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My sister just read this and went “what do you mean William Kidd and Billy the Kid are different people” I’m RIGHT

Thinking about how William Kidd and Billy the Kid are both famous criminals but not the same person. Maybe we should invent some more names this is getting confusing

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

Plainclothes (2025) dir. Carmen Emm is a very well-made thriller and also as a 2000s baby a fascinating looking into the pre-cell phone world of pagers and pay phones (I wish I was joking but this made me realize I didn’t know how pagers work LOL)

illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". The scene depicts Frankenstein's monster carrying Elizabeth Lavenza.

Take me with you 🫀

man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

Storyboard Pro drawing of Jacob Elordi playing The Creature in Guillermo Del Toro's 2025 Adaption of Frankenstein

Had to do a quick sketch of The Creature from @realgdt.bsky.social 's fantastic adaption of #Frankenstein

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

I was walking in an antique land late one night
When my eyes beheld such an eerie sight
Two vast and trunkless legs began to rise
Near them on the sand a shattered visage lies

(Ozymandi-AS) OzyMANdias
(Ozymandi-AS) He was a graveyard smash
(Ozymandi-AS) No thing beside remains
(Ozymandi-AS) Ozyman-

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Victor Frankenstein: I came here to drink milk and commit heresy and I’m all out of milk

Frankenstein good :)

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

What’s up everyone I remembered that the new Wuthering Heights movie has a white Heathcliff and a South Asian Edgar Linton and felt despair again

josh o’connor cradling art: a triptych

Portrait of a woman facing sideways, looking up with one hand raised, a bright red octopus leg curling around her thumb. The background is navy blue with red circular patterns and octopus legs flowing from the side. She is Japanese, with a tattoo of circles and lines around her eye, choppy chin-length hair, and a cropped navy jumper.

Maya from The Stardust Grail by @yumewrites.bsky.social! I love space friendship

#TheStardustGrail #art

Here is my most damning indictment of romance as a genre: we are currently living in a time when stalkers, rapists, and murderers are romance MMCs, but I doubt I could name more than 10 books in the whole history of the genre where an FMC has an abortion.

from publishers marketplace: "Sarah McCarry's POSSESSION ISLAND, a queer gothic thriller pitched as INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE meets Heavenly Creatures, in which a woman comes home from college to her family's mansion on a Pacific Northwest island, haunted by the legacy of her late mother's bestselling vampire novel, and as her estranged best friend is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect; she then finds an unexpected ally in her high school nemesis who has secrets of her own, to Sara Goodman at Saturday Books, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2026, by Andrea Morrison at Writers House (NA)."

do u like stories about young ladies making very bad decisions in a gothic environment while under the nefarious influence of lesbian vampire novels? well boy do i have a treat for u

Anyone wanna walk about On Swift Horses and how queer it is and how it uses gambling as a metaphor for the dangers of being queer in 1950s America

Publisher’s Marketplace posting. Publishers in dark blue font with Marketplace in red font. “Deal Report” on the right side of the heading, also in dark blue. Text below reads: THE UNHAUNTING By Micaiah Johnson Imprint: Putnam October 13, 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist Micaiah Johnson's THE UNHAUNTING, in which a young Black woman joins her friends to renovate a Confederate-era plantation house, where past and present begin to blur uncomfortably, pitched as Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE meets Toni Morrison's BELOVED, for fans of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam, at auction, for publication in fall 2026, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English). Foreign: rokumura@penguinrandomhouse.com Film/TV: Josie Freeman, CAA

It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

if you don't know what i'm talking about neither do i really except tumblr is having a blast it seems

should i text my middle school friend who was really into dan and phil y/n

Whew this piece is so scathing.

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
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On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Hello movie people would we say the trailer for One Battle After Another is an accurate representation of the film

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...