Maybe we were too harsh on Orc City guy

based on one exceptionally wild Publisher's Marketplace announcement, I'm calling it: orcs will be the next big thing in romantasy

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Started Between Two Fires on this long flight. Almost finished with Between Two Fires. Could not put this fever dream of a book down.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

That moment in Pokemon ZA when you skip half the (heavily marketed) alphabet ranking and watch the game shrink before your very eyes is diabolical. What a disappointment. Incredible contrast with Hades 2 last month, which does the opposite and surprises you with double the Hades midway through.

Big night ahead

The way this happened to me at least once every batch

Gave my phone a minimalist makeover, that’ll quell the psychic damage it emits

That last line really just sucker punches you out of nowhere

Having fish fingers and mac n cheese for dinner because I yearn to be 12

I hate when my Kindle updates a book cover with the floating heads movie poster tie-in. Enshittification is everywhere you look!

My chronic eye lid twitch when I’m trying to talk to people: 👁️ 👄 💃🏽

I'm intrigued and a little scared. Mostly intrigued.

We need more mimics in media, more freaky entities

Sorry for double posting but a bluesky pitch event is live and I’m actually getting agent interest 😭 gotta keep the train going!!!

When a grieving archaeologist joins a mission to study the sudden appearance of an Atlantic island, she discovers its sentient—an ancient organism scarred by its own trauma, ready to erase humanity. Cosmic horror meets human grief Annihilation x The Mountain in the Sea #DVPit #A #H #SF #LGBT #MENA

When a grieving archaeologist joins a mission to study the sudden appearance of an Atlantic island, she discovers its sentient—an ancient organism scarred by its own trauma, ready to erase humanity. Cosmic horror meets human grief Annihilation × The Mountain in the Sea #DVPit #A #H #SF #LGBT #MENA

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch. An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

As a person who hasn’t listened to Taylor Swift this side of 30 (healthy) being online during these album release weekends is boring, though with so much out of context derangement, it’s like passing through the wards of an insane asylum all blasé

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

Okay I’ve queried 40 agents (20 in the US / 20 in the UK) and I think that’s as much traction as I can get for now — who knew horror sci-fi was such a hard sell? Everyone but me apparently! I’ve already received three rejections and I only started submitting on Sunday lol 💀

Opening night. No questions.

I’ve submitted my manuscript to a first batch of 14 agents time to call it a night before I lose it

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

‘Can’t say anyfink these days’ crowd with another absolute corker

I know my brain is atrophying in delicious geriatric millennial juices because I used to just rock up and build communities and now I’m struggling on bluesky

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

Nothingburger is one of the quintessential American words. To provide context for the concept of nothing, consider the burger

What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?

Unfortunately it's too late, I've already portrayed myself as the cool dog stealing sausages and you as the humidity riddled furious kitten.

Finding out Katabasis is an enemies to lovers romance … just fell to my knees in the kindle store

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

My Source News Opinion World is giving flat earther did his research

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

15 years ago during the YA dystopia craze: it can’t get any worse or by the numbers than this 2025: I’m Elsa Morningdew and you’re my sworn enemy Drake Bloodfang what if we fucked in the stable where I keep my dragon (TIKTOK MADE ME BUY IT, #Romantasy, Court of Thrones Book 26: The Scale Swallower)

Me to my mentions:

Banal and tedious as most reactionary British opinion writers in their 40s tend to be, Hadley Freeman is absolutely unparalleled in what she can manage to dredge up from the dreck mines

I know my brain is a can of sardines that’s been in the sun at this point but clanker is so funny to me

it's so weird to think that there's now this whole world of people who don't write generating fake books for people who don't read

These dudes are so creatively bankrupt and intellectually lazy they can’t even change the AI generated name?? At that point it even begs the question why they want to even pretend to be a ‘writer’ Grift used to take at least some effort

Not me writing a big horror scene and scaring myself

Absolutely deranged to think spending 96 percent of your time doing activities with like minded folks you enjoy being around is some sort of failed life lmao

Neat, all my competencies and my hobby on the side will be gobbled up before I’m 40

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Back into the swing of writing after a 50-day derailment. Progress is progress!

I refuse to concede the em dash to the AI you can pry it off my soft tissue fleshy hands