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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon

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Horror and fantasy author of QUESTION NOT MY SALT and the Thorns series; mid-age goth, horror movie aficionado. Coming soon: IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT (2026), MASQUE (2027). 🪚 www.amandamblake.com Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/amandamblake

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, it is far from comprehensive, and there are other albums and soundtracks I've yet to acquire, but here's a solid collection of songs on my Halloween playlist. I didn't include some artists I have on my list from before I or we knew about their bullshittery,

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 35m

Hauntings/Ghosts (cont.):
20. "Retrogradation" - Informatik
21. "Everywhere Ghosts Hide" - UNSECRET (feat. Erin McCarley)
22. "HAUNTED" - Isabel LaRosa
23. "The Shirt of a Ghost" - Katie Melua
24. "Dead Boy's Poem" - Nightwish
25. "Ciaran's Well" - Tarja

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 36m

Hauntings/Ghosts (cont.):
14. "All is Lost" - Katie Garfield
15. "A Lovely Affair" - Death Cab for Cutie
16. "He Haunts Me" - Extreme Music
17. "Ghost" - Neutral Milk Hotel
18. "Passage" - Vienna Teng
19. "Ghosts of Mulholland" - Emily West

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 37m

Hauntings/Ghosts (cont.):
7. "Ghost Love Score" - Nightwish
8. "Lonely Ghost" - O + S
9. "Haunted" - Kelly Clarkson
10. "House of Leaves" - Poe
11. "Boy and the Ghost" - Tarja
12. "If I Burn" - Emilie Autumn
13. "Ghosts" - James Vincent McMorrow

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 37m

Today, we're sharing ghost stories in music form.

Hauntings/Ghosts:
1. "Ghost House Heart" - Delain
2. "The Haunting (Somewhere in Time)" - Kamelot
3. "There's a Ghost" - Fleurie
4. "Ghost Town" - Adam Lambert
5. "Haunted" - Poe
6. "In Twilight Hours" - Kamelot (feat. Jennifer Haben)

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 10h

Ahh, I wrote almost 800 words this afternoon instead of the 500 that I thought I did, so that makes this evening much easier. Way to go, afternoon me.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 21h

I watched KNOCK AT THE CABIN a few weeks ago. I wish they'd kept the original title. I was generally underwhelmed by the performances, except for Groff and Bautista. I don't know, I think the underacting style MNS encourages doesn't always work. It felt like going through the motions.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

Witches/Magic (cont.):

18. "A Night on Bald Mountain" - Modest Mussorgsky
19. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" - Paul Dukas
20. "The Witches of Eastwick: Devil's Dance" - Gil Shaham, Jonathan Feldman
21. "Spell Eater" - Huntress

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

Witches/Magic (cont.):

12. "Darkened Days to Come" - Sirenia
13. "Liar (Murder Mix) - Emilie Autumn
14. "Threefold Law" - Nemesea
15. "Witches Song" - Juliana Hatfield
16. "Witchcraft" - Frank Sinatra
17. "I Put a Spell on You" - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

Witches/Magic (cont.):

7. "The Shining Path" - Tristania
8. "The Spell" - Kamelot
9. "She's My Witch" - LVCRFT (feat. Dani Miller)
10. "Lady Geneva" - Inkubus Sukkubus
11. "Rhiannon" - Fleetwood Mac

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

Today, we're creeping into the realm of witches and magic:

Witches/Magic:
1. "Season of the Witch" - Lana del Ray
2. "Blueberry Head" - Tuna Helpers
3. "Elizabeth: i. Mirror Mirror" - Kamelot
4. "Abracadabra" - Lady Gaga
5. "Witchy Woman" - The Eagles
6. "Burning Times" - Inkubus Sukkubus

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 1d

In my personal life I have moved away from thinking of people as stupid. Instead I just think of people as "incurious," where the Doing of learning has become something they are too tired, scared, or proud to pursue. Curiosity is, I think, the greatest human virtue, the Doing of learning.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 13d

to me, Doing is a knife that must be continually honed, however small the grind wheel available to you is, because to me it's not about how sharp the knife actually is it's about the process of honing itself. if you are Doing then you are living. there are always opportunities to Do if you seek them

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

I love a good submersion baptismal font.

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

Phantom of the Opera (cont.):
5. "Passion and the Opera" - Nightwish
6. "Sleepwalker" - Nightwish
7. "Overture" - Phantom of the Opera

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

Today's theme is Erik, the Opera Ghost. Surprisingly, more song references than Jekyll/Hyde

Phantom of the Opera:
1. "Phantom of the Opera" - Nightwish
2. "Ghost Opera" - Kamelot
3. "Through the Mirror" - Beyond the Black
4. "Graveyard Violin" - Phantom of the Opera (with Robert Englund)

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how I go through life feeling simultaneously 63 and 17 years old.

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Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 2d

Tech bros will be like "Our start up is called Icarus Labs and our motto is 'Hubris is not real'."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

I think because it's a creative endeavor that's easier to explain, since it's so visual.

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 1d

"Breath Control" by Recoil (more spoken word)
"Crow Jane" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (TW: SA)
"Gunpowder and Lead" by Miranda Lambert
"Venus Fly Trap" by Marina

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 2d

We all love Apex. Let's keep Apex thriving and publishing for a long time to come.

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2d

Apex Magazine is at $7178 out of a $20,000 base goal! They have 16 days to go!

Help THEM reach their Apex!

(there are also stretch goals)

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 2d

I actually quite enjoyed THE CRAFT: LEGACY. There were things that I feel didn't get enough attention (probably could have lost a brother and—I rarely say this—but it could probably have used another fifteen minutes). But I thought it was a solid teen witch movie and not to samey to the original.

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William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 3d

Today I'm sharing a small list of Jekyll and Hyde songs:

Jekyll/Hyde:
1. "Jekyll & Hyde" - Bishop Briggs
2. "Jekyll & Hyde" - Plumb
3. "Mz. Hyde" - Halestorm
4. "Murder, Murder!" - Jekyll & Hyde OBC
5. "It's a Dangerous Game" - Complete Jekyll & Hyde
6. "How to Be Dead" - Snow Patrol

William Blake's The Great Red Dragon @amandamblake.bsky.social · 2d

N&F(M8): 60,033/110,000 words