Sam Beckbessinger
Sam Beckbessinger writes weird horror stories and kids tv shows, and helps people learn to adult better (she's still figuring it out herself)

Latest posts

Dec
23
Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

A personal history of my love/loathing of horror movies
14 min read
Dec
09
Hand-drawn scribble saying "Grrrl Power" and other doodles

Love is for Losers

Five things that made my week, from queer teen fiction to ChatGPT.
4 min read
Nov
29
What do sponges think about?

What do sponges think about?

A book about animal consciousness, postcard admin, and my favourite reads about the fall of SBF
5 min read
Nov
29
Okay but for real, how great is Glass Onion?

Okay but for real, how great is Glass Onion?

This is a brief spoiler-filled discussion of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Don't read this until you've watched the movie!
2 min read
Oct
28
Spooky season

Spooky season

Some great new horror movies to watch this October
4 min read
Oct
28
A Nick Cave Crash Course

A Nick Cave Crash Course

Nick Cave is one of my favourite, favourite musicians: a dark crooner, a twisted lyricist, a rogue magic-man. But the
3 min read
Sep
23
Woman on a bicycle with a dog by Careshia Esperanza

The Autumn of Longevity

Since AI art dominated the last newsletter, I thought it would be fun to showcase some art from YOU ACTUAL
4 min read
Sep
16

Girls of Little Hope - coming 2023

A sneak peak of the cover for my first novel, coming out in 2023
1 min read
Aug
26
Anakin meme: AI is going to replace everyone's job soon. Padme says, "Except creative work, right?"

Experiments in AI

Well, it's happened: the robots have officially come for my job.
6 min read
Aug
25
four abstract illustrations of the cost of living crisis from Midjourney

10 ways to inflation-proof your budget (tips from an AI)

I got an AI to write a blog post for me. Let's see how it did.
6 min read