Peter Counter, Nightmare Host
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Spooky ace essay boy. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). https://peterbcounter.com/
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Hi new followers!
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
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Shareholders.
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Shareholders.
Not bothered at all by the actors' ages in this season of Stranger Things, but I do question the decision to make every episode feature length.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Not bothered at all by the actors' ages in this season of Stranger Things, but I do question the decision to make every episode feature length.
I am exactly the person who gets giddy when hearing the phrase "Jack White and Eminem played together at the Tigers game."
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I am exactly the person who gets giddy when hearing the phrase "Jack White and Eminem played together at the Tigers game."
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Anyway, thanks to everyone who participated in the conversation in good faith, even if you got mad at me.
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Anyway, thanks to everyone who participated in the conversation in good faith, even if you got mad at me.
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Only two things annoy me about this situation:
1. I don't have a lot of time to write my books, which is my favourite thing to do.
2. There is a widespread public perception that authors with day jobs are illegitimate.
That second annoyance is what compelled me to post in the first place.
1. I don't have a lot of time to write my books, which is my favourite thing to do.
2. There is a widespread public perception that authors with day jobs are illegitimate.
That second annoyance is what compelled me to post in the first place.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Only two things annoy me about this situation:
1. I don't have a lot of time to write my books, which is my favourite thing to do.
2. There is a widespread public perception that authors with day jobs are illegitimate.
That second annoyance is what compelled me to post in the first place.
1. I don't have a lot of time to write my books, which is my favourite thing to do.
2. There is a widespread public perception that authors with day jobs are illegitimate.
That second annoyance is what compelled me to post in the first place.
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I personally believe in being my own patron. By working a full time job that supports my practice, I can be in full control of my creative output. I don't actually care that my books only pay for a few months worth of groceries every year between their royalties and PLR.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I personally believe in being my own patron. By working a full time job that supports my practice, I can be in full control of my creative output. I don't actually care that my books only pay for a few months worth of groceries every year between their royalties and PLR.
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I occasionally supplement my income with freelance writing and event moderation (if you want me to write an essay or review, or to moderate your event, DM me!) and write my books in the mornings and on weekends.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I occasionally supplement my income with freelance writing and event moderation (if you want me to write an essay or review, or to moderate your event, DM me!) and write my books in the mornings and on weekends.
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I locked the post down because I was overwhelmed, but I just realized I wasn't as transparent as many of the folks who shared their situations. This is mine:
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I locked the post down because I was overwhelmed, but I just realized I wasn't as transparent as many of the folks who shared their situations. This is mine:
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
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getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
I look forward to telling unborn generations how much of a loser Mark Carney was.
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I look forward to telling unborn generations how much of a loser Mark Carney was.
The gleeful moral backsliding of the political and private executive class is such deeply loser behaviour.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The gleeful moral backsliding of the political and private executive class is such deeply loser behaviour.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
If I seem more volatile than usual on here it's because Christmas vibes trigger my PTSD. I'm alright, I'm just Scroogemaxxing.
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If I seem more volatile than usual on here it's because Christmas vibes trigger my PTSD. I'm alright, I'm just Scroogemaxxing.
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I created this important vibes-based response to this Dark Web episode with the productivity tools called adobe photoshop and wasted time
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I created this important vibes-based response to this Dark Web episode with the productivity tools called adobe photoshop and wasted time
I feel like this might be an unpopular opinion among people who care about this sort of thing, but I think Un-Reborn Again is the most quintessential Queens of the Stone Age song.
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I feel like this might be an unpopular opinion among people who care about this sort of thing, but I think Un-Reborn Again is the most quintessential Queens of the Stone Age song.
Buy Niko's amazing book! And have it sent to you for free! And stick it to Bezos on a long weekend!
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
Check out The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman - <p><b>A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.</b></p><p> When Wilco's 2007 album <i>Sky Blue Sky</i> was infamously critic...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Buy Niko's amazing book! And have it sent to you for free! And stick it to Bezos on a long weekend!
I locked the post down because I was overwhelmed, but I just realized I wasn't as transparent as many of the folks who shared their situations. This is mine:
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I locked the post down because I was overwhelmed, but I just realized I wasn't as transparent as many of the folks who shared their situations. This is mine:
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
From 2013-2024 I was the editor in chief of a technology trade magazine. Now I have a really great full time marketing job.
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Hi new followers!
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hi new followers!
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Kingston, Ontario. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. My essay collections contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
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This, by @nolore.bsky.social, is most excellent. noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
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November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This, by @nolore.bsky.social, is most excellent. noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
As the algorithmic thinkers who privilege linear growth, order, and wealth above all continue to ravage our world at the brink of catastrophe, I am reminded of the preface to Colin Wilson's The Occult, in which the author likens obsession with measurable gains to a type of infectious brain damage.
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As the algorithmic thinkers who privilege linear growth, order, and wealth above all continue to ravage our world at the brink of catastrophe, I am reminded of the preface to Colin Wilson's The Occult, in which the author likens obsession with measurable gains to a type of infectious brain damage.
I grew up with That 70s Show, which told me that 28 year olds could play teenagers and gave my cohort weird body ideas. I think the Stranger Things kids have another decade in them, to be honest.
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I grew up with That 70s Show, which told me that 28 year olds could play teenagers and gave my cohort weird body ideas. I think the Stranger Things kids have another decade in them, to be honest.
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If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
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November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Building more pipelines, eh?
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Building more pipelines, eh?
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen