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one twelfth of this first draft is done........soon it will be one tenth.......

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 29/09/2026

we beat the lancer megadungeon :)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 28/09/2026

reproducing gender bias by blithely making this characters dad the scientist instead of his mom and only realizing afterward. im sorry women.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 28/09/2026

absolutely getting bookshelfmogged by the other ppl in the zoom rn

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 28/09/2026

all the travel this summer / fall has been fun but it also has led me to feel that every time im home i have to do a mountain of laundry before immediately leaving again, lol

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 27/09/2026

clickbait article about “how to get a seven figure book deal for your debut” and the first step is to be so freaked out by having your first job that you write a whole book to prove you’re not wasting your life

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Data centers promise jobs but hire few people That's why I propose a law that every data center must hire 1,000 Priests of Data to worship the computers, pray to the servers, light candles, etc. The priests will boost the local economy and fill the air with the sweet sound of their Gregorian chants

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 27/09/2026

much psychoanalysis to be done about the fact that I started playing a game called “Korean student simulator” about studying for the csat

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 26/09/2026

If you’re at bookmarks comes say hi :)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 25/09/2026

real ones know that there’s a tier of job interview that is just getting coffee with a friend and then parlaying that through a bizarre Rube Goldberg machine of networking into a job offer, in which the iced coffee is actually mandatory

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 25/09/2026

if everyone buys SUBLIMATION by Isabel j Kim we can make the answer ME

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 25/09/2026

happy chuseok everyone go get your ass one of these bad boys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songpyeon

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Songpyeon - Wikipedia

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 25/09/2026

imagining a saw trap but its just removing jensens phone and the two women he mentions in the interview from his vicinity and challenging him to figure out his way home

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 24/09/2026

coining a new term called "billionaire brain" for instances when a billionaire says something without knowing how profoundly weird it is, because their life is so different than a normal one. Jensen Huang you may not need to fill out forms with your address, but I do.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 24/09/2026

@amanda.omg.lol and I spent like an hour talking about this for the pod last week trying to create a framework of how it all fits together, which this does wayyyy better than we managed

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 23/09/2026

posts i wont make: newsletter aimed at debut writers about how writing multiple books is different than writing One Book, and how writing the book on contract is different than writing it on spec

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 22/09/2026

left my half-drunk coffee in a public bathroom :(

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

She’s out today :)

A photo of Deena holding a copy of the US edition of Our Cut of Salt. Behind her is a bookshelf with copies of the novel, both UK and US editions.

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 22/09/2026

listen to wow if true wherever pods are cast

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 22/09/2026

two more ai & writing discourse article ideas titled "the process is the product" (self explanatory re: creating things) and "does anyone care about the creator of the work" (also self explanatory)(i could go into a whole mrbeast digression here too!)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 22/09/2026

A WIN FOR THE BICAMERAL MIND THEORY (this article is actually really cool)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 21/09/2026

i wrote 1000 words and sent some emails AND did some laundry dont mind me. im just the strongest person alive.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 21/09/2026

nearly 6k into the new book and im always surprised by how the guys turn out bc i always have a vision in my head of what the guys are gonna be like and then they get on the page and im like huh. little different than expected.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 19/09/2026

going for a sort of maximalist style in the next draft by introducing every new thing as fast as possible, which will either lead to incredible breakthroughs in pacing technology or be straight up unreadable

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 18/09/2026

updated website.......updated my instagram with new graphics about where im going to be in the next month.... answered all the emails i needed to respond to.....did some paperwork..........what do you mean its 1pm and i didnt do any WRITING for my job as a WRITER

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 18/09/2026

Ok here’s everywhere I’m going to be in the next month and a half so if you’re in any of these locations come say hi

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

a bunch of cool people also ME !! Super excited to be a part of this 🤩🤩🤩

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

went over to give the whiteboy a kiss and they were on a zoom meeting and i didnt realize. unfortunate.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

you went to LAW SCHOOL and DIDNT get an MFA wait you STOPPED being a lawyer hold on you write BOOKS now you got paid HOW MUCH for the books youre doing books FULL TIME you STOPPED PAINTING also wait you went INTERNET VIRAL also wait. who is that whiteboy in your house.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I devoured the opening of this while standing next to Iz at WorldCon and it is SO much fun.

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ᴢᴀᴄᴋ @ normal about g'raha tia @ungarzack.etheirys.social · 17/09/2026

listen. listen. everything iz writes is amazing. i have read a very early draft of this book, and it is so so so so good. i have preordered it, and so should you.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

everyone shut up about the sex cult for a moment and go read my wizard post

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

Welcome to my wizard book. It’s about playing one million games with Death and also lying. Shoutout to @ardyce.bsky.social for giving [REDACTED] a home :’) Everyone else: read my wizard book next march or else (you won’t have read my wizard book)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

if you’re arguing you’re not in a sex cult it’s sort of an interesting position to be in because you have to both argue “I do NOT fuck” and “I do NOT have influence”

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/09/2026

“Aella is fighting gyges about if ai safety is just a sex cult” You bolt awake. You are not online. It is 1415. You are Charles d’albret, and you have seen the future. It cannot come to pass. The English army must be destroyed.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 16/09/2026

We are 98 new subscribers away from our goal! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 16/09/2026

j's never had canned corn so guess what we're buying tomorrow

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 16/09/2026

random rat/ea garbage ive been keeping tabs on since i was sixteen should NOT be relevant to geopolitics and yet every day i read posts on the internet and on websites also

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 15/09/2026

who up on the phone on calls all morning when they expected no calls all morning (not even bad calls I just thought I was going to go to Costco and buy seltzer not be on calls)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 14/09/2026

what do you MEAN its halfway through september

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