Imagine opening your door to see a solid wall of pitch black water rushing towards you. That's what happened to the people of Buffalo Creek when years of neglect by mining companies finally culminated in a disaster that destroyed a whole town.

Armed thugs intimidating citizens and immigrant communities. The National Guard turning its rifles on Americans while in service of the oligarchy. Common people coming together and rising up to resist...

This isn't today's headlines, it's Appalachia's past.

“Kids”

Just released another Nightmare Tuesdays reading -- This time for @coyotewallace.bsky.social's upcoming novel, "Sarah Corbin's Bloody Revenge"!

This one's frigging awesome. If you're down with some weird western badass femme protag action, you will want to check this one out.

I really enjoyed getting /both/ of those done, and I'm lookin' forward to them goin' live. :D

Okay, but hear me out:

World of Darkness cross-splat supplement.

Just call it "Juggalos", in the vein of things like the old Mafia book, or (shudder) Gypsies.

April Fool's style, with fully functional rules.

True, but I have seen in your eyes the lustful will of the Desolate One, filling your soul with wanton desire.

T'was only abated once, by grace of ice cream, adventure, and a book store.

T'will not happen again, and I await the day that the Beast taketh you, and I am drawn ever onward in the wake.

[sloooooow turn to @lucydoom.bsky.social.. .. .. sloooooow turn back in general direction of Sprat] .. My condolences.

still losing it at the guy who yells "charlie!!!" in abject despair right after it happens. this man went to see the ronald mcdonald of guns and racism and had to watch him turned into that trick where the hibachi chef sprays an entire bottle of cooking wine across the grill in a perfect arc

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

pfftsnrghxHAHAHAHAHA

I provide no context.

GO. GO NOW.

Look, ya'll. I just finished a reading for Coyote Wallace's latest Dispatch, "Heroes for the Hopeless."

My flabbers have been gasted. Go read it, give it a clap, tip if you can afford to -- But show it some love. Holy damn, it's beautiful.

medium.com/@kidether/he...

I gotta say, the delivery of "bitch" from Freeza was /particularly/ [chefkiss].

I've seen enough back roads in Ohio to know you're somewhere in Ohio.

Perhaps some sort of ur-hio.

Assessment.

On the whole, I'm feeling like things are going up. There's dips here and there, sure, but it's mostly a positive progression. (3/3)

Positive inventory.

Made significant progress in Operation Backhand a Landlord (working title); IYKYK. Got a recording done last night for a damn fun game, and I'm looking forward to the cut of it. Got a couple more recordings lined up to do this week, and I'm pretty sure I can get them done. (2/3)

Aight. Takin' stock.

First, negative inventory.

Didn't get a Some Idiot Reads recorded last week. Hell, for the last several weeks I've been pushing it to Saturday morning. A miss was bound to happen at some point on pure odds alone.

.. .. And.. I think that's actually it for the negative? (1/3)

"Ba weep graanagh weep ninny bong."

Now, recognizing that it'd probably be a subjective assessment on your part -- Do you think this to be a fair equivocation, or wholly incorrect? I suspect the latter, based on my own reading through the Dispatches, but I can't recall if it's ever been expressed where that differentiation lay. (3/3)

To an outside view, I am inclined to believe that most people might think the same at first glance. Especially so if I, /from/ a more traditionally "southern" area, had that same view. (2/3)

I've always considered myself from the Deep South, down by the Alabama border with Florida, and the concept of "Appalachia" has been internalized as something of a cousin to the conceptual region of "Deep South" in my mind, rightly or wrongly. (1/3)