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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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LoS Draws 🔞 @monsterfucker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
AM I DOING THIS RIGHT
A cookie monster themed gown in DressmakerA cookie monster themed gown in Dressmaker, another angle
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
YES! I did this! It was only two weeks, not a month - "only" - but it was incredible and absolutely was one of the more important things that have happened to me.
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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 · 05/07/2026
Our neighborhood only just chilled out - and to think I was worried about this upsetting the dog.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I’m up in northwest and same. I had to check a livestream to see if it was happening.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This movie is, like, such a case of immaculate vibes and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. This is vibes storytelling and the feeling is the thing that is most important over absolute narrative cohesion.
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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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WRAITH 👻🍉 @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 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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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
IT IS PERFECT AND I AM ORDERING ONE RIGHT NOW.
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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
He tries hard to be fair and good even when people are not fair or good to him and so he is always asking questions and then listening to the answers. It makes him a good writer and a good reporter. So, yeah, I just wanted to go on record with that. No reason.
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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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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Obsessed!
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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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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
THAT BOUQUET OF FEETS
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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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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It’s a complicated maneuver but a good one!
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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...
nightmare-magazine.com
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
It makes sense in context but I didn’t have context when I first spotted it.
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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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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Goodie Bag CECAELIA!
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I loved making those! And, uh. I have been making swag bags for a yearly retreat I do at Highlights. Oh, man, am *I* a tooth fairy????
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Oh that is an extremely true statement.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm definitely already brainstorming like, what the Pride equivalent of the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy would be. My kneejerk is a lesbian octopus but, you know, I'm trying to give myself room.
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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
Really, if we needed sleep THAT bad, why would sleep be so hard anyway?
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
During Pride month even! HOW DARE.
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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
I am definitely obsessed with this mesh garment that has no pockets and is see through. It has no business being so cute!!!
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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
Y’all, no regrets but now I need to figure out where I’m going to wear a mesh jumpsuit.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My slightly self-indulgent order arrived an hour ago and I opened the box and everything is black and there are several instances of gratuitous buckles and grommets - and that’s just the swimwear. I fear my 19-year-old inner self was in charge of this order.
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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
Worked dragged me in so I am back later than planned, apologies! I’m going to look at replies and reach out. Y’all are AMAZING.
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Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oh NO. Fire ant bites are so painful.
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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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