My wife has been a fan since Tara Lipinski was herself on the ice, before anyone had ever even *heard* of Johnny Weir. So I sat down and watched it with her then and now. (And we've been enjoying the women's ice hockey too, mulling whether my FMC Pawly would be on the team in an alternate universe.)

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Me: So, #WutheringHeights is an adaptation of the book? Wife: Yeah but the brother isn't there, the father is abusive to Heathcliff, and Catherine is the protagonist instead of her daughter. Me: So it's not an adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Wife: Grrr. #WutheringHeightsMovie #movie

I think it's easier to just write what you believe. Left or Right, books are reflective of authors. You can write honestly for your characters over you but they still contain a part of you. #writing #writingcommunity #author #books #politics

The greatest missed opportunity of my book writing life is that Peter David agreed to read SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS and never got the chance to. His loss is a loss for science fiction as a whole but also me personally as his books were 50% of my teenage years. #books #PeterDavidRIP

Lore Idea: Dragons horde gold to artificially inflate its value after dwarves dug too deep. It's the design of the Great Wyrm De'beers. #dungeonsanddragons #DND #fantasy #dragons

More #DeepSpaceNine thoughts: Siddig hated the Augment retcon but it actually makes a coherent set of reasons for a lot of his actions. Why he failed the test on purpose, why he moved out to Bajor, and why he has no on Earth he misses. Dude was running away from the fact he's a cheat (from his view)

My favorite moment was re-watching "Our Man Bashir" with my newfound awareness of Andrew Robinson's queer intent toward Julian. The episode becomes immensely funnier if you assume Garak's solely there to block Bashir from getting laid with the holo-ladies. #DeepSpaceNine #StarTrek #television

I used to think Raistlin Majere was the coolest guy ever and that he was right about everyone and everything when I was 14. When I was 25 and re-read the #books, I realized he threw away every positive relationship in his life for the smug satisfaction of being an asshole. #Dragonlance #fantasy

My wife on the #OlympicSports. Me: Watching women's figure skating. Wife: That's what you watch? Me: Yeah. Wife: Why? Me: Pretty girls and amazing athletic prowess. Wife: *sits down to watch*

The Trump Administration deployed ICE to intimidate a Democratic city and rallied the entire country in support of it. I think their plans to expand this program and intimidate this country into compliance is doomed and the people who stood against them there are responsible. #Minneapolis #politics

all of society might be crumbling to dust because of the wish I made on that monkey's paw, but new castlevania game tho

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Re-Watching #DeepSpaceNine "Valiant" - I wouldn't want all #StarTrek episodes to be like that but the consequences made it powerful. A bunch of teenagers decide to play hero and it ends horrifically. As it would. They actually wrote out Kira from the episode because she would have saved everyone.

I tend to think of Tolkien orcs as halfway between demons and humanoids. My idea for orcs is that they are immortal like elves and reincarnate in the flesh pits of the chthonic underground where things like the balrog await Morgoth's return. No orc babies. #LotR #MiddleEarth #fantasy

I have the sneaking suspicion that David Cage wrote the Marcus stuff of DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN and that's why it's utterly bone headed take on activism while Adam Williams wrote the much better Connor and Kara stuff. #videogames #DetroitBecomeHuman

I've got bad news to all those Maga Mommas who line danced to the Macarena. It was all in Spanish. No one seemed to care. And OMG the latinos stealing Christmas with Feliz Navidad...

As Project 2025 proves, you can say a law will personally outlaw children and all of the existing ones will be turned into lunch meat. At least a good 50% of the electorate will tell you it doesn't say that. That you're exaggerating. Then act SHOCKED when the children are turned into lunchmeat.

Episode 1x06 “Come, Let’s Away” was fantastic. I was iffy on it but its the episode that justifies #StarfleetAcademy's existence. If they'd started with this one, I think the series would be far better received. 9/10 #StarTrek #television

👍I do love that the Star Metal album has a song dedicated to it. youtu.be/AeUfHqz7Cvk?...

A criminally underrated movie is OUTLAND, which might as well be set in the Aliens universe without the xenomorphs. Its based on High Noon but has the twist that its arguable fighting the drug dealers does anything as everyone wants them there but the Marshal. #movies #scifi

I disagree with the placement of all these, including #Firefly. #DoctorWho is pure Left Wing chaos for example. Oddly, I'd put #BattlestarGalactica square in the middle. 50% of the time the military is correct and the other half the civilian government is. It also argued fixing elections w/ Baltar.

