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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

god was anyone ever sharper than shirley jackson

I am actually going to talk about what I call images, or symbols. It seems to me that in our present great drive-fiction-wise-toward the spare, clean, direct kind of story, we are somehow leaving behind the most useful tools of the writer, the small devices that separate fiction from reporting, the work of the imagination from the everyday account. Of these the far most important, and the most neglected, is the use of symbols; I am using the word loosely, because it has altogether different meanings elsewhere, and yet I hardly know what other word to use. The thing I am talking about is best identified by reference to a theory of acting that has always seemed to me very profound, and certainly useful to the writer:
Before entering upon a role, the actor, having of course familiarized himself with the character he is to portray, constructs for himself a set of images, or mental pictures, of small, unimportant things he feels belong around the character.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hate keeping good secrets that involve me, but I do enjoy keeping good secrets for others 😌

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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Kate Goldbeck @kategoldbeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s always men, but damn, when it comes to victim blaming, equating romantic (FICTIONAL) stories with real world harm, etc, it’s always some woman that should know better. You’re perpetuating the harm by placing the blame on victims for the crimes committed against them!

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punky 📝🦐 @punkymacc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there is no person on planet earth sitting down for a romcom with the expectation that it will be Just Like Real Life. except I guess misogynists on the internet

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Monster penis season @jenofthemidwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah yes. Not being able to separate fiction from real life strikes again.

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NIC ALIVE AND WELL @honeyskeleton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the only character in star wars who can be reduced to their love interest is Han Solo

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Kate Goldbeck @kategoldbeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

pulled my rian johnson shirt out of storage and spent one night only in austin to celebrate with eversoreylo.

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

lol truly wild buddy watching this with my Reylo/IRL bestie/wife 💗🧪🧬

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It gives me great satisfaction that, due to fandom connection, there are people in this world, despite knowing my name, have me in their phone as: Penguin

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Pingu Listening to Music with Headphones

Alt: Pingu Listening to Music with Headphones

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi I posted a video, and it seemed to resonate. So, if you'd like for me to share more about writing spice, head to the link here to submit your anonymous questions! pennedbypen.beehiiv.com/p/writing-sp...

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Writing Spicy

What the smut are we doing when we write a spicy scene?

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, here's one way AI can kill a whole bunch of us easily.

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Writing Spicy

What the smut are we doing when we write a spicy scene?

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Yay, OH MY GOD!! You’re a writer!!! I knew we could do it…. Wait you write WHAT kind of romance? And mom and grandma have read our smutty book?” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 :: flails, passes out ::

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/09/2026

Alright 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice here we go.

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Mariana @miranhasart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have been mia more than usual because guess who is going to be a lawyer? To be confirmed…. (I depend on the second phase) BUT WHILE I’m still me! You can commission me, help me by buying my zine or stickers! Thank you always for the support!!!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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🔞Spit Tits🔞 @liiwabeans.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

once a year in an eon i color something just for myself [Molly Wieck] #oc

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026

Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store

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Joan Arbuckle: Gay Cartoonist Lady @joantoonz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

TODAYBORDAY IS LABOR DAY !

the cheat, homestar and frank bennedetto celebrating labor dabor

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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JunkyardJedi @junkyardjedi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

😂😂😂 Y'all don't understand how much Pen endured this weekend. @penguinnwrites.bsky.social

Dragoncon vibes

Flamboyant pink feathered fit (Junk) and a somewhat more circumspect person (Pen)

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sleemo @sleemo.com · 06/09/2026

Lili and Tom say they’d be open to making cameos in other Ali Hazelwood films the same way Olive and Adam pop up in other books. #TheLoveHypothesis

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☁️ sal ☁️ @buriedbloom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

rey in lili reinhart's blue butterfly dress for the love hypothesis press, because ofcourse she is 🦋✨

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JunkyardJedi @junkyardjedi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shenanigans with Penjamin!

We cute.

Two extremely cute reylos enjoying con snacks while waiting for a panel.

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Hammie @hamsa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

got to fan girl with @penguinnwrites.bsky.social and @junkyardjedi.bsky.social 💕

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And one day closer to ME! Mwahahahahahha!

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No higher praise for Gloria Steinem than that I remember even as a kid how much her name bothered the shittiest men.

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smols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

sorry not sorry, but Mr. Knightley being like 17 years older than Emma Woodhouse is hot and also important

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logan 🍁🍂 @loganfromnowhere.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’ve seen your daily routine you’re not busy

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Roz Loves Food @rozlovesfood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wake up, babe. New nun archetype for @tkingfisher.com just dropped.

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The most Adam Carlsen quote lol www.elle.com/culture/movi...

TB: Lili still laughs at the fact that I spell TikTok incorrectly in a text. I didn't have any idea. She asked me to do a couple of them. There was the reveal of my casting: I just went, "What do I have to do?" And she goes, "Just do what I tell you." I said, "Okay, fine," and we did the hand thing.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sorry, I'm gonna be spamming this a lot for the next month. If you pre-ordered or were a kickstarter backer maybe share it and mute the thread if you like? 🥲 If you haven't pre-ordered look inside yourself. Halloween is coming

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Denzer 🦋🍂🏒 @denzerwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No Safe Hands got it's first review on Amazon. 🥹 A complete stranger took a chance on a new author with no social proof and I could just dance a jig for them right now.

A five star review for No Safe Hands by Ash Linden

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me at someone’s weird post about a celebrity: oof that’s very parasocial of you, Ashley Lynn Also me: idk guys I think T Kingfisher and I could be friends!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Bill Maher apparently made a joke about Dolly Parton’s boobs and I think the thing with that is Dolly Parton would be fine with people making jokes about her boobs which means I’m fine with people making jokes about her boobs but not him specifically

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It was both, but mainly overstimulation lol

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Okay, fine but you should have been listening to “Dumb Blonde” and “Your Old Handy Man”

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Finally got to see The Odyssey and either I have a lot of thoughts or I’m overstimulated.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men

My painting of Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show

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