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Ryan Vamps
@ryanvance.bsky.social
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Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast. www.ryanvance.co.uk
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 12h
YA, as a genre, is fake.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 12h
The Forever War is my favourite of this genre: scathing satire of military middle management chewing up bodies and minds and stealing years of people’s lives as the world moves on without them, then ends on a screeching dud note of homophobia played as a shitty joke, deranged perfection.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 24d
The Flying Duck covers band night is without exaggeration one of the highlights of the year and, falling early on Halloween weekend, the perfect chance to soft-launch whatever disgustingly niche culture reference you’ve chosen as this year’s costume. See you there?

www.outsavvy.com/event/29397/...
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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 17h
inspiring 💗💖
LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh) commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 19h
Not to be all woowoo about anagrams but I do like that Your Party jumbles into A Ropy Yurt, a big tent with no tethers.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 19h
How much I wish that night’s dance floor had been the Charlie Brown’s Christmas episode set to Here Comes the Hurricane, but alas, I don’t think Beyoncé had even released Crazy in Love, we were starving and didn’t know it.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 20h
90s event? 00s! Early dementia’s setting in, I fear.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 20h
That’s a printed backdrop, unfortunately, which was very out of place in what I believe might have been an Orange Lodge. What we’re the Catholics doing while the Protestants built the Titanic? Building the iceberg! lololol
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 20h
Why yes I, who have arrived at a 90s event in a monochromatic suit, and gathered the girlfriends of my most persistent high-school bullies, to pose for a photo in retaliation for being deliberately excluded from the sixth-form-lads-only photo, am a well-adjusted heterosexual, why do you ask.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 20h
Post you from a different era.

2003, school formal, still operating under the misguided belief I was straight, despite all evidence to the contrary
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not even the title, it’s the Big Person surrounded by Lesser Characters thing I’m so bored of. If you want to keep the big cast feel of the Pynchon source without losing the star factor, grid the faces out evenly, looking their most beat-down, or something, I dunno, just… play around?!
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
We gotta try harder with posters, society. What are we doing.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
Collage: Everest
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
It's cowboy time, lets' have a cowboy!
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
Just like the horrors of war gave us microwaves and duct tape, we don’t give bigots enough credit for doing things with language nobody ever thought possible.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d
A new your/you’re has entered the chat.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
This is essentially Duel.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
I blame book design from ten years ago

WHERE THE
Firstname
TITLE WENT
Surname
LIKE THIS
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
Throat like pebbledash by the end of it.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
What kind, though? I reckon 1kg of the twin snakes would do me, but could manage 5kg of the eggs (though I’d hate every single damn second).
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
Oh! I’m back to being semi-curious about it again. Given the first’s hard-boiled noir parody elements, I wonder if the terrible pop is meant to be some sort of joke about how a lot of contemporary detective shows *do* rely on terrible pop needle drops? Doesn’t make it any more enjoyable though.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d
This is the first bad thing I’ve heard about it. I never had reverence for the first, I only came to it through Control’s DLC - is it… that rough?
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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 3d
Speaking from experience, small indie publishing is getting tougher. We usually rely on project-based public funding (too much) and are a couple of rejections away from closure. Investors balk at us because of the low margins & growth. We need a new path.

www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-p...
Indie presses in ‘existential crisis’ call for trade support
More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity...
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