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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tag yourself, ghost edition! And come join me, I’m posting 31 ghosts for #Halloween!

Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 8 is Capt. Daniel from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (47)! 🕯️less spooky, more seafaring! 🕯️titles his biography “blood and awash” 🕯️haunts an amazing seaside house

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 7 are the Marleys from Muppet Christmas Carol! 🕯️Dickens adaptation so these ghosts are classy 🕯️only the muppets give us TWO Marleys! 🕯️capitalism makes up your chains in hell

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 6 is Pipes from Ghostwatch (92) 🕯️featured in famous BBC prank documentary 🕯️that was so realistic it traumatized generations 🕯️”pipes” appears largely as a voice and via background cameos

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 5 is Irena from Curse of the Cat People (1944). 🕯️somehow has nothing to do with cat people 🕯️haunting your cheating husband’s daughter benevolently 🕯️and doing it in fantastically beautiful robes

Irena stands in a garden over Amy in a beautiful dress

Irena and Amy look out over the garden serenely

Post sponsored by Dead New World coming out 2026, a queer scifi book about hologram ghosts!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 4 is for The Others (2001) 🕯️Grace Stewart is in denial over her treatment of her children. 🕯️Her servants and husband are also mysteriously missing. 🕯️Her children are allergic to sunlight.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 3 is Joseph from The Changeling (80) 🕯️Spookily appears via audio of wheelchair wheels, rubber balls, and other childlike sounds in the house 🕯️a historical preservation society gets involved 🕯️speaks via ghost radio

A man looks up some stairs which are on fire

A dusty empty wheelchair looks down the stairs to a woman and man at the bottom

A woman looks at a dusty wheelchair in the attic

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 1 is from Throne of Blood (57)! 🕯️Japanese Macbeth only needs one witch 🕯️Just chillin in a bamboo hut in the woods 🕯️Weaving and weaving the strands of fate?!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 1 is from The Innocents (1961): MISS JESSEL (left). 🕯️Shows up stylishly all over our classic Gothic manor, haunting the governess who replaced her. 🕯️Trying to possess a kid to get back with her lover. 🕯️MIGHT just be in Deborah Kerr's mind.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey, so cool, Dead New World is being featured on the front page of NetGalley this week! If you're interested in Queer hopepunk cybernoir mysteries pitched as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice...? www.netgalley.com

A screenshot of NetGalley's front page featuring, amongst others, my book, Dead New World.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Barnes and Noble is having a 25% off preorder sale and that includes my ghost-y noir book, DEAD NEW WORLD! Rewards nonmembers will need to enroll, BUT joining their rewards program is free! Link here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-new-w...

Barnes and Noble Preorder Sale for Premium and Rewards Members. Online Exclusive. 25% off Preorders. Use code Preorder25. Pre-Order sale runs September 9-11.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was inspired to do this vibe comp grid for my upcoming book, Dead New World! It's spooky, it's noirish, it's funny, it's Queer, it's romantic, it's got ghosts AND cyber kidnappings... I was really trying hard to bend every genre.

Dead New World. Nov 2026. Vibe Comp Grid.
The grids:
1) The cover of Murderbot, a cyborg looking at the viewer.
2) A screenshot from The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, where a ghostly figure gestures to a dinner party on the moon.
3) A screenshot from the terror, when a diver goes beneath the artic sea and is surrounded by eerie colors and floating ice.
4) A screenshot from Tron of a man in a holographic suit.
5) A blurb that reads Queer, Funny, Romantic, Ghostly, Cybernoir, Mystery.
6) A screenshot from Bladerunner 2049 of a giant holographic woman pointing.
7) A screenshot from Beetlejuice of a book that reads HANDBOOK FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Everyone who works in visual mediums needs to rediscover old technicolor films and realize they don't just pulse with color and fashion and stylization, they also sometimes have plots that involve things like cursed marriages, champagne beds and Paul Newman exploding. (What A Way to Go!, 1964)

Poster for 1964's What a Way to Go!, featuring Shirley Maclaine in a glittering dress surrounded by several husbands in striped colors of red, yellow and grey.

A man and woman embrace in a champagne glass bed.

A woman in a yellow fur embraces her lover before a white car and blue background.

A woman lounges by a pool on a lounger, everything except her is monochrome pink.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Academic Disney Con't. Alright did you guys know that there's a Macbeth quote in Disney's Beauty and the Beast and it's used in such a rich and layered and gendered way I actually had to break out the timestamps for this one. Review: letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

A review of Beauty and the Beast available at the link.

Gaston grins evilly as he towers over the villagers he's manipulating, including three women and a baby.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Academic Disney Con't. Okay I wrote so much about PROFESSOR RATIGAN as the embodiment of internalized Otherness and the moral degradation required to rise socially. I can't even fit the whole thing in a single screencap. TOO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS RAT. Full review: letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

A review of Great Mouse Detective that can be read in full at the link.

