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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 1d

Well, in case you do decide to explore the fediverse a bit, I'd probably start somewhere like writing.exchange/about for your interests.

Right now I'm mainly using bluesky, but it's always good to have a plan B.

Writing Exchange

A small, intentional community for poets, authors, and every kind of writer.

writing.exchange

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 1d

On a technical level I much prefer it (it's actually decentralised, you can't be banned from Mastodon, only from a particular server). It isn't as easy to use however (you've got to choose a server to start with) and the writing community is small/mostly SFF.

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 2d

These are basically identical to my last two attempts at self portraits

Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 2d

Either really

Choose your fighter (two options of medieval cat paintings). Orang laddie - deadly stare, fond of ham and cheese, massive ego
Banan boi - +banana, will sit on you, thicc, might eat you tbh

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 4d

An autistic woman is using her name recognition to bring awareness about genocide and putting her own body in harms way because you don’t care about people getting tortured unless they’re white. Try that for a headline, chaps.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.””

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 4d

New entry on my personal blog!

Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories.

antonyfb.com/blog/nefario...

#personalblog #horrorlit

Nefarious Narratives on the Net

In which the author provides links for some (mostly horror) stories he's found on the web recently.

antonyfb.com

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Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 7d

#buymybooks THE BIG ONE. A double dose today because it’s important to note that this action-horror novella is out in less than a week from @tonyanuci.bsky.social. I mean, just check out that tentacular cover by @lynnehansenart.bsky.social. Can you punch your way past existential dread?

The Big One (preorder: releases 10/7) | Anuci Press

"Daddy's coming home." That's the promise Hank, a widowed ambulance driver finishing up his shift in San Francisco, makes to his two kids who are trapped in the ruins of their destroyed apartment buil...

www.anuci-press.com

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Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com · 10d

#horror #memes

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 18d

Just one, a lonesome chap with only his extraneous limbs for company.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 20d

This, right here, is absolutely outrageous.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony

www.theguardian.com

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 20d

Finished POSTHASTE MANOR by
@jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social last night, and it hit all my buttons. From the actual story content to the structure - mosaic narratives, smashing together genres, scrapbook media, wild tonal shifts. Its all there!

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 21d

I'll bring potato smileys

Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 22d

<dead orphan children climbing from well>
<me, a person who loves both children and creepy shit>
Who wants dino nuggets????

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 22d

Not just you. My wife's black and she's been getting a lot more racial and misogynistic bullshit in public/at work recently. It's bad out there.

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 22d

Seeing how things have been for my white collar friends in recent years has made me thankful that I work in a wax factory with machines from the '70s.

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Liam Quane 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @specificityarchives.com · 22d

And less than 15 months in they've already doomed themselves simply by being themselves.

All they had to do was not be monsters and the people who didn't know any better would have held them up as heroes but they just couldn't not be monsters.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22d

For people who don’t understand the background to recent events, I would recommend Phil’s summary of the Forde shenanigans as the best, most concise and most accurate tribunemag.co.uk/2022/07/labo...

The Forde Report’s Villains Now Control the Labour Party

Far from drawing a line under party factionalism, the Starmer leadership has elevated the very Labour Right fixers whose conduct is most criticised in the Forde Report – and given them licence to rema...

tribunemag.co.uk

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 22d

always feels weird seeing horror people romanticize The Conjuring’s version of Ed and Lorraine Warren because like… do you guys not know, or…?

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 24d

First look at the distillery in my short horror story, Old Tom. Available in full for free here: www.ferenbrooke.com/short-storie...

#horrorfiction #horrorlit #WritingCommunity #shortstory

A screenshot of some text from the story linked above. It reads: Blackwell Road branched off Stone Street on the other side of the bridge. The old distillery was just a short ways up the road, visible from Stone Street proper. I had vague recollections of standing outside it as one of a clutch of teenage boys, sharing a cigarette after youth club. Just one of many disused relics, its fallow grounds and chipped bricks hadn’t seemed worthy of note to my young mind. Indeed, until we rounded the corner onto Blackwell Road and it filled the sky in front of us, I couldn’t quite conjure a solid image of the place. Even now, looking back, the exact angles elude me. The slope of the roof surely wasn’t as steep as I remember it, the angles at which the walls met could not have been as sharp as my mind’s eye holds them to be.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26d

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day

We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 25d

I have dealt with old fashioned madness which renders me resistant to computer madness. Bit of a cowpox/smallpox situation.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 25d

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26d

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26d

Michael Gove, "Reform voters are very close to, in their general views, with the British public"

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 25d

So, given that I post short horror stories on my own website, would the #webfiction hashtag be appropriate? Or is that usually just for serials in particular (SFF?) genres on platforms like Royal Road?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26d

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 26d

Yeah I feel you. I'm gonna write to my MP about this, seems about the only thing I can do.

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 26d

It'd make for uncomfortable but necessary reading, I suspect. I'm about as far from academia as you can get, just a factory worker without a degree, but even I can see the value in that sort of work. Whether anyone in a position if authority would pay attention is quite another matter, of course

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 26d

Quite rightly.

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Antony F. @antonyfrost.bsky.social · 26d

Wish I was surprised.

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