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One of the most writer un-friendly websites out there. Designed for talking trash. The thought police will block you if you make remarks that are beyond hostile or touch a nerve that goes into the realm of slamming pedophiles as Jared Fogle and Ian Watkins of Lostprophets were on the receiving end of a hashtag reaming.
I've seen what Darren McKeeman pulled after he was fired from Gothic.net, still enraged that his photo in a tux was used as urinal cake and photographed the aftermath. He up and created a fake twitter account of me and seen other fake accounts pop up as well.
by illinoishorrorman January 16, 2018
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Educated Everyman

A character that the Cabbie Homicide author coined when he does metafiction and real person fiction at his own expense as he does the style known as Real Person Horror (there are rules in the form as don't kill the real person off because they might have a sick fuck inspired by this. See stalker as those who are MarySue might wonder if this is a variation of the development. The character is usually had some college or self-educated (ie attended a community college) and well versed in unexplored subject matter as the roots come from Western Philosophy. As this is often stems from the roots of Amateur Sleth and Philosophical literature; as it's an archtype drawn from problem novels and modeled after Wes Craven's research for material sometimes coming up with subject matter from the same source material but not plagiarism. The character is modeled from Richard Matheson's horror output as he uses real places and real neighborhoods -- a variation of the badass normal coined by TVTropes. The character is a blue collar but transplanted into academia as the origins come from GlendaleHeights and CarolStream. Such characters are a combination of book and street smart as the character is common with urban fiction.
What is an Educated Everyman? The heavy metal pastor who weighed in on the King James Only Movement is the archetype for this character when they're much older. TVTropes would consider the archetype of the Greek philosopher Aesop but minus the funny talking animals. What ever you do, just don't steal their walkman in Cabrini Green because they will give you chase at full sprint.
by illinoishorrorman February 13, 2018
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House of Pain E-Zine

If you were a horror author in the mid-1990s into the mid-2000s, you'd find your way on here and featured eventually. Noted for ushering writers who also turned publishers like Mike Philbin (Hertzan Chimera), Kealan Patrick Burke (as he disowns The Clause), Trent Zelazny (as he eventually worked with me on my first magazine's issue, and the third issue) and a host of others.

In 2003 Wraith Knox introduced Nicholas Tillemans who became part of the second Chimeraworld anthology, as some of the roster became part of Tabloid Purposes as some joined in the sequels. It is known as a who's who in the small press as the independent press introduced bizzaro fiction, neo-traditional, Stygian Memoir (the creative nonfiction subgenre that is an offshoot of Gothic Horror and Gonzo Journalism,) alt. history ala 1990s, and horror that became from the post-9/11 world as it was a touchy subject to approach. Being dark about September 11th was a bit taboo.

Noted for invoking a huge fuck you factor for publishing The Fandom Writer from being on FictionPress earlier that year as it was written from returning after attending Goth Convergence in Chicago. Janice Frank in 2004 while she was still alive; defecated on House of Spiders. I taunted, "The more you bastards flame on this one, all you're doing is giving it an even more potent sting."
Fandom Wank: you know that wop we were taking turns on.

mindset: yeah
The other blogtroll: Shit he appeared on House of Pain E-Zine with that notorious story. Was the editor trying to piss us off when she included it?

According to an e-mail they had -- they expressed a mutual hatred for Poppy Z. Brite.

Gruesome Cargo in an interview with him on AuthorsDen said it grabbed her attention and noted to be the most accessible short story on the site. The Fandom Writer and The Ferryman's Wheelchair are both progressively disturbing in their own ways.

All of them: JESUS have you seen the rest of the featured on there, some of them are a collective brood of utter sick fuck fictioneers. Have you seen the story called BUKKAKEWORLD? Two of the writers wrote a novel called BOYFISTGIRLSUCK. There are a few publications circulating around that's pretty damn close to the controversial e-zine as one of them did a very dark incarnation which became known as The Ethereal Gazette: Issue Five noted for introducing two writers from the Edgar Allan Poe fandom and two from fictionpress. It's also noted to have The Pattern Of Diagnosis which has a very haunting echo of David Foster Wallace -- he included this under the encouragement of a Goth model named Tragic Wrath. The interview between him and Hertzan Chimera saw a sabertooth nature where it rivaled The Boondocks with the episode known as BET Sucks.
by illinoishorrorman June 1, 2018
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outreach

