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Lauren Triola
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Speculative fiction nerd and John Torrington enthusiast. I like to write things. Creator of @experiment31e.bsky.social

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Hi! I’m Lauren & I write: spec fic, nonfic about being ace & autistic, history stuff, & occasional poetry.

I also write, perform, & produce the audio drama @experiment31e.bsky.social.

And I research John Torrington of the Franklin Expedition: laurentriolawrites.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/t...
Torrington Series Masterlist
Who was John Torrington? He was the first member of the Franklin Expedition to die. Why should anyone care about him? Sit down and I’ll tell you, in a blog series spanning eleven posts and 25…
laurentriolawrites.wordpress.com
I was a huge fan of SG-1 and Atlantis (and the original movie, to a lesser extent), but I am NOT looking forward to this. Please, PLEASE stop rebooting everything and make something original for once.
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.

You made a difference—so much of a difference.

Rest always in peace, and always in power.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!

Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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📣 SUNDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: In Conversation with Edward Berger and Florian Hoffmeister!

Step behind the camera with Terror alumni Edward Berger (Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front) and Florian Hoffmeister (Pachinko, True Detective Night Country, Tár).
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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We here at Reactor know that Halloween is SERIOUS BUSINESS. Enjoy this collection of haunted libraries, terrifying TV recs, squirming vermin, spoooky boooks, films that go bump in the night, even a chilling cocktail or two. 🎃

Click through and peruse—if you DARE.
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Spooky Season - Reactor
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October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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with his trusty Bowie knife!!
Always incredible that the first thing they adapt out is THE COWBOY THAT KILLS DRACULA
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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“If our ancestors could do without tea, then we can do without a new Tesla. We might even be able to do without Amazon Prime.”

Today, environmental activist @billmckibben.bsky.social joined protesters at Lexington’s Battle Green, the site of the original #NoKings protest:
I returned to the site of the original No Kings protest
A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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That's right
October 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Happy indigenous peoples day
October 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!

Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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It's Banned Books Week!

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.
October 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Holy shit! That was one of the main places we ordered books from when I worked in acquisitions. We ordered more from Ingram overall but B&T had things they didn’t…
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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It’s Banned Books Week! A time to honor books that challenge ideas and fight censorship. These stories make us think and unite us. What’s your favorite banned book? Tell us below! #BannedBooksWeek #ReadFreely #FreedomToRead #BooksNotBans #aasl https://bit.ly/3XXdrFi
October 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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In summary:

The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk.

It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for.

Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.
September 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Oh yeah, the lefties are the violent ones...
September 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A great deal of our problems result from not holding those who tried to destroy our democracy accountable for their actions.
September 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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"If you want to make me love your work, take a scene or a character who could have been flat or cliche or basic, and write them a wildly new direction."

@leahschnelbach.bsky.social discusses Dr. Gurathin in Murderbot, and how the show adds new layers to his character

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I Didn't Expect Dr. Gurathin To Be My Favorite Part of Murderbot - Reactor
I'd offer Dr. Gurathin a hug but he'd HATE that
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July 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Girls in your area

Girls in proximity to your location

Girls approaching your coordinates

Girls have breached the perimeter

Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
July 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion.

Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵
June 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM