Laura Keating
@lorekeating.bsky.social
Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
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Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
She/Her
One of the most underrated musicians of all time, I swear ❤️
January 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
One of the most underrated musicians of all time, I swear ❤️
I was so young! I know it's genuinely a bad movie, but I had fun watching it and I've never forgotten that Marlon Wayans' character was named "Snails" because that's both great and very ridiculous.
January 12, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I was so young! I know it's genuinely a bad movie, but I had fun watching it and I've never forgotten that Marlon Wayans' character was named "Snails" because that's both great and very ridiculous.
Being brave is so much harder than being scared, but it's the only way to survive.
That's a simple truth on the page or on the screen. But we don't live in those places.
That's a simple truth on the page or on the screen. But we don't live in those places.
January 12, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Being brave is so much harder than being scared, but it's the only way to survive.
That's a simple truth on the page or on the screen. But we don't live in those places.
That's a simple truth on the page or on the screen. But we don't live in those places.
William Gaines, EIC of "Tales from the Crypt" allowed full creative control to all the artists who worked for him under EC comics. That versatility has served the horror creator community to this day in ways we'll never understand.
What should have been a rag was/is so remarkable, we often forget.
What should have been a rag was/is so remarkable, we often forget.
January 12, 2026 at 1:58 AM
William Gaines, EIC of "Tales from the Crypt" allowed full creative control to all the artists who worked for him under EC comics. That versatility has served the horror creator community to this day in ways we'll never understand.
What should have been a rag was/is so remarkable, we often forget.
What should have been a rag was/is so remarkable, we often forget.
(Honestly, for this "'Salem's Lots" gets its flowers. King know how to make you worry for folks; this is the closest we've ever gotten).
January 12, 2026 at 1:52 AM
(Honestly, for this "'Salem's Lots" gets its flowers. King know how to make you worry for folks; this is the closest we've ever gotten).
We have yet to have truly scary vampire story. Ever.
No one was actual scared of Dracula in their time, be serious. They were as turned on by the story (more so?) as people are today but used "scared" as a stand-in for horned up. Oh, the vapours!
No one was actual scared of Dracula in their time, be serious. They were as turned on by the story (more so?) as people are today but used "scared" as a stand-in for horned up. Oh, the vapours!
January 12, 2026 at 1:51 AM
We have yet to have truly scary vampire story. Ever.
No one was actual scared of Dracula in their time, be serious. They were as turned on by the story (more so?) as people are today but used "scared" as a stand-in for horned up. Oh, the vapours!
No one was actual scared of Dracula in their time, be serious. They were as turned on by the story (more so?) as people are today but used "scared" as a stand-in for horned up. Oh, the vapours!
It should be asked more why Horror doesn't work as music.
Or (challenge) do you feel there is horror music? (I don't be industrial, screams on loop, Gothic feels) Is there music that actually elicits horror? or just brooding feelings?
Or (challenge) do you feel there is horror music? (I don't be industrial, screams on loop, Gothic feels) Is there music that actually elicits horror? or just brooding feelings?
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
It should be asked more why Horror doesn't work as music.
Or (challenge) do you feel there is horror music? (I don't be industrial, screams on loop, Gothic feels) Is there music that actually elicits horror? or just brooding feelings?
Or (challenge) do you feel there is horror music? (I don't be industrial, screams on loop, Gothic feels) Is there music that actually elicits horror? or just brooding feelings?
The most quintessential American Horror Story is the Haunted House and it keeps being told over & over. They're not about houses.
This is not a criticism but an observation: Almost every American horror story is a haunted house story. And it won't stop being told until it's fully asked/explored why.
This is not a criticism but an observation: Almost every American horror story is a haunted house story. And it won't stop being told until it's fully asked/explored why.
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 AM
The most quintessential American Horror Story is the Haunted House and it keeps being told over & over. They're not about houses.
This is not a criticism but an observation: Almost every American horror story is a haunted house story. And it won't stop being told until it's fully asked/explored why.
This is not a criticism but an observation: Almost every American horror story is a haunted house story. And it won't stop being told until it's fully asked/explored why.
(could be argued that comedy is the flip for Thanatos and Eros, but that's a whole podcast conversation. Invite me, I'm a fun and baffling time).
January 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
(could be argued that comedy is the flip for Thanatos and Eros, but that's a whole podcast conversation. Invite me, I'm a fun and baffling time).
If Horror and Comedy are two sides of the same coin, Romance is the thumb that flips them spinning into the air. How they land, the final subgenre (thriller, sci-fi, gothic, etc.) is the hand that slaps that coin to the wrist.
All genres need to show romance a little more gd respect.
All genres need to show romance a little more gd respect.
January 12, 2026 at 1:32 AM
If Horror and Comedy are two sides of the same coin, Romance is the thumb that flips them spinning into the air. How they land, the final subgenre (thriller, sci-fi, gothic, etc.) is the hand that slaps that coin to the wrist.
All genres need to show romance a little more gd respect.
All genres need to show romance a little more gd respect.
The only bad horror is boring horror.
The $20 budget can win out over the $20million budget, and for this reason it remains the people's genre.
The $20 budget can win out over the $20million budget, and for this reason it remains the people's genre.
January 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
The only bad horror is boring horror.
The $20 budget can win out over the $20million budget, and for this reason it remains the people's genre.
The $20 budget can win out over the $20million budget, and for this reason it remains the people's genre.
The first film in "The Conjuring" series is exceptionally rewatchable. Whether it is 'good' or not does not matter, it is extremely entertaining and does everything is sets out to do - which is the heart of horror.
January 12, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The first film in "The Conjuring" series is exceptionally rewatchable. Whether it is 'good' or not does not matter, it is extremely entertaining and does everything is sets out to do - which is the heart of horror.
Scaring the bejeezus out of someone is not the point of horror. All horror should invoke some sort of dread/worry, but actual terror/gross-out is not the metric. Just a nice subgenre, really.
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Scaring the bejeezus out of someone is not the point of horror. All horror should invoke some sort of dread/worry, but actual terror/gross-out is not the metric. Just a nice subgenre, really.
Horror is having a moment and folks are looking for horror with "societal meaning" but few good critical horror stories have ever begun with the "Meaning." It STARTS with the goo, the sexy sentient slime mold with a message for you. The "Meaning" is buried under it.
January 12, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Horror is having a moment and folks are looking for horror with "societal meaning" but few good critical horror stories have ever begun with the "Meaning." It STARTS with the goo, the sexy sentient slime mold with a message for you. The "Meaning" is buried under it.
Aliens (1986) is the best of the franchise.
Alien is art, undoubtedly, but the sequel built upon the original and expanded the world in ways that shouldn't work but do in ways that are more than we could have asked for.
Alien is art, undoubtedly, but the sequel built upon the original and expanded the world in ways that shouldn't work but do in ways that are more than we could have asked for.
January 12, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Aliens (1986) is the best of the franchise.
Alien is art, undoubtedly, but the sequel built upon the original and expanded the world in ways that shouldn't work but do in ways that are more than we could have asked for.
Alien is art, undoubtedly, but the sequel built upon the original and expanded the world in ways that shouldn't work but do in ways that are more than we could have asked for.
People are starting to look for horror with "Societal Meaning" but it undermines the genre to force "meaning" into a story.
A B story about a sentient slime mold can have it, while an overt story about class will miss it. It's baked in with passion or not at all.
A B story about a sentient slime mold can have it, while an overt story about class will miss it. It's baked in with passion or not at all.
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 AM
People are starting to look for horror with "Societal Meaning" but it undermines the genre to force "meaning" into a story.
A B story about a sentient slime mold can have it, while an overt story about class will miss it. It's baked in with passion or not at all.
A B story about a sentient slime mold can have it, while an overt story about class will miss it. It's baked in with passion or not at all.
Emma Roberts is a proper scream queen and I am still unsure why that makes some people mad.
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Emma Roberts is a proper scream queen and I am still unsure why that makes some people mad.
Aliens (1986) is the best of the franchise.
Alien is absolute art, no denying. But the sequel built upon the world while maintaining the delicate structure and surpassed it.
Alien is absolute art, no denying. But the sequel built upon the world while maintaining the delicate structure and surpassed it.
January 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Aliens (1986) is the best of the franchise.
Alien is absolute art, no denying. But the sequel built upon the world while maintaining the delicate structure and surpassed it.
Alien is absolute art, no denying. But the sequel built upon the world while maintaining the delicate structure and surpassed it.
All right here we go
a man wearing a plaid shirt and black gloves looks at the camera
ALT: a man wearing a plaid shirt and black gloves looks at the camera
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January 12, 2026 at 12:08 AM
All right here we go
The story is great (like I said, burrows into the brain) but the WRITING. King's best, "The Stand" stans stand down.
Line by line, holy moly it radiates. The last of his "restrained" novels, before they let him put together epic doorstops - and those restraints are bursting at the seams.
Line by line, holy moly it radiates. The last of his "restrained" novels, before they let him put together epic doorstops - and those restraints are bursting at the seams.
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The story is great (like I said, burrows into the brain) but the WRITING. King's best, "The Stand" stans stand down.
Line by line, holy moly it radiates. The last of his "restrained" novels, before they let him put together epic doorstops - and those restraints are bursting at the seams.
Line by line, holy moly it radiates. The last of his "restrained" novels, before they let him put together epic doorstops - and those restraints are bursting at the seams.
The perfect embedding of abstract, so-tired-you're-laughing humor into fight.
And DiCaprio's best, honestly, and he's consistently great but he made a crazy challenging role seem as effortless as gliding across still water.
And DiCaprio's best, honestly, and he's consistently great but he made a crazy challenging role seem as effortless as gliding across still water.
January 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
The perfect embedding of abstract, so-tired-you're-laughing humor into fight.
And DiCaprio's best, honestly, and he's consistently great but he made a crazy challenging role seem as effortless as gliding across still water.
And DiCaprio's best, honestly, and he's consistently great but he made a crazy challenging role seem as effortless as gliding across still water.