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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 2d

would strongly prefer to still be sitting there

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 2d

your email has not found me

me in a high end survival suit (not mine) sitting on an ice floe

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 2d

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 8d

i found us a nice little house where we can sit quietly and think about poems and such

a small structure against a mountain backdrop just outside longyearbyen but unfortunately it’s actually a research station and not a house

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: And what's this big pile here
ME: Books I haven't read yet
CHOTINER: But you're at the bookstore buying more?
ME: The other ones weren't the right ones
CHOTINER: And these books you're buying now, they're the right ones?
ME: That's complicated
CHOTINER: In what way?

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 14d

happy birthday!!!!

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 14d

i regret to inform you that you are once again Working on a Novel (etc)

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 15d

this is truly fantastic news !!!!!

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 15d

AHHHHH YESSSSSSS

A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 15d

in which i have sold some books & now must write them

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 15d

I am aquiver with delight at this publication news from @kellylink.bsky.social

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 16d

deepest of deep breaths

feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 16d

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

reactormag.com

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 16d

profoundly soothing to read very fun and gruesome novels about feisty persons even more skilled at creating their own problems than one’s self esp if written by an icon of the gothic romp imo

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 16d

QUITE looking forward to reading this

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 16d

counterpoint grace is a genius

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 16d

ugh this is heartbreaking news, what a huge loss

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 16d

was just coming here to say Herculine!!!!

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 16d

"Imagining is not a solitary project or an individual action; it’s a collective practice. We have to struggle for different visions of society together. We need different words, alternate ways of thinking and of being." ❤️‍🔥 @prisonculture.bsky.social prisonculture.substack.com/p/abolition-...

Abolition is About Making Things...

Imagination is a Terrain of Struggle

prisonculture.substack.com

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 17d

BRING BACK LUXURIOUS MAXIMALISM

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 17d

oh yes it does! i meant that in an "i find the publishing industry short-sighted and displeasing" sort of way lol

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 17d

rereading Possession for the first time in many years which was a great decision but i can't stop thinking about how absolutely nobody would be allowed to get away with this book now (lament)

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 17d

"revolutions are built on failure. We fail, over and over again, until one day we win. It’s our tenacity and endurance that sets us apart from our enemies." ❤️‍🔥 margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/revolution...

Revolutions Are Built on Failure

or: a better world is sorta possible

margaretkilljoy.substack.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20d

October 4 - Join the NYC Public Library Action Network (NYC PLAN) for a People’s Assembly about our city libraries. If you’re in NYC and care about public libraries, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

Illustration of diverse people talking and raising hands at a table with books. Text: "A People’s Assembly," event details, and speech bubbles about library funding and translation services. Yellow and purple color scheme.

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 20d

you too charles!

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 21d

made a new zine! if u want one:

1. donate $5 or more to:
--sameer project chuffed.org/project/1132...
--healing our homeland healingourhomeland.org
--or palmetto state abortion fund palmettostateabortionfund.com
(honor system! i trust u)

2. dm me yr mailing address by september 25 2025

outside cover of the zine that i made, glossolalia no. 18

one inside spread of the zine that i made, one page says "be brave it's time" and one page says "all empires fall"

some posters that i printed that say "fix your hearts or die" on a jungly sort of background. PLOT TWIST THESE POSTERS ARE THE INSIDE OF THE ZINE I MADE

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 21d

made a new zine! if u want one:

1. donate $5 or more to:
--sameer project chuffed.org/project/1132...
--healing our homeland healingourhomeland.org
--or palmetto state abortion fund palmettostateabortionfund.com
(honor system! i trust u)

2. dm me yr mailing address by september 25 2025

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 21d

hi charles!

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