The same as the prior screencap, too long to fit in the Alt Text description box.

Ratigan ratting out in the Big Ben clock tower.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#ShaderunnersReRead Also from the script: "It’s not a romantic kiss—it’s the kiss of someone who desperately needs to anchor himself to what he has, because he’s just lost a lot."

A man in a suit desperately kisses another man in a boa a turtleneck in the 1920s party scenario, the atmosphere fraught, surrounded by cigarette smoke.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#ShaderunnersReRead From the script: "Ezra descends, looking haggard and dragging his suitcase, also wearing a satchel. Easton has perhaps placed himself here to catch him first."

A man wearing a boa says "Fashionably late, huh?" to a man entering a basement room with a suitcase and worried look.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Vibe comps but make it funny. Think Murderbot x Beetlejuice.

A man submerged dreamily beneath an ice-covered ship in a dive suit. From AMC's The Terror.

A holographic woman leans over a man looking up at her. From Bladerunner 2049.

Two people in glowing blue suits in a virtual space. From Tron.

Ghostly figures beckon you closer to a dreamy dinner table in deep saturated interstellar colours. From The Fabulous Baron Munschausen.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Reposting for Pride! 💿 👻 ✨🌈 Out in November: Dead New World, my Queer scifi-fantasy book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes. Links to preorder: books2read.com/deadnewworld Vibe comps in the reply! #pridemonth

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#ShaderunnersReRead. Maybe one of the only moments in the comic where Easton and Ezra just have a cute flirt and set aside their psychosexual philosophical obsessions with one another for just like a SECOND. Enemies to enemies who kiss.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#ShaderunnersReRead. I love it when @alexassanart takes relationships that aren't romantic but makes them FEEL romantic. The romance of conning rich people into thinking you're a ghost. Makes a bond.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Gonna start porting over some #ShaderunnersReRead tweets from X! First: Easton shifts probably the most over the first act, from someone deliberately provoking into someone whose relationship with class is equal parts longing and resentment. His relationship with Ezra is a mirror of that.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I think this goes for all art, honestly. Also it's just fun to discover stuff and learn about its original context. (Also x 2, if animators discovered technicolor film they'd be unstoppable...)

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Academic Disney Con't. My read on Fox and the Hound (1981) is that it's about shared languages (and what happens when they don't exist)!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My Reading List for May 2026 has absolutely no theme, I was truly reading like a little chrome ball in a pinball machine, flinging itself between chiming bumpers. (Summaries and links in alt text!)

Cover of Strange Pictures by Uketsu. A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of creepy drawings, in which the reader is the detective. Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219579130-strange-pictures

Cover for Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser. France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime. For centuries since, she has been the object of debate, speculation, and the fascination so often accorded illustrious figures in history. Married in mere girlhood, this essentially lighthearted child was thrust onto the royal stage and commanded by circumstance to play a significant role in European history. Antonia Fraser's lavish and engaging portrait excites compassion and regard for all aspects of the queen, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman, but in the culture of an unparalleled time and place. Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6110185-marie-antoinette

Cover for Greater Secrets by Ananth Hirsh and Tess Stone. In a family gifted with the ability to see a mysterious light in the distance, one teen embarks on a fantastical journey to find her missing sister, and finally answer the question: is this ancestral gift a blessing or a curse? Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208430669-greater-secrets

Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen. At her lowest point, a teen girl finds solace and a potential crush in her local theater's mascot's DMs, sparking a quest to uncover the true identity of this mysterious figure. From the bestselling author of The Magic Fish comes a new fairy tale romance with a twist. Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223854914-angelica-and-the-bear-prince

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Disney Academia project continues apace. A short one this time, about Winnie the Pooh and ephemerality.

A review of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) that reads: "Captures the ephemeral and incidental nature of childhood—long days meandering through an unknowable world of adult detritus, your concerns so small, your fears so random and shapeless, your world so fragile a gust of wind can literally blow it over; childhood as an ambiguous blend of one season of nothing into another until it’s time to leave. Simple but I think this one just really speaks to little kids and their rambling worlds."

Winnie the Pooh, a soft yellow bear with a red shirt, sits by a fire pointing to a misspelled sign that reads RNIG ALSO.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Seeing Death of a Salesman for the first time after a tense day with your father is really a religious experience.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My mom, my sister and I all following the same painting of a lighthouse tutorial in the same room…

Painting one is fuzzy and pink, painting two is a meticulously followed lighthouse with the lighthouse getting painted out for being too inevitably phallic, and a zany abstract reinterpretation of the lighthouse being a cabin under a sun made out of egg yolk.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Ok I have acquired Cleopatra, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Isabel of Castilla for my pains. This is my Pokémon now. I will catch all these ladies. The journey begins.

