As someone who's been appreciating words on the internet for close to 30 years I don't think I can overestimated the decimating impact of AI on the way people speak online. These authentic, engaging, funny, inventive modes all reduced to the same smooth brained slop, it makes me feel so melancholy.

There's nothing like having to send a pissy little invoice chaser to really get you fired up for the day.

I think cinema should be very happy that people are getting out of joint about sex scenes, as it means it is a still a venue to argue about cultural issues in. It is still ALIVE. It is telling that the 'violence' argument has fairly dried up. Who gets out of joint about violence/gore anymore?

I’m at Once More With Feeling and - Anthony Stewart Head, Nicholas Brendan, Michelle Trachtenberg, Hinton Battle - jeez this is a hard watch.

Felt similar to a lot of people about the end of Game of Thrones - although I maintain it’s still pretty good up until and including Aria killing the chief White Walker - and didn’t really gel with House of the Dragon, but I’m having so much fun binging A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

lick your lips and make love to the camera

The making-of documentary Inside the Labyrinth gives us glimpses of Jim Henson's process and respect for his collaborators. Follow us: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

What would you do if you were 70 pages into reading a book and you’d just realised the person you’d been reading as one character was actually two completely separate characters and you couldn’t tell if the writer had done that on purpose?

Stuck on the bus home with the Metallica lads and god love them, I hope they have a nice time, but it was RIPE.

A must listen for all fans of Labyrinth!!! Also a fun reminder that @bpal.bsky.social has the Labyrinth collection with perfume oils for Jareth, Hoggle, Fairy Bites, Goblin Cider & 13 Hours 🦉

We are about to see some powerfully bad films, lads

Every time I check in on the Interview with the Vampire fandom I am driven a little bit more insane

Like I need the friggin POPE on my ass ….

Absolutely spinning out at Raven being cast ok Drag Race Down Under vs The World.

Can't recommend this 3 1/2 hour epic on Jim Henson's Labyrinth highly enough. I listened to it in one sitting on this hideously hot day, and it brought me much joy. (And to quote Oscar the Grouch, I also make "a very brief cameo".)

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

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the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm

Doing a wee Pride Month library event tonight, starting with a bit from my story from Juno Dawson's Proud and ending with a bit from my story from @bonabooks.bsky.social Wrath Month, which feels nicely symmetrical and suitably on brand from 2026.

Something utterly fucking weird about the current state of the news, where we know everything before it happens. We've known Starmer was going to resign for weeks, confirmed all weekend. We're now talking about Burnham as next PM before the leadership contest has even begun. It's disorientating.

Breaking: Britain has sacrificed Keir Starmer.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Happy Father's Day to all the horror fathers out there.

The Muppet Wizard of Oz

Occasionally the internet will show me something outside of my own interest and I’ll be taken aback by how bloodthirsty the British public are. Just no problem that can’t be solved by locking everyone up.

This is the skin of a killer, Bella - a killer deal in the end of season Burton Menswear sale, that is!! Twilight (2008) is this month's @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Patreon exclusive www.patreon.com/OnceUponAVHS...

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TREAT YOURSELF!!!!

You: I asked ChatGPT- Me: well, I asked an Etsy witch and she said I'm broadcasting on a high-definition frequency while the receivers around me are stuck in static and I supported the economy doing it!!

Ever since I was a little girl, I've always wanted to make a 3 and a half hour podcast about Labyrinth (1986) - recording the @onceuponavhs.bsky.social Labyrinth (Remixed and Revisited) 40th Anniversary Extravaganza Eleganza tonight and it's a doozie, lads.

During a ballet performance of “Romeo and Juliet” in Izmir, Turkey, a cat unexpectedly joined the actors in the final scene of the show and completely stole the show with its antics.

I love all the ‘The Office couldn’t be made today’ takes but also feel like a lot of people aren’t watching Abbott Elementary, which is as good as sitcom gets and, crucially, 22 episodes a season, a season every year.

the office couldn't be made today because it would be eight episodes for some streaming service that would schedule the second season for three years later and then cancel it for no good reason

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

Something slightly funereal about the coverage of Disclosure Day, like every interview is using it to do 'greatest hits' coverage in a way that I'm not used to from Spielberg. Feels weird!

Hard-working big-city businesswoman who goes home to her small town and rediscovers the magic of Christmas.

Some immediate rambling reflections on the demo at Buchanan Steps at Glasgow, where the organised far-right were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the forces of anti-racism and migrant solidarity -

The scenes we saw in Glasgow earlier this week, as racists took to the streets to intimidate and threaten ethnic minority Glaswegians were despicable, and this afternoon we showed a tiny, outnumbered crowd of bigots that we don't want their hatred in our city.

The Rankin-Bass animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (1980) is a bizarre piece of work in many ways! Follow us: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

Absolute dream project would be to adapt the Glass family stories into a big, lush HBO limited series, they’re so funny and weird and sad and specific, I love them

Have made my feelings on this known before, but have always found the snooty affected way people discuss The Catcher in the Rye online maddening. Very obviously a masterpiece, dumbasses!

I hope the BBC know that in releasing that press release yesterday they've DECIMATED the cottage industry that has formed around Doctor Who fans posting AI-generated leaked 'press releases' about the future of the show on Reddit and a dozen Whotubers making monetised videos reacting to them.

Very sad news - but if anyone gets even a SNIFF of a production company who's putting in for the tender, let me know them, tell them I'm great, I HAVE to write 'INT. TARDIS' at some point to make this whole stinking thing have been worth it

This is the 2nd most signed Early Day Motion in the last year. At 118 supporters, that's 24% of all MPs eligible to sign EDMs or 30% of all MPs who've ever signed an EDM. Write to your MP and ask them to sign. This is not an empty gesture but the sole mechanism to block the harmful guidance. #EDM240

Lots of thoughts on Tip Toe - I do think it showed a lack of understanding of trans lives and cultures (inviting the 16 year old son of the guy who’s been stomping about your work for the last week threatening everyone? Not in this climate, gorge!) - but god it’s nice to have something to chew on.

The last time Scotland was in the World Cup the official theme song was ‘Don’t Come Home Too Soon’ and I don’t think there’s anything more Scottish than that

Think this sums up my general feelings about Tip Toe, and a lot of RTD's writing in the last few years: it flies when it's about character and story, but it keeps stopping and looking to camera to do a Powerpoint presentation - and it often doesn't really understand what it's presenting on

I think all of this is true, but it can’t be overlooked that she’s not winning literary awards because her books are cack