Lin Darrow

@lindarrow.bsky.social

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PhD. She/Her. 🌟 Scifi novel Dead New World (Podium Entertainment Nov 2026). 💿 Writer of graphic novel The Holographic History (HarperAlley 2027) and Shaderunners webcomic (art by @alexassan.com‬). Repped by @luciennediver.bsky.social‬. LinDarrow.com

Dead New World. Nov 2026. Vibe Comp Grid. The grids: 1) The cover of Murderbot, a cyborg looking at the viewer. 2) A screenshot from The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, where a ghostly figure gestures to a dinner party on the moon. 3) A screenshot from the terror, when a diver goes beneath the artic sea and is surrounded by eerie colors and floating ice. 4) A screenshot from Tron of a man in a holographic suit. 5) A blurb that reads Queer, Funny, Romantic, Ghostly, Cybernoir, Mystery. 6) A screenshot from Bladerunner 2049 of a giant holographic woman pointing. 7) A screenshot from Beetlejuice of a book that reads HANDBOOK FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED.
Poster for 1964's What a Way to Go!, featuring Shirley Maclaine in a glittering dress surrounded by several husbands in striped colors of red, yellow and grey.
A review of Beauty and the Beast available at the link.
A review of Great Mouse Detective that can be read in full at the link.
A man in a suit desperately kisses another man in a boa a turtleneck in the 1920s party scenario, the atmosphere fraught, surrounded by cigarette smoke.
A man wearing a boa says "Fashionably late, huh?" to a man entering a basement room with a suitcase and worried look.
A man submerged dreamily beneath an ice-covered ship in a dive suit. From AMC's The Terror.
Cover of Strange Pictures by Uketsu. A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of creepy drawings, in which the reader is the detective. Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219579130-strange-pictures
A review of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) that reads: "Captures the ephemeral and incidental nature of childhood—long days meandering through an unknowable world of adult detritus, your concerns so small, your fears so random and shapeless, your world so fragile a gust of wind can literally blow it over; childhood as an ambiguous blend of one season of nothing into another until it’s time to leave. Simple but I think this one just really speaks to little kids and their rambling worlds."
Painting one is fuzzy and pink, painting two is a meticulously followed lighthouse with the lighthouse getting painted out for being too inevitably phallic, and a zany abstract reinterpretation of the lighthouse being a cabin under a sun made out of egg yolk.
Three Royal diaries books: Isabel, cleopatra, and Eleanor.
A review from Letterboxd: A movie that reveals the arbitrary insularity of aristocratic wealth, where the purebred cats of a wealthy woman are seen as more deserving to inherit than her loyal working class servant. To force your cats to inherit first, a ridiculously symbolic and incoherent gesture, is ultimately ensuring that Edgar can only access that wealth via proxy, rendering him literally lesser than animals. Aristocracy is such an absurd state of being that it requires these elaborate rituals to contain wealth within its proper class brackets. It doesn’t matter that he inherits after their deaths—the message is clearly one of knowing your place and never forgetting that any rise you attain has been indulgently granted by your higher ups. Edgar is effectively Madam’s pet, and not even the most beloved one. Similarly, Duchess is so functionally inept in the real world that Thomas O’Malley must effectively do everything for her: rescue her children, lead her home, manage transportation, mobilize relationships, expose scheming servants and save them from multiple perils. He tries to tell Duchess that she is just the house pet and not a full person to Madam, and this message is one the film seems incapable of fully rebutting. The aristocracy as a class are pampered cats who, dangerously, see others as THEIR pets. Even at the end, the cats are adopted into Madam’s house as part of her philanthropy: her “foundation.” There is no true equality between the classes!!!!! Cats cute tho.
Three holographic ghosts stare out at a colourful cyberpunk world at a mysterious headless figure.
A screenshot from a game featuring a woman standing in a giant house full of loopy columns, bizarre squiggly flooring, and gigantic gothic doors.
A theatre showing old cartoons, focused on an advert for cake that says MOIST!
Excerpt from Count of Monte Cristo where a man is described as an aged dandy "parading the newly opened gardens of the Tuileries and Luxembourg!"
Screenshot of text. "Death alone can separate them" remarked Fernand. Highlighted, the reply: "You talk like a noodle, my friend."
A man submerged dreamily beneath an ice-covered ship in a dive suit. From AMC's The Terror.
England in 1819 by Percy Shelley An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow. A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field; An army, whom liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield; Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay; Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed; A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed— Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
Joan Crawford in a vulture-like fur coat stands on a noir-ish pier looking devastated.
To Die For, Jailhouse Rock, June Bride, Merrily We Go To Hell.
Two tuxedoed men flank a beautiful woman
A man submerged dreamily beneath an ice-covered ship in a dive suit. From AMC's The Terror.