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Méabh de Brún

@meabhdebrun.bsky.social

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Writer&Actor for page stage audio and screen. New Irish Writing winner. Shortlisted for the Women's Playwriting Prize. Two-time IWG Zebbie Award Nominee. Screams in fury in The Silt Verses, Omen, The Secret of St Kilda. meabhdebrun.org/about

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · Aug 13

I am stunned and thrilled to be nominated for a 2025 @writersguildirl.bsky.social
Zebbie award for my one-woman horror audio-drama The Devil’s Chair! Written and performed for @realmmedia.bsky.social
anthology show Undertow! Ah lads. Heart bursting.

A graphic announcing the 2025 Irish Writer’s Guild Zebbie award nominees for best radio & audio drama script, along with photos of the nominees. The nominees are Eamann Breen for ‘Shinaid’, Méabh de Brún for ‘The Devil’s Chair’ and Richie Conroy & Sophie Hodkinson for ‘Òn Domhan Thíos’.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Jeremy Ellett @ourstrangedays.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all past collaborators! I'm looking to expand the VA Roster for my horror series, “SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU.”

If you're interested in narration work feel free to email/DM.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 3d

Twelve books (mostly novels), including my memoir. Plus an anthology.

I do not even know how to wrap my head around this…which is why I refused to look until now.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 3d

I’d take THAT option (plus, real justice for doing it in the first place!!) over the pennies offered in the settlement any day. It’s not about money. Don’t “crawl” my work. Period. I don’t want to be paid to allow AI to use my work, I do NOT WANT MY WORK USED TO TRAIN AI. I do not allow it.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 3d

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

I learned about Sports Thumb Jim Gavin dropping out of the Irish Presidential election from @tupped.bsky.social's The Gist this morning and I owe it to you to share this relevant passage, which got my week off to a great start:

The Long Game
Imagine you are a tenant, in the worst financial crash in living memory, and you discover that over three thousand of your very precious and irreplaceable euros have been sent by your idiot bank to your previous landlord.
And then he won't give them back. Not then, but also, not later either.
He just keeps the money, because that is how Irish private landlords behave. You pay a deposit to a landlord and then they try anything on to refuse to give it back.
Now imagine you spend the next 16 years seething every time that landlord appears on the
TV, being fêted for his sporting triumphs, receiving state appointments and still never giving you your money.
And now, and I invite you to imagine this in full 8k Hi-Def Surround Sound, imagine seeing that guy announce he was running to be President and realising you were going to tell your story and End It.

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful mutant goth daughter

A photo of a black lily, which has mutated so it is two blooms in one.

Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 2d

@scriblit.bsky.social i think this would be up your alley if you haven’t seen it yet!

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 2d

Sidenote - I could TASTE the hand of marketing in the name once I learned that the hotel in the show is called The Undervale. Guys I get it there’s ghosts.

Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 2d

I had low expectations going in but Haunted Hotel turned out to be GREAT! Storylines/characters that eschew predictable beats, writing that packs jokes & an impressive tonal tightrope balance. Also, Abbadon.
”AS REQUESTED. ONE HUNDRED BUTTONS.” youtu.be/F-FtWbWdH8I

Haunted Hotel | Homework | Sneak Peek | Netflix

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · Jan 26

I have a new book available for preorder, Moonflow, about a trans mushroom poacher who runs afoul of a cult of fungus-worshipping lesbian hippies! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...

Moonflow

Moonflow is three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel—a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip into the heart of an e...

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · Feb 22

Thank you for doing this! I'm a queer, autistic, nonbinary author who writes queer paranormal fantasy books set in the 1890s

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · Feb 20

THE REANIMATOR'S HEART is out in ebook, audio, & paperback! Grab your copy if you want
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated crush
🪦And the crimes that bring them together
🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal romance in 1890s NYC
books2read.com/trm1
book 2 books2read.com/trm2 🌈📚 🌈💙

Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen
Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer

The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Feb 22

My debut M/M Romance MERCY is available here! I'm a queer trans masc author. :)

books2read.com/mercynovel/

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AlexWattsEsq @alexwattsesq.bsky.social · 5d

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 5d

Ní bheidh a leithéad ann arís. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

www.irishtimes.com

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 6d

ILLEGALLY seized in international waters.
This language is factually accurate and not in the least controversial.
Stop giving Israel a pass.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 6d

At least eight Irish activists, including Sinn Féin senator Chris Andrews, were aboard a number of Gaza-bound flotilla vessels seized by Israeli forces last night
jrnl.ie/6832715

Irish activists aboard flotilla boats boarded by Israel as vessels taken to Israeli port

At least eight Irish activists are among the roughly 200 participants aboard boats seized by Israeli forces.

jrnl.ie

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about House of Beamish www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

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Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Free Link, free Palestine @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 8d

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 7d

Cannot believe I can’t do my longstanding hilarious joke of announcing that media released for Halloween is “for me for my birthday” about FRANKENSTEIN. Netflix has chosen the ideal and thematically appropriate release date of November 7th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aul...

Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7d

September 30th October 1st

Jackie Daytona, a normal human bartender

Laszlo Cravensworth, a vampire, very different to Jackie Daytona, who had a toothpick in his mouth, you see

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 8d

🥳🥳🥳 hell yeah!!!

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 9d

Fans of Irish games? Fans of Irish folklore? Fans of the Hellfire Club?! Fans of indie games made by a team of just 9?! Our Early Access gothic horror title is 20% off.

Only one person needs to buy, and the other 4 can play for free with friends paaaaaaaaass

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Save 20% on Eyes of Hellfire on Steam

Eyes of Hellfire is a co-op gothic horror game inspired by tabletop games, but with a twist - the insidious Host can manipulate your sense of reality

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.

Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 10d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 10d

Translunar Traveler's Lounge is open for speculative fiction, 5000 words and under. Please check the guidelines before submitting, but other than that, don't self-reject. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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