Gabriel R Johnson, novelist
@grjohnson.bsky.social
Surrealist coming-of-age comedy-horror novel A BAD DREAM WHERE YOU'RE BACK AT SCHOOL available in paperback now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSMY81PP
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Growing up is a process of being chainsawed hollow and filled with crows. Get the surreal coming-of-age horror story today.
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Remember when there was briefly chatter (I think related to that one north korean hollywood hack?) of a jump street/men in black crossover?
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Remember when there was briefly chatter (I think related to that one north korean hollywood hack?) of a jump street/men in black crossover?
New chapter of BAD DREAM up on reddit. This one, all told, is a pretty normal chapter where normal things happen. www.reddit.com/r/redditseri... #Horror #BookSky #WriteSky
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New chapter of BAD DREAM up on reddit. This one, all told, is a pretty normal chapter where normal things happen. www.reddit.com/r/redditseri... #Horror #BookSky #WriteSky
I dont agree with every placement but wow, what a respectable list.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I dont agree with every placement but wow, what a respectable list.
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Or it's just a movie that is definitely unique amongst the group with clear highs and lows that shouldn't be ignored in either direction.
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Or it's just a movie that is definitely unique amongst the group with clear highs and lows that shouldn't be ignored in either direction.
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a The Last Jedi respecter… maybe he *can* heal our country
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
a The Last Jedi respecter… maybe he *can* heal our country
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my haters have become my waiters at the table of success. I'm receiving terrible service, they're spitting in everything.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
my haters have become my waiters at the table of success. I'm receiving terrible service, they're spitting in everything.
I like Rogue One, as like, the action-packed feature-length finale to Andor, but the criticisms are correct. As a standalone film, it's best as cool background noise honestly.
me, apparently an adult disney guy: "this entry in star wars might have some enjoyable fan service fails on the most basic levels of story, character, and the actual construction of the film."
you, a cineaste: lasers go pew pew
you, a cineaste: lasers go pew pew
Adult Disney ass Star Wars take.
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I like Rogue One, as like, the action-packed feature-length finale to Andor, but the criticisms are correct. As a standalone film, it's best as cool background noise honestly.
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i think the problem is really bigger than this, and that its really that even the non manosphere scripts just amount to a softer version of it.
To my mind, I think the core of the problem is that greater - if still imperfect - gender equality allowed women access to more 'life scripts' as it were, but society mostly still presents men with just one script and that script poorly and incompletely.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
i think the problem is really bigger than this, and that its really that even the non manosphere scripts just amount to a softer version of it.
I don’t physically describe my characters, in the context of my writing that information is thematically and emotionally useless. The protagonist of BAD DREAM, Colin, is lifted by his hair a few times, so presumably he has haor long enough to grab. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
Here's an appearance one that I don't think we've talked about yet: What does your character's hair look like?
Do they have hair? Long or short? What color? How do they usually wear it? Is it important to them?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Here's an appearance one that I don't think we've talked about yet: What does your character's hair look like?
Do they have hair? Long or short? What color? How do they usually wear it? Is it important to them?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I don’t physically describe my characters, in the context of my writing that information is thematically and emotionally useless. The protagonist of BAD DREAM, Colin, is lifted by his hair a few times, so presumably he has haor long enough to grab. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt
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i think anyone who doesn't support the somali community in minneapolis should leave the city and move to the bottom of lake superior so we can all be better off
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
i think anyone who doesn't support the somali community in minneapolis should leave the city and move to the bottom of lake superior so we can all be better off
CIVIL WAR (2024): I liked it! The main story can feel a bit too arc-y at times, where you know exactly what's going to happen because the character arcs are so inelegantly foreshadowed. But I liked the concept that, amidst the carnage, life mostly stays the same through sheer inertia.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
CIVIL WAR (2024): I liked it! The main story can feel a bit too arc-y at times, where you know exactly what's going to happen because the character arcs are so inelegantly foreshadowed. But I liked the concept that, amidst the carnage, life mostly stays the same through sheer inertia.
