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Neil Blackman

@n3il4real

Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.

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Hard to reach

11.03.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Submissions β€” Icebreakers Lit

@icebreakerslit.bsky.social is open! Icebreakers is such a neat mag idea, all collaborative writing, and the gang will pair you up if you don't already have a partner! (and it doesn't hurt that the whole gang are great folks!)

10.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Grown-Ups Also Lie: Three Micros | Fractured

We seek micros in a series of three, like this excellent prizewinner by @melissabowers in @fracturedlit.bsky.social:

fracturedlit.com/bowers/

10.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
photo of bookcover for Dear Mothership. poems by Marcus Wicker. cover is a colorful painting featuring a brown-skinned man wearing an unfastened button down shirt with t-shirt beneath and large sunglasses with blue circular lenses. pink flowers dangle at his ears like earrings with a matching crown of pink flowers on top of his head.

photo of bookcover for Dear Mothership. poems by Marcus Wicker. cover is a colorful painting featuring a brown-skinned man wearing an unfastened button down shirt with t-shirt beneath and large sunglasses with blue circular lenses. pink flowers dangle at his ears like earrings with a matching crown of pink flowers on top of his head.

oh, this is gon be good!

DEAR MOTHERSHIP
the new poetry collection by @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social dropping Sept. 8th...

10.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

A bite.

10.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Humble Comics Bundle: Love and Rockets and More: The Collected Hernandez Bros. by Fantagraphics Love and Rockets, Maggie the Mechanic, Psychodrama Illustrated, and more! You choose what you pay for the full Hernandez brothers library and support the ACLU!

This seems fucking crazy to me. Of course, be aware it's the digital version, but just to have it all to read until you can get the real thing (and support a cause. I'm aware of what torrents are)

10.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Office Siren by Katharine Tyndall The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk. With one webbed pinky she stirs in the granules. It still doesn't taste like the sea. ...

"The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk."

Absolutely STOKED to share a new experimental @katharinetyndall.bsky.social story! This one culminates so perfectly, absolutely fitting for the week of International Women's Day. Go go go πŸ§œβ€β™€οΈπŸ˜ˆ

10.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

I think it would work if it remembered that the experiences are universal. Less about trying to modernize. I was working at Domino's during high school around 2000 and it was crazy how real it felt to my life. Not surprising coming from Crowe and Heckerling. Cheaper to film since malls are dead.

10.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a picture of the book with the words NOW AVAILABLE

a picture of the book with the words NOW AVAILABLE

"PARTIALLY DEVOURED: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life & Changed the World" is OUT NOW!

The wildest movie deep dive you've ever read
+
a memoir of how the film changed my life (and how *any* art can change yours).

45 years in the making!

πŸ©·πŸ§Ÿβ€β™€οΈπŸ©·πŸ§Ÿβ€β™€οΈπŸ©·

www.danielkraus.com/books/partia...

10.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 14

The weather is getting warmer and you know what that means - ladder falls.

10.03.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 377 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 9
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The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List in β€œRetirement Plan” Dailymotion video by The New Yorker

The 7 minute Irish animation that is nominated for an Oscar. Worth a watch. #SpeirGorm

10.03.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 1390 πŸ” 345 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 40
An illustration by Jim Woodring; a baby is playing poker with a smug frog while Pupshaw looks askance. The caption reads: THE BABY WAS LOSING ALL ITS MONEY

An illustration by Jim Woodring; a baby is playing poker with a smug frog while Pupshaw looks askance. The caption reads: THE BABY WAS LOSING ALL ITS MONEY

Jim Woodring

10.03.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No, see, I pretend to write so I get to make Playlists to purge weird emotional shit I can't work out and nothing gets done but at least I feel worse.

Yes, I'm single. Why do you ask?

10.03.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Up On Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days
Up On Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days YouTube video by Sunset Rubdown - Topic

"Well shit, I know
We're all growing old
But where there's a will, there is a way
So way to go"

10.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Frame #7285 from E91 The Lost Birthday Present

Frame #7285 from E91 The Lost Birthday Present

10.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

Everyone is too dumb to realize Ernie Bushmiller really intended Spike Kelly to be Laurence Shexnayder...

09.03.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Comic panel of hulk passed out in field saying, "hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up everything that had made Hulk tired will be changed"

Comic panel of hulk passed out in field saying, "hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up everything that had made Hulk tired will be changed"

09.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Magazine cover with a painting of grey and white clouds on an acid yellow background.

Magazine cover with a painting of grey and white clouds on an acid yellow background.

🌦️ It's here! Our tenth & final issue 🌦️

Feat:
@ncmaha.bsky.social
@sagemustang.bsky.social
@andymboyle.bsky.social
@elizabethcobbe.bsky.social
@madalenadaleziou.bsky.social
@zaryfekete.bsky.social
@joannaobviously.bsky.social
& more!!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-ten-ed...

#SFF #Horror

09.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 10

Never wrong investing in yourself.

09.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is it accidentally making eye contact with yourself in the screen while writing and looking away bashfully?

09.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions April 19-25.

Kaleidotrope is currently open to artwork submissions.

09.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If there is no intentionality behind what is being shown, it's just a revenue stream, you'd at least think people would see that as a creative space to film animals and their neighborhood and dumb shit. Or really play up how uncomfortable the people on screen are. If you feel it's a necessary evil.

09.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Y'all laugh, but that man is writing the Human/AI Bill of Rights. Who will be the joke then?

09.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spite made me a stronger reader than pizza ever could. Lol.

09.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The flip side is if you lived in a rural area your teacher could withhold stamps because they didn't like your choice of books so you still ended up pizza-less.

09.03.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like dawn dropped the ball if Biffo is still kicking.

09.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a person is holding a coin in their hand with the words i don t feel the need to explain my art to you Alt: a person is holding a coin in their hand with the words i don t feel the need to explain my art to you
09.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This β€œaccent” that I can’t lose & they can’t place β€” Split Lip Magazine most times, people can hear the twang before I do, this southern relic on my tongue they

"and
an inkling fidgets inside me, so I
smile, lean into unspoken knowing’s incline
that people miss, overlook"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
This β€œaccent” that I can’t lose & they can’t place by Tara Betts (2026 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social) splitlipthemag.com/poetry/0226/...

09.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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OUT MARCH 15TH: More advance praise for the debut collection by @marythor.bsky.social. Listen to @keithrosson.bsky.social and pre-order today: bit.ly/4r1u8KU #literaryfiction #crimefiction #darkfiction

09.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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River Keeps by Cathy Ulrich What is lost in the river is all the things thrown or dropped or tossed: keys and beer bottles and a silver-plated bracelet with a clasp that came undone and someone’s bag they didn’t want, a plast…

NEW STORY⚑️🐸

β€œRiver Keeps” by Cathy Ulrich is now up!

Art by Becks Simpson

flash-frog.com/2026/03/09/r...

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