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Steven Kaye
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50-something cishet guy in Silicon Valley. Very very tired. Co-author of "The Worship of Tsathoggua through the Centuries" with Daniel Harms and some other gaming stuff.

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Me with my sister's dog.
A balding clean-shaven brown-haired brown-eyed middle-aged man with glasses wearing a dark gray sweatshirt sits in a brown leather armchair in a room with wooden cabinets and bookshelves. An Australian cattle dog mix with tan, gray, and black coloring sits on an ottoman in front of him, wearing a red collar tag. The cozy setting includes visible books on shelves and a gray backpack beside the chair.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from.
Five people standing together in formal attire in an elevator. From left to right: a blonde woman in a navy blazer, a bald man in a dark suit, a heavyset older man in a tan suit with a patterned scarf, a younger man in a dark suit, and an older woman with white hair wearing a cardigan over a red and white striped shirt.
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Second con game of #RoyalBlood 2nd edition down.
Second game of Royal Blood 2nd edition down. I missed some things (like Inverted characters being able to wager themselves). It's still not clear to me to what extent characters can collaborate. Multiple characters can appear in a scene together, but can they use coins or Twists on other Royals’ behalf? For con games the players suggested using pre-gens and more set up in advance to get to the actual game faster.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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In case it's useful for other people running #RoyalBlood that need to print out the Tarot. @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
It may be easiest to give them the Tarot PDF on a USB drive. The cards in the PDF can fit a maximum of four to a page. A Kinko's or whatever the equivalent for you is will want to know: - what your deadline is - any budget limitations - whether you want light or heavy cardstock (I went for heavy) - whether you want a glossy or matte finish (I went for glossy) - I went for full-color (black and white would be cheaper) Cutting the cards will cost extra. I submitted the job today (Wednesday afternoon) and they could have it for me by tomorrow morning. Obviously that depends on their workload.
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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No, this is how the next James Bond should work.
Montage: Novel-accurate James Bond actor says, "I am James Bond." Crispin Glover, in an oddly high-pitched voice: “I am James Bond.” Mia Goth: "I am James Bond." "Tessa Thompson: "I am James Bond." Simu Liu: "I am James Bond." John Leguizamo: "I am James Bond." Dylan Mulvaney: "I am James Bond." Asia Kate Dillon: “I am James Bond.” Hisham Suleiman: “I am James Bond.” Classic gun-barrel shot centers on one, then the other, then another, before sinking in defeat.
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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And was apparently considered a low-class term at one point!
From Frank Belknap Long's The Horror from the Hills (1931): “Did Mr. Ulman send you?” he demanded curtly. “Yes, sir.” The spokesman’s face had formed into a molding of relief. “The poor guy said he’d be here himself in half an hour.” Algernon started. “What kind of talk is that?” he demanded. “He doesn’t happen to be a ‘guy’ but I’ll pretend you didn’t say it. Why the ‘poor’? That’s what I’m curious about.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Because I was curious:
A line graph displays the frequency of the phrase "cosmic horror" in English-language texts from 1800 to 2022. The graph shows almost no usage from 1800 to about 2000, with a dramatic increase beginning around 2000 and a steep rise continuing through 2022, peaking at the end of the timeline. The x-axis represents years, while the y-axis measures the percentage occurrence, with very small values indicated. The search term "cosmic horror" is highlighted at the end of the line.
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I will hold you down, I will hold you down
I will pin you down
I will hold you down, I will hold you down
I will punch down you
A tuxedo cat sits on the chest of a male balding man in his 50s, who looks nonplussed and has a white chair pillow behind him.
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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TODAY - the pond! TOMORROW - the World!
Blu-ray cover for the movie "Frogs" featuring the names Ray Milland and Sam Elliott at the top, with the film title "FROGS" in large, orange, drippy letters. The central illustration shows a large frog with a human hand in its mouth, set against a green natural background. Taglines read "TODAY the Pond! TOMORROW the World!" and "It's the day that Nature strikes back!"
October 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Post a hot vampire! 🩸🦇
A person with short dark hair and a neutral expression is standing shirtless in a dimly lit room decorated with string lights featuring glowing green Frankenstein monster heads. The background is partially obscured, but a large hat and some indistinct objects are visible in the shadows.
October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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“For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. In gusts they beetle-scurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters. The spider-web hears them, trembles—breaks. Such are the autumn people. Beware of them.” - Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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If you see this, repost with a vampire who is not Dracula.
A middle-aged man with dark hair wearing a black double-breasted coat stands next to a white car. He has his hand resting on the car's roof and is looking directly at the camera with a serious expression. The background shows bare winter trees and a green building with white-trimmed windows.
