Christina Orlando
@cxorlando.bsky.social
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Christina Orlando
@cxorlando.bsky.social
· Jul 15
30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025 - Reactor
Here are 30 more standouts to put on your TBR for the second half of this year!
reactormag.com
Let's talk about books baybeeeeeee!!
Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses
reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...
Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses
reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...
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Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
reality show pitch
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
reality show pitch
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I am begging you
Gaza Palestinians not Gazans. West Bank Palestinians not West Bankers. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Israeli Arabs.
Decolonize your language.
Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.
Decolonize your language.
Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I am begging you
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okay i have everything booked for a trip to london in early february – if anyone has cafe/bakery/(wine) bar/restaurant/bookstore suggestions, drop them here please! also would love to see uk mutuals if anyones around and wants to hang
December 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
okay i have everything booked for a trip to london in early february – if anyone has cafe/bakery/(wine) bar/restaurant/bookstore suggestions, drop them here please! also would love to see uk mutuals if anyones around and wants to hang
twice a year i complain about how much work the most anticipated list is but actually, getting to sit here with my tea and a sheet mask on with a pile of books to go through absolutely rules.
December 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
twice a year i complain about how much work the most anticipated list is but actually, getting to sit here with my tea and a sheet mask on with a pile of books to go through absolutely rules.
okay i have everything booked for a trip to london in early february – if anyone has cafe/bakery/(wine) bar/restaurant/bookstore suggestions, drop them here please! also would love to see uk mutuals if anyones around and wants to hang
December 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
okay i have everything booked for a trip to london in early february – if anyone has cafe/bakery/(wine) bar/restaurant/bookstore suggestions, drop them here please! also would love to see uk mutuals if anyones around and wants to hang
alt: an IDEA for an essay is not a PITCH
Been reading submissions on and off all day which has left me thinking a lot about how an IDEA for a story isn't a STORY.
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
alt: an IDEA for an essay is not a PITCH
once again this is my highest recommendation for living a good life. ganache is 1 chocolate bar: 1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped cream is 1 cup cream + 2tbsp powdered sugar + 1tsp vanilla. treat yourself well
if i can make one recommendation for you this winter season, it's to make yourself a batch of chocolate ganache, a batch of homemade whipped cream (neither of which are expensive or take more than 5 minutes) and make hot cocoa with them.
December 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
once again this is my highest recommendation for living a good life. ganache is 1 chocolate bar: 1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped cream is 1 cup cream + 2tbsp powdered sugar + 1tsp vanilla. treat yourself well
all the things she said all the things she said running through my head running through my head running through my head
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
all the things she said all the things she said running through my head running through my head running through my head
just say you dont actually like reading and go
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
just say you dont actually like reading and go
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Treat anyone wearing these mass-surveillance loser glasses as if they're holding up their phone camera a foot away from your face
Glassholes were driven from polite society. It could happen again.
Google unveils plans to try again with smart glasses in 2026
It is a significant turnaround for the tech giant after its first attempt - Google Glass - was pulled in 2015.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Treat anyone wearing these mass-surveillance loser glasses as if they're holding up their phone camera a foot away from your face
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while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March
just saying
just saying
Ursula K. Le Guin — The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March
just saying
just saying
st tommy has the aux and i just know the playlist goes so hard
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
st tommy has the aux and i just know the playlist goes so hard
between this and a new nghi vo announced yesterday it is a very good news week for me personally
We are THRILLED to announce @freyamarske.bsky.social's Bodies of Magic, a new medical dark academia featuring mages and murder coming September 16, 2026 from Tor Books!
Announcing Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske - Reactor
A dark academia fantasy arriving September 2026
reactormag.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
between this and a new nghi vo announced yesterday it is a very good news week for me personally
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Jenny once again proving why she is one of the great Romance critics. If the Heated Rivalry Discourse from non-romance readers is driving you up the wall like it is me, this is the antidote. readingtheend.com/2025/12/10/a...
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
readingtheend.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Jenny once again proving why she is one of the great Romance critics. If the Heated Rivalry Discourse from non-romance readers is driving you up the wall like it is me, this is the antidote. readingtheend.com/2025/12/10/a...
