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Reina Hardy

@reina.bsky.social
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Playwright, mostly. Current projects: Simon & Schuster (nonfiction), Hallmark (movie). My first movie as a screenwriter aired on 2/3/2024! www.hallmarkchannel.com/paging-mr-d… Are my reps on Bluesky yet? More at www.reinahardy.com

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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 11h
I need a good toddler book about the periodic table of the elements STAT. My two year old just learned all the symbols in the Moon and Serpent Magical alphabet for some reason and is even using them in rudimentary spells. I need to distract him.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chicago! One of my favorite ever sci-fi short plays is getting a reading at the Goblin Market bookstore on Lincoln near Diversey. Please come and say hi!
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This kind of soaring rhetoric is so infuriatingly misplaced from a company like Meta. Maybe Apple, which has some credibility for making frictionless products, could get away with it, but Meta? You should introduce a product like this by apologizing; no one trusts you.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Has the game Blue Prince caused a Maze resurgence? When I was writing my essay on the cult '80s puzzle book by Christopher Manson, my editor @electricliterature bought me a copy for less than $10. But now you can't get it used for less than $100. @henryholtbooks don't miss your chance for a reprint.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely stunning find at the UU rummage sale near my house. I didn’t buy it because obviously I still have my childhood copy, but fyi.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just learned that Christopher Manson's Maze helped inspired the popular game "Blue Prince," which makes it a good time to link to my all-time great essay on the cult 80s puzzle book in Electric Literature: electricliterature.com/a-labyrinth-...
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A Labyrinth in the Shape of a Book - Electric Literature
“This is not really a book. This is a building in the shape of a book… a maze.” —From the directions to Maze, by Christopher Manson I first read Maze as a child, on a bus. I don’t remember where the…
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Love being on a season with Steve Yockey. My favorite place to be. Happy to have new musical friend Alex Higgin-Houser with me too. theatre.msu.edu/2026-2027-se...
theatre.msu.edu
2026 - 2027 Season
BUY TICKETS Discovery tells the story of the NASA astronaut corps after the 1986 Challenger tragedy and the lead-up to the 1988 launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. Following Dr. Sally Ride on her…
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/09/2026
gearing up to get another book ready to send into the world right now and i just wanted to take a second to say that you should get your hands on a copy of SIMPLICITY if you like anything i've ever made. i'm still so immensely proud of it.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We need laws against this. Failing that, can someone sue them? Who? futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"evil motherfuckers talking your damn ear off" is one of my favorite genres of plays and novels, but I do not like encountering it IRL
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Love this energy. “Don’t have an opinion on the thing I’ve made until you’ve made it exactly the way I made it.” They should go a step further and not let anyone watch it either.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rat Purse — Paul Frey, 20th C. brass, ruby
A brass Queen purse in the shape of a rat the body of the Rat is around bag of chainmail with four little rat legs coming off of it there's a rat tail at the end and the Rats I is a bright red thanks to a little speck of Ruby
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm surprised at how hard this article is triggering the trads. It's a searching meditation on pregnancy and miscarriage but they're reacting like it's a culture war broadside. Are they literally all bots?https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-unsettling-ambiguity-of-early-pregnancy
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The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy
Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I live in a neighborhood where I can walk to coffee shops, three grocery stores and a library, and kids bike around everywhere! So I guess I mog you all.
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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 18/09/2026
The "they don't know I'm" party meme except it's the pope when he was young, at an actual party, actually holding a drink. Tweeted by user @hardflics with the caption "They don't know I'm the future Pope."
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the problem with brain worms. When strangers don’t coo over my toddler, I’m shocked, sure but I just talk about it with my husband and we laugh at ourselves. I don’t post it on the internet as evidence of societal decline.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My toddler’s feet aren’t cute anymore. Every other part of him is little and adorable but his feet are these disconcerting clodhoppers. The shoe situation is unreal.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My toddler’s feet aren’t cute anymore. Every other part of him is little and adorable but his feet are these disconcerting clodhoppers. The shoe situation is unreal.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think Patricia Lockwood should have a gossip column. Everyone would have oblique poetic allusions instead of names, but it would be funny and the tea would SCALD.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jung not only came up with the whole extrovert/ introvert thing, he described them precisely as Mr. Bingley / Mr. Darcy.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I couldn't fit this paragraph into my "Much Ado About Nothing" chapter, but I stand by it.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A lot of resentment comes from the fact that people think about agents backward. I am writing a Substack about this, but I also managed to put Sherlock Holmes into it.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The long Peepless season is at an end. Enjoy readily available Peeps.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is there a type of guy who keeps his money in stocks and is really against buying a home? Have you dated him?
