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Writer of stuff. Thirtysomething old fuck. Weird Baltimore person. Just realized I could do this. Bask in my computer illiteracy: https://books2read.com/ap/nEJQpv/Zofia-Warwick Lover of most things puppetry related, offbeat, and anti-establishment.

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · Sep 2

Want to help Baltimore because some Russian plant is trying to go off half cocked against the city? Well, I can help you with that. Below are some beloved institutions here that could always use funds.

www.bmoreyoutharts.org

creativealliance.org/support/ (Does a lot of good stuff with CASA too.)

Baltimore Youth Arts

Baltimore Youth Arts is an arts and entrepreneurship program that works with youth age 14-22, with a focus on those involved in the juvenile justice system. youth, art, opportunity youth, young ar...

www.bmoreyoutharts.org

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 12h

(Kind of want to challenge the horror community to write similar x-rated/not x-rated material to poke a little fun at advertising driven censorship. Sure, Revlon's probably not looking to sponsor Leatherface, but Leatherface needs a place to exist.)

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 13h

Getting everything out of my head in a flurry while it's still fresh and then realizing I've peppered my doc with just the wildest typos. (Out for our seems to be a favorite.)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

My City #2 , 2008 by by Lebanese artist Zena Assi #womensart

Artwork of a busy cityscape with many buildings close together, filling the picture plane

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 13h

You should listen to them. My readers now have twinkling streams of urine so clear they rival springs in the Dolomite Alps.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 13h

Tony Hale.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe make it a bit punchier with action: A hot, arid wind blew as Moonstone's sole (or central if it's in the middle of the city and there are more of them) clock tower chimed five bells. The suns were setting, low on the horizon beyond the city limits. (Etc. etc. from here on.)

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 14h

Curiosity Never Killed the Writer has been recently indispensable for me. Also, there are a lot of mags that post contests/submission openings on here. (The list is exhaustive. Try a search leading with 'submissions.')

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

Guys: for your consideration, a vampire story.

#graphichorror #nobloodnoviolenceplsvampires #ijustdid

Backdrop: city and moon.
His teeth bore down, sharp ripping and rending the supple flesh.
Eyes dark with primordial hunger. The red juices ran.
The creature's lips twitched, and curled, and coveted.
The fruit opened, spilling its seed.
Wet dribbled down the foul creature's chin, and it nibbled greedily.
He wrestled with his terrible jaw and tried muscling it whole into his maw.
It was a tomato, and he was a squirrel.

There was a vampire present too, but it was off somewhere else, doing something too graphic for the page.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 1d

Drafting to be sure, coupled with researching. It's fun to have those manic bursts of authorial mightiness.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/u...

His sick administration incentivizes this.

In California, Hanging Deaths of Two Black Men Summon a Dark History and F.B.I. Scrutiny (Published 2020)

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 2d

Shower thought of the day: why does aquatic mint toothpaste taste overwhelmingly of cucumber? Who's bringing the ocean life the land cucumber for them to get such a strong association with it?

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The Old Mama @cattress511.bsky.social · 4d

Murderers.
Tell me why we should be afraid of immigrants when barbarians are homegrown & unleashed?

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 3d

It's never going to stop being deeply upsetting to see how effective and far-reaching even a student protest is in say, a country like Serbia and then to see business as usual here despite the death toll and the abhorrent human rights abuses. The willful ignorance of our countrymen is chilling.

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 3d

One of these days making something based in an SFX creature workshop would be outstanding.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 3d

I'd certainly write one that was more successful with the old humanities education, one that has retired at a young age to a houseboat drifting off some lovely intertidal archipelago in a damp but not agonizingly humid part of the world.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

A while back I probably made mention of a script I wrote in the span of about a week. Here is said script, raw and wriggling. About a slasher and the joys of painting.

www.patreon.com/posts/140393...

Happy. Little. Trees. | Zofia Warwick's Page of Oddities

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

@dielaughingmag.bsky.social The Lovely folks at Die Laughing Magazine are going to be posting some of mine in either Issue 5 or 6, so stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled--peeler optional. #dielaughing #horror #humor #writing

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

How many research rabbit holes on motorcycles this would cause.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

Can't see the harm. Recently finished a sextet of funny ghost stories as told through the lens of a wonky paranormal documentary, heavy on the weird, the irreverent, and the darkly humorous. It's like if The English Teacher met What We do in the Shadows. (Or so I've been told.) Link upon request.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

Psychological horror can spiral quickly if you're not careful.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

Life feels disconnected from the here and now in the same oddly 90s nostalgic way as that recent tech demo for the Orchid Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement put out. If you haven't seen it, here's a refresher:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1...

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 5d

The last time a president and his cronies - including a young J. Edgar Hoover - tried to mass deport Americans they didn't like, the nation stopped them, as I discuss here.

Lessons from a Red Scare

The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression.

open.substack.com

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

Good luck!

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for this, as always.

(On a side note: if you're relentlessly weird and a bit grim, and suddenly wanted to come in out of that indie rain, what agency would you query? Who would probably give you a fighting chance?)