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Author Romie Stott, who is the same person as filmmaker and musician Romie Faienza. Poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Texan in Massachusetts. Capisco italiano un po. ⚥ Sign up for my mailing list at romiesays.kit.com.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · Jul 31

You should trust Gillian, who is brilliant.

You can order the book in many places, including through the Strange Horizons affiliate link: bookshop.org/a/114270/978...

Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · Jul 31

I got “Nothing in the Basement” by @romiesays.bsky.social at Readercon. I sped through it and can’t stop thinking about it. Absolute banger of a haunted house story. 🏚️ #amreading #horror

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 10h

Ignore me if you are making a different point, but if you're looking for recs, @zinrock.bsky.social is an outstanding freelance developmental editor.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 13h

as I understand it, enough people kept claiming to be them that it wasn't a useful identifier anymore

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 17h

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 15h

That looks cool! Where did you get it?

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 15h

Also, we already do this? I get a deduction for my dependents AND a child tax credit, and it's essentially just recognizing that my one-person income is feeding three people. Not particularly controversial. We don't need a third tax mechanism to do the same thing that's already happening.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 21h

They are closer. The out-of-control monkeys are closer. I can't stop them.

(Hypothetically, I can't stop them. I have never attempted to stop them. It would be contrary to my management ethic.)

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 3d

IT'S COMING! They're coming. The monkeys! At halloweeeeeeeen

Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 4d

It's here! It's here! The TOC for Issue 5 of Die Laughing is HERE!

We could not be more excited to bring you these 6 hilarifying tales, available as a PDF download 10/31/25, with stories posting for free every week after! Join us for stories so funny they'll kill you! #horrorsky
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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 1d

I love this topic.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 3d

I have a love for both, but although one must watch a lot of Xena to get the experience of Xena, if you watch just the opening credits of Cleopatra 2525 a few times, it counts as having watched the whole show.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 3d

IT'S COMING! They're coming. The monkeys! At halloweeeeeeeen

Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 4d

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 5d

Always happy to consult if you run against something particularly intractable.

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 6d

really important that we find ways to neuter the supreme court and unwind the trump admin's cruel practices, least of which so i can annoyingly say "all their efforts were for kavanaught"

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.

These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't come to horror writing through horror reading or horror movies. I got here through oral tradition: ghost stories at sleepover parties. It's still obvious in the structure: entertaining and giggly and set in specific familiar surroundings. And then suddenly...
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Nothing in the Basement

Nothing in the Basement [Stott, Romie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nothing in the Basement

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 7d

obviously what he's making happen is horrible, but listening to him describe it is like listening to Dark Helmet from Spaceballs

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 8d

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 10d

reposting out of context, out of appreciation and respect for the gif

Laurence Raphael Brothers @lrb.bsky.social · 10d

WHAT?

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, any time you have arranged marriages with requirements to produce an heir, it is not a celebration of bodily autonomy), and that absolutely comes down harder on women, even though I don't get the impression Aravis's brothers are free to make a love match either.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 10d

Per the text, Aravis's gender expression is not any more a problem than her super femme friend's, and per the text, Rabadash's domineering abuser stuff toward Susan is very much a him thing and weirds everyone else out.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 10d

I've never read Calormen as sexist. Classist, yeah. It's very clear the hiearchy is strict and you are not even supposed to care about classes lower than you. Like, that's the thing Aravis has to grapple with (and Bree does too).

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 12d

Further investigation reveals wikipedia is only flagging as porn on MY computer even though the software is supposed to impose all rules universally

so it's impugning my PERSONAL HONOR with an implication about how I individually use wikipedia

I should be allowed to duel the software in meatspace

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 12d

Welp, my work firewall has started blocking wikipedia as a website after placing it in the category "porn, general." Thanks, AI. You're really nailing it.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 12d

I have never once looked at tool and thought "let's make this faster, more random, and unaccountable" (unless it was a random number generator). Russian roulette-ass business model.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 12d

Welp, my work firewall has started blocking wikipedia as a website after placing it in the category "porn, general." Thanks, AI. You're really nailing it.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 12d

So like I’m not uhhhhh a tactical guy I’m not a military knower but does one usually put everyone important in your military in one spot. Does one usually advertise that they’re going to put everyone important in your entire military in one spot before doing that

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 12d

I love that. Can you link me to a story you're proud of that does that, which I could read online?

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 12d

I think the literary prevalence of "surprising" reversals has primed how we anticipate reality. The number of conversations I overhear: "remember how x unlikely thing turned out to be TRUE" about stuff that didn't ever turn out to be true. We're just used to that ending, so we write it in.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 12d

One of the things I appreciate about Columbo (and Poker Face) is they sidestep the narrative trap of "it's the person you least suspect!" We know who the person is and how they did it. That's out of the way. There's not a "but actually!!!1" twist.

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