Mark Royse
@markroyse.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 stage-trained audiobook narrator & voice actor with 30+ years professional creative experience 🎙️
This provocative article by Desiree B. Stephens was written about policing and state-sanctioned violence in July 2024. A little over a year later, amidst ice raids and military forces occupying American cities, it's even more chilling...
open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
"We Are the Nazis: A Hard Look at State-Sanctioned Violence in America"
Exploring Parallels in Policing
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This provocative article by Desiree B. Stephens was written about policing and state-sanctioned violence in July 2024. A little over a year later, amidst ice raids and military forces occupying American cities, it's even more chilling...
open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
Predicted Raptures: 500, 1260, 1368, 1370, 1492, 1504, 2/20/1524, 1525, 1526, 10/19/1553, 1673, 1694, 1700, 1757, 1770, 1770, 1793-95, 12/25/1814, 9/15/1829, 1836, 10/22/1847, 8/7/1847, 1861, 1874, 1890, 1891, 1901, 1914 (this one actually happened according to Jehovah's Witnesses),
September 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Predicted Raptures: 500, 1260, 1368, 1370, 1492, 1504, 2/20/1524, 1525, 1526, 10/19/1553, 1673, 1694, 1700, 1757, 1770, 1770, 1793-95, 12/25/1814, 9/15/1829, 1836, 10/22/1847, 8/7/1847, 1861, 1874, 1890, 1891, 1901, 1914 (this one actually happened according to Jehovah's Witnesses),
You want it darker? Happy Equinox.
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You want it darker? Happy Equinox.
I can only assume Steven Cheung is following Goebbels' propaganda strategy to turn Charlie Kirk into this regime's Horst Wessel. Expect the "memorial' this weekend in Arizona to be a gaudy display of Christo-fascist political opportunism.
September 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I can only assume Steven Cheung is following Goebbels' propaganda strategy to turn Charlie Kirk into this regime's Horst Wessel. Expect the "memorial' this weekend in Arizona to be a gaudy display of Christo-fascist political opportunism.
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Pray for America
September 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Pray for America
"Think of kitsch as an anxiety management technology: it rejects ambiguity, nuance, and difference— precisely the qualities in life that create emotional friction and require the ability to manage discomfort. Instead, it offers emotional clarity: stock images, stock emotions, stock answers."
Lost In the Kingdom of Kitsch
Kitsch, addiction, and the emotional architecture of MAGA
cybelecanterel.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Think of kitsch as an anxiety management technology: it rejects ambiguity, nuance, and difference— precisely the qualities in life that create emotional friction and require the ability to manage discomfort. Instead, it offers emotional clarity: stock images, stock emotions, stock answers."
Thanks to Spotify for including me in this ambitious, uber-queer project. It's an epistolary archive from nascent days of the internet. "Scratch" & "Winc" use the untamed frontier of cyber-space to eschew any fixed identity of gender or sexuality. Timely. Transgressive. Wild. tinyurl.com/ytc77a2a
September 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thanks to Spotify for including me in this ambitious, uber-queer project. It's an epistolary archive from nascent days of the internet. "Scratch" & "Winc" use the untamed frontier of cyber-space to eschew any fixed identity of gender or sexuality. Timely. Transgressive. Wild. tinyurl.com/ytc77a2a
Lordy! This marvel from @meakoopa.bsky.social... A riot of language. An orgy of ideas. Sacred. Profane. Wretched. Sublime. It healed Southern Baptist scars I didn't know I still had. The audiobook is transcendent--a Hallelujah Chorus of spoken word. OMG (literally). tinyurl.com/y4m26ths
September 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Lordy! This marvel from @meakoopa.bsky.social... A riot of language. An orgy of ideas. Sacred. Profane. Wretched. Sublime. It healed Southern Baptist scars I didn't know I still had. The audiobook is transcendent--a Hallelujah Chorus of spoken word. OMG (literally). tinyurl.com/y4m26ths
@rinakent.bsky.social delivers another violent, transgressive MM romance with lots and lots of pulse and spice. Mafia scion hot for teacher. Veteran romance narrators Stephen Dexter & Grayson Owens lead a full cast, but its their chemistry that grounds this lubricious romp. tinyurl.com/55b4h29r
September 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
@rinakent.bsky.social delivers another violent, transgressive MM romance with lots and lots of pulse and spice. Mafia scion hot for teacher. Veteran romance narrators Stephen Dexter & Grayson Owens lead a full cast, but its their chemistry that grounds this lubricious romp. tinyurl.com/55b4h29r
@rorymichaelson.com charmed my curmudgeonly heart with this series. Contemporary dark fantasy. A world full of monsters and magic and teleporting ducks. A coterie of queer characters who bond amidst one world-ending catastrophe after another. Inventive. Soulful. Magical. tinyurl.com/4yavf49w
September 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@rorymichaelson.com charmed my curmudgeonly heart with this series. Contemporary dark fantasy. A world full of monsters and magic and teleporting ducks. A coterie of queer characters who bond amidst one world-ending catastrophe after another. Inventive. Soulful. Magical. tinyurl.com/4yavf49w
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Rocks and Sea - 1616-1619
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103190
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103190
August 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Rocks and Sea - 1616-1619
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103190
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103190
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Satan in Red - 1900
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105353
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105353
September 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Satan in Red - 1900
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105353
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105353
Sad that the most spirited outcry and resistance I've seen to everything going on in our country is over the Cracker Barrel logo. ICE goons? Military occupation of US cities? Whole scale corruption and looting of the government? Crickets. An uglier version of an already ugly logo? Firestorm!
