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Marianne Kirby

@therotund.bsky.social
6.1K followers 1.7K following 2.3K posts

Writer, editor, semi-professional fat person. SFF/spec/soft horror/whatever. Here for the weird stuff. she/they

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The Rando Awards @therandoawards.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Friends, it's time. After much deliberation, our team of judges has locked down their winners for the 2026 Rando Awards. No more dilly-dallying. No more sleepless nights. Here, in no particular order, are the best books our crew read all last year.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Okay listen I just got out of a late showing of the Backrooms and while I have narrative critic thoughts, damn, that was effective. I so thoroughly enjoyed that.
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 28/06/2026
ISO a sensitivity reader who can look at queer Muslim experiences in a diasporic context in a fantasy novel - anyone working in this area right now (or know anyone who is)? thx!!!
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A crowd of French children didn't perform in unison as chain-smoking, hungover Serges Gainsbourg so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Doing lit agent research is like an unholy combo of job hunting and dating.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Extremely excited for this poll.
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/06/2026
Oh my! Happy 65th birthday to Christopher Priest, the first Black full-time writer (and editor!) for superhero comics, as well as the man who made Black Panther into what you think of as Black Panther My NYMag profile of Priest from 2018: archive.is/0J97j

The Man Who Made Black Panther Cool
Christopher Priest broke the color barrier at Marvel and reinvented a classic character. Why was he nearly written out of comics history?
By Abraham Riesman
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Now watching: (I love this movie so much)
The Birdcage
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A thing I've noticed about @jasonsanford.bsky.social is how very gentle he usually tries to be with the world. I could honestly say a lot of nice things about Jason (he's easy to compliment) but this is the most important thing: Jason approaches the world with such curiosity and genuine interest.
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Zera / Corey Jae 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · 21/06/2026
With alt text, because this is important.
A black and white photo of a man with a moustache wearing a plaid shirt, standing amidst a sitting crowd and shouting. The text above reads...
Vito Russo:
"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Mini #FolkHorror thread for you. This morning I found this old confectionery box from the 1940s or 50s in a charity shop. I did some delving and found that the horned, devilish character is called 'Der Fulehung' or 'Lazy Dog'. He was supposedly the...
Thuner Leckerli 
Confiserie F Steinmann. Thun
Box with illustration of the horned, devilish Fulehung
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🌒💀 evelynn 💀🌘 @ladyartaud.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
this, but unironically. maximalism will overtake the scourge of minimalism that has plagued literature for too long
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Parked on the street with the windows down; a dad and a kid are biking up the hill. The kid is struggling a bit. The dad says, “What I care about is you’re doing your best. You’re doing great.” 😭😭😭 And don’t we all need to hear that, damn.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DOES YOUR BODY NEED STRETCHING?
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I was going to make a joke about this but then I actually read it and the answer is literally "your partner not respecting you" and now I'm depressed
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
OH HEY WANT TO READ A STORY? I wrote this weird soup for you, friends. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/nomo...
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NoMouth - Nightmare Magazine
The videos show people kissing. They press their mouths together and open their lips. Their tongues move, wet and intrusive, less like they are tasting each other than like they want to lay eggs in th...
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is terrible advice.
A top down photo of a craft kit that reads SAY “I LOVE YOU” IN WOOD. This terrible advice. 

(The actual context is that it is a Celtic love spoon carving kit but out of context this sounds like some serious dudely boner-centric advice on its own.)
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bex @blueraccoon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
tip: if your dear ones complain about energy prices (valid) and the cost of running ac, point out that it costs less money and energy to just keep the system running than it does to start and stop it every time you wanna cool off ENDURING HEAT IS NOT A MORAL VIRTUE FFS. IT WILL KILL YOU DEAD.
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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ok writer pals, looking for a particular craft book. I found it in a used bookstore in LA once upon a time and to my regret didn’t buy it. It used an example of a character with a lot of stuffed toys on their bed (to show greed/need for comfort). Does anyone know what this is?
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
On my little stretch break walk around at Merry Pin, I found some patches and some stitch markers that I need to gift to a couple of local friends and, really, I know there is no Pride equivalent of an easter basket BUT THERE SHOULD BE MAYBE.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The demands of the body are unreasonable. What do you mean I have to get up and stretch regularly? What do you mean I have to eat food regularly? What do you mean by SLEEP? @geardrops.bsky.social always says “hydrate or die straight” so at least I have my three beverages to ward that off.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
a screenshot of lyrics from Good Charlotte's Boy and Girls, but I've poorly edited them to read, 

