Does it have the national orange soft drink in it?

Throwing this out to whoever may be reading. What's your experience with Ghost in the Shell?

Opening the time tunnel, stout lad

You'd never want Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity to step out the screen. They'd instantly become cringe.

For me, it lands in the 'cultural refs made by those who stopped reading post-school' box & also the '🇺🇸 assuming 🇺🇸 refs are universal' box

The syntax is also a bit grating. It's twee! And trading on sounding clever by bending grammar. Anyway, I'm supposed to be working...

as we hunker down and read through Issue Three submissions, we thought it'd be a good time to start a new tradition of shouting out the achievements of our alumni contributors ✨🖤 they've been busy! check out their latest work ⬇️

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INTERLOPER, OR A DOOMED DREAMWORLD - GNOME & BONE MAGAZINE being inside your mind is the best thing I have ever experienced Fairy lights and glowing snowmen mark the waypoints up Guywood Lane, then right on Marsden Road past a crippled bungalow. The wind tugs...

Angus Stewart's (@anguslikeswords.bsky.social) "Interloper, or A Doomed Dreamworld" is now available via Gnome and Bone Mag, and "Desire to Feel Nothing" via @realneondystopia.bsky.social.

Links:
gnomeandbonemagazine.com/2026/03/15/i...

www.neondystopia.com?p=100043485

Hilarious to see Bluesky fawning over this.

One day you might meet your match

Honestly, much better to be a little rough around the edges and full of life than technically okay but dead on the page.

Thanks man I'll pass that around, just to be safe

INTERLOPER, OR A DOOMED DREAMWORLD - GNOME & BONE MAGAZINE being inside your mind is the best thing I have ever experienced Fairy lights and glowing snowmen mark the waypoints up Guywood Lane, then right on Marsden Road past a crippled bungalow. The wind tugs...

What an honour for one of my stories to have joined the forest - please read Interloper in issue 1 of Gnome and Bone. I am so proud of it, and hope you love it. Yes, you. The gnome reading this.
gnomeandbonemagazine.com/2026/03/15/i...

LRB, London Review of Bovines

Chief Nerd CHIEF NERD @TheChiefNerd X.com SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." 1:22 3:36 AM • 3/12/26 • 1.7M Views

Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

<3

Fascinating interview about a fascinating project, with mentions of essays by Paul Kincaid (included in Colourfields) and Niall Harrison (included in All These Worlds), both available from our shop: briardenebooks.uk/shop/

Are you currently open to submissions?

[ESSAY] “Bittersweet Fusion: Taste, Pain, and Fate in Kit Fan’s 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛” by Angus Stewart 茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “Bittersweet Fusion: Taste, Pain, and Fate in Kit Fan’s Goodbye Chinatown” by Angus Stewart Click HERE to read all entrie…

A happy writer is me, to be in @asiancha.bsky.social reviewing Kit Fan's new novel.

Read on for musings bouncing off Boris Johnson, baozi class war, and the pains of being a sister-mother. Plus where to get a spam croissant in Stockport 🥐
chajournal.com/2026/03/08/g...

You know, I like this Angus guy, his takes are tasty

Yeth marthtur, never again furtht nor thecond marthtur

The big solution is: run a litmag for a year because it will actually teach you a lot about the texture (and topography) of your own mind culturally and artistically.

“My Destiny” by Liang Xiaosheng My Destiny is the third Liang Xiaosheng book brought into English translation, but the first novel. It follows the short story collection The Black Button published by Panda Books in 1992, and the …

New in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social: My review of a female bildungsoman of sorts set in Shenzhen (and elsewhere!) amid China's shift to a market economy.

Morality, class, and decency are pondered.
The word “money” appears 57 more times than the word "life".
asianreviewofbooks.com/my-destiny-b...

What do you like to read?

It seems very quiet here. It drives me less nuts than twitter but it also seems less interesting.

It's an investment bubble trying to escape death.

Hi new followers! Am here in lieu of a place for lit that isn't 🧟‍♀️ified

I ran the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast for 5 years - after hiatusing it I have focused on
1️⃣ writing weird stories
2️⃣ reviewing Chinese/Sino books
3️⃣ other odd writings

Would love to talk. Life is finite so why not?

I believe this is the opening scene of Train to Busan

I would too but it's 1am here so I mustn't be getting too thrashy before bedtime