Not sure that every stained glass pub lampshade is necessarily Tiffany-inspired, but that's the sort of pedantry you can expect from a millennial who earned like 10 free pan pizzas every year. Yay for this!

Rainesford Stauffer@rainesford.bsky.social · 3d ago

For @slate.com, I reported on the nostalgia surrounding Pizza Hut's Book It! program 🍕 People shared fond memories of falling in love with reading, what it meant to them as kids in terms of food access, and the glory days of books + personal pan pizzas. Gift link:

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I didn’t paint and attach thousands of individual popcorns to model trees just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · last wk.

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

@aphrawrites.bsky.social @alpineskyss.bsky.social @bittermoons.bsky.social @thishasbeencary.bsky.social jazz @juurensha.bsky.social lemon @lionalice.bsky.social surelysilly @coatsinkleaf.bsky.social ohmoka @starship-phoenix.bsky.social

There are talking animal books, and then there's Redwall. Judith Tarr revisits Brian Jacques' legendary novel, as iconic for its feast scenes as its charming hero:

Large Happenings for a Small Mouse: Brian Jacques’ Redwall - Reactor

There are talking-animal epics, and then there's Redwall.

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hello friends I have a story in The Dark this month!! it’s a reprint from an anthology that I hope is spooky heheh (cw toxic relationship, racist character) www.thedarkmagazine.com/portrait-of-...

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We're delighted to stock Boyish² and My Date is a Total Ike Woman from Mutsumi Natsuo! Boyish²: yiggybean.com/produc... My Date is a Total Ike Woman: yiggybean.com/produc...

Where is the line between tourist and local? Nadia Bulkin's "Things to Know Before You Go" offers its own answers... Reading the Weird returns to Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora!

A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing: Nadia Bulkin’s “Things to Know Before You Go” - Reactor

This vacation carries a terrible curse...

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Loved interviewing the production designer & set decorator for #widowsbay ! Spoiler: That lighthouse wasn’t on the ocean…

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2w ago

Widow's Bay has a grittiness to it: a worn-down, salty tiredness on everything from the boats to the board games 🦷 @vanessa-armstrong.com spoke with production designer Steve Arnold and set decorator Jennifer Engel on how they achieved that look

"The Unicorn Hunters is a driving, atmospheric fantasy that, like its Lost Lands, will entice you and then not let go." @bonkowsky.bsky.social reviews Katherine Arden's The Unicorn Hunters:

Sovereign of a Lost Land: Katherine Arden’s The Unicorn Hunters - Reactor

The Unicorn Hunters is a driving, atmospheric fantasy that will entice you and then not let go.

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I'm so excited for this one! I got to proofread it, and this is one of my favorite Feitian novels hands down.

Seven Seas Entertainment@sevenseasentertainment.com · 4w ago

New #SevenSeasDanmei cover reveal! ✨ SEIZING DREAMS: DUO MENG (NOVEL) Vol. 1, the modern fantasy #danmei series written by Arise Zhang aka Fei Tian Ye Xiang (非天夜翔)—cover art by Hana + interior art by Ying! Out in English this November—pre-order now! sevenseasentertainment.com/books/seizin...

Marvel/Disney gave itself an impossible needle to thread by homogenizing these movies in an attempt to retain the audience of the first few. Now they're shilling stunted manbaby pablum to an increasingly disinterested and shrinking base, many of whom have outgrown it or gotten busy with life.

do you ever think about death

read another book (and reply with your thoughts on these books!)

I know it seems like the fight against AI is really uphill but I want to remind you at one point, people went really hard for NFTs, including $69.3 million for one by Beeple at a Christie's auction in 2021, but now almost no one buys them.

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in.

It appears CG is still going to be staying for now, so hooray!

I’m sorry but if you’re fandom doesn’t have a bunch of old/middle aged women/folk writing the fic for it………let’s just say they are doing the mf heavy lifting in every fandom ESPECIALLY when it comes to fic writing. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

How To Survive This Fairytale is the best thing I've read this year. I'm thrilled to see it will be available again soon, so the people I've been recommending it to can read it! Go preorder it! It's some of the most beautiful and thoughtful storytelling you're likely to come across. #booksky #books

s. m. hallow@smhallow.bsky.social · 4w ago

The fairy tale continues August 11. 🦢✨ I am officially self-publishing How To Survive This Fairytale, which was featured in @rainbowcrate.bsky.social & currently a finalist in 7 categories for the 2025 Indie Ink Awards. This new edition features a brand new cover by @luposlipaphobya.bsky.social!

Check out this sneak peek of the bonus merch included with BALLAD OF SWORD AND WINE: QIANG JIN JIU (NOVEL) Vol. 8 (SPECIAL EDITION) by Tang Jiu Qing! #SevenSeasDanmei #QiangJinJiu #QJJ This FINAL VOLUME is on sale August 11—pre-order now! sevenseasentertainment.com/books/ballad...

spacepup - #SVSSS #Bingpup

i'm firmly of the belief that everyone should have a creative hobby. even if you aren't "good" at it. it keeps your critical thinking skills engaged, it reminds you that you're still capable of learning and growing and improving at things, it helps you connect to other people. you gotta make stuff!

Robert and flambae eyeing each other GET A ROOM ALR!!! #flambert #dispatch

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

WIRED@wired.com · last mo.

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

It also literally used to mean “Meemaw fed Peepaw rhubarb leaf pie and everybody looked the other way.” I think it was @karnythia.blacksky.app who did a brilliant thread on this one day. Mariticide rates dropped quite sharply after no-fault divorce.

ProfessorMeredith@professormeredith.bsky.social · last mo.

I am once again begging people to understand that “women used to stay married” is not the same thing as “women used to be happy.” Usually it actually means “women used to have no money, no legal protection, no right to their own children, and a church lady judging them from three pews away.”

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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still 48 days to go until release, but uh …………. The Halls of the Dead is currently in the TOP 100 of LGBT Horror!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 for the SECOND TIME!!!!!!

s. m. hallow@smhallow.bsky.social · last mo.

48 days, and I get to share my PREORDER CAMPAIGN If you preorder The Halls of the Dead, you can get ✨instant access✨ to an annotated version of Chapter 1! Which means you can read the first chapter before the book is even released! With my notes! AND, if you preorder from Well Worn Books... [1/2]

They also use the word “taste” like the worst guys online use the word “females”

Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · last mo.

The tech industry people who suddenly say they care about “taste,” culture, visual arts, fashion, history, etc feels especially strange and grating, I think, because this moment of abundance for them is made possibly only through the displacement of folks who make the things in the first place.