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Screenwriter & film essayist Consulting editor @certifiedforgot.bsky.social Editor @salonsinister.com Newsletter sign up: https://xtine-makepeace.kit.com/profile www.christinemakepeace.com

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · Feb 4

Doing a pinned intro post!

I'm Christine, horror screenwriter, film essayist, editor, and podcaster.

I live in the desert and I cook a lot.

A picture of me, brown hair pulled into a pony. I'm dressed in all black, with a cool Scream 2 shirt. I'm also sitting in front of the all-pink exterior of the Trixie Motel

Poster for my screenplay, Coal Eyes Are Watching.
It features a snowman, and official selection laurel for Days of the Dead

Poster for my screenplay, Following Henry Grace.
It features an out of focus man and an official selection laurel for Renegade Film Festival.

Poster for my screenplay, Porcelain.
It features a drawing of a creepy doll and finalist laurels for Horrorhound Film Festival

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 2h

Also hearing blum talk about AI makes my blood boil and my new pages even weirder.

I'm going full Lynch on this one

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 3h

I don't actually think I'll ever sell a script

But I do think I'll find what I'm "supposed" to be doing while I try

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 3h

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 2h

I got my shipping notification 💪💪💪

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 3h

I'm also supposed to work for another hour and a half today and I gotta say, I don't wanna

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 3h

I don't actually think I'll ever sell a script

But I do think I'll find what I'm "supposed" to be doing while I try

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skinslip @skinslip.bsky.social · 1d

hello hi, I am a disabled, chronically ill, queer woman who is in danger of becoming unhoused. Please support if you can, pass this long if you can't, thank you all the same.
gofund.me/1b3076522

Donate to Keep Val and Roommate Safe and Housed, organized by Kiley Fox

Hi, my name is Kiley. I am fundraising for my friend Val and her roommate who are curr… Kiley Fox needs your support for Keep Val and Roommate Safe and Housed

gofund.me

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 9h

laura palmer / everybody scream

a black abstract line art illustration of Laura palmer from David lynch’s twin peaks, screaming. she has white eyes and inside her eyeballs the words “fire walk with me” are written. the background is bright red.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 4h

I had a feeling we'd align 👀👀

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 13h

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 🌈😈

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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
Around a banner that says free shipping

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 5h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 6h

Free Halloween Zine : Disability perspectives on horror movies : files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 6h

Have you seen Dark Was the Night?
He's really great in it

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 6h

Taps my own sign again

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · Jun 19

I think the AI is inevitable thing really gets me bc

It's not AI

it's not artificial intelligence

You're not even classifying it right. But it's inevitable? WHAT, exactly, is inevitable?

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 6h

I'll repeat this until the LLMs bubble finally bursts: We were told NFTs were "the future" "here to stay" and "inevitable"

Where's that market now.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 9h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 6h

There's a lot to like! And I think you might dig some of the things I did.

Like the well lit, pretty boy

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 9h

Fucking relatable
I got "the smart one"
Gross

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 9h

I also enjoyed HIM
So I look forward to listening

Matt Donato @donatobomb.bsky.social · 1d

In a shocking turn of events, I'm not the only Matt at @certifiedforgot.bsky.social who digs HIM?

In our latest 30-minute Uncertified episode, @monagle.bsky.social and I delve into why the heavily derided football-horror mashup resonated with us (and not many others, lol).

Uncertified: HIM

Podcast Episode · Certified Forgotten · 10/03/2025 · 36m

podcasts.apple.com

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🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 13h

MY HEART DEBUTS IN PAPERBACK TOMORROW IT'S NO BIG DEAL IT'S FINE I WON'T THROW UP AT ALL

🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 21d

hi 🖤 i'm blayne (they/she/any)

my first collection of poetry, BITE BACK, is out october 9. it's about reclaiming yourself in a world that wants you to self-destruct, and alchemizing past abuse.

it's gory and queer and dark and filthy. you'll love it.

pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/bite...

Blayne poses for a selfie with a closed-mouth smile and their left hand behind their head

A copy of BITE BACK: Poems by Blayne Waterloo rests against a tree trunk amid sticks and dirt

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Certified Forgotten @certifiedforgot.bsky.social · 10h

"It’s no wonder a murderous serial killer would see Laurie, all alone and dressed up in a borderline infantile costume, and perceive her as the perfect victim. Too bad for the killer; he’s just falling right into a trap." Here's another October favorite, this time from @mollyhenery.bsky.social.

Sex, Teeth, and 'Trick 'r Treat' | Certified Forgotten

In her latest Uterus Horror column, Molly Henery explains how Michael Dougherty's 'Trick 'r Treat' finds teeth in sexual awakening.

certifiedforgotten.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 1d

This is so accurate

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by:

Jennifer's Body
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Paranormal Activity 3
Halloween Ends
Lost Boys
They Live
Fire Walk With Me
Scream
Poltergeist
Pontypool

🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

👹 jennifer's body
🎃 halloween h20
🔪 halloween ends
💄 promising young woman
🖤 the craft
💡 lisa frankenstein
📞 scream 4
🪓 pearl
💉 evil dead (2013)
⛺️ the blair witch project

via my most-logged on letterboxd

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

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

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 1d

I'm currently writing dialogue for an 80 year old woman named Dainty so I'm actually doing fine

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