Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden
@tristanzelden.bsky.social
Author of The Huntress and the Trickster and Unfold (coming Dec 15) | Former entertainment journalist looking for a new career | Tattoo enthusiast, metalhead, gamer | [email protected] | https://linktr.ee/tristanzelden (He/Him)
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I'm a former journalist seeking work (hit me up. I am interested in any comm work around entertainment/art). I am also the author of the urban fantasy novel The Huntress and the Trickster and working on some horror.
Where else I am: linktr.ee/tristanzelden
I'm a former journalist seeking work (hit me up. I am interested in any comm work around entertainment/art). I am also the author of the urban fantasy novel The Huntress and the Trickster and working on some horror.
Where else I am: linktr.ee/tristanzelden
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“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
Loving the new Stranger Things episodes. Now to wait for the rest...
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Loving the new Stranger Things episodes. Now to wait for the rest...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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It’s #FridayReads time! Books are great gifts. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a happy tale full of old gods, magic, grief, violence, ghosts, a hurricane, friendship, and things from beyond the reef...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s #FridayReads time! Books are great gifts. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a happy tale full of old gods, magic, grief, violence, ghosts, a hurricane, friendship, and things from beyond the reef...
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I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
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I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
July 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.
Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.
But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?
No.
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I am at my parents’ house and they just watch CNN all day and it’s wild to me how mainstream news just takes the administration’s word literally on everything. It’s like a very gullible baby is telling you about their day.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am at my parents’ house and they just watch CNN all day and it’s wild to me how mainstream news just takes the administration’s word literally on everything. It’s like a very gullible baby is telling you about their day.
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Oh wow! The Trypanohyncha Ocellus float from Noah Hawley's ALIEN: EARTH made a surprise appearance at the #MacysDayParade!
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Oh wow! The Trypanohyncha Ocellus float from Noah Hawley's ALIEN: EARTH made a surprise appearance at the #MacysDayParade!
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This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
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Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Aykut Aydoğdu.
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Aykut Aydoğdu.
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Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
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I've been asked before if I use Generative AI. And my answer is:
"No. Why would I want to undermine the economy, the environment, artistic expression, and human dignity, all at the same time?"
That's what all Gen AI is: a cancer that makes a very few rich people wealthier at the expense of all.
"No. Why would I want to undermine the economy, the environment, artistic expression, and human dignity, all at the same time?"
That's what all Gen AI is: a cancer that makes a very few rich people wealthier at the expense of all.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I've been asked before if I use Generative AI. And my answer is:
"No. Why would I want to undermine the economy, the environment, artistic expression, and human dignity, all at the same time?"
That's what all Gen AI is: a cancer that makes a very few rich people wealthier at the expense of all.
"No. Why would I want to undermine the economy, the environment, artistic expression, and human dignity, all at the same time?"
That's what all Gen AI is: a cancer that makes a very few rich people wealthier at the expense of all.
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Remember Friends With Death is free for now, all it will cost you is⏳ and 👻 #booksky #horrorsky
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Remember Friends With Death is free for now, all it will cost you is⏳ and 👻 #booksky #horrorsky
Fun fact: Unfold has almost more reviews on Goodreads than my debut, which released two years ago, and Unfold isn't releasing for another couple of weeks.
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Fun fact: Unfold has almost more reviews on Goodreads than my debut, which released two years ago, and Unfold isn't releasing for another couple of weeks.
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Genuinely gonna be a long way back to fix your image after a VP at your company says "Our 3D printed chicken soup is only good for poor people."
Campbell’s fired the VP recorded saying its meat ‘came from a 3D printer’
Campbell’s fired the VP recorded saying its meat ‘came from a 3D printer’
Welcome to 2025.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Genuinely gonna be a long way back to fix your image after a VP at your company says "Our 3D printed chicken soup is only good for poor people."
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NYC 🌆 Protest at Rockstar’s NY offices next Friday, Dec 5th with us! We will be there with organizers across the industry — let’s make the fight against their illegal union-busting international ✊
🗓️ Friday, December 5th
⏰ 5PM onwards
📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
🗓️ Friday, December 5th
⏰ 5PM onwards
📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NYC 🌆 Protest at Rockstar’s NY offices next Friday, Dec 5th with us! We will be there with organizers across the industry — let’s make the fight against their illegal union-busting international ✊
🗓️ Friday, December 5th
⏰ 5PM onwards
📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
🗓️ Friday, December 5th
⏰ 5PM onwards
📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
An author I am friends with and deeply admire read my upcoming book after giving her an ARC. She loved it, but what stuck with me was her saying that I am "masterful at creating fully developed, real world characters." 😭😭
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
An author I am friends with and deeply admire read my upcoming book after giving her an ARC. She loved it, but what stuck with me was her saying that I am "masterful at creating fully developed, real world characters." 😭😭
Just put a bullet in the head of this trilogy and release it now. Don't make the cast and crew wait for it to get slaughtered in reception and box office again. Just free them of this lol
THE STRANGERS are returning to screens for one last bloodbath in 2026, and a new trailer for CHAPTER 3 has just arrived.
THE STRANGERS CHAPTER 3 Exclusive Trailer And Release Date
THE STRANGERS are returning to screens for one last bloodbath in 2026, and a new trailer for CHAPTER 3 has just arrived.
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just put a bullet in the head of this trilogy and release it now. Don't make the cast and crew wait for it to get slaughtered in reception and box office again. Just free them of this lol
#HorrorWritersChat
It comes from losing one's humanity. Whether that is because of tech, possession, an alien, virus, or psychological. For me, while the other things can be factors, the psychological aspect is what's most interesting and what's far scarier.
It comes from losing one's humanity. Whether that is because of tech, possession, an alien, virus, or psychological. For me, while the other things can be factors, the psychological aspect is what's most interesting and what's far scarier.
[Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.]
[Ablative carapace. Installed. Cortex. Pried.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]
#HorrorWritersChat
[Ablative carapace. Installed. Cortex. Pried.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]
#HorrorWritersChat
![Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs.
Question 3:
[Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]
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November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
It comes from losing one's humanity. Whether that is because of tech, possession, an alien, virus, or psychological. For me, while the other things can be factors, the psychological aspect is what's most interesting and what's far scarier.
It comes from losing one's humanity. Whether that is because of tech, possession, an alien, virus, or psychological. For me, while the other things can be factors, the psychological aspect is what's most interesting and what's far scarier.
#HorrorWritersChat
I am more interested in how anything impacts society with a sample size. My characters and the horrors they go through are representative of something larger in society. There would be a political or social aspect to the greater themes of the story.
I am more interested in how anything impacts society with a sample size. My characters and the horrors they go through are representative of something larger in society. There would be a political or social aspect to the greater themes of the story.
[Grafting. In progress. Conveyor attachments. Plugged. Mining extraction. Tools. Inserted.]
[Spinal chord. Interwoven. Cranial examination. Reactivated.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: INDUSTRIAL HORROR EXPLORES DEHUMANISATION. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLORE IT YOURSELF IN THE GENRE?]
#HorrorWritersChat
[Spinal chord. Interwoven. Cranial examination. Reactivated.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: INDUSTRIAL HORROR EXPLORES DEHUMANISATION. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLORE IT YOURSELF IN THE GENRE?]
#HorrorWritersChat
![Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs.
[Grafting. In progress. Conveyor attachments. Plugged. Mining extraction. Tools. Inserted.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: INDUSTRIAL HORROR EXPLORES DEHUMANISATION. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLORE IT YOURSELF IN THE GENRE?]
No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!
#HorrorWritersChat](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usxg4rgbqfxz7cyqg72j7a4s/bafkreibfi4pxvshgmq7niudkidr6lt2344qvmp4q2m4yu6kf6mvv4ujciy@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I am more interested in how anything impacts society with a sample size. My characters and the horrors they go through are representative of something larger in society. There would be a political or social aspect to the greater themes of the story.
I am more interested in how anything impacts society with a sample size. My characters and the horrors they go through are representative of something larger in society. There would be a political or social aspect to the greater themes of the story.
#HorrorWritersChat
I am Tristan Zelden. I love writing about monsters but also how humans can be monsters too. The future is far scarier to me, especially as we are seeing the negatives of AI in real time, with environmental impact, psychosis, plagiarism, propaganda, false information, etc.
I am Tristan Zelden. I love writing about monsters but also how humans can be monsters too. The future is far scarier to me, especially as we are seeing the negatives of AI in real time, with environmental impact, psychosis, plagiarism, propaganda, false information, etc.
[Organic Material. Booted. Nerve System. Controller Liquids. Injected.]
[Material responsive. Cranial activity. Under control.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?]
#HorrorWritersChat
[Material responsive. Cranial activity. Under control.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?]
#HorrorWritersChat
![Artwork by Alexandr Konev, which is a fan rendition of Logic, the final narrative boss of Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. A rotund reactor, with a thousand blinking lights on its smooth carapace, and flanked by two, metal exhaust pipes on each side, supports an alabaster, humanoid figurine, cut into multiple geometric shapes with deep, black lines that make them look like shards of glass. Pearly white cables are draped over the figurine’s head like hair. Marble figures of exquisite detail surround the figurine. Blue butterflies dance in the foreground in rich, colourful blurs.
Question One
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[Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?]
#HorrorWritersChat](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usxg4rgbqfxz7cyqg72j7a4s/bafkreifbcdapj54j6a3xod4b7qy2tlfsirkggzctsgoqnnitw3rwy5dcde@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#HorrorWritersChat
I am Tristan Zelden. I love writing about monsters but also how humans can be monsters too. The future is far scarier to me, especially as we are seeing the negatives of AI in real time, with environmental impact, psychosis, plagiarism, propaganda, false information, etc.
I am Tristan Zelden. I love writing about monsters but also how humans can be monsters too. The future is far scarier to me, especially as we are seeing the negatives of AI in real time, with environmental impact, psychosis, plagiarism, propaganda, false information, etc.
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It's far from the biggest problem with AI-generated content, but it just makes it so easy to keep my wallet in my pocket.
Why would I spend $$ and time on your game/movie/show/book if you couldn't even be bothered to care enough to have humans create it. Obviously you don't care! So why should I?
Why would I spend $$ and time on your game/movie/show/book if you couldn't even be bothered to care enough to have humans create it. Obviously you don't care! So why should I?
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's far from the biggest problem with AI-generated content, but it just makes it so easy to keep my wallet in my pocket.
Why would I spend $$ and time on your game/movie/show/book if you couldn't even be bothered to care enough to have humans create it. Obviously you don't care! So why should I?
Why would I spend $$ and time on your game/movie/show/book if you couldn't even be bothered to care enough to have humans create it. Obviously you don't care! So why should I?
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Whoever at Instagram redesigned it so messages are at the bottom instead of where god intended, I’m going to arrest you
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Whoever at Instagram redesigned it so messages are at the bottom instead of where god intended, I’m going to arrest you
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One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.