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Horror Movie: A Novel by Paul Tremblay (whose The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into M. Night Shyamalan's Knock at the Cabin), will be published on June 25, 2024 via William Morrow.
The 288-page novel about a cursed horror film will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. The synopsis is below.
In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions—demons of the past be damned. But at what cost? Horror Movie is an obsessive, psychologically chilling, and suspenseful twist on the “cursed film” that breathlessly builds to an unforgettable, mind-bending conclusion.
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I Was a Teenage Slasher by New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones (My Heart Is a Chainsaw, The Only Good Indians) will be published on July 16, 2024 via Simon & Schuster.
A slasher story told from the killer's perspective, the 384-page horror novel will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. Jon Bush designed the jacket cover. Read on for the synopsis.
1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
Pre-order I Was a Teenage by Stephen Graham Jones.
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why are science books so expensive and why does my library not have more of them
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While entomology is trending: a legit list of bug projects worth donating to/participating in.
Did not have "frozen bug man asking to borrow an outlet is a potentially fraudulent misogynist" on my entomology bingo card for this year, so trying to do something good with the fact that entomology is currently trending, here's a list of what SHOULD BE (I am no longer confident) good bug projects to donate to/participate in if you feel so inclined! Please also add good bug projects if you know any! Click the names of the institutions to find ways to donate.
The Frost Entomology Museum - Part of Penn State University, which has started up its public insect fair again this year! The museum has a "Hexapod Haiku Challenge," and I'm screaming.
The Lost Ladybug Project - Fair warning that the main webpage for it looks mildly sketch, but I can find it in multiple places that it's a real project of Cornell. It has a citizen science component where you can photograph specimens for them (no killing bugs)!
The Smithsonian Natural History Museum Department of Entomology
The Big Bug Hunt - An international project that appears to have the backing of multiple universities. It's a citizen science project to track the movements of bugs that are both detrimental and beneficial to crops. I am honestly not sure how this will affect the bugs though because the point is to protect home gardeners' crops from them.
University of California Riverside Department of Entomology
Cornell University Department of Entomology Giving Page - There's a tab at the right with three different projects of theirs: The Cornell University Insect Collection Fund, the Lost Ladybug Project Fund, and the Pollinator Health Research Fund
Michigan State University Department of Entomology - They have A BUNCH of named entomology funds you can donate to, or you can give them money that they can use flexibly.
Entomological Society of America
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A bookstore stop before heading to Museo del Prado.
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In an effort both to expand my understanding of Palestine and create a resource that might be helpful to others, I made a bare-bones reading list/syllabus on Palestine. It is meant to be a collaborative work-in-progress that is necessarily unfinished and open for anyone to add, refine, etc.
It's a collection of resources on the history of Palestine; Israel’s ongoing occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza; and the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, including international responses and Israel’s subsequent military siege of Gaza.
This syllabus is meant to be a wide-ranging examination of the intertwined histories of Zionism, imperialism, anti-semitism, racism, and decolonization as well as international politics post-1945, including the creation of the United Nations and development of rights-based frameworks, and US politics post-9/11.
The goal is to put together an accessible guide of academic, literary, and journalistic resources to understand the political and historical context of Hamas’ October 7 attack and Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory. The spirit and format of this project are largely inspired by #BrexitSyllabus.
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100 queer books: horror edition 🔪🩸
disclaimer: i have not read majority of these so cannot guarantee good rep! please feel free to add any i didn’t include
with fall right around the corner, i’m in the horror mood! queer horror (or horror in general) is a genre i never thought i’d be interested in! i have always avoided horror movies because i am a massive scaredy cat and have very vivid nightmares but for some reason i am really loving horror in book format! i will admit, i haven’t read anything TOO scary yet though haha i will be adding a lot of the books mentioned in this list to my tbr and hoping to read a lot of horror this fall 🍂💀🕷️
**i have been made aware that “tell me i’m worthless” is problematic and i am no longer recommending it! so sorry i wasn’t aware before adding it to this list
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refseek.com
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www.worldcat.org/
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link.springer.com
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http://bioline.org.br/
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repec.org
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science.gov
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pdfdrive.com
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Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3
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A climate scientists recommendations on climate change books :D🌎📚
For Absolute beginners!
