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The Deer Is Messed Up
@messedupanthos.bsky.social
A horror anthology edited by @probablyharmless.bsky.social and @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social

KICKSTARTER NOW LIVE! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mercfennwolfmoor/the-deer-is-messed-up

https://www.youtube.com/@MessedUpAnthologies
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Don't deerspair, friends, we will be BUCK and roe-ing to go! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #WillLiveAGAIN #SOon...
June 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Thanks to everyone who shared, posted, & made deer puns with us! Sadly we didn't make funding this time, but MESSED UP DEER will return- they are always waiting, in the woods.

In the meantime, if you'd like a spooky deer for the wall, here you go!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/carl...

👁️👁️👁️
🦌

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June 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Well, it's a bummer that @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social and my book of MESSED UP DEER didn't fund this time. Obviously, we're blue. But we're not giving up completely, and hope to revive the project soon when we're ready to tackle it again. Stay tuned, deers! ❤️🦌
June 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Thanks to everyone who backed or shared. <3 I am bereft to not be able to horrify you all with my scary deer...YET.

Stay tuned for the next time I Fawn over this project, and hopefully we will (eventually) Get. Them. Deer.
June 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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*looks between this and @messedupanthos.bsky.social *
Reindeer apparently love and actively seek out fly agaric mushrooms/Amanita muscaria. There are many stories of humans drinking the urin of reindeer who had feasted on these shrooms as the reindeer's kidneys/liver filter out the toxins but not the psychedelic properties 🖤🌀🍄
#whistpr 1/2
May 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Distinctly alarmed to find that the Moomin book I'm reading appears to contain an early sketch of the Jötunn monster from The Ritual (2017)
May 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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From @kayv.bsky.social, a story to make you NEVER want to go in the water ever again! Or on a dock. Or in the woods. But especially not in the water, even if it's part of your job... 👀🦌🏊‍♀️ (plus some extra feel-punching and WTF moments!!)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
May 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Happy Friday, friends! Here we have a teaser for
@noirbettie.bsky.social 's creepifying tale that's just like the meme... horror... set in a forest... there's a deer... THE DEER IS FUCKED UP. 👀🦌Prepare for visceral horror! (I promise the cat is okay in the end!)

tinyurl.com/messedupdeer
May 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Are you READY for some creepy dark fantasy from Ashe Olivier Deng (@ashesandmochi.bsky.social) featuring dead gods, ugly magic, and of course, (witchy) messed up deer??? OF COURSE YOU ARE. 👀🦌 #TheDeerIsMessedUP

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
LOOK AT HIM. HE'S GOT A LITTLE WEB 🥹
Another fucked up deer you can get is... SPIDER-DEER

Watch out! Here comes the spider-deer
May 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Hey DEER friends! If you've wanted to watch the videos of messed up deer (trailers, teasers... maybe MORE to come 👀) I've now made a YouTube channel to collect them all in once place! #TheDeerIsMessedUP

www.youtube.com/@MessedUpAnt...
Messed Up Anthologies
Run by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor of FennWolf Press; we publish themed anthologies, beginning with THE DEER IS MESSED UP.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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IT'S WEDNESDAY, MY DEERS! 🦌 We have a teaser trailer for @alexwoodroe.com 's messed up fairy tail—er, tale—about a foolish man who tries to capture a fae bride. SHE IS DISPLEASED WITH THIS. He's doe-ing to rue the day he tried this shit... 😈 #TheDeerIsMessedUP

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
May 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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SPACE DEER!!!! 🚀🦌 👁️ yesss...

We would love to see ALL settings/time periods/vibes. :D As long as it's got messed up deer! (Deer POV? 👀Oooh...)

So yes, dark fantasy is welcome too! (You are gonna DIG Ashe Olivier Deng's story... it's dark fantasy that's fucked up.)

Humor is also okay!
halloooooo I had a look at the guidelines but can’t tell—what’s the editorial vibe re: types of horror? Mainly looking for contemporary? Will dark fantasy be considered? How about SPACE DEER? Thank :’D
May 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Thank you for this information!

In that case, we will probably say no to have wendigos used in the theme, so we can be respectful of the Indigenous traditions. (Neither editor is Native.)

As always, we appreciate folks sharing things like this to help us make this the best it can be! <3
Ok, thanks - as a heads up, it's a closed tradition, so it may be good to note if they're being allowed so that folks can know if they want to engage with the anthology - it isn't widely known that it is indeed closed, but can be very offensive for people to see, especially played for horror
May 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Thank you, very glad to hear, I definitely don't want to tell folks what to and not to do, but 1- it's nice to have the tools to know what to engage with and 2- it's very heartening to see things like this respected.
May 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Ok, thanks - as a heads up, it's a closed tradition, so it may be good to note if they're being allowed so that folks can know if they want to engage with the anthology - it isn't widely known that it is indeed closed, but can be very offensive for people to see, especially played for horror
May 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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And if you're eager to get an ebook AND paperback copy, there's a SUPER early deer special going on for a few more days!

tinyurl.com/messedupdeer
May 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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also HYPE TRAIN!!! We're at 15% OMG!! 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
May 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Want a sneak-peak teaser trailer for @amulderwrites.bsky.social 's #TheDeerIsMessedUP story? 👀🦌 Of course you do. It's gonna punch your heart through your ribs and scare the socks off you.

Back the Kickstarter so you can read it (and weep/scream/etc)!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
May 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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So my friend @probablyharmless.bsky.social is editing and hrnrnrn I may need to revisit a story.
May 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
May 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Want to be part of the terror??? 👀 Help us reach our base funding goal so we can open to general submissions (in June) and read YOUR messed up deer stories!! @messedupanthos.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
THE DEER IS MESSED UP
An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
www.kickstarter.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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It's alive... ALLLLIIIVE!!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #horror #booksky

Come check out @probablyharmless.bsky.social and my epic horror anthology—full of messed up deer! 🔥🦌

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
THE DEER IS MESSED UP
An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
www.kickstarter.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM