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~Polly Schattel~

@pollyschattel.bsky.social

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Writer • Filmmaker • Partner • Parent • Trans • THE OCCULTISTS, SHADOWDAYS, 8:59:29, and in March ‘26, COME AS YOU’RE NOT • Lover of books, woods, guitars, critters & coffee • Trans rights = human rights • AVL • She/her

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 9h

THIS SHOULD BE CONCERNING TO EVERYONE

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 7h

Little Red Riding Hood, Hans Vandekerckhove, 2023

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 20h

I loved it.

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 20h

He probably wood. (Get it?)

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it’s gotten weird. Oddly, the worst hit so far by the Orange turd’s policies are red America. They’re hurting and getting pissed off. But trans folk are built for hard times. We’ll make do.

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

Haha!

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 1d

Stanley Kubrick at ten years old. He’s already got the camera and the suborbital glower. And he’s got my vote for greatest American filmmaker ever. Yes, Scorsese and Spielberg are up there (and John Huston, etc) but SK is king. He pushed the art of cinema higher than anyone else.

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mandolin mama @mandolinmama.bsky.social · 2d

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a round image divided in half. the left half is a cross section of a tree showing all the rings. the right half is a human fingerprint. they are very similar.
quote:- at the top, "tree stump & human fingerprint." at the bottom, "we are earth".

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies I love:

🪓 The Shining
🦈 Jaws
🪣 Carrie
🛏️ The Exorcist
🤰 Rosemary’s Baby
🏚️ Repulsion
🍖 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
🧟‍♂️ Night of the Living & Dawn of the Dead
✝️ Night of the Hunter
🤴 Hereditary

Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me

🔥 Saint Maud
🫗 Personal Shopper
🎦 Red Rooms
↩️ It Follows
👹 Noroi: The Curse
👰🏻‍♀️ Demon (2015)
😢 A Dark Song
📸 Lake Mungo
👂🏻 Kwaidan
🪓 The Descent

Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 4d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🩸Messiah Of Evil
🪏Dead And Buried
✝️Exorcist III
🔪Alice, Sweet Alice
🪟The House With The Laughing Windows
🎅Black Christmas '74
🐺The Thing
📺Ghostwatch
⚪Phantasm
🪦Creepshow

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Love the title and the excerpt. Good stuff!

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

I love that guy. He's putting his lack of resources and musical talent to very good effect.

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Jill Hand @jhandy.bsky.social · 3d

Kids growing up on the mean streets of suburban New Jersey learn early to double consonants when adding a suffix to a stressed syllable ending in a single vowel and consonant.

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Like the Nazis freezing and starving in winter Russia.

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Keep the faith!

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

That's cool.

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 2d

Things im "debating " anyone on
Racism
Misogyny
Transphobia and homophobia
Genocide

They are all bad and evil full stop
Its like asking me to debate about if we should eat shit sandwiches
No motherf*cker.
NO

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder: many of the folks on BS are here to get away from toxic social media elsewhere, including endless AI slop. Not everybody hates AI, but many of us here sure do. Endless posting of AI imagery will get you unfollowed, not least by me. Let’s support real artists and real people, not AI.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 2d

All the dozens of trans teens and young adults who have said to me "I wish you were my dad, my dad [some horror story]" beg to fucken differ

As do I

So very few are accepted and to claim otherwise is a straight up lie

We are talking about the SURVIVAL OF CHILDREN here, this is not a fucken debate

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 3d

The Family of Street Acrobats: The Injured Child, Gustave Doré, 1873

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 3d

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 3d

That’s cool.

~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 3d

I'm happy this is turning out to be a decent movie. Springsteen is absolutely one of my dudeville heroes and my truest example of a modern, thoughtful, yet still traditionally-masculine male. And therapy is great, and not only for emergencies. Everyone can benefit. www.jezebel.com/i-hope-deliv...

I Hope 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Inspires More Men to Go to Therapy

Though occasionally clichéd, the biopic remains a testament to what makes Springsteen a storyteller worth listening to—and how therapy changed his life.

www.jezebel.com

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, not much, just fascism happening in real time. CNN allowed Stephen Miller to re-record a paragraph in which he blurted out, “plenary authority,” which is full, unconstricted power. That’s what we need, right? Trump and Stephen Miller with unconstricted power?

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 3d

Relatedly, I recommend Polly Schattel's 8:59:29, a tale of demons and hexes, of class and education, and of technology’s pernicious expansion as a governing social force. Wicked, sardonic, intelligent horror fiction.

Buy: journalstone.com/bookstore/8-...

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