@kangus.bsky.social hey favour to ask: some set pics just dropped of the new Sense and Sensibility adaptation, can I borrow your Elayne or Elaynt skills to identify if this is Ceara Coveney I’m seeing?

“But aren’t you CURIOUS about the torment nexus?” No. Leave it alone. It can only lead to suffering.

"The tight-laced corset without a chemise is artistic license! It’s not meant to be historically accurate!” I'm aware, but 'oppressive tightlaced corsets’ is a trope done to death so thoroughly, that I find it a fairly reliable sign that the storyteller has nothing else unique or interesting to say

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live

Waiting to get my covid shot at a Walgreens and I'm the only one waiting who's wearing a mask. Please, I'm begging you all, to work with logic.

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

like and repost this if you enjoy eating french fries or The Lord Your God bestowed visions upon thee to defend the French nation at the siege of Orléans in 1429

it's so weird seeing people's tweets about Malkiericon and thinking back to this time last year when I was SO passionate about the Wheel of Time, such a staunch defender of the show, so excited for the upcoming season...

i'm going on my trip to the uk SO SOON AAAHHHH (do i know anyone in bath, liverpool, leeds, or london, that wants to hang out, lol?)

Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one

My man did not become the patron saint of the fujoshis without knowing what he was doing

I used to think my high school’s music teacher being named Mrs Treble, and my local podiatrist being Dr Cornwell, were the perfect examples of ‘last name being appropriate to the person’, and then this guy came along

Yay Munro’s!

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

probably the Door Into Fire by Diane Duane

“How DARE they make a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice the 1995 version is the ONLY good version and it is perfect!” The 1995 version, while good, is NOT remotely perfect! It’s not even the only good adaptation! Gatekeeping is boring, & anything that attracts new Austen fans is a net win.

I keep thinking about Siuan’s death and it’s really astonishing how thoroughly a single shitty creative decision managed to utterly kill any interest I have in engaging in a fandom I’d loved for more than two decades

“i cant believe the us military is denying benefits to trans veterans” you don’t serve 15+ years and then get to feign shock that the american military doesnt care about other people’s lives sorry, but if you join one of the most evil organizations on the planet, you reap what you sow

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

Challenge: -read someone (likely with the same identity) sharing a headcanon of a character as queer, neurodiverse, trans, etc -refrain from arguing that they HAVE to be wrong -smile, say to yourself 'huh, it's neat that they see themselves in that character' -MOVE THE FUCK ON WITH YOUR LIFE

really appreciating the onion as physical media.

I grew up in central Pennsylvania coal country in the 1970s and 80s and I remember how my small town had more than one oxygen supply store because so many of my schoolmates’ grandpas were slowly dying in their living rooms from black lung.

Periodic ADHD reminder thread (brought to you by me needing to do like half these things): when was the last time you:

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

You know what? It is a purity test. We’re testing to see if there are principles you won’t compromise on, ie, beliefs which are pure and certain and unmovable. That is actually not wrong, it’s just that lot of you are testing as rancid.

Guess who’s got two thumbs and TWO KIDNEY STONES?

@isobelcarr.com is there a reason you just RT’d an opinion piece with a headline that’s outright denying a genocide is happening in Gaza?

Film/TV adaptations of many classic novels are fundamentally hamstrung by treating their most prominent female characters as default templates of a Repressed or Liberated Woman, instead of actually engaging with the character on the page as a unique human being (that's a little political oops)

They just called back and said “actually we have a cancellation tomorrow,does that work?”

“We have scheduled your urgent ultrasound appointment. It is on September 8th.” *muffled screaming*

The idea: coat flat dental floss with vaccine formulations (proteins, mRNA, inactivated virus, nanoparticles), floss it along the gumline, for direct antigen delivery through the junctional epithelium, one of the leakiest mucosal barriers in the body. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Y’all. They used dental floss on mice.... for vaccine delivery!!! Not kidding. This is the type of research that keeps me so excited about science and innovation and why we should not be defunding science. www.science.org/content/arti...

this poem got a lot of flak when it was written because people have no reading comprehension but i've been thinking about it a lot again (by @vinayrk.bsky.social unless i'm mistaken)

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

if y'all aren't watching The Librarians: the Next Chapter i HIGHLY RECOMMEND doing so

Assault cw Holy shit Can’t believe I’m still living rent free in the mind of fucking KELIOS as of last year for the crime of *checks notes* discussing how I witnessed a grown man hit on a teenager & heard other credible reports of him assaulting ppl & plying them w alcohol in an attempt to do so

do you ever think about how they only had three seasons to tell the stories of all the characters in the Wheel of Time and then think about how much of it they wasted on random drama with egwene/rand, and warders, and Moiraine's sister, and shit like that, and just feel really, really tired

sometimes i forget autism runs in my family and then i talk to almost anyone in my family and it's like 'oh yeah right'

update: decided to go with Hadestown instead

I think about this constantly

NooooOOoOOoOo Clueless the Musical is closing early on the West End, they cancelled my ticket I MADE AN ENTIRE OUTFIT TO WEAR TO IT

Aw jeez

seems bad

accidentally wrote another charlysa fic archiveofourown.org/works/67266850

Ao3 is STILL down?

i cannot emphasize enough that there is no better time to mask up. preventing illness before it happens is your best bet as the nets meant to catch you disintegrate before your eyes.

[update] Identified: To fully fix bookmark creation, we will need to put AO3 in maintenance mode for a few hours. We'll be back once the fix has been fully applied.

if someone could explain to the like, circa 2013 version of me that one day I'd be a fan of a show and the showrunner would be liking tweets of mine like THIS, instead of complaining about how annoying the delusional gays are & all-but saying out loud they wish we weren't part of their show's fandom