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@writingben

Founder of https://xitter.gq/t.co/xPQVKhKd1I. Editor of OMNIPARK & THE WILLOWS. Weird novelist. Backpacker in 40+ countries. Lord High Minister of All Things Sinister

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Indeed, why not Shang or Xia? I want to see Taotie vessels at my boba shop, so I can properly offer my tea to the Jade Emperor.
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Erasmus wrote better Latin than Cicero. @Ada_Palmer
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Hit me with the harshest truth about Roman History.
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Fish feel similarly about humans who fall into the ocean.
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Have you ever eaten fish that was in the ocean a few hours before it was on your plate? There’s nothing like it.
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Have you ever eaten fish that was in the ocean a few hours before it was on your plate? There’s nothing like it.
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Early Modern Sid & Nancy
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This post from Dreadnought is bonkers, but Harold Bloom did say that the Macbeths have the only happy marriage in all of Shakespeare.
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Method and Madness@madmethodpodFeb 5
Icymi, Ben Thomas (@writingben) joined me to revel in the brilliance of the first two volumes in Gene Wolfe’s BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. link in comment.
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Replying to @madmethodpod @writingben
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Ep. 10.1 - Gene Wolfe’s SHADOW & CLAW w/Ben Thomas β€” Method and Madness

Writer and publisher Ben Thomas joins me to revel in the pleasures of the first two volumes of Gene Wolfe’s masterpiece tetralogy The Book of the New Sun . We talk science fiction vs. fantasy and why...

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Method and Madness@madmethodpod29 Nov 2025
Icymi, Ben Thomas (@writingben) joined me to revel in the brilliance of the first two volumes in Gene Wolfe’s BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. link in comment.
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THIS PLACE IS WEIRD is a cosmic horror anthology featuring @bradkelly @orringrey @JamesMordechai @AngelaYSmith @Pedro__Iniguez and many others. Click "Notify me on launch" to pre-register for the Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/wri…
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THIS PLACE IS WEIRD is a cosmic horror anthology featuring @bradkelly @orringrey @JamesMordechai @AngelaYSmith @Pedro__Iniguez and many others. Click "Notify me on launch" to pre-register for the Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/wri…
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@StephanieLahey @Broseph45775884 @Weird_Friction The link is working now. Our goal is to collect 100 pre-registrations.
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'The Hairy Ones Shall Dance' Probably the greatest ever short story title, courtesy of the wondrous 'Weird Tales.'
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Alicia Hilton@aliciahilton017 Jun 2025
MASSIVE SALE! Back 2 OmniPark, the anthology that I edited with @writingben, is on sale at Amazon. Paperback is $3.75. Hardcover is $7.90. eBook is $8.34. New stories by Brian Evenson, Laird Barron, Hailey Piper, Gwendolyn Kiste, Jonathan Maberry & more! amazon.com/Back-2-OmniPark-B…
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This Sun Speech Script is the most exquisite #conlang writing system I've ever encountered: reddit.com/r/conlangs/commen…
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Sometimes I feel like we pitch novels to our friends in just qualitatively the wrong ways, like bro I get that you don't habitually devour books about 19th-century whaling voyages; these are not the reasons I'm telling you to read Moby Dick
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Helpful practice sentences from a phrasebook of "colloquial Tibetan," 1905
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