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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Backrooms is kinda *the* contemporary movie. Not because it is the best (though it is very fun!), but because, in this story of recursive and ever-decaying self reference, it somehow encapsulates all the tics and trends of recent horror cinema. boxd.it/eHRnSl

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

1) All Things Must Pass (1970) 2) Brainwashed (2002) 3) Cloud Nine (1987) 4) Living In The Material World (1973) 5) George Harrison (1979)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's wild that in a society with such a hair trigger for anything remotely suggesting paedophilia, Michael Jackson is still a popular enough guy to have a stage play AND a movie made about him that just cut off before the accusations so people can just not worry about all that stuff

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Much like the accelerated production of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Artemis moon mission is a genuinely awesome thing achieved under Trump's presidency that he can never fully take credit for because his core base have a sub-medieval attitude to science and think they're fake.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'm going to write a cryptid story that's real millennialcore today for the fun of the challenge.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Every time I log onto the website, the timeline is saying "BlueSky is dying". Either it's malingering or it's lingering painfully.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

O, let me not be mad. Not mad, sweet heaven. Keep me in temper, I would not be mad. (Act 1, Scene 5)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Learning that there is a successful British thriller series that transposes Medea into the modern day but ends with a filicidal fake-out so Medea can get a restraining order against Jason. And then there's a superflous second season.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I think there's a special creature who is a pillar for each of the three planes. It's elephants for the earth and whales for the sea. Great and wise souls who keep the world. There's a third one for the sky as well but it's still up there somewhere and we haven't found it yet.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The writing sin I just can't kick is throwing the word "overhead" after "the sky." The kite went gliding through the sky overhead, etc. Where else would the sky be?

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

1930 - the more things change!

I cannot say that I have at any time had a great admiration for Mr Raymond West. He is, I know, supposed to be a brilliant novelist and has made quite a name as a poet. His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people leading lives of surpassing dullness.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Maybe I'm out of lockstep with most people here but I have a soft spot for Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's lesbian pulp movies. They might not be Fargo, but they're not necessarily trying to be Fargo.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Just discovered that my first-ever Bob Dylan gig was derided in the newspapers as proof that he was past his sell-by date while I, 19 years old and absolutely entranced, had a divine time and have seen him 4 times since. Funny, sometime you're just tuned into different things

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I live in fear of dying in a visually compelling mechanical accident that some mouth breathing moron with a thumbprint on his camera lens records on his phone but totally butchers the framing of.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Stop reading self help books. Get worse. Develop weird aesthetic ideas and publish tweets to audiences of between 3-5 people. That's the path

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

One aspect of the original Frankenstein that I haven't seen adapted is that the narrator, Frankenstein, is a very young man. He creates and rejects the creature in a fit of youthful arrogance and panic. His nervous moral cowardice is easily read as that of a man in his early 20s.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's pretty funny that after a long career of mid pop music and self-conscious contrarianism, Matty Healy's most impactful contribution to pop culture has been to somehow break the brain of the world's biggest pop star.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There's something very funny about knowing that an author will appeal to you basically exactly, putting off reading them for no real reason, and then coming to their work late and a little cautiously and finding to your delight that you love it. (Finally reading Sally Rooney)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hot girl tummy issues... Boyfriend tummy issues... Does ANYONE around here have a good gut?

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I think a lot of you could do with being able to sit in discomfort a little bit more. If nothing else. It'll let me boil you frogs.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I will say that uncannily fit 62-year-old Tom Cruise in his boxers kicking a guy repeatedly in the head shouting "you spent too much time on the internet" is an image that's going to permanently reside in my head going forward. Great movie.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Call me a pedant but the new Doctor Who episode has one of the most "Huh they've got a crane now" crane shots in years.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

141 pages in and I've got to say - Jake Tapper's "Original Sin" is a good book and feels like exhaling after a long held breath. That it makes Biden and leading Democrats look bad reflects the failing of the Dem leadership, not a failing of Tapper's. Trump 2.0 is squarely on Biden's circle's heads.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is a fine way to plot out a story structure right

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🦷bodyfluids🫀- a literary journal || ISSUE06 IN PRODUCTION @bodyfluids.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

🥩ISSUE 6: DEITY🥩 featuring work by @towerciity.bsky.social, Paul Hostovsky, Stuart Ziarnik, drew scott, cloud sinclair, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @cheysectoplasm.bsky.social, Cletus Crow, (1 of 2)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Man at the name-change office said "I'm sorry to ask, but are you changing your gender as well? I only ask because you have the beautiful long hair and the earrings" - so like, thanks my man - but also meant I had to give the objectively funniest possible answer of "Um, not at this stage."

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Sex scene discourse again? Bluesky really is just like twitter 2020 all over again.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Say what you want about Joe Biden, but he had better hope there's no life after death, because otherwise the weight of 100,000+ murdered Palestinian souls will keep him eternally from finding peace.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It really is crazy to watch western institution after institution compromise itself just to ensure that Israel can cheat and bully and massacre without criticism.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Hey Fuck Israel and Fuck the Eurovision (and fuck our jury who somehow arrived at the decision to give 7 points to that ghoulish display)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

If I was Doctor Who I simply would not have aired the centrist Eurovision / Palestine episode and would have come up with something else

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Booked the day off work and spent it watching Mission Impossible 1-4 for the first time. Nice to see Tom Cruise go from young (sinister) to 40s (hot) and now going into old (sinister, but you kinda have to remind yourself)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Watching the Rockshow / Wings Over America and having got to Live and Let Die I'm very disappointed they had not yet fully invented Paul McCartney Blows Up by that stage

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The most annoying responses to Pope Leo 14 are: 1) American Trads bitching about him 2) "Woke Pope" fans discovering that a Pope is homophobic and has a dodgy history with handling abuse claims 3) Americans saying how weird it is to have an American Pope (only we can say that)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

YANK POPE YANK POPE YANK POPE

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Pound for pound, John Wesley Harding has to be one of the most mysterious albums I've ever heard.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A workday haiku for a friend

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Barbarian did very little for me. This new Weapons marketing campaign is also doing precious little for me. But I like it when movies are good, so I'll live in reasonable hope of being surprised.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Real best and brightest out in Dublin wrapped in tricolors today. Every like of waddling louts, scraggly scumbags, and bloated ruddy frogfaced cunts. Roaring over a made-up problem. Props to the antifash counter protestors. Show em who we are in Ireland, really.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just read the line "Magic's a specific kind of thing - it likes rules," and shuddered to my bones.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If you are interested in reading my story of portents, cinema projectors, melting flesh, Catholic guilt, and Ireland during the Emergency - and if you have the money to spare - consider supporting the following from Belanger Books: www.kickstarter.com/projects/160...

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A Darker Continent - Lovecraftian Tales of the World at War

Weird and Cosmic Horror Tales of Europe at War edited by John Linwood Grant (Occult Detective Magazine)

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Eric @newhouse.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

after the Pope Francis cometh always the Pope Francis Bacon

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The college of Cardinals has announced the ascension of his holiness The Screaming Pope

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Call me Lee Harvey Oswald the way I have weaponisable identity issues

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Playing Heavy Rain for the first time and very tickled by the character choice to have Ethan, the gormless Quebecois Dad, turns on the radio to inoffensive 2000s soft rock and also immediately turn the volume down.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

By age 30 you should have learned to repress all internal suffering behind ironic posts in the tone of now-defunct social media sites

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I've never made a credible threat. All my threats are incredible. (2025 Edition)

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I'm putting together a team for one last mission.

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Everyone saying Warfare is about "American soldiers feeling bad about the Iraqis they kill" is incorrect. Nobody in the film feels bad about it. They feel bad about having their brains shook into thin goo by IEDs. The film itself feels a little sad though. Subtle distinction.

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