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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

@scumbelievable.bsky.social

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Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2026 Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social‬

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Aug 5

Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.

BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Ulrike Reichhold of Cineric, Inc., one of the foremost film restoration laboratories in the world, at her workbench inspecting a negative prior to repairing and scanning. Photo by Simon Lund, courtesy Cineric.

A still from Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis (William Holden) seated beside a standing Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who holds her hand up as she stands bathed in the light of a projector

Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton, flayed and bloody, sitting against a tiled wall in a pool of his own blood, I AM IN HELL HELP ME written in blood on the wall beside him

The burning shack in the desert from David Lynch's Lost Highway

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11h

Thothat's how you pronounce it

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11h

right? I am like the third or fourth tier of well-known trans authors

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11h

"Find a man who is of no value while he lives, you wrap him in a flag, and you make his death work for you."

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

4x04: 'HE'S ALIVE'

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

(No)S(feratu)ic (No)S(Feratu)(Nosf)e(ratu)mp(Nosf)e(ratu)(Nosfe)r(atu) (Nosfera)T(u)y(Nosfe)r(atu)(Nosfer)a(tu)n(osferatu)n(osferatu)i(No)s(feratu)

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

she's a doorknob

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

man The Invitation is perfect

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

"Listen here Jack, it's on us to get rid of this transphobia malarkey."

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

emily it will simply never happen

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

look at dis handsome guy

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

Joe Biden holding a gun to Neera Tanden's head until she finishes reading 'The Air Conditioner'

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12h

six-foot circumference, like an old pine

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

My three-week-old nephew smiled at me for the first time today, so I'm feeling normal. Incredibly normal and not at all like the existence of human capacity for joy is a terrifyingly fragile miracle.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

jesus christ

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

the Cult of the Troop is everywhere

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

my only comfort is that they will never pull a beautiful fat woman and thus cannot enter the kingdom of heaven

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

truly. "let's all let fascism make us Worse"

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

I've heard every "we have to hit them where it hurts" argument in the book, and none of them are beating the allegations that people just want to make fun of fat bodies.

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

You are telling every fat person in your life that they disgust you, that their bodies are comical or degenerate or useless. You are telling every fat person in your life you don't respect them.

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

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

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

nevermind i read the comments

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

on the other hand, i've been feeling a little TOO humanized lately

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

The Boxer's Omen!!!!

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

thank you!

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

too many nosferatus. i've informed the committee

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

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

A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · Nov 12

10 horror movies to get to know me by
🎵 A Dark Song
🩰 Suspiria
🩰 Suspiria
🔪 Scream
🦊 Antichrist
✝️ Martyrs
🦟 Bug
⛴️ Triangle
🎭 Halloween III
🏊‍♀️ It Follows

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