"I’m back in the therapist’s office with my parents, watching the snow fall." Excerpt from Courtney Bates-Hardy's (@poetcourtney.bsky.social) poem "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" + promotional poster for del Toro's 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛 (2025) Read "𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛, 2025" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/co...

Watching Love is Blind is like anthropological to me. It’s this whole other culture that I don’t see myself in at all as a queer person and it’s both fascinating and disturbing.

About a year ago, someone asked me if I was part of the bacon lettuce tomato community and now it’s become a thing that my partners and I say to each other ALL THE TIME 😂

Finished watching Angel for the second time in my life. I still sob over Illyria asking Wesley if he’d like her to lie to him now 😭

Me, getting perceived as straight all week with a trans partner and a girlfriend:

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Went to see Markiplier’s Iron Lung last night at the late showing and I haven’t seen so many teenagers in one space since I was a teenager.

“Why do things have to happen all the time?” -my gf

For such a prolific novelist, I’m really finding Margaret Atwood’s memoir to be a slog.

Definitely not melting down because my new office was too loud today while I was on a deadline. Why would anyone think I’m autistic?

There are few things weirder than sitting at your library job while knowing that someone you went to high school with is a block away at the courthouse because they’ve been charged with accessory to murder.

After the AI bubble pops, put this hero on some stamps. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

CBC producing all these think pieces and interviews about why booksellers are going to judge the Giller Prize this year like it’s a big mystery. Well, I can solve it for you: it’s because most writers don’t want to be associated with the award anymore after the boycott 🤷🏻‍♀️

Are you even lesbians if you don’t get mistaken for sisters? 😅

I wrote a pantoum about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and familial estrangement due to my queerness. I love the film so much that I've watched it 3 times since it came out, and according to GDT, that means I'm married to it. Delighted to have my poem featured in @longconmagazine.bsky.social

Delighted to be featured in this issue of long con!

I keep thinking about how my brother called me a bitch when we were teens, and I slapped him, because that was how I was taught to deal with bullies. When I came out as queer and my partner came out as trans, my brother stopped talking to me. He had a list of grievances…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

So uh, is anyone else worried about Star Trek leaving Netflix in a few days??

King Sorrow by @joe-hill.bsky.social is my 150th read of 2025, and what a book to finish out the year on. I hated to see it end but I needed to know how it was going to end. An incredibly moving book about the divisive times we live in and the compassion we need to get through them.

I feel like Smosh is missing an opportunity with their merch by not having a Reddit Stories tshirt that just says UPDATE

I'm here again to say this in regard to gen AI in the arts. My issue with LLMs is multi-pronged. It is built off of stolen work. Everytime one uses it, it supports billionaires who want to gain control of the arts and take it from the hands of writers and artists. Also it is killing the planet.

Love when a poem you think is perfect for a certain lit mag IS perfect for that lit mag because they picked it!

Reading a poetry book a day this week because I'm trying to make it to 150 books read by the end of the year!!!

Debating whether or not the transit budget can be decreased immediately after passing the police budget feels deranged. Police has a PLANE, and City Council is asking if buses can reduce routes, hours, or increase their rates??? #yqr

Donnelly: Most criminal activity starts w/ young people who have nothing to do, nowhere to go. We need to invest in organizations that help them find ways to express themselves, give them something to do. #yqrcc

Every Christmas, I like to watch and read a series that feels like a project: LOTR Extended Editions, Star Wars, Anne of Green Gables, The Magicians, Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Anyone else?

If I include stopping for food and gas, I went to 16 different places in 6.5 hours yesterday while Christmas shopping.

The RPL Film Theatre in Regina will be screening "The Librarians" this Friday, December 12 at 7pm. Admission is free and everyone is welcome! For more information: buff.ly/egCR8Wb Or visit the RPL Film Theatre for more exciting films during the month of December: buff.ly/8IiGDrm

I remember when it wasn't ok to use Wikipedia as a citation but sure, let's all turn to the poopy barfy slop machine for all of our information

Someone walked by me yesterday and was like, ohhh she is a fairy, and that is the reaction I aspire to inspire always.

Injured myself at the gym this week in a new and exciting way. It's been a while since I've had to deal with an injury like this and I feel like I've gotten worse at it.

My favourite Sephora liquid eyeliner has been changed from felt tip to brush tip and I HATE it. Taking recommendations for the best liquid liner that goes on smooth and doesn’t get grayish partway through application.

Taking psychic damage from the new season of Critical Role

Got completely wiped out by two fillings today. Had to get two rounds of freezing and I was really shaky and cold afterwards. Now I’m barely staying awake on the couch. My nervous system said absolutely not to that.

Trying to build new friendships as a neurodivergent adult who came out late and lost a bunch of friends and family is rough, but I think maybe I'm starting to do it? Maybe?

Another year of no poetry category in the Goodreads Choice Awards. It's a shame, because people still read poetry and it deserves recognition just like any other genre.

It blows my mind that Jacob Elordi could go from playing the most hateful, dead eyed man in Euphoria to the most precious baby angel Creature who I would die for in Frankenstein. Nominate that man for an Oscar, damn

Just watched the behind the scenes doc for Frankenstein and I just need Netflix to give all the money for whatever project he wants to do.

Canadians, who is doing interesting work/talks/books about misinformation?

I used to have nightmares about dinosaurs, zombies, nuclear bombs, tornados, and now I only have nightmares about fighting with my family because I came out as queer.

Experiencing the Frankenstein story very differently now as someone who came out as gay and was then rejected by half my family.

When Frankenstein’s creature said, “you may think me obscene, but to myself I simply am,” I felt that.

Can’t wait to go see GDT’s Frankenstein for the second time in theatres tonight!!!

Idk what it is but I’ve had Pap smears done by women twice, and they’ve been the worst experiences. Granted, my family doctor for years was the most gentle man on earth, so I’m like, is this just normal?? They’re just this horrible all the time???

Sometimes I look back on the time I spent in Australia on a student exchange program and think about how lucky I was to take classes in Australian Literature, Irish Lit (from an Irish prof who moved to Oz), Creative Writing (where I made my own anthology of Australian love poems), and Screenwriting.

Edmond babe, find yourself a nice autistic woman and you’ll be so happy. #loveisblind

GET HYPED! GDT's Frankenstein is in theatres in #yqr!

Way too many people are comfortable going dogs out in public.