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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 11h

Loving "no thank God" though!

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 1d

YES STRONG TRUTH

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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 1d

A. A. Milne is one of the great English poets.

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 1d

Because people REALLY like reading - large Australian surveys place it second after "the internet" - & learning a bit about what's out there and some ways to interpret books enables people to get more value, pleasure & benefit out of an activity they'll be doing for their whole lives

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you I love this and also 🤯

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 1d

OuroborIDIOCY

Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 1d

A bureaucrat for the revolution? IN SPACE?

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 1d

WTF is that Arrow cover? I don't mind all of them but that one is just stupid. The Pan one and the hardback are both awesome, would buy and read. (I love The Talisman Ring)

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

"By saying 'it's okay, REBECCA by DAPHNE DU MAURIER is not just for GIRLS any more'?"

"By Jove, I think he's got it!"

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

IT WAS TOTALLY A THRILLER ALREADY! Also what do they think "Gothic" means in "Gothic" romance? The genre that Joanna Russ described as "Somebody's Trying To Kill Me And I Think It's My Husband"?

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

speaking as a butch I beg to differ

a man in a red jacket is dancing with a group of zombies in a dark room .

Alt: Michael Jackson's Thriller. It's thrillingly masculine and astonishingly skilled but the aesthetic is not butch

media.tenor.com

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

Monday morning Melbourne?

Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

Just putting this out to the universe - Nance’s memorial service is next weekend and I belatedly offered to sort a recording/livestreaming for the main organisers who don’t have capacity. Anyone know a queer videographer in Melbourne who does memorials/funerals?

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

… the haunting tale is now dismissed as a “modern thriller” (like wtf, who thinks thrillers are higher-class than Gothic romances?!)

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

First dismissed as "Gothic romance" when it was published by Daphne du Maurier in 1938, the haunting tale has evolved into a modern thriller about the expectations placed on women.

Rebecca was a novel, a Hitchcock classic, and now a thriller on stage

First dismissed as "Gothic romance" when it was published by Daphne du Maurier in 1938, the haunting tale has evolved into a modern thriller about the expectations placed on women.

www.abc.net.au

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

Nance is the third or forth person to appear in in this clip saying she doesn’t want to be a shrivelled old prune and that “it was all on”, waving her arms around. The memorial will be significantly less fabulous but a lot of her friends scattered and I’d like them to be able to see it

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

Hush is SO GOOD

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

Very stereotypically the only queer videographers I can find all seem to be too fabulous and upbeat to mention death, and all the funeral webcasters seem solidly heteronormative

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 2d

Just putting this out to the universe - Nance’s memorial service is next weekend and I belatedly offered to sort a recording/livestreaming for the main organisers who don’t have capacity. Anyone know a queer videographer in Melbourne who does memorials/funerals?

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I love those Persephone endpapers!

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 4d

YES VERY LIKE THAT

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 4d

YES. See also Jacqueline Wilson (though I must get round to reading all the sequels where Tracy Beaker and the Girls have grown up!)

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, but this is a book set in the UK in 2025, with 30something protagonists, aimed at (presumably?) 20/30something readers (as well as olds like me), would it not seem weird that the people born in the mid-90s spontaneously compare things to 1980s advertising (and never to anything later?)

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 4d

Like would you not have found it weird to read a book set in St Helens in the 1970s full of Twinkies and Keds?

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm, but this is a book where the characters are in their mid-30s (so born in the mid-90s) and all their references/points of comparison are the same as mine (born mid-70s), like to 1980s advertising. But who knows what the Youngs think with their Kate Bush love etc, maybe this seems normal?

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 4d

Hurrah!

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