~Polly Schattel~
@pollyschattel.bsky.social
Writer • Filmmaker • Partner • Parent • Trans • THE OCCULTISTS, SHADOWDAYS, 8:59:29, and in May ‘26, COME AS YOU’RE NOT • Lover of books, woods, guitars, critters & coffee • Trans rights = human rights • AVL • She/her
Writing is hard, but when I don’t write at least a little every day, I miss it. Creativity is addicting. Tilling new soil (or improving the old) can be habit-forming in all the best ways. #booksky
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Writing is hard, but when I don’t write at least a little every day, I miss it. Creativity is addicting. Tilling new soil (or improving the old) can be habit-forming in all the best ways. #booksky
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𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
Something's Wrong With Maddie is eligible to be nominated for BEST NOVEL. If you read it and enjoyed it, please consider sending an email to [email protected] to nominate it!
👻📚🩸
#queerauthors #horrorbooks #wlw #sapphichorror #extremehorror #splatterpunk
Something's Wrong With Maddie is eligible to be nominated for BEST NOVEL. If you read it and enjoyed it, please consider sending an email to [email protected] to nominate it!
👻📚🩸
#queerauthors #horrorbooks #wlw #sapphichorror #extremehorror #splatterpunk
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
Something's Wrong With Maddie is eligible to be nominated for BEST NOVEL. If you read it and enjoyed it, please consider sending an email to [email protected] to nominate it!
👻📚🩸
#queerauthors #horrorbooks #wlw #sapphichorror #extremehorror #splatterpunk
Something's Wrong With Maddie is eligible to be nominated for BEST NOVEL. If you read it and enjoyed it, please consider sending an email to [email protected] to nominate it!
👻📚🩸
#queerauthors #horrorbooks #wlw #sapphichorror #extremehorror #splatterpunk
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NEWS! Man who spent all year protesting to 'protect our kids' still furious about 400,000 of them being lifted out of poverty newsthump.com/2025/11/29/m...
Man who spent all year protesting to ‘protect our kids’ still furious about 400,000 of them being lifted out of poverty
A man who has spent the last twelve months bellowing about the need to “protect our vulnerable kids” has expressed deep, incandescent rage at the discovery that the government’s budget will l…
newsthump.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NEWS! Man who spent all year protesting to 'protect our kids' still furious about 400,000 of them being lifted out of poverty newsthump.com/2025/11/29/m...
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Rewatched Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) for the first time in a while and I think it may be a perfect movie. Sweaty atmospheric malevolence from beginning to end. Impeccable sound and editing. The most hideous set design in history. Provides exactly what it promises. An evil classic all around.
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Rewatched Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) for the first time in a while and I think it may be a perfect movie. Sweaty atmospheric malevolence from beginning to end. Impeccable sound and editing. The most hideous set design in history. Provides exactly what it promises. An evil classic all around.
A Sundog over the Bay of Syracuse. This is where the great genius Archimedes and the Syracusians held off the Romans in 214 BC, using the Claw of Archimedes and a mirrored “sun ray,” which caught the attackers boats on fire. After several years of siege, they succumbed and were killed or enslaved.
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A Sundog over the Bay of Syracuse. This is where the great genius Archimedes and the Syracusians held off the Romans in 214 BC, using the Claw of Archimedes and a mirrored “sun ray,” which caught the attackers boats on fire. After several years of siege, they succumbed and were killed or enslaved.
Springsteen
Nirvana
Camper Van Beethoven
Uncle Tupelo
The Pixies
Nirvana
Camper Van Beethoven
Uncle Tupelo
The Pixies
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Castle Rat (most recent)
Crazy World of Arthur Brown (fav?)
Black Sabbath (RIP Ozzy)
Alice Cooper (twice)
Judas Priest (thrice)
Castle Rat (most recent)
Crazy World of Arthur Brown (fav?)
Black Sabbath (RIP Ozzy)
Alice Cooper (twice)
Judas Priest (thrice)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Billy Joel/Elton John
Lilith Fair
Matt Nathanson
Goo Goo Dolls/Atheneum
Frank Wildhorn and Friends
Billy Joel/Elton John
Lilith Fair
Matt Nathanson
Goo Goo Dolls/Atheneum
Frank Wildhorn and Friends
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Springsteen
Nirvana
Camper Van Beethoven
Uncle Tupelo
The Pixies
Nirvana
Camper Van Beethoven
Uncle Tupelo
The Pixies
Me and the bæ. Who knew it could be cold as f*ck in the lower Mediterranean? Wishing all my friends a warm, healthy, happy Thanksgiving! 🩷🤍🩵
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Me and the bæ. Who knew it could be cold as f*ck in the lower Mediterranean? Wishing all my friends a warm, healthy, happy Thanksgiving! 🩷🤍🩵
Poor guy. All that lying and demonizing of the disenfranchised while undermining democracy has got to be thankless, exhausting work. My heart goes out to him.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Poor guy. All that lying and demonizing of the disenfranchised while undermining democracy has got to be thankless, exhausting work. My heart goes out to him.
William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
YouTube video by williamburroughsVEVO
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November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’m loving all the press for the new EWS release. I saw it first run in the theaters, and while I was puzzled a bit, I loved it. I also anticipated that, like SK’s other films, it would be critically reviled until people finally, eventually, “got it.”
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
Todd Field on ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and His First Meeting with Stanley Kubrick: ‘I Know Who the F**k You Are, I Hired You’
'Eyes Wide Shut' star and filmmaker Todd Field talks starring in Stanley Kubrick's 1999 masterpiece and the director's mentorship on his own work.
www.indiewire.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I’m loving all the press for the new EWS release. I saw it first run in the theaters, and while I was puzzled a bit, I loved it. I also anticipated that, like SK’s other films, it would be critically reviled until people finally, eventually, “got it.”
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
www.indiewire.com/features/int...
Agrigento is pretty nuts. It took 30,000 Carthaginian slaves to construct the entire massive compound back in 500 BC. But the ever-mercurial Sicilian sky stubbornly refuses to overshadowed by anything. #sicily #magnagrecia
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Agrigento is pretty nuts. It took 30,000 Carthaginian slaves to construct the entire massive compound back in 500 BC. But the ever-mercurial Sicilian sky stubbornly refuses to overshadowed by anything. #sicily #magnagrecia
Me: I’m a trickster. That’s my archetype in life.
My kid: But Jesus Christ, you’ve only got one trick.
Me: Yeah, but it’s a good trick.
My kid: But Jesus Christ, you’ve only got one trick.
Me: Yeah, but it’s a good trick.
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Me: I’m a trickster. That’s my archetype in life.
My kid: But Jesus Christ, you’ve only got one trick.
Me: Yeah, but it’s a good trick.
My kid: But Jesus Christ, you’ve only got one trick.
Me: Yeah, but it’s a good trick.
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You can read or download my second short story collection, A VOLUME OF SLEEP, here
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
A Volume Of Sleep By Jayaprakash : Jayprakash Satyamurthy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
My second chapbook of fiction. Originally published by Dunhams Manor Press with illustrations by Dave Felton. It never caught on. Neither did I really, as to...
archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You can read or download my second short story collection, A VOLUME OF SLEEP, here
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
archive.org/details/a-vo...
It's out of print and will remain so. If you like and want to repay me in some way, donate to an animal shelter.
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Ah, Italy. You never disappoint. (Except in vegetarian food.)
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Ah, Italy. You never disappoint. (Except in vegetarian food.)
“The future will be awesome! We’re gonna have teleports and flying cars and robot butlers and perfect nutrition for everybody!”
The future:
The future:
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“The future will be awesome! We’re gonna have teleports and flying cars and robot butlers and perfect nutrition for everybody!”
The future:
The future:
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So, of trans children starting HRT, more than 98% stay on it, and of the small fraction that don't, over half identify as nonbinary. Less than 1% go “nah, turns out I'm cis.” From an N of four fucking hundred. Why the hell are we making children run a gauntlet? Some asshole's political career?
A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... & of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Trans care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... & of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Trans care saves lives.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
So, of trans children starting HRT, more than 98% stay on it, and of the small fraction that don't, over half identify as nonbinary. Less than 1% go “nah, turns out I'm cis.” From an N of four fucking hundred. Why the hell are we making children run a gauntlet? Some asshole's political career?
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Biz İngilizce konuşuyoruz
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Biz İngilizce konuşuyoruz
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The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
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One last thing: If AOC runs against Schumer, she will win.
Democrats need to make a hard left turn.
Mamdani has proven it is time.
The people of the United States are ready for politicians who will not just say they'lll fight for them, but will actually do so once elected.
Democrats need to make a hard left turn.
Mamdani has proven it is time.
The people of the United States are ready for politicians who will not just say they'lll fight for them, but will actually do so once elected.
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One last thing: If AOC runs against Schumer, she will win.
Democrats need to make a hard left turn.
Mamdani has proven it is time.
The people of the United States are ready for politicians who will not just say they'lll fight for them, but will actually do so once elected.
Democrats need to make a hard left turn.
Mamdani has proven it is time.
The people of the United States are ready for politicians who will not just say they'lll fight for them, but will actually do so once elected.
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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
—Robert Anton Wilson
—Robert Anton Wilson
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
—Robert Anton Wilson
—Robert Anton Wilson