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š»Michael J. Riserš¤@michaeljriser.bsky.social |
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Editor, horror/dark fiction author of religious trauma. Former editorial Screen Rant, Goomba Stomp, managing editor AOG. ęć話ć®ä½č
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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I need friends. I'm gonna go see Longlegs Friday and I have no one to enjoy it with since my wife will be out of town (and would only come if I tied her up and dragged her anyway). Where my people at? Who's goin?
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Fingers crossed! Osgood ain't let me down yet.
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I'm so pumped. My wife leaves for a conference so I'm going to go to the theater myself for the first time in a billion years.
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Is it just me or is it kind of like ... as soon as you call yourself something (outside of occupation), you basically just advertise that you are not, in fact, that thing?
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The Grim Reaper
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Find something to die for. Because until dying is required, that thing is actually something to live for.
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Not to continue to post terrible things about terrible happenings, but I had a hard time finding anything on this that wasn't locked behind a paywall. So here you go. It's all brutal, but some of the quotes ... Jesus.
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Very few, I would think. Most editors want brevity above all, and it's not as though a synopsis is going to take an average or bad stroke and make it a good one. A lot of the places I submit to actually tell you not to bother including that sort of thing.
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Pro tip: call the Project 2025 1-800 number and complain about it to them. The people answering the phones donāt seem to know what the plan even is.
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Oof, that's rough. I hope you get to watch a great many movies and/or comfort TV.
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Feel better soon!
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Yep. Unless you gut it to the point it's basically unrecognizable.
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Probably anyone. I'm just a whatever Texas girl. But if you're gonna give me a choice: Rosa Salazar ala Lisa Nova, mostly because then maybe I could meet her and persuade her to have an inappropriate professional relationship while shadowing me for the role.
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Shit, not getting eaten by a giant butthole, I'll tell you that much for free. Getting laid in church was pretty good. Thinking about it, not a whole lot of "good" anything happens in this book. Maybe go read something happier, like a history of religious colonialism. š
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Hi. I'm Jenna. Not a "main" anything, as there's 5 viewpoint characters, but this dude's wife likes me better than the men, and the other girl is shy, so ... go me, I guess. Don't imagine it's any shock that my favorite character is Lin, the other woman. Fuck the patriarchy.
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Michael J. Riser writes dark stuff about god, death, religion, and family trauma. Definitely not things he has any firsthand experience with.
Jenna is a girl from Colleyville, TX, living in Fort Worth when it's destroyed by [REDACTED]. She doesn't like mold. Or doors.
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š»Michael J. Riserš¤
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Crossed 120,000 words on the manuscript. There's a whole lotta stuff to get edited down, including some old words that will be excised entirely or that exist in a weird limbo between two different branches of the plot, but it's only a few months away from a true, *complete* draft. Hope! And terror!
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They sure can be an experience. Hope you're recovering quickly, my friend.
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Thomas Ha
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I know Danny from the spec fic world, but I also follow his articles about the ways that far right orgs use money to slither their way into local institutions. Most of us know it's happening abstractly, but he really breaks it down through the lens of what's happening in Louisiana. Worth reading.
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Maybe a šš. It's the best of the Saw films that I've seen (which is, admittedly, only the first few), and had an interesting premise. Some of the acting didn't quite hold up, though.
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BombayK
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āI have been a totally good boy at my foster home and bathroom and leash trained. I know cues like right, left, stairs/step and outside, and I even ring a bell for bathroom!ā Please. Brownie has congenital blindness and is a perfect boyš„¹