Just a sweet sweet fantasy: My new #HitParadePod at @slate.com is on the history of No1 debuts. How do songs score a fast pass to the penthouse? They’re not always classics—Idol coronations…rap beefs…boy-band soloists…superstar throwaways. For every “Fantasy” “Hello” or “Vampire” there’s a “Trollz.”

Felt good to cancel Hulu, my only Disney affiliated subscription.

Seeing the pink spine of the North & South edition I was part of in the wild is always a delight #elizabethgaskell

Hmhmhm the call for papers for the Gaskell Conference held in Yorkshire in July. 👀 #elizabethgaskell

I’m about 100 pages away from finishing Moby Dick. What essays do you assign or have you read on it or Melville that you recommend? I’m interested in reading about: contemporary reception and through present, discussion on being the great American novel, and on form. #whalesky #melville

This was fun, as always, and it tickles me to be called a friend of the pod! Available where you get podcasts (and I don’t go the full 1 hr and 45 minutes without mentioning Miss Scarlet at the end lol)

Getting people to read North and South is my favorite pastime. If you’re coming from TikTok, hello!

Sooo las culturistas culture awards is going to win an Emmy right?

And my kingdom for Leonard to be happy for one whole season #grantchesterpbs

I didn’t take any pics because I was front row last night but let’s just say @bookhoarding.bsky.social’s costumes +this talented cast are definitely worth seeing!!

I’m really hoping we see more Indian characters in the next and final season of #grantchesterpbs let’s deal with the complexities not just of being a foundling, but the cultural disconnect.

Meet Damien Timmer, the Exec Producer behind many a Masterpiece/British TV fan favorite series! Read my interview on @wgbh.org Drama! www.wgbh.org/tv-shows/dra...

Get PBS passport for as low as $5 a month.

Excellent article about how LLMs perform their feats of "magic" by exploiting the same psychological hacks that psychics do when performing cold readings. ::Chefs kiss:: softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Ah, so excited to listen to this. Larry is a great character.

I have to leave Twitter for the evening because I posted a gif of Mr Thornton, didn’t log on for five hours, came back to thousands of likes and the app freezes when I open it lol. I added a link to the book though! Promo!!

The female gaze is Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge.

So everyone has a shelf of @sandtclassics.bsky.social now, right? So excited these arrived today! @paradiselaust.bsky.social @rezekjoe.bsky.social

I had no idea this was the reason people were pulling out of romancecon. More power to them if it doesn’t sit right with them to sit next to people who are using JKR’s IP to make money. This really came to ahead because the aggressive promotion of the books as filed off HP fanfiction.

Checkout the playlist of presentations for this years #VirtualJaneCon and there are many great presentations from last year as well!

As institutions crumble around us (Masha Gessen warned us our institutions will not save us), I am struck even more by the power of the people. We are the ones fighting back. And we haven't given up. It's never over as long as we keep getting up.

Do you like #missscarletpbs & think that Nash & Eliza had chemistry? Boy, do I have the now *completed* 85k word fanfic for you! Final chapter is up.Thank you. ✅fake dating ✅ #Scarnash endgame ✅slow burn ✅courtroom drama archiveofourown.org/works/550995... PS: tell your senators to support PBS.

Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.

It’s wild how the best movies came out while I was in high school 🤔

Insomnia was so real yesterday wtf but at least got a ton of writing done!

There is a high likelihood that no matter where you are in the country, you have had fruits and vegetables from Ventura County. And they are kidnapping the immigrants who pick them and tear gassing the Americans who try to stop them.

From your lips to God’s ears.

It is a fascinating time to be in fandom spaces. Maybe it always is.

One source of anxiety I’m experiencing is having AI forced upon me in the workplace. Having to read clearly LLM generated emails, or worried that I’ll be involved in projects where someone wants to use an LLM. Uuughhh.

ok this one killed me

My most millennial gripe is the way fandoms and interest groups have moved into closed discord servers now. The children yearn for the forums, webrings, and livejournals of their ancestors.

Sewing Emma Woodhouse’s wedding ensemble. Don’t miss my debut as a costume designer this summer! www.svshakespeare.org/emma

I don't think I have readers on here who aren't also on twitter or tumblr, but covering all my bases. The update schedule for the final two chapters of The Sweetest Con Chapter 18: July 13 at 10 am PDT Chapter 19: July 16 at 12 pm PDT archiveofourown.org/works/550995... #missscarletpbs #scarnash

On a new episode of MASTERPIECE Studio, #GrantchesterPBS star Rishi Nair discusses putting on the dog collar for another go-around on the @pbs.org drama and this week's stellar episode, which reveals Alphy's mysterious past. "Don't look back..." LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

I loooove these bottle episodes mostly in one location they’ve been doing this season! #grantchesterpbs

Remember when people thought Abolish ICE was a radical position.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The city of Santa Ana, California, has created a special fund to help families pay for food, rent and utilities when people get abducted by ICE.

A like for a comment I left on a Colonel Fitzwilliam fancam

We have more murder and drama to look forward to on #GrantchesterPBS next year! 🎉 www.tvinsider.com/1198598/gran...

Your regular reminder that the first two Lord of the Rings films are older than ICE.

It's 10 am on my "writing" day and I have finally opened the document.

Update: I finished season 9 of #grantchesterpbs which means I made it to season 10 while it's still airing. I started the show early August 2024 man I am slow, but it is done!!!

These covers are A++++++++++ Out July 22! (Link below) Pic from the IG of @sandtclassics.bsky.social

Thinking about how they are calling Mamdani’s win a stunning upset but no one is upset about it 😂

How long before the New York Times writes “why Mamdani’s win is not a playbook for other Dems”

This reaction is exactly what the moderate Dems are afraid of. We are coming for eeeevvverreybody’s seats in the next elections! 👏🏽

I’m so fucking serious about this you guys

The way Mamdani needs to win or it’ll crush everyone’s soul even if they are not New Yorkers 🫠😫

What is Alphy’s dark past???? Onto episode 4…. #grantchesterpbs