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Wayne Rée (he/they)@waynereewrites.bsky.social |
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Award-winning Singaporean writer of prose, comics, podcasts and just the one game (so far). linktr.ee/waynereewrites
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Marie Enger
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Cartoonists absolutely wish publishers knew this trick! If you paid us a monthly salary and gave us health insurance it would not take us 5 years and countless side projects to make a graphic novel.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Also, Amazon MGM Studios' THE BEEKEEPER where Jason Statham takes down a tech company that preys on the weak.
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Jill Krajewski
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pretty funny 2 of amazon’s breakout series concern the evils of wealthy monopolies that exploit workers and sway governments to increase their profits to everyone’s doom
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Alex de Campi
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all of you saying “oh that big white fantasy writer, i loved his work but what a terrible guy, you should read these marginalized writers instead” — you are saying go read bodies, not stories
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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And if you're using the allegations against that other writer to bolster your transphobia, then fuck you too. May you forever live in the shadow of other people's light, love and happiness, you miserable scum.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Quite the week for finding out how many authors who influenced me as a teenager turned out to be—at best—morally questionable folks. But art is never more important than people. So, fuck Irvine Welsh. Fuck that other writer. Fuck anyone who thinks their work lets them get away with hurting others.
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Andrew D Thaler
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I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I COULD NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT FOR THE REST OF THE RECORDING
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I once had to write a sex scene for an audio series—and then had to be present and even give some directions while the actors performed it. I think my awkwardness took five years off of my life that day.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Trust me.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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A little left field, but Hootie and the Blowfish's version of "Renaissance Eyes" is hugely underrated and makes my heart ache every time I hear it.
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hopskotch SunDAY🤘🏼🔥❤️
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Finally caught up with DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH today and goddamn I love this book.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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(I literally had a rosary and a Taoist talisman on me. Our guest also gave us a Buddhist medallion. Plus, I wore red underwear and carried around a red packet with money in it. I wasn't taking any chances.)
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Last night, we filmed in one of the oldest Chinese cemeteries outside of China. I would declare myself none more goth, but I was wearing an olive green shirt, so @kierongillen.bsky.social remains undefeated, last I checked.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I've had to drastically adjust my cost of living, just so that I can get by—not just on any ol' job, but on not-soul-crushing jobs, so that I am at least in a decent state of mind to write my novel. Writers and other types of artists are some of the hardest working, non-labour intensive workers.
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bijan
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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Still wild to me that I'm texting and working with a dude that I watched on MTV when I was a kid. My life is not terrible, I gotta say.
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demon core vidal
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you are friends with WAY MORE sexual assault victims than you are authors
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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An admittedly snobbish take: the fact that the radio still plays J*stin T*mberl*ke's older songs reminds me that a lot of people are fine with shitty behaviour, if it means they get to enjoy mediocre music.
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Al Kennedy
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It doesn't know anything, it's just loud and threatening and crapping everywhere, and absolutely nothing good can come of it for either you or (especially) the chips
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Al Kennedy
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Meeting JK Rowling to discuss trans rights is like meeting a seagull to discuss chips
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Ayo
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good morning my community, A word of advice. You may be struggling with your feelings of shock with the Neil Gaiman allegations. Now is the time to process that conflict silently, in your own heart—not on the timeline where other survivors have to watch you struggle to believe. Okay.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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... Don Music...
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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This is AWESOME. I was there when Bullet Club turned on Styles, and it remains one of my favourite live wrestling memories.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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It is a weirdly sappy thought to have at the moment, but seeing these heroes I once placed on a pedestal revealed as, at their best, imperfect people just reminds me to appreciate the heroic "ordinary" people in my life.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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It fucking infuriates me that they're poisoning the waters of an already shitty situation. Which seems to be par for the course with these scum, but still.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I'll be closely following the responses to this because I've always wondered too!
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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And, sure, he denies that accusation entirely—but the other person was his employee.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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One of them was half his age when they started their relationship. As someone who dealt with an emotionally manipulative older person I met when I was younger, you'll forgive me if I've got a more-than-biased biased stance on this.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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The outlet may be sketch, no doubt, but the established and agreed upon facts about the power dynamics aren't great either.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Even if the sources are in question, honestly, the established power dynamics at play here are already unsavoury enough, before you even get to the accusations themselves.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Friday's episode'll be shot in one of the oldest cemeteries in Singapore. Tomorrow's will be shot here.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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The secret's out that we're shooting the second season of our talk show for the local national broadcaster. The show's a retrospective on a wonderfully cheesy horror anthology from the early 2000s. We've shot six episodes so far this week, with two more tomorrow and Friday.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I would totally bid for that Zoom session if we weren't about to drop a painfully large amount of cash on housing expenses. (Good luck to you, if you're bidding!)
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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Also, I was on a panel with Alan Quah last year at the Singapore Comic Con, and it was a joy to see how excited he is to be working here and there on Conan. It's great that everyone on these books clearly have such unabashed love for the character.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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It shows! My god, does it show. Howard's stuff has been a blind spot in my reading habits and this team makes me want to finally jump into his Conan stories too.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I know you and the team already receive heaps of praise, but allow me to add a little more to those heaps. I've only dipped my toe into Conan's comics over the years. This is the first time I've regularly followed—and enjoyed!—one of his series for this long. Congratulations on your first year!
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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"We don't glorify our colonial past. We just erect statues to colonisers."
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Steve Lieber
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NGL, all I want is a work environment that encourages razzle-dazzle and the dream weave
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Keezy Young 🌼
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there's a toddler in a cape running around pointing at people and saying "you're a frog now" and when he did it to me I ribbited at him and he ran away giggling and then his dad came up and whispered that I was only the second person who played along?? come on people, you gotta play along!!
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Sam Logan
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BBQ Season
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Paul Tobin
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Me, making my to-do list every day--- "Hmm, I consistently get about 6 or 7 things done off my list, but certainly TODAY is the day I will get 19 done."
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I know I'm putting in way more thought into a Jason Statham movie than I should, but I think the most insidious thing about THE BEEKEEPER is that it's a movie whose central premise rests on the idea of correcting corrupt power structures, while still perpetuating the idea of a moral politician.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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And, look, I know that most of the mass media we consume isn't produced by angels, but being this blatant about it feels almost insulting.
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I enjoy both THE BOYS and THE BEEKEEPER, but the fact that they parody or villainise corporations and the tech industry—while being produced by Amazon—really reminds me just how grimly insidious pop culture can be nowadays.
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DaemonAAc / Bunny
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“People You Love, De La Warr Pavilion.” Robert Montgomery. Edition 2018
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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My publisher's at ALA too! If you have the time and would like to pick something up from Southeast Asia, she's at Booth 1547, under Diamond. This is the book I co-created. differenceengine.sg/comics/work-...
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Wayne Rée (he/they)
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I am personally not a fan of Goodreads, but if you'd like to give WORK-LIFE BALANCE a positive review, you can do so here.
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Ayo
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This might be a hot take but butter cookies are so good that aliens would assume this was for our kings and not just for any jackass who is standing in line at the grocery store and says “ah, what they hay”
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