I think Deep Space Nine was the single most relevant and effective Trek by far. It just ironically predated the War on Terror that it now feels like a commentary on way more than Enterprise or BSG that actually commented on it. #StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine #scifi #politics

John Bierce wrote up a pretty lengthy essay that references this. Worth a read. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

This woman basically explains why she wants to teach other people to destroy writing as a practice. She "wrote" 2000 books last year with the help of AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b... #AI #AIwriting #books #writing #writingcommunity

In my current #WIP, Vance Turbo has the horrifying revelation that his friends expect him to come up with an insane plan that will pull victory out of their present dire situation. When, in fact, he has absolutely nothing. #SpaceAcademy #SpaceAcademyDropouts #writing #writingcommunity

HOW A NEUROATYPICAL BRAIN WORKS: *watches movie* Laura Branigan's Gloria plays, thinks about her song Self-Control, thinks about masked orgy in music video, thinks about Eyes Wide Shut, thinks about nicole kidman's plot in movie being unsatisfied, thinks about how she divorced RL husband for same.

I think the irony is everyone assumes Tyrion Lannister is the third of the dragon's heads because of the Aerys/Joanna "liberties". However, there's a pair of beautiful, insane, incestuous twins in the family already. I think George is setting up a huge twist that J+C=T. #GameOfThrones #Westeros

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SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS, RULES OF SUPERVILLAINY, AGENT G: INFILTRATOR, and PSYCHO KILLERS IN LOVE are all on sale for 99c this month. Enjoy some of February's best indie science fiction and fantasy! #booklift #books #indiebooks #99c #booksale #booksky

Bioshock 2's moral choices are actually interesting unlike, "Eat Little Girl/Save Little Girl." It's also building on the idea Andrew Ryan had pushback from people who didn't care for his libertarian objectivist state. Plus, I loved the early "badass and lil miss badass" story. #Bioshock #videogames

And also, weird is right there in the name.

One of the things I tell indie writers is if you're passionate about any franchise, do your own independently owned version of it. It worked for 50 Shades of Gray and City of Bones. In the end, you'll make it your own by caring about the core than the details. #writing #writingcommunity #books

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Crack Theory: The Tok'ra/Gould of Stargate SG-1 eventually evolved into the Trill from Star Trek. #StargateSG1 #Stargate #StarTrek

DISCLOSURE DAY is described as Stephen Spielberg's UFO movie. beat Doesn't he have...a few?

One of the missing moments from the "V Lives" ending is the option to go with Misty as it's been years since Jackie's death. They left it out I'm sure because they knew most players would be satisfied with that. #Cyberpunk2077 #videogames #PhantomLiberty #CDProjektRed

AI is a solution in search of a problem. There's so much money invested in it that people keep trying to force it as an answer to everything because it doesn't work as is and would otherwise bankrupt everyone involved. Which is sort of like Vault-Tec and their vaults if you think about it. #Fallout

If Bruce gave his billions away, the Court of Owls (or whoever) would scoop it all up. The systemic corruption of Gotham is something money can't solve. Another reminder that some problems need a change in policy. #comics #politics

I'm genuinely confused if Disney forgot how to do animatronics because a Muppet Theater show seems like a no brainer at any Disney theme park. #Muppets #Disney

Janeway is someone they really wanted to portray as perfect and Jeri Taylor admits it as did Kate Mulgrew. As such, she's the one captain that never really gets to do the kind of goofy character driven episodes the other captains did. Not even when she's banging an Irish hologram barkeep. #StarTrek

This is the moment I completed the first revision of Coyne House... 127,935 words. My agent won't be happy with that, but there is nothing to do for it. It is what it is, and I really REALLY like this one. You can still read it if you send me a DM or email to [email protected] There's a cat

Opinions that no one wants to hear: The live action He-Man with Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella was the best thing they ever did with the franchise. #HeMan #Skeletor

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#Caturday #cats #catsky PANTS also loves the packing paper.

#Caturday Princess Didi. Queen of the packing paper. #cats #catsky

My current manuscript is taking place at the Galactic Community's Space Academy, which is a multi-environmental space station the size of a small moon that looks like a very complex molecule. #writingcommunity #writing #scifi #spaceopera

I admit I teared up with the homage to Deep Space Nine on Starfleet Academy this week. Deep Space Nine is my favorite of the series and seeing all grown up Jake was especially potent. #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #television #DeepSpaceNine

I have the simple opinion of why THE LAST OF US season two didn't work: it's not a love story, it's a hate story and Ellie chooses the latter over the former. I also think she'd do it again. #TheLastOfUs #TheLastOfUsPartII