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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards

@gaycannibalism.bsky.social

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🔞 He/They/Xe. Dark fiction for the gays and the goths, horror and fantasy perfectly blended. Father of Malice and famed cannibal pervert. Regrettably British. 🔞

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 18d

My essay about DREAD DELUSION and gameplay as story is now free to read!

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

Dread Delusion is a masterclass in designing game mechanics around a deeply thematic narrative, says @gaycannibalism.bsky.social

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...

Git Gud? More Like Get Literate: Dread Delusion and the Art of Gameplay-as-Story - Typebar Magazine

This game is about choice, belief, and the weight of being a person.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 21h

hell yeah dude fucking sue these dipshits trying to get like, Oryx and Crake and shit out of school libraries. ruin their lives. make examples of them to all the other lead-poisoned facebook users who have nothing better to do www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Activist's claims principal promoted child pornography are defamatory: lawsuit | CBC News

A southern Manitoba principal is suing a parent who sought to have books removed from school libraries, saying the woman wrote defamatory social media posts insinuating the principal promoted the diss...

www.cbc.ca

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 2h

'Oooohhh nooo my childhood traaaaummmaaaa lol I am HANDLING that'

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 5h

average horror protagonist: the true horror is worrying that you might be going INSANE!!

me, already insane: fucking bring it, you bitchass ghost

Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 5h

but also EVENTUALLY it will occur to someone other than me that a genuinely mentally ill person, with a lot of experience dismissing their own intrusive thoughts/ delusions/ hallucinations, would make a GREAT horror protagonist.

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

also hot

Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

I'm working on a new thing and a major character is part sea-monster coded, if that counts.

I'm too early in for much detail but lets just say he's nearly 8 feet tall, has pale greyish skin with an iridescent sheen and hints of scales in the right light, sharky eyes, and long blue-black hair. Hot.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me about your merfolk and otherwise fishy characters! 🧜‍♀️ #WritingPrompt

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

My therapist said my sock knitting was beautiful

Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I didn't know what those words put together meant, but I do, and that's something I'm just going to have to live with

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

Please help Saeed and his family if you can:
gofund.me/a0a540b8

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

Also, statistically, most of these characters probably ended up a different gender than they were in the movie

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” goodlaw.social/fs2m

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

goodlaw.social

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot tell me ANYONE in this movie was intended to be straight, look at them

www.imdb.com/title/tt0113...

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a group of young people is gathered in a subway car, with one reading a paper as another looks on, while a subtitle reads, "Wait a minute. The 14th... that's the same day the worm ends its run." Second, a person with a striking hairstyle and colorful clothing stands in front of a vibrant, patterned backdrop, saying, "Hackers of the world, unite." Third, a person leans out of a car window, passionately shouting, "Hack the planet!"

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 2d

Hey you--watch some trash. I don't mean corporate by the numbers slop, I mean some honest-to-goodness, lowbrow, shoestring budget trash. Like arthouse cinema, it's good for you.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 2d

I like to throw in something bizarre and experimental in the first few chapters to clear out anyone who thinks every difference of opinion is a "plot hole." I mostly do it for myself but I like to think that somewhere out there, a reader I don't like is having a bad time.

natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2d

you have to kill the devil's advocate in your brain when you're writing, you have to smother the imaginary bad faith reader that lives in your head. Trying to please the voice that tells you the person reading your work is ignorant/malicious is a mind-killer. There are better ways to create cohesion

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d

Will be querying this as an uwu sapphic cottagecore cosy horror

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d

What if you were trying to rekindle the passion in your relationship but your girlfriend was Pinterest-poisoned

She eats her like ortolan; her face hidden beneath the sheet, where the blessed mother's eyes cannot find her. She swallows the heat and moisture of her, the dark beneath the blankets so ripe with Grace's scent that the space feels like a cavern carved from her body, like Jo is within her. And she might even find pleasure in the thought, were it not for Grace staring at the ceiling beyond the veil, eyes dreamy, and saying, "We should get backyard chickens."

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d

You should care about trans rights just generally, because trans people are people, they have always been here and they always will be.

BUT if you MUST put a cis spin on it, this is where transphobia gets you. It's either bodily autonomy for all of us or none of us.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

It's a 'wearing my massively oversized tshirt that says "crows before bros, support your local murder" and has a picture of a crow on it' day again, lads

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 1d

Quds News Network reported quadcopters are firing at people. At least three dead.
Warplanes also just bombed people trying to return to their homes in Gaza City. 5 dead.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza

Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians in Gaza

<article data-history-node-id="430162" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians in Gaza </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The Israeli army issued a statement stating that Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians calling them "several suspects" who came closer to troops stationed in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning.</p> <p>"Attempts were made to distance the suspects. The suspects did not comply and continued approaching the troops, who opened fire to remove the threat," the statement said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 2d

authors need to start beefing with each other via long-winded letters & essays published in "serious" magazines again

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 1d

That's how I knew I was trans, I couldn't read the earth-pulls or moon-tides

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 1d

Old time SF might still have the edge over 2020s where blurbs are concerned. I'll take HE KNEW THE MARTIAN LOVE SECRET over LORD OF THE FLIES MEETS ANNE OF GREEN GABLES IN THIS FRIENDS TO ENEMIES FOUND FAMILY ACCIDENTAL WISH ROMANTASY.

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2d

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