Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2026
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Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2026
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
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Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Chiropractors and homeopaths are at best deluded shmucks endangering their patients with useless/dangerous hokum, and at worst malicious parasites destroying the lives and bodies of people in their care for money.
Chiropractors are absolutely doctors. Just like someone who has a doctorate in humanities, or education, is a doctor.
I can tell you didn’t make it through college.
I can tell you didn’t make it through college.
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Chiropractors and homeopaths are at best deluded shmucks endangering their patients with useless/dangerous hokum, and at worst malicious parasites destroying the lives and bodies of people in their care for money.
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The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974). Shaw Brothers and Hammer meet and create a secret third thing that doesn't quite hang together but has a lot to like in it. Definitely make note of this one, Big Trouble in Little China fans.
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974). Shaw Brothers and Hammer meet and create a secret third thing that doesn't quite hang together but has a lot to like in it. Definitely make note of this one, Big Trouble in Little China fans.
Woof
Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for
December 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Woof
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In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Olivia Nuzzi won't see this, but your friends who look like Yassified Lord Farquaaad will.
she's just Yassified Lord Farquaad
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Olivia Nuzzi won't see this, but your friends who look like Yassified Lord Farquaaad will.
jesus fucking christ
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
jesus fucking christ
if you need me next august i'll be in new york
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
if you need me next august i'll be in new york
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Tonight, 7:30pm, at All She Wrote Books, me and @daveydavis.bsky.social talk CASANOVA 20. Davey's third novel is his best yet, a lyrical exploration of desire, self-image, isolation, and emptiness. It's going to be a great evening. Come and join us!
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tonight, 7:30pm, at All She Wrote Books, me and @daveydavis.bsky.social talk CASANOVA 20. Davey's third novel is his best yet, a lyrical exploration of desire, self-image, isolation, and emptiness. It's going to be a great evening. Come and join us!
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the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
2026’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.
readjumpscares.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
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I'll hand it to Ryan Lizza in one regard only: That was some very straightforwardly successful vengeance.
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I'll hand it to Ryan Lizza in one regard only: That was some very straightforwardly successful vengeance.
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Here’s Part 7 of Terra Hypnagogica!
It contains Chapter 12 of the story, “Land of Possibilities”; finally some all-new pages after reuploading the previous parts! The adventures of Ingrid continue in the newly discovered vastoplane of Lacunisia.
thecodexnoirmatic.substack.com/p/terra-hypn...
It contains Chapter 12 of the story, “Land of Possibilities”; finally some all-new pages after reuploading the previous parts! The adventures of Ingrid continue in the newly discovered vastoplane of Lacunisia.
thecodexnoirmatic.substack.com/p/terra-hypn...
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Here’s Part 7 of Terra Hypnagogica!
It contains Chapter 12 of the story, “Land of Possibilities”; finally some all-new pages after reuploading the previous parts! The adventures of Ingrid continue in the newly discovered vastoplane of Lacunisia.
thecodexnoirmatic.substack.com/p/terra-hypn...
It contains Chapter 12 of the story, “Land of Possibilities”; finally some all-new pages after reuploading the previous parts! The adventures of Ingrid continue in the newly discovered vastoplane of Lacunisia.
thecodexnoirmatic.substack.com/p/terra-hypn...
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Every year Emily does this and every year it's my most-visited web page for anything related to books. Thank you, Emily, for saving the horror lit world so many headaches with your hard work.
the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
2026’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.
readjumpscares.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Every year Emily does this and every year it's my most-visited web page for anything related to books. Thank you, Emily, for saving the horror lit world so many headaches with your hard work.
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Imagine having to pay rent in the middle of a genocide. If anyone deserves a hand, it's my friend Sama'a and her family.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Imagine having to pay rent in the middle of a genocide. If anyone deserves a hand, it's my friend Sama'a and her family.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
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Could a depressed person write this much yuri
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Could a depressed person write this much yuri
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I strongly disagree with Ian in that I think the intention to make work *should* garauntee a thriving living. I also think that's something that online games culture, by and large, does not care very much about.
