"Consider the nature of evil. In books & movies, it is always so simple: here are the orcs & the creatures of the dark, who must be destroyed." Read "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" by @czwrites.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social 🧂

And all of these *always have been.*

The Powerpuff Girls have three of the most memorable character designs in cartoon history. But how did they come to be? Craig McCracken spent years refining Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup -- until they became iconic. We explore the process: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...

"Come for the butts, stay for the exploration of queer Asian identity." Kevin Ng studies how Heated Rivalry navigates Shane Hollander's overlapping identities within the hypermasculine hockey world: #HeatedRivalry

I will go further and say that people using the "r"-word are hoping that bringing it back opens the door to bringing back the "n"-word, and is strongly correlated with the people who want to carve off trans rights as a stepping stone to claw back gay rights in general

Read it read it, it's so funny

Reposted from @vexmlk.bsky.social on Twitter:

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. [...]" "...There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

Related: If you like anime, whether you realize it or not, you've probably marveled at an "Itano Circus;" an action scene featuring aerial combat, with loads of skittering projectiles chasing a target. This was developed by Ichirō Itano. Watch a compilation here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x8q...

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

Who needs a few seconds of peace? Here's a burrowing owlet watching the sun go down with me. 🪶

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

#AICouldNever If you need some hula today, here you go. There is a short announcer introduction that's worth listening to, for context. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfDu...

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Telling Geralt of Rivia how I was screaming, crying, etc.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Big daddy Tom Hardy making straight men question their sexualité.

Preorder campaign for the re-release of my Gothic Paris books -(March 10th!!!): pre-order any of the books in the series & get an EXCLUSIVE ebook with bonus shenanigans involving Fallen angels, a birthday party and a decidedly over-friendly magical fungus www.aliettedebodard.com/2026/01/23/d...

I just thought everyone should see this

Sword Bro (@erikaishii.bsky.social) has a lot of pizza cutters in Pizza Hell. Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I read a book about libraries, where the load-bearing point was that libraries are valued less by every generation that inherents them, until suddenly their rarity makes very valuable. That, and how mind-meltingly destructive the Christian wars were for books, my god

#AICouldNever If you need a four minute breather, here it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=swlo...

From filmmakers Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, MEL BROOKS THE 99 YEAR OLD MAN! (2026) delves into the enduring legacy behind one of comedy's most influential voices: the and only, Mel Brooks! Watch the first installment tonight on HBO Max at 9pm ET.

‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

Anyway what’s amazing is that it’s a vampire movie but the real monster is the inescapable labyrinth of the Jim Crow economy. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

I often think about this bc the book is a set of nested frames where each subsequent frame helps you decipher the previous speaker, so, for example, we encounter Victor telling us the creature’s story, which becomes a way to understand Victor (boo! hiss!). The refugee story is the center frame.

How long would you survive with no DNA? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3oL...

If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this. If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.

This is pointless. Glasgow is gonna unmake this abomination in about eighteen seconds flat. The paint won't even be allowed to dry before it's permanently festooned with cocks and balls.

okay, here we go... Here are my picks for the 30 most exciting SFF titles coming out in the first half of the year! There are a LOT of beautiful books coming up—it's gonna be a really good year for spec fic reactormag.com/30-sff-title...

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Did this last year, have repeated it for 2026: 15 SFF books centring queer dudes coming out this year that I have my eye on. Feels like a bit of an uptick from last year, happily! (Thumbnail is a free stock image for "gay couple reading" lol).

kind of crazy my friend peter went from fixing a street light as an electrician to modeling for ralph lauren within a week IG urbancomposition

In these incredibly trying times, as the world feels like it's spinning out of control, let's take a moment to breath and remember one of the great Civil Rights icons. Times may be tough, but we shall overcome. Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Halflings 🖤✊

Excited to have a little flash piece about demons and queer precarity in this edition of @havenspec.bsky.social!

Thread. (Cheerful disclosure: Started out writing fanfic, more than 50 years ago. Haven’t stopped.) 😄

I've found religion

I've said before that I always find out something new from these posts. For this one I had no idea that Ronald Searle's drawings were such an influence on the look of the film.

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

The 1930s recording by Geeshie Wiley is on the album, in case you needed another reason to pick up the greatest soundtrack of its generation. #HATM

Read the whole thread. "If your art didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be working so hard to steal it."

#AICouldNever A classic cinema moment of resistance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...

The first comment on YouTube for this video is "This song sounds like it's airbrushed onto the side of a van" and there has perhaps never been a more apt assessment of a song than this youtu.be/DyhYzRRMBSU

Go find it, people!