Joe Halstead
@joehalstead.bsky.social
Author and Writer @ Marvel Games
RIP David Lynch. A tremendous loss.
January 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
RIP David Lynch. A tremendous loss.
I mean, this is true. The “lists” of “good authors” are just cliques. The entire literary community is just a performance and a public persona exercise. Look at Neil Gaiman and that article. He was the world’s most beloved, wholesome writer. And yet.
I don’t think that coming up with lists of “good” authors helps anyone. on a very basic level: you have no way of knowing if that’s true about anyone.
January 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I mean, this is true. The “lists” of “good authors” are just cliques. The entire literary community is just a performance and a public persona exercise. Look at Neil Gaiman and that article. He was the world’s most beloved, wholesome writer. And yet.
Me and the three folks who read my posts.
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Me and the three folks who read my posts.
Are you really writing unless you’re posting updates on social media about how you’re writing?
November 25, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Are you really writing unless you’re posting updates on social media about how you’re writing?
Legit A-2 Flight Jacket from @schottnyc and @ysl Saint Laurent belt
November 18, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Legit A-2 Flight Jacket from @schottnyc and @ysl Saint Laurent belt
“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.” — Russell Banks, Continental Drift (last line)
November 14, 2024 at 6:29 PM
“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.” — Russell Banks, Continental Drift (last line)
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” — Czesław Miłosz
November 20, 2023 at 4:12 PM
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” — Czesław Miłosz
“We need help, the Poet reckoned.” — Edward Dorn
November 19, 2023 at 5:32 PM
“We need help, the Poet reckoned.” — Edward Dorn
*John Carpenter music fades in*
November 16, 2023 at 7:07 PM
*John Carpenter music fades in*
“Chatting up my giraffe with misspelled stories about aggressive foot massages in the Swiss Alps, where the tips of my feathers got hypothermia and my brain became a mood ring.” — lost Bob Dylan lyric, probably
November 14, 2023 at 2:20 PM
“Chatting up my giraffe with misspelled stories about aggressive foot massages in the Swiss Alps, where the tips of my feathers got hypothermia and my brain became a mood ring.” — lost Bob Dylan lyric, probably
Reposted by Joe Halstead
A compelling story about a boy at a window, a fake world and a real one, if you look closely enough. What's real and honest and what's fake in regards to environment and sentiment? Think again. You might be wrong.
by @thomasha.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
by @thomasha.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
2023 Awards Eligibility List — -TH-
www.thomashawrites.com
November 11, 2023 at 10:19 PM
A compelling story about a boy at a window, a fake world and a real one, if you look closely enough. What's real and honest and what's fake in regards to environment and sentiment? Think again. You might be wrong.
by @thomasha.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
by @thomasha.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
“For all things change, making way for each other.” — Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
November 9, 2023 at 5:41 PM
“For all things change, making way for each other.” — Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
Cool people are like eagles. They touch down on the hunt but then are off again.
November 9, 2023 at 5:39 PM
Cool people are like eagles. They touch down on the hunt but then are off again.
Gather many friends and leave Earth knowing humans are just cells.
November 7, 2023 at 2:46 PM
Gather many friends and leave Earth knowing humans are just cells.
"When you finally returned home on your first leave, she was standing with your parents outside the gate of the airport, waiting again to hold your face against her perfumed cheek and a silken wave of auburn hair."
—Elahzar Rao
—Elahzar Rao
November 7, 2023 at 4:25 AM
"When you finally returned home on your first leave, she was standing with your parents outside the gate of the airport, waiting again to hold your face against her perfumed cheek and a silken wave of auburn hair."
—Elahzar Rao
—Elahzar Rao
Reposted by Joe Halstead
For the evening crowd, the 5 must-read horror articles of the past week, curated by @kevharrison.bsky.social, only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.
5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 November 2023
Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Lit Hub celebrate the ever changing form of the litera...
www.thisishorror.co.uk
November 7, 2023 at 2:07 AM
For the evening crowd, the 5 must-read horror articles of the past week, curated by @kevharrison.bsky.social, only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.
