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: 📽️ Watching: Terminator (1984)

: Watching “The Comeback of the Immersive Sim” by Game Maker’s Toolkit I love games …

: 📽️ Watched The Fifth Element for the first time in like two decades and wow, the pace of that movie …

: If I’m gonna look vampy anyway, I might as well start playing it up, eh?

: Jeez, John Wick 4 has some real Fear & Hunger material in it, huh? I can’t catch a break

: 📽️ Watching: John Wick 4 because I need a silly movie as a break from all these horror movies

: Now reading: “Autopsy Room Four” from Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual 📖

: Playing: Fear & Hunger 🕹️

: 📽️From the maker of Skinamarink: a 29-minute Skinamarink-adjacent short film www.youtube.com/watch

: Finished reading: Tortured Souls by Clive Barker 📚

: 📽️ Watching: Experiment in Terror (1962)

: “Experiment in Terror” is coming together. Next time: “Charade” 🎸

: Catch me singing a sultry cover of “Experiment in Terror” by Harry Mancini, who composed it for the …

: 🎵 Fear & Hunger soundtrack

: Reading: How to Connect by Thich Nhat Hanh 📚

: Reading with Mr. Business 📚🐈

: I still love short stories, especially when I’m reading horror. There’s just something great about a …

: 1408 1408” is Stephen King's twist on the perennial “haunted hotel room” ghost story. According to King’s …

: Reading: “1408” from Stephen King’s short story collection Everything’s Eventual 📖

: 📺 Street Woman Fighter 2, episode 1

: The feeling of having like 57 mental browser tabs open

: 🔗 Hypertext fiction

: Still haunted by last night’s viewing of Skinamarink (2023). That movie was a nightmare 📽️

: Skinamarink got under my skin. This experimental horror film was shot so strangely that it didn’t …

: 📽️ Skinamarink (2023)

: 🔗 NPR — School book bans show no signs of slowing, PEN America finds

: “…what I would call Bourgeois horror, is the kind of horror which is firmly rooted in …

: 📽️ This House Has People in It (2016)

: 📽️ Paranormal Activity (2007)

: 🎵 Learning a couple of movie themes by Harry Mancini: “Experiment in Terror” (1962) …

: Mr. Business, everyone.

: 🔗 NPR: There have been attempts to censor more than 1,900 library book titles so far in 2023

: Super Mario Bros. Wonder looks promising, eh? I’m down to play a cute and (for me) nostalgic …

: Listening to: Tortured Souls by Clive Barker. 📚

: 2021.

: I’m so excited to finally play with Twine—I can’t wait to learn its ins and outs so I can start …

: Xena: Warrior Princess S1, E1 “Sins of the Past” (1995) 📺 Campy as a kitchen table game …

: Experimenting with Twine. 🧶🕹️

: Uh-oh, this gave me ideas. 🔗 Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

: Posting some Baldur’s Gate 3-inspired writing prompts soon!

: Swooning. Somebody catch me. Obsidian works with local files and supports markdown footnotes. 💜

: Taking obsidian.md markdown knowledge base for a test drive.

: Want to read: The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin 📚

: Currently reading: Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti 📚 Last Halloween, I read Ligotti’s Songs …

: 2018

: My orange tabby Mr. Business has noticed that I like oranges, so he sits near them and stands up …

: 📽️ The Dark Crystal (1982)

: I mapped some Elden Ring dungeons, D&D-style

: Just watched A Quiet Place, a movie with very little dialogue. It’s one of the most tense movies …

: The heat wave is over. Toward the end there, heat index 100 F didn’t feel so bad. We can …

: Touching grass.

: Watched and enjoyed Dredd (2012) last night. I wasn’t expecting a dungeon crawler. 📽️

: Farewell, summer

: Mr. Business likes walks.

: Heya, I hope you’re having an excellent Thursday 👋🏻 📷 Ashton Sotiro Photography …

: Mr. Business is cancer-free, according to his vet! 🎉🐈

: Sorry to hear we’ve lost web accessibility legend Molly Holzschlag. Think of her today when you alt …

: I played up the makeup a little, but otherwise, this is just me on an average fall or winter day. 📷 …

: This guy has been sneaking in and sleeping quietly beside me this week.

: Making cold salads to counter the heat wave

: On track to hit 100 F in DC. The “cold” water runs hot. 🚰

: I love the cooking in Sea of Stars—it’s cozy and makes foraging for health items feel much more …

: Cary likes to lurk under sheer dresses. He thinks he’s hidden.

: How Peruvian Psychedelic Cumbia Made Its Way to L.A. NPR 🎵

: Meet the ten-person band bringing the world of cumbia, a fusion of African rhythms, Indigenous …

: There’s a jawa in A New Hope who almost sings “Down with the Sickness” at least …

: Microcast: Music! Hunter has written a bit of new music for harp, celesta, upright bass, strings, and guitar. …

: Written version of Podcast: Music! Hunter here! I’ve just recorded a bit of music for harp, celesta, upright bass, strings, and …

: Grawwwrgh I was in the middle of a good take and my hair damped the strings grrrgh

: For the guitar’s part, let’s get kind of a biphonic (or maybe heterophonic?) texture …

: Oh that’s much better. We now have a really poignant-sounding high note (B4)

: I want an A4 and B4 to work with, so let’s move it up to 3rd position where we can stretch to the …

: The ol’ workbench 🎸🎵🎹

: Guitar time! 🎸 Challenging myself to write an ominous little piece using very simple ingredients. …

: I love how Sea of Stars doesn’t start our protagonist off as a known badass—they’re just …

: Sea of Stars is a beautiful and very cute game so far 🕹️

: Test “microcast” podcast Hunter tests audio recording, editing, and publishing features while his cat tries to get …

: Page-turner heat wave overdrive Recommend me a page-turner! I’m looking for a story of any length that you couldn’t put down. …

: Sit down right now. Give me this moment. Write whatever’s running through you. Finished reading: …

: Mr. Business likes the fake fur.

: A haunting image from Blasphemous 2

: What’s your favorite time of day? I come alive in the morning dark.

: Feels like I’m communicating with Bluesky and Tumblr from another dimension 👻 I’m posting photos via …

: Test post from micro.blog Sunlit app

: When my partner plays Baldur’s Gate 3, the Faerun dating sim, her gaming PC heats up. Glows orange. …

: Now reading: Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece 📚 I appreciate that Manton has published the entire …

: Finished reading: Smart Sex by Dr Emily Morse 📚 Overall, an interesting, fun, and helpful read Took …

: Deadlines are tight for this writer today! But some of us here in the US are on the off-ramp to the …

: Day 1: Abstract 📷

: Why I’ve started this independently hosted micro blog Some reasons why I’ve chosen micro.blog: Ad-free Doesn’t sell my information Guards its community …

: Smart-ass oak Smart-ass oak drops one more leaf on the pile I raked 📝 Tiny poem by Hunter Ward. First published …

: 'webrings webrings webrings' Two people inspired this indie microblog: Kat Blackheart catalyzed the move by posting the simple …

: New music: 'Looseleaf Forest' New music: “Looseleaf Forest,” a short piece for harps, lute, cello, and percussion. …

: Intro post Hi, I’m Hunter. By day, I’m a copywriter in higher education. I’ve recently …