It is insane that Rum Tum Tugger is Bailey's dream musical role, but I also love his chaotic good energy. I anticipate a very Judi Dench career for him: Sure, she does Shakespeare because she's brilliant, but she also does Chronicles of Riddick because it's fun, ok??

I'm gonna write this sequel, it's called Free-bleeding in Narnia, and it's from Susan's POV and it's the real reason she didn't go back.

The Scarlet Pimpernel starring Jonathan Bailey as both Percy and Chauvelin. 💸💸💸

What's going on in Alabama and Tennessee around transgender books in the library is genuinely disgusting. Trans stories belong in libraries. Full stop. Trans people have and will always exist. And if you think this ends with trans stories pal there's a very famous poem I'd like you to read.

2. Hargett has cited Trump's executive order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism." Executive orders are not federal law and generally do not apply to state or local governments. Tennessee libraries do receive some federal funding, but not for book purchases.

Tennessee, you deserve so much better than this.

"And just to clear the air/I ask forgiveness/for things I've done you blame me for" sounds like what your boss would say after being called out for groping your thigh. 🧹💚🫧🩷

Tis the season

My spoiler-free Wicked:FG review: First hour: ugh No Good Deed: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Next hour: meh For Good: 😭😭😭😭😭 Last 20 min: this fckin show

Hello, it's my wonderful fiancé Dan's birthday, and if you're on Instagram and like comics and Marvel art, you should follow his page and bestow algorhythmic love on him, he's quite talented and he loves meeting more X-Men fans: www.instagram.com/marvelrevisi...

Nothing confuses me more than every last single thing that's happened in the last decade.

Take the fairy tale quiz I put together for @wwnorton.com !

Gonzo is perfect in all forms, but I especially love his very first haggard street cat form.

I'm so ticked off that I'm molting.

F*cked Up Fairy Tales was picked as a 2025 Favorite Book of the Year by the Chicago Public Library!

She IS gorgeous, ain't she?

s/o to @cosbrarian.bsky.social enjoyed the library takes and am aiming to send your book to my mom for her birthday wwnorton.com/books/fcked-...

The Situationship Room

Are you in Richmond VA?? Are you in Baltimore MD??? Cuz I'm gonna be at Fountain Books and then Charm City Books next week! Thurs 11/13 in VA and Fri 11/14 in MD!

Convincing you to read my novel F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES with the first sentence (of the first fairy tale).

Are you in Richmond VA?? Are you in Baltimore MD??? Cuz I'm gonna be at Fountain Books and then Charm City Books next week! Thurs 11/13 in VA and Fri 11/14 in MD!

I got to talk about one the most iconic (if problematic) library movies of all time with Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus, the two beautiful geniuses who host The Bechdel Cast! podcasts.apple.com/mu/podcast/p...

GET THE AI OUT OF THE GIF MENU. IF YOU DON'T BOTHER TO PUT IN THE EFFORT TO FIND THE PERFECT GIF FOR ME EVEN IF IT MEANS SCROLLING FOR 45 FUCKING SECONDS, THEN YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO OWN A PHONE WITH INTERNET ACCESS, GOD DAMN IT.

In South Asia's Cinderella story Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih, the Cinderella character is not always the saintly youngest sister - in some versions, she is the older sister. SO SUCK ON THAT, BABY SIBLINGS! THE ELDEST'S DAY HAS COME! Art by ykharena on Instagram.

Sounds like the constituents of KY want to see some big change.

What a bummer that one's email inbox is much like your physical inbox, all bills and junk, no love letters or pen pals.

This Thursday I'm in Beverly MA talking fairy tales, folklore, feminism, and other F words with my friend Jess, and signing books! Register here: copperdogbooks.com/event/2025-1...

Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.

"Days after a Florida appeals court legalized the open carry of firearms statewide, a library manager in Miami Beach realized that would probably mean having to welcome visibly armed visitors to libraries." Librarians will be killed in this climate. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

The sheer scope of F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES by Liz Gotauco, with folklore from many cultures, and the snarky off-color commentary within the stories totally won this chuckling reader over! Ended too soon! Thanks to @cosbrarian.bsky.social and @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social for a fun ride! #ewgc

Tote Designs from this month's Makespace project

Fairy Tales almost always have multiple insane origins, and this book is an excellent collection of the most bizarre. https://bookshop.org/p/books/f-cked-up-fairy-tales-sinful-cinderellas-prince-alarmings-and-other-timeless-classics-liz-gotauco/44d0235702aefb4f?ean=9781324106333&next=t&next=t

My haul from the bookstore. I finally picked up my preorder of Liz Gotauco’s F*cked Up Fairy Tales and then I needed a couple more books - Nadine Gonzalez’ Only Lovers in the Building and Janine Amesta’s Love at First Flight. We read Latine books all year.

I'm looking for BUY subtle ways to MY get the word BOOK out and F*CKED I'd love UP your ideas FAIRY if you TALES have any.

Every business saying they're offering people a meal and adding "let's not make this political" deserve their asses on platters on social media. It is 100000% political. ENTIRELY political. There is nothing not political about the withholding of food money from citizens.

Theatre kids are the best! COMMUNITY was my number one take away from my theatre days as well (and is my number one motivator behind telling folk and fairy tales).

This is why so many politicians, and too many journalists, feel the need to show that white people need these programs in order to show that the “right” people — the deserving — also need these programs. Yet in covering the opposition to food stamps, etc, they rarely mention how racialized it is.

Republicans understand that the best way to kill social programs is to paint their beneficiaries as Black, as support for these programs declines — even amongst white people who need them — when they think large numbers of Black people will benefit. news.stanford.edu/stories/2018...

Most people don't know that their copy of my book F*cked Up Fairy Tales is fun-sized.

No one appreciates frank advice anymore.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, BLOCKHEADS!

Thanks to Paige at @universityofri.bsky.social alum relations for the lovely feature on F*cked Up Fairy Tales!

once again posting The Chart

If youre an early morning indie radio head, well, youre probably asleep now, but at 6 AM tomorrow I chat with Prof. Lay of WRTC all about fairy tales and how they are still relevant to adults today. The convo will stream for awhile too: wrtcfm.com/2025/adult-f...

If you're in NYC, I've got a fantastic author event tonight at P&T Knitwear! F*cked Up Fairy Tales, in conversation with the wonderful Beth Hicks! Doors at 6:30, a costume contest, book reading and signing, woo!

Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, authors of THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED, had their elementary school author visit canceled when they arrived and students were waiting for them. Why? Because they wouldn't *not* talk about book bans–inspiration for their book. bookriot.com/the-day-the-...

This is terrifying and will be used against citizens who piss off this administration.

The past few Halloweens I haven't had time to doing anything innovative. Here are a bunch of cosplays I did in 2020 that were super fun and weird, plus two traditional ones that I just like.