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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 13h

Our fearless leader has dropped their debut poetry collection! "Bite Back" by Blayne Waterloo is a massive achievement, and we are so so SO proud of them. Go follow Blayne and buy their beautiful book! 🖤🖤🖤

🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 2d

happy birthday, bite back 🖤💚🖤

Blayne poses for a selfie of them biting the cover of a copy fo Bite Back: Poems while wearing black sunglasses and plastic vampire teeth. Fading green leaves crowd the background

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 13h

We're honored to be included in your Pride celebrations! We hope you enjoy our gay little book! 😭😭😭

M(onster) 👹🎃 @therock1996fan.bsky.social · 14h

Went to Pride, got a haunted house pillow and @salonsinister.com, pretty good weekend so far 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏠

Salon Sinister (link in post) and haunted house pillow (target)

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 5d

It's banned book week and we sincerely hope you're reading something that makes conservative people sneer. The bar is low, but that doesn't mean we can't be proud of clearing it!

Let us know what book you're devouring this week, and never let anyone tell you what you can and can't read.

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🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 5d

talked about what publishing bite back means to me and couldn't help but brag about @salonsinister.com 🖤

Pitch Mr. Perfect @michaelwaterloo.bsky.social · 5d

Today's Walking Bucket newsletter is LIVE:

A conversation with @ewhag.com, who is publishing their first book this Thursday.

Plus:
- 5 takeaways from the #WNBA Finals so far
- The #Dodgers bullpen strategy
- More

Sign up for free, always, ahead of #NBA SZN

walking-bucket.ghost.io/a-conversati...

A Conversation with Author Blayne Waterloo

I spoke with author Blayne Waterloo leading up to their debut published book dropping later this week. Plus a look at the first two games of the WNBA Finals and the Dodgers pitching strategy.

walking-bucket.ghost.io

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 6d

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 6d

This makes our black little hearts swell 🥹

Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 7d

hello #Halloween humans
salon sinister #1 is in the world
I got my gorgeous contributor copy today bc you've been paying for it
(buy it from @ghoulish.bsky.social if you wanna support a horror bookstore uplifting horror poetry!)

free reading option or buy direct here www.salonsinister.com

SALON SINISTER

Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

www.salonsinister.com

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 7d

A thread of some incredible queer books for your consumption!

AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 8d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 7d

Hello! We are horrible queers and we made a queer horror magazine for other horrible queers. You can buy a copy of our first issue on our website, but if you can't swing that, you can also read the entire thing for ✨free✨

www.salonsinister.com

SALON SINISTER

Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

www.salonsinister.com

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 8d

OMG it DOES 😂

WE CHECK ALL BOXES, BABY

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 8d

The people have spoken ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Wawa SkittleTits @onesingleheck.bsky.social · 9d

If you haven’t gotten your copy of @salonsinister.com yet - I remind you my sister @elementalamber.bsky.social has a poem in the first volume and the zine’s printing is quite lovely. Probably you should each buy three.

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 8d

Couldn't be us 💅

cockroaches 🪳 @dreadforts.bsky.social · Feb 19

how is every single queer erotica collection always

welcome to BUCKETS OF GOREFUCK, we are a subversive transgressive indie collection. please read our submission guidelines!

Submission Guidelines
▪︎ no gore
▪︎ no fuck
▪︎ no buckets

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 9d

What a great feeling! Congrats to the whole @salonsinister.com crew. I’m ordering a print copy right now.

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 9d

So @wolfemac.bsky.social shared this amazing pic of the mag in an ACTUAL BOOKSTORE

And I started crying when I saw the titles around it.

It's right next to Chuck Tingle for fuck's sake.

And @haileypiperfights.bsky.social 😭😭

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 9d

😍😍😍

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 9d

I got so excited about the first issue of @salonsinister.com that I accidentally did a photoshoot

Grab your copy or read FOR FREE here: www.salonsinister.com

I've got a short story in it but that's beside the point

Picture of me holding a physical copy of Salon Sinister in front of my DVDs

Picture of me holding a physical copy of Salon Sinister in the middle of my living room

Picture of me holding a physical copy of Salon Sinister in front of my jointed skeleton cut out

B&W picture of me holding a physical copy of Salon Sinister in front of my Scream flag

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 9d

Read it here for freeeeeeee OR support queer horror creators by buying a real life no-foolin' physical ACTUAL book today! Both options are valid, just like you 😘

SALON SINISTER

Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

www.salonsinister.com

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 9d

We know that this gif is overused. We get that. However, it's October now, and this fella is a classic for a reason. THIS IS HOW WE FEEL.

Not in the dancing pumpkin spirit? Why not read some amazing, queer-ass horror? The first issue of Salon Sinister is now out in the world! Grab your copy today!

a man with a pumpkin head is dancing in a cemetery in the fog .

ALT: a man with a pumpkin head is dancing in a cemetery in the fog .

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 11d

This is us if you even care

JMFenner @jmfenner.bsky.social · 11d

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 12d

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Abigail Waldron @bloodymilkcrate.bsky.social!

Abigail's work with collage absolutely floored us when we saw it and we were honored to add her pieces to Salon Sinister! Give her a follow and check out our first issue (physical copies now available) to see her amazing work!

TEXT: Salon Sinister. Meet Contributor Abigail Waldron, Artist of "I'm Going to Rid the World of People Like You".

Abigail Waldron is a historian who specializes in queer American history. She is the Author of "Queer Screams: A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema" (2022) and is a contributing writer for Horror Press.

The image is a collage made by Abigail featuring ET the alien sitting on a couch in a blue/green plaid robe and holding a beer. On the green table in front of him is a speak-n-spell, 4 beers, a stash box, a joint burning in a purple ash tray with purple, orange, and red smoke rising in a trippy, 70s way, a B&W picture of a 1950s-esque woman with a black triangle on her white shirt. Behind ET, there is the corner of a fireplace, tools to tend fire, 2 plants framing a window with green curtains, and outside there is a diver in a yellow speedo upside down with his arms out.

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🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 15d

can't stress enough how important it is to circulate physical queer media as crackdowns on free speech and identity continue to close in 🖤 here's your opportunity to show solidarity

can't afford a copy? that's ok, too! @salonsinister.com is free first: static1.squarespace.com/static/67817...

🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 16d

*cackles* holy shit we did it and it's gorgeous 🖤💚

go get a copy and support all the devastatingly talented creators featured in it!

shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

A pale hand holds a copy of Salon Sinister Issue 1 against a bookshelf carrying various and multicolored titles

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 12d

We couldn't be more happy to see our creepy lil book out in the wild. It almost doesn't feel real. @elementalamber.bsky.social is a true gem! If you got your copy, take a pic of it living its best life!

Hallow’Amber @elementalamber.bsky.social · 12d

What’s up fuckos! @salonsinister.com

Amber (a white woman in a pink tie-dye shirt) sitting on a bed next to a white pibble mix (Fletcher). She’s flipping deuces and holding a copy of SALON SINISTER which has her first published poem in it! A book a book a book!

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 19d

WE APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH 😭

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Wawa SkittleTits @onesingleheck.bsky.social · 19d

NEVER been happier to spend the last of my money. I am so proud of published author @elementalamber.bsky.social and I think @salonsinister.com is the coolest idea.

Please follow and DEFINITELY buy the print copy. You simply gotta.

Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 19d

Wawa... We are back in business. The purchase links on our site will now do something amazing when you click on them:

Allow you to purchase the magazine.

Thank you for being patient 🖤

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 19d

You can once again purchase a PHYSICAL COPY of Salon Sinister!

The links are once again linkin' after some techincal issues, so please go support queer horror and thank you SO MUCH for being patient. We love you 🖤

www.salonsinister.com

SALON SINISTER

Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

www.salonsinister.com

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 19d

Wawa... We are back in business. The purchase links on our site will now do something amazing when you click on them:

Allow you to purchase the magazine.

Thank you for being patient 🖤

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 22d

Welp... That isn't exactly working either. Sorry for the confusion. We are still working to fix this 💜

Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 22d

UPDATE! Our UK link is still being difficult, but US buyers can buy a copy though the updated link on our site. Thank you for bearing with us!

www.salonsinister.com

SALON SINISTER

Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

www.salonsinister.com

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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com · 22d

HOO BOY OKAY 😬

WE'RE GONNA FIX THIS, I SWEAR

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