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Emery Robin

@emwrobin.bsky.social

thy evil spirit, Brutus // THE STARS UNDYING (Nov '22) and THE SEA ETERNAL (March '25), Orbit Books // him/xem

Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

the best research I did for this book was making my brother text his college roommates for party planning ideas for Space Cleopatra. (I unfortunately did not use any of Lou Dawg's)

Lou Dawg: Wine barrel wrestling, chariot racing, mummy massage station, spin the Nile Dial, human pyramid, goblet pyramid, guess who's in the necropolis, the Sultry Sphinx open bar, do the Tut Tut (whatever that is)
My brother: Gold. Also it's sci-fi version of Cleopatra so futuristic stuff is in bounds
Lou Dawg: Oh shii so many possibilities

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Automobile magnate Henry Ford not only firmly believed in the virtues of the melting pot—he literally, and bizarrely, built one. In the 1920s, Ford required his immigrant workers to attend lengthy “Americanization” courses. The graduation ceremony from this program culminated in a pageant in which workers clad in outlandish versions of their “native” costumes descended into a giant pot—a twenty-foot-tall crucible made of wood, canvas, and papier-mâché—and emerged on the other side wearing modern business suits, waving tiny American flags, and singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

when I was a kid I took such pleasure in starting all my projects by getting a piece of printer paper and drawing a beautiful map with ice caps on the mountains and different handwriting for city names and country names and every inch of the country borders meticulously considered and now

a corner of a map hand-drawn in a lined notebook, showing a coastline, some mountains, and labeled cities. the handwriting is messy, the ink is smudged, multiple names are crossed out and re-written, and the coastline has been re-drawn in pen several times so it's difficult to tell where it's actually meant to be

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

love "Octavia fainting at the Aeneid" paintings sooooooooo much. Everyone Gets Mad At Local Twink

Painting of Vergil, left, holding the Aeneid while Octavia faints in Augustus' lap, right. Augustus holds his hand out sternly toward Vergil.

Painting of Octavia fainting in the arms of her maid, left, while Vergil, right, holds his hand up in speech. Augustus sternly reaches a hand out to stop Vergil.

Painting of Octavia fainting, center, while Augustus and a maid cluster around her. Vergil, right, puts his scroll down in confusion while another maid gives him a "what the fuck, man?" look.

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