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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 18h

like fucking sending stories to fucking MFA dork magazines is hard enough when you're saying "okay so in this one, this jamoke is in love with his best friend and also he may be a trans woman all along but most importantly he is convinced his bartender is a washed-up Veronica Lake because it is: 🙇🏻‍♂️🙏"

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 18h

"KJ why did you write a shorts collection first" why did you mom give you a fucking idiot face, do you think anything about publishing makes any sense to the degree that it matters one bit what I wrote first lol

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 18h

look I am sending agents query letters I am but if any of you are or know literary agents who would fuck with someone who has a full shorts collection they are trying to sell, is actively working on another fiction ms, and has just cowritten a NF essay collection then just DM me?

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 19h

Part of me thinks he's doing the busy-dad cut on purpose and part of me thinks straight men often do not think about this as much as they should

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 20h

love that doc -- when we screened it for our series Eva Love from the film came and I nearly cried while I said how amazing she was

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 22h

Are you disappointed in the lack of a fade

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 23h

My favorite Diane Keaton factlet remains that she directed the music video for "Heaven is a Place on Earth." RIP queen.

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton made ANNIE HALL and LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR in the same year and deserved the Academy Award for either performance as far as I’m concerned.

Diane Keaton holding her Best Actress Oscar for Annie Hall

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donald @boringstein.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 4 is up! This one is very meaningful to me. Very proud to work for someone so unfailingly committed to protecting everyone in this city.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

like you can't remake the career of belle and sebastian, none of you assholes even have chronic fatigue

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

And like if there's anything I'm glad is dead, it's the trend of lit mags and presses that were basically "gosh aren't we all a bunch of fucking turdo idiots making our dorkass little doodoo stories?" while also having like twenty million rules and vetting that rivaled the paris review lol

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

i once saw a listing for a literary magazine about Taco Bell, like the theme is literally Taco Bell, and I thought "oh god that's stupid," and then I remembered I actually wrote a poem for them years ago before they paid, which was admittedly pretty stupid, and I had blocked the whole thing out.

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized I didn't get a people's choice award nomination :-((((((((((((( : AMA

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

I believe this on every level and I am also sad this has ruined fisting for me

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

Like Julia, I am a southerner incapable of a southern accent and like Erin, I am always moments away from yelling "I'm not talking to you, bitch" to a nosy coworker.

KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

wait don't tell me thiel is a FF bottom

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

What if I did Erin Brockovich for Halloween but it became very clear that was my permanent work personality

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

My horny dreams are always nightmares lol. I think there's something about feeling trapped no matter how you try to think through a problem--but I have taken zero psychology courses lol

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

this used to be a recurring nightmare for me too--I have no idea what it means. It used to also be getting trapped driving in a suburban development with no exit, so I'm sure there's a through line

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 1d

Two things can be true--nonprofits need to be defended from right wing meddling AND so many people in the industry know jack fucking shit about managing a business on any conceivable level

KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 2d

God I am so hard

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 2d

like hon I don't know what to tell you, this isn't the conversation I'm having today, please take it up with at least two versions of god

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 2d

without fail the most consistent DMs about this remain "gay people who are deeply against circumcision as if any of us have time machines to the mid-80s and as if that is the actual fucking point" lol

KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 3d

At this point, praxis is going to involve autists with cut dicks posting videos of themselves naked taking acetaminophen for low-grade migraines--in case you're wondering how I'm going to self-justify my next nudes.

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KJ "October Name" Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 2d

"Post you from a Different Era"

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