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A.V. Avallone

@avwrites.bsky.social

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he/they writer of speculative fiction & short musings reviews at linktr.ee/victorsbookshelf read more at avwrites.fyi

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like come on look at this old #SherlockBBC promo and then the #DeptQ one it's not even funny

Promo photo for Sherlock BBC season 1 with Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson against a cloudy London background

A very similar promo photo for DeptQ with Carl Morck and Akram Salim walking against the backdrop of a cloudy Edinburgh

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just finished Season 1 of #DeptQ and... Yep, good enough, welcome back #Johnlock

A still from the DeptQ TV show in which Carl Morck and Akram Salim are sitting in armchairs and Carl is looking at Akram

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fun but very hard exercise to pick 9 #videogames that shaped me and my tastes. Honorable mention for Animal Crossing: Wild World which literally changed my life trajectory, but that's less about the game itself. I can definitely see the influence they had in what I want to write 😬 my9games.net/en

A grid containing 9 videogames with the title My 9 Games. The games are Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Inscryption, Blue Prince, Control, Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Kentucky Route Zero, Portal, Into the Breach.

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Starting an internet Trans noir called Jaw Filler the blurb of which promises something deeply unhinged and terminally online. The first paragraph DEFINITELY delivered.

Book page. Chapter 1 on top. Section header: Detective Sean Hastings. Text reads: I cut my teeth as a middle-aged married businessman dom top like any other suburban teenage girl with gender dysphoria and dial-up. Twenty years later and the Internet is a different place, but some things stay the same - liars and cheats, and my ability to sniff them out.

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Stills from the movie Knives Out, showing Detective Benoit Blanc saying "It makes no damn sense. Compels me though."

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Me: reads 60 books in 2024 and 57 in 2025 Also me: obtains 60 books in 2024 and 50 in 2025 Also also me when my TBR doesn't shrink: #BookSky 💙📚

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I keep thinking about this recently ngl

The meme format with Lisa Simpson standing in front of an audience with a projector screen behind her back. The screen reads: "Social media stories are a massive scam created to manufacture FOMO and keep us glued to whatever platform is using them because truth is if we all posted permanent content there would be no urgency to check our feeds and we could just log in and catch up whenever."

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

And here they are! I can't wait to dive into it. I flipped through it and kept going OH I LOVE THAT ONE every few pages! Again, fantastic job.

A red box with silver foil in geometric pattern over a wooden surface

The opened red box with more geometrical patterns over a wooden surface

The opened red box with the cover of the book showing through the paper cut out

The book next to its red sleeve, which is die cut and embossed

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

@jacobgeller.com's How A Game Lives Deluxe Edition showed up on our doorstep today completely by surprise and it already has a full blown photoshoot planned. This is a wonderful piece of art, not only because of the writing, but because of its design, materials, colours – everything. Wonderful.

A red box with silver reflecting foil in an abstract geometrical pattern

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Was reading about the #4chan hack on Reuters and brb gonna be laughing at this for the next 3-5 business days

Screenshot of a Reuters article about the 4chan hacking with the last two sentences highlighted. Text:

The publication TechCrunch cited an unnamed 4chan moderator as saying they had no reason to dispute the authenticity of the screenshots, and the site was only intermittently available on Tuesday.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the details of the incident, nor who might be behind the alleged hack.

Messages sent to 4chan's press email went unreturned. One of the two dozen or so alleged moderators purportedly exposed in the hack wrote back using their 4chan email address to say that the site had released a "video statement."

The user then pointed Reuters to an unrelated, explicit four-minute video montage. A request for further information was followed by a link to a different video with similar content.

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I HAVE FINISHED MY RE-READ. MY THIRD EYE IS OPEN. I UNDERSTAND NOW. #BookSky 💙📚 #JeffVanderMeer #SouthernReach

A screenshot of a Storygraph challenge marking the four books of the Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer as Complete

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

February is the month I finally purge my #TBR and I've never done this before and I'm scared but IT'S TIME. This number hasn't budged in months, maybe a year - there's no way I still wanna read all of these 🤡 #BookSky 📚💙

A Notion screenshot showing a donut chart visualising a to read list breakdown by year the book was acquired. 80 total books, 4 from 2022, 54 from 2023, 20 from 2024, and 2 from 2025.

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Me after reaching the end of Acceptance by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social during my Southern Reach re-read #BookSky 📚💙

A meme of a horse on a beach, staring at the horizon, with the word "MAN" written in the skyline

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

That's a wrap on 2024! 🎇 Last year I read 60 books (~18.5k pages), less than 2023's 86 books (~25.5k pages), but still very good! Both years had an average score of 3.7⭐, so still a solid score! My 2025 challenge will be to do more re-reads, and I'm already loving it! #BookSky 📚💙

A white man with brown hair wearing a t-shirt and jeans sitting next to a stack of 60 books, in front of a bookshelf.

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A.V. Avallone @avwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hello hello, testing 123? Alex Victor here, bookworm and bookseller, bookstagrammer since 2022, and concerned about the current and future state of Meta products. So here I am now, just in case. How's the bookish community over here? 📚💕

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