Ian Sacks
@iansacks.bsky.social
🇺🇸 in 🇯🇵 Manga translations for JNC, Seven Seas. Horror fiction out and forthcoming at various. Non-horror at Pithead Chapel, Jersey Devil Press. Opinions my own. Former Dragon Ball fandom presence. https://iansacksworks.com/
A short horror piece of mine about anomalous construction site trappings is out at @aftermidnightmag.bsky.social! Thrilled to be part of their first issue.
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Folds
Hiroki hadn’t expected to hear his name. They were next to the construction site between the Miyada and Enoda homes. Toward the…
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September 30, 2026 at 9:57 AM
A short horror piece of mine about anomalous construction site trappings is out at @aftermidnightmag.bsky.social! Thrilled to be part of their first issue.
aftermidnightlitmag.com/2026/09/29/f...
aftermidnightlitmag.com/2026/09/29/f...
I also finally saw Interstellar. Like basically all Nolan films except the Dark Knight, it made me feel like a big hater. Sorry.
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A ★★½ review of Interstellar (2014)
Something happens to me with Christopher Nolan films that breaks my brain. They are smarter and more emotionally affecting than most Hollywood spectacle films of their scope and scale, which makes me ...
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September 22, 2026 at 2:06 AM
I also finally saw Interstellar. Like basically all Nolan films except the Dark Knight, it made me feel like a big hater. Sorry.
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Braved the typhoon to catch a restoration screening of Godzilla vs. Mothra in Yokohama (the film's climax setting) yesterday.
The most important review I've ever written of the most important film I've ever seen: letterboxd.com/iansacks/fil...
The most important review I've ever written of the most important film I've ever seen: letterboxd.com/iansacks/fil...
A ★★ review of Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
Saw at a 4K restoration screening in Yokohama, near the site of the film's climax. There's something fun and delightful about the way even the worst Toho Godzilla movies embrace sheer enthusiasm for m...
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September 22, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Braved the typhoon to catch a restoration screening of Godzilla vs. Mothra in Yokohama (the film's climax setting) yesterday.
The most important review I've ever written of the most important film I've ever seen: letterboxd.com/iansacks/fil...
The most important review I've ever written of the most important film I've ever seen: letterboxd.com/iansacks/fil...
Canonical way to translate 色々訊きたい
September 21, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Canonical way to translate 色々訊きたい
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🩸 🩸 Trembling With Fear🩸 🩸
Ian Sacks shows us the horror in forgetting in this week's feature story, ‘𝗘𝘅-𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻’.
💧 Tom Gdisis seeks what lurks beneath in 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲
👻 Stephen Tenerowicz teaches us not to trust our senses in 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀
🧟♀️ Sean Sims undergoes a change in p
Ian Sacks shows us the horror in forgetting in this week's feature story, ‘𝗘𝘅-𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻’.
💧 Tom Gdisis seeks what lurks beneath in 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲
👻 Stephen Tenerowicz teaches us not to trust our senses in 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀
🧟♀️ Sean Sims undergoes a change in p
September 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🩸 🩸 Trembling With Fear🩸 🩸
Ian Sacks shows us the horror in forgetting in this week's feature story, ‘𝗘𝘅-𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻’.
💧 Tom Gdisis seeks what lurks beneath in 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲
👻 Stephen Tenerowicz teaches us not to trust our senses in 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀
🧟♀️ Sean Sims undergoes a change in p
Ian Sacks shows us the horror in forgetting in this week's feature story, ‘𝗘𝘅-𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻’.
💧 Tom Gdisis seeks what lurks beneath in 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲
👻 Stephen Tenerowicz teaches us not to trust our senses in 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀
🧟♀️ Sean Sims undergoes a change in p
I dun started a Letterboxd, mostly to log horror-movie viewing as my partner and I are 1) doing a lot of it, and 2) have wound up with a pretty set 1 to 10 standard in terms of communicating our thoughts to each other afterward. Fillg out the last few months of viewing.
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September 11, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I dun started a Letterboxd, mostly to log horror-movie viewing as my partner and I are 1) doing a lot of it, and 2) have wound up with a pretty set 1 to 10 standard in terms of communicating our thoughts to each other afterward. Fillg out the last few months of viewing.
letterboxd.com/IanSacks/
letterboxd.com/IanSacks/
Backrooms Twin Peaks
🤝
Using surreal horror to explore
the inscrutability of subjective experience
and the impossibility of receiving
external meaning
🤝
Using surreal horror to explore
the inscrutability of subjective experience
and the impossibility of receiving
external meaning
September 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Backrooms Twin Peaks
🤝
Using surreal horror to explore
the inscrutability of subjective experience
and the impossibility of receiving
external meaning
🤝
Using surreal horror to explore
the inscrutability of subjective experience
and the impossibility of receiving
external meaning
Resurrected my basically unused personal/professional Instagram: www.instagram.com/iansacks/
Looking to follow other writers and translators especially, so connect on there if it's your thing!
Looking to follow other writers and translators especially, so connect on there if it's your thing!
August 29, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Resurrected my basically unused personal/professional Instagram: www.instagram.com/iansacks/
Looking to follow other writers and translators especially, so connect on there if it's your thing!
Looking to follow other writers and translators especially, so connect on there if it's your thing!
Two things to plug! My horror-adventure piece, "Speak If Though Wilt," is in The Dread Literary Review's "Final Girl" summer theme issue.
It's a follow-up to a straight-forward horror piece coming out elsewhere 9/13, but meant to work on its own!
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It's a follow-up to a straight-forward horror piece coming out elsewhere 9/13, but meant to work on its own!
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SUMMER 2026: Final Girl
“Final Girl” by Lorrie Ness
Like a corpse’s receding skin,
the pram’s canopy shrivels from its overturned frame.
Chrome supports jut from the brambles & weeds.
Only the skeleton remains
in...
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August 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Two things to plug! My horror-adventure piece, "Speak If Though Wilt," is in The Dread Literary Review's "Final Girl" summer theme issue.
It's a follow-up to a straight-forward horror piece coming out elsewhere 9/13, but meant to work on its own!
the-dread-literary-review.ghost.io/summer-2026-...
It's a follow-up to a straight-forward horror piece coming out elsewhere 9/13, but meant to work on its own!
the-dread-literary-review.ghost.io/summer-2026-...
Adverbs are codeswitching. They are freeing. During my MFA, I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole. Writing genre though? Give me one. Give me ten. They are an invitation to the reader; come on in, we're having fun
August 27, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Adverbs are codeswitching. They are freeing. During my MFA, I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole. Writing genre though? Give me one. Give me ten. They are an invitation to the reader; come on in, we're having fun
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This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
August 25, 2026 at 10:02 PM
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
August 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
I have a short horror story in this one. It seems like a cool project, so if you follow me for lit or translation stuff (or even if you don't), give them a follow!
Hey there, After-Midnighters! We're hard at work, copy editing Issue I. We're looking at a publication schedule of around early October—we'll let you know when it goes live! We're so excited to bring you our first issue. #booksky #writesky #poetrysky #pedagogy
August 25, 2026 at 1:29 PM
I have a short horror story in this one. It seems like a cool project, so if you follow me for lit or translation stuff (or even if you don't), give them a follow!
Feedback logged. An artificial intelligence strategy in the cultural and creative sectors that is not "regulation" has no business being brought to the table.
Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works
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August 25, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Feedback logged. An artificial intelligence strategy in the cultural and creative sectors that is not "regulation" has no business being brought to the table.
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You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes.
Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.
Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.
August 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes.
Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.
Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.
While waiting for four accepted short horror pieces (+ several drabbles) to come out, I used the Japanese holidays to do a little semi-comic nosleep post, a genre I am admittedly prone to not enjoying, engaging in all the tropes while seeing what I could get through.
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August 16, 2026 at 1:31 AM
While waiting for four accepted short horror pieces (+ several drabbles) to come out, I used the Japanese holidays to do a little semi-comic nosleep post, a genre I am admittedly prone to not enjoying, engaging in all the tropes while seeing what I could get through.
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In the future we're going to treat this kind of self-destructive AI use like smoking cigarettes
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this.
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August 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
In the future we're going to treat this kind of self-destructive AI use like smoking cigarettes
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Might as well post it here!
A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.
A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.
August 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Might as well post it here!
A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.
A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.
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Y'aaall... We've gotten some amazing submissions so far! We're still open until August 15th, so send your #shortstory, #flashfiction, #poetry, #pedagogy, #bookreview, and #CNF our way! #writesky #booksky Link: www.aftermidnightlitmag.com
August 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Y'aaall... We've gotten some amazing submissions so far! We're still open until August 15th, so send your #shortstory, #flashfiction, #poetry, #pedagogy, #bookreview, and #CNF our way! #writesky #booksky Link: www.aftermidnightlitmag.com
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Reminder: Omoi uses 100% human translators, letterers, proofreaders, and editors for our exclusive series. We're proud to publish high-quality releases from skilled localization workers!
August 7, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Reminder: Omoi uses 100% human translators, letterers, proofreaders, and editors for our exclusive series. We're proud to publish high-quality releases from skilled localization workers!
Release the sex purge movie sex cut
‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ director Will Gluck says they cut out “so much nudity” from the film because he thinks audiences dislike sex on screen.
“Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.”
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)
“Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.”
(Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)
August 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Release the sex purge movie sex cut
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Thinking about the way Wayne Truman drew sound effects for manga that didn't match the style of the originals but still burst with energy. The full color version of Dragon Ball has the original sound effects so it's used for comparison here.
August 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Thinking about the way Wayne Truman drew sound effects for manga that didn't match the style of the originals but still burst with energy. The full color version of Dragon Ball has the original sound effects so it's used for comparison here.
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Really old Ultraman doodles that I still find relatable 💀
July 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Really old Ultraman doodles that I still find relatable 💀
I have bad news about how *checks notes* society and business function if you're this nervous over your labor subsidizing things from which you might never personally benefit
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Mamdani's city-owned grocery stores are a socialist trap | Opinion
No matter how good Zohran Mamdani makes grocery affordability sound, he's selling New Yorkers the same broken promise that has failed everywhere else.
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August 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I have bad news about how *checks notes* society and business function if you're this nervous over your labor subsidizing things from which you might never personally benefit