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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 1d

The experience was literally mind-altering: Doors blown off their hinges inside my head, the topography of my imagination fundamentally rewritten. I'll always be grateful to Clive for that.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 1d

I can't begin to express how intimidated I was to sit down and write this: Weaveworld may be THE most important book of my life; it changed so, so much when I originally came by it at the age of 11.

Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 2d

Weaveworld’s Magic: How Clive Barker’s Novel Fights Fascism and Celebrates Queer Identity: A My Life in Horror

I’m honoured to work with such great writers. This essay from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social is immense and a must read.

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Weaveworld's Magic: How Clive Barker's Novel Fights Fascism And Celebrates Queer Identity: A My Life In Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Clive Barker's Weaveworld is more than a fantasy novel, it's a sacred text of queer awakening and a radical critique of fascism. and why its celebration of magic and desire forever alters its readers.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 2d

It's an evil, evil organisation, and, quite frankly, it's one of the few I say should be proscribed, certainly here in the UK. It needs to be investigated, ripped apart and every seedy, nasty little secret unearthed.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 2d

Indentured slavery, people trafficking, forced abortions, forced sterilisation, orchestarted divorces, children removed from parents, children forced to do the work of adults, enshrined and protected child abuse.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sharing this again because I think it's absolutely necessary people understand what this vile, abusive, cruel, fraudulent cult is actually up to:

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Born into Scientology - Claire & Marc Headley Pt. 1 | Ep. 2065

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 2d

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” - Ray Bradbury

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 2d

It's quite explicitly about patriarchy, defying prescribed gender norms etc. As such, and in drearily predictable fashion, it's got the usual crop of insincere, reactionary, grifting chuds foaming at the mouth. Which is one of the most ringing endorsements I can give.

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Let's Play Silent Hill F, Part 2: Repressed RAAAAAGGGE.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 3d

Also, for the similarly perverse in that they're up and about this time on a Sunday morning, @kitgonzo.bsky.social and I discuss what might be the knock-out horror film of the year:

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What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? Bring Her Back

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 3d

(a dying mining town where toxic gasses from the mines are causing sickness and mania, a deeply troubled protagonist, unspoken tensions between the characters etc).

It feels like a species of the same metaphysics given a notably Japanese twist.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 3d

However, the first hour or so are damn impressive. It's a beautiful horror game with some startling ideas and visuals. I have no idea what's going on, but there are some interesting overlaps with Silent Hill's mythology

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 3d

Was originally quite dubious about this: I wasn't sure how you could uproot Silent Hill from its USA setting and make it work (the games thus far have been so specifically American in nature).

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Let's Play Silent Hill F, Part 1: Hauntingly Familiar.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 4d

Content warnings for both podcast and film: This is one of the most triggering pieces of work I've seen in some time, utilising horror subjects to explore loss, grief, domestic and psychological abuse, narcissism within family dynamics and much, much more besides.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 4d

The latest episode of What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? In which myself and Kit Power deep-dive into the incredible meditation on abuse that is Bring Her Back.

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What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? Bring Her Back

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 6d

"All right. All right. I'll give you an answer. I'm a man of medicine. I'm expected to save lives and ease suffering. I love people. Therefore, I would have no choice but to kill the son of a bitch."

- Dr. Sam Weizak, The Dead Zone.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 6d

"It's a cult operating as a business masquerading as a religion."

It's also a hive of domestic and child abuse, stalking, harassment and a gigantic, money-grubbing, land-grabbing con. Those at the highest levels are evident and overt frauds and abusers.

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Born into Scientology - Claire & Marc Headley Pt. 1 | Ep. 2065

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 8d

Sylvester hands: "What's the threshold?"

Lord Fear: "It's a doorstep, Hands. It's especially designed for wiping dirty feet on. It's a bit like your face, Hands."

a man with a beard has the words oooh nasty written on his face

ALT: a man with a beard has the words oooh nasty written on his face

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 9d

Here it is, my lovelies. A massive in-depth interview with @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social about creating an anthology that tackles mental health in horror.

It's a brilliant anthology and dare I say a brillaint interview

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When Horror Meets Mental Health: This Way Lies Madness An Interview With Lee Murray And Dave Jeffery - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

"This Way Lies Madness" delivers empathetic horror on anxiety, grief, and more. Editors explain its role in destigmatizing mental health via global stories.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 9d

Spay-ace!

Future Games Show @futuregamesshow.bsky.social · 12d

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 10d

If you haven't read MOBY DICK I think it's easy to be like "oh there are some passages that can mistakenly be read in a homoerotic or homoromantic light" and then you read it and Ishmael is like "from that moment on Queequeg and I were a married couple that is in love"

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 10d

What The Hell Is Wrong With Us?, in which myself and @kitgonzo.bsky.social discuss various articles of culture and media that have made a significant impact on us, will return next weekend with a deep-dive into the seminal -but deeply unsettling- Bring Her Back.

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What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? Weapons

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 13d

There is no more perfect Autumnal watch.

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Over the Garden Wall - Into The Unknown (Theme Song - Full Version )

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 16d

Trump and a significant proportion of his cabinet and supporters are still child abusers.

Despite all of the recent attempts to distract and divert from the fact.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 16d

It's a classic Barkerian dynamic: Materialism versus imagination, money versus dreams. And Barker makes absolutely no bones about which side he comes down on.

George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 16d

But the Barbarosas are beyond them, and that's why they hate them: The various divinities that make up the clan are sublimely outside of the systems the Geary's power relies on, and express capacities they can no more control than they can dreams.

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George Daniel Lea/ExaggeratedElegy @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social · 16d

Throughout the book, they rape and threaten and steal and buy insulation from all reprisal. Because that's who they are; the wealthy, the Lords and Ladies of the land. Necrophiles, child abusers, thieves and charlatans.

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