there are intelligent criticisms of genre romance but too many people pick up a book called Seducing The Duke of Cheek Clappingshire, #7 in the Regency Fuck Series and are like “why don’t these books represent women who are happy single?” and you’re like maybe because it’s Seducing The Duke of Ch

fujos are so poetic

jesus CHRIST. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

ANALOG ABATTOIR: A second look at “THE FIRST OMEN” https://ow.ly/el8950YrgPX

Baturday Bat World Sanctuary

Please enjoy this brief clip of the late, great children's author Maurice Sendak expressing disappointment that he never killed anyone with his bare hands

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

Hey, The People's Joker is on Tubi!

what is twin peaks if not a parable about men being sent to eeby deeby

girls love it when you tell them about the waters of your home world

The Devils: Back in the Habit

Ahead of the Oscars, I spoke with director Emilie Blichfeldt and makeup designers Thomas Foldberg and Anne Catherine Saurberg about their excellent film, The Ugly Stepsister, and what that nomination means for a film like this. Read it here: www.fangoria.com/the-ugly-ste...

It's here!! I've been working on THE CITIZEN OF EASTPORT for 5 years and it's finally time to unleash it upon the world. If you like messy queer relationships, intrigue, noir, and butch protagonists, you might want to check it out. Available in ebook and paperback: books2read.com/citizenofeas...

when people say stuff like “oh we have a pope at home” and it’s the pope in avignon

Sorry but I'll always laugh at these Unlike history, the Fukuyama jokes will never end

the history of music in the 20th century:

happy to share a new short story, "Fossil," published with The Master's Review mastersreview.com/new-voices-f...

there is a house in new orleans they call the 'fucked up house'

My book is out in two days! 2! I can't believe it's so soon. Releasing 3/3, and here's a trio of ship guides as a teaser. None of them are normal about each other. Many thanks again to @feral-philosopher.bsky.social for the wonderful character art!

unstoppable force (denis villaneuve’s ability to flatten the performance of any actor) meets immovable object (robert pattinson, the man who made “the king” fun)

when allies say things like “it’s easy to support trans rights” that’s when you know they dont. not really. if it’s easy you’re doing it wrong.

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

most shockingly of all, the alien craft was reportedly adorned with a sort of bumper sticker that said "Earth Hoes Cant Fuck"

For Vulture, I wrote about how the Scream 7 boycott started, who’s supporting it, and what it means for the movie.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Every day I identify more deeply with Cyril Woodcock, a weird workaholic lesbian who can't stand fussiness or wishy-washiness

here’s my question: in the 2018 picnic at hanging rock miniseries, are we meant to infer that the rock rejected irma for being problematic

The first teaser for Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is here 👀 Starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. In theaters August 7.

between the 2018 picnic at hanging rock, the 2020 rebecca, and now this new wuthering heights, we live in a dark, dark era for gothic adaptations

Happy 'entering the town of Twin Peaks' day to those that celebrate 🥳

there’s a whole class of media that got labeled as “dark academia” back in the day that was only sometimes dark academia but always transfag foundational texts

making coffee and giving the cat a lecture about fascism in gregg araki's doom generation

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Muppet

i hated the shit out of this adaptation defector.com/emerald-fenn...

sometimes you have a bad day that is turned around by an offeree opportunity to befriend a baby goat

I have been run out of Hollywood. simply for proposing “Heated Rivalry but with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald”

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

looking at my post about decidedly niche yaoi for a show that does not really exist in the public consciousness anymore and shocked, shocked to find that it did not resonate

a lot of contemporary writing/literature is downstream of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way. We are her lesser moons.

joyce is going after elon again

in terms of ethically questionable vintage yaoi, harris and dietrich of barney miller are surely up there

i have of late, but wherefore i know not, lost a bizarre amount of sight in my left eye

fully captures the mental and emotional experience of falling on ur ass in front of 10,000 people

i understand why people began to talk about “representation” and that all intentions came from the right place but i think it has been bad for virtually every conversation about diversity in fiction and popular culture because it oversimplifies everything and flattens all other critique

the nature of bridgerton is that i think it's a flawed show but so many of its loudest critics are just people who have mistaken their dislike of the romance genre for critical acumen. and so i find myself batting for it harder every year

forgot the most important of the genre

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised! New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

just fell to my knees