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the Little Thieves trilogy is just insanely good, and y'all should all read it if you haven't yet! for a more extensive (but spoilery) appreciation of what Holy Terrors is doing, I refer y'all to my column about it from earlier this year
reactormag.com/how-to-break...
reactormag.com/how-to-break...
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
the Little Thieves trilogy is just insanely good, and y'all should all read it if you haven't yet! for a more extensive (but spoilery) appreciation of what Holy Terrors is doing, I refer y'all to my column about it from earlier this year
reactormag.com/how-to-break...
reactormag.com/how-to-break...
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the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
2026’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.
readjumpscares.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
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Two Palestinians are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza. Here’s how you can help.
lithub.com/you-can-help...
lithub.com/you-can-help...
You can help build the first public library in Gaza since the genocide began.
Two Palestinians are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza, after Israel’s war and genocide destroyed nearly all existing libraries, schools, and universities. The two men, Omar Ha…
lithub.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Two Palestinians are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza. Here’s how you can help.
lithub.com/you-can-help...
lithub.com/you-can-help...
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thank you @cxorlando.bsky.social for letting me include a book here that has nothing to do with SFF but that I could not in good conscience leave off any list of the best books!!!
Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?
Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 2025 - Reactor
Reactor’s regular book reviewers talk about notable titles they read in 2025
reactormag.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
thank you @cxorlando.bsky.social for letting me include a book here that has nothing to do with SFF but that I could not in good conscience leave off any list of the best books!!!
i love the reactor reviewers more than anything in the world and believe them to be correct in all things so here are the best books of 2025 objectively
Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?
Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 2025 - Reactor
Reactor’s regular book reviewers talk about notable titles they read in 2025
reactormag.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
i love the reactor reviewers more than anything in the world and believe them to be correct in all things so here are the best books of 2025 objectively
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not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
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The Freedom to Read Act is stalled on Gov. Hochul's desk.
AABB (Authors Against Book Bans) NY has partnered w/ PEN, ABA, Teen Activist Project, & school librarians to make some noise & get her to sign.
Bring a book and join us on Monday, December 8th at 3:30 at Union Square 17th St.
AABB (Authors Against Book Bans) NY has partnered w/ PEN, ABA, Teen Activist Project, & school librarians to make some noise & get her to sign.
Bring a book and join us on Monday, December 8th at 3:30 at Union Square 17th St.
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Freedom to Read Act is stalled on Gov. Hochul's desk.
AABB (Authors Against Book Bans) NY has partnered w/ PEN, ABA, Teen Activist Project, & school librarians to make some noise & get her to sign.
Bring a book and join us on Monday, December 8th at 3:30 at Union Square 17th St.
AABB (Authors Against Book Bans) NY has partnered w/ PEN, ABA, Teen Activist Project, & school librarians to make some noise & get her to sign.
Bring a book and join us on Monday, December 8th at 3:30 at Union Square 17th St.
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After wining of the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction 2025, @vajra.me talked to @cxorlando.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social discuss to discuss RAKESFALL, a sprawling narrative about reincarnation, revolution, and recollection, as well as his approach to writing the fantastic!
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
After wining of the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction 2025, @vajra.me talked to @cxorlando.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social discuss to discuss RAKESFALL, a sprawling narrative about reincarnation, revolution, and recollection, as well as his approach to writing the fantastic!
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
also my landlord, please sign if you can!!
I've vented #onhere a lot about the current situation with my billionaire slumlord landlord, Pinnacle.
It would really make my Friday if you could sign this petition urging the judge to slow the auction to protect me & other tenants.
It would really make my Friday if you could sign this petition urging the judge to slow the auction to protect me & other tenants.
10,000 Rent Stabilized Tenants Deserve a Say Over Their Homes
The homes of more than 10,000 New Yorkers are now at stake. One of NYC's most notorious landlords, Pinnacle Group, has sent 93 buildings -- 5,000 rent-stabilized apartments -- to a bankruptcy auction....
actionnetwork.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
also my landlord, please sign if you can!!