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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New Agnes Obel album coming Sept 18!!! This is not a drill! Just in time for fall as always. I can’t waaaaaiiiit.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Same. If I manage to write one, that is 😅

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’ve been reading and working through a popular book on the craft of fiction (not going to name names). I just kept getting angrier and angrier as I followed along, admittedly building a good launchpad for a novel. 1/?

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Getting my MFA is in the top three best decisions in my life. The only thing stopping me from doing it a second time with another concentration is the fact that I don’t think they’ll let me. Hottest MFA forever! (That’s the UCR Palm Desert low-residency MFA for anyone who’s curious.)

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nobody writes neurotic sadbois and wailing seductresses like Iris Murdoch.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So help me, I’m trying

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Things I researched today for my screenplay: Leeches Leech-borne illnesses Pulmonary edema Styles of house foundations Mesmerism Cold reading Gum disease It’s gonna be an absolute banger.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Can confirm. I love all my writer friends, mentors, and everyone I’ve ever read and enjoyed.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Finally, the science to back up what I’ve always been saying

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Story time: So I started watching The X Files, which was on when I was in middle school and very much the kind of thing I was NOT allowed to watch. Obviously I had a friend record an episode and let me borrow the tape. One episode, that I watched over and over at 5 in the morning—

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Lionel Messi what the actual fuck 😳🤯

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Name your too 15 tv shows, gut instincts only: Sesame Street Wishbone Ghostwriter Star Trek Voyager Gilmore Girls Poirot Bob’s Burgers The Good Place Endeavor The Crown Slow Horses Interview with the Vampire The Great British Bake Off Hannibal Psych

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Kelseypaintz @kelseypaintz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I did 2 more 20-minute expressionist gouache studies of muppets to feel better again.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

There’s something unnervingly profound about this.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I didn’t get sent to the counselor but the book about aliens and Area 51 that I checked out a bunch of times from my school library did disappear. They let me keep checking out the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe though.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Onion is one of the top things - maybe the top thing - that sometimes make me proud to be from Wisconsin.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I grabbed The House of Skin by Karina Lickorish Quinn! Super excited to read it!

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I wonder if people wouldn’t be so tempted to rely on A I for advice or “help” if so many of us hadn’t been taught to be ashamed of not knowing things.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today having the atmosphere it does, here’s what I’ve been up to: Walked the dog Read a story Took my vitamins Prepped notes for teaching a class on short stories Tried writing a poem for the first time Paid attention to everything around me, and marveled at how wonderful our world really is

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Sunday sips: pegu cub! Gin, Cointreau, lime, orange bitters.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

And I need to reread my sources and notes over and over, because sometimes it’s on the third, fourth, fifth pass that a particular line jumps out at me and the dots that have been swirling in my head coalesce into a beautiful whole.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Sunday sips - a classic whiskey sour this week.

A hand holds a cocktail in a glass with a goose printed on it. There’s a fire pit with a fire going in it in the background.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Patience + Persistence 🏔️

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Pining for the olive groves and all my UCR Hottest MFA pals. (Why yes, we did just get 14 inches of snow at my house, why do you ask?)

Four mature olive trees shade an outdoor bar.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

gotta go with pen 2 - no matter how much I love my fountain pens I will always be happy writing with one of those Pilots

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8643: Writing a synopsis is one of the hardest things to do. That's because in long form, it's easy to overlook things that don't make sense, or are not properly explained or developed. A detailed synopsis lays these things bare, which is why it's worth persevering.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I’ve fully fallen down the fountain pen rabbit hole. Got this LAMY Vista about a week ago and having fun with it so far.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Said goodbye to the goodest girl today. Fifteen years of sniffing around and getting inexplicably excited about ice cubes. Go chase those rabbits, Ida bean.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Watched all of Adolescence in one sitting. Holy hell. Astounding work. I’ll be reflecting on this one for a WHILE.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The thing about A I (whether we call it autonomous or artificial or alternative or whatever) is that it is owned. There is a person or group at the root of everything A I produces, a person with goals and values that are so deeply concealed that commentators forget they’re there. But they are.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 10/03/2025

[watching anora] nobody in this movie would last two days at a conclave

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Tagging @weratedogs.com to maybe help reunite this sweet boy with his family?

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is a long shot but anyone looking for a #lostdog around #garrison #minnesota

Lost dog found on the ice near garrison Minnesota. Redish gold Labrador

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Re: the over-62 music grants— Is there a word for how, amid all the awful news, it’s the good news that opens the spigot of tears?

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I realized I make faces while I’m writing, basically acting out a character in a scene. Realized this AT the coffee shop. Mortifying.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I saw goodie proctor fuck your outie at the ORTBO

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Was nobody going to tell me that Jason Isaacs is in the new season of White Lotus!? 🤩

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Susanna Clarke. Take me on an adventure on the King’s Roads or drop me in the arms of one of Piranesi’s statues!

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Getting fomo over that college/career meme going around not because I didn’t go to college but because I absolutely 100% did NOT have a career goal when I started college. People went to college with careers in mind?! Me: Yay more school! 😄

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

"Sir, thys ys an Abyss."

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is very cool! Bonus points for the phrase ‘a collaboration with time’ which absolutely did not have to go that hard.

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/01/2025

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I joined a little five week social curling league and the first game last night made me feel like a kid playing outside on the pond again. When life gives you ice and darkness, make up silly games sliding rocks back and forth under the stars.

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Toby @queerhobbit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Graduate knowing less than when you started is too fucking real 😆😭

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