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Ryan Michaels

@ryanmichaels347.bsky.social
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Writer looking to get published (‘The Lost Tribe’ for starters), electron herder, builder of amazing things at 1:42 scale, love books, movies, TV shows that move me to feel. Love my pup & in general I just like liking things. PNW, Vancouver Island, Canada

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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The theme song to Shrinking makes me emotional every time. I’m not sure if it’s a product of age or of how this world weighs on us so heavy sometimes.
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Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you 'groom' your brain on good writing, you will improve your own writing. The adage of 'garbage in, garbage out' applies here. What are you reading and why did you choose to read what that is? For a writer, time is a premium. Spend it on improvements. #writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@amalelmohtar.com were you and Max able to choose who narrated ‘TIHYLTTW’? It’s one of the best audiobook experiences I’ve had. Read the book earlier this year and loved it. The audiobook adds so much emotional depth to it, or at least conveys it better than I can imagine it.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The wrong 80 year olds keep dying and it sucks.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The most recent SNW episode was definitely not for me. Excessively silly premise and (spoilers?) it was all a dream. Star Trek has done silly episodes before but this felt like a whole new level. It wasn’t long before I was playing a game while the episode ran its course. #StarTrek
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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A reminder that feels important today: Your worth as a writer is NOT measured by: -Sales numbers -Your follower count -Your number of rejections -How many books you've written -Whether you have a publishing deal If you're writing, you ARE a writer. Full stop.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Anything he says
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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why are some books so good that we stay up all night reading — while others put us to sleep? 😴 The difference comes down to a psychological principle known as the Zeigarnik effect.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@annleckie.com in the latter books of the Ancillary series (and I’m sure you’ve been asked this before) where you drinking a lot of tea at the time or are just a tea enthusiast? Or maybe in the pocket of Big Tea? I’ve been brewing a cup to accompany reading them now or I feel left out.
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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
There are SO many common mistakes you can catch in your writing before handing your story over to an editor. And learning how to self-edit effectively will dramatically sharpen your craft. Here are 5 things to look for on your next pass through your WIP. 👇
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I couldn’t happier to have made tacos a plot point in my second book. It amuses me more than anything else I’ve written. Tacos literally help stop a war. #TacoTuesday
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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
One of the best pieces of writing advice is simple: Read. Read books in your genre. Read books outside your genre. Read new releases and classics. Read debut authors and seasoned bestsellers. And then, read some more. The more you read, the more craft and storytelling wisdom you'll absorb.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@marthawells.com Platform Decay 👍🏻👍🏻
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book An Operation and Peace
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Alternatively the title could be ‘Careful What You Wish For’
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Communies @communiess.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Hello during a random dessert to THE Paget Brewster!
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So let me understand this. A certain group is very concerned about all unborn life and wants to enact every law possible against ending it. But they will also take money from everyone, including the poor of which many are children & spend that money on bombs that kill children. Make it make sense.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I fear that the only way that thing will be stopped is to have it’s brains go for a short adventure outside it’s body.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Just learned of Dan Simmons’ death. Some of his works had a profound effect on me as a reader & writer. I’ll always love Hyperion & consider it one of the best books I’ve read. His politics on the other hand make me wonder how damaged a person he was to hold those views.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The latest episode of Starfleet Academy was one of the most beautiful of any Star Trek I’ve seen. If you don’t feel something watching it you may just be dead inside. To have an episode this good in the first season is a rare thing. Bravo to the cast, writers and crew of this show.
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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Getting set for my State of the Union Drinking Game. RULES: Take a drink when he tells the truth. (Not much fun, but the reality of his vision is sobering...)
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
@scalzi.com I’m sure you’ve been asked this before, but do you use names of friends, family, influences for your characters? I’m currently about halfway through Old Man’s War and some names are sounding familiar. I know I do that with my own writing so curious if that’s what you do too.
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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"But it's okay, Sarah. The Dow is at 50,000..."
The image is of a metallic skeleton, mid-chest up, of a Terminator robot from the Terminator franchise. Terminators were out to destroy all humanity—a concept best explored and realized by Fred Saberhagen in his Berserker stories. Look for them. Read them. (Fred was a lovely man who likely could have prevailed in a lawsuit about Terminator, but he really wasn't litigious. And, yes, I am biased about Fred because he was a good friend and a splendid role model.)
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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I don't often plug stuff here, but... 1) I do have to eat 2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year. This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880
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The Mad King - Michael A Stackpole's Ko-fi Shop
The Mad King is a sword & sorcery fantasy novella featuring Neryon, a warlock whose life is governed by the whims of fate. In this first story he enco...
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just finished reading my first novel by Ursula K LeGuin and it was amazing. The Lathe of Heaven is trippy and didn’t go where I’d even imagined. I’m actually a bit disappointed that no one has ever recommended this or any of her other books to me. I won’t be keeping this author to myself.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I have a number of questions about Captain Ake and I suppose Holly Hunter as well. Is the bare feet a character thing or a Holly thing? Is it a foot fetish thing from the writers room? Will we see her in those toe shoes at some point? What are those things she wears on the tops of her feet?
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Is it dead yet?
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If I ever start to shit post about anything and everything in media that I consume I hope somebody checks me on it. Just because I don’t like something doesn’t mean it sucks and just because I love something doesn’t mean it’s the best thing ever. No need to put down something that others love.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What’s happening in Minneapolis right now looks like it could be the prequel the ‘The Handmaids Tale’. These monsters watched that show as a playbook, not the warning that it is.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Loving Holly Hunter as the lead of the new ST: Starfleet Academy, she’s quirky and funny, very much her own person that feels like she’s lived the centuries that’s been established. Also love that she sits how she wants in her command chair goes around barefoot at times.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
@megardener.bsky.social easiest follow back I’ve ever done. Avid scifi reader, Andor quote and a meme of a book quote I’ve got on my list to read.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Of the 26 books I read last year there wasn’t one I didn’t enjoy. My top favorites though, in order are: Project Hail Mary Flowers for Algernon Klara and the Sun Downward to the Earth The Murderbot Diaries (this is a cheat, loved the entire series) Make It So (audiobook read by Patrick Stewart)
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Really should’ve sharpened that axe before going into battle. #StrangerThings
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It’s not because it’s fruit cake that I won’t be eating this free holiday treat left in the lobby, it’s because #Pluribus has forever changed my relationship with “free” food.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Can’t hype up Pluribus enough, each new episode is a masterwork. Truly some amazing talent on display here. Rhea Seehorn is incredible and her equally defiant southern neighbor is the most wonderfully stubborn character I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
@devindra.bsky.social getting close to the end of The Good Fight season 6 and it’s batshit crazy and seemingly prophetic and scary as shit. And I mean batshit crazy in the best way possible. Thanks again for the repeated recommendations to watch it on The Filmcast.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
change a movie by adding a word Orange Pulp Fiction…
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Soon we’ll learn that the orange clown bought a shit ton of Advil shares before making these statements about Tylenol. Maybe the profits of those illegal trading practices will cover some of the lawsuits.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
What movie do you consider perfect?
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@ericheisserer.bsky.social I’m not sure if you check this account any longer but I wanted to say how much more I appreciate your screenplay of ‘Arrival’ having just read the short story it was based on. Both are beautiful stories, yours adding the stakes to have made it more of a grander story.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’ve managed to read many books this year, more than I’ve read in the past ten years collectively. ‘Klara and the Sun’ was very affecting and will be on a very short list of books that I don’t think I’ll ever forget. Beautiful in it’s melancholy and sadness, i couldn’t put it down.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Slightly diminish a band… The Partially Clothed Ladies….
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Harrison Ford’s Cadillac Man.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
@devindra.bsky.social I finally checked out ‘The Good Fight’ based on your thankfully frequent recommendation. As good as the Good Wife, at least in the first season. Thanks!
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I’ve never wished for something to be true more than this and that is a sad state that this world has left us to be in, now if all the other evil would hurry up and do the same.
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
So many YouTube videos about a certain someone’s impending demise and I’m just like, “stop teasing us, just let us know when it’s done.”
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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
One of my favorite (and most common) novel structures? Multiple storylines. When done well, it's SO good. But it's also SO easy to get wrong. If you’re writing a multi-POV or multi-timeline novel, watch out for these 5 common mistakes: 🧵
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Ryan Michaels @ryanmichaels347.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
My like button on YouTube no longer works due to the many times I’ve smashed it.
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