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Midnight Pals (Blog)
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A humorous Real-Person Fic Flash Fiction series published since April 2019 through the Twitter account @midnight_pals, whose author is pseudonymously known as Bitter Karella. It's about various horror authors, living and dead, who call themselves the Midnight Society and gather around a campfire to trade stories.Authors featured include: Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Clive Barker, and many more.Aside from Twitter, the series is also posted on Tumblr, Bluesky, Patreon, Mastodon, and Substack. The official website is here. Three ebook collections have been released. There is also an audio podcast adaptation which is published under the same title as the collections, Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: J.K. Rowling, being an unspecified large species of reptile, is a little shaky on the finer details of the human body. | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming: Joe Hill toward his dad, Stephen King. | |
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The Hyena | |
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The Hyena: Something is definitely off about Roald Dahl. | |
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The Pollyanna | |
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The Pollyanna: King tends to be the most optimistic about listening to a new arrival's story submission, and tries to play nice with everybody. | |
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Tagalong Kid | |
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Tagalong Kid: How Koontz behaves around the others: a little too eager to impress everybody - especially King - and otherwise acting like a five-year-old. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: Averted regarding Lovecraft. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Elon Musk to Stephen King. Whenever King tries to introduce a new story, Musk will pop out and try to start an argument related to any Real Life tiff Musk attempts on Twitter.note This is based on the fight Musk and King got into over paying for verified accounts. | |
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Animal Lover | |
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Dog Lover: Dean Koontz, as per Real Life. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot A highly exaggerated version, obviously. | |
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Fair for Its Day | |
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Fair for Its Day: In-Universe, August Derleth attempts to defend HP Lovecraft this way. | |
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Boomerang Bigot | |
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Boomerang Bigot: Patricia Highsmith has shades of this, being "a lesbian who did not very much enjoy the company of other women." | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation: Stephen King's response to being told Joyce Carol Oates' theory of genre differences: | |
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Dirty Communists | |
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Dirty Communists: George Romero. | |
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Never Live It Down | |
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Never Live It Down: Tracey Baptiste. Lovecraft keeps getting called out - especially by Barker - for a lot of the racism displayed in his works. | |
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Henpecked Husband | |
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Hen Pecked Husband: Percy Shelley - "yes dear" - to Mary.note But it's okay, because she's totally turned on by his getting rusticated for contumacy. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Clive Barker. Oh so much. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards When reacting to Joyce's blistered poison ivy foot... | |
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Double Standard | |
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Double Standard | |
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Blood Knight | |
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Blood Knight: Mary Shelley. Half the time Shelley appears, she's flicking open her switchblade. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Do not include in your stories anything hurting dogs if you don't want to anger Koontz. That said, Koontz gets in trouble with both Lovecraft and Poe for making any mean jokes about cats. And regarding Mary Shelley: Just don't. Seriously. Just don't. Okay? | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Joyce Carol Oates' theory of the differences in genre between SF, fantasy, horror, and detective fiction resembles the notorious crackpot conspiracy theory website Time Cube. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Any of the guest storytellers, who come in with their own... eccentricities that are exaggerated by the stories they read to the group. Specific mention to Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradbury. | |
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Occidental Otaku | |
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Occidental Otaku: Lafcadio Hearn, in spades. | |
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Creator Provincialism | |
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Creator Provincialism | |
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Antiquated Linguistics | |
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Antiquated Linguistics: Neil Gaiman's Verbal Tic is this combined with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: The Midnight Society gathering around a campfire to tell scary stories is a reference to the group of the same name from Are You Afraid of the Dark?, right down to the phrase they introduce their stories with, "Submitted for the approval of The Midnight Society, I call this [story name]". | |
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Seasonal Rot | |
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Seasonal Rot: In-Universe, Clive Barker contends that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is an example of this. | |
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Pictorial Letter Substitution | |
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Pictorial Letter Substitution: On the cover of the first collection, the "L" in "Pals" is a combined skeleton foot and scythe, and the "i"s in "Midnight" are dotted with skulls. | |
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Team Mom | |
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Team Mom: Poe, who either has to keep the group focused on listening to a story-teller, or trying to get Barker to settle down and stop needling either Lovecraft or Koontz. | |
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