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@lilywrites.bsky.social
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Managing Editor at @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social. Words in @racketmn.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, others. Ex-MFA person. She/her. All views my own!

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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
dreamed i tweeted this last night
[amazon page]

Genuine Baby Owl Owlet Bird Gift for Grandfather Niece Boss Friend Home or Office Raptor Infant

*/***** TOO MUCH HOOTING!
Hoots when I am trying to sleep! Wakes up my dogs!

*****/***** perfect amount of hooting
wanted owl that hoots incessantly for nephew. was not disappointed. perfect bar mitzvah gift or...

**/**** Owl
Owl
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
hitting people who are weird about minneapolis with one of these
a business in northeast called "mill city laser." it's like a really woke hair removal place
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Episodes @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@lilywrites.bsky.social on Daniel Kraus' big moment as the literary-horror prophet of the masculinity crisis
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Angel Down, Whalefall, and the phantasmagoria of manhood
Why do people love Daniel Kraus' novels? Maybe it's because he's not afraid of a big metaphor.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
like this
new graywolf logo but it's the hugging dogs from twin fantasy
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
this is a highly acclaimed independent press that dares to ask: do you have something against doooooooooooooooooooooooogs
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am the only one brave enough to say it: the new Graywolf Press logo is giving Car Seat Headrest
graywolf's new logo. it's very edgy 19 year old tumblr furry in 2013 core. not sure how else to put it
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
(frat house vizier) an excellent strategy sire. why, with two full bottles of 151 in the jungle juice, we will all surely be swimming in tri-delt pussy tonight. although (whispering) i daresay one among our number failed to contribute to the beer fund…
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
one time in college a friend fell *hard* for a butch who didn't read. she worked at a brewery and the beer wasn't even good. this is what adult link is experiencing every time sheik comes to read bad poetry at him and then teach him a seven-note song
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
least fav thing about the ocarina of time remake is definitely femme sheik. no! sheik is a beautiful representation of what it feels like to fall for a really stupid butch
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 10/09/2026
When the client realizes you put together the deck at 3 am this morning having not done any work
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
me, rolling my eyes, as I explain to the 6th grade teacher why my WordArt-obsessed classmate Brayden shouldn't be trusted to make the PowerPoint for the group project:
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ITYSL sketch: HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
my big takeaway from my two recent Daniel Kraus reads is that masculinity is not an abstract concept but an eldritch monster you have to defy in order to live
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
more about this shocking development in Episodes on Friday
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: Angel Down is a really good novel
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
*Mom voice* This is very important. Can you put down what you're doing and pay attention? Thanks! Preorders for my novel Beth March Returns from the Dead are 25% OFF at Barnes & Noble for TWO DAYS! Premium members get an extra 10% off! Use code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beth-march...
A still from Greta Gerwig's Little Women. Meg, Amy, and Jo have been crossed out leaving ONLY BETH, who is CIRCLED, as she SHOULD BE.

Text over Meg: Preorder Beth March Returns from the Dead by Emily St. James
Text over Amy: 25 percent off! Barnes & Noble! Two days only! Sept. 9 - Sept. 11
Text over Jo: Code: PREORDER25
Text above Beth: WE LOVE BETH. THE ONLY GOOD ONE.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this has been Updates from Lily's Cold
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
two ibuprofens and a cup of coffee and i'm ready to fight god
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i spent my actual formative years in texas and minnesota, two places with Fun Accents. and yet the nasally whine of my ancestral homeland has won out. it's beautiful, in a way
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
whenever a new accent quiz goes around it's always fun to confirm yet again that i talk like a michigander despite not having lived there since i was four years of age
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i wrote this!!
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Episodes @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Want to read more about Capra's masterpiece? Preorder Emily and @laurentheisen.bsky.social's new book, Every Time a Bell Rings, today!
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Every Time a Bell Rings
THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT WITH FOILED DETAILS AND CUSTOM END PAPERSA fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the belove...
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Episodes @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Welcome to It's A Wonderful Month, our series on Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life! First up: @emilystjams.bsky.social on how IAWL is pandemic media, and why we never think of it as such
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The memories of a deadly pandemic hidden in one of America's most beloved films
Art about pandemics and plagues rarely gets made after the fact. Yet here's the Spanish flu in It's a Wonderful Life.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
these are the five words every woman longs to hear
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Mr. Beast should write autofiction
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Avery is one of the best, most innovative designers the medium has ever seen, and Quiet Year will work for you even if you have never played a TTRPG before.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this is EXCEPTIONALLY good — please read it!!
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this is REALLY good!!!
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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Four! Thousand! Words! About! CAMP MIASMA!!! And none of them are paywalled, which I will regret: jude-doyle.ghost.io/notes-teenag...
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Notes on Camp: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun, 2026)
Before we begin, fair warning: This is a post about sex. Before we continue, an even fairer, more specific warning: This is a post where I talk about how I have sex. I talk about my body, and how I f...
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I am sadly going to have to miss Racket's fifth birthday party tonight, but you should go!!!
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This made me want to watch Rocky Horror, a thing I have yet to ever do.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm proud of this one! As a little sneak preview, have this @markosler.bsky.social classic anecdote!!
3) Frank individually convincing both Janet and Brad to cheat on each other with him

