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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 · 4d

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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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 7h

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 · 9h

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 · 1d

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De la Cole (Paul) 🍁🍂🎃 @olekingcoley.bsky.social · 1d

#Truth ✌🏾🤣

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Legend.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

Always read @charliejane.bsky.social

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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 · 3d

CASE OF THE VANISHING BEAUTY, maybe?

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 3d

I spy Richard Prather's WAY OF A WANTON! Can anybody with better vision than me make out the other Prather title on the far right?

Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 3d

Hello, THE LOWDOWN. You have my attention

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 3d

Now if I can just get Annie Potts to look at me like this, my life will be complete!

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 3d

You want to know how my favorite neighborhood slime mold is doing, don't you? Just look at her!

(If you came here for Hot Noir Babe content, I regret to inform you that I'm officially in my Egon Spengler Era.)

A yellow and white slime mold on rotting wood, possibly Mucilago Crustacea or a still immature Fuligo.

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 3d

“There is no doubt in my mind that the most beautiful music is sad, and the most beautiful photography is in a low-key, with rich blacks.”

HBD, cinematographer and noir master John Alton ...

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 4d

Speaking of writing advice, I feel like everything I've been thinking and talking about over the past few days can be boiled down to this.

Go ahead and write the weird shit. Because (waves hands around at everything) at this point, why the fuck not?

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to everybody who tuned in for my @sincworldwide.bsky.social chat with @beaujohnson44.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social today and apologies for the glitchy-ass Max Headroom impersonation!

Max Headroom against a geometric purple background

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 4d

I believe in you! (Writer Fistbump)

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 4d

Anybody who tells you they have it down 100% pat is trying to sell you something. I've written 18 published novels and I have no fucking idea what I'm doing most of the time.

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway, that's my two cents. Nothing works for everybody, but give some of these ideas a test drive and feel free to adjust and customize them to make them work for you. The most important writing advice of all is that there is no one way. We are all just making it up as we go along.

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