The Indie Cats of Ulthar

Julia watched with horrified fascination as the flesh slowly turned a rotting black and then started to recede, as if something were eating it from within. Some of it fell in gooey lumps, taking the suddenly unsupported bones with them. She remembered an old episode of CSI: Las Vegas in which the team had found a liquefied corpse. So that’s how it happens. Except, the owner of the rotting hand was still very much alive, and every bit as terrified as one might expect. It was the second time she watched the video, and she had muted it; there was no need to subject herself to the screaming again - the man was barely coherent, and his girlfriend wasn’t much better. A concerned citizen had filmed the whole thing, making ample use of his no doubt expensive iPhone zoom function, and then had sold it to a shady website. The accompanying article claimed that no other news outlet had had the courage to buy it and accused the mainstream media of suppression, just like they were suppressing info...

So, we've made some changes to our blogs, including this one. We've always referred to The Snarky Cats of Ulthar as the 'main blog', but as the posts are now more evenly spread across blogs, and especially since we decided to keep the Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror in their own place, it doesn't feel quite the same anymore. 'The Snarky Cats of Ulthar' is still a huge part of our online identity, but when it comes to blogging, things are going to be a little different.

Of course, Julia knew that Dan would never have sent her to meet normal people, but she'd still had to work hard not to roll her eyes until they fell off their sockets after she saw the group waiting for her at the neighbourhood library. The choice of venue had been theirs because they volunteered there and felt that it would be a good way to highlight how important accessing books was for children of marginalised communities. They were concerned about the possibility of the UK Right adopting the tactics of their American counterparts and start suppressing more diverse books.

On our first post , we mentioned having become suspicious of Blogger stats and now it looks like a good time to elaborate on it.

Julia remembered the exact moment things had gone wrong. Another intern had called in sick and she had been sent to the literary conference in his place. At first, it had seemed the perfect job for her and a way to stand out from the other interns at the magazine. How could she possibly fail? Yet, failed she had.

Something weird happened recently when we posted a review of Netflix anime TV series The Grimm Variations  on the  The Snarky Cats of Ulthar blog . As soon as we posted it, we received a notification that it had been flagged as adult content. It was instantaneous and the stats showed 0 views. However, the accompanying e-mail repeated the usual 'Your Post (...) was flagged to us for review'. How is it possible for anyone to flag a post without even clicking on it? Why would anyone want to do that and why would they pick this specific post? We checked the Content Policy and it hasn't changed. This is what it (still) says about how content is monitored: