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Christa Faust

@christafaust.bsky.social

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Writer. Pervert. Menopausal Troublemaker. Bisexual Assassin. She Adjacent.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 7d

Blue Intro Post: I’m Christa. She/they. I write stuff. Novels, comics, tie-ins and novelizations. I’m a retired sex worker. A Film Noir obsessive. A complicated Queer. I’m currently Going Through Some Things and plan to take you with me.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 16h

I blame @chuckwendig.bsky.social

A box of heirloom apples from Scott Farm Orchard.

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Pulp Covers @pulpcovers.com · 23h

In A Small Motel

This entire issue can be downloaded here:
pulpcovers.com/in-a-small-m...

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22h

Thank you @michaelschaub.bsky.social for including WITHOUT CONSENT in the OC Register’s Fall Books Preview!

Fall book preview: 34 new titles you’ll want to read in 2025

From novels and nonfiction to titles that resist easy classification, these exciting books are coming to your local library or favorite independent bookstore.

www.ocregister.com

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John Copenhaver @johncopenhaver.bsky.social · 22h

Thrilled to chat about Crime Ink: Iconic with House of Mystery Radio Show on NBC with fabulous contributors Greg Herren, Robyn Gigl, and Marco Carocari ...

During these insane times, it's been wonderful to find solace in discussing these wonderful stories.

shows.acast.com/houseofmyste...

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 21h

For #WorldMentalHealthDay, I recorded a rare personal video on Navigating Friendships & Relationships with People with Chronic Health Conditions. I hope you enjoy it & please share if it's helpful.
www.patreon.com/posts/video-...

Video: Navigating Friendships & Relationships with Chronic Health Conditions | Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️

www.patreon.com

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Queer Crime Writers @queercrimefic.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, @greglillyauthor !

#crimefiction #books #truecrime #lgbtqia

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Vince Keenan @vpkeenan.bsky.social · 1d

SOME PERSONAL NEWS! Cannot wait to get A HELL OF A DRINK out there in 2027. Chris Elford is a dear friend and a genius bartender. His horror movie inspired cocktails are fantastic. Every Sasquatch book is gorgeous. Halloween will never be the same again!

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Vince Keenan @vpkeenan.bsky.social · 1d

Feared this would happen, but hearing the news is still a gut punch. This is where Rosemarie and I co-hosted Noir City Seattle with Eddie Muller for years. Thinking back on the last films I saw here, 4K restorations of THE CONVERSATION and LE SAMOURAI. A fitting way to bring down the curtain.

SIFF @siffnews.bsky.social · 1d

SIFF and Seattle Central have mutually decided to end our current lease at the Egyptian. We are so grateful to Seattle Central for their partnership over the years, and to all who have come to a film or event at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. Read more at siff.info/siffegynews-bsky.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure what just happened to me now that WOLF'S HOLE is over. I was more worried about Pista the dog than any of the human characters but (spoilers) he survived. Anyway, onward...

Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 2d

I am hurt-myself-doing-yardwork years old. Guess I'll just watch some movies.

Poster for Wolf's Hole, directed by Věra Chytilová

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is Terrible, but I found this tiny hog-tied skeleton at the hardware store today.

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Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.social · 4d

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De la Cole (Paul) 🍁🍂🎃 @olekingcoley.bsky.social · 4d

#Truth ✌🏾🤣

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite film discoveries of 2025. Incredible. A crisscrossing web of kink and terror, all cradled within a hothouse city seemingly always descending deeper and deeper into a fever of faceless bodies all lithe and leatherclad.

Vinegar Syndrome @vinsyn.bsky.social · 4d

31 Days of Syntober continues! Get a staff pick at 50% off—plus 4x VSMC points—one day only, 12:01PM ET to 11:59AM the next day: vinegarsyndrome.com/pages/31-days-of-syntober 🩸

DAY 7: WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?, picked by Justin LaLiberty, Director of Operations, OCN & Manager, Cinématographe

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 3d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 3d

Hate that it has come to this, but the @latimes.com has left its staff hanging with years of bad faith bargaining.

I’d much rather be focused on doing critical reporting for you all in times like these, but since The Times can’t get serious at the table, I’m voting yes.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 3d

Legend.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 3d

Farewell to the truest of legends, long live Zabar’s.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 3d

Saw this the other day in one of my social streams and can't stop thinking about it.

@femme_unapologetic:

Non-binary folk don't owe you androgyny.
Some are femme. Some are masc. Some switch it up daily. Some look like neither.
All of it is valid.
Androgyny isn't the price of admission to being non-binary. The only requirement is knowing yourself.
Stop policing bodies. Stop demanding "neutral."
Non-binary = infinite ways to exist.
Non-binary # androgyny. Mind your business.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 4d

Always read @charliejane.bsky.social

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 4d

My father was supposedly one of the smartest people in the world, and he hated that elitist nonsense.

He loathed the idea that intelligence is something you're born with, a single trait that can be measured. It leads to eugenics and bad policy.

My latest newsletter:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...

You're Not as Smart as You Think You Are

First, some housekeeping! I have written a novel about a trans witch who teaches her broken-hearted mother how to do magic. She also researches a mysterious...

buttondown.com

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 4d

new story collection is out today in paperback and ebook BISEXUAL BUCKAROOS VOLUME 6 featuring these hot to trot tinglers www.amazon.com/Bisexual-Buc...

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 5d

Because the answer to the problem of global sexual explotation isn't paying some techbro to lease one of their glitchy-ass Sex Parrots. It's to be an ethical porn consumer and pay independent sex workers directly. But that involves actually giving a shit about real live women, so...

Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 5d

I can't help but think of Niska in HUMANS saying to her human madam "What they do to us is what they want to do to you."

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 5d

Full article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

www.theguardian.com

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 5d

"Do you want slavery without the guilt? Sure, we all do!"

I hate this timeline.

Article quote: “Do you prefer your porn with a lot of abuse and human trafficking, or would you rather talk to an AI?” Steve Jones, who runs an AI porn site, asked. “We hear about human trafficking, girls being forced to be on camera 10 hours a day. You’ll never have a human trafficked AI girl. You’ll never have a girl who is forced or coerced into a sex scene that she’s so humiliated by, that she ends up killing herself. AI doesn’t get humiliated, it’s not going to kill itself.”

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 5d

CASE OF THE VANISHING BEAUTY, maybe?

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