I had so much fun revisiting the movie Waiting to Exhale and its impact, which might be even bigger than you remember, for NPR. 30 years later, 'Waiting to Exhale' endures www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

Wait, these photos are how they’re doing the announcements? That’s amazing and I love it.

Looks like Bubbles popped.

If we accept that every new technology is first used for the military and/or for sex, I have a good idea which category this one’ll fall into.

In more pleasant memories, 45 years ago this month brought us Candlelight Ecstasy and one of the wackiest (complimentary?) books I’ve ever read.

Was just going through old files about a thing that happened six years ago today (iykyk) and found as I read some of it, I still have questions. It's still so frustrating, all these years later.

I dunno man, maybe it’s just this information environment, but I’d think “damning letter that proves all the things but made it through prison mail and redactions and you can’t find record that it’s been deleted but here it is” makes me more than a little suspicious of its veracity.

I have said that archivists can either make your memory live forever or erase you entirely, so choose wisely. It’s half a joke and half a massive professional responsibility.

Our good friend Joy Harris still needs our support in dealing with her cancer costs. She's been such a light to Romancelandia. Can you help bring her some light? Thanks. 💜 gofund.me/0c8d4cee0

Very excited to watch this project get underway! A vital story to tell. www.flowstatefilms.com/black-romance

Like I always say- if it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it!

A gentle reminder for the skyline, courtesy of Billy Bragg

Was going to make a snarky comment about the current romance discourse but I had to check myself.

I have never seen a place so obnoxious and eye-searingly bad yet simultaneously boring? It’s so one note.

Read @davidmcswane.bsky.social's original 2024 investigation into Dr. Weiner here:

In turn, I often reach out to @effietheant.bsky.social to see if she knows a specific fan studies scholar working on a topic! There's so much writing, academic and non, on so many of these topics that it's maddening to see journalists pull guesses out of nowhere or do surfacey context-free research.

Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.

#BREAKING: The suspected Brown University gunman has been found dead, Target 12 reports. Details: https://www.wpri.com/target-12/suspected-brown-university-gunman-found-dead/ 

FDA won’t regulate kids melatonin but they’ll do this? Okay fuckos, sure.

Honey, it’s here!!!

Cue Jello saying “Die for oil, suckers.”

These jackass motherfuckers.

And yet M&M has been using the same commercial for 20+ years and it’s just fine. Coke just out here proving it doesn’t really care about recycling, even ads.

please buy so many physical copies of the album so we can tour with strings & with Carolyn & Jamie and also Nicole who sat in in LA because that would be such an utterly killer tour youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...

This song and this album. It’s just so good. youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...

Hell yeah, @raforall.bsky.social !

Oh how I cackled. It's me, I am the target audience.

So much to do, but I have been pinned down by a cat and so I can do none of it. So sad.

Fun fact- our district has a two mile bus radius because there aren’t enough busses for the district kids and the school choice kids they’re required by law to transport. So no school bus stops for the district within city limits. Paired with pedestrian-hostile roads there’s little choice here.

Kiddo has a school field trip to a college bball game today and asked what the away team’s colors were so she didn’t wear them and I already knew the answer because I’d have asked the same question. Parenting is so often a mirror.

It’s a classic for a reason.

The Brown University community is mourning the loss of two students who were killed Saturday in a shooting on campus.

So much bloodshed, to no good end.

A deeply sad morning, with heartbreaking mass killings in Providence & Sydney. Innocent students killed in a classroom. At least 11 people by gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration. Too many guns here. Frightening levels of antisemitism globally. So much senseless violence & hate.

Brown’s student newspaper is posting updates about the shooting at its campus. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

In case you have never seen this.

BREAKING: Multiple people confirmed shot at Brown in the active shooter situation; no suspect yet - updating live here www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

Interactive fiction was perfected 40 years ago. www.cyoa.com/collections/...

Aside from being a real snooze of a game, the CBS broadcast captions were so awful that it’s a good reminder that people doing live sports captions should at least grasp the sport they’re watching. And have a team sheet to spell the names.

Well that was a cheeky daily Timeguessr.

There are a litany of reasons this house is listed so low, and none of them are cheap. Aside from needing a new roof and front porch, check out the living room! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

For a very long time, since at least the 70s, Harlequin has been basically a mailing list that happens to publish books, and HC has continued to treat it that way. They will milk everything out of their books as long as they don’t have to spend another dime. Ebooks & audio made that SO much easier.

This looks like an awesome (and massive) job for a mid-career archivist:

Today I made my @wbur.org social video debut talking about my favorite story: Nova Scotia's annual gift of a Christmas Tree to Boston. Check it out. Huge thanks to producer, editor, and generally awesome human @meghanbkelly.bsky.social who did all the hard work. youtube.com/shorts/nsO9h...

In post-WWII America, following nonstop propaganda about Nazi book burning meant to bolster patriotism, Americans found that patriotism in mass comics burnings.

My letter to the editor in The Llano News today.

New phone, who am I?

The fourth book in our super steamy, gleefully bonkers romantasy series is out in June! Click the link if you like: ✔️ Horny Dragons ✔️ Enemies to Lovers ✔️ Ancient Gods Fucking ✔️ Murdering Fantasy Tech Bros ✔️ Bisexuals Being Chaotic ✔️ Murder Ladies www.kitrocha.com/series/high-...