Christina Orlando
@cxorlando.bsky.social
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Christina Orlando
@cxorlando.bsky.social
· Jul 15
30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025 - Reactor
Here are 30 more standouts to put on your TBR for the second half of this year!
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Let's talk about books baybeeeeeee!!
Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses
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Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses
reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...
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Did the math. If I were paid for each download on that piracy website, I'd have at least 500+ USD more than I do now. I gave up counting after 100 tbh.
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Did the math. If I were paid for each download on that piracy website, I'd have at least 500+ USD more than I do now. I gave up counting after 100 tbh.
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
love, i pound the earth for you.
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
love, i pound the earth for you.
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I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you!
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2025-2026 Horror Master List Book Submissions
Because I'm out of my mind, I maintain a running list of the year's new horror releases. If you're an author/editor/marketer/publicist/agent who'd like one of your books included, please fill out the ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
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This is very cool. Often food pantries need to spend their money making sure everyone has the basics to keep them fed and healthy, but not on the spices and flavors that make an enjoyable meal. www.burlapandbarrel.com/products/don...
Donate a Holiday Spice Set • Give the Gift of Flavor | Burlap & Barrel
Help make someone's holiday meal special. When you purchase a single jar, 3-pack, or 6-pack of our equitably sourced spices, we’ll donate that exact set to a New York food pantry supporting families i...
www.burlapandbarrel.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is very cool. Often food pantries need to spend their money making sure everyone has the basics to keep them fed and healthy, but not on the spices and flavors that make an enjoyable meal. www.burlapandbarrel.com/products/don...
nevermind i dont wanna know
hey what the fuck is happening
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
nevermind i dont wanna know
hey what the fuck is happening
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
hey what the fuck is happening
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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If you have to say it's not a cult, well...
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
If It’s Not A Cult, What Is It? A Conversation With Joey Batey - Reactor
Author and actor Joey Batey chats about music, Northern England, and the creative process
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November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you have to say it's not a cult, well...
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
@mayagittelman.bsky.social spoke with Joey Batey (AKA JASKIER) about music, meta, mythology, and his debut novel about a perfectly normal enthusiastic fandom, It's Not A Cult!
you know you'd think after a while, buffy's friends would have started taking kickboxing or something
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
you know you'd think after a while, buffy's friends would have started taking kickboxing or something
having an adult character drink a full glass of milk is a sure fire way to signify "this dude is not okay". or he has guts of steel idk.
I have a question for @realgdt.bsky.social about Frankenstein that I haven’t seen officially addressed. What was the intent/inspiration with Victor’s milk drinking? It was something I noticed and as a lover of #gastrohorror and #foodhistory, I’d love to know!
a man with curly hair sits at a table with a bowl of food
ALT: a man with curly hair sits at a table with a bowl of food
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November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
having an adult character drink a full glass of milk is a sure fire way to signify "this dude is not okay". or he has guts of steel idk.
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
today is my birthday! please use this as an excuse to:
get/make yourself a sweet treat
spend all day reading (or get a new book!)
wear your favorite undies/lingerie
visit a museum
eat loads of carbs
do your full skincare routine
take sexy pictures of yourself
sign up for your first pole class!!
get/make yourself a sweet treat
spend all day reading (or get a new book!)
wear your favorite undies/lingerie
visit a museum
eat loads of carbs
do your full skincare routine
take sexy pictures of yourself
sign up for your first pole class!!
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
today is my birthday! please use this as an excuse to:
get/make yourself a sweet treat
spend all day reading (or get a new book!)
wear your favorite undies/lingerie
visit a museum
eat loads of carbs
do your full skincare routine
take sexy pictures of yourself
sign up for your first pole class!!
get/make yourself a sweet treat
spend all day reading (or get a new book!)
wear your favorite undies/lingerie
visit a museum
eat loads of carbs
do your full skincare routine
take sexy pictures of yourself
sign up for your first pole class!!
if i've lived my life in such a way that i'm starting my therapy session with "this week im stressed about cake and dungeons&dragons" i'd say it's been a pretty good life
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
if i've lived my life in such a way that i'm starting my therapy session with "this week im stressed about cake and dungeons&dragons" i'd say it's been a pretty good life
the start of birthday week is looking pretty fuckin good if i do say so myself....
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the start of birthday week is looking pretty fuckin good if i do say so myself....
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Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you:
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation.
How about we end that?
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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this was SO fun to write 🍽🥩
It's chic, it's tasteful, and it's dominating the literary landscape: cannibalism. Readers are hungry and author @wenyilee.bsky.social examines its relationship to revenge, exploitation, and desire 🥩
Tender Is the Flesh-Eating: The Literary Cannibal as Exploitation and Desire - Reactor
Wen-yi Lee examines the teeth of fictional cannibalism
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November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
this was SO fun to write 🍽🥩
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Take some advice from @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social: You should read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Then you should read Children of God.
Mary Doria Russell’s Children of God Is a Perfect Sequel - Reactor
Cadwell Turnbull on the triumph and tragedy of Mary Doria Russell's first contact novel.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Take some advice from @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social: You should read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Then you should read Children of God.
wait now that everyone's seen frankenstein can we talk about the absolutely batshit choice to include a lord byron quote at the end
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
wait now that everyone's seen frankenstein can we talk about the absolutely batshit choice to include a lord byron quote at the end
i know it doesnt really need to be said again but rupert giles is a stone cold hottie and that's really the only thing keeping me going right now
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
i know it doesnt really need to be said again but rupert giles is a stone cold hottie and that's really the only thing keeping me going right now
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November 13
If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
November 13
it was an absolute pleasure to interview the brilliant and thoughtful @vajra.me, whose writing frequently leaves me floored. the le guin prize is so well deserved
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
it was an absolute pleasure to interview the brilliant and thoughtful @vajra.me, whose writing frequently leaves me floored. the le guin prize is so well deserved