The more romantasy I read the more I realize I don't really care about the design of a magic system but I care a LOT about the role of that magic system in the fictional society

Brand New Video!!! We're digging into the "All Her Fault" Horror Phenomenon and asking ourselves, is it *really* All Her Fault? 🔪 youtu.be/uaQ3Sb9FIKU?...

I'm 770 pages into The Wise Man's Fear and after about 4 chapters of going oh, I forgot, there actually is a single supporting woman in this story who is not sexually obsessed with our protagonist, NOPE, SHE'S ALSO DOWN. The chokehold these books had on every dude I knew in the 2010's, fuck's sake

WEIRD DAY!!!!

LAPD causing a ruckus at Temple for a bit. Ran into Food Not Bombs cooking up a meal right next to the police line lmao

Rereading The Kingkiller Chroncle for research purposes and many things about it are upsetting me but so far none so much as the fact that there is not a single Fela/Devi fic on AO3

I'm sorry, they made the mom's boyfriend in Margo's Got Money Troubles an EPISCOPALIAN????

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I don't know if this script is going anywhere but this is in fact the best fragment I've ever written

I love the Bible because it's obviously a pivotal religious text rich with a lot of meaning that people have been fighting over for 2,000 years but it's also just literal letters that literal human doofuses sent to each other

Look if you ask me Best Original Song 2026 is no less than a battle for the soul of the movie musical

I cannot fucking believe Sarah J. Maas made me sit through TWO BOOKS of terminally straight couples fretting about what to get each other for Christmas before FINALLY giving me a DEATH TOURNAMENT?!?! I honestly cannot tell whether I'm more angry or delighted.

If I had a nickel for every romantasy series I've read where one of the second heroine's defining characteristics is that she reads romantasy, I'd have two nickels, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Many things suck but it is very cool to be acting again

Here is a thread of some books I read in 2025 that were very good. No specific number, no ranking, just things I read that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to a person who's interested in them, in approximately the order I read them.

Stranger Things finale really triggering my "everyone but me is wrong about why this is bad" impulse (spoilers in thread)

Richard Linklater does not understand wine moms, but I DO! An Entirely Unhinged Roast of Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019), up now: YouTube: youtu.be/YiUcgq5G-UQ Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/laura...

I swear I did not intentionally make my stack of post deadline blowing off steam/Christmas vacation fun library holds this full of vampires it just happened

It's almost pointless to say at this point but truly I am baffled by the way that YouTube's caption editor seems to get worse every time I use it. And now I can't even be truly mad at it because well, at least it GAVE me captions instead of sitting in processing hell for multiple weeks!

Ok I'm late and I don't think I'm anywhere near the first person to say this but FOR THE RECORD if you have ever been interested in reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir I would absolutely recommend that you not watch any trailers for the upcoming film adaptation until you do.

Video's coming to you next week and will look like one of these things

Editing a readers theater segment for the upcoming video and wow I am so blessed to have so many cool colleagues who will do absurd bullshit like send me .wav's of themselves making "panicked noises" with barely any further instruction

PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE SO I CAN COMPLETE THIS

Fuck it Stranger Things 5 mid season finale is solid gold. One for the books. Play me the hits and play them well and I'm on my feet, no further questions.

OK look I know I am generally a terminal optimist about Kids These Days in re: popular fiction specifically but reading this as the first paragraph of an Acknowledgements section feels bad, man.

Dude there is at least one dissertation to be written about the choice to name Glenn Close's character in Wake Up Dead Man Martha. What a beautiful allusion.

btw we're on the timeline! I'm gonna do my damnedest to get this thing out before the end of the year and it WILL be up free with ads on YouTube! (+ ad-free behind the paywall per usual 😘) Looking like it's probably gonna clock in around an hour for once which is a fucking godsend.

Had to pull this clip for research purposes (somehow) and lord I remembered that this group of people blatantly tells their waiter that they will be sitting at this diner indefinitely without ordering any food but I am spinning out about it all over again anyway youtu.be/rWYej5ftErw?...

I have been thinking about "As there's some bricks to maybe, and my ma, and run in house" and cackling about it once a day minimum for five days now and I hate that I can't just say that because the doofuses with money legitimately think that's the same thing as a sitcom youtu.be/x1IFpHyhYWI?...

Happy Halloween! If you would like some spooky seasonal distractions from *gestures broadly* I have been facing all kinds of fears and documenting the process on Patreon. Vlogs are currently up from Midsummer Scream, HHN, Delusion, and The 17th Door with more to come. www.patreon.com/lauracrone

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

My (so far) yearly "did an immersive horror show + low key could've handled it being scarier" post, @timestar.bsky.social is a true pal for having the "oh shit I just remembered I'm SCARED" moment in perfect unison with me about 10 minutes before we went to hell or whatever

Fucking finally

Y'all Actually Romantic is literally the first Taylor Swift song I've ever considered a bop on first listen and I have no idea what to do with that

For the last month YouTube has been recommending me videos about the same BookTok "drama" and I keep clicking on them like a rube because I simply cannot bring myself to accept that this much hard drive space could be spilled over the fact that a self-published debut novel isn't very good.

FYI if you're in southern California, Vons will let you book a COVID vaccine appointment even if you don't say you're in a high risk group, which not all pharmacies will!

Idk bro something about this whole Art the Clown Funko Pop everywhere branding nonsense is just not sitting well with me! Haven't been able to successfully articulate the finer details yet but the vibes are rancid!

Can't decide if I actually want to make a War Of/The Roses video or if I just want to scream from the rooftops Y'ALL DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS IS A 250 PAGE BOOK ABOUT DIVORCE AND THE FIRST TIME IT SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE MIGHT GET KILLED IS ON PAGE 180. THE *FIRST* TIME.

Good to see I am not alone in my reaction to a classic

I just spent a full hour convinced that my copy of House of Leaves had fully disappeared from my bookshelf and I'm struggling to think of a more apt or disturbing book for that to happen with

New video up now for patrons and Nebula subscribers. It is personal, weird, and messy, and while I'm working on a project that will repurpose a lot of the research and writing that went into it, this version will never be available this side of the pay wall.

Me when I attempt to attend my first haunt in 16 years and I accidentally end up at a preview of a Christian maybe hell house disguising itself as a photo opp

Behold the prettiest loaf of bread I have baked so far

Final post of the night: a heartwarming reunion between those arrested and released and their comrades back outside the MDC, and protesters are setting their tables and chairs back up after a hasty exit earlier. This is, at this point, routine.The occupation continues.

Another horrific series of press rights abuses tonight at hands of LAPD. Initial reports are 4 journalists injured (several bleeding), 3 cameras broken, 5 put in zip ties. All in defiance of state law, a judge's order, and chief's signed order. LAPD can't police itself. Maybe the judge will.

I asked the cashier at a local bookstore what she'd recommend to someone who wanted to read a romantasy and she said Bridget Jones's Diary and I have no idea what to make of that

Today's dispatch from Romantasyland is wow I do not *get* One Dark Window. Usually I can at least see what's appealing about a book that isn't for me but it is genuinely baffling to me why this book is so popular! (A problem of my imagination, to be clear, not a knock on people who liked it!)

Hello. My church held an in-person service this weekend for the first time since the LA ICE raids started two months ago and I would like to tell you about it.

Ok I would like to update this take with the corollary that BOTM applying the Sprayed Edge Tax to THEIR PICKS so that the only way to choose that book is with the upcharge is VIOLENCE. I paid for my annual subscription! In what world does that not pay for any twelve of their selection of books?!