That Spooky Bean

That Spooky Bean

@malurion.bsky.social

Probably ought to be doing something creative

80 followers116 following605 posts

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Currently doing audio edits and I have realised that I breathe, way too frelling much. Every other bloody sentence, I take a breath like a drowning man breaking the surface of the water, spluttering dreadfully and making little lip-smacking noises. No More Breathing!

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

We have two cats. One of them is angrily demanding that we go back to bed so she can curl up in the warm, and the other is insisting that the only way she's going to swear the first ideal is if we let her recharge her stormlight in the breath of the Stormfather, and she wants her damn shardplate!

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Today has been good, for being under a sky full of storms. Wrote more than a thousand words, completed the edit for an audio version of a short story (first time through, so it's getting another recording) and played 5 hours of DnD with some awesome friends. Very bloody pleasant.

That Spooky Bean reposted

Ed Fortune
@edfortune.com

The box for this game is EXACTLY 12-inches long. You know what that means, don't you? The game is a foot.

That Spooky Bean reposted

It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here!
@scriblit.bsky.social

Rush To Diagnose Children "Left Handed" Can Scar Them For Life, Worry Right Handed People Fears mount a recent influx of kids written off as "Left Handed" can lock them out of using right handed scissors Opinion: Jobson LeCruesset-Natwest - I was kicked if I used my left hand & I turned out great

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

I wish it was the blob. I was very scared of the blob, but it wasn't the first one that really fucked me up. That goes to the Salt Vampire in Star Trek: TOS. Nightmares for weeks, general paranoia about shapeshifters for decades.

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

That Spooky Bean reposted

Heather Paterson
@heatherpaterson.co.uk

EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social

New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…

That Spooky Bean reposted

Ed Fortune
@edfortune.com

My MP is @gregorpoynton.bsky.social . I would be stunned if he read this. He doesn't get it, and I don't think he's capable of doing so, sadly.

Heather Paterson@heatherpaterson.co.uk

EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Here are some horror prompts for you to play with over the spooky season and beyond. No AI or random generation was involved in the creation of these prompts. If you write one of these, feel free to chuck a link in the thread. #SpookyPrompt

View full thread
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

9. A car full of tourists find themselves witnesses to a brutal fertility rite in a town in rural [wherever]. As they seek to escape and alert the authorities, they begin to suspect they were meant to see the carnage, as they begin to find grains starting to sprout from beneath their fingernails.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Here are some horror prompts for you to play with over the spooky season and beyond. No AI or random generation was involved in the creation of these prompts. If you write one of these, feel free to chuck a link in the thread. #SpookyPrompt

View full thread
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

7. A study of a character who gains all the teeth lost by the small children in his home town over the course of a year and is desperately trying to find out why before the next one rips its way out of his skin at a vital point.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

8. Two warehouses in love slowly begin growing towards each other, ignoring the lives they crush between them. When the local authorities intervene to stop them, they resist.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Here are some horror prompts for you to play with over the spooky season and beyond. No AI or random generation was involved in the creation of these prompts. If you write one of these, feel free to chuck a link in the thread. #SpookyPrompt

View full thread
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

5. People across the globe start singing the new pop hit of the summer, a few days before it is due to be released. Your main character is the only one who knows what the apocalyptic result of the songs release will be, and even they have to admit, it's dangerously catchy.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

6. In a tomb outside [city], a character discovers an ancient vampire locked in existential crisis over their ability to view the long arc of history. Is it their responsibility to tell humanity what will happen next, based on their previous experience, or is it fundamentally pointless?

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Here are some horror prompts for you to play with over the spooky season and beyond. No AI or random generation was involved in the creation of these prompts. If you write one of these, feel free to chuck a link in the thread. #SpookyPrompt

View full thread
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

3. A small town library becomes self-aware and begins collecting, categorising and storing the people of the town. The citizens attempt to leave, only to discover that the roads out of town are waking up as well.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

4. The local care home receives an influx of new residents, all of whom used to be werewolves before the satellites blocked out the moon. A carer collects their stories of violence and rage and the loss of power they now face.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Here are some horror prompts for you to play with over the spooky season and beyond. No AI or random generation was involved in the creation of these prompts. If you write one of these, feel free to chuck a link in the thread. #SpookyPrompt

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

1. An influencer begins a project to restore a piano on youtube, and realises that their views go up when they gets injured. They slowly starts to repair the piano with their own body parts, and the internet applauds.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

2. Every household in [country X] receives a strangely painted stone egg. One day it was not there, the next it is. No one will admit to distributing them. After several days, it becomes very obvious that they are growing.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Every time I see any reporting on the various AI 'giants' financials, that section from Henry Rollins' Liar video plays in my head. The bit where he's just screaming "Ha ha ha ha ha", covered in red paint and insanity.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

That Spooky Bean reposted

Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton
@brainmage.bsky.social

Fucking "lost generation". When AI is being pushed in education to an absurd degree, and there are practically zero third spaces/things to do if you're a kid? Lost fucking generation? Sinners. Sinners, all of them.

Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃@jussienorthside.bsky.social

Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

I've been made redundant. AI didn't take my job, but it was definitely a factor in the decision. And right now, more than anything, I just want to feel that warm 'mmm yeah' you can see on baby gator here's face. I want to not be stressed. Does anyone have a very large teapot?

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social

Baby gator in a moment of bliss Original post

That Spooky Bean reposted

PJ Montgomery
@pjmontgomery.bsky.social

Good. I love this cast, they’re doing great work, and I love SNW, regardless of it’s admittedly all over the place quality right now. But we don’t need a TOS year one show. We already had it. Season one of TOS works fine in that regard.

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com

Further confirmation that the Enterprise is being retired. Akiva Goldsman: "Nobody's called, the sets are gone, everybody else has started to take other jobs. It's never been officially yes, and it's never been officially no. But I don't see it happening."

screenrant.comStar Trek EP Confirms Harsh Reality About Captain Kirk Spinoff: “I Don’t See It Happening"Star Trek: Year One is a no-go.
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

<to the tune of The Prodigy's Omen> Wow! They're fighting on the moors, You should run away, You're a yeoman, You just run the crop rotation *okay, this is just what happens when I'm left on my own for too long.

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

People in #Cardiff who are into beautiful things with #NoAI , consider popping along to Tiny Rebel on the 22nd of September and looking at some local art. Maybe even buy some local art. Please spread this far and wide, because look, stag!

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

I just cried in the bath because of @brainmage.bsky.social, and if you want to know why, you have to listen to this. Only, you should start with episode 1, because otherwise you're going to be very confused as to why Penn (and Teller) are talking to a man named Bums. #ROBOTcar

Scare-argh Boo-arnard 👻@sarahbpolar.bsky.social

Chapter four! Chapter four! *slaps knees* CHAPTER FOUR! CHAPTER FOUR!

thedailytism.comChapter Four – Bums Keeps Throwing His Glowy Orb At Me!It’s a Superpower?? is an immersive audio experience and is best enjoyed with headphones. To help them defeat The Grand Neurotypical, Verit@s arranges training for the gang courtesy of the best-known ...
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

You hear it softly at first. A faint, damp sound just at the edge of hearing, like footfalls on wet leaves, or snowmelt falling onto an old drystone wall. It grows louder as you speed up, hideous certainty solidifying in your mind. You round a corner in the old mansion, damp paint flaking 1/3

This post is unavailable.
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

away from the wall as your shoulder brushes against it, then through a nest of old spiderwebs and the stench of rotting meat. The noise draws you on, pulling at you insistently, a horrible nightmare sound that sickens you even as you know it is surely your destination. You push through 2/3

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

another door and halt, horrified. There in the centre of the room, a pool of hideous stinking mulch, swirls of cyan and neon pink mixing with pus-yellow. Your breath catches in your throat as a shape begins to rise from the centre of the pool. They were right. It's free. Blobby. Blobby. Blobby

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

I made a patreon thing, where you can read some of my short stories (two at the moment, more to come). Give it a look, what's the worst that could happen? Eldritch horrors. That's the worst that could happen. Don't lick it. www.patreon.com/BenMorgan172...

patreon.comBen Morgan — I write fantasy fiction, usually with a comedic slant (although I do sometimes dip into horror). You might occasionally get some music, too.Get more from Ben Morgan on Patreon. I write fantasy fiction, usually with a comedic slant (although I do sometimes dip into horror). You might occasionally get some music, too.. Support Ben Morgan an...
That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

I am in the process of sending out agent queries for my book. Unfortunately I am also incapable of taking anything seriously. So I had to get the silly query letter out of my system before I can go and write the actual serious ones. Hope you like it. #BookSky #AmWritingFantasy #AgentQueries

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

Today, in Scotland, which prides itself on inventing whole new words for cold and rainy, I am sat outside in shorts and no top, because it's the first day in a week where there's been a proper breeze. And I am not the only one enjoying this situation. #proofofcat

That Spooky Bean
@malurion.bsky.social

We are the island that was robbed of the RRS Boaty McBoatface. Democracy was hauled through the dirt that day. There is only one way to restore trust in politics. Power to the Binface.