In case you missed this during the holiday revelry...

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I am beyond excited for this. Truly cannot wait until all of these drop at once. The best part? Everyone will get 2 essays FREE and a 3rd when you sign up for the free Typebar newsletter! Which two are you clicking on first?

Typebar Magazine 2.0 debuts January 26th.

Yoooooo I just finished reading this and I’m shook! @kjy1066.bsky.social manages to pack so much here. This story is so rich in nostalgia and pain and Latin American folklore and culture and history and even more pain. Fuck. Read this, man!

Reminder: We've been quiet because a new version of the site is launching about a month from now. We've got so many great essays lined up and we can't wait to share them with you all :)

This story slaps* *hurts and upsets

Addison wrote an excellent piece for @typebarmagazine.bsky.social last year about how video games were one of the only places Americans saw good urban design! www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/11/28/a...

I think what Karlo excels at is writing stories where pain is so much part of the background noise that it's overwhelming yet somehow not acutely felt.

Good morning! I'd be honored if you read my latest, most TropiWeird story - about memories, old friends, and how nostalgia's a boomerang

¡Me encantaría si mis lectores Boricua lean mi más reciente cuento! Una historia sobre viejas amistades, leyendas urbanas, y cómo la nostalgia te puede atropellar como tróc 🇵🇷🌴🏞️ #Latinsky

FICTION: Blanquitos by @kjy1066.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...

The other big thing was my article on gangsters, toxic masculinity, and my favorite Scorsese film, CASINO, published in @typebarmagazine.bsky.social;

Like a lot of Karlo's work, this story has a sadness woven throughout that at times feels eerily weightless until it finally settles on the reader's shoulders. Give it a read!!

NEW STORY DAY Glad that @wolfbridge.bsky.social loved this on so much that we both agreed to publish it sooner rather than wait for the upcoming @typebarmagazine.bsky.social revamp www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...

Very excited to announce an impending site redesign and migration 🎊🚀 Thank you to everyone who has supported us. Excited to launch Typebar 2.0 early next year so close to the site’s second anniversary.

Coming soon: Typebar Magazine 2.0 www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/01/c...

Does anyone know anything about tenant's rights (Long Island, NY) for superintendants who are also living in the building? Have a friend who is dealing with a landlord/boss that is verging on racism and he just wants to know what his options are. Thanks.

Please help this person if you can. Time sensitive.

If you’re waiting on edits or pitch responses from me: I am ties up with Thanksgiving preparations + work. I’ll be getting to everything Thanksgiving weekend!

I've read it and it's good, folks! Debuting in Issue 8 on 12/5.

With the shutdown, I had forgotten that it's Puerto Rican Heritage Month. Great month to sell a story about Puerto Rico in @typebarmagazine.bsky.social

Early access to Issue 8 will launch on 12/5. Had to push it back from 11/29 because it turns out hosting a Thanksgiving event and releasing a magazine the same week was…ambitious 😅

Thrilled to announce that possibly one of the most TropiWeird of my short stories, "Blanquitos" will be published in a forthcoming issue of @typebarmagazine.bsky.social!

Would obviously love the person pitching about sega channel to have experience writing about early-mid 90s consoles and the person pitching about Sky Odyssey to have a good familiarity with the PS2 library.

Would love a games writer to write about... -Sega Channel. -Playstation 2 hidden gem Sky Odyssey. We pay $75! Matt @ typebarmagazine [dot] com

I have a 🌶️ take in this.

Might I humbly request all treats and no tricks?

Typebar is a wonderful publication who are great to work with. Pitch to them!!!!!!

Pitch to Typebar, folks!

📢Typebar Magazine is now open to pitches!📢 Read our guidelines in the images below. We can't wait to work with you. Aso, we pay! $75 for a finished essay. www.typebarmagazine.com

This was a really stunning, tragic story and I was very proud we were able to publish it!

I liberated my latest short story from Typebar's paywall and put it up on my website for free. Enjoy, weirdos! rs-benedict.com/2025/10/28/t...

In a prior issue of Typebar Magazine, @theworldsgreatestwriter.com wrote an excellent essay about the domestic horror of Shirley Jackson’s novel Hangsaman www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/11/28/s...

Earlier this year Seann made a compelling case for 4E being the best iteration of D&D! www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/02/23/d...

By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt! If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

On some ways in which sexual power dynamics are addressed through sci-fi world-building and characterization, there's this particularly thouhtgful piece by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social:

Citing the fomer is "The Death of the F*ck" (ttile censored ironically, I assume) by @emilylynell.bsky.social, focusing more on the market and social forces underlying the current moment:

Digging at the problem of sex and sex appeal as something sanitized for marketability, "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny" by @rsbenedict.bsky.social should be required reading:

On this topic, a quick thread of other good reads about this whole sex-in-literature thing 🧵

An ode to Jenny Hval and cross-medium artistic curiosity www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up! Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho! kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

Drawn in by the LL Cool J reference, stayed for some knowledge.

When businesses trusted Facebook, Facebook turned around and charged everbody money to reach their own audience. Substack will inevitably do the same. It's baked into the model!

Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything. www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...

The first literary thriller? Homer's Odyssey. www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/h...

"The best dystopian fiction, and the best cyberpunk fiction by extension, trades on this human element. Rather than chain itself to paltry political metaphors, these genres examine how people choose to confront a horrifying and inescapable situation." www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

"To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. It flatters our desire to be special and also our desire to be absolved for our failures." www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/w...

to read for @upstartarts.bsky.social