@aaronburch.bsky.social hitting that @therumpus.net marketing email preview text! 🔥 great piece by @barrettbowlin.bsky.social

Just finished TACOMA yesterday and holy shit!!! Immediately one of my favorite indie books of all time. Wild and fun and free. Haven’t felt this way about a book since Nagel’s DUPLEX. Soooooooooooo good 📚🔥🧨

Cannot WAIT to read all the reviews of Bad Bunny’s halftime show 🤤 👊 🔥

Can’t protest publicly, March, or close your business? You CAN cancel your Spotify and Amazon Prime accounts and you can also resist shopping today :)

Oof! Just read this one: so much packed into a small space. Motherhood, precarity, grief, imagination, brief, innocent childhood. Loved it.

Anybody notice the frequent use of “breakthrough” in The Pit? “Breakthrough pain” was invented by the Sackler family to justify dosage increases. It became the mantra of patients & doctors and is now inextricably linked to the opioid crisis. That it’s being used in this medical drama is SUSS!

I really loved this one and think you will, too. Plus, it features “Aaron” ( @aaronburch.bsky.social ) 🔥

We return with two new pieces tomorrow, but before then, do yourselves a favor and make sure to read this amazing memoir piece in @xraylitmag.bsky.social by The Bulb Region writer Ryan-Ashley Anderson (@femmeintheory.bsky.social). xraylitmag.com/nobodys-daug...

Really enjoyed 5 90s Bands by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social www.havehashad.com/hadposts/mol...

So many bangers, but a few that came to mind first… 1776 by @kevinmaloney.net is an all timer for me www.havehashad.com/hadposts/1776

“We spend the evening watching VH1 Pop-Up Videos and reading bible verses before turning on Ghost…” Our managing editor @femmeintheory.bsky.social has an amazing piece up at @bulbregion.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 bulbregion.com/Booby-Traps-...

I’ve been reading and rereading and revisiting this piece on so many occasions since I read it the first time. Don’t miss it if you can.

finally having a quiet moment to dig into @bulbregion.bsky.social... and there's two new stories! started with this @femmeintheory.bsky.social stunner. so good! "If we don’t have a name for it, we can’t be punished, right? Can you be punished for breaking a rule you didn’t know?"

THE BULB REGION is now online! 🚀🚀🚀 Make sure to read our four inaugural pieces at: www.bulbregion.com —

These nostalgic homages are 🔥

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

Two to pre-order: @kerrischlottman.bsky.social’s DAYTIME MOON & Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK. I recently finished the former & am now reading the latter. Wildly different books, they share a thread: the complication of searching for one’s own identity while navigating chaos, precarity, and loss.

A favorite from the title essay: “On two occasions around that time [2000], I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn’t happened at all as I had said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest—in a nutshell, female.” — @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!

This one pretty much sums up the relationship I have with poetry and - who am I kidding? - with myself 😬😬. Thanks so much to @poolpartymag.com for publishing it recently; they’re doing really cool stuff 📱

(1) The last time I was this scared of somebody, I was 13. I had been drugged, then raped on videotape, & that night it was projected at a punk show. Many of my classmates were there. W/in weeks, I had been doxxed online b/f there was a word for it …

You’re gonna want to read this one!

Don’t understand how ppl and org’s can identify as “radically feminist” while also identifying as trans-exclusionary. Trans women are NOT men who have just cavalierly decided they “feel like women” in order to infiltrate women’s spaces. To claim that is utterly ridiculous & not based in evidence.

Am I broken? Really thought more was going to happen in the White Lotus finale after being strung along all season. The only thing that surprised me was Chelsea dying. Everything else was either jump scares or predictable mayhem (obvi Walton Goggins was going to kill his own father, for ex.) 😒

The is poem rife with hauntingly evocative imagery.

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

I wanna know how much the copywriter who wrote the new “You can’t win. So win.” headline for Nike. It’s surprisingly bad.

You win some, you lose some.

babe, wake up! @kevinmkearney.bsky.social's novel, FREELANCE, is available for pre-order!!! asterismbooks.com/product/free...

🥹 so excited to share this new essay.

Always astounded when I get chats like this from customers. And I love using the opportunity to put my feminism into action.

I keep LinkedIn notifications turned on so that when I see alerts for promotion updates and posts like, “Top 5 Hiring Trends for 2025,” the feeling of disgust which rises up inside me confirms I’m on the right path.

Are people just afraid to be actual critics these days? I fear the make-nice-ness of the PNW has infected the rest of the country. I know for a fact that there are other critics of this season’s Severance (one is a TV writer) but no one’s writing about it. The heck?

OK…unnecessary plot tangents, plot holes, and the overuse of capsule eps notwithstanding, the last 5 mins of the Severance finale could have carried the season had there been actual tension. Unfortunately, we were set up from the start at the birthing cabins to expect Mark S. to choose Helly 🫥

We killin’ baby animals now? 🥺

Marching band? I’m sorry but wtf is happening?

Kierbot show host?

Milchik knows how to run?

Pop-up card was legit 🧇

Have no fear. Kier is near!

The hallways lighting is scawwy

Can we get Severance a better portrait artist?

I’m sorry but is anybody else getting weed gummy writing room naval-gazing masturbation vibes from this season finale? You know which show I’m talking about 👀

@charleneelsby.bsky.social's VIOLENT FACULTIES was my entrée into horror lit & for those of you who know her work, you know that choice was a straight-up cannonball. Had no idea what I was in for 🤪 Can’t express how honored I am to have been able to review her newest, and hope you give it a read <3

Have you ever pooped your pants as an adult? Asking for a friend 👀

Yesss!!! So thrilled to publish this gloriously bloody revenge story by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social !! Give it a read 🩸🐷🎳

Celebrating my birthday weekend by publishing a review on my substack about my awful birthday dinner at :)

The more I read & write horror, the more I understand the ways in which its pages can serve as outlets for dealing w/ rage that has nowhere to go; problems w/out solutions; & people/institutions which exploit & alienate you. It’s the only place u can commit murder & break shit w/out consequences 😊

This season of White Lotus leaves me feeling like I’ve been edging for weeks. When the hell am I gonna get to have a climax??? Every episode has been more or less predictable thanks to the slow drama drip—just like vanilla sex. I’m holding out for a solid finish but also not holding my breath.