In Chicago -- getting published in print on demand circles that's not a pay-a-grand to be published and how to effectively do it is appear with 15-18 other authors in an anthology over the years. Some don't see this as part of their vocabulary for some reason, don't see it as meaningful work for others. Getting yourself in print with TheBookPatch.com or Blurb.com are strong examples of this. Some don't understand this at all but in Florida it's cold calling those who are unfortunate. Reaching out to the community in Chicago -- the option is publication and getting the community published. This is very common when you see someone who is trying to get a GoFundMe going want to help them out do a press release and tap a mate who is on WritersCafe.org when they don't have New Media support.
Seems like Florida and Chicago are not on the same page when it comes to definition of this word: outreach , one on the other hand. They see an ISBN and ISSN, such as being on the newsstand the other well it's trying to be more active in the community where they don't see a skillset as a wheelhouse that's useful. Outreach has two different meanings in two locations; and that's a huge factor when horns are getting locked often -- the use of drabble burns out a man and having them disown their published output. That's a sin on their part. The thing about non-profits is how some became published in print was from this and the ISBN that is on The Book Patch and worked with LibreOffice what they have in common. Both are non-profit origins. "You want to outreach, you get published. Don't give someone the drabble output for this to work. Draw out your piece, put a lot of thought into it. Then show me what you can do."
by illinoishorrorman December 30, 2018
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fib

Fucking Illinois Bastard. Common insult if you're from Illinois going to Wisconsin. If you want to piss us off; say our state name with the "s" as that's a common thing in Iowa. The "s" is silent fuckball. Those of you who are writing fanfiction of Early Edition get our accent right, dammit. And don't use the word 'sammich' that's our joke. flatlander is another I heard too, April Derleth was careful not to use either of these terms as she worked with a few out of Chicago.
I heard this remark thrown at me at cheesehead in Iowa City, Iowa, as he was driving the bus on the University of Iowa campus in 1999, it was the first time I had this thrown at me. I had heard Mason City residents call me greaseball as there's still a lot of Anti-Italian prejudice there. My former boss at the pet store told me that I needed to shed my ethnic inland accent. He heard me call him a cheesehead, as he goes, "let me guess you're a fib, as only those from Chicago will use the term 'cheesehead' as it's chased with the fuck relative."
by illinoishorrorman May 3, 2018
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punchy

A term for having a real attitude, uncensored and tongue-in-cheek aspects. Dorr Baptist Church of Michigan saw this with King James Only Examined on the light blue blog and noticed the tough language this uses; this is the aspect that became known on The House of Pain E-zine alumni as they have a distinct aspect as they're quite fond of this. Holden's Counterpart and The Pattern Of Diagnosis are noted for the extreme nature of this.
Dictionary of Christianese barred the writer of The Pattern Of Diagnosis over his punchy comments; the light blue blog -- his classmates from Glenbard East didn't appreciate the Hogwart's reference as that's the punchy nature that emerged from her. The punchy form is not exactly appreciated in ways because one seen comments about the use of fuck as a Christian writer on Huffington Post had him laughing because of the reference of melting one's ear drums because of the language.
by illinoishorrorman June 1, 2018
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creepypasta

An interesting horror phenomenon which it was formed from a journalistic hoax from a man who had SomethingAwful ties creating the figure known as slenderman. The precursor to this was the now defunct e-zine known as The House of Pain which established in 1994.

The guilty party behind The Cabbie Homicide, he in 2006 introduced a creative nonfiction piece called The Pattern of Diagnosis introduced on his own mag and in a Philly based mag in autumn of 2007. The latter compared to the earlier piece was a hope spot in contrast, as this has an eerie personality of it's own often seen as Inspirational though it's eerie atmosphere.

Pinned a piece to his personal pinterest account; a creepypasta piece on fanfiction net examining it as it was the size of his cult horror outings going around and his published output. Tampa Bay Times did an interesting article about the phenomenon as they documented a truecrime that happened in Wisconsin that the subjects stabbed a classmate to honor the fictional entity. It's something born out of what is known as fakelore. Where a journalistic hoax meets weird fiction is when you get the creepypasta output. It shows up on wattpad as the author introduced a horror story that deconstructs how teenagers were portrayed in teen dramas and in slasher films as the actors are often older.

He in 2006 introduced a dry-witted narrator in a short story called Spectral Exile which is quite gory in nature.
creepypasta is a curious thing -- especially the ones that are presented in the 4800 word range without showing up as fannish. The one who goes by the screenname Blackbird bleeds on fanfiction.net produced a piece that can be studied on an academic level. According to Wikipedia -- Slenderman's origin has ties to the writer, H. P. Lovecraft and the pervert who composed "The Naked Lunch" who killed his wife in a drunken idiotic stunt playing "William Tell"with a firearm in the 1940s. The Cabbie Homicide a true crime short story that's has origins in Glendale Heights and Addison, Illinois, plays up a much darker and harder version of The Tell-Tale Heart as some think this is a creepypasta before the term was coined.
by illinoishorrorman March 13, 2018
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