100 days ago the answer to "which living actor has the best filmography?" was either Tatsuya Nakadai or Robert Duvall. It's a smaller world.

Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”

Lost Highway by David Lynch starring Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake (1997)

The Godfather

Sam Mendes delivering 4 bad movies at once instead of his usual 1

Today's Classic Cover of the Day is the fantasy romance Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn, with a beautiful cover by Jean Pierre Targete.

gonna be honest seeing people plug romance books based on details of the epstein files is fucking disgusting.

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 1554 Second Age Subject: Re: Master Ring (Forged in secret)??? lmfao u totally shoulkd

made a website ~ castrationmovie.com

I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.

Amy Klobuchar throw a stapler at ICE

i was SO excited to be asked to put this together.

at @moviemadness.org and I see this shelf of recommendations by @scumbelievable.bsky.social ‼️

thinking about what will remain of our empire in 3500 years. the people of the future who are excavating the United States and deciphering our language will be like, yeah, they *were* unforgivable monsters but also one of them wrote BLACK SILK

Happy Paul Newman's birthday!

Absolutely endless monster behavior from ICE & CBP. Detaining parents seeking urgent healthcare for their kids and who, in this case, had petitioned for asylum. All at the same hospital where they shot two people earlier this month. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Twin Peaks: Bobby Briggs at the RR Diner.

"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it

I love this man.

One year without the king www.mynewplaidpants.com/2026/01/ever...

Doing "everything we can" to ensure no one else becomes a sex worker would mean you'd be fighting for affordable housing, UBI, healthcare for all, etc. not trying to make us all SFW content creators. Like just say you have capitulated to fascism.

Coming to @letterboxd.social Video Store in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands* this Wednesday, 21/01! letterboxd.com/journal/lett... *Also United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, via @weard.moe and @muscledistribution.bsky.social

This Word Suitcase is about the word "deliquesce" and two (unjustly!) out-of-print Judy Cuevas historical romances

It's such a delightful shoutout when authors do crossovers like this! It is so much fun to bond with readers who catch what I do or gasp when something I missed gets brought to my attention. The community of romance ♥️

Good morning.

my favorite thing: Sherry Thomas referencing Judith Ivory

“The recent enforcement actions have drawn scrutiny because the FDA operates under the Department of Health and Human Services, now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has repeatedly promoted the scientifically disproven claim that poppers — rather than HIV — caused AIDS.”

into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so wondrously minute is it

still one of my favorite essays about Black Silk!

related: bsky.app/profile/scar...

in which I go too long on Black Silk

I think about this passage from Laura Dern’s letter to David Lynch every day

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

I would like to report a crime

Best historical romance that made me go, "wait, you can do that in a romance book?" over and over: Black Silk www.harpercollins.com/products/bla...

Post four TV couples you love (both actual relationships and profound yearning are acceptable)

DEQ staff said they have updated the agency’s data retention processes as a response to last year’s breach, but didn't say why they waited months to notify people of the leak. They said it primarily affected people from outside DEQ whose information was stored in the agency’s “older records.”

Overdrive (and its loser app Libby) exist bc of tax dollars they receive overcharging libraries for digital books. most of us do not have the option to stop using Libby but we should make it clear their policies about AI are bullshit and we are not stupid.

That Grok still has payment processing, when everyone I know — artist or gamer or adult creator —lives in constant fear of deplatforming and debanking over the mere hint of impropriety, is utterly mind-blowing.

I am co-leading a group read of Middlemarch by George Eliot. (I finished a Black Silk reread in December so now I must learn for myself if the rumors are true about BS being Middlemarch fanfic!)

almost fainted when I saw the Godzilla Minus Zero promo

I reviewed 2019's CARMILLA, the exquisitely beautiful and refined debut feature by Emily Harris and, to me, the definitive adaptation of le Fanu's novella. Gorgeous film about repression, sexual awakening, and the violent maintenance of hegemony culture. www.patreon.com/posts/147910...

Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders: -DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope! -But they were def part of Tren de Aragua -actually no -But TdA is real and active in Portland -We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city

GFM for Keith Porter, another ICE victim killed on 12/31. He should have been able to celebrate the new year. If you can help: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...

I can’t remember everything everybody says!

The state agents invading our cities are the dangerous ones, not our neighbors they target.

What’s the mighty difference between holding a mast’s lightning-rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasn’t got any

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?