Briar Ripley Page

Briar Ripley Page

@flameswallower.bsky.social

It's Briar! Hi! I'm an American werewolf and writer living in London. Website: briarripleypage.xyz Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io

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June Martin
@theworldsgreatestwriter.com

my new roommate, flavio bolsonaro, has apparently been going through a difficult time lately and didn't notice that I'm charging him 75% of total rent to sublet a room

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏
@wyrm.ing

i rarely publish anything before hearing from beta readers, but i made an exception for the story i have in this anthology because i simply felt too guilty to show it to my friends. it’s so punishingly grim that i imagined them feeling sad for days after and was like “i'm just gonna submit it” 😋

Cursed Morsels@cursedmorsels.bsky.social

Folks, in light of resurgent cozy horror discourse, I can promise you that our 2027 release, Cursed Morsels: A Food Systems Horror Anthology, is by far the bleakest thing we've published. I mean, it's doing other things too, but goddamn, is it bleak!

Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social

i will be honest, the way many posters on here react to stories of random isolated, cognitively impaired people turning to llms for medical or psychiatric advice & dying as a result is 1.) disgusting, if you ask me; 2.) terrible praxis (if you even care)

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@flameswallower.bsky.social

Like I guess if your worldview is “yup most social problems can and should be solved by individual action + the rest of society agreeing to be vicious to anyone who suffers or dies because of the social problem” we just have to agree to disagree. If you do NOT think that way about, say, opioid ODs

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@flameswallower.bsky.social

or people getting lung cancer because they smoked from 1959 to 1974 or whatever…then I would ask you to really interrogate yourself as to why and how you believe this is a wholly different kind of situation.

Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social

i will be honest, the way many posters on here react to stories of random isolated, cognitively impaired people turning to llms for medical or psychiatric advice & dying as a result is 1.) disgusting, if you ask me; 2.) terrible praxis (if you even care)

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@flameswallower.bsky.social

Like I’m sorry, but if you have a dipshit “Darwin Awards” type reaction to these situations, I don’t ever want you to know me or my loved ones or my life, not bc there’s a lot of LLM use happening, but bc I doubt you’ll react any more compassionately to hearing stories about people ODing

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@flameswallower.bsky.social

or stories about people doing foolish or bizarre things because they were mentally ill. or stories about people making shitty choices out of just being very naive and trusting/credulous, assuming a safety net must exist where one didn’t, etc.

Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social

i will be honest, the way many posters on here react to stories of random isolated, cognitively impaired people turning to llms for medical or psychiatric advice & dying as a result is 1.) disgusting, if you ask me; 2.) terrible praxis (if you even care)

Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social

like you guys understand that the problem with this technology is it’s harmful, it’s dangerous, it’s inadequately regulated, & it’s being shoved down everyone’s throats, right. you understand it’s a systemic problem, not a problem of “nobody has self control/common sense anymore.”

Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social

I think what strikes me most about the segments is just that they all seem kinda undercooked? I can imagine any of these being a good v/h/s segment if there’d been more work on the script/plot outline.

Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social

i remember this magazine cover! i was sixteen, and in the nebulous zone of "not out per se, not not out per se, nearly everyone who looks at me understands there to be SOMETHING going on, even if it's hard to say what"

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social

In 2005, Time Magazine did a cover story on “The Battle Over Gay Teens.” It’s the same handwringing we see now from “concerned” adults on behalf of young people. “Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity–and they are doing so much younger.” time.com/archive/6596...

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press
@greeniezona.bsky.social

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50. The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A. THIS BOOK IS LIKE A FEVER DREAM. Ex-nun trans man meets thief & shenanigans ensue. THE COLORS ARE SO RICH AND THE SENSE OF HUMOR SO PERFECTLY TWISTED. I LOVE JULES AND CASPER SO MUCH THEY MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS.

store.silversprocket.netThe Chromatic Fantasy by H.A.A queer & trans fantasy-romance graphic novel! Steamy, funny, and full of adventure. Jules is a trans man trapped in his life as a nun. The devil that the convent guards against offers him a deal ...

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press
@greeniezona.bsky.social

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58. Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe There is a lot of SUPER WEIRD SHIT happening in these stories, generally queer, often happening in some margin of a capitalist hellscape. Including THE ALL CAPS RANTING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE OF MY DREAMS.

bookshop.orgEveryone on the Moon is Essential PersonnelIn this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fab...

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press
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67. LOTE by Shola von Reinhold I CANNOT BE COHERENT IN MY LOVE FOR THIS BOOK. Art & art speak & what art is for & the value of beauty and how we interact with it & also art theory & self-invention & SO MUCH racism. And gatekeeping. SO MUCH GATEKEEPING. I NEED THOUSANDS OF WORDS FOR THIS.

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73. An Unkindness of Ghosts by @riverssolomon.bsky.social Speaking of authors who need multiple mentions on this list... Similar themes to Sorrowland mentioned above, but swap out the religious community for a generation ship. Aster is a MAGNIFICENT protagonist. One of my favorite books forever.

akashicbooks.comAn Unkindness of GhostsA breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler. *While supplies last, books ordered through the website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Rivers Solomon!

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
@animalarchaeology.com

since when did settlement get granted automatically because I’m pretty sure I had to pay £4k and also fill out a pretty long application and provide about a dozen pieces of paper evidence and also live here for a fucking decade and pay visa fees and health surcharges the whole fucking time

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Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social

art with trans flag colors colorpicked from a photo I took of the sky at 7 PM interesting exercise, even if I still prefer more saturated, bright, or vivid colors!

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Horror Vanguard
@horrorvanguard.bsky.social

Delighted that @scumbelievable.bsky.social manifested into the HV crypt to talk about politics, transgression in art, body horror and her incredible novel "Black Flame." soundcloud.com/user-3179105...

soundcloud.comAn Interview with Gretchen Felker-MartinEerie waves emanate from the Horror Vanguard radio tower as author Gretchen Felker-Martin joins us to discuss all things horror and the body. Support Gretchen on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scu