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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

Thinking of the time Kabza de Small played this gospel song at a concert and I had a spiritual experience... I was sweating like Delroy Lindo in Da 5 Bloods

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026

Motorcycle (bodaboda) operators have to wear reflector jackets, and are usually given branded ones during elections. So you'll find them with the face of a governor or an MP... Not Eldoret! They are rocking DCI reflector jackets 😭😭😭 AFANDE PLSSSS

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026

"unfortunately we will not be moving forward with your application but we hope to work with you in the future"

Woman pointing a gun at a computer for some reason, 1998

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026

If 2Pac was from the Kenyan Coast. "MAGHARIBI!" lol

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026

The English leaving my brain the minute I have to express any emotion

A solitary child running in a bizarre T post on a dark street in the middle of the night (a still from the 2025 film Weapons)

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026

Wow please the scream I let out 😭 @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social The Anthology is on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards!

The Preliminary Ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards - Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Allingham, LCW and Eno, River - Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts (Speculation Publications)

Armiento, Isabel ed. - One Bad Night & Other Stories (Aardvark Book Club)

Bissett, Carina ed. - Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon (Storied Imaginarium)

Day, Julie C; Bissett, Carina; and Gidney, Craig Laurence eds. - Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Essential Dreams Press)

Golden, Christopher and Keene Brian - The End Of The World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (Gallery Books)

Iheuze, Somto and Olivia Kidula (that's me!) - Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology (Shilitza Publishing)

Kulski, Kristy Park - Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From The Asian Diaspora (Bad Hand Books)

Murray, Lee and Jeffery, Dave — This Way Lies Madness: Stories from the Edge of Darkness (Flame Tree Publishing)

Pascale, Elaine — Darkness Most Fowl (The Godmother of Horror Press)

Ryan, Lindy and Wytovich, Stephanie M., ed. — HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror (Black Spot Books)

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026

Thank you to all those who nominated 🤗🤗 Babies Don't Grow In People - Peter Nena willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2025/07/10/b... Grasps of The Forgotten - Peter Marco willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/wp-content/u...

Peter Marco's artwork 'Grasps of The Forgotten' from WTBAP Issue 2 - a dark skinned woman sits on a bed seemingly distressed with one hand supporting her head. Behind her disembodied hands reach for her through the wall, and each wrist is adorned with the same bracelet that is on hers.

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 19/01/2026

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace"

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 16/01/2026

Judges (2006). This is probably the WORST movie I have ever watched in my entire life.... Bafflingly bad in every way, from the acting to the set design to the story... As a kid I made every visitor watch this... they seldom returned

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026

I'm halfway through Wall of Storms, and all I can think about is this tweet... these kids 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Ancient canonical Tweet that asks: "why do bash " dead-beat" dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they're just unpleasant to be around?"

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025

the worst man in the world after rightfully facing the consequences of his poor decisions: I almost killed myself with alcohol

The second post from the "no don't kill yourself you're so sexy ahaha" meme which is usually "jk do it fatty" but has been edited to say "jk do it MLEVI" (mlevi = drunk (n.)

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 15/12/2025

Season finale of IT: Welcome To Derry

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 06/12/2025

I feel like there's a poem in here somewhere

Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing my 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "book" (11×), "started" (7×), "film" (7×), "african" (7×), "books" (7×), "share" (6×), "stories" (6×), "talk" (6×), "kenyan" (6×), "essays" (6×)

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 24/11/2025

I have been cackling at this "sustainable dining" set-up all morning. They're quite literally in the trenches... are those drainage pipes... Look at their faces 😭

An alleged "sustainable dining" set-up in someone's backyard that is actually just a pair of trenches 'furnished' with wooden planks and banana leaves. The dinner guest is supposed to sit in the muddy trench and eat off the 'raised' ground.

A closer view of the "sustainable dining" set-up featuring a group of obviously disgruntled diners. No-one has a smile on their face. Closest to the camera: a white man in an orange shirt and a black man in a blue shirt, both contemplating their life choices.

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 23/11/2025

It's time to remove Piastri from my fantasy league

Pic of Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown in the 1991 film New Jack City. He is holding a gun and pointing it at someone, while tears fall from his face.

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 10/11/2025

#nr African-American Gothic: Screams From Shadowed Places by Maisha L Wester. An illuminating text that is still pleasant to read. I'm learning so much! Among other things, the realization that a lot of Kenyan fiction novels are gothic in nature. Kikuyu Gothic is not a joke, its but a way of life!

