If you ask for ✨️standard✨️ they charge you a fiver and throw eggs at your car

Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏽

This is gonna be worth something someday.

Since nobody asked, here's my current top ten drummers (in no particular order):

Partner's posh grandma: "Now, is this Dracula film faithful to the original novel's vision?" Me: "Have you ever read Dracula, grandma?" Grandma: "Well, no, but I fail to see what that has to do with anything!"

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An anti-abortion group active in Scotland has withheld details about the amount of US funding it receives

Nothing like great art!

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

Years ago, my mother-in-law started reading The Exorcist. She said it was the most evil book she’d ever read, so she threw it into the sea. I bought another copy, soaked it, and left it by her bed.

Today in white literary opinions

I stopped watching Richard Sanchez And His Little Buddy Mortimer The Clown Boy after season 4, mostly because I followed the silly idea that a show must be bad if the fandom is insufferable. Turns out it's actually still good!

I got interviewed! Yay!!

Youtube thumbnails from ancient times

Learning the hard way what happens when you judge a book by its cover...

On this International Women's Day, this whore moans for hormones 🏳️‍⚧️💜

There are few things people care less about than youtubers complaining about poor views but, when your income depends on it, it's hard not to scream into the void, "WTF have I done to hurt you, algorithm?!"

What horror movies have the best practical monster effects and set designs? I'm looking for films I've never seen before, in the vein of The Thing, Alien, and The Fly

I didn’t know Microslop was a thing until I saw headlines about Microsoft trying to ban Microslop on its Discord. Now I shall say Microslop a lot. That’s how it works. It’s good when Microsoft, a company that likes genocide and environmental destruction, doesn’t like things.

The creative minds behind Resident Evil are so inspiring

I love Glasgow so much. I just walked past two old men who own an antiques shop. They were polishing a lovely wood cabinet on the street in the rain. I asked one of them how much they're selling it for. He told me he had just sold it to an old woman but he didn't really like her so I can have it lol

Annual visit to the House of Frankenstein in Bath went spectacularly, as always 🖤

Hm, @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social has some interesting arguments here. What do you think? #reading #lesen #hörbuch #audiobook youtu.be/TNbub7nkze4?...

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

The wait’s nearly over! Jitterbug hits bookstores on March 3, and everybody’s going to be talking about that ending. Don’t let anyone spoil it for you, order your copy now! #scifibooks #books @titanbooks.bsky.social

Reader, the way I arrived in Bath and made a BEELINE for Mr. B's Emporium of Reading Delights

Just saw a crow and a seagull fly past each other like pedestrians on a morning commute, and it got me wondering if they know and ever acknowledge each other. "Mornin', Dave." "A'right, Gareth. Always a pleasure."

Bought this, based partly on an ecstatic review by @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social . Following her channel is really stating to cost me money lol

What do you call fake faeces? Shampoo.

Nasty, ugly, cheap-looking, toxic shlock

@willowtalksbooks.bsky.social as someone who's been a bookworm since childhood and a huge fan of your work on YouTube I was DYING to read your book Managing and Other Lies and yesterday I finally got myself a digital copy I've been reading on my commute to work and my god it's wonderful +

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Imagine telling him he needs to make shortform content to engage the algorithm

Name them shame them

Do you feel a pang of pride in your chest when you see "mcr" because you're an emo kid or because you're from Manchester?

“I hate this attitude that characters, protagonists, stories…have to be nice. That if a protagonist is a bad person, which makes you feel uncomfortable then that’s somehow a moral (or artistic) failing of the author” Another great vid from @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social 😼 👇👇👇

Some people really need to learn how to think critically

do you like book videos on booktube? do you like interesting, sharp criticism? of course you do! check out @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social ! her most recent video is on Jennette McCurdy's debut novel youtu.be/Lksjf0RXunM?...

We have produced a range of Fine Art prints based on some of our iconic covers. Each piece has been recreated by artist Pablo Font especially for the print, refocusing elements from the cover to provide an impactful and eye-catching artwork. charcopress.com/artstore

If the metal bands Thou and Hath ever tour together, and they don't call it the Shakespearean Tour... verily, I will be vexed indeed!

When you finally pass so well that a man in the supermarket is homophobic but NOT transphobic. That's the dream 😌

Flashing back to 2016 is a far more joyful experience than I expected. Partly because it reminds me of the amazing things I saw and did while living in China, but mostly because it lays out what a glow-up transitioning gave me! I feel as good as I look 🏳️‍⚧️💜

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

I'm fine with ACAB also applying to Leon Kennedy, but I draw the line at Captain Raymond Holt

Shout out to all the unsung heroes of creative industries, whose hard work contains passion and meaning. ❤️☄️ Is it really that naive to wish big companies would put ethics before profit?