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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips

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🏳️‍🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. Debut novel LIGHTBORNE out now. Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social. More at hessephillips.com

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · Feb 27

Coming to the UK 6th March 2025, the gorgeous new trade paperback edition of #Lightborne, from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social

"A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in Elizabethan England. Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell." uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
🌈📚⌛📚💙

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 18m

#NoKings is happening around the world, including right here in Madrid!

(Just be aware that if you show up in Sol at 12pm in an inflatable costume you might get run off by an off-brand Elmo for steppin' on his turf.)

Anuncia para Manifestacion "No Kings," Sabado 18 de Octubre 2025 a las 12 en Puerta del Sol Madrid. Todas las nacionales son bienvenidas!

Announcement for the "No Kings" Protest this Saturday, October 18th 2025 at 12pm in the Puerta del Sol, Madrid. All nationalities welcome!

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 1h

There needs to be a name for this particular phenomenon because it is A Thing.

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 1h

“context MATTERS”, insist the academic historians,

immediately before giving a lecture full of jokes and references to pop culture that was already a decade old when the 20 year olds in the audience were born

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 15h

Ceasefire don't mean shit if you can continue to slaughter people without firing a single shot.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 20h

Omg, y'all have to stop doing these awesome-sounding events that I can't go to. The entire city of Boston must stop doing cool things without me 😭😭😭😭

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 21h

Bam Bam!! Fuck Spotify but they did do one good thing years ago, which was put a Bam Bam song in my weekly playlist & send me down a rabbit hole. Tina Bell should've been an icon.

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 21h

I have two.

1. I would rather read the cringiest purpliest prose to ever gild a lily than wallflower text that gets the job done ably enough but is afraid of looking stupid.

2. No one who works in this industry has any fucking idea what they are doing & once you accept that things get easier.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 1d

"Innocent victims OF sexism & slavery" ugh I'm sorry, I'm running on no sleep 🫠

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 1d

It's hardly surprising that all three cities featured in this article have a history of hauntedness specifically associated with slavery and institutionalized sexism. The US doesn't have spooky castles so we embed our supernatural anxieties in plantations and churches. Go figure.

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 1d

Like call me a killjoy but there's a time and a place for creepy stories that give you the jitters, and it's not when you're talking about the innocent victims sexism and slavery. I think we can talk about these things through the lens of "haunting," but what haunts us should be the injustice.

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 1d

I love Halloween, but I hate spoopy-oopy tragedy tourism, & I tend to disagree with the idea that it "makes unspeakable histories speakable." It makes them cartoonish, broadly palatable, & too frequently erases the true victims of racism & misogyny, who did not die so you could wear a stupid hat.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Several locales across the US claim to be king when it comes to Halloween. But three in particular — Savannah, Georgia; New Orleans and Salem, Massachusetts — have the haunting histories to truly earn the title.
https://cnn.it/47sSZzJ

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

This is good.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 1d

This stuff is literally* Da Bomb.

*Improper use may cause burns.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 1d

Honestly I knew a guy in high school named Dino who pretended to be my boyfriend for five minutes in a club once so a pair of guys would stop sexually harassing me. Give Dino his fuckin day. Fuck Columbus.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 2d

Every time Google Photos sends me a slideshow of my dog Over The Years, before I open it I tell myself "okay, keep it cool, you see him every day" and then proceed to SQUEEEEEEE my way through the whole thing.

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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 5d

Person labelled "society" says "You can either be a boy, a girl, or some kind of freak."

Person labelled "Me" replies "freak".

Person labelled "Society" replies "No no no, no no, no, no"

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 3d

THEE way to my heart is to give Auntie Sylvia her due.

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 3d

Okay, I'm so jaded, so tired, so ready to be betrayed, but Zohran... you got me. Don't you go breaking my heart now.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 3d

I have no idea why I'm tagged in this, but I do indeed dig this crazy genre of arty farty horror movies, so thanks for the recs!

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 4d

As a child, I saw the Moody Blues live at *least* 10 times because they are my dad's favorite band and they used to play Pittsburgh once a year every year. Lots of long family car rides with In Search of the Lost Chord. 😔

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 4d

John Lodge, the bassist and singer of the Moody Blues, has died ‘suddenly and unexpectedly.’ He was a major figure in the evolution of progressive rock.

John Lodge, Moody Blues Bassist and Prog-Rock Pioneer, Dead at 82

John Lodge, the bassist and singer of the Moody Blues, has died ‘suddenly and unexpectedly.’ He was a major figure in the evolution of progressive rock.

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Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 4d

I'm absolutely in awe of this book! If you want to learn about the day-to-day lived experience of working people in this era - especially women - this is an invaluable resource. (And uh, it's free on open access, so what are you waiting for?)

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 5d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 4d

This guy? Nah - he's one of those Teddy Roosevelt, virility worshipping, would probably make out with a dude if drunk enough and then punch him types. But there will be queer in this book, natch.

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 5d

Plusgood. Doubleplusgood, even.

A copy of JULIA by Sandra Newman, a retelling of Orwell's 1984, next to my greyhound who is the best model ever because she's eternally sleepy.

Hesse "Horrors Unceasing" Phillips @hessephillips.com · 5d

One must always ask oneself.