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APN SUMMER EVENT 2026

We're kicking off another APN Summer Event with...

BEACH EPISODE!

This year, instead of doing a genre, we're doing a series of prompts--and what better way to kick off a summer event than with the theme of "BEACH EPISODE!" Your episodes this year must:

Include a beach as a main plot point or setting

Feature a broken music box sound effect

Star characters who have been roommates

We want you to flex your creative muscles, so you can write a sweet silly story about two travellers who stay in a beachside hostel together and fix up a music box... or you can write a horror story on the foggy coast with two former friends forced to team up against whatever's creeping in from the tide. The possibilities are endless for BEACH EPISODE!

These episodes will be publishing in August at the earliest, end of September at the latest--we're tentatively setting a deadline of August 22 as the final deadline for an episode.

If you want to join this event, please join our server and start searching for teams!

[spltlvlhous]

:p me when. ART! THIS IS ART! altho i feel like this looks like a painting. but thsts me. who watched it become a painting. i see every stroke, as, i’m the one who painted them.

[filmesbrazil]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Sybil Leek's American radio debut presentation at Joy Miller's APN wire column 'Today's Women', October 1964 (illustration by Dick Hodgins Jr.)

[22degreehalo]

So my personal history of pairings I shipped and their eventual canonical status now includes (non-exclusively):

* depicted as brides together with separate bios stating the year they got married which coincidentally happens to be the same year but ~I dunno~

* one confessed their love as a final act of purpose and joy before being sucked down into the black. We never heard an answer and it never comes up again. Later, in Mexico, it is canon. Sorta?

* they're both into men and canonically have feelings for each other and then after years of teasing the final moments of the show feature them as a couple in an alternate universe. The end.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Ben Dupuy, quintessential Haitian revolutionary leader, dead at 91

By Kim Ives

Benjamin Dupuy, arguably Haiti’s greatest communist leader and ideologue from the 1970s to the 2010s, passed away in a Miami Beach nursing home on Apr. 23 at the age of 91. A journalist, photographer, filmmaker, diplomat, organizer, and political party leader, Dupuy was a model Marxist theoretician and man-of-action, unwavering in his life-long pursuit of socialist revolution in Haiti.

[j-august]

Blake: ... And [Kim Philby] found it very difficult to adjust here. What happened was, he was a journalist by trade, and a very good journalist, and when he came here he got work at the APN, the Russian news agency. One time he wrote an article about a certain issue in the Middle East, he was a great expert on the Middle East because of his father. Anyway, he gave that article to the person who was supposed to print it, and that person made all sorts of changes to it, and he [Philby] was simply furious, because he couldn't imagine that anyone would dare change or improve what he had written. Then he walked out of there and he didn't want to work with them again... Me: He didn't understand that the Russians used censorship. Blake: Yes! ... So that was the end of his work [laughs].

Simon Kuper, The Happy Traitor

[satirenatural]