Three Royal diaries books: Isabel, cleopatra, and Eleanor.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Disney Academia continues. The Aristocats is about the arbitrary nature of wealth. Actually think I was cooking with this one. Are all these movies about class?! letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

A review from Letterboxd: A movie that reveals the arbitrary insularity of aristocratic wealth, where the purebred cats of a wealthy woman are seen as more deserving to inherit than her loyal working class servant. To force your cats to inherit first, a ridiculously symbolic and incoherent gesture, is ultimately ensuring that Edgar can only access that wealth via proxy, rendering him literally lesser than animals. Aristocracy is such an absurd state of being that it requires these elaborate rituals to contain wealth within its proper class brackets. It doesn’t matter that he inherits after their deaths—the message is clearly one of knowing your place and never forgetting that any rise you attain has been indulgently granted by your higher ups. Edgar is effectively Madam’s pet, and not even the most beloved one.

Similarly, Duchess is so functionally inept in the real world that Thomas O’Malley must effectively do everything for her: rescue her children, lead her home, manage transportation, mobilize relationships, expose scheming servants and save them from multiple perils. He tries to tell Duchess that she is just the house pet and not a full person to Madam, and this message is one the film seems incapable of fully rebutting. The aristocracy as a class are pampered cats who, dangerously, see others as THEIR pets. Even at the end, the cats are adopted into Madam’s house as part of her philanthropy: her “foundation.” There is no true equality between the classes!!!!!

Cats cute tho.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I’m on a mythic quest walking along the river hitting up used bookstores to try and find copies of the Royal Diaries series from my youth. A literary quest. Wish me luck!! #books #middlegrade #QUEST

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Dead New World: funny scifi noir about holographically-resurrected ghosts falling in love, solving ghost crimes, and working ghost jobs. MurderbotxBeetlejuicexPushing Daisies in a Queer blender. Book + Audio: Podiumentertainment.com/titles/134527/dead-new-world Ebook: books2read.com/deadnewworld

Three holographic ghosts stare out at a colourful cyberpunk world at a mysterious headless figure.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

More Academic Disney takes. This time for Lady and the Tramp, a movie about class and reputation and feral ass rats. letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My roommate and I have started watching all the Disney animated features from the beginning and reviewing them with extremely serious academic rigor. Anyway, here's my 101 Dalmatians review: letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm starting to play the FMV game Phantasmagoria and GOD all I want from life is to live in a gigantic incoherently designed manor full of puzzles built by a former magician!!!

A screenshot from a game featuring a woman standing in a giant house full of loopy columns, bizarre squiggly flooring, and gigantic gothic doors.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Having the best time at this cereal and cartoon show.

A theatre showing old cartoons, focused on an advert for cake that says MOIST!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I’m at a Saturday morning cartoon marathon and I just watched a cartoon where Gargamel devised a convoluted scheme to boil six smurfs and thru some mysterious process thereby gain the power to turn iron into gold. Were they all like this??

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

So people are livestreaming a virtual recreation of the sinking of the Titanic on the day of its sinking and I find it such an interesting phenomenon. People really want to memorialize (and, for some no doubt, spectate) this event from 1912 in such a specific and embodied way.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ch. 5. Oh to be an aged dandy of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Tuileries and Luxembourg!

Excerpt from Count of Monte Cristo where a man is described as an aged dandy "parading the newly opened gardens of the Tuileries and Luxembourg!"

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ch. 4. Need to steal this one.

Screenshot of text. "Death alone can separate them" remarked Fernand. Highlighted, the reply: "You talk like a noodle, my friend."

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Reading Count of Monte Cristo for the 1st time, totally unspoiled. Chapters 1-2. ⚓ Imagine being a CAPTAIN at 20?! I'd hate Edmond too. ⚓ Ok he wants to plant clematis for his old dad, maybe impossible to hate this guy... ⚓ So French to be appalled your elderly dad does not have wine in the house.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Like, you want to learn how to get good at characterization so good it can sustain a book's entire plot even if virtually nothing is 'happening'? Read romance! Here's four I read and enjoyed in the last two months alone!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I actually think he's making them up now.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm starting to read Count of Monte Cristo for the first time and immediately I love the vibes of "author did a lot of research and really wants you to know it." The jib downhaul you say, Mr. Dumas?

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I wrote a book about a future where ghosts are holographically resurrected but must work dead-end 'ghost only' jobs that I've been pitching as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice in a Queer blender. It's up for preorder now! RTing to spread the love for others! books2read.com/deadnewworld

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

💿 👻 ✨ Out in November! Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes. Links to preorder: books2read.com/deadnewworld

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Late for #queerwriterschat but I handed in the final, final draft of Dead New World yesterday! Totally buzzing to think this weird romantic cyber-noir book about three Queer hologram ghosts working dead-end jobs and solving mysteries is now in its final, final form! #books #reading

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Nintendo please consider my nephew’s design for a pikachu evolution for your next Pokémon game!!!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Oh to be a tree nerd named John Lowe in 1897, writing rapturously about yews (From "The yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland," John Lowe, 1897)

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