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I strongly disagree with Ian in that I think the intention to make work *should* garauntee a thriving living. I also think that's something that online games culture, by and large, does not care very much about.
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As someone who's a lot friendlier to the possibilities of videogames as a narrative art form than Ian is, I think he's completely right about this
I’m going to get in trouble for this, but fuck it.
I’ve been at this a long time. Games culture wants the spoils of cultural sophistication without doing the work. It wants a guarantee that the intention to make work guarantees not just a living but a thriving one. It is a medium for children.
I’ve been at this a long time. Games culture wants the spoils of cultural sophistication without doing the work. It wants a guarantee that the intention to make work guarantees not just a living but a thriving one. It is a medium for children.
Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As someone who's a lot friendlier to the possibilities of videogames as a narrative art form than Ian is, I think he's completely right about this
I've entered a loop in which thinking a lot about the time I dreamed about going to see a movie called UNCLE SLAYER (tagline: Everyone Is Somebody's Uncle) causes UNCLE SLAYER to recur in my dreams, which causes me to think more about UNCLE SLAYER, a completely fake movie that does not exist.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Tonight, 7:30pm, at All She Wrote Books, me and @daveydavis.bsky.social talk CASANOVA 20. Davey's third novel is his best yet, a lyrical exploration of desire, self-image, isolation, and emptiness. It's going to be a great evening. Come and join us!
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tonight, 7:30pm, at All She Wrote Books, me and @daveydavis.bsky.social talk CASANOVA 20. Davey's third novel is his best yet, a lyrical exploration of desire, self-image, isolation, and emptiness. It's going to be a great evening. Come and join us!
No big deal just one of my favorite writers listing BLACK FLAME as one of her favorite books of 2025
Black Flame by @scumbelievable.bsky.social for its unflinching look at lost texts and lost queers, an awful period in history and how long the shadow of a genocide really is. Possibly her best novel.
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
No big deal just one of my favorite writers listing BLACK FLAME as one of her favorite books of 2025
Imagine having to pay rent in the middle of a genocide. If anyone deserves a hand, it's my friend Sama'a and her family.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Imagine having to pay rent in the middle of a genocide. If anyone deserves a hand, it's my friend Sama'a and her family.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
One of the greatest movies ever made. Had so much fun talking it over with this crew.
Mind your manners and hold your tongue, it’s Albert’s turn to talk!
@scumbelievable.bsky.social joins us for an in-depth discussion on Peter Greenaway's singular 1989 film starring my biggest celebrity crush, Helen Mirren.
Apple: tinyurl.com/mtbmsbyz
Spotify: tinyurl.com/bdenhtmn
@scumbelievable.bsky.social joins us for an in-depth discussion on Peter Greenaway's singular 1989 film starring my biggest celebrity crush, Helen Mirren.
Apple: tinyurl.com/mtbmsbyz
Spotify: tinyurl.com/bdenhtmn
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One of the greatest movies ever made. Had so much fun talking it over with this crew.
me trying to relate to people who love noise and parties
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
me trying to relate to people who love noise and parties
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1) Hard not to call this "game over." Bleak bleak bleak BLEAK.
2) lol Ellisons eat shit.
2) lol Ellisons eat shit.
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
1) Hard not to call this "game over." Bleak bleak bleak BLEAK.
2) lol Ellisons eat shit.
2) lol Ellisons eat shit.
he was tremendous, a real bad guy's bad guy. keenly understood the studio system that wanted to exploit his image, did what he loved anyway.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has died. Bummer news.
I mean, what do you even need to say about his performance as Shang Tsung? Iconic.
I mean, what do you even need to say about his performance as Shang Tsung? Iconic.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
he was tremendous, a real bad guy's bad guy. keenly understood the studio system that wanted to exploit his image, did what he loved anyway.
a real aficionado of junk food art is comfortable with their tastes and also engages with art outside that bubble. an insecure lover of junk rages and whines at anything they perceive as more rarefied and demands culture recognize and praise their chosen slop.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
a real aficionado of junk food art is comfortable with their tastes and also engages with art outside that bubble. an insecure lover of junk rages and whines at anything they perceive as more rarefied and demands culture recognize and praise their chosen slop.