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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

@scumbelievable.bsky.social

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Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2026 Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social‬

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Aug 5

Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.

BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.

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Ulrike Reichhold of Cineric, Inc., one of the foremost film restoration laboratories in the world, at her workbench inspecting a negative prior to repairing and scanning. Photo by Simon Lund, courtesy Cineric.

A still from Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis (William Holden) seated beside a standing Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who holds her hand up as she stands bathed in the light of a projector

Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton, flayed and bloody, sitting against a tiled wall in a pool of his own blood, I AM IN HELL HELP ME written in blood on the wall beside him

The burning shack in the desert from David Lynch's Lost Highway

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8m

the alien queen

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My Bloody Vonnegut @blurtvonnegut.bsky.social · 12m

Which movie monster is the best kisser?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14m

disgusting. no.

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Bet or yet Road to 1k 🍥 (GhostGlitch) @betyet.bsky.social · 16m

Are you a writer

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14m

Nekromantik

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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 17m

If I mention Berlin, does a film (or book) other than Possession come to mind?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15m

slight preference for third

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PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 22m

If you're reading a book that does not play with perspective much do you prefer it to be told from a first-person or third-person narration?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16m

EVA

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Zombie-Hello-Kitty @sommersmurf.bsky.social · 23m

fave anime?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17m

he is quite smart for a cat, which makes him an enormous idiot

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 23m

Is Lenny smart?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 22m

I would steal their car and drive it to a chop shop

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 25m

If you were trick or treating and someone said "trick", what trick would you do?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 23m

hit the dance floor

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Matthew of Philadelphia @mattofphiladelphia.bsky.social · 21h

What do you think Mon did when Ackbar’s trap alert came over the comm?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26m

I do not know what any of that is

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 20h

Were you a Tokyo Mew Mew kids or an Excel Saga kid?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27m

Fall
Spring
Winter
Summer

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Flora 🏳️‍⚧️ @faggyflora.bsky.social · 20h

Ranking of the seasons?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27m

never read it

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27m

AUDITION

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Hex @hexsidegrad.bsky.social · 18h

Go-to horror movie to kick back with?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 40m

Diane Keaton was so good on THE YOUNG POPE that I still regularly think of her standing in the bamboo grove beside Silvio Orlando, or her sudden terror in running from him when he professes his love. Rest in peace to one of the greats.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

Sama'a has a chance to move her children back into a real home after long, difficult weeks of living in a tent. Please give what you can to help.

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4h

Being a fascist is really important protected speech 🥰

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 5h

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 6h

it's a sickness, and I say that as someone who writes fanfic now. "rooting" for a fictional character to succeed in life like they're a real person to the point where you get angry with the writer when they don't is demented and antisocial

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 6h

Someone at the TVL NYCC panel asked if the writers had considered "solving" the louis-lestat-armand love triangle with a throuple and the response was an emphatic NO (lol) and i have a take brewing that readers/fans are drawn to imagining solutions where writers are more about loving problems

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

Sama'a has a chance to move her children back into a real home after long, difficult weeks of living in a tent. Please give what you can to help.

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 18h

ITS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR - PRE ORDER NOWWW

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

THE SACRED TEXTS!

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

1. tiramisu in bed with hot girl
2. le Guin
3. Aliens, Alien, Alien 3, Covenant, Resurrection, Prometheus, Romulus

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✨ ᴄ ʜ ᴇ ʟ 🔥 @chelbizzaro.com · 18h

LMAOOOO, not the Neytiri being excited about Osama Bin Laden. I'm 💀

Also, rapid fire

1. What is the ideal place to have your ideal dessert
2. Which creative from any era would you like to spend an afternoon with discussing craft (or anything else)
3. Favorite 'Alien' films ranked

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

probably my favorite way to relate to people i've never met or spoken to

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

a tip: starting at the gourmand's room, go backward through the whole route and kill everything in your path without resting. that way you'll have a clear run!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19h

sick

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