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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

dark gritty santapunk world where the Great Powers of Europe both mandate celebration of Christmas and encourage their subjects to be as naughty as possible to preserve unlimited access to coal and continued industrialization.

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Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in Horror History, CARNIVAL OF SOULS was released in 1962.

Black and white image of a woman gripping a car steering wheel, looking tense, with a blurred man visible through the rear window.

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I genuinely tried putting this in a dystopian novel back in 2015, but never found a publisher for it

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Loved that exhibition. I'd been wanting to see his work for over 20 years

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Congratulations on the release! Waiting on my copy arriving

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's superb! Wish it had a physical releass

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If Hugo continues to grow at this rate, by 2030 he will no longer fit in the barn. By 2050 he will have grown to the size of Godzilla and could crush humanity. But if we let the Chinese grow their own Hugo first that would be bad. This is why we must invest 100 trillion dollars in Hugo immediately.

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm already on discord, would be interested

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rosemary Sutcliffe! I read so many of hers growing up.

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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Monstress (Image) is still ongoing, and great

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I first got into your games with Noitu Love 2, enjoyed that and Legend of Princess as well as Iconoclasts. Interested in whatever you're working on!

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

mandatory reading

"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We Have Always Lived In The Castle Carmilla Blackwater Dark Matter (Michelle Paver) Fever Dream (Samanta Schweblin) The Luminous Dead The Red Tree White Is For Witching Sorrowland Other Words For Smoke

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/07/2026

Eremition

(eh-ruh-MIH-shun) (Greek: erēmites)

(n.) The act of gradually fading from the lives of others, not out of malice but a desire for solitude or renewal.

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Borges did something similar - writing short descriptive pieces about imaginary books he wished he'd written

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

8. I knew maggot from Sylvia Townsend Warner, but tripped up on betimes

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Me: I am going to invent a character who is So Smart Me, realising the character is smarter than me, the puppet master: Oh no

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"...and under them the ice darkened and began to glide. A channel opened very slowly in the floor, and all their luggage floated out in the river of moonlight. All the suitcases were open and full of darkness and moss, and none of them ever came back."

A photo of the 2003 Sort Of Books edition of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. The cover photo, of a small wooded island under blue skies, is by Per Olov Jansson.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This feels… portentous?

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

today i discovered my partner has been giving the kittens a drop of cream every morning. i was greeted with this, when i failed to deliver said snack:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/06/2026

Author Wishes She Hadn't Blown Personal Tragedy On First Book theonion.com/author-wishes-she-hadn…

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

No One Gets Out Alive is a semi-recent favourite

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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Yes, those. Shame they're out of print!

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Benjamin Appleby-Dean @badbadwriter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I imported the Australian blu-rays a few years ago - they got seasons 1-5 (although not the movie or future)

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.

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chuck 🐦💐 @chuckdrawsthings.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

the artistic process

PANEL 1: a pigeon sits, head thrown back as they yell "i need to drawwww"
PANEL 2: the pigeon sits up, drawing in a sketchbook, a box of crayons next to them. frowning, they say "ugh this sucks"
PANEL 3: the pigeon lays on their front, happily propping one wing on their face and kicking their legs. they're drawing a slice of bread and say "oh wait, i love art"
PANEL 4: the pigeon stands up, head thrown back as they kick a ball of paper. their art is either scribbled out or balled up, the box of crayons knocked over. they angrily say "i hate everything i've ever made!!!"

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Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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