sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley

"This stunning debut plunges the reader in a decadent dreamscape of 1870s Paris."-Chelsea G Summers "The unholy progeny of Anne Rice and Karl Marx."-Natalie Adler "[P]erhaps the most vital, politically engaged vampire novel of the last decade.”-Ancillary Review of Books THE RED SACRAMENT out now🩸

now I’m not in France anymore I can have a ham and cheese sandwich on croissant again. the world is mine, suckers!

listen if you're screenshotting excerpts from the book and liveblogging it with your friends you're a fan. we count those

have a little misandry as a treat, i certainly have, but it is not a replacement for political thought or action. ceding half the population to fascists is doomerism. taking 'woman' as a category of people who are politically good is dangerous. gender essentialism is fun but it's not good for us. ok

Hello I'm only back to say that @boneysoups.bsky.social's THE RED SACRAMENT is just as good as you've heard if not, nay, better even than that. Like it was cooked up in a spooky Parisian theater just for me, and not a moment too late. Damn fine stuff.

was on a couple of panels at mcm comicon talking about the red sacrament yesterday and it was so fun. this is not even 2 minutes after i arrived and you can tell I’m already having the time of my life

sometimes i realize Christine Daaë is a scab and it ruins my whole day.

these absolutely FUCK

red sacramentheads i need you to understand this was the kind of shit françoise was wearing to nightly sunset breakfasts with her brother.

MCM Comicon! I’ll be on 2 panels this Sunday 10/25: 2PM: Gothic Monsters & Things That Go Bump in the Night w/ Jennifer Thorne 3PM: Bite Club w/ Ben Shepherd, Johanna Van Veen, Kat Dunn, and Amy McCaw come thru get bit 🩸💋

appreciate this article pointing out that she's a performer! i think sometimes stuff like this gets traction bc people don't assume someone like a nondescript looking older black woman has real chops, these moments are always framed as some kind of previously unacknowledged natural talent

gretchen is the great critic + tastemaker of her generation and the sooner you get on board the sooner you will be introduced to art and interpretation that will change your life for the better. don't say nobody told you

this is the entire like seven-year text thread between me and @boneysoups.bsky.social

he gets me

what da fuck

going to london tomorrow and i'm excited and all but i'm really really gonna miss monoprix 😭

PS inkybarracuda storygraph you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower

NEW WRITING: some sketched thoughts on "optimizing your time" thehaunt.blog/2026/10/17/i...

so in awe of young people in paris rising up against a collapsing neoliberal order that has failed and betrayed them. they are situating themselves in the country's tradition of republican agitation (i saw more than one 67-68 sign) and facing disgusting police violence with fearlessness + solidarity

americans feeling a lil breathless over burning belleépoqueslop: 1883 isn’t very old and if you want to get upset about the condition of building take a look at some of the schools

I think what I was trying to get at in my review of SPEED RACER is that if you want to experience the sublime through film, you always have to be ready and willing to fall in love.

my review of versailles: too big

approx where I would put the big brutalist social housing block in Versailles

crashing out at the louvre mentally physically emotionally

on the bram stoker award reading list………listen to bram mr stoker I don’t make the rules

and when I say that fandom can function as a twisted funhouse mirror of workplace organizing, organizing-as-consumer to wield power against creators of the beloved fandom object…….