The cover of African American Gothic: Screams From Shadowed Places by Maisha L. Wester. Inset: A black and white picture of a young African American woman, appears to be holding a broom in her right hand while a mop lies to her left, appearing to lean on a cabinet of sorts. Behind her is the American flag. The picture & title text is surrounded by a bright yellow background

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 08/08/2025

Excited to announce I'll be at Seattle WorldCon (virtually!) I'll be moderating the panel Translation, Language Barriers & The Limits of The Canon featuring @izom-chisom.bsky.social & @formerlykevin.bsky.social as the panelists. Super excited as this is WTBAP's first WorldCon appearance!

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 06/08/2025

Our president kept harping on about "well paying digital jobs for the youth, well paying digital jobs for the youth"... I'm starting to think he just meant Hasbara...

Screenshot showing the similar subreddits to r/Kenya by user overlap. Users of r/kenya are 40x times likely to post on the Israeli subreddit

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 03/08/2025

Pouring one out for this diva 🥀🥀🥀

The Shinigami Rem from Death Note, doomed by the narrative and borderline misogynistic writing

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 23/02/2025

I too was not a fan of the self-congratulatory tone of The New York Times piece on African publishing

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025

I have so many questions for the editors of that publication liiike you didn't want to cut any of this out? "okay let me breathe." "ok I'm back!" "Goodnight!" 😭😭😭

A screenshot from The Kalahari Review.

The first paragraph isn't relevant; what I wanted to highlight was:

"Okay let me breathe.

Deep breaths and all that following my breath' mumbo-jumbo.

Phew!"

I'm back. You know what?"

A screenshot from an essay in The Kalahari Review. This is the first sentence of the FIRST paragraph.

"So I forgot what I wanted to actually write about.

Weird.

I had this whole essay written in my head last night and when I woke up dololo, as we say. I was blank. But while I try to remember as well as come up with an appropriate title (after I actually remember what the heck I wanted to write about)..."

A screenshot of the conclusion of an essay on The Kalahari Review:

"It's 2 a.m. Goodnight!"

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 24/01/2025

The mum in Requiem For A Dream (2000)

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024

My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite I have three sisters. You have to understand!

The cover of My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. It features a dark skinned woman with a headwrap and red-tinted sunglasses on. Reflected in the sunglasses is a hand holding a knife

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024

Japanese Colour Harmony Dictionary: Traditional Colours of Japan - Teruko Sakurai A bit of a deviation from the list but still! It's ideally for graphic designers but I use it to pick out my nail colours most of the time

The cover of the Japanese Colour Harmony Dictionary: Traditional Colours of Japan - The Complete Guide For Designers and Graphic Artists by Teruko Sakurai. It features four panels, an orange parasol, a blue tinged mountain with white snow and a few clouds, an enamel plate with blue flowers on a white background with purple reeds, and a white bird flying over a red background with multicoloured baubles and an open fan

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024

Clay's Ark - Octavia Butler I love and have read every single one of Butler's books & short stories but Clay's Ark stands out the most to me. It's her most brutal work especially with regards to consent & non-consent.

The cover of Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024

Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman I haven't read anything like this before and haven't found anything like it after! A mishmash of historical fiction, epic grimdark fantasy and abject horror all taking place in a Dante-esque version of Hell on Earth 👹 so good!

The cover for Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi Their best book in my opinion. If you know, you know; and if you don't, you need to fix that immediately.

The cover of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters Reese is a trans woman who has always dreamed of motherhood. Ames, her ex girlfriend now detransitioned is facing fatherhood with his boss & lover, and decides for reasons to involve Reese in the parenting process (messssss but so spicy)

The cover of Detransition Baby, a novel by Torrey Peters.

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt A violently disturbing and queer haunted house story. Three women enter a haunted house, only two come out.

The cover for Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

Allegedly - Tiffany D. Jackson At the age of 9, Mary was convicted of murdering a 3 month old baby. 6 years later she's thinking of breaking her silence on what really happened that night.

The cover of Allegedly, a novel by Tiffany D. Jackson

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 07/12/2024

And Then I Woke Up - Malcolm Devlin A great subversion of the zombie apocalypse trope - a virus causes people to hallucinate and not be able to distinguish the fake from the real. Amazing use of unreliable narration!

The cover of And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin. It features a smudged, darkly clothed figure in a pink seat with a machete at its feet

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