Hot Fresh Slurry, delivered directly to your craw!
Hey everyone, welcome to the first message from Bitter Karella’s Hot Fresh Slurry! Things are in a liminal state right now with the (possible) death of Twitter and the (probable) conversion of Twitter into that Simpsons bit where the amendment to be says “Oh yeah!!! Door’s Open, boys!” (Obscure joke, ask your parents) I’m still feeling out some alternative platforms for Midnight pals — tumblr, Mastodon, perhaps even here on Substack — but the future is weirdly uncertain for once. The best thing I can say is there’s lots of opportunities. I’m grateful that I’ve been able to do Midnight Pals these past few years and for all the support I’ve received from the queer community, the horror community, and the queer horror community. I hope there will be lots more laughs in the future, but I guess you can say we’re in a metamorphosis right now. Thanks for bearing with us as we figure stuff out!
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Twitter’s imminent demise kinda forced my hand on a few projects, but ultimately I don’t think that’s a bad thing. First, the indiegogo campaign for the third Midnight Pals book is currently running. I had to announce it a little earlier than I planned so I was a little nervous but the response has been really phenomenal. It’s fully funded now, over funded in fact… enough so that I’ll have the opportunity to make the book a lot bigger and better than I first expected! So that’s exciting… There’s still time to snag your own copy of the book (and get copies of book 1 and 2 if you haven’t already): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/submitted-for-the-approval-of-the-midnight-pals-3/x/3079876
In other news announced too early, a friend and I are working on turning Midnight Pals into a dramatic (not really dramatic) audio podcast. This project is still in the early stages and we’re just writing up some initial scripts right now, but I’ll be sure to say more as we get further into this!
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Since I’m trying to diversify, a brief reminder of where you can find me:
Tiktok: bitterkarella
Tumblr: bitterkarella
Youtube: bitterkarella
Patreon: bitterkarella
instagram: bitterkarella
mastadon: @bitterkarella@sfba.social
Furaffinity: agouti-rex
actual website: www.bitterkarella.com
Currently I don’t have a dedicated “Midnight Pals” account on any site other than Twitter, but that might change as things go forward.
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In the future, I may include a weekly round-up of Midnight Pals threads in these letters if such a thing is viable and not too annoying. Again, apologies for the road bumps, I’m still getting a feel for the medium! Thanks for all your indulgence and see you next time!
MIDNIGHT PALS
King: hey everyone!
King: are you all ready for another night of spooky stories?
Barker: yeah
Barker: if edgar hadn’t just DUMPED water all over the campfire
Poe: I really thought we were done
Barker: edgar, edgar, edgar
Barker: why would you think that
Barker: as long as stories remain to be told?
Poe: look I just
Poe: I really got the impression we were done
Poe: things seemed really final
Poe: and you know I wanted to make sure the fire was out
Poe: we don’t wanna cause any forest fires or anything
Jeff Vandermeer: YES
King: though you are right edgar
King: things do seem
King: subtly different somehow
King: more racist
Lovecraft:
King: no I mean
King: MORE racist
King:
King: transphobic too
[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: good newssss my terf deatheatersss
Rowling: elon musssk isss bringing free sssspeech back to twitter
Rowling: finally we can bring back the forbidden curssses
Rowling: but more important
Rowling: elon’ssss gonna ssstop the transss from ssstealing the likessss on that one tweet I did
Rowling: keep hitting like, the number’sss going down
Kathleen Stock: I heard that was cuz they move stuff on the servers
Rowling: NO it’s definitely becausssse the transss are sstealing my likesss
Rowling: keep hitting that button
Stock: but dark lord my finger is so tired
Rowling: KEEP
Rowling: HITTING
Rowling: THE BUTTON
Rowling: don’t worry
Rowling: I’ve invited elon mussssk over to dissscusss this very issssue
[meanwhile]
Elon Musk: awful nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic
Musk: I hope she made lotsa spaghetti!
Alison Bailey: this is racist
Elon Musk: eyyy itsa me elon!
Musk: I bringa da free speech backa to da twitter
Musk: I bringa back de Jordan Peterson
Musk: I bringa back de donalda trump
Musk: I bringa backa de bowser
Toad: but elon bowser is an enemy of the mushroom kingdom!
Musk: whatsa matta for you? You no lika da free speech
Musk: de bowser, he compete inna de market place ovva ideas!
Musk: bowser, you no a banned now!
[Bowser immediately kidnaps the princess]
Musk: mama mia!!!
Musk: thatsa spicy discourse!!