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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻
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Award winning writer of creepy stuff, disabled writer with MS. Glass House, Skinless Man Counts to Five, Daughter of the Wormwood Star, & Suicide Music out now. Cancer Eats the Heart in Oct. Creator of the game Bad Writer

website: https://pauljessup.com
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Cancer Eats the Heart-
a terrifying novel about the small town of Dark Rivers, where the chronically ill, disabled, & dying turn to vampirism as a cure. Only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters, who harvest their bones to power their dark spells

#horror #novel #vampires
Cancer Eats the Heart
Cancer Eats the Heart [Jessup, Paul] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Cancer Eats the Heart
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oh oh oh! Tomorrow! Tomorrow! The greatest night of the week! Join us at 9PM EST tomorrow for #HorrorWatch! This week's dastardly movie of doom? SPHERE!

Let's get spooky with evil space water!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJvK...
Sphere (1998) Official Trailer - Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson Sci-Fi Movie HD
YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
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November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
All right, pretty much the 1.0 functionality of ManaWriter is DONE. I need to finish doing the themes, test it a bunch, and then it's ready to roll. Probably in a week or two.

Depending on how well it sells, I'll roll out extra features next year, like having a pet in your little pixel house
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen

Tori Amos
Weird Al
Swans
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
KMFDM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen

Nirvana
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Rebecca Black
Bon Iver
Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

The Pretty Reckless
K.Flay
Killing Joke
Sky Ferreira
Hadouken!
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
huh, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social helped me brainstorm and we came up with ManaWriter...and I think that's it! ManaWriter seems to fit. What do you think?
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What should I call my SNES RPG focus writing freewrite thingy?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/xOXz41/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Retrowriter
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/xOXz41/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">QuestWriter
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/xOXz41/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">TextQuest
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/xOXz41/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">GoodWriter

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November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sphere won for this weekend's #HorrorWatch! Join us this Saturday at 9PM EST!
Poll results after 24 hours: Oh my darling moaning medusas of #HorrorWatch! What shall we chose for our fifth film in this November of SCIFI Horror?

1️⃣ Sphere
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (7)

2️⃣ Pi
🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (3)

3️⃣ Swamp Thing
🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (6)

4️⃣ Romi
🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (4)
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I am Hobbit cartoon years old
Happy 48th anniversary to the best adaptation of THE HOBBIT. You know I’m right.
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
basicly, all I have left to do is make the starter themes (default, one for horror, one for epic fantasy, one for cozy fantasy), and test it a bunch
I'm almost done with my quick and dirty project. What is this? Well! It's a focus wordprocessor thingy, but made to look & play like an SNES RPG.

Yes, write a novel in an RPG.

Basically, imagine if Nintendo saw the Alphasmart Neo & thought to combine it with a GBA

#pixelart #writing #writerdeck
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I'm almost done with my quick and dirty project. What is this? Well! It's a focus wordprocessor thingy, but made to look & play like an SNES RPG.

Yes, write a novel in an RPG.

Basically, imagine if Nintendo saw the Alphasmart Neo & thought to combine it with a GBA

#pixelart #writing #writerdeck
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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My feelings on piracy are very colored by my years working as an erotic writer for hire, because every pirate was all "I'm jerking off to your work without paying for it to punish you for choosing a dissolute profession! I have the moral high ground here!"
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Oh my darling moaning medusas of #HorrorWatch! What shall we chose for our fifth film in this November of SCIFI Horror?
Oh my darling moaning medusas of #HorrorWatch! What shall we chose for our fifth film in this November of SCIFI Horror?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Sphere
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Pi
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Swamp Thing
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Romi

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November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Oh my darling moaning medusas of #HorrorWatch! What shall we chose for our fifth film in this November of SCIFI Horror?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Sphere
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Pi
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Swamp Thing
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/5vbuct/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Romi

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November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
this this this this this
If there's one thing I'd plead with fantasy authors to imagine it's a world where the bigotry we know doesn't exist. Where whatever hatred that forms in the hearts of thinking beings is as alien to us as their wonders and mysteries. Do not make readers travel to new worlds only to carry old baggage.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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People often think it's that easy to set up a small press.

IT IS NOT.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The cycle of life!
Buy my comics so I can buy more comics
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Lolol
"Montresor! Ha-ha. This is a very good joke, indeed. Many times
will we laugh about it — ha-ha — as we rank Star Wars—ha-ha.”
“Of course. As we rank Star Wars.”
“But is it not late? [...] They will be expecting us. Let us go.”
“Yes. Let us go.”
As I said this I lifted the last stone from the ground.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Thank you to everyone that's being silly, ridiculous, or upbeat on here

As I careen back and forth from low grade depression to sudden, sharp grieving, interspersed with moments of forgetting & frivolity

You all make things a little better
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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There are too many tiresome pirated book sites pretending to be cultural Robin Hoods but taking from people who usually make little in the 1st damn place & who are sandblasted at having to constantly face this, & will gladly sign a damn book for you. And the actual library system? IT WORKS. Use it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Yeah, they got pretty much all of my stuff. And everybody else's. Some bullshit called Anna's Archive.
This is so fucked up. Stop stealing from authors!!
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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It particularly pisses me off that a short story that I have only ever given away in my newsletter is on all these pirate sites.

One, it's free with my newsletter, so you don't have to pirate it, and two, it feels like a particular betrayal that a subscriber would put it on a pirate site.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"I Thought She Was Afeard Till She Stroked My Beard" by Joanna Russ is probably one of my favorite short stories of all time. The Adventures of Alyx collection is fantastic, some of the best sword and sorcery I've ever read
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ALL RIGHT! ARE YOU READY, #HorrorWatch?
It's time! Time to press

PLAYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Pandorum (2009)
Two astronauts awaken from hypersleep on a derelict ship with no memory—only the sense they’re not alone, as the vessel’s secrets turn deadly.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ONLY ONE MORE HOUR UNTIL #HorrorWatch!

I am so giddy I could explode with maggots and guts everywhere
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM