🦇 Leah Richards 🦇

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of Supernatural Studies journal with a gloomy drawing of a green lawn surrounded by stones and fencing leading to a big stone altar.

On the right, an image of the character Carmilla, a female vampire with long white hair in the TV animated series CASTLEVANIA. She is holding a golden chalice as if making a toast.

A whole #openaccess issue! The new Supernatural Studies has folk horror in NIGHTBREED, house-love in THE LITTLE STRANGER, witchy girls of the 2010s & sapphic animated vampires in CASTLEVANIA. @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social
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Pine is the Best Chris.

Why do Uber drivers who pick me up AT a hotel NEAR a train station expect me to know more than they do about the trip? I don't know which streets are one way or how else you could cross a river.

I really appreciate how fucking angry you are about that absolute flaming trashcan of shit. Let's plan to meet up to dance on her grave.

This was filmed near Llanberis, in North Wales, so I'm hiraething all the hiraeth right now. It's been more than a year, I need to get back soon. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🪨🖤

Screenshot of text over an audience watching a stage, opening scene of Gwaed ar y Sêr: Tipyn o Bobeth CERI EVANS

Apparently, "a little of everything" is an official position in 1970s Welsh-language filmmaking--see the opening credits for Gwaed ar y Sêr. (Working on my @igagoths.bsky.social abstract.)

If, in your assessment, last night's performance "wasn't political," I assume that you also don't know what words like diversity, equity, inclusion, radical, left, fascist/antifascist, and indoctrination actually mean.

What the fuck??!!

Small folk horror snowman in front of my building.

A folk horror scaresnow in back of my building

It seems pretty clear to me that someone in my building is summoning the Old Gods of Winter. Probably in cahoots with that damn prognosticating groundhog.

Happy Birthday! 🥂

The Chomsky that I cut from a propaganda slideshow (for teaching) was from Manufacturing Consent, and I guess that's irony, and/but/so yes, he can be replaced.

screenshot of KILL NAZIS title card from 2025's Silent Night, Deadly Night

An unexpected bit of cheer in Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025). (I went in spoiler-free.)

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Federal agents were assaulting women: striking them, shoving them to the ground, pepper spraying them.

Alex Pretti acted in solidarity with those women rather than in loyalty to other men who had strength of arms and state power. A betrayal to white supremacist patriarchy he was murdered for.

I did wonder if @sorchanf.bsky.social was confused by her American friends' wild enthusiasm about Teen Vogue, our conviction that that was the peak of being cited as an expert, or if the whole world had long ago turned to them for truth and accuracy. #RIPteenvogue

I saw it at @brooklynhorror.bsky.social and enjoyed it--it was tense and uncomfortable! I'm glad it's getting a release--I couldn't find information at the time. 🧟‍♂️🏫🍿🎉

I mistakenly thought I'd stopped crying halfway through, and then I kept listening. Thank you, as always, for your impeccable research and authentic empathy. Strength and solidarity.

Heading to #MLA2026, where I'll be dividing my time between "please don't tell me how I can use GenAI in my classes" and Gothic Studies. I'll share details on my collective's AOI & AI teaching session, a list of Gothic and adjacent sessions, and the Gothic Studies forum social event details later.

Oddly, no, but presumably only because we weren't doing conferences yet. 🌑🐺

Silly me, I don't see education as job training. I didn't go to grad school to get a job, and I refuse to tell my students that that's why they should go to college.

My 8th grade besties and I got *matching* generic sports jerseys made at the t-shirt shop at the mall, grey with maroon 88 (our HS graduation year, another thing ruined by effing nzis). If only I'd thought to wear it without pants, I could have been the nerdy but cute slashee in a masterpiece.

Okay, but credit where it's due, she gave us a pretty dope Cinna-bon mot with "witchcraft bandana."

More flies with honey or a hollowed out carcass?

Similar to this very important message. #AlsoScience

I think I always knew that I was really meant to be an RPG gal, but I've had it confirmed by a six-part series of podcast episodes. What skills or powers does menopause give a character?

A little mari holds a hat in her mouth and a small krampus does the same

Little Mari teaches Ickle Krampus the proper way to steal hats. They have lots of fun.

Portmeirion, Wales, chessboard garden.

You can probably imagine some of the other places we stayed to make the trip.

We stayed there for a night on our first trip to Wales-- that was actually the entire motivation for the trip to Wales after IGA Manchester and it was really cool because it looks *exactly* like it should.

How is actively competing for a book prize so that you can publicly and virtuously refuse it different from deliberately talking a class so that you can write an essay using vague religious beliefs in place of evidence so that you can file discrimination charges?

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