Amanda M. Blake
@amandamblake.bsky.social
Horror and fantasy author of QUESTION NOT MY SALT and the Thorns series; mid-age goth, horror movie aficionado. Coming soon: IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT (2026), MASQUE (2027). 🪚
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Critters and creatures, it's time to sip and spit. QUESTION NOT MY SALT is the Thanksgiving horror you're looking for, a quick-read novel on the milder side of extreme, with plenty of cringe and gastro horror. geni.us/Question
I yearn for competency and compassion.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I yearn for competency and compassion.
When people say that 'real women aren't that aware of their boobs' or 'short people don't think about their height that often,' I...do? Like, I'm just constantly aware of my body? I have small boobs and my breasts still breast boobily to me? I constantly compare my height?
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When people say that 'real women aren't that aware of their boobs' or 'short people don't think about their height that often,' I...do? Like, I'm just constantly aware of my body? I have small boobs and my breasts still breast boobily to me? I constantly compare my height?
staggering the streets
no one comes out at night
maybe it's the screams
crackling like dead skin
from my deteriorated throat
they lock their doors
against the dead
walking #famished
in the dark
#crowcalls
no one comes out at night
maybe it's the screams
crackling like dead skin
from my deteriorated throat
they lock their doors
against the dead
walking #famished
in the dark
#crowcalls
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
staggering the streets
no one comes out at night
maybe it's the screams
crackling like dead skin
from my deteriorated throat
they lock their doors
against the dead
walking #famished
in the dark
#crowcalls
no one comes out at night
maybe it's the screams
crackling like dead skin
from my deteriorated throat
they lock their doors
against the dead
walking #famished
in the dark
#crowcalls
claws like knives
#eviscerate the center
that cannot hold
spill the contents
and a muddy tea
upon throbbing floorboards
to drink through the cracks
#crowcalls
#eviscerate the center
that cannot hold
spill the contents
and a muddy tea
upon throbbing floorboards
to drink through the cracks
#crowcalls
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
claws like knives
#eviscerate the center
that cannot hold
spill the contents
and a muddy tea
upon throbbing floorboards
to drink through the cracks
#crowcalls
#eviscerate the center
that cannot hold
spill the contents
and a muddy tea
upon throbbing floorboards
to drink through the cracks
#crowcalls
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Nineteen Little Stab Wounds will be available 11.26-11.30 to raise money for Transgender Law Center. Paperbacks $10 (shipping included) ebooks $5. Every cent goes toward TLC.
Link goes live tomorrow so keep your eyes open—there are limited quantities of paperbacks.
More info in alt text.
Link goes live tomorrow so keep your eyes open—there are limited quantities of paperbacks.
More info in alt text.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Nineteen Little Stab Wounds will be available 11.26-11.30 to raise money for Transgender Law Center. Paperbacks $10 (shipping included) ebooks $5. Every cent goes toward TLC.
Link goes live tomorrow so keep your eyes open—there are limited quantities of paperbacks.
More info in alt text.
Link goes live tomorrow so keep your eyes open—there are limited quantities of paperbacks.
More info in alt text.
I expected that Wednesday would be a big last-minute grocery shopping day, but working yesterday was like shopping on a weekend. Looking forward to taking Thursday and Friday off. Bracing for today.
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I expected that Wednesday would be a big last-minute grocery shopping day, but working yesterday was like shopping on a weekend. Looking forward to taking Thursday and Friday off. Bracing for today.
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
It is a crime that THE MIST soundtrack is only thirty-ish minutes. I need at least another hour.
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It is a crime that THE MIST soundtrack is only thirty-ish minutes. I need at least another hour.
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requesting/borrowing books from your local library is also free to you, and doesn’t make a zillion writers want to catapult you out to sea.
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
requesting/borrowing books from your local library is also free to you, and doesn’t make a zillion writers want to catapult you out to sea.
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Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
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Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
Every time I drink an apple cider that isn't homemade, it just tastes like freaking apple juice. I like apple juice. Don't be lying to me that it's apple cider.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Every time I drink an apple cider that isn't homemade, it just tastes like freaking apple juice. I like apple juice. Don't be lying to me that it's apple cider.
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Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.
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Maybe it was a mistake to base the American economy on everyone buying and throwing away stuff constantly
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Maybe it was a mistake to base the American economy on everyone buying and throwing away stuff constantly
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If you haven’t checked this out yet, you absolutely should! It’s a great antho!
Today's 7 o'clock shill is our first anthology, THIS WORLD BELONGS TO US: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HORROR STORIES ABOUT BUGS. It has Cynthia Pelayo, Laurel Hightower, Kealan Patrick Burke, Paula D. Ashe, and more. Amazing cover and interior art by Jacob Blanchet.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
If you haven’t checked this out yet, you absolutely should! It’s a great antho!
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All of this. And even past this, "I would rather potentially have a child dead from a painful and preventable disease than potentially one with neurodivergence" is one HELL of a take.
I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
All of this. And even past this, "I would rather potentially have a child dead from a painful and preventable disease than potentially one with neurodivergence" is one HELL of a take.
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Transgender awareness week is over, you are unaware that you are transgender
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Transgender awareness week is over, you are unaware that you are transgender
After a day at the zoo, I aspired to manage at least 2K instead of 3K words, but brain last night was not capable of higher functioning. I felt like a 7-year-old. Hell, my 7-year-old brain was more capable back then. Very weird. I've been tired plenty, but not...brain-damaged from overstimulation?
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
After a day at the zoo, I aspired to manage at least 2K instead of 3K words, but brain last night was not capable of higher functioning. I felt like a 7-year-old. Hell, my 7-year-old brain was more capable back then. Very weird. I've been tired plenty, but not...brain-damaged from overstimulation?
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thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲
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thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
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November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
it was an easy error to make
this twenty-five pounds of meat
funky fragrant in the airplane cabin
i was just following instructions
and must have misread amid warnings
that the airport did not want dead 1/2
#crowcalls
this twenty-five pounds of meat
funky fragrant in the airplane cabin
i was just following instructions
and must have misread amid warnings
that the airport did not want dead 1/2
#crowcalls
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
it was an easy error to make
this twenty-five pounds of meat
funky fragrant in the airplane cabin
i was just following instructions
and must have misread amid warnings
that the airport did not want dead 1/2
#crowcalls
this twenty-five pounds of meat
funky fragrant in the airplane cabin
i was just following instructions
and must have misread amid warnings
that the airport did not want dead 1/2
#crowcalls
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Thanks to all of YOU, we’ve almost got Q1 locked down for next year, but we’d love to make it “we’ve got 2026 locked down” so if you’re looking for something to support and/or find benefit in what BWDR provides, we’d love to have you join us as a subscriber!
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
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November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Thanks to all of YOU, we’ve almost got Q1 locked down for next year, but we’d love to make it “we’ve got 2026 locked down” so if you’re looking for something to support and/or find benefit in what BWDR provides, we’d love to have you join us as a subscriber!
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Critters and creatures, it's time to sip and spit. QUESTION NOT MY SALT is the Thanksgiving horror you're looking for, a quick-read novel on the milder side of extreme, with plenty of cringe and gastro horror. geni.us/Question
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Critters and creatures, it's time to sip and spit. QUESTION NOT MY SALT is the Thanksgiving horror you're looking for, a quick-read novel on the milder side of extreme, with plenty of cringe and gastro horror. geni.us/Question
What's going on, Friday blog update: amandamblake.com/2025/11/21/a...
As we know it: Friday Update
A beautiful king cobra at the Dallas Zoo I’m late today because I went to the Dallas Zoo as a belated part of my birthday celebration. I enjoy learning more about the animals, but it’s …
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November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Well that was fast. Behold the power of a (still) free press and the brittleness of the Trump regime’s resolve …
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Well that was fast. Behold the power of a (still) free press and the brittleness of the Trump regime’s resolve …