A. Bastedo is Someone’s Dad
@abastedo-writing.bsky.social
(he/him) * Published writer of the weird, dark, and lovely * human services utility man* MFA Arcadia University * Ghoul of Upstate Connecticut * High Church Lutheran (RIC) * Totally Not a Furry * Married to a badass ER resident * Brand New Dad
Pinned
Honest. No hyperbole. I just listened to this cretin a second time. And
if I were a Christian in this American moment, I would be ashamed to ever admit it in public, my faith having been named, debased and dragged through the public sewers every other day.
Sorry.
if I were a Christian in this American moment, I would be ashamed to ever admit it in public, my faith having been named, debased and dragged through the public sewers every other day.
Sorry.
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
In short: no
In long: No by any means and over my dead body. It’s exactly what Christofascists want. They want Mainline, moderate, and orthodox conservative voices to shut up and let their heresy be the sole voice of Christendom. This is the exact moment we must be extremely loud about who Jesus is
In long: No by any means and over my dead body. It’s exactly what Christofascists want. They want Mainline, moderate, and orthodox conservative voices to shut up and let their heresy be the sole voice of Christendom. This is the exact moment we must be extremely loud about who Jesus is
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For what it's worth, BCS was the first magazine to publish me.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For what it's worth, BCS was the first magazine to publish me.
You know what, my word processor can shove it. Fragments are not a grammatical error. They’re the most evocative way to communicate my thoughts and mental images in written form. I do not make errors I make art!
*hides post before my wife shows up with her red pen*
#writingcommunity 💙📚
*hides post before my wife shows up with her red pen*
#writingcommunity 💙📚
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
You know what, my word processor can shove it. Fragments are not a grammatical error. They’re the most evocative way to communicate my thoughts and mental images in written form. I do not make errors I make art!
*hides post before my wife shows up with her red pen*
#writingcommunity 💙📚
*hides post before my wife shows up with her red pen*
#writingcommunity 💙📚
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Words containing "meow"
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Homeowners
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December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Words containing "meow"
Meow
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Homeowners
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Great news, everyone! Hook & Quill Press is launching today as an indie publishing company, supporting and supported by the writing community (and one octopus). We have plenty of exciting announcements for your feed today, but here's a quick teaser...
#writesky #writingcommunity #quillbert4ever
#writesky #writingcommunity #quillbert4ever
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Great news, everyone! Hook & Quill Press is launching today as an indie publishing company, supporting and supported by the writing community (and one octopus). We have plenty of exciting announcements for your feed today, but here's a quick teaser...
#writesky #writingcommunity #quillbert4ever
#writesky #writingcommunity #quillbert4ever
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SUBMIT
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@thedeadlands.com is open to fiction and poetry subs, so hop right on that, yeah?
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
SUBMIT
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A fair question. 😕🇺🇸
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
A fair question. 😕🇺🇸
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@thedeadlands.com is open to fiction and poetry subs, so hop right on that, yeah?
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@thedeadlands.com is open to fiction and poetry subs, so hop right on that, yeah?
Back to work, back to the social media stuff!
Buy this thing. It has me in it. Ooey, gooey delicious, steering-wheel melting horror. Come on in, the water sucks, but your wife is cutting an orange up for lunch and that’ll help… right?
@fraidycatpress.bsky.social
#horror #horrorlit #writingcommunity
Buy this thing. It has me in it. Ooey, gooey delicious, steering-wheel melting horror. Come on in, the water sucks, but your wife is cutting an orange up for lunch and that’ll help… right?
@fraidycatpress.bsky.social
#horror #horrorlit #writingcommunity
FCQ8 is our gnaw-themed issue and features excellent writing from:
@jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social (with an original novelette)
Art by Valerie Marshall
Jasmine Harrell
@therrien.bsky.social
Tremain Xenos
@abastedo-writing.bsky.social
@breathinghead.bsky.social
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
@jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social (with an original novelette)
Art by Valerie Marshall
Jasmine Harrell
@therrien.bsky.social
Tremain Xenos
@abastedo-writing.bsky.social
@breathinghead.bsky.social
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Back to work, back to the social media stuff!
Buy this thing. It has me in it. Ooey, gooey delicious, steering-wheel melting horror. Come on in, the water sucks, but your wife is cutting an orange up for lunch and that’ll help… right?
@fraidycatpress.bsky.social
#horror #horrorlit #writingcommunity
Buy this thing. It has me in it. Ooey, gooey delicious, steering-wheel melting horror. Come on in, the water sucks, but your wife is cutting an orange up for lunch and that’ll help… right?
@fraidycatpress.bsky.social
#horror #horrorlit #writingcommunity
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no like. even as a. deeply religious. lib i can’t wrap my brain around it
it’s a deeper perversion of christianity than any heresy i could imagine
it’s a deeper perversion of christianity than any heresy i could imagine
Look I know all us secular libs know this and it comes off as very reddit atheist to point this out but the two faced-ness of conservative Christianity really is hard to fathom. "Kill *everyone* on the boat" and "you can't have an abortion, that's murder" it's just... what hell man?
