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Josh Sutphin
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(SUT-fin) Writing horror and hopepunk at @horrorxhope.com. Co-founder @shirakipress.com. Veteran video game developer.
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Ban SCOTUS, not books.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
“This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States denied our petition for certiorari,” plaintiff Leila Green Little wrote in an email on December 8. “They will not hear our case. No explanation is given.” Little continued, “This means that the en banc ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will remain in effect for Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. This means that public library patrons have no First Amendment rights to access information. This means we now live in a censorship state.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I gotta say, though: I've always felt invisible online, and wondered if that was real or just how social media makes everyone feel, but seeing these differential engagement metrics really drives home for me just how much the Internet *does not care*.

97% below average! 🫠😭💀
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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This tool is really very slick. You can see how hard of a turn I've taken into my horror writing this year, but it's good to note that the important things are still sticking around.
A word cloud with "horror" as the obvious biggest term, and (much smaller) the word "fuck" circled in red because it's important to me
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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I was reading the wonderful play RHINOCEROS by Eugène Ionesco and this passage stopped me in my tracks.

I've never felt so seen. 🫠
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Wow, today was a gnarly day for big tech news.

pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/o...

proton.me/blog/meta-sc...

www.hardresetmedia.com/p/new-court-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Live image of my TBR 😭
oh god there are just so many books you guys
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I loved this book so much
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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HORROR × HOPE explores occult horror (supernatural, folk, cosmic, even religious) as well as themes of imagination, empathy, and solidarity. Here's my intro to my new, ongoing project: www.horrorxhope.com/introducing-...

#horrorxhope #horror #hopepunk #fiction #booksky
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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PlunderNauts was a F2P iOS game we built at LightBox Interactive back in 2013. Cartoon capital ship battles, RPG-lite loot grind, ship customization, etc. It was the last thing LBI ever made, and I have nothing left of it but this piece of key art:
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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MAGICA RIOT is a hopepunk adventure full of over-the-top anime-style action and cozy found family vibes. My review for Horror × Hope: www.horrorxhope.com/review-magic...

#horrorxhope #hopepunk #review #booksky
MAGICA RIOT: This big-hearted hopepunk adventure is a concentrated blast of trans joy.
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Here's an excerpt from my short story WITNESS, available now on Horror × Hope!
www.horrorxhope.com/short-fictio...

#horrorxhope #horror #ShortFiction #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ is a fresh demonic possession story from the perspective of the possessed. My review is up now on Horror × Hope: www.horrorxhope.com/review-the-p...

#horrorxhope #horror #BookReview #booksky
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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HORROR × HOPE explores occult horror (supernatural, folk, cosmic, even religious) as well as themes of imagination, empathy, and solidarity. Here's my intro to my new, ongoing project: www.horrorxhope.com/introducing-...

#horrorxhope #horror #hopepunk #fiction #booksky
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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ICYMI, my short story WITNESS is up now on Horror × Hope! It's a moody exploration of the aftermath of an obsessed writer's sacrifice to an ancient god. www.horrorxhope.com/short-fictio...

#horrorxhope #horror #ShortFiction #booksky
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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MAGICA RIOT is a hopepunk adventure full of over-the-top anime-style action and cozy found family vibes. My review for Horror × Hope: www.horrorxhope.com/review-magic...

#horrorxhope #hopepunk #review #booksky
MAGICA RIOT: This big-hearted hopepunk adventure is a concentrated blast of trans joy.
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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If you, like me, have felt deeply frustrated by recent events, you may find my original flash fiction TRIBUTE cathartic. It's like if Fortunado was a dictator, instead of just a drunk!

www.horrorxhope.com/flash-fictio...

#horrorxhope #horror #FlashFiction #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Man, I gotta up my link thumbnail game. Let's try that again with the nice image we actually made on purpose for this!
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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please, i am so tired
Image of a utopian society, captioned: Society if every platform could just pick one standard aspect ratio for link thumbnails.
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Today is the birthday of my favorite author, Ursula K. Le Guin, who sadly passed before I got a chance to meet her.

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS is #3 on the Locus paperback bestseller list, which illustrates both the power of her writing, and the power of a backlist! ❤

locusmag.com/2025/10/locu...
The Locus paperback bestseller list for October, showing THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS at #3
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Yesterday's protests produced some of the most gorgeous photos 🤩
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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One of our responsibilities as a publisher is to register copyrights. Turns out that's rather difficult to do when the U.S. Copyright Office is *closed due to government shutdown*.

America: so functional, much supreme. 😒

www.copyright.gov

#copyright #publishing #GovernmentShutdown
Notice Due to a lapse in government funding, the U.S. Copyright Office is closed, as is the Library of Congress. As such, the office is unable to update the information on this website, respond to inquiries, or process transactions. Registration and recordation submissions will be accepted for the purpose of securing date of receipt but will not be processed. Website updates and all normal business activity will resume when the government reopens. If you would like to file a copyright registration or submit a document recordation, our online systems are available. Filing your registration claim now will help ensure the earliest possible effective date of registration, although submissions will not be processed until the Copyright Office reopens.
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This is so wildly irresponsible. Privatizing schools and getting rid of all regulation and oversight over them would lead to *so much* child abuse.

The foxes are governing the henhouse.

www.propublica.org/article/educ...

#uspolitics #education #publicschools
As tax dollars are reallocated from public school districts and families abandon those schools to learn at home or in private settings, the new department officials see little need for oversight. Instead, they would let the marketplace determine what’s working using tools such as Yelp-like reviews from parents. Burke has said she is against “any sort of regulation.” President Donald Trump himself said in July that the federal government needs only to provide “a little tiny bit of supervision but very little, almost nothing,” over the nation’s education system except to make sure students speak English.
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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October 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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💯 to this! The whole topic of AI is too charged to make blind assumptions about.

At @shirakipress.com we've posted our AI policy here www.shirakipress.com/about-us/ and we also include our AI prohibition in our publishing contracts.
- We do not accept AI-generated submissions - We do not commission or use AI-generated cover art or content - We do not use generative AI tools in our publishing pipeline
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Apropos of absolutely nothing 👀
September 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM