Johnny Russell
@johnnyrussell2.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, sunglasses wearer.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com
https://letterboxd.com/jihnnt/
#TheVampireLestat
Episode 2 recap is live: Lestat invites us to unpack the childhood trauma that led to all his Oedipal smoochery.
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THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: Mommy and Moi!
Lestat invites us to unpack the childhood trauma that led to all his Oedipal smoochery.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/vampire-lestat-episode-2
2 days ago
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I mean, is it even summer if you havenât splashed around in the pool with your 10-year-old nephew and then come inside to watch a Jurassic Park during an afternoon thunderstorm?
2 days ago
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Early summer stack.
4 days ago
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#Pride
2026 movie syllabus: some old faves I havenât seen in years, hard-to-find recs am going to try to find,
#Leviticus
(obv), and some titles that have moldered on my watchlists for way too long. Will prob add and update throughout the month.
boxd.it/3dJnD
5 days ago
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Full
#TheVampireLestat
premiere recap at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
.
5 days ago
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Full
#TheVampireLestat
premiere recap at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
. (And yes, I have been made aware that a âSalamanderâ is, in fact, briefly mentioned in the book. Apologies to that man.)
6 days ago
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Me in 7th grade: âAm v SOPHISTICATED reading existential vampire novels!â Me at 43: Chuckling to self re: use of multiple variations on âde Leonfartsâ in next weekâs
#TheVampireLestat
Ep 2 recap.
6 days ago
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MAHA will be like âMedicine is unnatural blah blah blahâ and then drink the milk directly from the teat of a fully different species.
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
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Johnny Russell
Boars, Gore, and Swords
8 days ago
Another prestige genre series emerges from its coffin as we watch the third season premiere of AMC's The Vampire Lestat.
@ivanhernandez.bsky.social
and
@redscott.com
talk world tours, snippy goths, old men against modernity, and beef houses.
#iwtv
#lestat
boarsgoreandswords.com/2026/06/09/t...
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Everyoneâs favorite supernatural busyBODY. Get it??? More insightful observations and commentary at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
!
#TheVampireLestat
8 days ago
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Me, promoting my free Substack:
8 days ago
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Mia Farrow
8 days ago
Scott Pelley says he was told to make protestors look more violent & say Renee Good was "driving toward the officer". He says "there was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events" at a level of political influence that he had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.
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Itâs AMCâs Anne Riceâs
#InterviewwiththeVampire
and itâs the same except itâs completely different.
#TheVampireLestat
premiere recap is live!
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THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: Fuck Yeah, Itâs Brat Prince Summer!
Itâs AMCâs Anne Riceâs Interview with the Vampire and Itâs the Same Except Itâs Completely Different.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/the-vampire-lestat-fuck-yeah-its
9 days ago
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Things I remember from the back half of
#InterviewwiththeVampire
Season 2: â˘Baby Bogosian (Fauxgosian?) was a BABE â˘Whole âtrialâ was just Lestat recapping Season 1 Entirely from Memory⢠â˘Louis doing ghost tour in middle of hurricane
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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Recapped Entirely from Memory Pt. Deux
In which Lestat recaps Season 1 entirely from memory.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/interview-with-the-vampire-season-723
20 days ago
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Slowly watching people I used to have a crush on age via Instagram is an experience I never anticipated.
25 days ago
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*plays
#GunsNRoses
â Sympathy for the Devil* The drastic vibe shift at the very end of
#InterviewwiththeVampire
(1994) was brilliant, and we as a culture simply did not appreciate it properly.
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26 days ago
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Lestat, just casually looking like gay sex on a putting green in
#InterviewwiththeVampire
Season 1. Revisit the recaps at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
.
27 days ago
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Several chapters of
#TheVampireLestat
according to Armand: (Full recap at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
)
27 days ago
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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 recapped entirely from memory at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
.
27 days ago
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All us perfectly mentally sound people are being totally normal and rewatching
#InterviewwiththeVampire
right now, right?
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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Recapped Entirely from Memory
Never get involved with a vampire community theatre cult!
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/interview-with-the-vampire-season-4b7
27 days ago
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Post your favorite LOTR character, wrong answers only.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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Look! A kinda fashion thing you can do instead of being insensed by the
#MetGala
!
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The Devil Wears Prada 2: Hell Is A Color Story
I feel like I fell down and smacked my little head on the pavement!
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/the-devil-wears-prada-2-hell-is-a
about 1 month ago
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Itâs fine! Totally fine and enjoyable. A perfectly fine good olâ time at the movie house. But alsoâŚkinda sweaty. Read the
#TheDevilWearsPrada2
recap at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
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The Devil Wears Prada 2: Hell Is A Color Story
I feel like I fell down and smacked my little head on the pavement!
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/the-devil-wears-prada-2-hell-is-a
about 1 month ago
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#TheDevilWearsPrada2
recap posts Monday. Subscribe for free at
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.
about 1 month ago
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This how it went, right? Read the full
#TheDevilWearsPrada
recap at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
.
about 2 months ago
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From my
#TheDevilWearsPrada
recap. Read more and subscribe for FREE at
JohnnyWrites.substack.com
about 2 months ago
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Have you seen
#TheDevilWearsPrada
, the No. 1 top greatest movie of our time [2006 edition]? So have I! And I remember it 100% accurately!
