{"id":29831,"date":"2018-09-14T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=29831"},"modified":"2018-09-11T05:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:58:59","slug":"link-dump-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=29831","title":{"rendered":"All the President&#8217;s Link Dumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dtmooreeditor\/status\/1035140414116974592\">Attic Boxes<\/a> &#8211; For her birthday, author Cassandra Khaw <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/casskhaw\/status\/1035109503220547584\">asked<\/a> other Twitter users to write microfiction for their followers.  @dtmooreeditor opened boxes in his &#8220;possibly haunted, certainly storied&#8221; attic.  (Some other fun ones: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DianaSousaBooks\/status\/1035137044874493954\">@DianaSousaBooks<\/a> provided D&#038;D characters, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KBSpangler\/status\/1035159136030343168\">@KBSpangler<\/a> let everyone &#8220;learn what That Neighbor You Hate just bought at the too-spooky antique store!&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EldritchGirl\/status\/1035126192444252163\">@EldritchGirl<\/a> did custom monsters, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mossdogmusic\/status\/1035312812652998657\">@mossdogmusic<\/a> described castles, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UrsulaV\/status\/1035171282193735681\">@UrsulaV<\/a> gave everybody fictional heirloom vegetables.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n3UeLUhT_xo&#038;feature=share\">The Ward<\/a> &#8211; Pilot for a Lovecraftian sitcom. <i>(Hat tip to Pixel Pixie)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roywoodjr\/status\/1034901205489790977\">What if &#8220;Thriller&#8221; Actually Happened<\/a> &#8211; A Twitter thread of greatness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1372344\/sephoras-starter-witch-kit-by-pinrose-has-crystals-sage-and-tarot-cards\/\">Starter Witch Kits<\/a> &#8211; Sephora will be selling &#8220;entry-level witch kits&#8221; beginning in October.  While I applaud the head-&#8216;splodiness that this will cause many a conservative Christian, it seems wrong on a number of levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamSykesSwears\/status\/1037758573957197824\">Autumn Traditions<\/a> &#8211; Sam Sykes and Chuck Wendig, again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2018\/08\/29\/the-kite-maker-brenda-peynado\/\">The Kite Maker<\/a> &#8211; Interesting short story about the aftermath of an alien &#8220;invasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scarytoilet\/\">Toilets with Threatening Auras<\/a> &#8211; Twitter account devoted to toilets that would make you consider just peeing in a wastebasket.  I think <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scarytoilet\/status\/1037720182511230976\">this one<\/a> is my favorite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VvFw3bFohLk&#038;feature=youtu.be\">Imagining a Holiday<\/a> &#8211; Neat documentary on the annual Halloween makeover at Disney&#8217;s Haunted Mansion. <i>(Hat tip to Pixel Pixie)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdouglasjohnson\/status\/1038394370360332288\">Father William<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;You are old, Father William; you look almost dead, And your deeds are most fondly remembered, Yet your manservant&#8217;s body was found in your shed, Dispatched, disembowelled and dismembered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bargainbinblasphemy.tumblr.com\/\">Bargain Bin Blasphemy<\/a> &#8211; Pop album covers &#8220;upgraded&#8221; to black metal.  I think Satan and Garfunkel is my favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attic Boxes &#8211; For her birthday, author Cassandra Khaw asked other Twitter users to write microfiction for their followers. @dtmooreeditor opened boxes in his &#8220;possibly haunted, certainly storied&#8221; attic. (Some other fun ones: @DianaSousaBooks provided D&#038;D characters, @KBSpangler let everyone &#8220;learn what That Neighbor You Hate just bought at the too-spooky antique store!&#8221;, @EldritchGirl did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29831"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29850,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions\/29850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}