Hell yeah bro, we did it. Imagine being nature right now, just taking L after L to humanity, the winningest species in history.
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Hell yeah bro, we did it. Imagine being nature right now, just taking L after L to humanity, the winningest species in history.
I see "moderate" all the time with black women, if anything's listed at all.
Honestly seen it more often with East Asian women than white dudes, which is interesting
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I see "moderate" all the time with black women, if anything's listed at all.
Hey, you'll definitely want to check out A BAD DREAM WHERE YOU’RE BACK AT SCHOOL, a personal and sincere comedy-horror about kids going to middle school in a world run by nightmare logic. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSMY81PP
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Hey, you'll definitely want to check out A BAD DREAM WHERE YOU’RE BACK AT SCHOOL, a personal and sincere comedy-horror about kids going to middle school in a world run by nightmare logic. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSMY81PP
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Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
Lol imagine being thiiiiiiis close to being right but ending being so wrong in an insane direction (year-round DST is where it's at).
🎵 “We need to abolish DST. Keep Standard Time! It’s a practice so harmful and obsolete. Keep Standard Time! No more debating. Keep Standard Time!” 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Lol imagine being thiiiiiiis close to being right but ending being so wrong in an insane direction (year-round DST is where it's at).
I don’t know if I've ever heard Free Bird? I mean, I most certainly have, but I am unable to hum or sing it, and if you played me several Skynard songs with jumbled lyrics and told me to identify which was Free Bird, I don’t think I would succeed. I know it's the meme song that people yell at bands.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I don’t know if I've ever heard Free Bird? I mean, I most certainly have, but I am unable to hum or sing it, and if you played me several Skynard songs with jumbled lyrics and told me to identify which was Free Bird, I don’t think I would succeed. I know it's the meme song that people yell at bands.
When I was a property manager there was an old Somali woman who lived in the building who didnt speak a word of English and was too old to learn. My coworkers saw her as a problem because whenever she showed up to the office they didn't know how to solve her issues.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
When I was a property manager there was an old Somali woman who lived in the building who didnt speak a word of English and was too old to learn. My coworkers saw her as a problem because whenever she showed up to the office they didn't know how to solve her issues.
Gonna do the loudest "source?" I've ever done in my life about this one.
Obama became unpopular! Barack Obama!
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Gonna do the loudest "source?" I've ever done in my life about this one.
I mean, like, why? He came back without the CPR.
Could you let him die but then CPR him back to life? Does humanity’s salvation work on Final Destination rules?
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I mean, like, why? He came back without the CPR.
It's great actually because whenever I want to write something fucked I can simply go "that book's classic and it has a thing that's way more fucked, I'm innocent actually."
I do not do horror, that is not my genre, I have never done horror be it film or book, I have no desire to ever do horror, let that be the context for this post:
the fuck do you mean a key plot point of King’s novel ‘It’ involves a bunch of kids running a train on another kid
the fuck do you mean a key plot point of King’s novel ‘It’ involves a bunch of kids running a train on another kid
November 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It's great actually because whenever I want to write something fucked I can simply go "that book's classic and it has a thing that's way more fucked, I'm innocent actually."
Heretic (2024): what if the the world's most annoying reddit atheist were a horror villain? The movie is a little unclear whether Grant's character is meant to be an evil genius or a stupid, pompous blowhard, but Chloe East delivers one of the better performances I've seen this year?
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Heretic (2024): what if the the world's most annoying reddit atheist were a horror villain? The movie is a little unclear whether Grant's character is meant to be an evil genius or a stupid, pompous blowhard, but Chloe East delivers one of the better performances I've seen this year?
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I think it's cool and important that the two main literary categories are "making stuff up" and "not making stuff up"
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I think it's cool and important that the two main literary categories are "making stuff up" and "not making stuff up"
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Your daily Gabriel
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Your daily Gabriel
Woke 2 is one of those sequels that is clearly superior to the original.
woke 2 on a generational run right now. I’m talking John Carpenter ‘78-‘88 kinda run.
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Woke 2 is one of those sequels that is clearly superior to the original.