Jacob Wren
@jacobwren.bsky.social
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The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
"A story about a soldier who, when ordered to fire at the enemy, instead turns around and shoots his commanding officer dead. A clear act of treason followed by the other soldiers spontaneously bursting into applause."
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"A story about a soldier who, when ordered to fire at the enemy, instead turns around and shoots his commanding officer dead. A clear act of treason followed by the other soldiers spontaneously bursting into applause."
"It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now."
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now."
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
- Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
Reposted by Jacob Wren
this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
"Tech investors, especially the superrich ones, are always in the market for stories scaled to their egos, and their egos are getting more messianic all the time."
- Brian Phillips, How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts?
- Brian Phillips, How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts?
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Tech investors, especially the superrich ones, are always in the market for stories scaled to their egos, and their egos are getting more messianic all the time."
- Brian Phillips, How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts?
- Brian Phillips, How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts?
Faithful Unbeliever is the final book of an in-progress trilogy in which all three books are loosely based around questions concerning the desire for utopia: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/fait...
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Faithful Unbeliever is the final book of an in-progress trilogy in which all three books are loosely based around questions concerning the desire for utopia: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/fait...
"But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism – you learn this as you go on."
- Will Self
- Will Self
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism – you learn this as you go on."
- Will Self
- Will Self
"I spoke a language of general mourning and they spoke a language of everything being okay. I continuously wondered if they really thought everything was okay or were only pretending."
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"I spoke a language of general mourning and they spoke a language of everything being okay. I continuously wondered if they really thought everything was okay or were only pretending."
“I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
- Allen Ginsberg
- Allen Ginsberg
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
- Allen Ginsberg
- Allen Ginsberg
When your writing is both too on the nose and, at the same time, misses the mark.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
When your writing is both too on the nose and, at the same time, misses the mark.
I've decided to serialize my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever on Patreon. For the indefinite future all posts will be free content. Please follow: www.patreon.com/c/jacob_wren...
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I've decided to serialize my novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever on Patreon. For the indefinite future all posts will be free content. Please follow: www.patreon.com/c/jacob_wren...
“It may be the case that white suburban dads, for instance, are disproportionately likely to love rock music these days. But rock bands cannot earn credibility by bragging about their popularity among white suburban dads.”
– Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels
– Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“It may be the case that white suburban dads, for instance, are disproportionately likely to love rock music these days. But rock bands cannot earn credibility by bragging about their popularity among white suburban dads.”
– Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels
– Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels
During the pandemic there is some sense in which I lost my charm.
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
During the pandemic there is some sense in which I lost my charm.
"I believe in a coming revolution in the way we think, feel, and imagine, which will make the world as we have known it till now grow red with shame."
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Letter to Karl Gok (1797)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Letter to Karl Gok (1797)
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I believe in a coming revolution in the way we think, feel, and imagine, which will make the world as we have known it till now grow red with shame."
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Letter to Karl Gok (1797)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Letter to Karl Gok (1797)
"One wishes, however vainly – one writes, at least in part, to accrue useful examples of such – for artists to make statements when necessary and be silent when not." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/two-...
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"One wishes, however vainly – one writes, at least in part, to accrue useful examples of such – for artists to make statements when necessary and be silent when not." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/two-...
“It is only by being shameless about risking the obvious that we happen into the vicinity of the transformative.”
– Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
– Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“It is only by being shameless about risking the obvious that we happen into the vicinity of the transformative.”
– Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
– Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
“I’ve always felt misunderstood, maybe still do, and perhaps that’s a good thing. If you feel fully understood, maybe nothing changes.”
- Dev Hynes
- Dev Hynes
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“I’ve always felt misunderstood, maybe still do, and perhaps that’s a good thing. If you feel fully understood, maybe nothing changes.”
- Dev Hynes
- Dev Hynes
I’m explicitly trying to no longer self-sabotage but it just comes so easily to me.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m explicitly trying to no longer self-sabotage but it just comes so easily to me.
"During the final game of the world cup, the star player decides to score on his own team’s goal as an act of treason." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/cut-...
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"During the final game of the world cup, the star player decides to score on his own team’s goal as an act of treason." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/cut-...
"No word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"No word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
“On most days we weep in advance.”
- Mohammed El-Kurd
- Mohammed El-Kurd
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“On most days we weep in advance.”
- Mohammed El-Kurd
- Mohammed El-Kurd
"When everything has gone to hell, there’s nothing to do but to play idiotic games."
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"When everything has gone to hell, there’s nothing to do but to play idiotic games."
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
Reposted by Jacob Wren
This is so freaking accurate lol.
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is so freaking accurate lol.
Wondering how my book Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim made it into "15 Gift Ideas For Every Man On Your List" in Elle (and in French Elle.) "From retro gadgets to stylish apparel, these undeniably cool gifts are sure to delight." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/les-...
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Wondering how my book Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim made it into "15 Gift Ideas For Every Man On Your List" in Elle (and in French Elle.) "From retro gadgets to stylish apparel, these undeniably cool gifts are sure to delight." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/les-...
I guess I'm also interested in how a coincidence is not a miracle. Just a little something we can choose or not choose to give any meaning.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I guess I'm also interested in how a coincidence is not a miracle. Just a little something we can choose or not choose to give any meaning.
“I don’t need time, what I need is a deadline.”
– Duke Ellington
– Duke Ellington
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“I don’t need time, what I need is a deadline.”
– Duke Ellington
– Duke Ellington