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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 9h

hehehe

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 18h

got beef?

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

kitchen jazz

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

will dm it to you once I write it down

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

"Tramadol. Zopiclone. Diazepam. We want to sleep for good inside an endless blue afternoon. Valium is our glorious cousin ..."

Beyond Grandeur

@desperatelit.bsky.social Prize short-listed fiction from @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

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Beyond Grandeur — Matthew Kinlin

Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

Stupidity is a scar.

—Adorno & Horkheimer

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, that’s too bad. Yeah, I free-styled it with the ingredients I had available. I can share the recipe, it’s pretty easy. Maybe you can make it for yourself someday when wife & kids are not around? I was told the recipe needed to be written down—which is always lovely to hear—so I need to do that.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

ha ha, omg, I think about that story a lot

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

yes!!

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

he's the best

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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 1d

from the river to the sea

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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 1d

Since it's a slow news day I posted a bit about something I'm translating.

"The One"

Translating Mirosław Nahacz's Eight Four

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

woke up singing this song for some reason

Moses Sumney - Plastic [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Moses Sumney

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

"Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire ..."

Beyond Grandeur — @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

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Beyond Grandeur — Matthew Kinlin

Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

minorliteratures.com

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

mmm hmmmm 🙂‍↕️

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

The coconut fish chowder I made tonight is my best work in years.

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 2d

"I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors." ~ George A. Romero

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

Lo adoro!

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

Is cloud fishing a thing?

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesdays get a pass

ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

haha 😘

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

Getting by with the help of the Frankfurt School.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 3d

It’s pronounced SHANINA, not IANINA. Yes, 🤫 SHHHHHHH-anina.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 3d

Ugh, it’s so long!

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 3d

"It’s fun not just to have different forms, but also to have different languages [...] The way they sound, the way they whisper in your ear, is like a different language speaking to you every time, customized to that particular world ..."

— Bothayna Al-Essa

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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan

Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 3d

Tuesdays are as evil as Mondays.

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