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The Martian Chronicles. Ender's Game. Oryx and Crake. These were the genre-leaning, heavy-on-the-adventure types of books that shaped novelist (and Bustle columnist) Dana Schwartz in her youth. “I grew up loving authors who are able to tell very grounded human stories in fantastical worlds,” she tells Bustle. “I also loved The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood is really good at spanning that chasm between literary fiction and genre.”Schwartz first cut her teeth with a series of humorous books. The comedic memoir, Choose Your Own Disaster; the satirical White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon. But now she’s publishing her first entry into the canon of genre fiction, an homage to the mysterious and macabre tales that enchanted Schwartz throughout her adolescence. “My impulse as a writer is just to do what I'm most excited about,” she says. “Because the thing about writing a book is you have to spend a very long time in this world with every character.”The result is Anatomy: A Love Story, which centers on two teenagers in 19th century Scotland: Hazel (a would-be surgeon) and Jack (a body snatcher). Together they solve mysteries, exhume corpses, and, of course, dabble in romance. And the…

Instagram rolled out a paid subscription feature with a small group of U.S. creators on Wednesday that will allow followers to pay for exclusive content on Instagram Live and Stories. For the test launch, creators have eight different monthly price points to choose from, according to an Instagram spokesperson: $0.99, $1.99, $2.99, $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, $49.99 or $99.99. Instagram will not be taking a cut of revenue until at least 2023, when parent company Meta is expected to begin collecting fees from creators on Facebook and Instagram. Though the company has not yet disclosed what the revenue share percentage will be come 2023, at the earliest, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has previously said the cut will be less than 30 percent. Instagram Subscriptions will allow creators to host livestreams and share disappearing posts via Stories to their paying subscribers, as well as see badges next to their follower names to indicate which of them are paying subscribers. Creators in the small test group include @alanchikinchow, @sedona._, @alizakelly, @kelseylynncook, @elliottnorris, @jordanchiles, @jackjerry, @bunnymichael, @donalleniii and @lonnieiiv. “Creators do what they do to make a living, and it’s important that that is predictable,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video on…

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, STYLECASTER may receive an affiliate commission. There’s just something about beauty and fashion brands coming together that gets our hearts racing. It doesn’t happen very often but when it does, it’s a massive success. Just think of Supreme x Pat McGrath Labs and Brother Vellies x Sephora Collection — both were chic as hell and sold out quickly. Next up is maximalist designer Jeremy Scott and Furtuna Skin founder Agatha Luczo. The duo created a limited-edition collection that includes best-selling skincare and a fuzzy pink bag. What more could you want in a launch? “At Furtuna Skin, we believe you can care deeply about clean beauty, potent ingredients and sustainability while still embracing high style, luxury craftsmanship, and sex appeal,” Agatha Luczo, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Furtuna Skin, said in a statement. “This Furtuna Skin x Jeremy Scott Collector’s Edition embodies just that and provides an opportunity to enjoy our famous Wildly Potent formulas that are wild-foraged in Sicily in a highly covetable case to treasure forever. To partner with my longtime friend Jeremy who I admire professionally and personally, is a match made…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, STYLECASTER may receive an affiliate commission. If you’re an avid cook, then you know what it feels like to be short-staffed in the kitchen. You might need all hands on deck on the cutting board, when your needy sauce is calling for constant stirring. The work piles up and doing everything by yourself can be dicey, but luckily, there’s a kitchen gadget that actually stirs the food in your pan for you. That’s right—it’s like having a whole other set of hands helping you out in the kitchen.  The Unique Automatic Pan Stirrer does all the work for you, so that you don’t have to worry about your sauce burning to a crisp or your soup separating. Or, if you’re making, let’s say, a pudding, this handy gadget will prevent your arm from falling off after an eternity of stirring. It might be a tad scary to let a kitchen gadget take the reins, but it’ll make cooking much easier for you, especially if you’re working solo.  “If you are making ANYTHING that requires constant stirring, you will want this. Make sure your pot is…

Jost Kobusch. Photo: @axel.halbgebauer Jost Kobusch continues to be patient with winter Everest. Climbing alone, he needs a durable weather window to return to the West Ridge and possibly get his first glimpse of the Hornbein Couloir. This is why he has remained sheltered in Lobuche despite a brief spell of sunshine. “The forecast is good, with sunny days, but also very windy,” Kobusch said. “My hopes are now on a high-pressure front that should reach the area by the end of the month.” Jost Kobusch takes a walk by the meteorological Pyramid in Lobuche. Photo: Jost Kobusch Meanwhile, the German climber tries to stay fit and focused during these doldrums. “I have routines in place,” Kobusch told ExplorersWeb. “I start every morning with reading, then I set a daily exercise goal. Later, I reward myself by watching a documentary.” Harder this year In a previous interview with ExplorersWeb, Kobusch admitted that conditions on the route are harder than on his previous attempt two years ago. In particular, a serac on top of the Lho La pass has forced the climber to search for an alternative line on the first section of the route. “That big serac is constantly shedding…

Social MediaIt's Blorbo! From my shows!Jeremy Poland/E+/Getty ImagesThe internet is no stranger to making up its own language. You’ve probably scrolled through Twitter and TikTok before only to fine yourself scratching your head at the latest confusing slang. Of course, no app is better at coming up with its own language than Tumblr, and if you took a glance at the site right now, you might be wondering what is Blorbo? Tumblr’s latest meme is all about trolling fandoms, but there’s a lot more to it than just that. To truly understand what Blorbo means, we have to go all the way back to its origins. Blorbo actually started as just an innocent post from Tumblr user thelustiestargonianmaid on Dec. 24. For those not too familiar with Tumblr, it’s typical for users to find posts that don’t necessarily relate to a certain TV show or fandom, but these stans will quickly find some sort of a relation to their fave fandom and flood the comments with tags relating to it. In thelustiestargonianmaid’s post, the user was mocking this trend by saying, “Bitches will be like ‘prev tags omg’ on my post and I check the preg tags and it’s…

"Hello, Sidney. It's an honor." — Ghostface, but also, all of us. So, the fifth installment in the iconic Scream franchise — simply titled Scream — came out this past weekend, and you already know fans had all kinds of hilarious reactions to the new horror film! Paramount Pictures So we took to the depths of Twitter and Tumblr to round up just a few of the very best jokes, memes, and reactions for your viewing pleasure! Ready? Here we go: 2. This A+ meme: 13. This spoiler collection: Dimension Films 15. This accurate crossover: Warner Bros/Dimension Films 16. This dream I wish were a reality: I had a vivid dream that the new killers in scream were Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield (both as spiderman-ghostface hybrids) and Tom holland had to team with Sidney to stop them ? 09:34 PM - 12 Jan 2022 Twitter: @JohnnyBerchtold So, we have to ask: what did you think of Scream?! Share all your thoughts in the comments below! OH! And if you loved what you read, be sure to click through and follow your favorite creators on both Twitter and Tumblr to make your timelines more fun, nerdy places to be!

The six-year legal battle over pop superstar Prince’s estate has ended, meaning the process of distributing the artist’s wealth could begin next month. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the Internal Revenue Service and the estate’s administrator, Comerica Bank & Trust, agreed to value Prince’s estate $156.4 million, a figure that the artist’s heirs have also accepted. The valuation dwarfs Comerica’s earlier $82.3 million appraisal. The Internal Revenue Service in 2020 had valued the estate at $163.2 million. Prince, who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2016, did not leave a will. Since then, lawyers and consultants have been paid tens of millions of dollars to administer his estate and come up with a plan for its distribution. Two of Prince’s six sibling heirs, Alfred Jackson and John R. Nelson, have since died. Two others are in their 80s. “It has been a long six years,” L. Londell McMillan, an attorney for three of Prince’s siblings, said at a hearing Friday (Jan. 14) in Carver County District Court. In the end, the estate will be almost evenly divided between a well-funded New York music company — Primary Wave — and the three oldest of the music icon’s six heirs or…

Right now, Romelu Lukaku is learning, the hard way, that if you want to dish it out, you better be able to take it. Big Rom infamously called out manager Thomas Tuchel’s tactics last month, and made it clear that we wished to return to Inter Milan. He has since apologized, and his speaking out against his own current club to the media saw him fined. Today, following a 1-0 loss at Manchester City that effectively ended Chelsea’s title hopes, Tuchel singled out Lukaku as a player who should have done more. “We had eight or nine offensive transitions, but had zero touches in the box,” Tuchel told BT Sport. “That was a big problem today, the performance of our front players — a lack of position, timing and composure. “We lost too many balls too easily. Romelu Lukaku sometimes needs to do the service, he is included in this, he had many ball losses in very promising circumstances, he had a huge chance. “Of course we want to serve him, but he is part of the team, and the performance up front, we can do much better. “We didn’t have enough chances — we could have much more if…