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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, British flapjacks are not remotely like American ones. They’re not quite like granola bars, they’re not as crunchy but they’re DENSE. I love me a raspberry jam and coconut one!

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, British flapjacks are not remotely like American ones. They’re not quite like granola bars, they’re not as crunchy but they’re DENSE. I love me a raspberry jam and coconut one!

Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 5d

The world is going to hell so we are rewatching one of my favourite films tonight.

Drop Dead Gorgeous just landed back on streaming (paramount plus) so I get to relive the entire masterpiece along with this— possibly the funniest moment in the movie?

a woman is holding a knife in front of her face and says i just love saint paul pork products

Alt: a woman is holding a knife in front of her face and says i just love saint paul pork products, from Drop Dead Gorgeous

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 7d

You’ve heard of comfort watches, now I’ve got a comfort pod! Only 20 minutes into the first episode and already delighted— Becky and Kev are terrific hosts whose enthusiasm and love for the topic shines thru! Give it a whirl, horror fans!

This is gonna help me get thru autumn and winter 🔨🍁🍂❄️☃️

Becky Darke @bunnydarke.bsky.social · 7d

Episode 1 of our new podcast HAMMER TIME is out now! My co-host Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I kick things off by looking at what makes a Hammer Horror film 🩸🍿 Tune in wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 11d

Gosh and what a beautifully written book, too. Great adaptation that I suspect is gonna age well, and become a spooky season sleepover classic.

Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 16d

You gotta!! Thanks for doing this, Matt— it’s proper cool xx

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 16d

Omg this is a fabulous idea! Please share photos when it’s up and running 💕🎃 I’m also thinking… I wonder if your local Friends of the Library has movies they’d either donate or do you a great deal on? Just an idea!

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 18d

This forever endeared me to Dakota Johnson.

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 19d

That’s the best compliment, I feel that way when I listen to pods too! 💕

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Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more @elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social · 19d

Another excellent episode with a delightful guest in @gemseddon.bsky.social Loved the clever intro, giggled evilly like an idiot listening to it. This book and movie was a big part of my early teens. Go give it a listen!!

Johnny Restall @johnnyrestall.bsky.social · 29d

Join @gemseddon.bsky.social and myself as we discuss Rob Reiner's MISERY (1990) on this month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast.

Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans...

Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

A beautiful poster for the film MISERY (1990). At the top of the image, we can see snow-capped mountains in the evening light. Working down the page, the picture descends into deep, dark blues with the title 'Misery' in red type-writer style font. At the very bottom, enclosed in the darkness, is a house. It's wooden frame and snowy roof should look homely, but instead it's laden with menace. One downstairs window is lit, shining like a cry from the depths...

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 19d

Ahhh thank you so much, Elizabeth! Had such fun recording this with Johnny ☺️

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 20d

Sent this to my family chat this AM as I woke in the night, panicked and feeling so lost and untethered from the things that make me feel creativity, joy and humanity.

Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 20d

My incredibly talented sister (@gemseddon.bsky.social) shared this incredibly brilliant letter by Kurt Vonnegut. Important things for us all to practice, remember, and to share with others!

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 20d

Omg Matt! This sounds hideous and also classic “night before a trip” behaviour from the universe! Hope the rest of FF goes smoothly, mate, looking forward to your coverage! 🎉

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you for the words! 🥰

Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 21d

When I got the ARC for this I squealed— a new Sarah Gailey novel is an *event* — I’ve just started and cannot wait to see where this goes… (somewhere dark and brilliant, I suspect). Recommend ordering or placing on hold now!

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 22d

Just one week until SPREAD ME hits shelves everywhere! You can make the anticipation even sweeter by preordering your copy today from Bookshop.org 👀

Spread Me

Check out Spread Me - Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly w...

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Michelle Swope @redheadfrommars.bsky.social · 22d

Once again putting out into the universe that I am a freelance film journalist, with a focus on horror and almost a decade of experience, looking for paid freelance work. Interviews, reviews, essays for physical releases - would love to write something for you! 🎥 #filmsky

Michelle Swope's Portfolio

Freelance writer. Columnist at Bloody Disgusting. Bylines at Elements of Madness, Dread Central, and Scream Horror Magazine. Tomatometer-approved critic. VP of North Carolina Film Critics Association.

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 22d

And they also have THE BEST recommendations! One of our regulars is so helpful and happy to suggest books that other kids her age might enjoy. Our job— very cool 🎉

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 22d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. The first sip of coffee in the morning
2. Reading a great book in the summer sunshine
3. My gf’s laugh when something REALLY tickles her
4. When the lights go down at the cinema
5. Being surprised by a person’s kindness

Matt Donato @donatobomb.bsky.social · 22d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. The smell of a home-cooked Italian dinner.
2. The softest, fuzziest rug under your feet.
3. Live baseball and a stadium beer.
4. The shreddiest, thrashiest metal riffs.
5. Hugs.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 23d

We were guessing that’s what she said, it got bleeped on our feed. HECK YES. Love Hannah 💕 #Emmys

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 29d

It’s got to be. But I have zero interest in listening to a podcast written and — presumably — hosted by AI. They’re forgetting the inherent appeal of pods to those who subscribe; I love my regular rotation because of the PEOPLE not necessarily the topic. Cannot imagine how AI can replicate this.

Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · 29d

Absolutely loved chatting it up with the lovely @johnnyrestall.bsky.social about all-things Misery.

Such a delight to be able to talk about Stephen King on my 4th podcast appearance! 😊

Listen now and subscribe to The Thriller Cabinet!! It’s dead good!

Johnny Restall @johnnyrestall.bsky.social · 29d

Join @gemseddon.bsky.social and myself as we discuss Rob Reiner's MISERY (1990) on this month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast.

Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans...

Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Holy shit mate, this is FAB. Something to be well proud of!! Congratulations!

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · Aug 26

Whoooooooo boy. Also a time to blatantly self-promote! 🎉

I love writing film criticism and I don’t often get the chance, but I’m always ready! ✍️

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · Aug 25

Went down a rabbit hole this morning: looks like a critic for a paying outlet may have faked a ton of reviews with ChatGPT. No matter how much you feed an LLM, it can’t hide that it, like the critic in question, hasn’t actually seen the film.

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · Aug 16

Couldn’t have put it better myself

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · Aug 16

AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read.

Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Aug 16

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

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Gem Seddon 🏳️‍🌈 @gemseddon.bsky.social · Aug 13

Omgggggg we gotta chat! (If you guys wanted to do an ep and needed a guest, I’d be honoured!!)

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