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I'm aetataureate, or aeta. I'm an artist and writer.

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NEWEST ACTIVITY

December 16, 2024
Here are my favorite books from this and last year (I don't mind the overlap, I almost never read something brand new)

  1. Stephen McCauley, You Only Call When You're in Trouble, 2024
  2. Johnny Compton, The Spite House, 2023
  3. Caitlin Starling, Last to Leave the Room, 2023
  4. Brandi Wells, The Cleaner, 2023
  5. Jennifer McMahon, My Darling Girl, 2023
  6. Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, The Centre, 2023
  7. Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year, 2023
  8. Nishita Parekh, The Night of the Storm, 2024
  9. Jenny Kiefer, This Wretched Valley, 2024
  10. Alice Feeney, Good Bad Girl, 2023
  11. Caz Frear, Five Bad Deeds, 2023
  12. Peggy Townsend, The Beautiful and the Wild, 2023
  13. Olivia Muenter, Such a Bad Influence, 2024
  14. Kate White, Between Two Strangers, 2023
  15. Lisa Scottoline, The Truth About the Devlins, 2024
  16. Lori Rader-Day, The Death of Us, 2023
  17. B.A. Paris, The Guest, 2023

I also really loved some books from other years.

And I really liked the short stories "It Waits in the Woods" by Josh Malerman and "Ushers" by Joe Hill.

December 10, 2024
New things to be happy about

November 30, 2024
I've added a bargain bin and stocking stuffers page for those who are holiday shopping.

October 23, 2024
Earlier this month, I made an itchio collection of microindie games for Halloween.

I'll do my own ranked list of my October horror or witchcraft games here. They're not all from my collection above!

  1. No Case Should Remain Unsolved: psychology, mystery, puzzle
  2. A Heart of Butterblue: gifts, farming, monsters
  3. Silver Thread: exorcist, funny, stylish
  4. Unbecoming: eldritch, monster, visceral
  5. The Melting Apartment: frightening, time loop, escape
  6. Potion Stand Story: funny, witchy, time loop
  7. 32: horror, short, teeth
  8. Witch Was Lost (And Has Been Found): found family, alcohol, fantasy
  9. How We Know We're Alive: mystery, rural, memories
  10. Home Safety Hotline: funny, fantasy, monsters
  11. Elevator Hitch: funny, time loop, graphic
  12. Cycle: serious, yandere, time loop
  13. The Fall of House Misra: yandere, fantasy, swordplay
  14. Moving Houses: slow, lowkey

October 10, 2024
I've been listening to a beautiful podcast miniseries, Noble, which is about the 2002 Tri-State Crematory investigation. The crematory manager stowed hundreds of people's remains on the premise instead of cremating them. The presenter, journalist Shaun Raviv, does a great job exploring the story in a sensitive and thoughtful way. I wanted to add a few more podcasts on similar topics to form a little set:
• CBC Ideas' 2014 exploration of changing funeral practices
• Ologies' 2022 interview with "thanatologist" and grief expert Cole Imperi
• Jamie Loftus' 2022 series Ghost Church, about the American Spiritualism movement and its claims of contacting the dead
• Finally, the 2021 episode of You're Wrong About about how exploitative true crime media -- which Noble is not! -- affects our brains.