I’m so obsessed with the Mitfords, they would make an amazing tv show. the only problem is that they’re improbably involved with historical events, and also largely terrible

why is the left so disorganized these days? partly bc many leftists are cliquey, extremely online, and culturally disconnected from regular people. (I don’t mean leftists struggle to talk to MAGA racists - who are ungettable anyway - I mean leftists can’t talk to liberals who like “normie” tv shows)

at a college basketball game, and the singing of the national anthem— 1) always a weird custom 2) especially gross today

people like to get mad at novelists/poets/short story writers etc for not meeting this political moment but like…how do you even do that

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so it’s incredibly uncommon for movies/tv shows to lead directly to social change in any direction (and it’s not their job to do so!) Brokeback Mountain and Will & Grace are often credited with greater social acceptance of gay people, but that was already happening in the culture writ large

I’m beginning to think Sherrone Moore was not a very good playcaller

a large amount of fascism or fascism-adjacent culture writing in the last few years has come from people who were annoyed by early Covid restrictions. Dimes Square began as a movement of fashionable reactionaries who threw parties during lockdowns

Now watching. Jane Fonda one of the best to ever do it (be a woman)

I see that people are posting their 2026 “ins” and “outs” so here’s the only list you need: IN: talking to people IRL OUT: forming your ideas about human behavior & political theory from being online

noticing a lot of upper middle class professionals who are certain that AI is going decimate every industry…except their own

“To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar” is a condensed, genderbent version of The Three Musketeers, with John Leguizamo’s character in the role of D’Artagnan. In this essay I will

you have to be a real sicko to use copilot

Some ~personal news~

2025 was one of the worst years of my life, I lost my job of 16 years in February (I'm still looking for a new one, if you know of any design/comms jobs), so while 2025 still sucks, my art has gotten a chance to grow and for that, I am incredibly grateful for the time #ArtvsArtist #ArtvsArtist2025

in these dark times, it’s important to take joy in the simple things. like how a guy who did great harm to me & my friends can’t write about the Epstein Files because last year he co-wrote a book with Noam Chomsky, Epstein’s secret bestie apparently

seeing another round of “why can’t white men get published/get media jobs” and: 1) they still often can 2) all the money has leeched out of the field, this is now feminized/minoritized territory. very few people are getting paid enough to live. the days of sinecures and easy handouts are over

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I'm loving this new age of American liberty where the news is contraband that has to be smuggled across the border from Canada

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

ROMEO DOUBS I WOULD DRINK POISON FOR YOU

romeo doubs, wherefore art thou romeo? catch some fucking passes bro my fantasy team is desperate

me finding out this season of Heated Rivalry only has 6 episodes

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hello police? this paragraph did violence to me (from this excellent & heartwarming article: archive.is/AJIp3)

I know the SFWA walked back their pro-LLM position after considerable outcry, but it’s annoying that they did this and frankly unnecessary that they still exist. SFF writers need a union not this arbitrary bullshit

girl I’m tired

this is weird, I thought we all understood that ChatGPT is an annoying, sycophantic young man

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sherrone moore fired for inappropriate relationship with throwing the damn ball

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so many ads featuring young Ozempic Santa

for all that Heated Rivalry is fanfic-y in structure and explicit about sex, it’s not afraid to be extremely real about the perils of coming out in professional sports. which I think is neat and an interesting choice!

the continued successful writing careers of post-left sex pests, aggressive assholes, and labor abusers will never not be depressing to me lol

this month marks Protean's 8th year. the mag has been wholly reliant on many, many hours of our free labor. output is also limited because we pay writers. i just lost my main day-job income (to AI, no less). unfortunately, without more support, it's just not viable to keep going like this forever.

good morning I have many thoughts about the gay Canadian hockey show (it rules) open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...

a Take is brewing

do NOT talk to me unless it’s about the gay canadian hockey show

Have you read @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions? It's great & offers, among other useful things, an analysis of & challenge to the "eat yr veggies" attitude

pie is only bad if you’re bad at making pie

a $10,000 grant so I can watch all the Frankenstein films and rank them from “wettest” to “driest”

this book is EXCELLENT btw. tons of really shocking information

googling “how to get paid for writing”

"For a certain kind of conservative, there’s no hypocrisy here: children (teens) should be kept ignorant of sex and sexual agency so that they can be better exploited. This is why good, appropriate literature should teach them only modesty and stifled hopes."

Damn, it really is pedophiles all the way down. From @lytagold.bsky.social's newsletter.

wrote about the Drift’s romantasy piece, which I felt was condescending and anthropological in nature, and also wrong on some key facts (mostly explored in the footnotes) open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...