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noirbettie.bsky.social
annika barranti klein
@noirbettie.bsky.social
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writer 🌙 rhymes with monica
roly-poly little bat-faced girl 💖💜💙
stories: annikaobscura.com
letters: buttondown.email/annikaobscura
lit agent: @katemckean.bsky.social
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noirbettie.bsky.social
my computer was doing a weird thing, the mac forums were useless, and even reddit replies to a four-year-old post about the exact same issue couldn't solve it, but you know what did? that's right, turning it off and back on again. absolutely enraging.
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i wonder how my life would be different if, the summer before college, i had bought my friend andrew’s vw rabbit instead of the mazda 626 i ended up with.
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
noirbettie.bsky.social
was there ever a more perfect food than the humble ho ho?
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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merriam-webster.com
The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
the cats are very concerned about my strange and unusual behavior (i folded some laundry that’s only been on the chair for two or three days).
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i don’t think there’s any excuse for engaging with any harry potter media, but after watching some merrily we roll along promotional materials i am considering making an exception for jonathan groff and lindsay mendez forcing daniel radcliffe to watch the movies with them, if they do it off camera.
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
my husband, who is very very mean, just told me that pouring myself a glass of water is insufficient and i have to actually drink it.
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i’m reading this charming book right now and it’s everything i want from a histrom ghost story! on sale for december.
chaceverity.com Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · May 11
Clara, Darling

- f/f historical paranormal romance novella
- set around Christmas 1932
- lonely radio actress x ghost of her true love
- controlling cheaters getting what they deserve

chaceverity.itch.io/clara-darling
Cover for Chace Verity’s Clara, Darling featuring a white woman with 1930s style hair and makeup wearing a dark dress with sequins.
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i’ve had two book ideas this year (three if you count the novella, which i do NOT) and i just looked at my notes for one of them but i think it might actually be trash. have i lost my confidence (yes) or do i need some goddamn coffee (also yes)? a mystery.
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
this is stunning, really worth a read.
tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 3d
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
share.inquirer.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
not a fan of how low the lapd is flying their helicopters today.
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
this kitten REALLY wants to eat people food. ray loved people food but was mostly chill about it (with a few hilarious exceptions, like the time he tried to eat an avocado roll out of my mouth). theo has zero interest in people food. ernie is VERY AGGRESSIVE HEY MOM WHAT ARE YOU EATING THAT’S MINE.
December 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
in the last month i’ve spent thousands of dollars at the vet and hundreds at petsmart and my cats have spent an entire week playing with an empty paper bag.
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i’m in an uber and i can’t tell if the driver is listening to kroq or emotion 98.3
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i'm thinking like a pantone 342 but if that's too blue i could go up to 350. also i suddenly want to paint my apartment?
pantone 342 color card, a medium-dark green with a slightly blue hue. pantone 350, a darker, greener green.
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
last night i had the most batshit idea for one of my wips and i’m sitting here in the light of day trying to figure out if i could pull it off.
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
the kitten climbed onto my desk, sat on my keyboard, and somehow made rod stewart music come out of my computer. the keyboard was switched off.
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i am crying laughing at my apple music replay.
screenshot from my apple music replay showing my top artist as hanson, top genre as pop, top song as mmmbop, and top album as middle of nowhere.
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
is it the december sads or is everything just extra hard right now? (it doesn’t matter. end result either way is i feel like shit.)
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
noirbettie.bsky.social
i’ve noted all your recs, and of course i started with something different: between the blood and the sun by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social (highly recommend! available on hoopla!)
noirbettie.bsky.social annika barranti klein @noirbettie.bsky.social · 9d
i did a beta read for a friend of a truly excellent weird western and now i want to read alllllll the weird westerns. please give me your recs! any length, non–cishet white men authors preferred.
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized.

You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too.

www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
December 21, 2023 at 3:46 PM
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maureenjohnsonbooks.com
When no one wanted to know about AIDS, when the government didn't care about the death of so many gay men, when everyone wanted to look away, this was the energy Elizabeth Taylor brought for real. She *meant* it. It's a beautiful thing, this energy.
Elizabeth Taylor saying, "And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, 'Bitch, do something yourself.'"
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.'' The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead. 2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day… …a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.'' 3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' '' 4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals. 5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.'' 6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything. 7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. Part 2 of 2:
8. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer runs into a 34-year-old painter at a party and the painter says to the writer that he is just back from Los Angeles and he says with some surprise that he had a really good time there and he asks why does she think that happened and says it's because New York is so boring now that Los Angeles is fun in comparison and that's true and it's one reason but the real reason is that they don't know the people who are dying there. 9. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has dinner every night for 11 nights in a row with the same 32-year-old musician while he waits for his biopsy to come back because luckily for her she is the only one he trusts enough to tell. 10. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer… …trying to make plans to go out of town flips through her appointment book and hears herself say, ''Well, I have a funeral on Tuesday, lunch with my editor on Wednesday, a memorial service on Thursday, so I guess I could come on Friday, unless, of course, Robert dies.'' 11. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when the world's most famous artist dies of complications following surgery at the age of 61 it doesn't seem like he really died at all - it seems like he got off easy. 12. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that at a rather grand dinner held at a venerable New York cultural institution and catered by a company famous for the beauty of its waiters a 39-year-old painter remarks to a 36-year-old writer that the company in question doesn't seem to employ as many really handsome boys as it used to and the writer replies, ''Well, it doesn't always pay to be popular.''
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
This ran in the New York Times in September 1987. A link: www.nytimes.com/1987/09/13/a...
THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE ARTISTIC COMMUNITY (Published 1987)
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM