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Emma Butler

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Creator of horror drama podcast The Rue Papers, & author Michelle Birkby https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rue-papers/id1749765774 https://linktr.ee/EmmaButlerPodcasts

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 7d

The next Rue Papers is out.

There’s a monster in the basement…

#audiodrama #horrorpodcasts

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S2 Ep 10 Monsters in the Basement

Podcast Episode · The Rue Papers · 04/10/2025 · 18m

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 2h

Love looking at other people office and podcast set ups on YouTube and dreaming of the day I will earn enough money to rent a place bigger then ten foot square so I can have a half way decent office set up that isn’t just enough space for a laptop

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5h

I should write a Hat Man story…

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5h

Hmmm - binging Peter Laws Into the Fog on YouTube for the next few hours. I’m sure this won’t cause any nightmares at all

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 7h

i did used to watch the 9pm slot, whatever it was, but as its all reality TV shows now - I don't even look. Haven't seen a decent drama in that slot for ages

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 7h

Today, I am going to settle down, lock in, and read Murderbot books properly, instead of in little gaps in between other things. Whilst having to snatch a moment to appreciate a story in beetween being asked to work is very Murderbot, i feel they'd appreciate my full attention for hours and hours

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

Note to self - do not listen to #uncanny on headphones - makes me very uncomfortable not being able to hear what else is in the room with me

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

Catching up with #uncanny - the Halloween countdown. What is it with Glasgow tenements

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

I always feel like I have the flu after an iron infusion (and any kind of infusion really - my body really resents the intrusion) but it normally passes after a couple of days

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

I feel the need for true spooky stories this weekend.

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

Goddammit, my workplace are doing the ‘over 50s don’t know how to use technology’ crap again. I’m just sitting here playing with my phone waiting to go home to my Alexa and three iPads so I can play on my switch listening to them tell me I’m too old to learn tech…

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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 3d

Check it out: One of our finest horror podcasts, @thewrongstation.bsky.social is publishing a new short story every day of October. If you love horror or even October, I encourage you to check it out.

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

There’s always someone in the office who’s voice, while not necessarily loud, is some how penetrating enough to pierce even noise-cancelling headphones.

Those people should be put into a sound proofed room in an empty building to work by themselves.

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Pro Bollard Account @piegoblin.bsky.social · 3d

I found a piece of my 9yos homework where she says she plans to "lavish herself with knowledge"

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, that moment when you finally crack how a story should be told - bliss…(why does it always happen just at a moment when I can’t actually get a chance to sit down and write?)

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

and now - and now I've reached The Holiest Love in catching up on re Dracula. A very long and a very packed episode - so much happens, so much trauma and pain and so much story

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

Podcast catch up! Ooh, i am loving Sherlock & Co. Hound of Baskervilles is one of my favourites anyway, and this is a good adaptation.

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a lovely little mouse pad. I didn’t want something plain or just some thing with flowers on

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 7d

h/t jonathan zasloff

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

And just realised I bought a black mousepad to put my black mouse on which may have been a mistake (it’s not all black, it’s has a spaceman holding a jellyfish on it)

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

I know I ought to be writing but my ADHD brain just won’t do it right now. So have developed a system of every hour writing two lines, in the hope I accidentally trigger a writing surge or if not, hey at least I have another two lines.

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

A few Bachman (as in actually Stephen King) books being made into movies lately. So many of them about fighting back against an authoritarian regime, which could mean nothing

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

The Long Walk is amazing - devastating - compelling and bloody hell, one hell of a simple story but completely gripping

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 6d

I’m at the cinema (to see The Long Walk) and the ‘be a teacher’ ad just came on and I think they heard my ‘oh fuck off!’ two screens over. (Nothing against teachers. Against it being pushed as a career without been paid or funded properly, where the job itself is seen as reward enough)

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 6d

Catching up on Re Dracula. That bit where Jonathan says ‘mina’s done all the work and now she can leave it up to the men’ - then they immediately fuck it up and from then on it’s ’yeah, we include Mina in everything now’. I love that bit. You need Mina…

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 6d

This week's theme was Food & Drink 🫒🍷

Hope you enjoyed it!

Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.

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