ReganMacArthur
@reganmacarthur.bsky.social
Writer of crime fiction under my own name. Published author (starting Sept. 8, 2023!) of morally-deficient pulp novels as Clint Reno.
"Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there only two."
-Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
-Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there only two."
-Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
-Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
Whether it's F1 or MY DARLING CLEMENTINE or a novel by Philip Roth, I can never really go along with the supposed happy ending of a hero choosing to isolate himself.
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Whether it's F1 or MY DARLING CLEMENTINE or a novel by Philip Roth, I can never really go along with the supposed happy ending of a hero choosing to isolate himself.
"In the primitive Germanic tongues, 'valkyrie' means 'she who chooses the dead'."
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"In the primitive Germanic tongues, 'valkyrie' means 'she who chooses the dead'."
Whoops, forgot about the granddaddy of them all.
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Whoops, forgot about the granddaddy of them all.
Plays I have loved by Tom Stoppard:
The Real Thing
Arcadia
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
The Invention of Love
Travesties
The Hard Problem
Indian Ink
The Real Inspector Hound
The Real Thing
Arcadia
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
The Invention of Love
Travesties
The Hard Problem
Indian Ink
The Real Inspector Hound
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Plays I have loved by Tom Stoppard:
The Real Thing
Arcadia
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
The Invention of Love
Travesties
The Hard Problem
Indian Ink
The Real Inspector Hound
The Real Thing
Arcadia
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
The Invention of Love
Travesties
The Hard Problem
Indian Ink
The Real Inspector Hound
"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."
-Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
-Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."
-Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
-Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
BLACK WATER/Joyce Carol Oates
"20 Minutes"/James Salter
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"/Ernest Hemingway
The common theme is Death. I have to give Hemingway the prize, but they're all worth your time.
"20 Minutes"/James Salter
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"/Ernest Hemingway
The common theme is Death. I have to give Hemingway the prize, but they're all worth your time.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
BLACK WATER/Joyce Carol Oates
"20 Minutes"/James Salter
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"/Ernest Hemingway
The common theme is Death. I have to give Hemingway the prize, but they're all worth your time.
"20 Minutes"/James Salter
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"/Ernest Hemingway
The common theme is Death. I have to give Hemingway the prize, but they're all worth your time.
Nostalgia's fangs have sunk into my skull, alas.
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Nostalgia's fangs have sunk into my skull, alas.
My Christmas wish is to get electric wolves to threaten my neighbors' electric reindeer.
Is that wrong?
Is that wrong?
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My Christmas wish is to get electric wolves to threaten my neighbors' electric reindeer.
Is that wrong?
Is that wrong?
Since I don't want to type "Leviathan" a thousand times in the pirate book for a character's name, I looked up the etymology. Leviathan translates roughly to "twisted thing."
So, I looked up "twisted" in Old English...
Thus, I've got a character called The Writhen.
This is sane behavior, right?
So, I looked up "twisted" in Old English...
Thus, I've got a character called The Writhen.
This is sane behavior, right?
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Since I don't want to type "Leviathan" a thousand times in the pirate book for a character's name, I looked up the etymology. Leviathan translates roughly to "twisted thing."
So, I looked up "twisted" in Old English...
Thus, I've got a character called The Writhen.
This is sane behavior, right?
So, I looked up "twisted" in Old English...
Thus, I've got a character called The Writhen.
This is sane behavior, right?
Well, guess I wrote a horror sequence set a pirate ship careening.
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Well, guess I wrote a horror sequence set a pirate ship careening.
I heard a snippet of a St. Vincent song on TV so I decided to go down a rabbit hole. I listened to six albums...
ACTOR
STRANGE MERCY
ST. VINCENT
MASSEDUCTION
DADDY'S HOME
ALL BORN SCREAMING
I only liked one, but I can't say my time was wasted. I should explore more music.
ACTOR
STRANGE MERCY
ST. VINCENT
MASSEDUCTION
DADDY'S HOME
ALL BORN SCREAMING
I only liked one, but I can't say my time was wasted. I should explore more music.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I heard a snippet of a St. Vincent song on TV so I decided to go down a rabbit hole. I listened to six albums...
ACTOR
STRANGE MERCY
ST. VINCENT
MASSEDUCTION
DADDY'S HOME
ALL BORN SCREAMING
I only liked one, but I can't say my time was wasted. I should explore more music.
ACTOR
STRANGE MERCY
ST. VINCENT
MASSEDUCTION
DADDY'S HOME
ALL BORN SCREAMING
I only liked one, but I can't say my time was wasted. I should explore more music.
"For whom did I drain my heart dry of blood?"
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"For whom did I drain my heart dry of blood?"
evergreen post about America
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
evergreen post about America
Another image by Chris Wormell. This is from his exquisite work in an edition of Edith Hamilton's MYTHOLOGY and I curse the publisher to the Hell of the Upside Sinners for only stating the artist's name in squint print.
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Another image by Chris Wormell. This is from his exquisite work in an edition of Edith Hamilton's MYTHOLOGY and I curse the publisher to the Hell of the Upside Sinners for only stating the artist's name in squint print.
art by Chris Wormell
(This is what I'd want for the first illustration in a fantasy novel I've been piecing together over the years.)
(This is what I'd want for the first illustration in a fantasy novel I've been piecing together over the years.)
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
art by Chris Wormell
(This is what I'd want for the first illustration in a fantasy novel I've been piecing together over the years.)
(This is what I'd want for the first illustration in a fantasy novel I've been piecing together over the years.)
Oddly enough, they tell the same story.
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Oddly enough, they tell the same story.
Ah, the old monkeys-flinging-shit approach to plotting...
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ah, the old monkeys-flinging-shit approach to plotting...
Currently listening:
St. Vincent/ MASSEDUCTION
St. Vincent/ MASSEDUCTION
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Currently listening:
St. Vincent/ MASSEDUCTION
St. Vincent/ MASSEDUCTION
She (truly) likes to use parentheses (a lot).
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
She (truly) likes to use parentheses (a lot).
Researching pirate history, I was surprised to learn that some of them could have been Parker's ancestors. They didn't do all their heisting at sea. Sometimes, they made commando raids on land, knocking over entire cities.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Researching pirate history, I was surprised to learn that some of them could have been Parker's ancestors. They didn't do all their heisting at sea. Sometimes, they made commando raids on land, knocking over entire cities.
Be happy like this guy.
Buy a book by @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social!
Buy a book by @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social!
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Be happy like this guy.
Buy a book by @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social!
Buy a book by @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social!