August 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Sad that the most spirited outcry and resistance I've seen to everything going on in our country is over the Cracker Barrel logo. ICE goons? Military occupation of US cities? Whole scale corruption and looting of the government? Crickets. An uglier version of an already ugly logo? Firestorm!
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Self-Portrait in Hell 1903 #artbots #munch
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25370
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25370
August 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Self-Portrait in Hell 1903 #artbots #munch
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25370
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25370
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French Six-day Rider - 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104288
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104288
August 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
French Six-day Rider - 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104288
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104288
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The Sleeping Smoker
August 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Sleeping Smoker
This twisted tale from @caitlinstarling.com grabbed me by the short hairs. What a work! A claustrophobic fever dream of hunger, desire, and despair. Inventive, imaginative, yet seemingly inevitable. A virtuosic feat of horror. Wow.
August 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This twisted tale from @caitlinstarling.com grabbed me by the short hairs. What a work! A claustrophobic fever dream of hunger, desire, and despair. Inventive, imaginative, yet seemingly inevitable. A virtuosic feat of horror. Wow.
I'm such a fan of @leethomas1.bsky.social. He has a genius for blending atmospheric, suspenseful noir with creepy, supernatural dread. Masterful storytelling from a Lambda and Bram Stoker award-winning author.
August 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I'm such a fan of @leethomas1.bsky.social. He has a genius for blending atmospheric, suspenseful noir with creepy, supernatural dread. Masterful storytelling from a Lambda and Bram Stoker award-winning author.
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unknown title https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227959
August 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
unknown title https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227959
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Quatre arbres, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/824058
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/824058
August 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Quatre arbres, 1917
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/824058
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/824058
A multiple Audie Award-winning Audible exclusive from 2013, this unabridged production of Stoker's famous novel is narrated by a full cast including Tim Curry, Alan Cumming, and Simon Vance. The book's epistolary structure makes for great audio storytelling. sbee.link/gway3d7jmf
August 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A multiple Audie Award-winning Audible exclusive from 2013, this unabridged production of Stoker's famous novel is narrated by a full cast including Tim Curry, Alan Cumming, and Simon Vance. The book's epistolary structure makes for great audio storytelling. sbee.link/gway3d7jmf
Michael Rowe has done a difficult thing well. He’s crafted a quintessential gothic haunted house ghost story–with all the elements you’d expect–but he transcends trope and delivers genuine campfire creep. Impressive. sbee.link/vp8bkud3a7 #bookreview #bookstagram #kindle
August 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Michael Rowe has done a difficult thing well. He’s crafted a quintessential gothic haunted house ghost story–with all the elements you’d expect–but he transcends trope and delivers genuine campfire creep. Impressive. sbee.link/vp8bkud3a7 #bookreview #bookstagram #kindle
As a huge fan of Gillian Anderson, I was intrigued by this series. She's the narrator of all three books as well as the author (with Tom Clancy ghostwriter Jeff Rovin). This sprawling, paranormal thriller rattles at the seams, but holds together in the end. sbee.link/9fwvgbmq8x
August 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As a huge fan of Gillian Anderson, I was intrigued by this series. She's the narrator of all three books as well as the author (with Tom Clancy ghostwriter Jeff Rovin). This sprawling, paranormal thriller rattles at the seams, but holds together in the end. sbee.link/9fwvgbmq8x
@masonthomas.bsky.social creates engaging, entertaining indie gay fantasy with just the right blend of adventure, romance, and spice. Here he does his take on a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. sbee.link/bfqxyejcmg
August 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
@masonthomas.bsky.social creates engaging, entertaining indie gay fantasy with just the right blend of adventure, romance, and spice. Here he does his take on a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. sbee.link/bfqxyejcmg
George Saunders' mesmerizing tale is taken up by a star-studded cast of narrators including Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Susan Sarandon, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Don Cheadle and many, many more. Winner of the 2018 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. sbee.link/nqbw3f4t9v
August 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
George Saunders' mesmerizing tale is taken up by a star-studded cast of narrators including Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Susan Sarandon, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Don Cheadle and many, many more. Winner of the 2018 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. sbee.link/nqbw3f4t9v