Moseying down the Turquoise Trail. #newmexico
November 4, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Moseying down the Turquoise Trail. #newmexico
Congrats! Looking forward to this.
For those who love memoir & speculative fiction, I wanted to share that my speculative memoir, GOBLIN MODE, will be coming out from Santa Fe Writers Project Fall 2025. Just when you thought I couldn't write anything weirder than Filthy Creation or Weird Girls...Thanks so much to Andrew Gifford!
November 3, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Congrats! Looking forward to this.
Watch:
War And Peace (1968 Sergei Bondurchuk)
Crime And Punishment (1970 Lev Kulidzhanov)
Siberiade (1979 Andrei Konchalovsky)
Dark Eyes (1987 Nikita Mikhalkov)
Last Year at Marienbad
#filmsky 🎥
War And Peace (1968 Sergei Bondurchuk)
Crime And Punishment (1970 Lev Kulidzhanov)
Siberiade (1979 Andrei Konchalovsky)
Dark Eyes (1987 Nikita Mikhalkov)
Last Year at Marienbad
#filmsky 🎥
November 2, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Watch:
War And Peace (1968 Sergei Bondurchuk)
Crime And Punishment (1970 Lev Kulidzhanov)
Siberiade (1979 Andrei Konchalovsky)
Dark Eyes (1987 Nikita Mikhalkov)
Last Year at Marienbad
#filmsky 🎥
War And Peace (1968 Sergei Bondurchuk)
Crime And Punishment (1970 Lev Kulidzhanov)
Siberiade (1979 Andrei Konchalovsky)
Dark Eyes (1987 Nikita Mikhalkov)
Last Year at Marienbad
#filmsky 🎥
You don’t play the same song for an elephant as you do a tiger.
November 2, 2023 at 11:33 PM
You don’t play the same song for an elephant as you do a tiger.
Words to live by as a writer:
1. Stay humble, don’t crumble.
2. Be as dull as possible.
3. Be fancy while you have the chance.
4. Good books are guts, blood, and magic.
5. If you don’t reject it, you have to master it.
1. Stay humble, don’t crumble.
2. Be as dull as possible.
3. Be fancy while you have the chance.
4. Good books are guts, blood, and magic.
5. If you don’t reject it, you have to master it.
November 1, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Words to live by as a writer:
1. Stay humble, don’t crumble.
2. Be as dull as possible.
3. Be fancy while you have the chance.
4. Good books are guts, blood, and magic.
5. If you don’t reject it, you have to master it.
1. Stay humble, don’t crumble.
2. Be as dull as possible.
3. Be fancy while you have the chance.
4. Good books are guts, blood, and magic.
5. If you don’t reject it, you have to master it.
Remember when Stephen King appeared on those American Express commercials? What the hell was that about
October 31, 2023 at 2:48 AM
Remember when Stephen King appeared on those American Express commercials? What the hell was that about
Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven. Reminds me of a Toni Morrison novel, a lot of history, a lot of trauma, and a lot of exploration of what one does with their trauma and how it characterizes them.
October 29, 2023 at 2:14 PM
Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven. Reminds me of a Toni Morrison novel, a lot of history, a lot of trauma, and a lot of exploration of what one does with their trauma and how it characterizes them.
Thanks for having me on Bluesky, y’all. On Twitter, I learned that the writing community was inexorably linked with the artificial performative nature of social media. Not many writers agree on this. Even though they joke about it they still participate in it and there is something gross about that.
October 29, 2023 at 4:53 AM
Thanks for having me on Bluesky, y’all. On Twitter, I learned that the writing community was inexorably linked with the artificial performative nature of social media. Not many writers agree on this. Even though they joke about it they still participate in it and there is something gross about that.
“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” - Tom Wolfe, Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
October 28, 2023 at 2:34 AM
“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” - Tom Wolfe, Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth