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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 1h

This story is so human and so creepy; I love it

Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 5d

My Weird Horror 11 story is now available to read online:

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 6d

New story up at Weird Horror. @jackklausner.bsky.social's chilling "We Didn't Used to Be Like This." It's sublime.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-didnt-use...

Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 1h

Also, Tron's whole novelty was "What if a whole movie was INSIDE a computer?" and now that's the default. All the big budget movies are like that. That's just how blockbuster movies are made now.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 1h

Jesus is of one being with the father, but then he ate the Human Human fruit, allowing him to become a Son of man

Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 1h

My favorite part of One Piece is where Luffy is tempted for forty days in the desert by the Devil Fruit, who offers him the power to be a rubber man

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 7h

A Marvel character, watching a woman from the nineteenth century attach a bonnet or veil to their hair: Well, that hatpinned

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 22h

I have to give Trump credit for achieving his vision in Chicago. At long last the city really is a scary, dangerous place, riddled with street violence and shootings, all thanks to a bunch of people who don’t come from here and serve no useful purpose.

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d

Just read this phenomenal story in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

themolotovcocktail.com/about/archiv...

The Molotov Cocktail

Dead Man from the Ocean Floor by Neil Clark He climbed into my boat tonight, seawater spewing from the bottoms of his trouser legs, a thousand tiny crabs crawling in and out the holes in his bloate…

themolotovcocktail.com

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Lydia Prime @lydiaprime.bsky.social · 1d

PRETEND YOU DON’T SEE HER: The Invisible Woman

TODAY’S FEATURED AUTHOR:
LILLIE FRANKS
@lilliekoi.bsky.social

“Vegetable Love”
Ed Gein meets Aunt Bee in this shuddering tale of an old woman who tries to resurrect a wayward boy and raise him right.

ORDER HERE: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRGH4FF3/
#horror

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pretty sure this is what Karl Marx meant by commodity fetishism

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 2d

Buy soft. Sell hard.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 2d

I think we should have a secondary commodities market for how sexy various products are. If I think a lot of people are gonna start fetishizing soy beans, for instance, or pork bellies, I should be able to make money off of that.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, I love this! It builds so well!

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 3d

Every animal was supposed to have one sound. That was the deal. That was what we told our children. So why is it that dogs can go "Arf arf", "ruff ruff", "woof woof" OR "Bowwow"? That last one doesn't even have an F! This is chaos!

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 3d

If I hear any anecdotes that aren’t in this book, I’m turning you in

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 4d

Update: Fuck!

Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 4d

I’m the protagonist of a teen drama, and I sure love sitting on my childhood swing set in the backyard. I just hope no one sits next to me and starts an incongruously adult and emotional discussion

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 4d

I’m the protagonist of a teen drama, and I sure love sitting on my childhood swing set in the backyard. I just hope no one sits next to me and starts an incongruously adult and emotional discussion

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

Arby's sandwich? No, bees are insect. Grilled cheese are sandwich.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

If a cis person sees the Nuttenkönig, they'll transition within a month

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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to kick off @flashfrog.bsky.social's Frogtober with a ghost story! Thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social, and thanks to my bud, @courtneyb77.bsky.social, for absolutely perfect art; shout out to her and @kimmagowan.bsky.social for the early eyes on the piece.
flash-frog.com/2025/10/06/c...

Collision by Michael Czyzniejewski

Light my candles in a daze ‘cause I’ve found God. —Nirvana, “Lithium” The hardest part about being a ghost is getting over the sex, as in watching the living go at it. It’s ironic because when you …

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 6d

I have a new story out at a magazine with an incredible name! It’s about the Pacific Garbage Patch, if it were made of ghosts!

Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 6d

“Millicent Pawlowski, the Happy Medium, stands between the crowd and the police and opens her mind to the glowing cyclone which fills nearly half of the sky above her.”

Buckle up: today we feature @lilliekoi.bsky.social's “Under the Gyre”🌪: www.culdesacofblood.com/lillie-e-fra...

A vortex swirls in the sky above a decaying building, power lines, and trees in Twin Peaks: The Return

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 6d

Zapruder film? I don't care how impolite it is; we shouldn't zap any films.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 8d

What does it say about the Minions if they call for bananas because they see something yellow and long and they believe they're finally getting their chance to indulge in cannibalism? That they find that similarity thrilling rather than unsettling?

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 8d

There's something unseemly about the fact that the Minions' favorite food is bananas. Like, it's a little bit too close to home. You can't help wondering if the Minions believe they're eating each other.

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 9d

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

okaydonkeymag.com

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