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Christina Orlando

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reactor's resident book nerd. they/them 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 nyc

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wait which galley because probably yes

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i love you!!!

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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.

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is it cute or creepy if i make a bunch of friendship bracelets and bring them to worldcon to give to people i wanna be friends with

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reposting with alt text

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molly's gonna yell at me for this i can feel it

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do we need to coin a new sub sub genre? no we dont but also some people are into that

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anyway if it's both a dark academia and a magic school i feel like we should start saying "fantasy academia" especially if the magic is the dark part about it

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if you call it a dark academia but your protagonist doesn't go a little loco from studying too hard i dont want it!!!

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okay so here is my thing. to call it a dark academia, it must be focused on the academia. the darkness must come from scholarly work. if it's set at a school but doesn't focus on schoolwork, it's just a thriller. if there's magic but the plot doesn't revolve around learning, it's just a magic school

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i will die on this hill but magic school stories and dark academias are not the same thing.

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We're halfway through the year!! If you've got a queer adult SFF novel/novella releasing in the second half of 2024, qt or reply and let us all know about it! 🌈📚

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easy to chalk the stuff in france up to some vague platitude about ~voting~ but it feels to me like more proof that you have to give people something to vote FOR, and that socialism remains better equipped to beat fascism than liberalism does! just one gal’s opinion

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yeah but we're not talking about that right now. that's another discussion.

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look im not trying to tell anyone how to write but y'all know there are more stories to retell that arent myths or folklore right??? like where is my fantasy retelling of coppelia. where is my la boheme but with vampires.

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okay yes this does slap im very into it

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this is the best possible reply to this tweet, thank you. i'm gonna check them out!!

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i know i'm in the wrong line of work for this but if i never hear the phrase "magic system" ever again it'll be too soon

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i think it depends on how close he was to space philly

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why would you do this to me i trusted you

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im not a huge lore type nerd and i aint watchin the prequel movie cuz i love myself so i dunno where he's from canonically, but i just deeply feel that han solo is from space new jersey.

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What Wole said. If you'd like to listen to 4 African writers of science fiction and fantasy, flung all over the world, discuss what it's like to dream up the Afrocentric worlds we do, come join us on Saturday!

Registration link is here: macmillan-publishers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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who is this "every" you speak of

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I want one of these shirts!!!! How cool

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love to go back over my own notes and see many "come back to this"s which is code for "im getting tipsy and it's too hard to remember what i'm reading in a coherent way"

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oh my god the acolyte got so horny oohhhh my goodness i am giggling and kicking my feet

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doctor who seasons should always be 22 episodes long

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hey can someone find out if my ex is gonna be in scotland for worldcon i need to start emotionally preparing for that if so

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i'm feeling this also - looking outside the city depresses me but it's the only way i'll ever have space

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just for the record, bye bye lil sebastian is still a banger

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“are you wearing the” “bram stoker’s dracula armor? yes, I am”

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genuinely considered making a youtube link to this track my vacation responder last week

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for a second i thought this meant you'd written a 1070 word essay on buttons by the pussycat dolls and i got so excited

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Christina Orlando's avatar Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social
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would LOVE to be punched flat tbh. also into being oiled and then fingered tbh

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dream situation tbh hydrate me and put me to rest

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Christina Orlando's avatar Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social
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"can't swim"????? HEARTBREAKING

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andor is literally so devastating. cassian getting wrongfully imprisoned for walking while brown??? the prison episodes?? bix's reaction to the torture?? maarva's speech? mon mothma making compromises for the bigger picture??? DEVASTATING

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i'm getting a lot of pitches for dystopias that are like 'in a world ravaged by climate change and war and viruses and corporations and bad government' and like.....how is that different. how is that not reality.

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there are a boatload of star wars shows now but andor is still the best of them and i have to believe it's because diego luna is EP for it

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