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O F Cieri

@ossuary.bsky.social

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It's pronounced like 'ossuary'. Neodecadentata pulp novelist + flame shirt revitalist Local 210 Ksamkcab yub Ofcieri.com

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 19d

It's Saruman/Gandalf if Gandalf was a fat former actor with wandering dick syndrome and Saruman was kicked out of his hyperreligious controlling family. It's Dracula Versus the Wolfman with bad polyamory practices. It's The Temptations of Saint Anthony by Flaubert.

#unhingedpit #a #f #lgbt

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 19d

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

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Evan Dean Shelton @realsonicdanger.bsky.social · 11h

Trve.

Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d

NOTHING CAN KEEP EVAN OFF A TABLE

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 3d

Opening ceremonies have commenced

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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 11h

TREEKNOCK

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 9h

I think they're just on insta

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 9h

Back in NYC after a killer time at @voidcon.bsky.social. Giant devil horns to the organizers, all the cool folks I met, the @tenebrouspress.bsky.social gang for hanging out, and @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social for taking karaoke into his own hands. No thanks to the authors for draining my wallet

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 9h

The ghosts of Gettysburg took my headphones

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 9h

Looping in Danika and Ben

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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 10h

Shadow Ticket (2025, written by Thomas Pynchon)

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Evan Dean Shelton @realsonicdanger.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like an apparition.
Hollowed out.
Bones rattlin around in an empty tank.

If you were one of the last ones standing on any night of VOIDCON I both love you and hate you and I hope to see you again soon.

THANK YOU.

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 11h

So full of coffee my throat feels like it's burning

O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 12h

American horror by non-Americans: Nothing is scarier then my fellow Americans
American horror by Americans: Henry Ford is trying to kill me

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 13h

So grateful that the people of @voidcon.bsky.social took this exactly as seriously as it deserved to be taken (which is to say: VERY FUCKING SERIOUSLY).

Also, considering nearly everyone who voted said some variation of "obviously" when casting their ballots, I was surprised at how close it was.

Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 13h

The Void has spoken! With 32 votes, a consensus was reached:

Fuck - Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre, dir. Herzog, 1979)
Marry - Max Schreck (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, dir. Murnau, 1922)
Kill - Bill Skarsgård (Nosferatu, dir. Eggers, 2024)

Thanks for playing! See ya at the next one!

"Three tiny plastic cauldrons on the steps of a wooden ladder against a wall, placed on alternating sides. Each small cauldron has an image of the actor in his role in his respective Nosferatu film, and stuck to each is a blue post-it note with the handwritten verdict, underlined.

Top step: Klaus Kinski (fuck).
Middle step: Max Schreck (marry)
Bottom step: Bill Skarsgård (kill)."

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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 3d

‘It Doesn’t Matter How Many Times You Kill Us’ was first published in this gorgeous print volume from @castaignepub.bsky.social, edited by @emptywrites.bsky.social and @styxteeth.bsky.social.

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Cover of ‘in the eyes of the hungry’, edited by Michael Tichy and Valentina Rojas. Rendered in charcoal, a male figure flays himself with a straight razor. From Castaigne publishing.

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 12h

Voidcon 3 is done. I feel like each year is a refinement and so each year is the best year. We, and I mean every one of you who shared time with us, are why this community is special. Thank you. We are cocreating something unique and wonderful and I’m grateful for it and for you 🖤 my heart is full

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Michael Tichy @emptywrites.bsky.social · 12h

This was so good I think it cooked my brain

Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 13h

Stacked reading panel at @voidcon.bsky.social with Joe Koch, BR Yeager, David Simmons, Junkyard Ambrose, and Sasha Ravitch

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 13h

Stacked reading panel at @voidcon.bsky.social with Joe Koch, BR Yeager, David Simmons, Junkyard Ambrose, and Sasha Ravitch

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 1d

This weekend at Voidcon 3 I walked the battlefields in Gettysburg before the festivities experiencing an unexpected sense of outrage & loss, and shared a piece of writing about war that terrified me to speak. The creators I met inspired me and gave me the courage to do this reading. Thank you all.

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 12d

Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5!

"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."

godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 4d

A friend and reader got a Sabbath of the Fox-Devils tattoo and this is easily the most incredible moment in my writing career.

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Vita "Empancipated Blacula" Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · Jan 29

Hello, all. In a time where everything is so much for so many people, I feel guilty asking but my family and I are in need of help.

Even if it is a signal boost, any help is appreciated.

I love you all, and I hope you are all safe.

gofund.me/980022e5

Donate to Support Vita Ayala After Fire Displacement, organized by Tini Howard

Hi everyone, I'm Tini Howard, and this is for my friend, and your favorite comi… Tini Howard needs your support for Support Vita Ayala After Fire Displacement

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 14h

Coming home from Voidcon, better change the ending of Death Cleric

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 14h

was so stoked to get to meet @caninebrainz.bsky.social and hear him read some burroughs-tiered-unheimlich-dadaist-plutonium-necrorot-nightmare-fuel at @caninebrainz.bsky.social

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody's mentioning the ongoing Lincoln motif of Voidcon 3

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junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 1d

meet the new wave of horror (@horrorsong.blog included) according to BR Yeager

junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 7d

4 horsemen of the apocalypse

5:00 - 5:30 Readings
Sasha Ravitch, Junkyard Ambrose, David Simmons, B.R. Yeager

6:00pm End of official activities

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Evan Dean Shelton @realsonicdanger.bsky.social · 14h

See you next year get fucked die.🖤

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 15h

VOIDCON 3 IS DEAD.

WE CAN NEVER THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR BEING A PART OF THIS THING.

IF NEXT YEAR WE ARE STILL ON THIS SIDE OF THE DIRT WE WILL SEE YOU AND HEAR YOU AND EMBRACE YOU AND SMELL YOU AGAIN.

HAIL THE VOID.
#voidcon

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 15h

All the books and zines I got at @voidcon.bsky.social in two glorious images.

A stack of books on a table!

Top to bottom:
Bodypunk (Filthy Loot)
Fleischerei by Saoirse Ni Charagain
Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager
The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler
Backmask by OF Cieri
Beneath the Swimming Pools, the Teeth by Mark Jaskowski
Burn, Beautiful Soul by William J. Donahue
The Organization Is Here to Support You by Charlene Elsby
Reef Mind by Hazel Zorn
We Like it Cherry by Jacy Morris
Till We Become Monsters by Amanda Headlee
Only Monsters Remain by William J. Donahue
Feeding the Wheel by Michael Boulerice.

A bunch of zines laid out on an end table in two rows. Left to right, top to bottom:
The Makeitstop (Please): A Gnostic Nightmare by Jason Baltazar
Scream Zine by Sara Century
Lesbian Vampire Zine by Sara Century
Who the FUCK is junkyard ambrose?
LIBER BXIII by junkyard ambrose
GORE 3
Foul Black Rookeries: Stories by David Simmons

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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 15h

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