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Jen Julian

@jennicjul

Writer + artist + cat person, Red Rabbit Ghost (Orbit 2025), Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses (Press 53 2018), Clarion 2016, teaches creative writing at Young Harris College https://jenjulian.com

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What's the greatest line in cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsm...

21.01.2026 04:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

15.01.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

28.12.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Red Rabbit Ghost by Jen Julian: Review by Colleen Mondor Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It 978-0-316-58056-4, $18.99, 384pp, tp) July 2025. Jesse Calloway is a year into college when he beΒ­gins to receive anonymous messages concerning his mother’s…

See @chasingray.bsky.social review of RED RABBIT GHOST by @jennicjul.bsky.social:β€œThrow in all the suppressed emotions, hidden relationships, secrets, lies and possible murder...you’ve got yourself a dark and juicy novel that drips in Southern atmosphere.”

13.12.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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new & restocked horror now available at b&n sioux falls!

23.11.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing!! ❀️

26.08.2025 00:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing, Brandon!!

22.07.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Red Rabbit Ghost Check out Red Rabbit Ghost - <p><b>An impulsive young outcast confronts his small town's dark secrets in this atmospheric and haunting debut horror novel from brilliant new voice Jen Julian. <p/> "Dre...

Today is pub day for @jennicjul.bsky.social's Red Rabbit Ghost, a horror novel I've been excited to read for many many months. I teach Julian's short fiction every year, and every year the students and I are surprised and awed. This is going to be good, y'all.

bookshop.org/p/books/red-...

22.07.2025 16:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh hey, it's pub day! Red Rabbit Ghost is out in the wild and what a beautiful thing that is

Oh hey y'all :)))))

22.07.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Promo time with a drawing of my antisocial emotional support witch Alice Katherine. Order from Barnes & Noble between now and July 11 to get 25% off if you’re a member! tinyurl.com/muarwxe8

09.07.2025 01:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

My teenage writer self DEFINITELY abused ellipses πŸ˜†

07.07.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jokes about writers overusing the em dash have been around since forever. This one made rounds years ago.

07.07.2025 02:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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July horror releases to be on your TBR

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25.06.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

22.06.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 2405 πŸ” 667 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 26

Welcome to my military parade

16.06.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing πŸ˜‚πŸ˜…πŸ€£

15.06.2025 06:00 πŸ‘ 37833 πŸ” 12190 πŸ’¬ 2048 πŸ“Œ 1857
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87-year-old veteran who was arrested at the Capitol for protesting against fascism is asked upon his release how it feels to get arrested for the first time at his age:

β€œI’m just beginning.”

15.06.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 815 πŸ” 228 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 25
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Oh lawd she creepin (toward her release date)

12.06.2025 12:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On that post-birthday nostalgia train with a new Substack post about childhood books. What were some of your favorites?? β€οΈπŸ“š

jenjulian.substack.com/p/childrens-...

08.06.2025 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gracious words from Andy Marino βœ¨πŸ’–

Please enjoy my amateur promo art

#orbitbooks #redrabbitghost

29.05.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Little preview of RRG's Booklist review! The Twin Peaks comp has me kvelling :)))))))))))))))))))))))

22.05.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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So many of my good friends achieving tenure this year, like the amazing @jennicjul.bsky.social !!! Here's a picture of us with Erin Tozier from a few years ago when we were super excited just knowing Jen would soon be tenured! Keep doing great things Dr. Julian and congrats!

16.05.2025 01:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🧡: If you're wondering just how intrusive the Trump admin's demands of Harvard were, consider this one: "Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity."

15.04.2025 03:12 πŸ‘ 212 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 19
Pink heart-shaped bleeding heart flowers alongside light green leaves.

Pink heart-shaped bleeding heart flowers alongside light green leaves.

Bleeding hearts for your Friday night. Be more like these flowers.

12.04.2025 01:22 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a simple tutorial on how to draw a medieval cat. step 1 shows a basic β€œnormal cat" with no details. step 2 shows the same cat but with a "human face" added, featuring a straight mouth and serious eyes. the final drawing combines both elements β€” a cat with a human-like face, surrounded by sparkles ✨

a simple tutorial on how to draw a medieval cat. step 1 shows a basic β€œnormal cat" with no details. step 2 shows the same cat but with a "human face" added, featuring a straight mouth and serious eyes. the final drawing combines both elements β€” a cat with a human-like face, surrounded by sparkles ✨

how to draw a medieval cat in two easy steps

09.04.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 12790 πŸ” 1826 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 60

I don't even know if "ace" is an identity I feel strongly about. I view the label as a less-than-accurate placeholder for the mulitfaceted nature of erotic experience and feeling that exists untethered from the sex act. Does "asexual" successfully describe that for me? I don't know. However (1/6)

08.04.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A friend recently told me their son said it was "rude" to read books on airplanes, bc the overhead light disrupts other passengers' screen time. Meanwhile tech assholes are out there reengineering all cultural infrastructure to favor the most obnoxious shit imaginable.

09.04.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cartoon diagram showing an eel in the top frame. The bottom frame is a closeup, showing how the head unscrews and you load the eel with 4 D-cell batteries. The fins are marked as the on/off switch, the eye are the low-battery indicator, and the body of the eel as the battery compartment.

Importantly, the drawing here is not of an electric eel at all, but rather an aguilliform eel. The two are very different kinds of fish. Eels are eels. Electric eels are knife fish, which is a very cool and dangerous sounding name. This is all to say that you should be very careful if you are using this diagram to try to change the batteries in your knife fish.

Cartoon diagram showing an eel in the top frame. The bottom frame is a closeup, showing how the head unscrews and you load the eel with 4 D-cell batteries. The fins are marked as the on/off switch, the eye are the low-battery indicator, and the body of the eel as the battery compartment. Importantly, the drawing here is not of an electric eel at all, but rather an aguilliform eel. The two are very different kinds of fish. Eels are eels. Electric eels are knife fish, which is a very cool and dangerous sounding name. This is all to say that you should be very careful if you are using this diagram to try to change the batteries in your knife fish.

It's April 1. You made it through another month. You deserve a treat, right?

Of course you do!

So here. Pease enjoy this lesson in the biology of the electric eel (which isn't actually an eel).
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01.04.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 261 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! πŸ‘€

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🀯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. πŸ›

Let's dive in! πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ 1/x

09.04.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 1507 πŸ” 701 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 120