Ryan Van Ells

Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203 “A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hand and pray to it.”

“Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth the small truths accumulate around it.” —Ray Bradbury

Fucking despicable

Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications

If you're reading for the Hugo Awards, please consider @thomasha.bsky.social 's "Uncertain Sons" in the Novelette category. Thank you. You can read the story here:

undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.

submissions — neon hemlock

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Photo of Kat at Daley Plaza in Chicago, speaking at the International Women's Day March, wearing her iconic orange jacket. Photo by Erica Elan Ciganek.

Photo of International Women's Day March, with two marchers holding hands in solidarity. Photo by Erica Elan Ciganek.

We’re not fighting for ourselves.
We’re fighting for each other.

Happy International Women’s Day.

5 of the many women in SFFH that I admire and respect greatly. This list doesn't even scratch the surface:

@ivygrimes.bsky.social
@aijiang.bsky.social
@lucyasnyder.bsky.social
@annieneugebauer.bsky.social
@cynthiapelayo.bsky.social

Happy international women's day! Who's on your list?

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

Why They Hated Rosa Luxemburg Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored.

Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.

Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

Don't let the American government decide what books you and your family are allowed to read.

action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

don’t doomscroll.
read a chapter instead.

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For no reason, just posting this here as a reminder that art doesn’t need to be owned by a corporation and sold and conglomerated for billions.

Support indie art. It is (almost literally) the only art that remains🖤☠️

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I try not to let my writing be defined by tropes, positively or negatively. The lives of my characters are, hopefully, complicated and multi faceted and their arcs are defined by their personal journeys while being conscious of any negative trope that could be cropping up as I go

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A constant theme for my writing is that feeling of walking into a place and knowing you're visibly an outsider, that sense that you're subject to derision and scorn for being you in a place not made for you. I think that aspect of the queer experience resonates broadly

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Let me introduce you to Carmine and Prince Aurum!

Carmine is the secretary at the old detective agency. It's the only job she can get in Arkham as a black woman. Her real dream is to run her own circus. She can be closed off but at heart is a playful trickster and creator.

1/2

One of my Black characters is Simon, host of the Simon Speaks radio show. He investigates paranormal encounters.

One of my ace characters is Valentina. She hosts a forbidden Halloween party as part of her plot to overthrow the conservative mayor who has banned Halloween.
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Hi everyone! I’m D. A. Jobe and I write horror and dark sci-fi.

My favorite characters are siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood from NOPE, one of my favorite all time horror movies.

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Lucas is a Mexican-American trans man living in New Jersey who just celebrated his 17th birthday when his older sister got into an accident and sadly passed. The story revolves around his journey through grief and self-discovery while still living under a patriarchal household.
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Hi. I'm Anna. I write mostly cosmic and eco-horror.

I especially liked Zoey in Deadly Beloved - you can listen on the season 21 finale of the No Sleep podcast.

I enjoyed her wit and resilience.

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Rachel from my story, For Keeps, out next year. There's 3 reasons why Rachel should finish with Tabitha, not including Gracie the tattoo. Will she, though?

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In my story "A Knight Errant" our hero is the queer knight torn between his duties and ambitions of a Knight Errant in semi-Arthurian England and his queer self. Questions of queerness and place in society magnify identity issues that are central to that and so much of my work

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Hey, I'm Anna and I am the author of The Assassins Raven and its sequel The Kings Raven, which is coming out very soon.

I like Blade

Candyman. I loved the same actor in the Final Destination franchise too, he was great. 💙 🕯

I'm James Ryan and I'm a horror writer-of-all-trades...

Hands down, Candyman and Blackula, although just about any character Tony Todd or William Marshall played would do me. The main characters in GANJA AND HESS stayed with me, too.

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I'm Trish Wilson, Media Director for The Horror Zine. I write quiet horror and horror comedy. My favorite Black horror character is Ben from "Night of the Living Dead". My favorite LGBTQ+ character is Countess Mircalla Karnstein in "The Vampire Lovers".

Hi all, I'm The Last Something. I mainly write supernatural horror. Monsters, ghosts, all types of ghoulies. If it's gross and eats people, I'll write about it.

The cast of Sinners is an easy answer, but I'd also like to include Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Here this week! I'm Blair, and I'm a comic book writer/illustrator, lately a lot of horror-related comics.

Candyman.
Candyman.
Candyman.
Candyman.
Can --

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I’m Ell, I write ace horror, and omg Adelaide and Red from Jordan Peele’s US. Lupita Nyong’o absolutely KILLING it.

I was just watching an analysis last night on why US is such a brilliant, subversive take on traditionally classist slasher tropes too!

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Hello, I'm Ryan. I write all kinds of horror.

Favorite is a hard one but I'm going to go with Sethe from Beloved by Toni Morrison. Incredibly moving and complex work and character

FFer Read of the Day: "Beyond Those Shadowed Hills" by @shedric.bsky.social in @chmmagazine.bsky.social

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