Peter Counter, Nightmare Host
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Spooky ace essay boy. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). https://peterbcounter.com/
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I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
The AI floorplans thing is so funny because these losers keep seeing something they don't understand and being like, "Uh oh! Watch out people with actual jobs! You're about to be useless like me!"
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The AI floorplans thing is so funny because these losers keep seeing something they don't understand and being like, "Uh oh! Watch out people with actual jobs! You're about to be useless like me!"
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Great read. Two faves talking about Richard Sala, Hard to Be a God, their UPCOMING COLLAB(!!!), and the sentence, "I felt that same sorrow when I watched Surf Ninjas (1993)."
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Great read. Two faves talking about Richard Sala, Hard to Be a God, their UPCOMING COLLAB(!!!), and the sentence, "I felt that same sorrow when I watched Surf Ninjas (1993)."
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Me, upon hearing that people on threads are calling 3rd person POV “misogynistic”
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says open the schools
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says open the schools
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Me, upon hearing that people on threads are calling 3rd person POV “misogynistic”
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Guys, Kids Can Press is not going to sue a trigger happy foreign government full of war criminals that just said "we only follow judgements we agree with."
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Guys, Kids Can Press is not going to sue a trigger happy foreign government full of war criminals that just said "we only follow judgements we agree with."
seeing the "best of 2025" lists come out and going full-on Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
seeing the "best of 2025" lists come out and going full-on Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite
Finally getting some work done on book three. I think it will be good!
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Finally getting some work done on book three. I think it will be good!
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Thanks kindly to @pleasuremotors.bsky.social for this thoughtful @theglobeandmail.com review of WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEHIND FAST & FURIOUS. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Barry Hertz’s ‘Welcome to the Family’ uncovers the explosive Fast and Furious franchise
The Globe film editor’s new book includes 170 interviews with key creatives in the blockbuster franchise
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thanks kindly to @pleasuremotors.bsky.social for this thoughtful @theglobeandmail.com review of WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEHIND FAST & FURIOUS. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
ICYMI- a child Luigied an executive on HBO last night.
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
ICYMI- a child Luigied an executive on HBO last night.
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ICYMI I interviewed Kris Bertin about Hobtown volume 3!
When my book came out back in September Kris Bertin was kind enough to interview me about it.
Now I am interviewing HIM about the brand new third volume of his and Alexander Forbes’ wonderful Hobtown Mystery Stories. This was a lot of fun to do!
Read it here:
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/24/w...
Now I am interviewing HIM about the brand new third volume of his and Alexander Forbes’ wonderful Hobtown Mystery Stories. This was a lot of fun to do!
Read it here:
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/24/w...
“We Came to Aliens Through the Lens of Folklore”: Kris Bertin on “The Secret of the Saucer”
I’m Adam Szym, cartoonist of many years and of late a hobbyist screenwriter. Last September my graphic novel Little Visitor & Other Abductions, a collection of three sci-fi horror stories conne…
www.vol1brooklyn.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
ICYMI I interviewed Kris Bertin about Hobtown volume 3!
There's this popular idea that hopeless stories are morally inferior to hopeful ones and I just can't deal with that anymore.
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
There's this popular idea that hopeless stories are morally inferior to hopeful ones and I just can't deal with that anymore.
For years I had Muse pitched to me as a "Radiohead-like rock band," but it's really more of a "scary Coldplay," and that's honestly more flattering.
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For years I had Muse pitched to me as a "Radiohead-like rock band," but it's really more of a "scary Coldplay," and that's honestly more flattering.
I do feel a little shouted down about the day job discourse last week. But I'm a sensitive person.
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I do feel a little shouted down about the day job discourse last week. But I'm a sensitive person.
For two weeks I've had Tim Robinson's voice in my head on a loop saying, "Who wants to meet Baby?"
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
For two weeks I've had Tim Robinson's voice in my head on a loop saying, "Who wants to meet Baby?"
been living in Kingston long enough now that I'm starting to feel at home
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
been living in Kingston long enough now that I'm starting to feel at home
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Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better.
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
‘A Long December’ Always Gives Me Reason to Believe
December is a month of traditions. A myriad religious observances, baked goods, decorations and familial obligations. We all have our conventions, taking time t
www.spin.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better.
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
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Weird fiction
“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?”
“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Weird fiction
so Magic: the Gathering is just a bucket for other IP now, eh?
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
so Magic: the Gathering is just a bucket for other IP now, eh?
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A majority of this sessions' bills introduced by the CAQ target people, take away human rights, or make it impossible to challenge the government. Is Quebec experiencing its own fascist turn? My latest, on one of those attacks.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
noraloreto.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A majority of this sessions' bills introduced by the CAQ target people, take away human rights, or make it impossible to challenge the government. Is Quebec experiencing its own fascist turn? My latest, on one of those attacks.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
At The Beths concert on the weekend there was a guy behind me who—despite the dude he was with continuously restating that he doesn't know or care about sports—kept giving live updates to his college sports parlays. This is what's wrong with the modern men and unfortunately it's Bill Simmons' fault.
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
At The Beths concert on the weekend there was a guy behind me who—despite the dude he was with continuously restating that he doesn't know or care about sports—kept giving live updates to his college sports parlays. This is what's wrong with the modern men and unfortunately it's Bill Simmons' fault.
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Who needs to choose between quality or quantity when you can have BOTH?
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Who needs to choose between quality or quantity when you can have BOTH?
The thing about the new Frankenstein is that you have to watch it even though it's not great because discussing why it doesn't work is an unending well of critical thought. Being disappointed by this movie is the starting point to understanding how you feel about the entirety of contemporary film.
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The thing about the new Frankenstein is that you have to watch it even though it's not great because discussing why it doesn't work is an unending well of critical thought. Being disappointed by this movie is the starting point to understanding how you feel about the entirety of contemporary film.
This situation Emma is in really gets to the core of why even AI generation of little jokes is toxic. Prompting a machine to generate an image of Clipper Doug offloads the little choices that are the heart of creativity. The expression isn't the larger concept, it's the pose and number of pokeballs.
Have been thinking a ton about this since I posted it because it's just a silly joke but I wanted it to look a certain way, so I did it "by hand" in Photoshop. Something people used to be suspicious of, I guess. Everything used to be accused of being 'shopped.
I created this important vibes-based response to this Dark Web episode with the productivity tools called adobe photoshop and wasted time
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This situation Emma is in really gets to the core of why even AI generation of little jokes is toxic. Prompting a machine to generate an image of Clipper Doug offloads the little choices that are the heart of creativity. The expression isn't the larger concept, it's the pose and number of pokeballs.
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By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
theconversation.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
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I just think if you don't drink iced coffee anymore because "oh, brrrr, it's cold outside" you're a goddamn coward
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I just think if you don't drink iced coffee anymore because "oh, brrrr, it's cold outside" you're a goddamn coward
Good morning to everyone on earth except Mark Carney. Bad morning to him.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Good morning to everyone on earth except Mark Carney. Bad morning to him.