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
no like. even as a. deeply religious. lib i can’t wrap my brain around it
it’s a deeper perversion of christianity than any heresy i could imagine
it’s a deeper perversion of christianity than any heresy i could imagine
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‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
I’m beginning to worry that wealthy eccentric isn’t a viable career path…
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I’m beginning to worry that wealthy eccentric isn’t a viable career path…
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Maybe A Charlie Brown Christmas was really always an Advent movie all along
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Maybe A Charlie Brown Christmas was really always an Advent movie all along
I’d be lying if I said this was wrong
This is exactly how in my head I imagine @abastedo-writing.bsky.social writing horror fiction
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I’d be lying if I said this was wrong
For all the fans of my writing, please know the three sentences I’ve written since the birth of our son have been fantastic.
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
a cartoon of a man giving an ok sign and the word perfection below him
Alt: a cartoon of a man giving an ok sign and the word perfection below him
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November 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
For all the fans of my writing, please know the three sentences I’ve written since the birth of our son have been fantastic.
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
Over the years Curly Howard and Dr. Zoidberg have conclusively proven that bald men running away from danger while hooting is unreasonably funny.
a black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat with the words softenly written above him .
Alt: a black and white photo of a Curly Howard of 3 stooges fame in a suit and hat with the words softenly written above him .
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Over the years Curly Howard and Dr. Zoidberg have conclusively proven that bald men running away from danger while hooting is unreasonably funny.
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You call us "groomers," then you support pedophiles.
You call immigrants "criminals," then bring murder and mayhem to our cities.
You call modern art "ugly," then you spam AI slop.
You complain about "elites" then vote for billionaire landlords.
Then you wonder who radicalized us.
YOU DID.
You call immigrants "criminals," then bring murder and mayhem to our cities.
You call modern art "ugly," then you spam AI slop.
You complain about "elites" then vote for billionaire landlords.
Then you wonder who radicalized us.
YOU DID.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
You call us "groomers," then you support pedophiles.
You call immigrants "criminals," then bring murder and mayhem to our cities.
You call modern art "ugly," then you spam AI slop.
You complain about "elites" then vote for billionaire landlords.
Then you wonder who radicalized us.
YOU DID.
You call immigrants "criminals," then bring murder and mayhem to our cities.
You call modern art "ugly," then you spam AI slop.
You complain about "elites" then vote for billionaire landlords.
Then you wonder who radicalized us.
YOU DID.
Beef tallow bukake does have a certain je ne sais quoi to it
I want to hear about RFK jr.’s sexual acts even less than I wanted to hear about Bill Clinton’s in the 1990’s. 🤢
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Beef tallow bukake does have a certain je ne sais quoi to it
Finally stumbling back into social media after a much needed break!
To start on a happy note, little boy and his guardian kitty were both absolutely captivated by this toy train video this morning ❤️
#caturday
To start on a happy note, little boy and his guardian kitty were both absolutely captivated by this toy train video this morning ❤️
#caturday
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Finally stumbling back into social media after a much needed break!
To start on a happy note, little boy and his guardian kitty were both absolutely captivated by this toy train video this morning ❤️
#caturday
To start on a happy note, little boy and his guardian kitty were both absolutely captivated by this toy train video this morning ❤️
#caturday
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Literary Hub's news article on Joyce Carol Oates has a very important headline photo.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Literary Hub's news article on Joyce Carol Oates has a very important headline photo.
The plural of Sasquatch should really be Sasqueech
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The plural of Sasquatch should really be Sasqueech
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Are you telling me that allowing officers of the law to hide their faces and act unchecked has emboldened criminals to fake being them to similarly enjoy the same perks? This is my shocked face. I am authentically shocked. If only someone, somewhere, could have predicted this. Who could have known?
FBI warns of criminals posing as ICE in robberies and kidnappings
Since early 2025, at least five incidents have involved suspects falsely claiming to be immigration officers, the FBI said.
www.newsweek.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Are you telling me that allowing officers of the law to hide their faces and act unchecked has emboldened criminals to fake being them to similarly enjoy the same perks? This is my shocked face. I am authentically shocked. If only someone, somewhere, could have predicted this. Who could have known?
Parenting a newborn apparently means waiting until 4 PM to realize you’ve been wearing your shirt inside out all day
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Parenting a newborn apparently means waiting until 4 PM to realize you’ve been wearing your shirt inside out all day
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What if there was a game show called Survival of the Godliest, except there’s no real way to measure godliness so they just choose whoever is the cleanest, since that’s the next best thing
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
What if there was a game show called Survival of the Godliest, except there’s no real way to measure godliness so they just choose whoever is the cleanest, since that’s the next best thing
I have it on good authority that Lee Harvey Oswald’s backup plan involved hurling a hoagie.
#hoagiesisweapons
#hoagiesisweapons
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I have it on good authority that Lee Harvey Oswald’s backup plan involved hurling a hoagie.
#hoagiesisweapons
#hoagiesisweapons