Mylene Pharma
@dracula.church
I met a man who loved everything, and he died in a flood of shit.
- Horror writer - Bass player - (Somehow) political scientist -
- Horror writer - Bass player - (Somehow) political scientist -
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Mylene Pharma
@dracula.church
· Apr 3
Update this is my new webstie because what the hell was I thinking having a W*rdpress? The url remains, however, dracula.church (also I did not wind up using this as my banner but enjoy)
This is the most incredible post to stumble across while high in the middle of the afternoon, crying and listening to Mount Eerie.
December 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is the most incredible post to stumble across while high in the middle of the afternoon, crying and listening to Mount Eerie.
I'm probably gonna write more about this for my next newsletter piece but you may wanna get ahead of the game on this one. Strongly advise, in fact.
So my friend Sean (@hauntonaut.bsky.social) also formerly of WYRD_SIGNAL Podcast, has been writing, too! His latest work is some of the most impressive short fiction I've read this year (which he's permitted me to share until he cracks and also gets a Neocities account) dracula.church/unchienandalou
Un Chien Andalou by Sean Oscar
dracula.church
December 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I'm probably gonna write more about this for my next newsletter piece but you may wanna get ahead of the game on this one. Strongly advise, in fact.
So my friend Sean (@hauntonaut.bsky.social) also formerly of WYRD_SIGNAL Podcast, has been writing, too! His latest work is some of the most impressive short fiction I've read this year (which he's permitted me to share until he cracks and also gets a Neocities account) dracula.church/unchienandalou
Un Chien Andalou by Sean Oscar
dracula.church
December 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
So my friend Sean (@hauntonaut.bsky.social) also formerly of WYRD_SIGNAL Podcast, has been writing, too! His latest work is some of the most impressive short fiction I've read this year (which he's permitted me to share until he cracks and also gets a Neocities account) dracula.church/unchienandalou
Going from being treated as a peer by academics to having to write an essay about how I'm somehow uniquely competent to staff a ticket booth or answer an email is the most nauseating shift imaginable. Like, fuck this world. This isn't real. A streetcar will hit me and I'll wake up a midwest dentist.
December 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Going from being treated as a peer by academics to having to write an essay about how I'm somehow uniquely competent to staff a ticket booth or answer an email is the most nauseating shift imaginable. Like, fuck this world. This isn't real. A streetcar will hit me and I'll wake up a midwest dentist.
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"The commodification of what should be social goods is insured by prisons and police."
re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Malm and Mangione | Amna A. Akbar
You can almost hear the chattering class’s chattering teeth as they balance the need to generate clicks with their sanctimonious shock at the public’s hatred for Brian Thompson, the company he ran, an...
www.nplusonemag.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"The commodification of what should be social goods is insured by prisons and police."
re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
I think if bands started doing Kurt Weill covers/homages again it would re-manifest the economy
December 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I think if bands started doing Kurt Weill covers/homages again it would re-manifest the economy
Witnessing loved ones being exposed to instagram slop as a terminally online person is how I imagine Laura Palmer feels when dragging blackout drunk Donna out of the Pink Room in Fire Walk With Me and screaming "NO! Not you, NOT YOU!"
December 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Witnessing loved ones being exposed to instagram slop as a terminally online person is how I imagine Laura Palmer feels when dragging blackout drunk Donna out of the Pink Room in Fire Walk With Me and screaming "NO! Not you, NOT YOU!"
Once book is done I'm never doing another. It's short stories from here on out. I will be a dilettante. I will read for pleasure and dabble at the clarinet. I will get a stable job and focus on making my apartment clean and tasteful. I will drink wine and have reasonable thoughts.
December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Once book is done I'm never doing another. It's short stories from here on out. I will be a dilettante. I will read for pleasure and dabble at the clarinet. I will get a stable job and focus on making my apartment clean and tasteful. I will drink wine and have reasonable thoughts.
Making *finishing my fucking book* my sole resolution of 2026 - I've made similar resolutions multiple times but this is the first it's actually felt like a plan rather than an aspiration.
December 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Making *finishing my fucking book* my sole resolution of 2026 - I've made similar resolutions multiple times but this is the first it's actually felt like a plan rather than an aspiration.
I think the reason I find GFM so uniquely annoying is that she's so obviously desperate for people to be mad at her as this radical iconoclast, but since she doesn't actually have anything subversive in her to say, defaults to either c-tier reddit takes or a kind of righteous inverted wokescold act.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I think the reason I find GFM so uniquely annoying is that she's so obviously desperate for people to be mad at her as this radical iconoclast, but since she doesn't actually have anything subversive in her to say, defaults to either c-tier reddit takes or a kind of righteous inverted wokescold act.
It's crazy how the band Rosetta Stone had two separate guys in it called Porl, neither of whom were Porl Thompson of The Cure.
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It's crazy how the band Rosetta Stone had two separate guys in it called Porl, neither of whom were Porl Thompson of The Cure.
There should be a miao[.]si for giallo and godawful sex comedies
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There should be a miao[.]si for giallo and godawful sex comedies
If you enjoy hearing me talk about film, I also used to do a little podcast called WYRD_SIGNAL, and may again at some point who knows?
Update - I'm committing to the bit. In this first entry, I talk about Gakuryū Ishii, M John Harrison and Kathryn Mohr, which you can read here: dracula.church/church_newsl...
December 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If you enjoy hearing me talk about film, I also used to do a little podcast called WYRD_SIGNAL, and may again at some point who knows?
Update - I'm committing to the bit. In this first entry, I talk about Gakuryū Ishii, M John Harrison and Kathryn Mohr, which you can read here: dracula.church/church_newsl...
December 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Update - I'm committing to the bit. In this first entry, I talk about Gakuryū Ishii, M John Harrison and Kathryn Mohr, which you can read here: dracula.church/church_newsl...
[Overcome with a malaise of despair] I should write a newsletter!
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
[Overcome with a malaise of despair] I should write a newsletter!
Trial bar shift secured - with any luck things are about to go back to being only about as shitty as they were maybe August last year
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Trial bar shift secured - with any luck things are about to go back to being only about as shitty as they were maybe August last year
Getting in a couple eleventh hour submissions to the *other films by directors where I've seen like one of their films a bunch of times but never branched out any further for some fucking reason* 2025 list and jfc Jonathan Demme was cooking something on this one
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Getting in a couple eleventh hour submissions to the *other films by directors where I've seen like one of their films a bunch of times but never branched out any further for some fucking reason* 2025 list and jfc Jonathan Demme was cooking something on this one
If we're doing a personal year in review thing, my highlights include:
- Learning a set in a week and going on a road trip to Manchester with a bunch of people I barely knew so I wouldn't have to be around for a housemate's birthday
- Playing three shows with a band I wrote most of the stuff for
- Learning a set in a week and going on a road trip to Manchester with a bunch of people I barely knew so I wouldn't have to be around for a housemate's birthday
- Playing three shows with a band I wrote most of the stuff for
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If we're doing a personal year in review thing, my highlights include:
- Learning a set in a week and going on a road trip to Manchester with a bunch of people I barely knew so I wouldn't have to be around for a housemate's birthday
- Playing three shows with a band I wrote most of the stuff for
- Learning a set in a week and going on a road trip to Manchester with a bunch of people I barely knew so I wouldn't have to be around for a housemate's birthday
- Playing three shows with a band I wrote most of the stuff for
My other story Derivae, or, The Book of Dead Names - which was actually written several months after the first draft of The Day's other face - is also available in newly mobile-readable form via
dracula.church/derivaeorthe...
dracula.church/derivaeorthe...
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My other story Derivae, or, The Book of Dead Names - which was actually written several months after the first draft of The Day's other face - is also available in newly mobile-readable form via
dracula.church/derivaeorthe...
dracula.church/derivaeorthe...
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UPDATE: New Lucy bullshit just dropped. I was channelling a bit of the Truman Capote on this one viz. tone and granular on local detail but the crux is pure science weird (like from when people used to publish my work) dracula.church/thedaysother...
The web site of dracula-church
dracula.church
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
UPDATE: New Lucy bullshit just dropped. I was channelling a bit of the Truman Capote on this one viz. tone and granular on local detail but the crux is pure science weird (like from when people used to publish my work) dracula.church/thedaysother...
UPDATE: New Lucy bullshit just dropped. I was channelling a bit of the Truman Capote on this one viz. tone and granular on local detail but the crux is pure science weird (like from when people used to publish my work) dracula.church/thedaysother...
The web site of dracula-church
dracula.church
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
UPDATE: New Lucy bullshit just dropped. I was channelling a bit of the Truman Capote on this one viz. tone and granular on local detail but the crux is pure science weird (like from when people used to publish my work) dracula.church/thedaysother...
Design for the era you want to be published in, not the one you presently inhabit
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Design for the era you want to be published in, not the one you presently inhabit