•The Intersectional Environmentalist -Leah Thomas Gives a look into how social justice issues such as racism, sexism, and classism, further the climate change problem
•The uninhabitable planet -David Walles-Wells is an introductory level to the effects of climate change such as rising sea levels, greenhouse effect, etc
•Silent Spring -Rachel Carson, the book that is credited as one of the foundations to the start of the environmental movement. Explains how early observations of birds migration patterns from Carson hinted at the change in climate back in the 60’s
You’ve been to a rally or two
•This changes everything Capitalism v The Climate -Naomi Klein A lengthy read but highlights just what systems of power are in play in a global capitalistic economy, and how those systems abuse their power in name of profit over well being
•A (very) short history of life on earth - Henry Gee Gee explains the way life has existed on earth and just what extinction events took them out. Good intro to the geologic time scale but i don’t recommend if you don’t know basic biology as Gee uses a lot of vocab words
•Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid -Thor Hanson Highlights how animals are adapting to climate change, a gentle reminder every extinction event has had climate change correlated to it. Hanson shows what species are doing as a response to a biological hazard and the early steps of potential evolution (great adaptations kenneth catania is a similar read i havent gotten to yet)
You know what intersectional environmentalism is and support land back
•Braiding Sweetgrass- Robin Wall-Kimmerer- lengthy read again as Kimmerer highlights the struggles of bringing indigenous values into a white male dominated field as biologist and a white male dominated society through a collection beautiful essays (top 3 fav books)
•Countdown - Shanna H Swan Using many scientific terms but attempted to be simplified Swan uses her research on reproductive systems both human and animal to correlate pollution to decline in reproductive health. (for queer people! this book has an uncomfy chapter on intersex in animals and i dont think queer people were consulted when it was written tbh. I myself am queer and found it an odd chapter to read but it wasnt hateful, more just confused)
•As long as grass grows - Dina Gillo-Whitaker Whitaker explains the indigenous communities/allies fight for environmental justice indigenous values. Touching on just what those values are and the long history of fights to give indigenous communities the rights to their land and also incorporate indigenous values about land into the fight against climate change
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SPILLED.
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Coin being frustrated that she didn't get her wanted prize at the claw machine, as if the plushie with the bread wouldn't successfully gaslight her entire district on day one just to rescue his pregnant wife
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- No Gods for Drowning: a dark fantasy/neo-noir novel about a woman trying to save her city by summoning a blood god via human sacrifice, the woman she loves, and the private detectives trying to stop the killings
- Benny Rose, the Cannibal King: a Halloween prank involving Blackwood, Vermont's urban legend Benny Rose backfires when teen girls in 1987 discover he's real and hungry
- Queen of Teeth: a horror romance novel in which a woman discovers she has vagina dentata, and soon is hunted by a powerful big pharma corporation as her body horror leads to tentacles, an entity inside her, and even love (winner of the Bram Stoker Award)
- The Worm and His Kings: a homeless woman in 1990 Manhattan thinks her missing girlfriend has been abducted by a subterranean monster, and her search leads to cults, gods, and a secret stretching to the dawn of time and across the stars
- Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing: a comms expert finds out they're alone on their starship when the crew goes missing and the place is crawling with mind-hacking brain aliens
- Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy: queer horror, isolation, and the monstrous feminine infect 18 stories of vengeful dogs, malicious ice cream men, witch hunts in space, ghostly ex-husbands, the end of the world, and much more
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Avis fits very well into the dark academia aesthetic of my office📚
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“For example: A writer sets out to write science fiction but isn’t familiar with the genre, hasn’t read what’s been written. This is a fairly common situation, because science fiction is known to sell well but, as a subliterary genre, is not supposed to be worth study—what’s to learn? It doesn’t occur to the novice that a genre is a genre because it has a field and focus of its own; its appropriate and particular tools, rules, and techniques for handling the material; its traditions; and its experienced, appreciative readers—that it is, in fact, a literature. Ignoring all this, our novice is just about to reinvent the wheel, the space ship, the space alien, and the mad scientist, with cries of innocent wonder. The cries will not be echoed by the readers. Readers familiar with that genre have met the space ship, the alien, and the mad scientist before. They know more about them than the writer does. In the same way, critics who set out to talk about a fantasy novel without having read any fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive theory of fantasy literature, will make fools of themselves because they don’t know how to read the book. They have no contextual information to tell them what its tradition is, where it’s coming from, what it’s trying to do, what it does. This was liberally proved when the first Harry Potter book came out and a lot of literary reviewers ran around shrieking about the incredible originality of the book. This originality was an artifact of the reviewers’ blank ignorance of its genres (children’s fantasy and the British boarding-school story), plus the fact that they hadn’t read a fantasy since they were eight. It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, ‘But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?’”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love (via queenofattolia)
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Use your library or suffer the consequences
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