Wayne Rée (he/they)
@waynereewrites.com
Singaporean Writer. Mx Rée if you're nasty. waynereewrites.com
I'm a couple of days late, but tradition's tradition! See you in mid-January, folks.
To me, my X-Mas!
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I'm a couple of days late, but tradition's tradition! See you in mid-January, folks.
Time for my year-end social media break. I'll largely be offline till mid-January, but I'll pop in every now and then to check my DMs (and repost Jamie's Christmas joke). Our publisher's deal with their new distributor begins in January, so if you wanted to get WORK-LIFE BALANCE, please do so then.
Work-Life Balance
(2022, with Benjamin Chee) When a menacing multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, manananggals, rākṣasīs and ba jiao guis are forced out of their jobs. Some give i…
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December 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Time for my year-end social media break. I'll largely be offline till mid-January, but I'll pop in every now and then to check my DMs (and repost Jamie's Christmas joke). Our publisher's deal with their new distributor begins in January, so if you wanted to get WORK-LIFE BALANCE, please do so then.
Deleting Bluesky off my phone first, before logging out of social media tomorrow. Once again, please get WORK-LIFE BALANCE in January, when we have a new distributor who (hopefully) won't use copies of our books to get them out of their shitty financial situation, instead of paying us our residuals.
After this Friday, I'm taking a social media break till mid-January. In 2026, however, WORK-LIFE BALANCE will once again be available internationally, through a distributor that will actually pay Ben and I our due residuals. So, when the New Year hits, please head to my website and order your copy.
Work-Life Balance
(2022, with Benjamin Chee) When a menacing multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, manananggals, rākṣasīs and ba jiao guis are forced out of their jobs. Some give i…
waynereewrites.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Deleting Bluesky off my phone first, before logging out of social media tomorrow. Once again, please get WORK-LIFE BALANCE in January, when we have a new distributor who (hopefully) won't use copies of our books to get them out of their shitty financial situation, instead of paying us our residuals.
Mild spoilers for WELCOME TO DERRY: So, wait. If the creature takes on the form of what it thinks attracts children, does that mean that it might've eventually come back as a MINECRAFT character?
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Mild spoilers for WELCOME TO DERRY: So, wait. If the creature takes on the form of what it thinks attracts children, does that mean that it might've eventually come back as a MINECRAFT character?
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Not sure about this new Fahrenheit 451 remake. Rather than burning books, they've banned sick burns. It's a disstopia.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Not sure about this new Fahrenheit 451 remake. Rather than burning books, they've banned sick burns. It's a disstopia.
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Just a reminder --
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Just a reminder --
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
After this Friday, I'm taking a social media break till mid-January. In 2026, however, WORK-LIFE BALANCE will once again be available internationally, through a distributor that will actually pay Ben and I our due residuals. So, when the New Year hits, please head to my website and order your copy.
Work-Life Balance
(2022, with Benjamin Chee) When a menacing multinational arrives on our shores, familiar creatures like pontianaks, manananggals, rākṣasīs and ba jiao guis are forced out of their jobs. Some give i…
waynereewrites.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
After this Friday, I'm taking a social media break till mid-January. In 2026, however, WORK-LIFE BALANCE will once again be available internationally, through a distributor that will actually pay Ben and I our due residuals. So, when the New Year hits, please head to my website and order your copy.
I'm listening to the JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS soundtrack for the first time in ages and, my god, does it hold up.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I'm listening to the JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS soundtrack for the first time in ages and, my god, does it hold up.
It's interesting watching the ACTORS ON ACTORS episode with Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson. Both have probably had media training, but while Fraser has figured out how to make that training work for him as a person, Johnson seems almost trapped by it.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It's interesting watching the ACTORS ON ACTORS episode with Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson. Both have probably had media training, but while Fraser has figured out how to make that training work for him as a person, Johnson seems almost trapped by it.
