[obnoxiously-tired]

If you want to join the horror book club (now known as the 'Terrifying Tales Book Club') then click this invite link or scan the QR code:

https://discord.gg/JU9PcFYdF

The first poll on which book we'll read will be about queer authors and/or queer characters, and will be posted in a few days to let newer members to make their vote count.

Just a reminder, due to the nature of the genre, this is an 18+ server. No exceptions will be made.

[crazymuffin1]

how id survive horror movies:

iron lung: im vaccinated against polio so i dont need one

it: my pronouns are she/they

sinners: im an atheist

the backrooms: my house doesnt have that many rooms

Resident evil: id evict them

Midsommar: im swedish.

Get out: ok i'll leave

x: im still calling it twitter

american psycho: i live in sweden

[obnoxiously-tired]

The first book my book club will be reading is 'Carmilla' by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu! Honestly, I'm both excited and a little nervous to read it. Excited because I adore vampires and it's a shorter story of only 115 pages, but nervous because it's from the late 1800's and I haven't read a classic in such a long time. I'm sure that once I start reading, I'll get used to the vocabulary again.

[the-tiny-bean-sprout]

Hey y'all, if you or someone you know has been tagged in a post like this, don't click on any links, don't message the OP, or provide any personal info like your password, phone number, email address, ect. Report the post as spam, and report and block the account.

[obnoxiously-tired]

A while back I ran a poll to see if there was any interest in joining an 18+ horror book club hosted on Discord.

I'm happy to announce that I'll be posting the invite link to this blog and in the horror media community this 🎉 Saturday, June 13th! 🎉

We will host a monthly/bimonthly book club where we run a poll to see what book we will read, have active discussions on what we've read, as well as occasionally hosting movie nights, and possibly playing video games.

(Just a reminder that the book club is 18+ due to the nature of horror media and there will be no exceptions to this rule. )

[obnoxiously-tired]

So for anyone who's new to this blog after the horror book club discord poll I made in the horror media community, welcome! A fair amount of people said they're interested, so I'm setting up the server and have some lovely mods picked out. I just need to work out some minor tweaks and figure out which books would be good for the first poll for the book club to vote on. Once I get everything the way I'm hoping, I'll share the link. 😊

[obnoxiously-tired]

I'm still slowly making my way through a digital copy of Nick Cutter's 'The Troop' but I have a bad migraine so I need something easier on my photo sensitive eyes, so I'm finally watching 'Misery' on my phone at the lowest brightness setting. I know it's a classic for a reason but I had no idea it'd be so simply suspenseful. I can't wait to read the book to see how it compares.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[ex0skeletal-undead]

A video for disabling on Windows which made it very easy:

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[obnoxiously-tired]

I just finished 'Tender is the Flesh' and I'm floored. The book is about a man who works at a meat processing plant, but due to a virus being spread by animals, people have been driven to cannibalism.

The nearly clinical dehumanization of the 'heads' and the way that you almost fall into the normality that is cannibalism is unsettling, but familiar to how actual animal butchery is done. The only negative I can see about this book is that the writing gets a bit stale at times but overall I'd happily read this again. It's definitely a book where you have to sit with yourself and process the ending for a while. Tbh, my housemates are cooking dinner rn and idk if I can eat meat after finishing this book. It feels too familiar.

My rating:

♥️♥️♥️♥️🖤

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone brand new to horror but if you think you can stomach it, I'd definitely give it a read.

Trigger warnings: (spoilers)

cannibalism (obviously), pandemic, child death, parent death, animal death/abuse, murder, abuse, neglect, childbirth (with mentions of complications), dehumanization, amputation, and minor mentions of starvation and branding/scarification

[obnoxiously-tired]

So fun fact about me: vampires are a special interest of mine, which makes what I'm about to say really painful. I couldn't finish 'Interview with the Vampire' by Anne Rice. 'IWTV' follows the story of Louis, a plantation owner turned vampire, retelling his life story via an interview set in modern times. It's a classic and understandably so. It's dramatic, almost romantic, the characters are flawed yet alluring, and has a huge following, especially since the movie and TV show aired. (All of which I've seen and adored.) However, Anne Rice's writing style is just plain bad. Now keep in mind, I'm in no way comparing the book to the movie/tv show. In my option, the book, movie, and TV show are all telling different stories and should be seen as such.

The story itself has good bones and I tried really hard to like it but I just couldn't get past the choppy writing. If it was written by another author, I honestly think I'd love it.

My rating:

♥️🖤🖤🖤🖤

DNF, but might be convinced come back to it

Trigger warnings from what I read: (spoilers) If anyone who's finished the book wants to provide more trigger warnings, feel free to do so in the comments

vampirism, blood drinking, murder, slavery, manipulation, hypnotism, unreliable narrator, and more.

[obnoxiously-tired]

Currently reading:

'The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires' by Grady Hendrix

'The Troop' by Nick Cutter

TBR:

'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks (splatter punk, read at your own risk)

'Annihilation' by Jeff VanderMeer

'Horrorstör' by Grady Hendrix

'Leech' by Hiron Ennes

'I am Legend' by Richard Matheson

'NOS4A2' by Joe Hill

'What Moves the Dead' by T. Kingfisher

'The Brides' by Charlotte Cross

'Camp Damascus' by Chuck Tingle

'A God in the Shed' by J-F. Dubeau

'The Only Good Indians' by Stephen Graham Jones

'We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver

The Darktower series by Steven King

'IT' by Steven King

The Hannibal series by Thomas Harris

[obnoxiously-tired]

Like so many other trans people, I absolutely fell in love with 'Hell Followed with Us'. It's about Benji, a trans man surviving in a post- apocalyptic world all while escaping an evangelical cult and slowly seeing himself turn into a literal monster. Don't get me wrong, this book has its flaws and clichés but for me, they were easy to skim past to get back to the 'meat' of the story. The romantic subplot was very soft and it was nice to root for people to fall in love in the middle of such a dark and dreary world.

My rating:

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Finished it in 2 days, had my hooked from the start.

Trigger warnings: (spoilers)

heavy religious themes, homophobia/transphobia, body horror, abuse, manipulation, cults, runaways/escaping an abusive household, parental death, grief, transmedicalism, post-apocalypse, death/murder, gun violence, fire, vomiting, and sex

[obnoxiously-tired]

'Incidents Around the House' is a horror novel set in the perspective of a little girl who's imaginary friend may not be so imaginary. It has such an interesting idea of how a point of view can drastically change the way a typical horror book is presented. However, I couldn't drag myself past the first 50 pages. I really wanted to like this book but honestly, I was bored to tears. I hated the way it was written and the monster, Other Mommy, would barely be considered to be unsettling, imo. The idea of seeing something horrific through the eyes of a child has so much potential and it was so disappointing to see it flop.

My rating:

♥️♥️🖤🖤🖤

DNF, but may try reading it again

Trigger warnings: (spoilers) If anyone who's finished the book can provide more in the comments, that'd be appreciated.

affairs/cheating

[obnoxiously-tired]

I think I'm going to reserve this blog for book reviews and keeping track of what I've read this year. I fell out of love with reading around college but I've been really getting into horror books lately so hopefully this is the start of falling back in love with reading.

[edgebug]

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes

[convelocity]

When it becomes, it becomes a problem