Lish McBride

Lish McBride

@lishmcbride.bsky.social

Writer, former indie bookseller and cursed object that may or may not be three raccoons in a trench coat. (She/her) https://linktr.ee/lishmcbride

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Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

You know those sad montages that they often do in TV shows or films, especially crime/mystery shows where they should a bunch of different depressing things and people looking all stoic or sobbing? Petitioning to call those, “mourntages” from here on out. Thank you for considering my petition.

Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

My favorite thing about this post was finding out my editor hadn’t seen Black Sheep by @jonathanking.bsky.social. I feel like my editor and I are about to enter into a new level of ✨friendship✨ Either you can handle weresheep or you can’t, and apparently that’s a dividing line for me.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social

Horror and humor can be the perfect combo when the balance is right. Our Necessary Whimsy column highlights 11 books and movies that mix laughs and jump scares, from gentler kids' books to hilarious slasher comedies--what are your favorites?

reactormag.com11 Frighteningly Funny Books and Movies That Blend Humor and Horror - ReactorFrom slasher comedies to humorous hauntings to... killer sheep?

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@patricksamphire.bsky.social

The absolute most basic function of government is to ensure that the population has access to food, water, and basic services. To neglect all of that in favour of some stupidly expensive new weapons is a complete failure.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

Thank god the rock-ribbed manly titans of unrelenting belligerence keep winning elections, can you imagine if the sappy hippies had won.

Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

Thanks, @charishkristi.bsky.social 💕 I like to think all my books are mutant babies. Audiobook links should be coming in any day now, and we’re still waiting for the ebook to populate to Amazon, but hey, Bookshop has it… For signed copies with fun swag, order from the link in the comment.

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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Lish McBride
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I have many, many angry bee thoughts about this, mostly the same as everyone else’s. But one of them is this—I don’t think an adaptation should be 100% faithful. A book is not a film. It’s a collaboration between a TEAM of artists, all of which are experts in their field & deserve JOBS.

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Lish McBride
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As a writer, I of course hope that someday my work gets adapted to the screen. I won’t expect it to be word for word. I won’t expect it to be exactly what I created. I hope I get a team of artists who understand the assignment and make that story their own. And I hope all of them get fair wages.

Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

Also, I would make a terrible fucking director. And me thinking I could waltz on in with zero training and no experience has the same vibes as when people who have never written a word of fiction tell me that writing a book is easy and they could totally do it.

Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

I have many, many angry bee thoughts about this, mostly the same as everyone else’s. But one of them is this—I don’t think an adaptation should be 100% faithful. A book is not a film. It’s a collaboration between a TEAM of artists, all of which are experts in their field & deserve JOBS.

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Lish McBride
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Want in example? I loved All Systems Red by Martha Wells. A solid book. Wouldn’t change a thing. The streaming adaptation took that story and added things to accompany the original stories and characters. The scenes of Sanctuary Moon, which were never shown in the book, were AMAZING.

Lish McBride
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And I don’t know Martha Wells. Maybe she suggested those. Maybe she envisioned those exact scenes. But I suspect it was the combined art of the screenwriter, the costume department, the actors, the set designers, etc. Adding their own art to the OG version.

Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

I have many, many angry bee thoughts about this, mostly the same as everyone else’s. But one of them is this—I don’t think an adaptation should be 100% faithful. A book is not a film. It’s a collaboration between a TEAM of artists, all of which are experts in their field & deserve JOBS.

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Lish McBride
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The best book adaptations, IMO, get the heart of the book, they get the premise, but they add something of their own. A book is a string quartet. A small team (writer, editor, design team, etc) making a unique song. A film or TV adaptation is an orchestra. Same song, different, fuller riff.

Lish McBride
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They might have the same tune in their heart, but they’re not the same thing. An orchestra can do things a quartet cannot and vice versa. As a society we should value art. Full stop. It makes up a large part of our lives that we take for granted. And the people making that art DESERVE JOBS.

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Tom Cox
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”

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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com

If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

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T. Frohock (she/her)
@tfrohock.com

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'push' and I'd like to push one last Los Nefilim book at you if that's okay. This is my favorite of the quartet. In this scene, Miquel is a captive who has hatched a plan to take out the enemy: awfulagent.com/ebooks/carve... #BookQW #BookSky

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

Lish McBride
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I got some of those painting kits from Michael’s to do some fun Halloween style crafts with the fam. I have never done paint by numbers. I have…regrets. Those are my fingers for scale. You’re supposed to do this with BRUSHES. IS THIS A PAINTING FOR ANTS?!?

Lish McBride
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The whole kit has 4 of these that make up a whole picture and look, I only paid 6$ for it. We had fun. But also it took me 2 hours to do one and I quickly gave up on accuracy and went for VIBES.

Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

Good knowledge that I hate so, so much. www.instagram.com/p/Dd2r05jG7p...

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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

penguinrandomhouse.comBaldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksThe roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....
Lish McBride
@lishmcbride.bsky.social

Oh, it’s even worse. To be very clear—I support trans people and think this whole thing is bullshit. But title 9 also creates a pathway on campuses and federal spaces for people who have been sexually harassed, stalked and assaulted to be protected and seek investigation.

🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃@angryblacklady.blacksky.app

fucking really

thehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…