Bray Wright
@silverviolin.bsky.social
Aspiring writer. Part-time library employee. Giant nerd.
It's very interesting that cisgender female high school athletes are referred to as "girls" while transgender female high school athletes get called "men" it's almost seems like one group is being infantilized while the other is being aged up to seem worse in comparison but who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A Swiss-headquartered international organization hired an Englishman to plan a halftime show featuring performers from Korea, Canada and Colombia for a soccer game between Spain and Argentina Here’s what that tells us about American sports
Robert Shrimsley@robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3mo agoDo Americans actually like sport? They seem to feel there must always be something else going on to keep you engaged. Most fans just want the game to restart. We’re capable of enjoying the break.
@randomhorror9.bsky.social Regarding your Coraline episode, Mrs. Lovatt had the doll bc it was her sister's. Wybie shows Coraline a photo of his grandma and her twin sister. Twin sister is holding a stuffed doll that looks exactly like her. The doll is the Beldam's spy. It finds incoming children
Listening to that kpop demon hunter soundtrack mood.
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
It makes me so sad whenever cool music artists don't have their music for sale. I WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY. LET ME GIVE YOU MONEY.
okay obviously everything is very bad right now but I randomly learned about a long-running series of historical mystery novels about an Irish nun that I had just never heard of before and I cannot overstate to you how load-bearing this knowledge has become
Normalize buying my books, listening to my podcasts, being nice to me, giving me compliments, etc.
My dad's got another batch of his weird woodcarvings available in his shop tomorrow. I'm contractually obliged to let you know... 👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
The Video Game History Foundation’s digital library is now publicly available in early access form. The library includes promotional material and more than 1,500 out-of-print magazines. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-vid...
The Video Game History Foundation’s digital library is now publicly available in early access | VGC
The library includes promotional material and more than 1500 out-of-print magazines…
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(The flip side of this is, if a creative person is not tagged, and then they go ego searching and find they are being spoken of negatively, they should always resist the temptation to respond. They weren't invited to that conversation, and people are allowed to have opinions. Let them be.)
A gentle reminder that you should always resist the temptation to tag a creative person into a negative review of their work. It doesn't matter what your intentions are, it's kind of an asshole maneuver. You are free to say whatever you like, of course. Making it their problem, however, is not kind.
In all fairness, I did read a few other books that were probably 5 stars. I just forget to rate them in the app.
Libraries will not save you! BUT They can provide you with books and other materials and a safe space wherein you can learn how to save yourself and others!
You don't have a TBR list as long as your arm, you have carefully curated future joy
okay, we're starting with this Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already! Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting) Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
Not In Our Name: Cisgender Women Against Trans Bathroom Bans
House Representative Nancy Mace and the Congressional GOP have launched a campaign of harassment not just against newly-elected trans Democrat Rep Sarah McBride of Delaware, but against all trans and ...
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Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 2y agoI don’t know what the right mechanism is for this, exactly, because congressional phone calls are more about the tally and I’m not convinced hashtags or petitions move the needle; but like - how do we collect and shove in the Dems’ face a gigantic list of cis women saying “fuck no, not in our name”
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 2y agookay, we're starting with this Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already! Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting) Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
New book review! 6/10 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ braywright.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/a...
A Secret History of Witches: Fantasy, yes. Historical… sort of.
There is something magical about a great historical fantasy. It is easy enough to imagine how history might have changed if magic existed, but a historical fantasy writer needs to make it feel real…
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there is nothing better than recommending your favorite book to someone and them coming back and telling you they loved it. absolute cocaine of a feeling. put that shit in my body immediately
This is so important. Consume stuff outside of your favorite genre. Inspiration comes from the breadth of human experience.
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2y agoMy first Deadpool run was inspired by a book about King Ludwig II. One of my best-remembered BOP stories was inspired by a book of architecture in Istanbul. A book about Audie Murphy has shown up in SEVERAL stories. A big stack of cheap reference books you bought on sale = storytelling MAGIC.
Apparently we're supposed to introduce ourselves first. ......oops I'm Bray. I'm a part-time library employee hoping to be a librarian one day. I also write things occasionally. I like nonfiction, creepy stuff, history, and mystery novels.
If you’re someone easily panicked by headlines I would like to gently recommend that you shift your news consumption model to one where you get an aggregated list of the stuff that has actually happened every few days, rather than staying super plugged in to up to date headlines.
