I'm writing a thing on Dungeon Crawler Carl for @theflytrapmedia.com soon, and I would love to hear thoughts from fans (or haters), esp if you're a DCC reader who doesn't otherwise play video games. What about the thing appeals to you? Was there a barrier to entry, and how did you overcome it?

Thrilled to report that @theflytrapmedia.com is doing numbers on Trump, based on this. Media story about the victory of cooperatively owned feminist journalism when???

TIL @theflytrapmedia.com has more than 1/9th the revenue of Truth Social's parent company. Help us catch up with a paid membership: www.theflytrapmedia.com/cta-homepage...

"Nightbitch, The Upstairs House & Die My Love hold up a mirror to the fact that pregnancy and childbirth are a very real—and often underdiscussed—gamble with their mental health." www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst... via @theflytrapmedia.com

"Transformation into an animal is a familiar theme in fairy tales and horror movies, and readers can reasonably infer that Nightbitch’s physical changes are actually manifestations of postpartum psychosis." www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst... via @theflytrapmedia.com

"Die My Love ends with Grace burning it all down—literally and metaphorically—and walking into the forest fire she set rather than spend another moment in the prison that is marriage and motherhood." www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst... via @theflytrapmedia.com

"Grace's identity as a mother, a sexual being starved for her husband’s touch, and a writer are intertwined in Die My Love" www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst... via @theflytrapmedia.com

"These depictions of postpartum psychosis, particularly in The Upstairs House and Nightbitch, might sensationalize the condition for the purposes of storytelling, but they don’t demonize the women experiencing it" www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst... via @theflytrapmedia.com

"The ill-received adaptation of Nightbitch, directed by the usually unimpeachable Mariel Heller and starring Amy Adams in yet another Academy Award-winning role that wasn’t, defangs the more visceral parts of Yoder’s book." www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst... via @theflytrapmedia.com

"Is it any wonder that of the pop culture discussed here, the one that trades more heavily in unreality is the one in which the protagonist is able to reconcile her motherhood with her art?" www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst... via @theflytrapmedia.com

The “what’d I say??! Why are they booing??” To “what am I gonna do??” Is amazing

. @theflytrapmedia.com republished my piece for Bitch from a few years ago about postpartum psychosis in The Upstairs House by @finejuli.bsky.social and Nightbitch by @rachelyoder.bsky.social, now with added updates about the movie adaptation, and Die My Love www.theflytrapmedia.com/mother-monst...

Sex work is real work, your disgust does not constitute a moral obligation.

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ICYMI: This week, @nicolefroio.bsky.social  wrote about why #feminism feels like an optical illusion, and why we need to reclaim it ASAP: 

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ICYMI: This week, @nicolefroio.bsky.social  wrote about why #feminism feels like an optical illusion, and why we need to reclaim it ASAP: 

The onion rocks

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NEW CONTENT ALERT!! Latest episode of @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social breaks down the future of InfoWars after it was bought by The Onion. youtu.be/xRezDjwVhv4?...

This week, @nicolefroio.bsky.social  wrote about why feminism feels like an optical illusion, and why we need to reclaim it ASAP: 

If you could ask the founders of The Flytrap anything, what would it be?

Really lovely meditations on Lemonade and Solange's A Seat at the Table. "In their work, the sisters invoke a tradition of often covert resistance that Black women have been practicing since slavery—and though it felt groundbreaking, this tradition, especially in music, is far from new."

Cannot believe it’s been 10 years. What a powerful album in every way.

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ICYMI: @nicolefroio.bsky.social wrote about why feminism feels like an optical illusion, and why we need to reclaim it ASAP: www.theflytrapmedia.com/taking-femin...

I think there has been a commercialism of feminism that corporations grabbed onto it and set the narrative. One example of this and where it started. Virginia Slims cigarette ads with the top of the ad showing what women of the past put up with. With the tag line You've come a long way baby

This piece is SO GOOD. The simultaneous resurgence of choice feminism, people refusing to do the reading, and attacks on feminism is simply too much.

"Girl's girl" is a byproduct of choice feminism.

You know, when mass media has mostly been co-opted by people trying drive us back into the stone age, like what do you honestly expect to see? Why do you think I'm so derisive and exhausted all the time?

Cannot get over how good this piece is

this just poured out of me: "Back then, feminists online spoke abt their experiences across race, sexuality, class, & disability in real time. It wasn't a perfect community: But there was often an understanding that feminism was a movement, and we could, perhaps one day, actually be liberated."

Happy Flytrap Tuesday! This week, @nicolefroio.bsky.social writes on why feminism feels fake nowadays. "In 2026, it feels like we are experiencing both the backlash to feminism and its dismissal through institutionalization and co-optation at the same time."

fellow members of the bad feet and horrible bunions club: these hideous Tevas are truly fucking magical www.teva.com/p/women-sand...

I'm gonna write a thing for @theflytrapmedia.com about the sweet release of embracing hideous footwear (and also about how I think hideous footwear is now actually fashionable/trendy, which is a blessing) so if you feel strongly about good shoes, holler at me with your good stuff

It is, of course, a Hollywood film, so it's not as radical as I would have liked. But the lack of films that explicitly challenge the internet hellscape we are currently living through makes The Devil Wears Prada 2 stand out from all the other slop. (mini review by @nicolefroio.bsky.social )

Andy struggles in ways many journalists might recognize: the overemphasis on online "content" and figuring out what people "want to click on" is confounding and takes away from writing and reporting important stories.

When Andy is laid off from her Serious Journalism Job, she is rehired at Runway Magazine, this time as a seasoned journalist, to bring back credibility to the publication.

In the film, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) and Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) are both facing the same enemy: corporate owners of media conglomerates who do not understand how journalism works.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 might seem like another run of the mill franchise revival money-grab (and i'm sure that was a part of why it was made in the first place) but it certainly has something to say. This is rare for franchise revivals. (some spoilers below)

Have y'll watched The Devil Wears Prada 2 yet? I'm obsessed with its anti-AI message and wondering what our readers are thinking. (- N)

a'ight, now I'm interested 👀

Honestly I was only interested in it due to Caleb Hearon’s involvement, but this is actually gonna get me to watch it

Dammit, fine, I'm sold.

What is laid out here is the reason I want to watch The Devil Wears Prada 2

Miranda telling Andy about Leonardo's choices while painting the Last Supper does a pretty neat job of connecting fashion to art more generally in a way that makes the pro-AI message from the villain look ridiculous.

I watched The Devil Wears Prada 2 and wrote a mini-review for @theflytrapmedia.com:

Have y'll watched The Devil Wears Prada 2 yet? I'm obsessed with its anti-AI message and wondering what our readers are thinking. (- N)