Sarah 💫
@harrietvane.bsky.social
Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini.
Writer represented by Bridget Smith at Jabberwocky Literary Agency. Interested in mysteries, EM Forster, Star Trek, and trains. She/her
Writer represented by Bridget Smith at Jabberwocky Literary Agency. Interested in mysteries, EM Forster, Star Trek, and trains. She/her
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I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
A lot of my friends are scientists and whenever they tell me about a new dangerous thing, I can usually immediately tell them a way you could plot a murder with that as the weapon, and a scenario that would make sense for it, and those are all just ideas floating around if I need them.
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A lot of my friends are scientists and whenever they tell me about a new dangerous thing, I can usually immediately tell them a way you could plot a murder with that as the weapon, and a scenario that would make sense for it, and those are all just ideas floating around if I need them.
Looking for some input for a Thanksgiving recipe. I really want to make a fruit tart with custard (see below). I EITHER want to make a cranberry curd for it that goes between the base and the custard, and then put another fruit on top, or make lime curd put whole cranberries on top.
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Looking for some input for a Thanksgiving recipe. I really want to make a fruit tart with custard (see below). I EITHER want to make a cranberry curd for it that goes between the base and the custard, and then put another fruit on top, or make lime curd put whole cranberries on top.
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oh so when rfk jr has a worm in his brain it's "bad" but when dax has a slug in her she's "the most beautiful person i've literally ever seen in my life" and "early queer representation in television"
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
oh so when rfk jr has a worm in his brain it's "bad" but when dax has a slug in her she's "the most beautiful person i've literally ever seen in my life" and "early queer representation in television"
I’d describe my mood right now as “everything is going really well, I’m really happy and excited for the future, and ALSO I have not stopped listening to the Mountain Goats for the last two weeks.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’d describe my mood right now as “everything is going really well, I’m really happy and excited for the future, and ALSO I have not stopped listening to the Mountain Goats for the last two weeks.”
Winona Ryder on Hot Ones!!!!
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Winona Ryder on Hot Ones!!!!
Hey, do you guys ever think about
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hey, do you guys ever think about
Amazing that up until a few years ago we didn’t have the phrase “be normal about.” I use that a lot! What did I even say to my friends about gossip before then?
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Amazing that up until a few years ago we didn’t have the phrase “be normal about.” I use that a lot! What did I even say to my friends about gossip before then?
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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Olivia Nuzzi gets a job with Bolts and immediately becomes infatuated with an Anchorage school board candidate
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Olivia Nuzzi gets a job with Bolts and immediately becomes infatuated with an Anchorage school board candidate
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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
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oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
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just heard a kid on instagram say, "i'm trying on historically accurate early 2000s low rise jeans" and i need to go have a lie down
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
just heard a kid on instagram say, "i'm trying on historically accurate early 2000s low rise jeans" and i need to go have a lie down
For once in my whole life I have been temporarily distracted from politics by some positive developments in my personal life.
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
For once in my whole life I have been temporarily distracted from politics by some positive developments in my personal life.
This is different but: Virginia Woolf edited some of EM Forster’s writing, and sometimes in his books there’s a sentence that’s very obviously her voice, and I just LOVE it. I love that you can see the place where she said “what if was phrased this way instead?”
Yes; and I want to make a different point.
Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
Editors *shouldn’t* be invisible. They should have bylines. YOU DESERVE to know who shapes the stories you read. Editors do that no less than writers/reporters do. Very often, they’re the ones who assigned the piece, not the writer, and who headlines it.
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is different but: Virginia Woolf edited some of EM Forster’s writing, and sometimes in his books there’s a sentence that’s very obviously her voice, and I just LOVE it. I love that you can see the place where she said “what if was phrased this way instead?”
Honestly it probably would have gotten me to a Target/Starbucks if I were spending money at either of them.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
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The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Honestly it probably would have gotten me to a Target/Starbucks if I were spending money at either of them.
I am generally very happy with my friends but it turns out that I do not know anyone locally who can help me do my hair. None of us have this skill.
November 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I am generally very happy with my friends but it turns out that I do not know anyone locally who can help me do my hair. None of us have this skill.
Found something incredible at the estate sale.
November 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Found something incredible at the estate sale.
Crazy that when I was a kid, there was a big Bill Clinton blowjob rumor and now my friends have kids and there’s another Bill Clinton blowjob rumor.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Crazy that when I was a kid, there was a big Bill Clinton blowjob rumor and now my friends have kids and there’s another Bill Clinton blowjob rumor.
I’m seeing some friends tonight and it’s going to be a real struggle not to be too online.
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I’m seeing some friends tonight and it’s going to be a real struggle not to be too online.
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hey man what the fuck
Jeffrey Epstein appeared to text with Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) during Michael Cohen's 2019 congressional hearing and may have influenced her questions.
Text message time-stamp match up with hearing video reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Text message time-stamp match up with hearing video reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
hey man what the fuck
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Spilling the identity of Deep Throat to your camp friend is top-tier personal lore
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November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Spilling the identity of Deep Throat to your camp friend is top-tier personal lore
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I am also convinced that this is also part of the point of The Line of Beauty TBH
People have been misinterpreting Lolita since it came out and Nabokov was like "you're absolutely wrong; I wrote this to create a trap that you fell into and you should reflect on why you were so gullible about a monster."
![INTERVIEWER
He does [names him]. A third critic has said that you “diminish” your characters “to the point where they become ciphers in a cosmic farce.” I disagree; Humbert, while comic, retains a touching and insistent quality—that of the spoiled artist.
NABOKOV
I would put it differently: Humbert Humbert is a vain and cruel wretch who manages to appear “touching.” That epithet, in its true, tear-iridized sense, can only apply to my poor little girl. Besides, how can I “diminish” to the level of ciphers, et cetera, characters that I have invented myself? One can “diminish” a biographee, but not an eidolon.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sajwk2kma5oeryy6odgweciz/bafkreibqwlfwj2jyd3apcdb22rbcxsvxpnw36ryqpgqwyu3kc4cn2rbkxm@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I am also convinced that this is also part of the point of The Line of Beauty TBH
Lote by Shola von Reinhold and A Room with a View by Forster, and then I’d immediately start talking about Forster like the other person had brought him up.
Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Lote by Shola von Reinhold and A Room with a View by Forster, and then I’d immediately start talking about Forster like the other person had brought him up.
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I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast