Leland Merritt
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Leland Merritt
@lelandmerritt.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying the intersection between horror and the Hebrew Bible. My wife says all I talk about is horror and football. My posts prove this. (He/him)
I try to maintain a healthy work/silent hill balance. My secret is cutting out on sleep.
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thank you! Knew I wasn’t crazy. Yea, I wasn’t able to preorder it yet so I had to settle for preordering John Langan’s new collection. That’ll have to tie me over till October.
July 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”

You seriously can’t make this stuff up.
July 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=aRq1...

I can’t stop laughing because it’s literally a shot for shot me playing re4 with the bear traps.
The Simpsons - Sideshow Bob Stepping On Rakes Compilation
YouTube video by Cartoon Vids
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May 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Isn’t it nice that he kinda felt bad about owning people? WHAT?!?!

All that to say, I hate the “man of his time” excuse. Our great American “heroes” knew better and they either didn’t do enough to stop slavery/Indian deportation, or worse, happily perpetuated it.
May 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Buckley doesn’t let Clark off the hook because he felt bad about these things. Clark wasn’t a man of his time. That’s a myth. He knew better and yet he didn’t do enough.

I write this review as someone who grew up obsessed with the l&c expedition and always read how nice Clark supposedly was.
May 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM