If anyone else out there deals with benign fasciculation (muscle twitches and jolts) after getting vacc*nes, try taking magnesium and loading up on vitamins both in the weeks leading up to the shot and the day of! Doing so cut my personal twitchy time down from a week or two to less than two hours.

You know a 99p spooky season ebook sale hates to see me coming!

I feel like I've been slacking on horror this year. Can you give me 1) your favorite horror film so far this year 2) a hidden gem from this year

oh okay

I meant to reply to each individual response to this, but I haven't had the spoons for it, so I just want to say a blanket thank you, thank you, thank you. Getting so much off my chest made this transition feel like a beginning rather than an ending, and your kind words are a big part of that.

another day, another true crime documentary where the guy reminds me of my dad

Now that I've quit trying to write full time, I actually like writing again. Shhh, don't question it, just take this review of The Diplomat season 3. valerie-ettenhofer.ghost.io/the-diplomat...

Oh, this is SO fun.

A couple years after the big fade-out, my Film School Rejects email has finally stopped working. I've been trying to get all PR mailing lists moved over to my main account for ages, but a few things (like HBO screeners!) still inexplicably only showed up in this inbox. RIP to a real one.

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

7 million people marched today. That's greater than world's three largest militaries— combined.

I blinked and now Brooklynn Prince is 15. 😭

This week has been stressful as fuck, and I've been coping by backsliding into drinking Coke, picking at my face, buying things, and aimlessly scrolling on my phone. As always, I'm grateful to be the only person in my family with minimally damaging vices.

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If you go to a #NoKings protest today and see this, post a picture of your favorite sign in the replies!

Why is the this dystopia soooooooooooooooo dumb

Just found this at the edge of our dog's bed and started to panic, assuming we'd somehow dropped a prescription pill and she'd had it in her mouth. Reader, it's a sprinkle from a caterpillar cake.

Day job tentatively acquired! 💃👯‍♀️🥳

The suped-up soda envy I get from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is unreal.

Lest anyone think I've changed too much these past couple years...I spent most of my Saturday night making a bunch of pop culture watch- and read lists that I will surely forget about in a week, and it was SO fun.

I really loved The Long Walk, but weeks after seeing it, I'm still thinking about how much it could've benefited from practical effects. The inadvertent distancing effect of CGI head explosions cannot be ignored.

Resharing one of my more vulnerable essays from the past few years in honor of National Coming Out Day. www.slashfilm.com/1261899/ted-...

It’s easy to feel over it about things like National Coming Out Day, but my life diverges at 25ish from catastrophically unlivable to interesting, worthwhile, *possible* because I was able to say to friends, family, colleagues, etc. “hey, this is who I am, this is how you need to receive me”

More people should get short boyfriends. You can kiss the top of their head 100 times a day, you get big spoon (aka best spoon) priority, and when they make you mad you can joke about throwing them like a football or putting them in your pocket. Also: face in boobs.

Putting a big "EXCLUSIVE" label on a shocking celebrity obituary is pretty fucked, right?

She's such a stunning, powerful screen presence in The Underground Railroad and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. What a catch for one of the best shows on TV. #IWTV

Throwing myself on the floor Wayne's World style about it. We're not worthy!!!

So far I'm taking the "just click on random shit on Pluto TV" approach to my spooky season viewing this year.

Lest you think I'm setting an unrealistic example for the unemployment grind here, it's worth noting that I did fuck-all (besides go to the dentist) yesterday. And that's okay!

Nothing like having the first pain-free dental experience of your life at age 30 to make you realize that, yup, local anesthesia has never once worked on you before.

Yeah no shit

Hey bestie it's not a war if one side doesn't allow the other to have its own military

Been trying to figure out how to get all of this down on paper for a year or three. valerie-ettenhofer.ghost.io/quitting/

Weds-Fri unemployment goals: ✅️ Make it to my interview tomorrow ✅️ Do the bulk of two bigger applications ✅️ Surf for quick apply jobs ✅️ Finish today's essay ✅️ Edit and publish it, or publish something smaller if it's not ready ✅️ Clear my godforsaken email ✅️ Change my signature and bios (cont.)

✅️ applied for two jobs ✅️ confirmed one interview ✅️ updated my spreadsheet ✅️ surfed job boards ✅️ ordered a new work skirt ✅️ set up a petsitting profile ✅️ built a contact list for one potential project ✅️ wrote 1700 words of another ✅️ sent my MP and Starmer emails that will surely go unread

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023. www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

My thing is that I actually enjoy this album because I thought the two before it were on some level bad, but I think this one is on some level bad...with good beats.

[Hacker voice] I'm in.

Tomorrow's unemployment goals: -job apps -update job hunt spreadsheet -order new interview clothes -prep for an interview -harass my local representatives about the ongoing genocide -cancel subscriptions I can't afford -outline and research some writing project ideas I have to see if they're viable

Bear's out of the bag. I'll be moderating the @criticalrole.bsky.social x @primevideo.bsky.social panel at NYCC. Get ready for all things #MightyNein and #LoVM as we take a look ahead at what's to come in the animated world of Exandria!

If you're trying to DM me here, try Instagram (same handle) for now. Bluesky thinks my face is fake so it can't verify that I'm old enough to access private messages.

Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda seem to be the two big ones for me. I'm also not 100% sure I saw the entirety of the Nancy Meyers Parent Trap.

Can you imagine how good i would be actually working at tvline though

Books through Bars Philly is looking for book donations which will be matched this week: bookshop.org/wishlists/c8... #BannedBooksWeek

PLEASE watch this work of art to make your day better. I'm particularly fond of the use of a Paranormal Activity 4 crowd reveal shot.

This was after listening to Fate of Ophelia, and my attempt to walk it back was after listening to Eldest Daughter. I did wake up with "ELIZABETH TAYLOR!" echoing around my brain this morning, though, so maybe she still won.

Not clicking this article, but I will say that I was on a sobriety app a while back and the community section for tech addiction was made up almost entirely of teens who missed their AI boyfriends. They were hooked on the sense of companionship, romance, and low stakes, 24/7 interaction.

Okay, I might have spoke too soon. The roller coaster isn't over yet.