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@davevriser.bsky.social
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he/him. graduate student, writer, and transsexual horror.
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ghoul thing @davevriser.bsky.social · Mar 18
so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
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“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror
There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…
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sarahgailey.bsky.social
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines." Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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rapidpunches.itch.io
Another bump for the homies 🙏😅
rapidpunches.itch.io RAPIDPUNCHES @rapidpunches.itch.io · 14d
Help if you can, boost if you can't (but no pressure)! They're my friends who have been struggling to stay housed. I need not explain in detail how difficult it is to be trans or to maintain stability in times like ours 😔 www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
Donate to Help Keep a Trans Family Mobile and Safe, organized by Uilleam Macgregor
We're two working trans artists, Uil and Moss, seeking financial … Uilleam Macgregor needs your support for Donate to Help Keep a Trans Family Mobile and Safe
www.gofundme.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
davevriser.bsky.social
Psst you dont have to be a conventional scholar to participate--the Queer Horror Conference also accepts presentations from artists and other creative practitioners, as well as grads, undergrads, independent scholars, and established faculty.
White text on a purple backgrounds reads: “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 We take our inspiration for this year’s theme from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—a foundational text for the horror and science fiction genres, a feminist exploration of patriarchal hubris and violence, and a critical commentary on our technocratic present. We also seek to engage with the broader questions inherent within Shelley’s text, from the profound to the playful: What makes a monster? White text on a purple background reads: What are the risks (and rewards) in claiming monstrosity? What does it mean to be an unholy creation–and what does it mean to be someone who creates something "unholy"? Where are the limits of technological progress, and what are the consequences for those who overstep? How does horror continue to engage with and inspire works of self-creation and transformation? Where are the linkages between horror, DIY practices, crafting communities, and other forms of reinvention?
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Give us our roses while we're still alive.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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eveharms.com
If they took these off the list, what’s left? These are the main ones
mirandayaver.bsky.social Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 5d
This is fucking horrifying.

Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
davevriser.bsky.social
It's that time... consider submitting to the Queer Horror Conference 2026 ! The call for papers is up now--it was so fun and generative last year, I would love to see all of you here this year! The conference is completely virtual, Feb 5-8th 2026 ♡
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...
Call For Papers — HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026
www.queerhorrorconference.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Art by @mxmorgan.com

All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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badgayspod.bsky.social
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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hironennes.bsky.social
THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!

"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman

"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear

"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber

Get your copy from your local bookstore!
The WORKS OF VERMIN by hiron ennes surrounded by leaves and plants and shit
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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eliaseells.bsky.social
LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...
LEECH by Hiron Ennes on a limestone hearth beside a stemmed glass with a pale drink topped with a dark float.
October 25, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
davevriser.bsky.social
beast that lives in my home and hunts me daily.
jeep compass, a 10 week old calico kitten, emerges from a cardboard box. her huge yellow eyes are looking at you. jeep compass has decided to bite and attack the cardboard box. she is nibbling carefully at one of the flaps with her ears tilted back.
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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pompoison.bsky.social
just wanted to yell about my Trans-Gothic necromancer gay fuck book again
find out when this campaign goes live: zoop.gg/c/little-dea...
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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saratantlinger.bsky.social
These things feel so awkward to post, but I genuinely like seeing other people sharing their work from this year, so I'll hop aboard the train of awards eligibility posts.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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sasharavitch.bsky.social
such a big honor to have this piece, one of the various tendrils of my respective tributes to nick cave, whether creative or academic, in the absolutely unfuckwithable @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.bsky.social hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 21d
"Brother Jack, the Father, speaks from a pulpit as crooked as the Tower of Babel."

This week on hex, a devilish delight by @sasharavitch.bsky.social! Hellfire licking, evil evangelist, incredible imagery--Saint Joe and His Devils has got it all! Don't miss a little debauchery this morning! 😈
Saint Joe and His Devils by Sasha Ravitch
Brother Jack, the Father, speaks from a pulpit as crooked as the Tower of Babel. “And the Parable of Saint Joe and his Devils goes like this: once she lived as a murder of crows or more like a row ...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
A woman decides to have a hot vampire summer and make it everyone's problem.

ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning

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Libro FM screenshot, showing All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper on sale for like 80 percent off, art by Julia Lloyd, narrated by a full cast
October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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gwendolynkiste.bsky.social
Cover reveal! 🖤🏚️🖤

So many thanks to Nightworms and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for unveiling the cover for my second collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, out on 4/14/26 from @rdspress.bsky.social!

Artwork by the fantastic Scott Cole!

Pre-order links: books2read.com/hauntedhouses
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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oddoblivion.bsky.social
Together.
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
davevriser.bsky.social
thought i would just read one chapter of black flame (2025) before bed. found myself gripped by unease and frantic at 2am. absolutely fantastic, gripping novel, run do not walk etc
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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davevriser.bsky.social
#whatsleepsbeneath
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complicated feelings about Psycho, trans grief, and psychosis
Private Traps: Transphobia, Psychosis, and Grief in Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho continues to be tumultuous ground for trans authors and viewers. In Private Traps, Dave Riser posits questions around the transphobic and ableist histories that force us to c...
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March 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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leemandelo.bsky.social
Short fiction recommendation of the day: “Each-Uisge” by @davevriser.bsky.social in The Off Season ✨
June 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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davevriser.bsky.social
so honored+excited to be included! here's a little bit about why i love horror + what Jack Ketchum's Girl Next Door did for me
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM