like... these are the same song

watched the first episode of The Vampire Lestat and my main observation is that the theme song is just A Little Bit Alexis youtu.be/mR3Plv8HuNk?...

I made two vids for VidUKon 2026! First, Feeling Good, a Pluribus vid from the perspective of the hivemind youtu.be/ls43vRR_wMs?... archiveofourown.org/works/86233696

my other VidUKon premiere! This is a Starfleet Academy vid, and because of timing it's both a post-S1 recruiter vid and a fuck-you-for-cancelling-this-show vid. But mostly it's about how much I love this silly space school: archiveofourown.org/works/83793986

holy shit ep 1 of the vampire lestat

My #vidukon premiere is about how much Lower Decks loves Star Trek. This show loves the silliness and the seriousness; it's full of deep cuts and fun moments and just a ton of tenderness. On the AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/83819231 On youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9_C...

My #VidUKon premiere: a Star Trek: Voyager vid about Seven of Nine and Naomi Wildman. HAPPY PRIDE archiveofourown.org/works/83795356

I made a Cyd Charisse dance vid, and it closed out the Premieres show at VidUKon! Don't You Wanna Dance, starring Cyd Charisse and Cyd Charisse's legs. Guest starring Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Ricardo Montalbán. archiveofourown.org/works/83482596

A #TheWheelOfTime vid about Perrin focusing on his relationship with violence, nonviolence, the wolf inside him, and the people around him. youtu.be/lDSlNqKf8Ss I made this for #VidUKon 2026. AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/83433696

Because every show deserves a vid to this song, my VidUKon premiere was a Babylon 5 vid to Ke$ha's TiK ToK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTj3... On AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/86073936

New vid: Again (Karaoke Iko! | Lets Go Karaoke! adaptations), my premiere for VidUKon 2026 because I have lots of feelings about Satomi and Kyouji and telling a story across multiple media forms: archiveofourown.org/works/83364016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLye...

Frankenstein (2025, dir. Guillermo Del Toro)

this is the first story i thought of when i heard about Anthony Head's passing. it was shared on fb, then reddit, then a few publications picked it up (i won't link to articles bc they needlessly mention famous people who are... the opposite of him, and nobody needs to read that during pride) 💙💗🤍

super long shot, but does anybody around here speak Provençal? or anything in the Occitan language family? I have a word question

SWIMMING TIME IS HERE AGAIN (yes, our outdoor pool is unheated and it was 45F at night a few days ago. it was a BIT CHILLY but I do not care I swam yesterday and today and I will SWIM AGAIN. swimming my beloved)

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

Just a reminder: The Guardian entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI a little while back, so any time you see an article like this from them, you can immediately dismiss it as not credible journalism but just Sam Altman getting his money’s worth.

Users of Link Tree -- they are now integrating "AI" features effective July 5. Time to delete your account and move to an alternative.

jealous of everyone traveling to VidUKon this weekend! wish I could be with you all in person, but I will absolutely haunt the discord

went to the bookstore today and picked up the new Murderbot book as well as @isabel.kim's new novel Sublimation! ok I gotta finish reading Manhunt so I can get to these two next. so many boooooks

I am VERY READY

anybody doing pod_together this year? more to the point, any friends of mine looking for a writer to partner with?

I finished writing my Ridiculous Long Fanfiction! it's now in beta (coming soon-ish!), so I am twiddling my thumbs and brainstorming what other fic/vids I want to make this summer. My Making Things brain has now been revved up and it's clamouring for things to do.

I would also talk about odious professors I had in ivy league grad school but bluesky hasn't got enough characters for me to get into even one of them. maybe I'll go see if any of them have died recently, though.

my grade four teacher told me I was lying about my reading journal, because it was impossible that I could be reading that many books that quickly, and made me re-read a bunch books while he watched so he could check. then he said, "doesn't it feel better to do it honestly?"

Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

“study of around 8,000 respondents concludes that women’s lower uptake of generative AI tools has little to do w/ skills or access. Instead, it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated w/ the new technology.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social

The single person most responsible for Star Wars being successful, imo

Look, all university administrators know is eat hot chip and appease

do holodeck safeties prevent spanking

MIT closing three of its four libraries is shocking and appalling and underscores that the source of so much of the crisis in higher education comes not from attacks from the far right or the collapse of public trust, but rather from the university administrative class itself.

I wrote approx. 1/4th of this story in past tense, partly for the aesthetic and partly because I thought it'd be funny, but no one else will ever notice the joke and in the meantime the past tense is KICKING my ASS. I will slip back into present the moment I get distracted. which is constantly

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!" J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

we're rewatching The Dead Zone lately (the first few seasons are so good, I'll always love it) and I somehow forgot once again that there's an episode where Robert Picardo and Jane Lynch play a married couple

rhubarb rhubarb! picked, washed, chopped, stewed, canned. though I left some in the fridge to eat later. perfect on toast with butter or on vanilla ice cream

the winter has passed and it is now the season for me to return to the arms of my beloved, the National Center for Home Food Preservation at the University of Georgia nchfp.uga.edu (which is to say, rhubarb's up!)

As someone who's had shingles: Even without any post-infection issues, you just categorically do not want shingles. It is among the most painful things to ever happen to me. I would rather lie down on a fire ant mound.

Open volunteer positions for next year’s WisCon, both pre-con and at-con positions. wiscon.net/volunteer/

It's the glorious 25th of May.

why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔

Pope say: 😍😍😍 Pope do: 👿👿👿

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

however!! it is within the power of the Catholic Church to make real, meaningful changes to its everyday practice that would truly honor the worth of every human life. to, for instance, its motherfucking healthcare practices. to what's covered by the insurance it offers at its institutions.

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

we had a very nice time