#Joe Hill

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Nobody EVER rocked harder or was more metal than Joe Hill the songwriter and labor activist. He turned the pro-union speeches and pamphlets into witheringly pointed songs that live on to this day, and he inspired many people to take up liberal causes. He was hated by many Establishment types, but especially by the Mormons of Utah. When he was eventually executed on trumped-up charges, he asked that his body be cremated and his ashes divided and sent to union halls in every state -- except of course for Utah, where he wouldn't be caught dead. His wishes were carried out and his ashes were mailed around the country, but one of the envelopes was torn upon by a automated letter-sorting machine and the Post Office realized what they were. They confiscated his ashes and didn't return them until 1988. The remaining ashes have since been scattered at union memorials all over the world.

"Casey Jones" is great, but for caustic social commentary it's hard to beat "The Preacher and the Slave" which gave us the phrase "pie in the sky".

Long-haired preachers come out every night

Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right

But when asked about something to eat

They will answer in voices so sweet

CHORUS:

You will eat, bye and bye

In that glorious land above the sky

Work and pray, live on hay

You’ll get pie in the sky when you die (that’s a lie)

And the starvation army they play

And they sing and they clap and they pray

Till they get all your coin on the drum

Then they tell you when you’re on the bum

Holy rollers and jumpers come out

They holler, they jump, and they shout

Give your money to Jesus they say

He will cure all diseases today

If you fight hard for children and wife

Try to get something good in this life

You’re a sinner and bad man, they tell

When you die you will sure go to hell

Workingmen (folk) of all countries unite

Side by side we for freedom will fight

When the world and its wealth we have gained

To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain

LAST CHORUS:

You will eat, bye and bye

When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry

Chop some wood, twill do you good

And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye (that’s no lie)

I love old union songs because it's like this fucking asshole was a scab so we fucking threw him in the river and he broke his spine and when he went to heaven he was scabbing on the angels so they fired him down to heaven and the devil was like you have to work in hell for being a dirty scab

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Vampires vs Werewolves, ft. Joe Hill, @victoriocity, Aliette de Bodard, Ben Aaronovitch, Oraine Johnson, Garth Nix, @sarah-hawley and @jonnywaistcoat prevaricating like he knows any answer will be used against him in the future.

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Midnight Pals: Hackin'

King: i can't believe elon's grok is pretending i'm friends with him King: i need to stop that AI before everyone believes it! King: i've got to hire a hacker King: franz, you've got to help me Franz Kafka: what? me? Barker: steve, no

Kafka: i'm not a hacker King: oh i thought franz was a hacker Barker: what gave you THAT impression? King: you know, with the cat ear headphones and the striped thigh socks Barker: no steve that's something ENTIRELY different Kafka: n-no it isn't, on second thought yes I'm totally a hacker

Kafka: it means i'm a hacker, nothing else Barker: sure franz Kafka: it does! it totally means i'm a hacker! Barker: franz, go play with your blahaj plush, the adults are talking here

Barker: you know who you need? you need william gibson Barker: the best hacker money can buy King: william gibson? how do i contact him? Barker: you don't Barker: he'll contact you

King: can you really hack grok, william? William Gibson: [wearing black duster and fingerless black gloves] my hacker name is shadow gigabyte King: oh sorry Gibson: can i hack grok? listen kid i was cyberbyting the megabyte mainframe when you were just rebooting your motherboard mouse data bandwidth modem email King: wow!

Gibson: my CPU is a neural net processer, a learning computer King: wow he really sounds like he knows what he's talking about! King: that definitely sounds like hacker talk to me Gibson: CD Rom Gibson: internet Joe Hill: dad can i talk to you for a second King: not now joe daddy's hiring a hacker

Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] i'll re-index the mega bit blaster cyber codex Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] now we'll cybersecurity the lock box data center King: hey what happens if you push that button? Gibson: what the-- no!! [klaxons sound] King: what's that mean? Gibson: shit Gibson: we've got company

Gibson: sentient cyber virus electronic guard cyberbots Gibson: real high tech Gibson: state of the art in bio-tech wetware neural-data scrapers Gibson: [putting on sunglasses with red laser scope] and they ain't friendly

King: what are we going to do?! Gibson: kid, you keep your hands to yourself unless you wanna become roadkill on the information super highway!!! Gibson: hold on to your CPU (central processing unit)!!!

Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] gotta reconfigure the darkweb logistics for ethernet wavetech Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] upload the memory downloader for dumpware backup Gibson: [wildly slapping keyboard] uncodify the cyberpatch modifer aaaaand Gibson: i'm in

King: wow, you hacked twitter?? how did you do it? Gibson: the greatest hackers never reveal their secrets [earlier] Gibson: [wearing fake mustache] hey elon its me catturd Gibson: could you give me your password? Elon Musk: sure it's "picklerick420"!

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IN THE TALL GRASS (2019) dir. Vincenzo Natali

[spittingoutthebloodandscreaming]

''My Chemical Romance was on Conan. They had rings in their lips and eyebrows, their hair done up in spikes, but beneath the white pancake makeup and black lipstick they looked like a collection of chubby kids who had probably been in their high school marching band a few years earlier. They leaped around, falling into each other, as if the stage beneath them were an electrified plate. They played frantically, pissing themselves with fear. Jude liked them. He wondered which of them would die first.''

-Heart-Shaped box, Joe Hill.

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Illustrations for the limited special edition of Joe Hill's Horns published by Lividian Press

Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Dirty A-Z headcanon game

Send a letter for more information on a characters likes and dislikes! The (explanations) are mere guidelines, feel free to elaborate as much as you’d like!

A - Alone time (how do they get off when they’re all by themselves? do they watch porn, is it all in their imagination, do they jerk off, do they use toys?) 

B - Bondage (do they like it? do they not? do they prefer to be the one being tied or the one doing the tying?) 

C - Crying (is it a turn on? a turn off? do they cry during sex? have they cried during sex? what was the reason?) 

D - Dominance (do they prefer to dominate, or be dominated? do they have experience as a Dom? Do they have a Dom that they trust already? What kind of things do they enjoy as/with their Dominant partner?) 

E - Extra info (any other fetishes? feet? leather? role playing? blood? fantasies that they might want to experience not on this list?)

F - Food play (do they like using food in the bedroom? are there any foods they prefer to use during sex or foreplay? any they’d like to try?)

G - Group sex (would they have a threeway? four? an orgy? do they put on a show for spectators? or do they like to keep it just between them and their partner?) 

H - Humiliation (does degradation and insults get them hot? do they get off on humiliating someone else? what kind of humiliation is good for them?) 

I - Impact play (here’s where talking about things like spanking, paddles, canes, floggers and the like.) 

J - Jelly (what kind of lube are they using? is it flavored? have they tasted it? do they prefer to use something other than real lube during sex?) 

K - Kissing (what parts of their body do they like having kissed? what parts of their partner do they enjoy kissing? do they like leaving marks / having marks left on them?) 

L - Lighting (are the lights on? off? do they have some kind of mood lighting set up?) 

M - Masochism (do they like pain? scratching? biting? being bossed around? spoken down to? choked?) 

N - Not yet (orgasm delay? orgasm denial? do they tell their partner not to touch themselves for a certain amount of time or under certain circumstances? do they delay or deny other things like bathroom usage or food? do they need to beg first? do they like being denied / delayed?) 

O - Outdoor sex (have they ever done it in public? would they? where?)

P - Photography (are cameras allowed in the bedroom? do they send nudes? do they ask for nudes? would they ever record themselves having sex / being caught up in a sexual act?) 

Q - Quiet please (what’s the volume like in the bedroom? are they quiet? do they scream? do they like a loud partner? do they prefer if their partner is more soft spoken?)

R - Routine (do they have a routine when it comes to picking up one night stands? do they have scheduled sex with their partner? are things spontaneous or planned ahead of time?) 

S - Sleepy sex (do they give oral to wake their partner up? do they like receiving oral to wake up? do they like fucking their partner awake? being fucked awake? how about being fucked to sleep at night? do they have lazy morning sex?) 

T - Top or bottom (self explanatory…) 

U - Underwear (what kind of underwear do they put on in the morning, if any at all… do they own any sexy underwear or lingerie?) 

V - Voyeurism (do they like to watch, or are they more hands on? are they more of an exhibitionist?) 

W - Water (pool sex? bath / shower sex? are they into watersports at all?)

X - X-dressing (do they crossdress as a part of teasing / foreplay? does crossdressing turn them on? turn their partner on? do they prefer to do it or watch their partner crossdress instead? do they use other costumes? cat ears, tails, etc?) 

Y - Yes, Master (what kinds of names are used during sex? do they like being called master / mistress, daddy, etc…? what names do they call their partner?) 

Z - Zones (what are their erogenous zones? what spots on their body should be touched, bitten, kissed, when someone wants to get them in the mood?) 

[bodie-r-hart]

THE BLACK PHONE

The Grabber

[dirtyriver]

Creepshow: Joe Hill's Wolverton Station, cover by Maria Wolf

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[gollancz]

That's right baybeeee - ten years after it first launched, Gollanczfest is back and it's bigger than ever!

WHEN?

16th March 2024

Leonardo Royal Hotel, London

Tickets go on sale Friday 6th October at 10am UK time!

Early presale for tickets available exclusively to our newsletter subscribers

WHO?

Our headliner? Only VICTORIA AVEYARD

Other confirmed authors: Joe Abercrombie, Natasha Pulley, Garth Nix, Dhonielle Clayton, Joe Hill, Ben Aaronovitch, @joannechocolat, Aliette de Bodard, Sarah Hawley, @jonnywaistcoat, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson . . . and MANY more

Plus: YOU

PLUS

All tickets come with a goodie bag full of Gollancz goodies work at least £30

VIP tickets are available with access to the green room, priority tickets to panels, and additional goodies

FREE SFF quiz run by the greatest quizmasters (allegedly, this may be a title they've claimed themselves and I cannot verify) Joe Abercrombie and Garth Nix!

We'll be announcing panels soon, but this is going to be a fun, friendly and festive day, full of nerdery, excitement and probably a lot of harried looking Gollancz staff stuffing their faces with sandwiches and trying to find where distracted authors have wandered off to.

PARTY TIME

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Midnight Pals: Birthday Shenanigans

Stephen King: boy, looks like that bungler elon musk really bungled it again! King: another rocket exploded! boy! Elon Musk: [appearing from ushes] eyyy Stephano king Musk: you thinka you so smart? Musk: whatsa matta for you?? Musk: i breaka you face!!!

Musk: checka dis out [Elon posts an AI image, again it is unclear what it is supposed to be] King: oh yeah uh King: i still don't know what that is King: joe what is that Joe Hill: i can't help you this time, dad

Musk: eyyyy brazil, you thinka you can enforca laws? Musk: checka dis out! [elon posts poop emoji, Brazil bans twitter] Musk: mama mia!!! Musk: dissa spicy meatball!!

Musk: dissa take ALLA my genius brainapower to meme outta dis one! Musk: [takes extra big bump of ketamine]

King: whoa elon i don't think a person is supposed to take that much ketamine Musk: shut uppa you face Stephano king! Musk: you thinka you know about takinga too many drugs? King: King: yeah i kinda think i do

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers? Poe: oh mary it's you Poe: steve is talking to his friend elon again King: for the last time, we're not friends! Shelley: you want me to take care of this, steve? Shelley: i can make it look like an accident

Poe: now mary there's no need for violence Shelley: i didn't say i need to do violence Shelley: i said i want to do violence Shelley: its my fuckin birthday Shelley: so i get a fuckin treat, okay?

Barker: wasn't your birthday yesterday? Shelley: yeah and what did you all get me? Poe: Barker: king: Lovecraft: Koontz: i drew you this picture of Frankendog

Koontz: he's like Frankenstein but a dog Koontz: i thought he would be better as a dog :) Shelley: yes dean i remember Shelley: that was real nice Shelley: so for that, you're exempt from paying the penalty

Poe: the penalty? Shelley: yeah since you all forgot my birthday Shelley: i get to punch each of you Shelley: in the dick Poe: now come on mary Barker: don't argue with her edgar, we're getting off easy

Shelley: step right up, who's goin first? Shelley: how but you, 2 gun bob? you think you got some brass ones? Howard: now hold on thar, parda- [Shelley punches Robert E Howard, he doubles over] Poe: oh no! 2 Gun Bob! Lovecraft: 2 Gun Bob! Barker: 2 gun Bob! King: 2 Gun Bob!

Shelley: who's next eh? i ain't got all day! Barker: how about jack? Jack Ketchum: Shelley: Ketchum: Shelley: Ketchum: Shelley: yeah i'll pass on that Ketchum: smart choice

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Joe Hill, Carlos A. Cortéz, 1979

Linocut on paper 35 x 23 ¼ in. (88.9 x 59 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

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JOMP Challenge | June 19 | Wings

All of these, incidentally, are currently on my tbr… which should I dive into first?

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Started my horror sweatshirt :3

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Joe Fucking Hill: Joe Hill x Reader

Tagging: @kmc1989 @impossibleblizzardstudentposts @madisonbroxson1 @baconeggndcheez  @queenofbooksandneverland 

Companion piece to:

Good Girl (NSFW) - You're not always such a good girl.

When it gets out that Joe is NYPD royalty, his entire world falls apart despite how much he tries to pretend it doesn’t. He puts on a brave face, ignoring the snide remarks from his CO and the detectives he used to call his friends until the pressure builds and he finally erupts one morning when McGinty calls him a narc. He doesn’t even remember throwing the first punch, only the sensation of the skin splitting on his cheek from the ring the other man wears.

“I don’t know who I am anymore.” He tells you as he sits in your kitchen, clutching an icepack to his cheek.

“I know who you are.” You tell him, your fingertips ghosting along his jaw as you tip his chin up so he can meet your gaze. “You’re Joe fucking Hill.”

He smiles then because the way you say it, it’s as if you’ve never been so certain of anything in your entire life. His hand comes to rest on your hip, his thumb chasing over the slim sliver of skin that’s on display between your tank top and NYPD sweats.

“You’re my port in the storm you know?” He murmurs as he takes away the ice pack. The swelling is starting to go down but the bruising is starting to splinter across his skin in purple hues. “My quiet space when the noise gets too loud.”

His arm loops around your waist, drawing you down into his lap and your forehead comes to rest against his. The scent of eucalyptus floods his senses as he breaths you in, his shoulders finally starting to relax.

This whole thing with the Reagans has completely displaced him. When he submitted his information for the DNA test he never dreamed that it he’d be part of a legacy, he just wanted to know more about the father his mother would never talk about. He wasn’t prepared for the fall out, the impact to his career, the disruption of his life.

The only thing that’s stayed steady throughout this whole thing has been you. You’ve listened to his rants about his mother, his confusion over his sudden abundance of family, his devastation over the loss of this father, the man he never knew. You’re the only person who truly knows and understands who he is because he sure as shit doesn’t anymore.

“So Joe fucking Hill huh?” He says as you take the icepack from his hand and place it back on his cheek. He winces at the sensation, his hand coming to rest on yours, clasping it to his face, grounding him.

“Yea.” You say, your lips brushing over his and Joe, he just melts into that kiss. “Joe fucking Hill.”

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