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The Devil Wears Prada Recapped Entirely From Memory
Here is exactly everything that happens in the movie from what I recall.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/the-devil-wears-prada-recapped-entirely
about 2 months ago
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Governor Tony Evers
2 months ago
LGBTQ kids, including transgender and gender nonconforming kids, deserve our love, respect, and support just like any other kid. I will always be proud to stand with them.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/demo...
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Democratic governor says âHell noâ to five anti-trans bills on Transgender Day of Visibility - LGBTQ Nation
Gov. Tony Evers promised to veto all anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that comes to his desk. He has not failed.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/democratic-governor-says-hell-no-to-five-anti-trans-bills-on-transgender-day-of-visibility/
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In her new adaptation of
#WutheringHeights
, Emerald Fennell has both Cathy and Heathcliff sit on eggs while also deploying sensual imagery and BDSM themes. Would her talents and preoccupations have been better suited to an adaptation of The Story of the Eye? In this essay, I willâŚ
4 months ago
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Had a weird day yesterday, and then a rotten evening. Am utterly exhausted and melancholy today. But at least haircut is vg! Subscribe to my Substack:
johnnywrites.substack.com
4 months ago
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#FBF
go-go pics for the algo [???] Subscribe to my Substack:
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4 months ago
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#Pillion
!
#Twinless
!
#BlueMoon
!
#PeterHujarsDay
! Check out my mini-reviews [gay thoughts] of these and other recent notable gay films!
#FilmThreads
#MovieThreads
#AwardsSeason
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The Agony of Gay Awards Season
Gay thoughts on several recent gay films.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/the-agony-of-gay-awards-season
4 months ago
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I feel genuinely privileged to have somehow largely missed all the shitty
#Sinners
*discourse*. Itâs been nothing but people adoring this tremendous film in my feeds and actual life since last April. đ
#Oscars
#FlimSky
5 months ago
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V pleased [smug] to say I only have three major
#Oscar
films left to watch. (With respect to Bradley Pitt et al, have zero interest in the car movie)
#FilmSky
#Movies
#AcademyAwards
5 months ago
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Adam Kinzinger
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âLike the Cass Review before it, the trial is in all likelihood an elaborate pantomime to generate a false sense of scientific legitimacy for what is purely a moral panic about gender related healthcare â with the enthusiastic collaboration of most of the UKâs politicians and news outlets.â
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Trans advocates blast upcoming puberty blocker studies as unethical & biased - LGBTQ Nation
âIt is unconscionable to coerce young people into participating and, for half of the cohort, delay the care theyâve been assessed as needing.â
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/trans-advocates-blast-upcoming-puberty-blocker-studies-as-unethical-biased/?media_id=3814536488897550039_63281371677&media_author_id=63281371677&ranking_info_token=GCA4ODcyNGQ5ZTVmNjk0NGE0OTRkODdjMjBhYjg3NDhjNCX+m9YDJo7ogJcNGBMzODE0MjY0Njg4MDAwMjI5NTA0KANndG4A&utm_source=ig_text_feed_profile
5 months ago
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I hate that I live in a timeline in which Michelle Pfeiffer is in a Taylor Sheridan show. đ
5 months ago
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Fierce canine companion guarding my archives. Considering purchasing spiked collar. (Also badly needs bath!)
5 months ago
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I donât watch
#Traitors
. Anyone want to explain that overalls guy to me?
5 months ago
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Why yes this was tonuitâs double feature. Iss agoofun!
#filmsky
5 months ago
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Amanda Seyfried rocks my world as per uszh.
#TheTestamentofAnnLee
#FilmSky
5 months ago
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On Tuesday, the attorneys general of 12 states filed a lawsuit challenging HHSâs âconditioning [of] hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding on statesâ agreement to discriminate against transgender people,â according to a press release from the Oregon Department of Justice.
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Trump admin is withholding over $300 billion from pro-trans states. The states are fighting back. - LGBTQ Nation
"Agencies shouldnât be forced to take care away from people just to keep their funding."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/admin-is-withholding-over-300-billion-from-pro-trans-states-the-states-are-fighting-back/
5 months ago
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Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in womenâs single-sex spaces over a period of three years, according to advocacy group TransLucent.
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Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women's spaces, study finds - LGBTQ Nation
âThis is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.â
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almost-no-one-is-complaining-about-trans-women-in-womens-spaces-study-finds/
5 months ago
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The administration has been relentless in their dubious (to say the least) characterization of Good and progressive activists as âdomestic terrorists.â
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FBI launches investigation into ICE shooting victim Renee Good for her ties to activists - LGBTQ Nation
The Trump administration continues to try to blame Good and progressive activists for her death at the hands of an ICE agent.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/fbi-launches-investigation-into-ice-renee-good-for-her-ties-to-activists/
5 months ago
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Forced to flee home office due to internet outage. At Starbucks now. Feel strongly that internet companies should be obliged to reimburse customers for expenses incurred during outages (eg nonfat latte, ham & cheese toastie). Elizabeth Warren or similar should get on this.
5 months ago
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Wanda Sykes wins the night, and actually made me root for Ricky Gervais over Brett Goldstein.
#GoldenGlobes
5 months ago
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Such a bummer that Amy Poeler had to thank Spotify.
#GoldenGlobes
5 months ago
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Did the
#GoldenGlobes
red carpet always have these
#MetGala
stairs?
5 months ago
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So stupid that
#GoldenGlobes
occur during
#DryJanuary
! Badly desire champagne but would contravene New Yearâs resolution.
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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