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Ryan Vamps
@ryanvance.bsky.social
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Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast. www.ryanvance.co.uk
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2h
Not the point, but I was naive in thinking we were all being offered book groups.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 5h
include big promises from "a podcast miniseries" to "limited edition hardcover with annotated author's notes" which is pretty big talk. I've heard of other authors getting similar unsolicited pitches but just a warning that this junk us out there.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 6h
Andy Warwolfhall
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 9h
"Crow's feet? Say less!"
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tobias @saboborke.bsky.social · 9h
AUTHORS ARE REDUNDANT. ONCE YOU KNOW ABOUT 500 WORDS YOU CAN JUST MAKE YOUR OWN STORIES
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 10h
This isn’t an unhinged literary opinion so much as it’s a hinged design opinion about literature but: the more blurbs, comps and review quotes that appear on the front cover, the more I assume the book isn’t very good. Keep that ugly shit for the back or, better yet, the frontmatter.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 10h
There are two wolf halls inside you
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 22h
YA, as a genre, is fake.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 23h
The Forever War is my favourite of this genre: scathing satire of military middle management chewing up bodies and minds and stealing years of people’s lives as the world moves on without them, then ends on a screeching dud note of homophobia played as a shitty joke, deranged perfection.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 25d
The Flying Duck covers band night is without exaggeration one of the highlights of the year and, falling early on Halloween weekend, the perfect chance to soft-launch whatever disgustingly niche culture reference you’ve chosen as this year’s costume. See you there?

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d
inspiring 💗💖
LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh) commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
Not to be all woowoo about anagrams but I do like that Your Party jumbles into A Ropy Yurt, a big tent with no tethers.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
How much I wish that night’s dance floor had been the Charlie Brown’s Christmas episode set to Here Comes the Hurricane, but alas, I don’t think Beyoncé had even released Crazy in Love, we were starving and didn’t know it.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
90s event? 00s! Early dementia’s setting in, I fear.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
That’s a printed backdrop, unfortunately, which was very out of place in what I believe might have been an Orange Lodge. What we’re the Catholics doing while the Protestants built the Titanic? Building the iceberg! lololol
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
Why yes I, who have arrived at a 90s event in a monochromatic suit, and gathered the girlfriends of my most persistent high-school bullies, to pose for a photo in retaliation for being deliberately excluded from the sixth-form-lads-only photo, am a well-adjusted heterosexual, why do you ask.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
Post you from a different era.

2003, school formal, still operating under the misguided belief I was straight, despite all evidence to the contrary
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not even the title, it’s the Big Person surrounded by Lesser Characters thing I’m so bored of. If you want to keep the big cast feel of the Pynchon source without losing the star factor, grid the faces out evenly, looking their most beat-down, or something, I dunno, just… play around?!
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
We gotta try harder with posters, society. What are we doing.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
Collage: Everest
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
It's cowboy time, lets' have a cowboy!
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
Just like the horrors of war gave us microwaves and duct tape, we don’t give bigots enough credit for doing things with language nobody ever thought possible.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
A new your/you’re has entered the chat.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
This is essentially Duel.
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