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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

@scumbelievable.bsky.social

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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 Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social‬

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

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Ulrike Reichhold of Cineric, Inc., one of the foremost film restoration laboratories in the world, at her workbench inspecting a negative prior to repairing and scanning. Photo by Simon Lund, courtesy Cineric.

A still from Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis (William Holden) seated beside a standing Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who holds her hand up as she stands bathed in the light of a projector

Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton, flayed and bloody, sitting against a tiled wall in a pool of his own blood, I AM IN HELL HELP ME written in blood on the wall beside him

The burning shack in the desert from David Lynch's Lost Highway

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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 6h

ITS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR - PRE ORDER NOWWW

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 16h

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

THE SACRED TEXTS!

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

1. tiramisu in bed with hot girl
2. le Guin
3. Aliens, Alien, Alien 3, Covenant, Resurrection, Prometheus, Romulus

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✨ ᴄ ʜ ᴇ ʟ 🔥 @chelbizzaro.com · 6h

LMAOOOO, not the Neytiri being excited about Osama Bin Laden. I'm 💀

Also, rapid fire

1. What is the ideal place to have your ideal dessert
2. Which creative from any era would you like to spend an afternoon with discussing craft (or anything else)
3. Favorite 'Alien' films ranked

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

probably my favorite way to relate to people i've never met or spoken to

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

a tip: starting at the gourmand's room, go backward through the whole route and kill everything in your path without resting. that way you'll have a clear run!

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6h

sick

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

Skarrsinger Karmelita has kicked my ass six ways from sundown, I cannot fuckin get past her. Weirdly, the Savage Beastfly was a brutal slog for me???

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Skelly-Ellie🏳️‍⚧️🖤 @hexate.bsky.social · 7h

Now that you’re closing in on the end of Silksong, which boss was the hardest fight for you?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

If you ever see him again please send him my love <3

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

1: YES, oh my god, one of the best shows on TV right now
2: my favorite is Madeleine and I am fortunately/unfortunately a Daniel

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Laura Bogart @ldbogart.bsky.social · 8h

One, have you seen the new Interview with the Vampire series footage yet?

Two, and because I'm greedy, I'll ask a two-parter: Character in the series you like the best and character who is most like you.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

once i begin to sweat you might as well just shoot me like a broke leg horse

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Fiend Of Justice @bigbadbugsteak.bsky.social · 8h

Sweating: gross or turbo gross?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

coffee, always

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DWL Pictures @dwlpictures.bsky.social · 8h

Coffee or tea?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

Columbo could get Bugs convicted, but Bugs would never do time.

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viashinowizard.bsky.social @viashinowizard.bsky.social · 8h

who would win: bugs bunny vs columbo

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE

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Andy 🇵🇷 @supertheandres.bsky.social · 8h

Favorite heist movie?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

Oh a million of them. There's a very specific "two adjectives" structure I default to that I have to cut back every single time I edit.

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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 8h

do you have a favorite word or writing tic that you've had to start weeding out of drafts? if so, did YOU notice it or did an editor ask you about it

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

Labubu is a living toy who has been created to sell itself. It is in constant psychic agony every moment it is not being bought/sold. Its every moment is a hell beyond human imagination. Johnson plays the shy, reclusive man who keeps it trapped in his collection.

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 8h

You've been drafted at gunpoint to write the A Labubu Movie script. Dwayne the Rock Johnson has an extended speaking role. What's your pitch?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

'The Library of Byzantium'

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aoife josie clements @ravineangel.bsky.social · 8h

favourite ligotti story?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

simple, classic. one knife, jelly on one piece of bread, extra crunchy pb on the other

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Jennie o'Lantern @calledthemoon.bsky.social · 8h

If you make peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, what's your technique? Like both on one slice, one on each slice? One knife, one spoon? If you don't, just have a great evening!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8h

your own site or patreon, imo

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 8h

In your experience where would be the best place on the internet to place any self published stories?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

palaver?? i hardly know 'er!

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

done

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

It has been brought to my attention that the DC social media post from which I copied these photos omits four women also featured in the lineup, if not at the current con

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

It has been brought to my attention that the DC social media post from which I copied these photos omits four women also featured in the lineup, if not at the current con

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

haven't read it

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

Had to go hunting for a second, here you go

this image is available under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

he's a genius and it's perhaps the greatest comic of all time

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JL Robbins 🍉 @jlrobbins.bsky.social · 9h

Thoughts on Alan Moore/ From Hell?

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