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IT LIVES… but it's a corpse! IT CRAWLS… like a spider! IT KILLS… like a cobra!
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I'm an extremely normal person and every day I experience ordinary concerns

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

saying "well my heart's in the right place" if there's too long of a silence after something I said in a group setting

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

average @stjohnstarling.bsky.social text message

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his bright, tubercular gaze and haunted doll demeanor bring out the 19th century man of letters in me

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

HAUNTING TWINKS IN YOUR AREA

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The first rule of unethical human experimentation is to have fun and be yourself.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The most docile lamb on the altar cw: knife, blood

submitted 577 days ago • 0 comments

Dandelion's "sacrifice on a dark altar" roleplay gets very... elaborate in this patreon exclusive illustration! www.patreon.com/posts/128411... Also! I've reached 90 exclusive illustrations! Crazy!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

They should make me the pope, I have a lot of good ideas.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Re-reading this because you tend to find hidden gems on the second round. I said this once and I’ll say it again — you know in Red Dragon where Francis Dolarhyde eats the William Blake painting by tearing it up and cramming it into his mouth? That’s what I want to do to this book.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

In advance of the forthcoming release of A Companion in Vice, I've redone the newsletter's navigation post to be a bit more comprehensive: stjohnstarling.substack.com/p/navigation...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Resorting to unethical human experimentation because I'm too shy to tell him I like him... 🥺

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

🫳🪄 casting One Billion Unread Messages, the most diabolical curse within my power, upon your inbox

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i am glad the Catholic Church picked a Robert to be Pope, i just wish they'd been a little bolder with which one

submitted 8 days ago • 113 comments

this is an old joke that I ended up cutting from 99 Erics, so I couldn't resist sharing it today:

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

really enjoying the term "woke pope." fun to say, almost rhymes, strong consonants. excellent mouthfeel

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

learning to use a new art program is such a humiliating experience

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A new post at Gothic Charm School! This one is about a serious topic that comes with content warnings at the top of the page. gothic-charm-school.com/charm/?p=1663

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

you should be able to confiscate and officially recreate someone else's post if you can convincingly argue before a council of high priest-posters that the first guy didn't do the concept justice

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

on the internet the most enchanting creatures you've ever met will have you saying shit like "call me unconventional, but I would prefer a photo of you to even the most sultry and voluptuous depiction of this disney animated character"

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I am constantly subjected to untold indignities at the hands of wicked and beautiful imps, devils, gay people on the internet, etc.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

[Humphrey Bogart voice] we'll always have dishes

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

working from home is probably basically indistinguishable from the day-to-day experience of a haunted house ghost

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I just spent most of the wee hours and later morning of my 34th birthday finishing What Manner of Man AND I MUST SCREAM Stop whatever you’re doing and GET THIS BLOODY BOOK. Sure, I’m easily sold when it comes to demon-on-priest action BUT IT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

The Morning After 💫

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

The chores required of authors are manifold, the wretchedness of publishing is multiform, overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I 💜 DRINKING FROM THE POISON WELL

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

⚡️ FRANKENSNAIL ⚡️

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I have collected the instruments of life around me; the dissecting room and the slaughter-house have furnished many of my materials — it remains only to infuse a spark of being into this lifeless Scrivener file.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

If they didn’t want me to corrupt a Catholic priest they shouldn’t have made them all wear the fancy little dresses with the slutty nipped waists. Simple as that.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Fig just couldn't resist

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments