pre-tired of any piece that's like "hey guys, finally figured out the specific moral route to correct fiction consumption! yes... it looks like just shitting on romance novelists again for the thousandth time... but trust me, these are Bad romance novelists"

sorry for being problematic I will try to get worse

Once again, hoping these people can get their families out of star wars

Also, like, I have to laugh whenever journalists who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about laud fandom as this welcoming queer-dominated space. Yes, some parts of fandom are! But— [Rutger Hauer voice] I’ve seen fetishisation you people wouldn’t believe…

Am I dumb? Do I recognise that a ex-HP fanfic doesn’t actually make JKR any money, and actually might tempt people away from spending more money on that tainted IP, or am I dumb?

Saw a cute couple interaction on the train yesterday and I wanted to draw them as #zoeystery The girl was scritching her sleeping bf's chin like he's a pet.. #kpopdemonhunters

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

Best romantic comedy there ever was.

“Why are you banging your head against the wall?” asked Frog. “I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.

Just to illustrate how much worse it's got, I have received more abuse over the past year and a bit - including death threats and a large volume of antisemitism - for what I write than in the previous 15 years of covering migration and the far right put together.

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

I'm only 10 minutes into this 90s anime & they hit me with this.

I feel guilty about possibly pre-ordering Alchemised, considering its roots in HP fandom - but ultimately, the author is non-binary themselves, and I feel like that's a bigger factor to consider.

I’ve seen a lot of trans folks get outraged at Kamala Harris over this news article A brief thread on why I would really suggest *reading* the outrage bait posted about our community by major media platforms before hitting “post” on social media Here we go… 🧵

What did Politico say Harris said? “expresses reservations about transgender athletes competing on girls’ sports teams” & “question[ing] the fairness of allowing transgender athletes” But what did they quote harris as saying? That she wants trans athletes to compete without demonizing people

this exists it is called thinking

Once, when bored, I wrote a restaging of Taming of the Shrew where Katherine and Petruchio are in on the joke (for instance, Katherine starts destroying the tailor’s clothes and Petruchio makes sure she overhears the final bet), and it was so much fun to do

I’m coming to the rather irritating realisation that I may be an extrovert. Hmph.

THE COASTS OF CLYDE (1958)

DVD drivers in mid-range laptops again. I don’t CARE how thin things can be made. That just makes them more breakable. I’d rather break my back carrying around a brick if it means I get to watch physical media anywhere I want.

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

THE HEART IS HIGHLAND (1952) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8KO9S8wwAg

This one hits particularly hard today. Everything – the weather, my body, etc. – is telling me to stay home and burrow under my mum’s hand-knitted blanket but no. I have to be in this brightly lit office all day and I am MAD ABOUT IT.

I will repost any and all recommendations for Great Pottery Throw Down. It’s a show where men cry over pottery, and mistakes get forgiven because they know they’re making the contestants do really intricate stuff in a compressed amount of time. I love it.

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

We are deeply saddened by the passing of the legendary Robert Redford. He has been such an inspiration on social issues, enriching the cinema community and bringing such iconic characters to life over his astounding career. Thank you, Mr. Redford. You will be missed.

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

Guys thank you for allowing me to fly you to my private island. Have fun but please respect my boundaries vis a vis minors trafficking. That’s just for me, sorry. Help yourself to ANYTHING in the fridge tho

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Precisely the case in the US. Young men with economic anxiety on net actually voted Dem in 2024. Young men with bad views about women, feminism, and trans people voted for the right. www.ymrp.org/polling

Is this doing politics the right way @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social? Lies and hate is doing politics right is it? Maybe if the lies and hate were directed at you, you’d see things differently. (By the way this post is doing politics right).

It's really amazing how much of the effort to retaliate is focused on people who're like, "Here are the things he said." As if Charlie Kirk's legacy cannot stand real scrutiny.

Oop.

"idk about you but existing in the real world gives me and my loved ones immunity from the actions of fictional villains. hope you manage to get your family out of star wars."

what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament 👀

“if he wasn’t so fuckable, we wouldn’t be in this mess”

Vanity Fair: What scares Guillermo del Toro? Guillermo del Toro: People with nice suits and horrible souls.

Mark Hamill had no idea Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher were very obviously banging during the filming of ANH because he – by his own admission – was too self-absorbed, so I don’t think we can trust his take on Star Wars to be all that objective lmao

Timeline cleanse. An orange cat is an orange cat.

in the woods somewhere

The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter

Although it's rarely expressed in outright terms, people often use a very simple heuristic when solving fashion problems: they wish to look rich, which is often disguised as "respectable." I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵

Reading a book that has a 5 star beginning and a 3 star end is a bit like having an itch inside your head that you can’t reach to scratch. All you can do is go to sleep and hope the feeling fades by morning.

Ghosts are real. This much I know. 🕯️

The follow up to the goth Rey x rich boy Ben AU that I promised (checks calendar)…7 months ago :)

Re: “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” I always just use the original definition as coined by the creator, mostlyvalid on Tumblr, as the all fandom alternative to “HYDRA Trash Party”. ie. There will be no subversion or condemnation of the things tagged, proceed with caution

It’s been very clear since Benoit Blanc said “the Nazi child masturbatin' in the bathroom” that Rian Johnson is the only filmmaker who truly gets what has happened to certain dudes in online spaces

hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together