Things I'm manifesting in 2026: -- A job. Please. I'm not a girl meant for unemployment. -- New bylines at five outlets -- Launch the SEKRIT PROJECT & hope people will be willing to pay to subscribe to it -- Doing an insane amount of The Vampire Lestat coverage -- Oasis at Knebworth this summer

Back in April, Transworld and Puffin signed deals for three graphic-novel adaptations of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, marking the start of the "Discworld Graphic Novel Universe" 👇 #TheBooksellerMostRead

2026 vibes.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Happy New Year. Let’s hope that 2026 is kinder to us all. 💜

As 2026 rolls in, the twin successes of BritBox and AcornTV niche streamers in the last year has necessitated dividing them off into their own list of monthly debuts.

Reflecting on 2025. 🫠

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I am just 40 subscribers away from ✨doubling✨ my readership in 2025. Sure would be neat to hit that milestone before the year ends! Any sub, free or paid, counts toward that number. No spam, pinky promise 🖤 www.picketywitch.com

Reflecting on 2025. 🫠

The least useful people on this site, and for my profession, are those who feel compelled to point out / complain about paywalls. If you want some things you have to pay for them, And if you want to keep getting them you have to support those who create them.

It's our monthly rundown of everything British coming to PBS and PBS Passport for January 2026.

For all of us who wish the meme was longer, there's more to the Jon Hamm clubbing scene, and it's brilliant! ❤️👏 youtube.com/shorts/Eune-...

Look I am willing to forgive the Russos and Avengers: Doomsday pretty much anything if they give me Charles/Erik endgame before they kill them and all the OG X-Men off.

Here’s to 2026

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The PopTarts Bowl should be the national championship game and we all know it.

"Romantic fiction, however you define it, is about the things that matter most. It is about how we create community, and where that starts. It is about love and everything that happens because of it."

I wrote about Pluribus and the dangers of writing exclusively for the fans. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord.” #MerryChristmas

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, will remember your heart when men are fairytales in books written by rabbits.

Hot tip to tech companies: I am still not going to want to use your AI features if you make the buttons to use them larger or flip the AI features to the main login page or make them pop-up over everything I'm doing in your app. In fact, that's actually going to make me want to use them less!

Snowy Christmas Eve in London 🌨️

These days it’s a pleasant surprise when a company bothers to you that you didn’t get a job you applied for (so many don’t even bother now) but sending rejections on Christmas Eve is some peak Scrooge behavior.

Yeah, this tracks.

Making my debut at @avclub.com talking about the year's best trend in fantasy publishing: Lady knights.

All of POP HEIST is open for the holidays! No pay walls, no limits, baby! Today and tomorrow! For a sampling of what we do, here's a list of the most-viewed articles of 2025 ...

A “documentary” about Melania Trump (produced and directed by a MeToo figure), funded by Amazon (a company scrambling for President Trump’s approval), will premiere at a venue that President Trump has renamed in his honor. A perfect cap to Y1 of Trump 2.0. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

‘the starving saints’ mention lets goooo

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

A first look at Our Town in rehearsals - a community taking shape. Cipolwg cyntaf ar Our Town mewn ymarferiadau - cymuned yn cael ei chreu. 📸 @helenmurraypix

Wow...always be skeptical with these things but if this stuff checks out, Dahlia and Zodiac could be solved. Especially if the drawing described actually exists (and the Times claims to have seen it).

Making my debut at @avclub.com talking about the year's best trend in fantasy publishing: Lady knights.

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. As if to say, “Well done, everyone! We’re halfway out of the dark.” #DoctorWho

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Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.

All I want for Christmas is a job offer.

Hype each other up as often as possible. If you like someone’s work, as a fan or a peer, tell them. (This is how so many of best relationships began!) It will always catch them at a good moment. Because rejections are hard. Making art is hard. Tell people when you like things. It matters.

I hope Jon Hamm knows how much joy that meme of him dancing in the club is bringing the world right now.

At the risk of sounding old. The music was better and I could get blindingly drunk in bars for less than $30. 2025 could never.

TCA EOY Spotlight | @lacymb.bsky.social "The fact that Marvel remains incapable of writing any kind of compelling romance outside of Wanda/Vision and this weird-ass pair of 'Daredevil' supervillains never ceases to amaze me, so I had to finally write about it." www.pastemagazine.com/tv/disney-pl...

coolcoolcool "Fed officials believe federal data has overestimated job creation by up to 60,000 jobs a month, suggesting the U.S. has shed 20,000 jobs a month since April, despite reports indicating a monthly increase of 40,000" www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

We aren’t running out of good ideas, we’re allowing the world to steadily erase the jobs that let people create things