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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · 1d

The stories we all grew up with are inadequate to our cultural moment of crisis and collapse. Death to #LotR. Death to #StarWars. Death to #HarryPotter. Death to #Marvel, #DC, and all the other shibboleths of our decaying culture. We need something new… substack.com/home/post/p-...

On Happy Endings

George RR Martin, Tolkien, and the failure of our old stories...

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · 3d

Is Caramelldansen one of the top 5 most extra songs of all time? Or just in the top 20?

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The Tiny Bookcase Podcast @tinybookcase.bsky.social · 10d

October is here, so get your goth on and join us for a collection of tales of terror from previous episodes! Featuring the work of @najpullen.bsky.social, @markbrandon.bsky.social, @rjbarker.bsky.social, and the terrible twosome Ben and Nico. Listen here:

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#Spooky #Horror

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · 25d

“I imagined life taking me all sorts of places. I never anticipated watching the winter sun rise near noon over the Yukon River from the secure ward of the Whitehorse General Hospital.”

I wrote this in January after a psychiatric catastrophe. I hope it helps...

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Many complex emotions announcing that @cormorantbooks.bsky.social will be publishing Famous Blue. It's more 'literary' than my horror work, if that means anything, but I'm proud it's slouching slowly out into the world. Thank you to Natasha Mihell at @therightsfactory.bsky.social for all you did ❤️

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Soft launching a substack. This is a short story I wrote last year for @tinybookcase.bsky.social with @benholroyddell.bsky.social and @nicorogers.bsky.social, writing to the prompt ‘Patrol.‘ You can find our whole conversation in Episode 186. Had a lovely time substack.com/home/post/p-... #horror

The Old Crow Incident

A Short Story...

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Aug 25

So glad you're enjoying it ❤️

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Aug 15

You can tell if a musician has any contemporary relevance because if they don't their Spotify bio will be a cross between a PhD thesis, a hagiography and a tombstone, and if they are it'll be some version of no broke loosers beep boop beep boop just here for vibes and n00ds of ur mom xoxoxo one love

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Aug 15

Don't generally share reviews but thoroughly enjoyed this one from an old friend. Very insightful, very demure, very mindful substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The Black Hunger" Gives Empire a Bitter Taste

“I do not have long now.

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Aug 8

Opening with a quote from Revelations is a bad sign. It will never not be a bad sign. Revelations itself contains nothing but bad signs. It is itself a ur-bad sign, a meta-bad sign. Absolutely nothing good will ever follow a quote from Revelations, except perhaps The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Aug 8

Abandon all bother, ye who enter here

Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Aug 8

Finally watching The Last of Us. So far our hands down favorite characters are the structurally unbothered Indigenous couple they meet in Wyoming. Unbothered they were before the apocalypse, unbothered they doubtless were during, unbothered they remain, and will remain until the end of all bothering

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Aug 3

You know they’re an English trad folk outfit because their name sounds like a Victorian ship chandler’s partnership and all of their songs are celebrating jobs they’d be fired from in less than twenty minutes

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jul 25

You know, I’ve been craving tapas recently… ❤️

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jul 25

If it has multiple volumes and a table of contents, that’s not a birthday book. That’s a dossier…

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jul 12

Oh man, just flashed back to the entire concept of the hipster, remember when we thought that mattered?

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jul 9

What kind of prude doesn't want to salivate over a loving, lingering description of an elderberry cordial fizz, deeper'n ever pie, and meadowcream trifle with woodland fruits? Won't someone please think of the dibbuns? They need to know that non-normative feast scenes are ok

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jul 9

Social media could only have been conceived, let alone used, by a society that has never known true repression. Imagine offering Soviet Bloc citizens free use of a keyword searchable permanent record of every random thought that's ever entered their heads? Nope, they'd say. Hard pass. Unsubscribe.

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jul 9

Solidarity. I did not move to the frozen tundra for the beach weather these drugs are serious shit

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's an odd thought to have under the circumstances, but just to be sure we're all on the same page, b/c it occurred to me tonight watching #ThePhoenicianScheme seeing no one else laughing...

...ALL of Wes Anderson's movies, without exception, are screwball comedies...right?

There is consensus?

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jun 25

There is nowhere I will not find you, my heretic friend. You may flee from the lumbering Nazi galleons as they scour the toxic Twitter sea. I care not for them. My barque is swift, my log is sure, and we will clash rapiers from the Oceans of Bluesky to the Sea of Discord, until the end of the web...

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Calm down man don't be hysterical they're not coming for you they're coming for the immigrants and the transes"

"Are you saying this to reassure me? Am I supposed to be excited about this?"

"No, but...you know what I mean"

"It seems I do, yeah"

Karen (Harris/Walz Alaskan Democrat) @danceswithseagulls.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Calm down man they're not coming for you they're coming for the browns and the purple haired transes"

"This is supposed to make me feel better how?"

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jun 24

SILENCE YOU FILTHY HERETIC YOU LICKSPITTLE FOR THE TRAITOR KING HENRI IV I ABDJURE YOU MAY THE LORD NORTON OF KILDARE DISQUALIFY YOU YOUR MADRIGALS ARE MID

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Nicholas Pullen @najpullen.bsky.social · Jun 23

It figures an HRE candidate was going to win this year what with the War of the League of Cambrai. Pastyme With Gud Cumpanye was objectively a banger and the cloth of gold uniforms were fabulous but it doesn't matter everybody hates England so ZERO POINTS

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