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Vivian Shaw
@ceruleancynic.bsky.social
she/her. Helsing books: STRANGE PRACTICE, DREADFUL COMPANY, GRAVE IMPORTANCE, BITTER WATERS; STRANGE NEW WORLD (2025) Orbit; THE HELIOS SYNDROME (Lethe); short fiction (Uncanny, PseudoPod, The Deadlands); editor; jeweler. Rep: https://x.com/Stephen_Barbara
what an extraordinary person, he seems to be insisting that the place is a food truck despite your obvious picture of a bricks and mortar menu
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I think "emotional support panko" is the best concept since pockets in pita <3
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
wow, even groverhaus didn't involve "paradigm shifts in how we think about windows, roofs, and doors" DAMN

also *chinhands*
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
good lord that is unfair, I am sorry that medicine is made of frustration (there’s a reason I never got any closer to it than writing fiction, and it’s only half due to the scorching case of dyscalculia)
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
1) deep deep sympathy, robot bodies can be delivered anytime now

2) seriously, scope works?? zofran bounces right off me when the syndrome decides it wants to reassert itself and one can only take so much dramamine
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I went there once! I…have no idea where the hell it was, though. Lived there from ages 7 through 39, which is a bit horrifying to contemplate, and now I miss the damn place.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
imagine the identity issues/inferiority complex a maddened hybrid might have when compared to, say, a big-block V8 Plymouth Fury

and then there's the snide, eely, slick, condescending asshole that is a full EV, sneering at the hybrid, "nice, you run on dead things"

:D
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Him" could go nicely as an ode to the demon Choronzon:

Ah, there he is.
That motherfucker.
What a tool.

then again I never trusted any bastard with two mouths in one face, just saying
October 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Thank you for reading! As far as I know, right now they don't have any plans to release BITTER WATERS in print.
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
All of this and a lot more, available now on Etsy at www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... for your perusal. Be nice to yourself: get a small pretty thing that makes you happy when you look at it.
www.etsy.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
...but I have a lot more to show you. Laser-printed flame-colored disks with gunmetal spike dangles. Glittering crystal cubes. Iridescent leaves that wouldn't have looked out of place in Rivendell, all going for a song. Come look, investigate, see what you like, and keep in mind I do custom work.
October 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy birthday, Bear!
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM