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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

Interesting which lives it is distasteful to bet on, isn't it?

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

Why are we coming in swinging is my question

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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

And even with the vote they won't have the will. And if they ever develop the will they won't have the ability.

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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 · 04/04/2026

"Kuzco's Poison"-ass attempt at intellectualism

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Ro Wren @rwren.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The answer presents itself; most people aren't going places.

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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 · 12/12/2025

I look forward to hearing about it when it goes big!

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

I'm very sorry to hear what has been going on, folks. It was a pleasure corresponding with you on two anthologies.

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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

I gotta reckon that the relative incomprehensibility of this post alone is enough to deter most people

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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 · 28/06/2025

Was Joe showing his character and decency when he facilitated a genocide in Gaza?

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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

If only you cared as much about Palestinian lives as you do about rabbits.

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

No, I think if we're talking about Biden's record, and glossing over his complicity in genocide, then that is inconsistent and problematic

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

Well I wasn't replying to a post about Trump or Obama, was I?

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

Yeah they should be in the Hague too?

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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

Alas, if you're the kind of person who cares about culture, you're not the kind of person who becomes a billionaire

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

How are you gonna have a trans flag in your bio and make 'ha ha man doesn't have a dick' jokes

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

Christina I gotta tell you, if we're playing better or worse and one guy murdered 100,000, we're doing some very evil maths! I'd have preferred a Democrat with the moral backbone to stand up to Netanyahu and Israel's genocidal regime!

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

When Biden was president I was pretty worried about the 100,000 Palestinian he facilitated the murder of though

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

Was Obama cool when he was launching double-tap drone strikes at Pakistani civilian funerals?

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

This supposes that a large chunk of the American public is unaware rather than consciously in favour of an American fascist moment

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

At a certain point if you're logging into the dick pic website and you're startled to see a dick pic it's kinda on you

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

I suppose one draw-back is how do you communicate when, say, the book has a lot of humour, but it weakens the book overall, or when the lack of plot is beneficial? Is it really a review or more of a visual descriptor of the book?

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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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