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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

to which the obvious reply is, you are missing the point of the genre, but a genre is made of thoughts, not the absence of thoughts. if the definition of the genre is "don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to", that's not a genre, that's a political stance

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

in a specifically political way, i mean, like this is low-hanging fruit but "we are sweet and run a coffeeshop and there are no problems" are there no negative consequences to being a member of the petit bourgeoisie

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

i like some cozy genre stuff but as a Cozy Mystery enthusiast specifically i'm often like. ok this is sort of like describing your fantasy/mystery/scifi/etc as "apolitical", in that, is it really Cozy or is it just Unexamined

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

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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 · 10/03/2025

did you know: my new book about Antony and Cleopatra IN SPACE comes out on Tuesday. I would describe it as influenced secondarily by Shakespeare and firstly by the most egregiously low-budget Doctor Who episodes of the 2000s. it has an incredible cover www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emery...

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The Sea Eternal

"Wherever Emery Robin goes from here, I'm going to follow." —Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom one of the most original voices in sc...

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bat ghoulson 🎃 @mathewolson.com · 02/02/2025

zaslav's asleep at the fuckin' wheel, watch TRUE STORIES for free while you can www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhTS...

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

in terms of "facts about ford people are likely to know, in descending order" i feel like it generally goes car guy -> antisemite -> the reason americans all learn square dancing at school but there's SO much more. he wanted to ban milk. he tried to start a milkless colony in brazil

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

finally catching up on severance and oh my god to anyone who likes this show i am absolutely begging you to read a biography of henry ford. the extent to which the eagan cult is truth in television

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

thanks very much!! i LOVE it, i've really lucked out on covers with this series

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

i love that the way they're pitching me is "one of the most original voices in science fiction" like. you know when the people running the, and i cannot emphasize this enough, sff scene look at you and go "yeah, weird. weird guy"

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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

nothing at work that I get as much unfiltered pleasure from as receiving an email that begins "nice to e-meet you"

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

on the other hand, I hated A Farewell to Arms because my copy of the book smelled bad. important to remember that sometimes there is nothing a teacher can do

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

sincerely loved Catcher in the Rye and I wish it was taught better because it was such a mindblowing experience of "wait, you can DO that (give a first-person narrator preoccupations that convey character without stating it outright)???" like it is perfect for 15 yos! but not for those other reasons

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

too long to list all of them, the only one I remember sincerely disliking was Pope's "Rape of the Lock", which gave me the best paper I wrote in all of secondary school, you learn so much from going "I kNOW this is misogynist but I need you to BELIEVE me so I need to articulate WHY"

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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 · 03/01/2025

this one is secondary-world but it literally doesn't matter. i am on that advanced search function. i am sorting by time period. i am hunting down the sources in the bibliography

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

i'm at a point in my writing life where i'm like. i know myself, and i know what i like. and i am simply never going to do another project that does not involve getting to utilize green's dictionary of slang on a daily basis

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

time for my New Year's Day tradition: baked potato stuffed with garlicky broccoli, asparagus tossed with sage porcini and rosemary and roasted within an inch of its life, hot apple cider, and crying my eyes out over HOLIDAY (1938)

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

this is not a rec for what your next movie should be, my rec for what your next movie should be is LE COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO (2024), but if you have the time I do recommend both as a double feature on Counts

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

the best part of NOSFERATU that people are not going to have access to is that i went to an open-caption screening and in that one shot with Thomas and Orlok in Orlok's castle the subtitle was "slow, rhythmic slurping"

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you don't want to open the door to a federal bathroom bill and a federal ban on trans people, take the time to go to www.usa.gov/elected-offi... and then CALL (with a phone) your elected officials. Tell them, 'I expect you to vote against any proposed anti-trans bathroom bill.'

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Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

been thinking a lot lately about the perniciousness of sentimentalism in queer history—idk whether because it's the enemy of honesty (it certainly is!) or because it's the enemy of that electricity/that deliberate, ritualized magic I've seen in recent great queer stories

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

if you're in the area and have the chance, strongly recommend seeing The Civilians' Sex Variants of 1941. idk that this is a "I think the show is great" rec so much as an "I want other people to talk about the show with me" rec, but it is amazingly rich, unsentimental, and heartfelt

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I will get more active here either when they roll out locked accounts or when this place becomes the primary hub for sports memes. that said you all have caught me at exactly the right time (my first week on HRT)

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

getting an influx of followers and not sure why (I mean, I Know Why, but not sure why me specifically) but hello! I hope you all like obscure puns

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I think for many young people, some writer occupies a "feminist a little older than me who represents an adult conversation/culture I want to participate in" role in yr intellectual consciousness, and what happened to you did have a big impact on my politics, & I do still talk & think about it often

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

this is not going to sound like I am one of these people who seem reasonably sane, lol, but you once did a long riff on law in The Purge universe that made me realize law could be funny and it's part of why I have a job in law today (your monkey selfie coverage had the same effect)

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

hahaaaa I think my agent sent it to me when she read the first draft!

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Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Frank O’Hara.

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Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Three black-necked stilts feeding at Eden Landing. 🪶

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

apologies. I've made it a rule to retweet, reblog, or reply to that image with that response every single time I see it since I first encountered it in 2012 in English class. it is one of my favorite images in the world

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

what does your MOM represent

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 04/08/2023

The world is full of interesting light to stand in at night. More front porches and bodega doorways and red neon in hissing kitchens than you could ever hope to count.

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DVS @dvsblast.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

they gotta make a Pepsi thats the wrong choice. its called Pepsi Bad & if u buy it, u get in trouble. no stakes at the store these days

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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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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

my grandmother's grandmother, married unhappily at the turn of the century to a man called Emery Valentine, made off in the night with her son, his diamonds, and his peg leg. I needed a professional moniker and thought, well, it seems that we're in the business of thieving

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 22/07/2023

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

anyway wes hāl, I'm Emery. pleased by the thought that all of my posts being delivered by Mark Antony yoinking away Caesar's burial shroud. Citizens, Look At This Nonsense

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

umbrellas have not changed design since the days of ancient greece. two things we've simply never improved on as a society: honey and umbrellas

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