September 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The movie poster for Werewolves on Wheels. A biker with a lit torch in his left hand is chasing a werewolf biker with an occult emblem on his chest. He is clutching an upside-down blonde woman with his left hand. The woman has a human skull in her right hand and a snake circling her right leg and the werewolf biker's shoulders. In the background hooded figures are doing something to a prone person. The werewolf biker is also about to run over a prone man. The tagline on top of the poster reads THIS GANG THOUGHT IT WAS TOUGH...'til it found a new type of hell...THE BRIDE OF SATAN! WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS is split vertically between white and red, the background is yellow, the font is black.
September 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Post a Non-religious photo you think of as Holy
A black-and-white photo of Barbara Steele as Princess Katia in Black Sunday (1960), wearing a dark cloak and holding the leashes of two large dogs.
August 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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From a letter by Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei that became J. Chapman Miske's "The Thing in the Moonlight”: #WyrdWednesday
From HPL's letter to Donald Wandrei: "Presently I heard a swishing in the sparce grass toward the left, & saw the dark forms of two men looming up in the moonlight. They had the regulation caps of a railway company, & I could not doubt but that they were the conductor & motorman. Then one of them sniffed with singular sharpness, & raised his face to howl to the moon. The other dropped on all fours to run toward the car. After walking for some distance, I encountered the rusty tracks of a street railway, and the worm-eaten poles which still held the limp and sagging trolley wire. Following this line, I soon came upon a yellow, vestibuled car numbered 1852—of a plain, double-trucked type common from 1900 to 1910. It was untenanted, but evidently ready to start; the trolley being on the wire and the air-brake now and then throbbing beneath the floor. I boarded it and looked vainly about for the light switch—noting as I did so the absence of the controller handle, which thus implied the brief absence of the motorman. Then I sat down in one of the cross seats of the vehicle. Presently I heard a swishing in the sparse grass toward the left, and saw the dark forms of two men looming up in the moonlight. They had the regulation caps of a railway company, and I could not doubt but that they were conductor and motorman. Then one of them sniffed with singular sharpness, and raised his face to howl to the moon. The other dropped on all fours to run toward the car. I leaped up at once & raced madly out of that car & away across endless leagues of plateau till exhaustion waked me—doing this not because the conductor had dropped on all fours, but because the face of the motorman was a mere white cone tapering to one blood-red tentacle. . .."
August 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Mood:
The KGBeast has taken a woman hostage and is complaining about Robin being a pest: "I am NOT to be being happy! I am being TOO angry! Decadent American youth is mostly ANNOYING!" His employers are exiting the car that Robin has thrown paint on the windshield of. From Robin III: Cry of the Huntress #2.
August 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
The Complete Works of Saki Introduction by Noel Coward.
August 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Drop something VAMPy
The King Vampire's giant clawed hand reaching out of the ground, from the Doctor Who episode "State of Decay."
August 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Your Call of Cthulhu Investigators:
The protagonists of The Vault of Horror (1973) and if you think I'm going to describe their appearances and outfits you're sadly mistaken.
August 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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RIP Boots. Maybe your mama can finally teach you what to do with the mouse now.
A tuxedo kitten filing himself in the magazine rack on top of a (now discontinued) Ikea desk.
June 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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if you see this, quote with an energy you bring to BluSky
An illustration of the squonk, Lacrimacorpus dissolvens, from William T. Cox's 1910 Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. "The squonk is of a very retiring disposition, generally traveling about at twilight and dusk. Because of its misfitting skin, which is covered with warts and moles, it is always unhappy ... Hunters who are good at tracking are able to follow a squonk by its tear-stained trail, for the animal weeps constantly. When cornered and escape seems impossible, or when surprised and frightened, it may even dissolve itself in tears."
June 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Being a loyal son of New Jersey, I sought comfort in a familiar environment. #StokerCon #StokerCon2025
The front of the Stamford Diner, with a giant coffee cup as part of the sign above the name. The Stamford part is in 1950s sign script, and Diner is all caps with bullets between the letters . Other signs read DINER, COCKTAILS, and BAR & GRILL.
June 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The cover of issue #1 of Marvel's The ClanDestine comic series. Crimson Crusader and Imp race forward with Wallop and other Clan members following - the other Clan members are in shadow.
April 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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I think the note on the righthand side is "Blind is an idiot - he is going to stand for Parliament as Labour MP for [???]"
The text of a letter from Herbert Thal to Robert Aickman.
April 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Two road sign style signs, the first reading "We have no axes to grind." and the second in all-caps "We really don't know who to cheer for."
February 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM