Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff

PhD. She/Her.
Chaos movie tweets.
Writer of Shaderunners, a comic about stealing colours.
Repped by @LucienneDiver

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

💿 👻 ✨ I’m thrilled to show off Barbara Ciardo’s glorious cover for Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes that’s available for preorder now: https://t.co/J0qJKyue28

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Now available for preorder at Audible! Preorders help authors SO much so if Queer cyber-ghosts and funny noir appeal to you...

Audio or Paperback: https://t.co/YQLjwTsJ5h

Ebook: https://t.co/XijGW21Qgo

For my beloved Canadians: https://t.co/8gt4KxYMrl

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

💿 👻 ✨ I’m thrilled to show off Barbara Ciardo’s glorious cover for Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes that’s available for preorder now: https://t.co/J0qJKyue28

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Vibes, but somehow funny.

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Now available for preorder at Audible! Preorders help authors SO much so if Queer cyber-ghosts and funny noir appeal to you...

Audio or Paperback:
https://t.co/FWqHkTTUDE

Ebook:
https://t.co/8Q4WgvNeIa

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Digital Pre-Orders. I'm bad at self-promotion but preorders help authors SO MUCH if the book interests you: https://t.co/EzN1aOgJLi

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

💿 👻 ✨ I’m thrilled to show off Barbara Ciardo’s glorious cover for Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes that’s available for preorder now: https://t.co/J0qJKyue28

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Reading Count of Monte Cristo for the 1st time, Ch. 1-2.
⚓ Imagine being a CAPTAIN at 20?! I'd hate Edmond too.
⚓ Ok he wants to plant clematis for his old dad, maybe impossible to hate this guy...
⚓ So French to be appalled your elderly dad does not have wine in the house.

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

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[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

As a reminder, though I'll make major updates here about the book and things, I'm much more active on BluSky these days, where it's less actively depressing to log in and we can talk about books, movies, and all sorts of art without getting tons of bots! https://t.co/LDnEXzbL2K

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Oh to be a tree nerd named John Lowe in 1897, writing rapturously about yews

(From "The yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland," John Lowe, 1897)

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

After watching the National Theatre Importance of Being Earnest, I can't stop thinking about a version of the play that's gender-mixed where Jack and Gwendolen are played by women, Algie and Cecily by men, and it's Queer couples PLAYING straight couples and THAT'S the pitch!!

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Just a reminder that I'm more active on BlueSky which is less ravaged by bots: https://t.co/LDnEXzbL2K

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

You honestly just find the wildest dynamics imaginable in old movies. My roommate and I were watching Pillow Talk (1955) last night--a movie about two people who have to share a phone line--and he described them as having "a real Iago and Othello kind of sexual tension."

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

More 'I Can Fix Her' Hobbit movie thoughts, but I really feel like Martin Freeman deserved an award for his line reading of WHAT DOES THAT MEAN here. He saw the inherent comedy potential of being a normal guy dealing with unnecessarily mysterious dwarves.

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

The Hobbit films are my white whale. Such great dwarf designs + a winning concept: Thorin more dignified & tragic, a narrative foil to green-loving Bilbo. It just SQUANDERS so much runtime! The throughline should be Bilbo vs. Thorin, truly. Friends to enemies and back again.

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Dead New World, out Nov 2026 from Podium! Beetlejuice meets Murderbot! Theme-y Queer scifi 'bubblegum noir' about holographically-resurrected ghosts working dead-end jobs who stumble into mystery and romance! Moodboard, with links to come!

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Nothing beats the couples in Hades 1, bc it's just a funny guy with daddy issues trying to simultaneously date two people who take themselves extremely seriously. What I'm saying is all good pairings have something wrong about their dynamic that makes them inherently hilarious.

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

Just finishing reading Ishiguro's Remains of the Day & am amazed at how the emotional climax of the book is Stevens simply saying to us, "my heart was breaking." It's a cliche that exists in so many books, but still he cannot admit aloud, and can barely do to himself.

[Lin Darrow | Ghosts & Noir Stuff @linkeepsitreal]

I am unfortunately the type of person who rolls up to the F1 movie, sees Tobias Menzies in the credits, and goes "fuck yea fellas we got a movie" to my indifferent roommate who has multiple times suffered through my annual Tides of March Terror re-watch.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), stunt performer Tracey Eddon executed a remarkable full-body fire stunt. Eddon, who also doubled for Carrie Fisher in Return of the Jedi, delivered one of the film’s most striking practical effects moments.