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Matthew Mitchell

@matthewmitchell.bsky.social

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Award-Winning Author of CHAINDEVILS // Co-Editor of HORRORIUM comics // Freelance Writer for VARIOUS // Hellbilly Deluxe // https://linktr.ee/darkcirclecomics

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hidy, I'm a weird fiction author and this is my first collection of short stories! RELEASE THE HORSE: Yarns of Rural Oddity is my contribution to the tradition of Ozarks folk tales and rural horror. Now available for pre-order from Filthy Loot Press 🤠
www.filthyloot.com/product/horse/

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 1m

I fuckin love goats, dawg

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 1m

dawgggg, BACK AT YOU, in every which way 🖤🖤🖤

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 1h

I did this exact gesture when I read the author of this extremely gracious review 🖤🖤🖤

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 1h

my first book CHAINDEVILS still sawing through to your hearts, I love to see it - I take so much fuckin pride in writing things that folks champion or loathe, with little in-between

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 20h

seen enough A24 movies to know what happens to me if I follow her in there 🌱🌸🐻🔥

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

I give Zach Bryan a hard time, but I hope y'all understand the importance of what he's done with that fucking song. This is the kind of shit that changes the hearts in need of full replacements. It's what country music in America is all about, baby.

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

hahahaha 🖤

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 5d

OK, yes, the new PTA movie rips, but y'all truly must see THE LONG WALK because it's a perfect adaptation and I cried like a baby in an empty theater 🙏

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 5d

I should have added "Alex Woodroe" to the list of folks who make me feel like there is a reason for *wild gesture* all this 🖤

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 5d

omg when you read it, we gotta talk about it! It is sooo special!

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 7d

tricked my ig followers into talking about books, and they're nice to me, so I'll mostly be using this bs account as a place to type things for them lol

follow me @darkcirclecomics
www.instagram.com/darkcircleco...

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 7d

got a message from a pal about talking to a horror writing workshop for students and, buddy, this is what it's all about-- teachers and librarians never fail to raise my self-esteem lol

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 11d

moral of the humble-brag is this: GET IT HOWEVER YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN EVER GET IT, my dawgs 🙏

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 14d

bffs forever 🖤

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 15d

This is super helpful. I really need to dive into the rest of his work. Almost felt nervous to seek out the rest! It had such a profound effect on me, like, overnight I went from "maybe I should watch all the SUBSPECIES movies" to paying for rentals of THE AMERICAN FRIEND or THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY lol

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 15d

oh SHIT I gotta check this book out!

the performances in this movie make me feel like I'm alive-- never seen anything like it, SO glad it exists!

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 16d

It feels so petty at first, like, why don't I just remove them? They can still comment. Why the smoke and mirrors? Then you do it enough times that regard for other people's feelings just sort of evaporates and contentment blooms

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 16d

muting writers who annoy is the best thing you can do for your career lmao social media is a must, sadly, but it doesn't have to be so obnoxious

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 16d

Troma was kind enough to offer me a non-comics gig a few months later, but I was short on time with other work and couldn't make it happen. But one of these days...

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 16d

one time I talked my way into pitching comics to Lloyd Kaufman and it was the best! dude was everything I wanted him to be, and even though it didn't work out at the time (COVID literally came crashing ashore that weekend) it's still one of my favorite memories

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 16d

Ten days until release. A little while ago we shared chapter one on the Malarkey site but it’s been a while so I’m posting it again. There’s a preorder link on that page at the top!

(CW - parent death/grief/and beyond)

malarkeybooks.com/free-samples...

Death Comes to Barre, Lauren Bolger — Malarkey

For Kara, the answer to the question, “where will I go,” would always be home, or wherever Alec was.

malarkeybooks.com

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 16d

That rules, man!!! I didn't know there was one!!!

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 16d

"You look ugly. You've hardened. For the first time, you look vulgar to me."

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