Midnight Pals: Weirdgirls

Chloe Johnson: open wide, horror fans
Johnson: cuz here's a new sheriff in town
Johnson:you've heard of hopepunk
Johnson: you've heard of sweetweird
Johnon: you've heard of noblebright and squeecore and nicewave
Johnson: well get read for the hot new horror microgenre that's blowing them all away
Johnson: it's weird girl hours

Johnson: that's right, weirdgirl is the new hotness that all the kids are talking about
Johnson: female and non-binary writers are driving a vibrant new sub-genre featuring strange, unhinged underdogs
Johnson: so LOOK OUT, Mr John Q Horror Writer!
Johnson: feminism is back
Johnson: and this time
Johnson: there's enbies too

Johnson: let's look in on how weirdgirl is changing the scene
[at midnight society]
Angela Carter: out of the way, men!
Carter: horror's not just an old boy's club anymore!
Carter: it turns out that the sisters
Carter: are going to be doing it for themselves
Carter: and the enbies too

Poe: angela, what's all this about?
Carter: perhaps you're not aware edgar
Carter: here's a new kind of horror in town
Tabitha King: yeah!
Anne Rice: that's right!
Carter: goodbye, cozy!
Carter: hello, weird!

Carter: women be writing weird books
Carter: and the enbies too
Patricia Highsmith: what? dames write books?
Carter:
Highsmith: that IS weird
Carter:
Carter: i don't even know what's happening over here, if i'm honest

Lovecraft: what?! this is ridiculous
Lovecraft: everyone knows that girls don't know how to be weird!
Carter: and the enbies too

Carter: but consider this
Carter: what could be weirder than a girl?
Lovecraft: i
Lovecraft: [sweats] that is true, i do find girls to be very weird

Carter: and the enbies too
Lovecraft: n-no
Lovecraft: no they just girls lite, aren't they?
Carter:
Lovecraft: so they're less weird
Lovecraft: by definition
Carter:

Lovecraft: b-but how can this be a thing?
Lovecraft: all the greats of weird fiction have always been men
Lovecraft: Machen, Hodgson, Kafka
Barker: you really sure about that last one, howard?
Lovecraft: huh?
Kafka: huh?
Barker: ha ha ha
Kafka: what's that mean?
Poe: nothing pay no attention to him

Bitter Karella: wh-what's that you say?
Karella: female and non-binary writers are driving a vibrant new sub-genre featuring strange, unhinged underdogs???
Karella: you know, i can think of one non-binary writer driving a vibrant new sub-genre featuring strange, unhinged underdogs
Karella: [holding up MOONFLOW available at fine bookstores everywhere Sept 2025]

Karella: that's right it's Moonflow
Karella: available September 2025
Karella: it's that exciting new book that everyone's talking about
Karella: featuring a strange, unhinged underdog
Karella: and taking place in a vibrant new sub-genre
Karella: BUY MY BOOK

Karella: boy writing hack jokes about the battle of the sexes gets way harder when there's no binary
Karella: maybe it's finally time go the way of all fading comedians and become transphobic