Eden Robins
@edenrobins.bsky.social
Author of REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP & soon: DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) | http://monkeythumbs.com | Also: amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
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Eden Robins
@edenrobins.bsky.social
· Jun 18
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
Cannot tell you how unbelievable it feels to be on this shortlist, and in holy cow such amazing company!!!
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To which I will reply “sorry, all of my donation money will now be going to my healthcare premiums”
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
To which I will reply “sorry, all of my donation money will now be going to my healthcare premiums”
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Please put the Working Families Party in your mouth. They did wonders with Mamdani’s campaign. We saw how quickly his rise to collective awareness was in less than six months.
We can do that too, people. Everywhere. We hold the power. Screw Establishment Dems. Their time is over. It’s our turn now.
We can do that too, people. Everywhere. We hold the power. Screw Establishment Dems. Their time is over. It’s our turn now.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Please put the Working Families Party in your mouth. They did wonders with Mamdani’s campaign. We saw how quickly his rise to collective awareness was in less than six months.
We can do that too, people. Everywhere. We hold the power. Screw Establishment Dems. Their time is over. It’s our turn now.
We can do that too, people. Everywhere. We hold the power. Screw Establishment Dems. Their time is over. It’s our turn now.
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improving movies with willem dafoe: thread
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
improving movies with willem dafoe: thread
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"There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination,but it must be made so." Please watch the Ursula K. Le Guin prize acceptance speech from @vajra.me and read his work, and support the Sameer Project.
2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination,but it must be made so." Please watch the Ursula K. Le Guin prize acceptance speech from @vajra.me and read his work, and support the Sameer Project.
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
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Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?
Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?
Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?
Something else?
What have you got?
Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?
Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?
Something else?
What have you got?
October 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
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If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow
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This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
It remains an absolute thrill to be short-listed for this award. I'm making my way through the whole list and these books are IN-CRE-DI-BL-E
🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.
October 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It remains an absolute thrill to be short-listed for this award. I'm making my way through the whole list and these books are IN-CRE-DI-BL-E
We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
October 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
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Ireland! Please take me back! Allow those with Irish great grandparents to come back! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ireland! Please take me back! Allow those with Irish great grandparents to come back! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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I don't know who this "Birdie Horne" is but she sounds very talented and attractive and like she knows a lot about being a crossing guard
🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑
Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I don't know who this "Birdie Horne" is but she sounds very talented and attractive and like she knows a lot about being a crossing guard
🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑
Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
October 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑
Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
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I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
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There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
On a winning reading streak this month:
Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange
Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules
In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation
Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange
Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules
In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation
August 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
On a winning reading streak this month:
Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange
Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules
In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation
Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange
Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules
In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation
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It is I! A googly-eyed sock who believes our great power is that the future remains uncertain
Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
August 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It is I! A googly-eyed sock who believes our great power is that the future remains uncertain
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"The notion that maybe technology constitutes a source of problems and grievances and people might be looked on as a source of solutions has very rarely entered public policy or even public consciousness." -- Ursula Franklin should be required reading right now.
July 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"The notion that maybe technology constitutes a source of problems and grievances and people might be looked on as a source of solutions has very rarely entered public policy or even public consciousness." -- Ursula Franklin should be required reading right now.
It is I! A googly-eyed sock who believes our great power is that the future remains uncertain
Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
August 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It is I! A googly-eyed sock who believes our great power is that the future remains uncertain
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I found out about it AFTER it got nominated for the LeGuin, but this is a quietly incredible book. Non-linear narrative with bold formal choices. Alternate histories, fascinating futures including the relationships people form with AI. Gorgeous style and a really different approach to sci-fi.
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I found out about it AFTER it got nominated for the LeGuin, but this is a quietly incredible book. Non-linear narrative with bold formal choices. Alternate histories, fascinating futures including the relationships people form with AI. Gorgeous style and a really different approach to sci-fi.