"Girls don't like [discoursing about social media sites] 
Girls like [talking about their hyperfixations]"
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
THIS IS SO CUTE.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The other night I ordered some new swimwear from Torrid as chlorine has wrecked most of what I have from a couple years ago. And then I saw they had a couple bras with a black velvety flocked snake design. And then I remembered all my house pants have holes in them and paint on them.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As a result of other morning drive thoughts, can you rec me an artist? Looking for someone taking small commissions who is good at a sort of 1970s Disney animation style (for still art, I don’t have an animation budget). No AI, FFS.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Obviously I had such productive and useful thoughts on my drive to work this morning.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Not to get into Heated Rivalry discourse on main but Kesha’s new single with Boy Throb was ghost written by Shane Hollander.
A screenshot of Shane Hollander from the tv show Heated Rivalry, whichever episode involves the club scene featuring Tatu’s This Is Not Enough; he is a wasian man in a white tshirt standing and staring miserably into the void while people dance ecstatically around him. Text overlays the top of the image, lyrics from Kesha and Boy Throb’s single DJ Turn It Down. The text reads: 
I hear the DJ turn it up, I wanna tell him to stop it
I got work in the morning and now it's two in the morning
I'm 'bout to call me an Uber and I don't care if I'm boring.
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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Every article/post/whatever I see from someone who is like "I believed in body positivity but I took this medicine for my metabolic condition and then my body changed, so fat = bad" is just obvious weird propaganda by people who didn't understand body positivity or HAES at all in the first place
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
not Charon about a thing
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TomMLittle @tommlittle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I'll try to lift up some other creators alongside my work today. Voice actors and narrators are struggling to keep their footing on YouTube in the face of ai overcrowding and ai moderation. I reached out to a few to learn more about their challenges: #HorrorWritersChat m.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFu...
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What's Happening to Horror Narrators?
YouTube video by Ofrenda
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Spent 2+ hours just hanging out with a friend at a local coffeeshop/cafe - not a writing meetup or anything with a purpose or productivity in mind. I am reminded once again that just sitting and talking with someone is so meaningful and wonderful and beautiful. Human connection is the greatest.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I hope this is his purgatory. I hope all he ever gets to do is be surrounded by fat people living their best lives and smiling. And completely ignoring him. I hope all three of my chins trigger him. I hope the gentle soft sway of my arm fat gives him the sweats.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I just watched a guy go on a minute and a half long rant about how much he hates fat people. I now want to hunt him down and force him to sit between me and Becky on a plane every day for the rest of his life. Every day. While we order snacks.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
he's not special. I ALSO saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at trader vic's.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Marianne, you have to stop agreeing to meet people at 10am if you’re going to stay up until 3am. You’re a crumbling heap of bones, please act like it. Maybe make it 10:30am if nothing else.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Can’t wait for this!!!
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badsagittarius.bsky.social @badsagittarius.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Everyone please watch this baby condor try to get in its box like a miniature drunk person in a chicken costume.
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
My friends' toddler is in the stage where she asks "why" to everything constantly and as a person lowkey having a midlife crisis it's like, "same, girl."
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is the only reason I still own a printer. It’s…very old but so worth it for the twice a year I need to print 400 pages.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Speaking of my current project I'm obsessed with right now: If you ever had a truly creepy Disney World experience, I'd love to read about it. I'm especially looking for creepy 1970s Disney World anecdotes. Please repost so I can hear from more people!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
And one litel pigge made a hous of strawe, and anothir litel pigge made a hous of stickes, and the thirde litel pigge made a hous of bricke, but the fourthe litel pigge made a hous of leaves and everyone was terrified
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Speaking of my current project I'm obsessed with right now: If you ever had a truly creepy Disney World experience, I'd love to read about it. I'm especially looking for creepy 1970s Disney World anecdotes. Please repost so I can hear from more people!
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One day I spent 45 minutes of a 50-minute session telling my therapist how good I'd been feeling about everything and how much writing I'd been doing and she looked at me and she looked at the clock and she looked at me and then she said "Of course you feel good. You're a writer and you're writing."
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Mats Strandberg @matsstrandberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🇺🇸 Finally! An UNDUBBED version of THE NURSING HOME, the queer horror movie based on my book, is available to rent on Amazon in the States. The movie had its world premiere at SXSW last year and got great reviews: variety.com/2025/film/re... Watch it here: www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
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Watch The Nursing Home | Prime Video
Joel reluctantly returns to his childhood home to help his mother Monika, who has suffered a severe stroke and was clinically dead for minutes. Monika is unrecognizable and Joel becomes convinced that something has followed her back from the other side.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Is wanting to just spend time telling people how great you think they are a symptom of perimenopause? I just feel like that would be a really meaningful use of my time lately.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It's writing time so I have purchased rhinestones and rhinestone glue with which to bedazzle my headphones, eaten a bagel sandwich, run around the craft store, put my cardigan on and taken it off like three times... The focus is going SO WELL today.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I got to read an early version of this from @redscribe.bsky.social and I am SO HYPE for it to come out in a matter of days. Hit the pre-order while it's still up, pals! Also, uh, this one is gory. So satisfying. www.amazon.com/Grief-Eater-...
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Grief Eater
Grief Eater - Kindle edition by Osborne, Emma. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Grief Eater.
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