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This is Kaia. She takes road safety very seriously. Encourages you to do the same. 13/10 please buckle pup (TW: lyss121 & leleleems)
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is Kaia. She takes road safety very seriously. Encourages you to do the same. 13/10 please buckle pup (TW: lyss121 & leleleems)
Oh, easy. Ben Reilly—and not just as Chasm, because there's a particular part of his history I want to explore. I'd love to work with Mark Bagley or Luke Ross. Someone who's an excellent storyteller, but who also worked with J.M. DeMatteis in the nineties.
Okay, you get to write ONE dream comic mini-series, featuring characters you did not create.
What character would you pick, and who would draw it?
What character would you pick, and who would draw it?
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Oh, easy. Ben Reilly—and not just as Chasm, because there's a particular part of his history I want to explore. I'd love to work with Mark Bagley or Luke Ross. Someone who's an excellent storyteller, but who also worked with J.M. DeMatteis in the nineties.
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This is probably meant as a joke but is 100% true.
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN would have been better if it starred Matthew Lillard and Paul Dano.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is probably meant as a joke but is 100% true.
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When They Burned the Butterfly, by @wenyilee.bsky.social (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social), is a great love letter to Singapore, a historical inspired fantasy that you will enjoy if you like sapphic romance, street gangs and grey characters.
Full thoughts:
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December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
When They Burned the Butterfly, by @wenyilee.bsky.social (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social), is a great love letter to Singapore, a historical inspired fantasy that you will enjoy if you like sapphic romance, street gangs and grey characters.
Full thoughts:
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I genuinely love that these are the kinda jokes that fill my timeline here.
Wee3
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I genuinely love that these are the kinda jokes that fill my timeline here.
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Wee3
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Wee3
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I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
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I've still got a fireside chat with C.B. Cebulski this coming Friday, and Luca has a vet appointment the week after, but I'm slowly winding down for the year. That is to say, I'm probably finally cracking open that first Marvel vs DC omnibus this week.
December 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I've still got a fireside chat with C.B. Cebulski this coming Friday, and Luca has a vet appointment the week after, but I'm slowly winding down for the year. That is to say, I'm probably finally cracking open that first Marvel vs DC omnibus this week.
Next on my reading list is a book I picked up two years ago—and it's not even the oldest purchase on the list. (Five years, I think, is the current oldest.)
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Next on my reading list is a book I picked up two years ago—and it's not even the oldest purchase on the list. (Five years, I think, is the current oldest.)
It took me a little over a decade from getting Ed Brubaker's autograph to getting Sean Phillips's. Their partnership has been an inspiration for the type of collaborations I want to have. I chatted and joked with Ed. Sean was warm and cordial. Two different personalities, but both just as lovely.
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It took me a little over a decade from getting Ed Brubaker's autograph to getting Sean Phillips's. Their partnership has been an inspiration for the type of collaborations I want to have. I chatted and joked with Ed. Sean was warm and cordial. Two different personalities, but both just as lovely.
I just saw something called Ogilvy Consulting's 2025 Fandom Report, and it not only reaffirms my decision to get off social media after my chat with C.B. Cebulski next Friday, but it makes me wanna do so a whole lot sooner. Like, now.
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I just saw something called Ogilvy Consulting's 2025 Fandom Report, and it not only reaffirms my decision to get off social media after my chat with C.B. Cebulski next Friday, but it makes me wanna do so a whole lot sooner. Like, now.
If you're not racist, homophobic, transphobic, or xenophobic, you can go ahead and tell folks you were on my best-of list.
gentle reminder that just because something you made didn't make a "best of" "year end" list doesn't mean you didn't make anything important in 2025
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you're not racist, homophobic, transphobic, or xenophobic, you can go ahead and tell folks you were on my best-of list.
Me, speaking with an Irish producer: "Do you think Ireland would be open to Southeast Asian horror?"
Irish producer: "We did invent Halloween."
Me: "... Yeah, I walked right into that one."
Irish producer: "We did invent Halloween."
Me: "... Yeah, I walked right into that one."
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Me, speaking with an Irish producer: "Do you think Ireland would be open to Southeast Asian horror?"
Irish producer: "We did invent Halloween."
Me: "... Yeah, I walked right into that one."
Irish producer: "We did invent Halloween."
Me: "... Yeah, I walked right into that one."