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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️

@restingdinoface.bsky.social

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Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, and Tyrant Lizard Queen (2026). 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. http://rileyblack.net

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tyrant Lizard Queen will be stomping your way next year, so it’s a good time to get into When the Earth Was Green if you haven’t already. 🌱

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

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mofu @miz7xf.bsky.social · 43m

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 35m

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

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Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 15m

Happening now through Oct 11 for ##BannedBooksWeek all purchases from our Prison Book Program wish list will trigger a matching donation! share.google/O57nqZ9oQ2eM...

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 27m

Very much so. Keeps me sharp and full of weird little facts.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 34m

The process from idea to the page through edits and publication is at least two years. There’s too much I want to write to let up now.

*also this is my career and book work has been the one thing propping me up as science journalism continues to implode.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 34m

I don’t know what I’m doing if I’m not working on a book.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 42m

Exhaled wisps of carnivorous breath catch the cold moonlight, the dawn delaying its arrival for fear of intruding.

Good morning, monsters.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 51m

Scared Shitless, then I started Primitive War - because dinosaurs are my job - and woof what a stinker. But the cuddles were good.

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 17h

Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth.

(Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t wait to see it! I hear the animal acting is impressive.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 11h

And none of it’s going to age well. The swings at timely jokes feel dated by time they get on screen.

Of course horror always does commentary on how it portrays people and times. But it doesn’t work when a character’s entire personality is one obnoxious thing so we’re not sad when they get hurt.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12h

Ok everyone get comfy.

Strata the torbie cat and Joey the void kitten curled up together on Riley’s lap on a black and red plaid blanket, Jet the German shepherd pressing his head against Riley’s leg on the outside

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12h

As for Ick, I wanted to like it -not least for the emo needle drops. But it hates its own characters in a way that feels written by a centrist dem, like “Teens are only pretending to be woke” and “Small towns are full of anti-vaxx Alex Jones fans.” Quick cuts keep it moving but to nowhere satisfying

Ick - Official Trailer (2025) - Mena Suvari, Brandon Routh, Malina Pauli Weissman

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12h

Scared Shitless is a collage of its influences. Deep Rising-style monster. Horrors of apartment complexes like Sting. Doofy guy here to save the day like Novocaine. Using something in the building as a real like Night of the Creeps.

It’s cheap and uneven, but worth a try for wet puppet fans.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

I tried Ick and my general impression was, well, ick. So let’s see if Scared Shitless can do sloppy monsters better.

SCARED SHITLESS Official Trailer (2025) Monster, Comedy Horror Movie HD

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12h

It’s not bad! Good critter. A few laughs. It wobbles when it gets too focused and loses its silliness. But for direct to video, it was a good time!

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12h

I appreciate a cheesy one that really makes the most of its setting, down to the killer sushi.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

As you command

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

Is there any other way to portray a toilet monster? I think not.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

Halloween is the season to celebrate all the holes.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

Looks like it’s VOD at the moment. Looks like one Shudder might pick up at some point, though.

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

I tried Ick and my general impression was, well, ick. So let’s see if Scared Shitless can do sloppy monsters better.

SCARED SHITLESS Official Trailer (2025) Monster, Comedy Horror Movie HD

YouTube video by Rapid Trailer

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 13h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🐊 Alligator
🧀 Mandy
🐆 Cat People
🐺 An American Werewolf in London
💉The Substance
☄️ The Deadly Spawn
⚛️ Gojira
🥚 ALIEN
🚿 Death Spa
🦑 Deep Rising

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 14h

10 horror movies to get to know me by
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist