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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast

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Hedge academic, Hårgan sysadmin, writes. Wrong perhaps, but not incorrect. she/her This account is: Writing My ridiculous doggos History Horror The Fascism Dragon Age brainrot

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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast @wordcountess.bsky.social · May 22

Hey, everybody! I'm back at the Gutter this month with a piece about Dragon Age: The Veilguard!

#dragonage #veilguard #datv #didiforgetanyhashtags #culturalgutter

This Game Kills Fascists

Spoilers for all Dragon Age, y’all. I have always believed the world would be a kinder place if more people played Dragon Age games. It’s true that BioWare’s high fantasy series h…

culturalgutter.com

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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 8h

Although Karloff and Lugosi are still household names, few sadly remember Todd Slaughter, England’s first cinematic horror icon.

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Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 19h

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Lizzie Robillard @lizzierobillard.bsky.social · 19h

Lore.city

View the entire exhibition along with writing from the artists at this link! My portrait of Guy Ingellvar is up on the site along with everyone else’s work from this group show.

🔥 LORE 🔥

LORE is a group exhibition in Phoenix Arizona located at Modified Arts: a historic downtown gallery on Roosevelt. Hosted by fine artist Kevin Layshock, LORE features over 25 artists from around the wo...

Lore.city

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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast @wordcountess.bsky.social · 17h

Clown check

***Spoilers***

Giant interdimensional spider check

A brown and white shepsky strains a light blue leash to poke his head into a sewer.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 1d

If we survive this as a country and we don't hold every one of these people accountable we will not have survived this as a country.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

Yay Covid and flu shots acquired!

Just walked into CVS here in Arizona; no questions about anything but “are you allergic”.

Took like 5 minutes. Get your shots.

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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast @wordcountess.bsky.social · 19h

As we look upon the smoking crater of RFK’s CDC, I remember a brief Ebola blip within US borders near the end of Obama’s second term, quickly contained and forgotten.

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Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 1d

The wee bee paused upon the lavender bloom,
Wings weary from a summer’s hum,
He felt the soft sigh of autumn in the air,
knowing his season’s song was nearly sung.

#macro #macrophotography #photography #bee

Close-up macro photograph of a bumblebee collecting nectar from a vibrant purple flower. The bee’s fuzzy yellow and black body is clearly visible, with fine hairs catching the light. One of its legs carries a bright yellow pollen sac. The flower’s textured purple petals are in sharp focus in the foreground, while the background softly blurs into shades of lavender and green, highlighting the bee as the main subject. The image captures intricate detail and natural beauty in vivid colour and clarity.

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Fight Goddess 🥊💨 @fightgoddess.bsky.social · 21h

Gas lighting and rage baiting while he robs the treasury 💩

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 21h

Theory: you can put Brendan Fraser in any Tom Cruise role and it would improve the film; you cannot put Tom Cruise in any Brendan Fraser role without it making the film worse

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Ephlam @josephlm.bsky.social · 1d

The Fog

#forestfriday #photography #classicmono #scape

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It was, if the spirit of Iain Banks will forgive me, the day the pope exploded

Or, to be strictly accurate, today is the 67th anniversary of the day a botched embalming saw Pius XII’s rotting torso break open while he was lying in state

(Yes, sorry*. This thread is disgusting)

(*Well, kind of)

Papal Swiss guards in costumes – and especially helmets – that could have come from the 1980 Flash Gordon film flanking the dead body of Pope Pius XII in a big, posh room in a palace in Rome. The pope is covered in plastic, in a way that suggests he has been inexpertly shrink-wrapped. This will be explained later

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Zombie Bolo Boffin @boloboffin.bsky.social · 1d

Preventing disease is a Democrat thing.

These ads don't write themselves, because they'd be written.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

The George Romero-supervised restoration of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) from MoMA and The Film Foundation is now on Netflix.

It's also on Criterion Channel, but it's nice to see such a significant (and subversive) indie classic on the largest subscription streaming service in the US. #FilmSky

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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP).

It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Dark Shadows News @darkshadowsnews.bsky.social · 1d

Kino Cult are releasing a selection of Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis’ horror and literary adaptations on Blu-Ray, celebrating some of the classic stories reimagined for Dark Shadows.

Classic Monsters features Jack Palance in Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: amzn.to/3IEaNzt

Dan Curtis Blu-Ray collection from Kino Cult.

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Miurgen @miurgen.bsky.social · 3d

Couldn't sleep, guess it was knight sketchin hours :>

#Art

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Aimée ElizaBeth Swank @aimeeswank.bsky.social · Dec 14

A Page of Madness, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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hollye_h @hollyeh13.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the link for tonight's #CineJanes presentation -- the 1992 Turn of the Screw starring Patsy Kensit, with Stephane Audran, and cameos by Marianne Faithfull and Julian Sands! Join in at 7PT/10ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62VD...

Turn of the Screw 1992

YouTube video by Peculiar Pictures

www.youtube.com

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

#WatchPartyCalendar Oct 9-16

#ColumboTV @rubberplant.bsky.social

#SupernaturalSaturday @kansaswoman.bsky.social

@hollyeh13.bsky.social
#CineJanes

@manwithpez.bsky.social #CryptStatic

@tattooedgranny.bsky.social
#Splatterday #Splatterday2K

#VundaHalloweenathon @vundacast.bsky.social

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the THU-THU, Oct. 9-16
#Bluesky 🦋 #WatchPartyCalendar ⬇️ All times US Eastern

📆See LIVE calendar at livetweety.wordpress.com for details

🚨 #ColumboTV
NEW:
#SupernaturalSaturday
Daily🎃 #VundaHalloweenathon

Follow
@tattooedgranny.bsky.social for daily #WatchParty reminders⏰

#FilmSky 🍿

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