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AGA Wilmot

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Author (lit, horror, surrealism), editor, painter, communications professional. Represented by K2 Literary. Ace, nonbinary trans woman—they/she. 🏳️‍⚧️ "Withered," ECW Press Spring 2024 http://agawilmot.ca https://k2literary.com/authors/aga-wilmot/

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 3h

Yesterday we posted a big Shadow of the Colossus oral history. Threading a few bits of trivia about that story below...

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 1d

Death keeps showing up for the wrong D's.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 21d

whoa october is around the corner!

reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.

more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 1d

With all the wedding prep and stuff, I've been neglectful of my spooky season duties, chief among them, self-promoting with abandon.

Because what's the point of writing queer mental health–based haunted house stories if you're not going to push them on the populace? ecwpress.com/products/wit...

This is queer psychological horror, tackling important issues of mental health, in particular eating disorders, in the way that only horror fiction can: by delving deep, cracking them open, and exposi...

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 1d

You're right, thank you. This is why I shouldn't be on social media without caffeine in my veins.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed. It’s one thing for a game to take a few hours to “get good,” but 25-30 is absurd. Also, it just doesn’t have memorable characters (IMO).

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 2d

While the film Children of Men is one of the best SF films of the past 30 years, the EL James novel upon which it is based is pretty terrible.

Also, as a bonus opinion: Novellas are criminally underrated as an art form. Give me a fluff-free story taken to its logical end point and walk away.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 2d

Facts.

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 2d

You know you're marrying the right person when she messages you the week of the wedding to ask if you wanna skip out on the whole thing and just hit a drive-in double feature with the Exorcist and Blair Witch Project instead.

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 2d

Possibly FFXIII—shitty by FF standards, but that soundtrack is wonderful. But then, even the worst FFs tend to have decent-to-great soundtracks.

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 2d

I've been enjoying DK Bananza for a while now, but it's the first game in a long time—and maybe the first platformer—that I've played with the sound at a minimum. It's just empty and absent passion, to me anyway.

Struggling to think of the opposite situation...

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 2d

Eeee I hope you like Withered!! 💜

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

Y'all need to understand that one of the reasons I'm so ready to be done with the Start Here page is cause I'm locked and loaded for this year's Halloween horror list 😈🗡️

Absolutely sick book haul today from @bitterkarella.bsky.social @agawilmot.bsky.social @scumbelievable.bsky.social

Moonflow by Bitter Karella
Withered by AGA Wilmot
Black Flame by Gretchen-Felker Martin

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 6d

This is starting to feel like a really shitty airport apocalypse novel with somehow worse writing, yet it's real.

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 6d

The Civil War is heating up

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 6d

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 8d

Brains really do suck sometimes.

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 8d

Sometimes a panic attack smashes into you out of the blue, and sometimes it builds and builds in the background, a daily presence slowly increasing, gaining strength for weeks on end until one day you wake up and your chest and limbs are just -heavy- and you’ve been clenching a fist in your sleep.

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 9d

Weekend movie watching update: new Naked Gun is as fun as the first film, One Battle After Another is a tense and electrifying ride, Death Becomes Her holds up beautifully, and I finally get the obsession with Kpop Demon Hunters.

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 10d

So glad to report that PTA’s One Battle After Another is indeed terrific—which is a relief after the total misfire (IMHO) that was Licorice Pizza.

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THE GO! TEAM @thegoteam.bsky.social · 12d

★ANNOUNCING TODAY★

★ Thunder Lightning Strike - LIVE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE LP ★

Recorded in Feb 2024 This is the first time TG!T live show has been documented on record and will be hitting on
@recordstoreday.bsky.social
Black Friday- only available instore on that day.

28.5.25

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Alexis Vandom @vandomva.bsky.social · 13d

Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, and Pam Bondi are on the ground in Memphis, telling law enforcement that they have complete authority and impunity.

I can't begin to describe how dangerous this moment is.

Look after your Black trans neighbors, folks. These cops WILL brutalize them without hesitation.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

Stephen Miller tells law enforcement in MEMPHIS: “You are unleashed”

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 13d

This is amazing.

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 13d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

AGA Wilmot @agawilmot.bsky.social · 13d

I cannot wait to get my hands on this!

Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social · 13d

THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is now available everywhere you buy your books in the US! American friends, please love my Asian lady demons.