(The only YouTube video of this scene I could find was marked as age-restricted, which, honestly? Fair.)

Thus far in my list, I've stuck largely to the hypothetical: What scenes might theoretically lead someone to make a surprising and perhaps unnerving discovery about their own identity and desires? This, however, is the first entry for which I have solid proof.

In the late 1970s, when Rocky Horror was just starting to get a following in some cities, my dad was a writer at his high school's newspaper. (Dad, I know you read this newsletter, so please fact-check me on this! I have heard you tell this story approximately 800 times, though, so I hope I got the details right.) Always a troublemaker, he decided to invite the school's Vice Principal for Discipline to come with him and some friends to a midnight showing. After the movie, the aforementioned vice principal, woozy from exhaustion, gave my dad some great quotes that he then went on to print in the paper verbatim. Chief among them, in reference specifically to this scene: "I see how bisexuality could have some advantages."

And how could you not after watching this? Frank slithers into Janet's bed, then Brad's, using the same script on each of them. He's tender and forward at once, purring to his prospective lovers and then glissandoing right into a squeal of delight. “There’s no crime in giving yourself over to pleasure," he coos, the bass notes humming in his throat. "Oh, Brad, you’ve wasted so much time already.” Can I say for sure that this was the moment that made a certain southeast Michigan vice principal question her own sexuality? No, but it's not difficult to make an inference.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the many vegetarians and vegans of minnesota: we love the state fair! perhaps we could have a nice veggie burger. maybe a pulled pork sandwich with soy curls :) the herbivorous butcher: cower, mortals. it is time for the P A I N D I M E N S I O N
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
you know, herbivorous butcher could easily make bank if they just sold very good veg versions of fair classics. a really good veggie corn dog, say! but noooooo it's always the fucking Orb of Demise
a hideous looking fried ball of sadness from a place that by rights ought to make normal and good-tasting food
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Racket @racketmn.com · 28/08/2026
Let's gooooooo:
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The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair - Racket
The return of our peerless, pitiless Scarf!, Shrug, Skip system.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
do you think he's going to try to change the one in space too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario...
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Ontario Lacus - Wikipedia
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
1996 Parade magazine photoshoot of the cast of Star Trek: Voyager being either real sexy or super dorky with mid-90s tech. There is no inbetween.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I regret to inform you that this too is Infinite Jest (literally though; this is the separatists' strategy after IJ's Trump analogue takes office!)
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Episodes @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Emily and Lily are back for another week of Infinite Jestin'!
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Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Five
Is careful observation the same thing as love? Lily and Emily investigate.
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the other best thing about the State Fair is Ye Olde Mill
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the best thing about the Minnesota State Fair is that it's in the geographic middle of the metropolitan area that accounts for 60% of the state's population. it may be cornpone nonsense, but by God I can bike to it in 25 minutes
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/08/2026
my problem with "teenage sex & death at camp miasma" is it's probably really cathartic and fulfilling for someone who is just starting to figure their whole deal out but there's not a lot in it for those of us who started murdering teenagers at a remote summer camp more than a decade ago
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I literally have that video open in a tab right now!!
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
the fact that someone who spent so many decades as a punchline never stopped doing such beautiful and incredible things just knocks me sideways
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
feels like the same category as "dolly parton funded the covid vaccine" where it's just gilding the lily at this point
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"dolly parton is in large part responsible for buffy existing" feels so fake that when i saw a post about it on here i assumed it was made up. but no! here is a source! she produced it and sent the cast christmas gifts every year!
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Sarah Michelle Gellar says Dolly Parton’s support for ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ was ‘everything to me’
Sarah Michelle Gellar shared her appreciation for the late Dolly Parton, who served as an uncredited producer on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Infinite Jest
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
1984 calendar meme

"A far right American president is being aggressive toward Canada in ways that might make the Quebecois really angry" / January YDAU

It is an Infinite Jest joke I regret to say
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