for the adult dark fantasy GODCAT featuring eerie black cats with glowing eyes in various poses, and a magpie eye in the middle.
PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN
A murdered cat tries to become a god for revenge. Unfortunately, rage alone isn't enough to survive limbo.
🔪 Revenge plot
🏚️ Liminal Spaces
🐈⬛ Cat POV (in a human body)
🎭 Depression, autism rep
💣 Messy friendship
#BluePit 📖 #A #F #H #DF #W #DIS #POC
Gothic mood board for a fiction novel featuring a skull, medieval Irish imagery, catholic symbolism, and gothic horror romance vibes. Text in the center reads "The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 80,000 word gothic horror, SmoochPit 2025"
The Pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s eternally young banshee, he hunts her down to learn who in his family is fated to die. In the struggle, his touch triggers memories of the banshee’s previous life as a servant of his household—and she demands to know more. They meet by moonlight searching for answers in the banshee’s memories, and Ciarán’s growing attraction sets him on a path of macabre desire. But as the devastating bubonic plague closes in, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his dying family or succumb to the seduction of the death-bringer.
HAMNET x NOSFERATU
The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the eternally young banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, but as the bubonic plague closes in he must choose between the living and the dead.
#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #H #HS #D #Gothic
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1749–50 Part of a spacious and magnificent Harbor for the use of the ancient Romans opening onto a large market square...
Are You a traveller who has cheated Tides and crossed Broken Floors and Derelict Stairs to reach these Halls? Or are You perhaps someone who inhabits my own Halls long after I am dead?
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Giovanni Battista Piranesi
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
The third ‘28 YEARS LATER’ movie is officially happening.
Cillian Murphy is in talks to reprise his role.
(Source: Deadline)
Sad to hear about Diane Keaton - The First Wives Club is an absolute classic. Rest in peace.
Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.
An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.
Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.
An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.
Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙
I don't care what my ridiculous, craven government says. I know what's happening in Gaza is a genocide.
While many of us are settling into our back-to-school routines, children in Gaza are starting their third school year with no school. Israel has damaged or destroyed over 90% of schools in Gaza.
And here it is! The trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple! We shot this back to back with the first film - can't wait for you to see it :D
#28yearslater #thebonetemple #scriptsupervisor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwT...
Here's our first look at Nia DaCosta's ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’
Read the article here: bit.ly/46hXddR
In theaters January 16, 2026.
[Miya Mizuno/Columbia Pictures via Rolling Stones] #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple
RIP sir... a huge talent.
"Graham Greene, a Canadian actor best known for his Oscar-nominated turn in the 1990 film “Dances with Wolves,” died on Monday in Toronto after a battle with long illness. He was 73."
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Beauty and the Beast, 2006 by Angela Barrett
Two black cats sit on a pink fluffy blanket.
Happy National Black Cat Appreciation Day! 🐈⬛🐈⬛
Terence Stamp, the longtime British actor who famously played General Zod in Superman and Superman II, has died at 87.
