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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 12h

aaaah i’m feeling feelingsss 🤮 all day

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you! ☺️

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh well that is very flattering, thank you 😌

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 1d

Nosferatu

Watercolor painting of Lily Rose Depp in front of a purple sky with Count Orloks eyes looking down on her.

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Why yes I did stay up until 4am last night doing my makeup and taking test photos. It’s called being a girl okay 💅🏼

Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween makeup test 💄 The lips are very specific!

Mirror selfie of Claire, a white woman with long brown hair and red lips.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 1d

BARBARELLA - Released this day in 1968 - Japanese release poster

wearing a red leather outer-space showgirl costume, Jane Fonda floats over an extraterrestrial backdrop

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

🥰😘

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

🥰 I saw HIM btw! I liked it. Didn’t love it, but definitely liked it and glad I watched. Plus…. Tyriq Withers, like 😌

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

#LastFourWatched Oof. A very mixed bag. I liked HIM ftr! I didn’t love it, but I liked it.

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 2d

My October essay is going to come out a little later this month… I have my reasons! But in the meantime, you can read this essay I wrote about goth girls if you haven’t already 🖤

Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · Sep 7

New My Favorite F***ing Movie is out! September is Halloween Eve, so today’s screed is horror-adjacent: I’m delving into the weirdo girls and hot goths that helped me through my teen years.

Likes/shares/subscribes are all super appreciated!
open.substack.com/pub/myfavori...

I Wanted To Be Bad

On Weirdo Girls & Goths, Plus a List of (Personally) Important Goth Girls

open.substack.com

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Jason Edward Davis @jasonedwarddavis.bsky.social · 15d

“Mother!! I’ve got to dance!” Acrylic on canvas. One week until my show Back of the Video Store II at Movie Madness #pdxart

A passionate but troubled young man hits the door frame on the way out, turning back to confront his mother for stifling his need to feel the rhythm!

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Terry, Gay and Awful @gaylydreadful.bsky.social · 1d

We're back on our BS! This time we're tackling the spawn of the Davids!

Listen to see how much I misunderstood what Boxing Helena was about before watching it. 😅

Anatomy of a Scream @anatomyofascream.bsky.social · 1d

@gaylydreadful.bsky.social and Joe return for a limited series on the children of Lynch and Cronenberg.

First up: Jennifer Lynch's debut, BOXING HELENA (1993) which drew vicious reviews and accusations of misogyny for its story of mentally ill man who mutilates the object of his affection

Sexy & Surreal: Episode 41 - Boxing Helena (1993)

Podcast Episode · Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad · 2025-10-10 · 47m

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about MAY for my horror column. This movie was a favorite of mine when I was a teenager, and I wrote about why and how it spoke to me then, and how my relationship to the film has evolved in the time since.

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a still image from Lucky McKee's "May" of Angela Bettis in a near close-up as the titular character. She has her thumb in her mouth. She is in a veterinary clinic and the details of the room are out of focus.

Ginger Snaps and May were two of my favorite movies when I was fourteen years old. They helped me deal with with the two dominant feelings of my adolescence: gender dysphoria and loneliness. Those two feelings tend to intertwine for young trans people. In my own experience, they did so ruthlessly. My dysphoria negatively impacted my life to such a degree that I was home-schooled from the age of fifteen or sixteen (I genuinely can’t remember), put on a heavy anti-depressant and had to routinely see a childhood psychologist to figure out what was wrong with me (it was dysphoria, but I wasn’t in a safe situation to bring it up). Being taken out of the public school system made it much more difficult to create lasting friendships, which exacerbated my loneliness and inability to relate to others. Homeschooling me was a decision that was made without my consent, and it hampered my skills of socialization, and the friends that I did have in middle school eventually stopped seeing me. I’ve gotten better at being a person, and forging relationships with people since transitioning, but I have still retained some of those bad habits and coping mechanisms that I instinctively learned when I was a teenager. One of those coping mechanisms was cinephilia. I felt like I didn’t have anyone to talk to, but I had movies. It worked for me then, but now I can look back on it and realize that it was a pretty sad state of affairs. I’m still trying to find the balance between living my life, and watching movies. Lucky McKee’s May was one of those films that I luxuriated in. Angela Bettis’s strange, anti-social veterinarian technician, who wanted nothing more than to have a boyfriend, and friends to call her own, was disarmingly familiar. I treated watching it like soaking in a warm bath. Revisiting it this week, felt odd, like coming back to an old habit better left in the rear-view, but I still liked the taste.

May begins with a brief prologue that shows the start of her difficulty socializing with her peers. The film takes viewers all the way back to elementary school, and May, with very long blonde hair, is wearing an eye-patch to obscure her lazy eye. Her mother—a cosmopolitan type—implores her to cover the eyepatch with her hair so her classmates will treat her equally. She ignores this advice until a young boy approaches her and innocently asks if she is a pirate. She shakes her head no. The bell rings. And she drapes her hair over her eyepatch. May’s mother keeps a prized doll locked in a glass case, and the doll itself is exquisitely Gothic, with a red gown, raven’s hair, and pale features. May fixated on this lovely creature, and substituted her need for friends with a budding relationship to this plastic creation. We never see May converse with her mother, but she gravitates to the doll in her worst moments. The film never shows the doll speaking, but May can hear her, nagging her insecurities, bringing her inner turmoil to her teeming, embodied psychosis. This is ostensibly a slasher film wearing the skin of a Frankenstein-riff, as May kills acquaintances of hers, severing her favorite body parts, and building a best friend of her own. But because the film is so careful, and precise about showing viewers the integrity of May’s inner-life, it is in actuality the rare horror film to genuinely grapple with the horrible shape of catastrophic loneliness.

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween makeup test 💄 The lips are very specific!

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 2d

My October essay is going to come out a little later this month… I have my reasons! But in the meantime, you can read this essay I wrote about goth girls if you haven’t already 🖤

Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · Sep 7

New My Favorite F***ing Movie is out! September is Halloween Eve, so today’s screed is horror-adjacent: I’m delving into the weirdo girls and hot goths that helped me through my teen years.

Likes/shares/subscribes are all super appreciated!
open.substack.com/pub/myfavori...

I Wanted To Be Bad

On Weirdo Girls & Goths, Plus a List of (Personally) Important Goth Girls

open.substack.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

To be totally clear I believe the social distancing was necessary and worth it, but yikes, wow, a whole lot of people really do seem to have lost their entire minds to Online during the Peak Covid Years and have yet to recover them

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 2d

A cabin in the woods with a tv and a lot of horror DVDs would also be an ace plan 👌🏻 But yeah, all of my friends with houses have kids now, so 🥲

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Do you just live in a magical fairy land?! I think you do.

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I wish someone I knew was throwing a good old fashioned house party for Halloween. I miss that shit.

I would do it myself, but I don’t have a house 🥲

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Kimberly @crazysexyghoul.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone I respected, especially creatives, posts one of those fad horror AI portraits, I die a LOT inside.

I’m very close to not alive at this point.