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Do you guys know that I teach scriptwriting online? Next session starts 9/14. It takes four weeks, mostly async (although we have four optional live meetings), and you'll finish with a short script! www.interlochen.org/online/progr...
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Introduction to Scriptwriting: Screens, Plays & Podcasts | Interlochen Online
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Senator Marshall is a ghoul. 18 percent interest on medical bills! Gift article link— www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Question for you @meta-- when I type The Reader Chicago into the Instagram search bar, do you think I want to go to the @chicagoreader instagram profile, or do you think I want AI to generate a short history of the Chicago Reader? FUCKING ANSWER ME.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's very cute when my editor goes through and standardizes the way I refer to Reddit forums
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every YouTube ad I'm getting right now is one of these three: 1. James Talarico 2. Those two bitches talking about Granola. ai 3. A long AI animated musical cartoon that starts with the narrator singing "I slept with the wife of a Jewish billionaire..." advertising who knows what
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Erik Larson’s latest, “The Demon of Unrest,” about the firing on Ft Sumpter, is also an introduction to the South Carolina ruling class devoted to white supremacy, torture and rape that called itself “the Chivalry.”
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It is good to struggle. It is also good, sometimes, to win: www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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Coyote vs. Acme Is Finally, Actually, in Theaters. It Wasn’t Easy.
Director Dave Green unwraps how his Looney Tunes movie impossibly came to be.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is hilarious www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Pride and Prejudice Verbatim
I've seen a lot of Pride and Prejudice adaptations. Maybe you have, too. What if all the most book-accurate dialogue from our favorite screen versions was st...
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ok, so -something- happened. But still no video release, still no justice for the death of Kohen Wiley. abcnews.com/US/police-ch...
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Police chief fired in Miss. city where officer fatally shot 1-year-old outside Walmart
Senatobia police chief Harold Vanderford was fired on Tuesday after allegedly sending racist text messages. His officers were involved in the Kohen Wiley shooting.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every single man I know in real life has passion, conviction and joy. Then I come into the internet and see stuff like this.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So help me, I wrote about childcare through the lens of Jane Austen trivia: reinahardy.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
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Jane Austen’s Daycare Situation
Why we should actually compare ourselves to moms of the past
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Are you familiar with the term four quadrant?
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Halloween needs our military support in the War on Christmas. Look at this! It’s August! Is nothing sacred?
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Rickee @rickeelynn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Renee: Look what you've built! TK: We. We've built. This is what separates AEW from the others #AEWAllIn
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hey @huckleberrycare, why did I spend 2024 answering monthly quizzes about my newborn's development if you weren't going to give me access to that information later?
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Anyway I'm the only person with good Obsession takes. Everyone else is either "Bear was the victim" or "asking Ian to unwish his wish shows that Bear is fleeing responsibility."
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Name a love poem that's actually a crime.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The other defining aspect of Bear from Obsession is his passivity. The dude made ONE phone call to customer service. I've worked harder to get an $80 refund from Ebay than he did to save Nikki -or- himself.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My two year old is really getting into the “Six” cast album, which he believes to be an inspirational tale about the number Six. Like while listening to it he keeps happily counting to six, it is adorable.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They say nothing happens in vain. They also say it always happens in threes.
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It tickles me that my editor went through my manuscript meticulously standardizing my capitalization of Johnlock
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I screwed up: it's 300 million books donated!
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gang, look at this amazing season featuring MIDNITE: theatre.msu.edu/2026-2027-se...
theatre.msu.edu
2026 - 2027 Season
BUY TICKETS Discovery tells the story of the NASA astronaut corps after the 1986 Challenger tragedy and the lead-up to the 1988 launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. Following Dr. Sally Ride on her…
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The debate over whether Bear is the villain of Obsession confuses me. Bear is a horror protagonist who faces a moral test and utterly fails. There is no villain!
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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sing, muse! Of my relationship with my worst ex, but like, without making me sound bitter?
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