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Bookworming. Writing. Losing sleep over the state of the world. Author of THE MYRIAD OF SIMON HANSEN, a meandering, egghead gay romance(?) set in a Dublin bookshop in the 90s. https://myriadofsimonhansen.com/

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 7d

October is LGBTQ+ History Month, so the perfect month to read MYRIAD—which is both a historical queer fic set in 90s Dublin (with a bit of 70s/80s) *AND* the personal history of a gay protag in diary form. All bases covered!

#queersky
#booksky
#LGBTQ+

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The Myriad series is available in epub, PDF and mobi formats as well as paperback. If you have a local bookshop, they can order a print copy directly at no extra charge (and you save on shipping). …

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 2d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 1d

Damn do I ever have exactly that, but it's still in edit. Hopefully there will be more future calls like this. 🤞

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣 I left out the needed apostrophe on 'Ray! (archaic rendering of Hurray!), and look at the understandable confusion I caused. 🤣

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 1d

Ray for batshit fic!!

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

The silver lining of human civilization eating itself from inside is that at least the kitties will outlive us.

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

Alt text: a gorgeous, grumpy spotted lynx with two even grumpier lynxlings looking on from inside a nearby tree trunk.

Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 2d

The Iberian Lynx, one of the world's rarest cats, is no longer classed as endangered. Due to the work of conservationists, their numbers are up 10 fold over the last 20 years.

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

On it like a car bonnet.

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

I have really been tempted to give AHS another try recently and now I know where to start. Thanks!

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah: ew.

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

WE
WARNED
YOU

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

Oh well… SOLD.

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

I think that’s why Ed Gein is really doing it for me—defending the need for/existence of horror fiction while at the same time making the audience complicit à la Inglourious Basterds.

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I can see that. It’s a weird intersticial space for us non-Xians who love horror even when the Trinity is the salvation/good guy (eg Exorcist, The Omen, both of which I adore). I kinda like the way the contradictions pull me apart.

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

I am def putting both your recs in my queue!

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t disagree about the medieval Xianity thrust of MM, even as a rank atheist suspicious of it all, for sure! Maybe my studies in medieval EU theatre made me more interested/invested. I’d watch it again happily. I think MF gets real academic/theoretical at times, and that’s the aspect I love.

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

I think “leaning into other genres more” is okay for me—see early aughts K-horror, which was equal parts or more standard character-driven drama. Really love that. Somehow AHS just sad-tromboned for me, oh well.)

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

(Unless it’s In a Violent Nature, which I adored, but I like slow stuff, and that’s not a series anyway. 🤣)

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

Slasher is the one horror subgenre that doesn’t do much for me anymore, unless the 60s/70s art horror Italians are in on it, but I will look for that on your rec!

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

But the “hard to summarize” of Murphy is spot on. I think the fact his stuff generates such wildly contradictory takes is in itself fascinating…which is distilled to a point in Gein, his latest.

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I get that. It’s soooo subjective. For me, Midnight Mass and Usher blew my mind (the more so because I know literal Poe scholars personally who were also blown away by MF’s rendering of Usher). Horror TV is still more miss than hit for me, a lifelong horror lover. It’s so weird.

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

(And Ryan Murphy stuff is quite stinky…until one recognizes he’s doing grand gignol and accepts that GG has a right to exist; that said, most of his stuff misses me…hard. Ratchet and Gein, however, I can’t help loving.)

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

Tbf I barely made it thru S1. It took me MONTHS. I hear some later seasons have more zest, but AHS S1 was for me proof that horror tv series suffer from a weird blandness that ofc horror books and movies never have.

Until Flanagan appeared, at least.

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Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

FFFFFFFUUUUUCK

Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 2d

CBS was the network of Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Katie Couric…. all journalists who earned their spots through doing actual journalism for YEARS

And it’s now led by Bari Weiss who *checks notes* an opinion writer who was a book review editor

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss was named the editor-in-chief of CBS News, cementing the rightward shift of one of media's most storied newsrooms

Scribbler Hackit @scribblerhackit.bsky.social · 2d

An original and very hip itch bundle idea is coming at us starting this Wednesday: Under-rated Books (in which MYRIAD features). We’re thirsting for your honest reviews. 📚

itch.io/b/3305/under...

A composite of over a dozen titles of all genres surrounding info about the bundle: Oct 9 to 13 on Itch.

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