in S1 the individual patient cases felt meaningful, both bc they were interesting and bc they introduced us to the characterizations of the doctors. In S2, we're spending more time on far less interesting cases, while the character stakes all feel lower, cheaper, and more predictable.

Anyway - AFTER THE GOLD - Olympic pairs skaters w too much chemistry try to figure out their life after the Games. M/F romance. INK AND ICE - an elite figure skater from a creepy island in the middle of Lake Erie starts dating a former war reporter while trying to make the Olympic team. M/M romance

Free instant all-day playlist in these replies, all day. Have yet to pass a non-banger. bsky.app/search?q=%22...

every time i think i'm fully worn down by this administration's utter contempt for the law, one more incremental horror like this comes along to jolt me

the deliberately blank faces of bai jingting, william chang, huang bo, and jackson wang as they vainly try to conceal their Horrified Misgiving about the weibo night "dancing" robots? will in fact be my new reaction gif for all of 2026 i'm just warning you now

“Talent is a gatekeeping mechanism”

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN 🔥

Aging infrastructure is a major challenge when it comes to extreme weather in prisons, jails and detention facilities across the U.S. Delta Correctional Facility in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchaman, Mississippi, both lost power due to Winter Storm Fern.

The Bible references are just- OW. Non Bible folks- first one is a rebuke from Jesus to his disciples for not letting children approach him. M Second is “Jesus wept”. No notes

fun fact i once auditioned for david geffen which means i apparently now have an epstein files bacon number of 1 🙃

local ICE fuckery in Oakmont - GFM link for family support and legal fees in the replies.

A friend asked if I still have videos of Len testing out the prototype of "touch-activated saxophone that can be used to make cats play Careless Whisper," since I pulled all my old content off the hellsite ages ago. And I do!

Solidarity with every single person participating in today’s general strike against ICE’s terror campaign. You’re changing the world ✊🏽❤️

I know that on some level the Democrats in power probably genuinely believe they're acting as boldly as they can to keep the country from falling into complete chaos, but do they fucking HEAR THEMSELVES? I feel insane all the time now

whole thread is genuinely the stuff of nightmares and yet here we are. nice sentient life form you got there, it would be a terrible shame if it…stupided itself to death. #antiAI #thereisnoethicaluse

"This should really be a wakeup call for studio executives who believe that love stories can’t succeed on their own," @gavia.bsky.social writes. "If Jacob Tierney can strike gold by adapting a tried-and-tested romantic formula, then other showrunners can surely do the same."

“People like me—maybe they don’t have trans kids, but they’re very liberal, very progressive—think, ‘Well, we’re in Washington, so we’re okay,’” Sierra told Erin in the Morning. “That’s absolutely false. No one is safe until everybody is.”

The replies in this thread come from very smart critics so it's frustrating that everyone here is treating "fandom" like a media-illiterate monolith when transformative fandom is entirely *about* engaging with and critiquing canons thoroughly and cough up symbolism-rich meta 800 times a second?

low level just started having an anxiety attack out of nowhere, then realized it was probably because I'd just read Erin Reed's reporting on Kansas legislation to bounty hunt trans people in bathrooms, followed by a Schumer quote doing the absolute least against DHS. Take care, all. These times.

We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

man imagine what a culture shock it's gonna be when the nostalgia for Obamacore finally kicks in and we realize that the whole aesthetic was just "not treating people like shit"

i need a timeline cleanse, look at this superior human who probably doesn't believe in phrenology

I mean for one thing, the president of the United States suggested less than two weeks ago that Omar can easily be murdered like other people who "live in Somalia." "Same missile. Ping! That's the end of them." bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Publishing for Minnesota auction launches this week to support groups providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

so many of my friends are struggling right now but the winds of communal support are sustaining all of us. please chip in for Suaine if you can, or pass it on. 🫰

I can't get over the detail from the NY-er Bari Weiss profile that she and her wife inscribed a book they gifted to their months-old daughter with 'We can't wait to see if you'll choose to cancel us from the right or the left' Just. Imagine using your baby as a prop for your contrarian brand.

hey if you check our their GoFundMe page today, you will be greeted by cute kittens! 😸

One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us? Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A or

Here's the thing. A small handful of what Weiss wants to do here is smart, namely diversifying brands across platforms + live events. Other legacy media brands like Dateline have done this and been hugely successful. But she can't do that if she fucks w/the brand's work and alienates all its fans!

"It's about Crispr babies" is a phrase that's going to be garbage in my head from now on, I didn't ask for this

on the lookout for a spare room somewhere safe and calm ❤️ the shared house I'm currently in is not only chaotic but also run by an organisation that is ableist and gaslights me daily not really sure on how many uk moots i have on here but if you know of anything please dm me ❤️

Do not get it twisted. The REAL change we are seeing right now, and which we need to sustain, is the revealing of how much we have the power to care & provide for each other in ways the state has continually abdicated its supposed responsibility to do in order to consolidate power.

(If you're local in Pittsburgh, you could also ping me. I've had L experimenting with some printed whistles, so I've got a couple extras and could probably get him to do more.)

Obviously all of these efforts gained visibility & power & funding online but none of it works without that offline community. If you care about this work, the most basic & profound thing you can do is figure out how to plug in to your community

And the ebook is $1.99 at most places right now! (at least in the US) candleinsunshine.com/books/where-...

In the midst of all the horrors, a fire last week claimed my niece’s family’s home in St Paul, including their 3 cats and her mom’s prosthetic limb. Her dad is in the ICU with a brain bleed. It’s not safe for them to leave their temporary housing. Please help if you can. gofund.me/4481a1d9e

oh, hey, coincidentally, these are on sale! bsky.app/profile/qosp...

I'd rather be hogtied than comment on that TERF bs in the NYT but I will say that the premise is flawed, because even if fewer teens are reading HP, there's been a *huge* and blatantly regressive resurgence in HP fandom over the last decade. New fans LOVE romanticizing death eaters! wild, right?!

Speaking of important geek culture writing by pros, for fans, Mothership is here! Subscribe and support! 💪 adding so many of these games to my Steam wishlist

Note that ICE has already killed and shot multiple innocent people. But they were Brown, or Black, or queer. The turning point came because they could no longer maintain the fiction that every person they were killing was within an *acceptable* demographic for them to murder.

That's why fandom journalism from a fannish perspective is so important! Hopefully readers will support the Fansplaining relaunch in a couple of months! 🙏

“We’re witnessing a mass conversion to something that I’m sure all Fansplaining readers will understand: The joy of watching two people fall in love as a collective cultural experience.” YEAH! We’re all shippers now!

I need folks who can to go through these fundraisers and help the families of people killed by ICE who you haven’t heard of. If you can. I know times are hard, but …

UATX, the right-wing uni Bari Weiss co-founded, called a staff meeting last year to demand that all school employees declare loyalty to the principles of "anti-communism, anti-socialism, anti - identity politics, and anti-Islamism" or quit. Predicting something similar for CBS at tomorrow's meeting

per last repost, please use Dylan's comments as a fandom watering post, i feel like we've all been scattered to the four poles of the earth (pardon in advance my stalking replies to see how everyone is doing 🥺)

HELLO FANDOM PALS 👋 i'm DYLAN but you may also know me as (regrettably) GYZYM. i've lost track of TOO MANY PEOPLE in the chaos of these last few years of Being Online. if you have too, would you share this & reply with your fandom info? let's try to find each other and some joy here in hell!

I am begging English-language critics to realize that Heated Rivalry is just Canadian BL. It's... literally just a Canadian example of this thing Asian media has been doing for decades, please, this is embarrassing

Brynn is always worth listening to, and the length of this list speaks for itself.