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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 6h

I'm Texas senator Angela Paxton and I'm a fucking collaborator

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Never not clicked on a video so hard in my life

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Excellent vampire novel. Fast, punchy, and brutal - all the things you could ask for

The cover for Kieth Rosson's Coffin Moon, featuring a road winding through the jaw of a fanged skull

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Took a day off from work, doing some arting

A view of a painting set up, featuring paints, brushes, and some miniatures

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Sing Street will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

The members of the fictional band Sing Street, from the film of the same name

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Paranmaum will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

The four members of the band Paranmaum, from the movie Linda Linda Linda

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

3/5. A taught thriller that sweeps you up in its rushing narrative, it might be light on characterization, but has chills that crawl up the back of your mind like a spider. Short, but good stuff

Cover for The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

5/5. A brilliant documentation of the ups and many, often contradictory and complex downs that women and feminism have experienced in Russian history. The phrase "history doesn't repeat but it often rhymes" comes to mind

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Halloween at the ******* house is gonna be lit this year

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dyed my hair. Looks a little green but it's cobalt blue

Different views of a white guy with a beard, glasses, and dyed hair

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

3/5. Good debut, but not much else to say in terms of quality. If you like Anne Rice's vampires, you'll like this too

The cover for LA Barron's The Last Rites of Baby Blue, featuring the titular character wearing a black shirt, black collar, and a bunch of silver jewelry. Blood drops from the corner of their mouth

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Everyone say hello to Gottfried Verrückthosen-Kleinbeißer (and his reference image)

A small creature dressed as some kinda knight, with silver feet and helmet, a red skirt, and a gold face plate

The reference image used for the three previous pictures

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

3/5. Like yeah, I get it, but it's fine. It's basically the same scene repeated several times and amounting to not much. The focus is more on the nuances of translation and the relationship between to colonial and the colonized. If you're looking for a moving relationship though, look elsewhere

The cover for Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shūang-Zi, translated by Lin King

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The character of Jimmy McGill from Better Call Saul repeatedly kicking a trashcan

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm the kinda dork who brings a book to read while he waits for the movie to start

A copy of Yáng Shuāng-Zi's Taiwan Travelogue

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

5/5. @moryan.bsky.social does an excellent job spinning together anecdotes and keen observation to paint a picture of a system driven by greed and ego. The real meat and potatoes is in the second half, where ideas are put forth for how to create change. It's all good and you should all read it

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

3/5. Stapling together HG Wells War of the Worlds and The Time Machine (along with a nod to Jules Verne) this novel is strongest in its first and third acts, act two dragging too much despite moments of thrills. Further, the main character is just...so boring

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

4/5. I don't think there's anything I can say about this series that hasn't already been said. Martha Wells has created a truly delightful and sometimes painfully relatable character, dropping them into a galaxy of danger and empathy. Good stuff

The cover for Martha Wells' Platform Decay

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Finally found a Pride Month greeting that matches my personality

Two Warhammer 40K Orks saying "Be gay, do WAAAGH!"

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thought I just had but, even before the allegations came out, I was already pulling away from Neil Gaiman and it started with View From the Cheap Seats

A cover for The View From the Cheap Seats

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

4/5. While populated by engaging characters and intriguing world-building, this tightly paced novella doesn't do much to change my opinion that fantasy and noir don't really mix that well. If you're looking for fantasy, it's a good read; if you're looking for some noir, maybe give it a skip

The cover for C.P. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End, featuring two people, presumably the two women at the heart of the novel, embracing each other and kissing, while their faces are obscured by flocking birds

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

5/5. A beautiful continuation of Sara Gran's existential noir thrillers, following hard-bitten PI Claire DeWitt as she searches for the truth at the heart of not one, but three mysteries, one that goes to her origin as a detective.

The cover for Sara Gran's The Infinite Blacktop, featuring a white car hovering vertically over a field of black and white stripes

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sara Gran might be one of the most underappreciated US authors working today. These quotes are from a book she published in 2018 and they feel so relevant and straight to the heart in a world flooded by LLMs and "AI"

Imagine taking a knife. Imagine taking a nice big kitchen knife and putting it right here—(indicates central torso). Can you imagine that? Are you all with me? Now imagine taking that razor and you cut. You cut and you cut and you cut—and it hurts like hell, it hurts just like you think it does—and you bleed until you find something inside you—until you find something good enough and pure enough and broken enough that you—that this is the very best part of you, this is the essence of you, this is all of your pain and all of your joy compressed into this little, this bloody little thing, like an organ, like a material manifestation of your soul—you cut and you cut until you find this secret thing, this nameless thing, and at great,

you know, great personal fucking expense you cut some more and you tear this fucking thing out of yourself, and you leave yourself bloody and raw, and hopefully everyone else in the room too, hopefully you are all in this together, all of you, you know, traumatized or enlightened or whatever by this.

And that thing we find, that thing we find when we cut, is the best thing we have. It's all we leave behind when we’re gone. And your client wants to use it to do the single most boring, useless thing on earth: make money.

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

3/5. A really good first novel from a celebrated comic book writer. Very quickly paced, with fun characters, but somewhat lacking in bite. The main villain also feels pretty unremarkable

The cover for Gail Simone's Red Sonja: Consumed, featuring a sword with a horse head pommel and encircled by long red hair

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Me when someone says they don't like Dolly Parton

Anthony Bourdain about to drink from a glass, looking off to the side like someone off screen just said something stupid

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

5/5. I've said it before and I'll say it until I'm dead: Tad Williams is the only author worthy of being called "the modern Tolkien." Expansive storytelling, densely layered mysteries, and not a single character who feels less than three dimensional

The cover for Tad Williams' Into the Narrowdark, featuring a drawing of the character Hakatri wearing and elaborate helmet

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Well that's either darkly funny or really unfortunate

A screenshot from an article about how Michael Jackson was a pedophile where an ad from a Micheal Jackson biopic has appeared over a paragraph from the article.

The article reads:

Skeptics also point to Robson changing his story.

He was defense witness No. 1 in 2005. But he realized that he couldn’t stay quiet anymore. Although he’d been in love with Jackson, he could no longer defend his abuser. And so the price of coming out is huge. You have to tell your parents you were lying to them.

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Chris, but like, spooky 🍉 @christopherwards.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Guys help. I'm on a layover in Dallas Love on my way to see @mainelymandy.bsky.social and there's this hot violinist playing in the food court

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