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What Did William Burrito Mean by This? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] afb@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Barl Burrx

Do you still host your own personal website? If so, what do you post/use it for? in c/webrevival@lemm.ee
[–] afb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I have a couple of websites, a personal blog (rarely updated) on an Ubuntu VPS and a site for my horror fiction on an OpenBSD VPS. Wouldn't host anything web-facing on my home network for security reasons.

Remember when the Sky+ box looked like a sideways vagina in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] afb@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Book a gynaecologist appointment if yours looks like that.

Looking for lit fic suggestions in c/books@lemmy.world
[–] afb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

These are all new to me. I'll check them out, thanks!

Neurodiverse people on benefits to be helped into work in bid to cut welfare bill in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] afb@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Interviews are such a big problem. I'm autistic, mid-30s, I've been working full time since I was 17, but I've almost never succeeded at a job interview. I've always gotten new jobs by either knowing someone or starting as an agency temp and then getting made full time, with the one exception being an interview where I'm pretty confident that the hiring manager was also autistic.

Looking for lit fic suggestions in c/books@lemmy.world
[–] afb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Cheers! I'll take a look.

Looking for lit fic suggestions in c/books@lemmy.world
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Looking for lit fic suggestions (lemmy.world)
 

Hi all. I'm looking to explore contemporary lit fic but I really don't know where to start.

Currently I mainly read horror (usually slower literary horror and weird or Gothic stuff more than gore/extreme/slashers), New Weird, a fair few literary classics, and some SSF and mystery now and then. Some of my favourite books are Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence, and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

So stuff with a dark edge and some speculative elements is welcome, but I'm staying open minded and I'll try basically anything as long as it's interesting.

Also, if anyone can recommend some magazines or other sorts of regular publications, I'd like to hear about those too. Both for short fiction and recommendations/reviews.

Cheers, A.

Putting the die in diet in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] afb@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I'd be dead by 11:30

Fired IT worker partly shuts down British Museum in c/pulse_of_truth
[–] afb@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Matey's gonna be the centre piece of the 'Fuck Around And Find Out' exhibit

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Posthaste Manor by Jolie Toomajan and Carson Winter (lemmy.world)
 

This is sort of a mosaic novel written by two weird horror authors (that I know personally, hope it's okay to promote my friend's work here) with different styles and outlooks.

It's a fun take on a haunted house, with a mix of Gothic elements and weird fiction vibes.

It's published by Tenebrous Press, currently my favourite small press. They focus on 'New Weird Horror,' valuing new approaches and experimentation within the genre.

https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/posthaste-manor-ebook