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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Actually think Richard Brody articulated the "politically muddled" elements of OBAA in his (positive) review pretty well:

For all the extraordinary richness of the sensory and dramatic texture of “One Battle After Another,” there’s no submerged iceberg of experience or knowledge below its majestic peak. Regardless of any ethical or historical import to the prominence of political debate and analysis in such movies as “La Chinoise” and “Zabriskie Point,” what matters is their documentary connection with experience. Both films were made contemporaneously with political action of the sorts they dramatize, and both films make documentary-like contact with real-life activists. They show the practical labor of revolution, whereas Anderson’s film emphasizes its emotional labor. In so doing, he makes a movie that’s both brilliant and hollow, an old-fashioned movie about the world of today (and maybe tomorrow), a vision of hopeful possibilities that remains unmoored from realities. Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sitting down to write, the thing I supposedly love and have dedicated my life to:

A mottled, pale E.T laying face down in a river, presumably on the edge of death

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

How am I celebrating the launch of my book, you ask? Same as any author: by admiring the tiny diorama I made depicting a scene from the first chapter:

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And, of course, these words from @kellylink.bsky.social. This blurb was particularly precious to me, because I probably wouldn't have become a writer if a friend hadn't slipped me "Magic for Beginners" ten years ago. Truly a dream come true!

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

With special thanks for @planetoffinks.bsky.social, master of all things spooky and strange, for this killer blurb!

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Yeah, it’s called writing a novel

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Time to brush up on my bartering skills

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A frustrating reminder from Pynchon that the right has always been like this:

"Then again, it's the whole Reagan program, isn't it - dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can't you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity — 'I don't like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.' If the President can act like that, why not Brock?"

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

One of the benefits of living in the country is that when I DO head into town I feel entirely justified in stocking up at the little used book store

Table of books: Valencia, Tender is the flesh, rakesfall, looking backward, the big sleep, a little house of my own, death’s end, gravity’s rainbow, the scar, swan song

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“I swear I’m gonna start this project once I get a new alembic.”

A medieval alchemist sitting in his messy workshop surrounded by various alchemical tools

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

He’s putting the HOP in hoplite! (I am not losing my mind)

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Fighting the Bad Feelings by making little scenes out of trash and old toys

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Where have the literary men gone? They are on the couch, editing a manuscript with their elderly cat.

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I have a supernatural western coming out next year about the ecological devastation of the frontier! (and giant salamanders 👀)

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Incredible to me that a show that leaned this heavily on Imagine Dragons still managed to be one of the greatest pieces of visual media I've ever experienced

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My ancestors crying out in admiration as they watch me consume more sugar in a single afternoon than they ate in their entire lives

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Not gonna lie this feels a lot less fun this year

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Many great things about moving to the Missouri countryside but so far my favorite is encountering both possums and armadillos IN MY BACKYARD

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Incredible things happening at Missouri antique stores

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Big shoutout to ten-year-old Sheldon, who did in fact figure out how to write stories with a beginning, middle, and end. Thank you for spending your formative years in Full Metal Alchemist roleplaying forums.

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Incredibly excited to announce that my debut novel, THE GREAT WORK, is coming out with @quirkbooks.bsky.social next year! Hard to put into words how lucky I feel to have worked with @jesszimmerman.com and Caroline on this--truly could not have dreamed of a better team for this project.

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I hear you’re writing a horror novel. (this is a real place!)

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

About two years ago I decided, on a whim, to start making Little Guys out of trash. Probably one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life! Turns out one of the best things you can do for your writing is develop hobbies that are entirely unrelated to your writing.

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Mom come pick me up they're romanticizing the Rust Belt again

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Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Friend When do you think you'll have your novel edits done? Me: June 21 Friend: Wow! So soon! You're really dedicated to this project. Me: *sweating* Haha. T-totally.