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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 2h

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 2h

I've never even written a screenplay and I could still craft a more satisfying narrative arc than any given season of AHS

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 2h

Especially THIS weirdo (respectfully)

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Jan 30

Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Ebook jessicaconwell.itch.io/ghost-flower
Paperback link in replies

Cover of the book Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell, which features a young woman looking up at trees descending from the top. Text next to the book: A quiet town. A sinister cult. A fallen god. Two friends. One chance to prevent the end of all things. Come and see. A available in paperback and ebook

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck Rurphy Murphy, read these weirdos

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 2h

Do you know how many cool trans horror writers you could tap to make a better television series?

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 3h

Having Ed Gein talk to Christine Jorgensen about being trans while they play a recreation of THE SCENE from Silence of the Lambs, and then have her tell him he's not trans by paraphrasing a line by Janice Raymond is certainly a choice

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

This new Monster season is like what if Ed Gein's life was actually an adaptation of Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs and not the other way around.

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 2h

I love how our nation is self-destructing in order to coddle the world's biggest losers

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 3h

JFC

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 10h

WE have to learn how to exist in a world full of people who want to eliminate us, many of whom have their hands on the levers of power

They get to toss a few bucks toward a fashionable charity if their consciences get a little twinge, then move on with their lives

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 10h

What I find particularly galling about this us that she doesn't actually have to figure out how to live together

These rich white folks - from Knightley to Rowling - can structure their lives such that those afflicted by bigotry, by poverty, by marginalization, can never actually affect them

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 10h

right … which is .. what so many of us are asking for as trans people ???

Kiera Knightley sounds like a BlueSky moderator

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Keira Knightley said that before joining the voice cast of Audible's "Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio
Editions,
" she was "not aware" of the fan boycott
of all things "Harry Potter" over J.K. Rowling's statements about the transgender community:
"You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 12h

Live your best haunted life

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 13h

I am sadly way behind on @herecomestomorrow.net. Doing the required reading so I can catch up this week!

The cover of New X-Men Modern Epic Collection Volume 1: E Is For Extinction, reproducing the cover of New X-Men #114

Cyclops, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Wolverine and Professor X approach the reader, their faces in shadow. The background is a swirl of sparks in shades of orange and yellow.

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 13h

I believe in Magica Riot 🫡🏳️‍⚧️

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 15h

Hillary, I want you to know we all believe in you

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 17h

Fun Historical Fact: The Salvation Army opened a mission in Ravenkirk, ME in 1932

It closed after six months and thirteen days, which is coincidentally about how long it took for Dolores Ruthven to get bored with them

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 11d

This Hallowe'en!

When Victoria Williams receives an inheritance from a woman she's never met, she's drawn to a haunted seaside town full of magic, mystery, and murder!

books2read.com/SOR1

A promotional image for Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm by Vivian Moira Valentine. It depicts the book's cover, featuring a goth woman and her faithful tarantula against a misty cityscape. Text reads:

"A funny, flirty, freaky paranormal romp with everything to satisfy both the goth and the goth-at-heart reader, Shadows over Ravenkirk is the most fun I've had reading in ages!" - Bitter Karella, Creator of The Midnight Pals

From the author of the acclaimed books, The Amelia Temple Series

Haunting your favorite bookstore October 31.

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 17h

I love how in actual Revelations, the point of the antichrists is just "Y'all watch out, 'cuz SOME PEOPLE* are gonna say they're preaching the Word of God to lead you astray" and then those people turned the antichrist into a horror movie villain

* Paul of Tarsus

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 17h

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 17h

It's a "Supporting Trans Authors" kinda day

(Every day is a "Supporting Trans Authors" kinda day)

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

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Reposted by Vivian Moira Vampire

Momo chinga la migra @moncholapoet.bsky.social · 18h

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/greyhound-...

My first collection of poetry deals with family, trauma, and being trans. Thank you

Greyhound Americans|Paperback

Dazzlingly queer, inclusive, celestial, with indigenous ancestral heart, Greyhound Americans, by award winning poet Moncho Alvarado, confronts a family history of borderland politics by discovering a ...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 17h

Peter Thiel, watching Boss Baby: Getting a lot of antichrist vibes off this one

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 17h

We've known what these people are for literal generations and their reputation is invincible

If you really want to do evil in the US, you just gotta slap a cross on it

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 18h

The Salvation Army really is the epitome of a certain kind of white conservatism

They prey on the most vulnerable. They happily leave the sort of people they don't like to die in the streets

But they smile a lot and don't cuss and say "Jesus", so they get to be respectable

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 18h

It's impressive how committed the Salvation Army is to being the absolute worst while masquerading as an anodyne organization

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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S.E. Fleenor @sefleenor.bsky.social · 18h

Do I know/am moots with/am followed by any voice actors?

I am working on an announcement for auditions for voice actors and would love to run it by some people sometime before year's end?

Just...putting feelers out

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck. Not okay

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 1d

A thing I think a lot of cishet folks don't appreciate is how reluctant many of us are to trust these days

And how much harder it gets when the few we do let us down

"If [NAME] could turn on me, so could anyone"

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