If you’re boring at the Met Gala, imagine how deeply boring you must be in real life

"The most enchanting thing about THE HUDSUCKER PROXY is its commitment to the bit. The Coen brothers put all their cards on the table, wholly investing in a fictional world that borrows from the past while bargaining on the future." - @ambersparks.bsky.social

Randomly got fed some sort of “Weird Books” Instagram Reel, and was pleased to see two favorites included. @ambersparks.bsky.social & @thelincoln.bsky.social!

Honestly there is nothing more melancholy than mid century modern architecture because it’s so optimistic about the future

Most Interesting Kitten in the World (also handsomest, best tail, etc)

Rereading Cheever’s The Swimmer and I honestly think that the idea of an entire endless row of people who own houses and have backyard pools is more of a fantasy to me than Lord of the Rings

A PEEK: Proud to be part of this upcoming SFF antho along with @thelincoln.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social and others! THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY releases on 10.06.26. Pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/4tpEXbT #supernatural #cryptids #sff

3 new guests for the 50th ep. of AFTERIMAGES: Jen Fawkes, @byzantienne.bsky.social & @ceruleancynic.bsky.social. Also with: @ramseycampbell.bsky.social , Stephen Volk, @harleypeyton.bsky.social, Knut Larsson, @wmboyle4.bsky.social, @richardkadrey.bsky.social, @ambersparks.bsky.social & Jack Sholder.

Weird Books for Weird Readers! Featuring books by: @wiswell.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social …and some other guy :)

I need writers to stop writing flop-sweat articles claiming “everyone” uses AI. Like baby you give away your artistic soul if you want, no one’s stopping you, but you don’t get to self-soothe on a lie. You’re not an artist anymore and other people still are, and that’s the price of your laziness

Happy Easter! We already live in hell

What’s the German word for “the feeling you have when all the women are getting fired from the Trump administration and you’re happy because they’re the worst fucking people but also furious because why not Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr, why only the worst WOMEN”

From what I can tell Bluesky is dying not because of leftists or whenever but because the algorithm really fucking sucks

This fairy tale forms workshop sold out last week but we’ve added a few more seats, so if you were trying to get in, get in now! It’s going to be so fun and generative writingworkshops.com/collections/...

couple months ago, via determination and grit, i managed to be six minutes late for a lil date with a friend. i was so proud man. but he arrived ten minutes later. completely negated my hard work. i could’ve killed him

oh you don’t like telling stories? Get the fuck out of the storytelling lane

Reviewing a book, really wrestling with it intellectually, is such a pleasure and it’s so painful to see someone give away this pleasure for…what, cutting the world’s smallest corner?

Agreed and please for the love of god do not reward this cash grab by one of the worst people in the world

I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.

This is literally every one of my relatives now

There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for #nokings tomorrow but here are maybe the top two: 1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines. 2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide

This is absolutely incredibly

my feeling of sadness about the loss of nuance when everything else is happening feels a bit like being sad about dropping my ice cream while the Titanic sinks but I do still feel it

The constant stress of knowing there are still more families out there whose lives haven’t been ruined, still more children safe in their schools instead of locked up in cages

Just me over here quietly thinking about how readers’ lowered standards in what’s supposed to be literary fiction writing have helped open the door for AI fraud

There are two kinds of writers: writers who know exactly what they want to write about, and then write; and writers who discover that birds have sub-atomic magnet particles in their eyes to correspond with the earth’s magnetic compass so now they need to change their whole book to fit that fact in

God it was so wonderful liking a book or a movie or a play or a band before social media

It is so funny and perfect that Venezuela beat the US in the World Baseball Classic, love to see it

truly believe that it’s unhealthy to have a take on every single topic. It’s Good Actually for there to be discourse that you are not informed on

Man it was a good year for movies, despite studios’ attempts to fuck the industry up as much as possible, people really do still make good films and love good films

They deserved this since Fruitvale Station

I am so, so, so happy for PTA, he’s so brilliant and such a joyful filmmaker and he just loves the medium so deeply and every film he makes is doing something totally different and he’s deserved this award for so long

They’ve always been good people!

New favorite Oscars gown (okay second favorite after the saffron Michelle Williams gown)

In a few weeks I’ll be teaching one of my favorite workshops, on using the forms found in fairy tales to apply to any creative writing to open up new possibilities. It’s always highly generative! writingworkshops.com/products/onc...

Resort wear? In this economy?

Ok so I am really enjoying On the Calculation of Volume, it’s a beautifully written book, but it’s also driving me insane because it’s breaking one of my cardinal writing rules: just ignoring the internet exists!

Watched Guys and Dolls last night and was annoyed anew at how Vivian Blaine, Sinatra, Jean Simmons, and Stubby Kaye all understood the assignment and Brando just stands there like a boring lump, “singing.” Simmons is so charming and he’s so lifeless it even renders him (almost) unattractive

'Where has the horse gone? where is the rider? where is the giver of gold? Where are the seats of the feast? where are the joys of the hall? O the bright cup! O the brave warrior! O the glory of princes! How the time passed away, slipped into nightfall as if it had never been!'

My insane but also true opinion: in temperate climates, jeans season is even shorter than jacket season; there is only a tiny temperature window in which jeans are comfortable and not too hot or too cold

A horror movie where the gorgeous older star of a horror movie about society’s obsession with women’s youth and perfection becomes obsessed with youth and perfection and ends up looking like a horror movie

Okay. 90s style was cool not because every looked the fucking same, but because you could actually express your OWN SENSE OF STYLE. Most things were thrifted, so you picked out your own skirt, your own giant flannel, your own weird message tee. You wore your mom’s old bell bottoms.

Everyone is too skinny and it is giving me heroin chic ptsd, I cannot do this bullshit again you guys

I really do feel bad for millennials more than anyone because of this. We Gen Xers didn’t believe in anything, except that we’d probably be dead by 35, so we’re not disappointed by much and have no real ambitions. But millennials were raised to achieve shit and care, and that sucks for them

With all apologies to Woolf and all the casualties of both world wars, “I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times”

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

This is exactly it - but worse, because we have a Mad King AND we have the ability to REMOVE him from power - and GOP Congress won’t do it

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

More Weird Book Recommendations :) Featuring: @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Karen Russell @johnchrostek.com @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social And this other guy several of you vaguely know because of your associations on the internet :)

Oh my god