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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast

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Hedge academic, Hårgan sysadmin, writes. Wrong perhaps, but not incorrect. she/her This account is: Writing My ridiculous doggos History Horror The Fascism Dragon Age brainrot

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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast @wordcountess.bsky.social · May 22

Hey, everybody! I'm back at the Gutter this month with a piece about Dragon Age: The Veilguard!

#dragonage #veilguard #datv #didiforgetanyhashtags #culturalgutter

This Game Kills Fascists

Spoilers for all Dragon Age, y’all. I have always believed the world would be a kinder place if more people played Dragon Age games. It’s true that BioWare’s high fantasy series h…

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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 14h

Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP).

It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16h

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Dark Shadows News @darkshadowsnews.bsky.social · 13h

Kino Cult are releasing a selection of Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis’ horror and literary adaptations on Blu-Ray, celebrating some of the classic stories reimagined for Dark Shadows.

Classic Monsters features Jack Palance in Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: amzn.to/3IEaNzt

Dan Curtis Blu-Ray collection from Kino Cult.

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Miurgen @miurgen.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn't sleep, guess it was knight sketchin hours :>

#Art

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Aimée ElizaBeth Swank @aimeeswank.bsky.social · Dec 14

A Page of Madness, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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hollye_h @hollyeh13.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the link for tonight's #CineJanes presentation -- the 1992 Turn of the Screw starring Patsy Kensit, with Stephane Audran, and cameos by Marianne Faithfull and Julian Sands! Join in at 7PT/10ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62VD...

Turn of the Screw 1992

YouTube video by Peculiar Pictures

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

#WatchPartyCalendar Oct 9-16

#ColumboTV @rubberplant.bsky.social

#SupernaturalSaturday @kansaswoman.bsky.social

@hollyeh13.bsky.social
#CineJanes

@manwithpez.bsky.social #CryptStatic

@tattooedgranny.bsky.social
#Splatterday #Splatterday2K

#VundaHalloweenathon @vundacast.bsky.social

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the THU-THU, Oct. 9-16
#Bluesky 🦋 #WatchPartyCalendar ⬇️ All times US Eastern

📆See LIVE calendar at livetweety.wordpress.com for details

🚨 #ColumboTV
NEW:
#SupernaturalSaturday
Daily🎃 #VundaHalloweenathon

Follow
@tattooedgranny.bsky.social for daily #WatchParty reminders⏰

#FilmSky 🍿

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · May 21

jazz!
@juhuachai
"optimal posting times" "stagger your posts" if you see me you see me. it's in gods hands and i am not praying
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Brian Kirby @driveinmob.com · 1d

#driveinmob thanks for hoping, everyone! More killer plants to come!

#DRIVEiNMOB
PLANTOBER
KILLER VEGETATION ALL MONTH

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

SPOOKS ON THE LOOSE (Leslie Goodwins, 1942)

“Boogie Woogie Debutante” Carole Landis inherits a notorious haunted hotel. When guests begin to die at her house warming party, she must determine the murderer’s identity. Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Bela Lugosi, and Lenore Aubert.

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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast @wordcountess.bsky.social · 1d

She’s gorgeous

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Lizzie Robillard @lizzierobillard.bsky.social · 1d

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#Veiltober #Veiltober2025
Day 9 Varric

A graphite pencil drawing of Varric tethras from dragon age the Veilguard looking distressed and worn down

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Mothra Summoning will continue until everything improves. youtu.be/9lmZRRqF6wA?...

Yuji Koseki - Mothra's Song

YouTube video by wesgriff1

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 1d

Gutter Editor Emeritus @wordcountess.bsky.social has a fantastic essay on that holiday classic, Trick'r Treat! culturalgutter.com/2025/10/09/f...

From the Archives: All Hail the Pumpkin King

Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat (2007) is less a movie and more being shoved into a Party City in late September. It is a haunted hayride where you’re not entirely sure all the people on the tra…

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Antiva City🎃 @antivacity.bsky.social · 1d

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And it’s by a good soul. 😊

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Please ✨like and share✨ so more people know my work and can get in touch!!

#commission #commissionsopen #octobercommissions #digitalart

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Lizzie Robillard @lizzierobillard.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend is the final chance to go see my painting at the LORE show at Modified Arts in Phoenix, AZ!

Gallery hours:

Fridays: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturdays: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Sundays: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Large green text says LORE
A small black box with white text says opening Friday 9/19 at Modified Arts
In the background is a detail shot of my blue painting of a face with a big eye and mustache and long black hair pointed ears

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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast @wordcountess.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, on that topic, anyone want to read me yap about kissing Doctors Who, fanboys cum showrunners, and PCap my beloved? #doctorwho

culturalgutter.com/2024/08/15/l...

Love in the Age of Doctor Who

Being a Whovian was one of my principal personality traits from 1985 until about 2020, and though I have a very casual relationship with the show now–which is truly about me, not it, I am old…

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Vita Werdegast, October Enthusiast @wordcountess.bsky.social · 1d

“And when the entire mountain is chiselled away, the series 10 soundtrack will have been released…” #yasssss #doctorwho #readytosobthroughdoctorfallsscore

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kara @karawra.bsky.social · 1d

#emmrichweek2025 : Day 3 - Thanatophobia

Was going for something a little different here 🖤❤️🤍🩻

#dragonage #datv #emmrichvolkarin

Emmrich clutching his chest in fear of death as a skeleton clutches his head and prepare sto wrap a hand around his throat.

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distressing pie @adorashandy.bsky.social · 3d

Day 2: Curiosity

I’ve often thought about how Emmrich could have met Manfred 20 years ago, back when he was just a small flame, and how it later evolved into a lasting bond

#EmmrichVolkarin #Emmrichweek

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