I regret wishing for media discourse that was on something besides the hockey show. The monkey’s paw curled and the wizard school books dragged themselves out of the grave lurching and moaning.

Sometimes I like literature or film that isn’t afraid to let the audience sit with boredom

Is it weird to go to hotpot for one?

MY grandparents had Mondale signs in the front yard.

Not to self: do not read reviews. Definitely do not respond, even if they’re WRONG

Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak-willed.

the amount of people who get big mad that I write modern secondary world fantasy and are like, you can't have taxis and audio tapes, just set it in the real world. LOL NO AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME

Reels have the lukewarm takes on Fantasy. “You can’t just have people in a fictional fantasy world using Euros” Sure you can, Fred. Fantasy doesn’t limit you to some REN Faire phony version of medieval Britain.

Wagner died in 1883. All of his music is in the public domain. If I listen to all 15 hours of the Ring cycle in one sitting, his corpse won’t get a single penny to fund something vile.

Having a rough day.

Just found out that some British people thought Jiffy Pop was invented for Scream

Turns out saying you’re an award-winning author does not get you a table any faster

“These tuna melt enchiladas…” What the fuck is wrong with you Aldi!?!

The reform leader in Scotland whining that you can’t even tell loathsome homophobic and racist jokes anymore is a whole weird thing

Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic just won the William L. Crawford award! Received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly, and was their year-end selection for SFF/Horror books not to overlook. www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Remmick is not racist is a wild take I just saw.

“Harry Potter stopped belonging to JK Rowling long ago…” Is she cashing them royalty cheques, or nah?

Why is instagram aggressively showing me people dancing to BBno$?

Almost there! We're at 82%!

People out there defending the artisans and craftspeople who worked on films that a horrible person makes buckets of money from, y’all know they’re work-for-hire, right? They’ve been paid. They’re not getting royalties

My mother had the stroke that led to her decline and death and was upset that her sister told me she was on the hospital ON HER BiRTHDAY, because she didn’t want me to be worried.

Look, obviously I don't support Remmick's many, many murders and his general enthralling of people, but his rendition of Rocky Road to Dublin meant a lot to me as a kid, so obviously I'll still get tickets to his next gig.

Would the wizard lady name me Faggsley Twinkletoes, or Kingboulevard Hausnegger? I don’t think there’s room in her writing process for two stereotypes

So the homophobic “joke” by Malcolm Offord is also disgustingly racist. Classy.

Turned on Great British Menu: “The faggot?” “I would have gone heavier on the glaze….”

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What makes Rowling different is that she doesn’t just promote the juice, she owns the orange groves. So that’s worse.

Sir! This a ….

Feeling a little bit of schadenfreude at how empty the new professor green fast food storefront with the Mormon sodas was when I passed

The dim-witted 19 year-old racist council leader of Warwickshire does not fill me with hope for the future of the United Kingdom

Picasso has been dead for over 50 years, and is not using his money to harm people. This is a facile, lazy argument with a glaring false equivalence.

Crinolines required

Please to put me on yr podcasts to talk about my AWARD-WINNING book, kbye

One day I'll remember how to post a newsletter at a time when people read their email but in my defence I am on a ship in the Pacific ocean & time is, among other things, a social construct from which I have been abstracted for the foreseeable future ANYWAY MY NEW BOOK IS OUT TODAY

From IFCA: “Next year we should do a play!” “About four aging homosexuals?” “Excuse me! Like Lena Horne *I*am timeless!” “Timeless, but not ageless”

I managed five days in the US without offending any Americans by calling something “cunty”

1) its creator is transphobic and uses her money and platform to oppose trans rights 2) it’s racist 3) it’s classist 4) it’s homophobic 5) tacky 6) that dialogue is rough! 7) the headmaster is a moral monster who constantly endangers his charges 8) See #1

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That weird rage-baiting British woman who likes to complain about American foods is now holding up the product originally known as Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda as an example of healthy British Lemonade. Lady, I don’t know what to tell you, 7Up is as American as Coca-Cola.

Voting for the Locus Awards closes soon. I would love it if you would consider voting for CALL AND RESPONSE by Chris Caldwell (@seraph76.bsky.social) for best collection. It's an incredible book by a one of a kind writer. poll.voting.locusmag.com @neonhemlock.bsky.social

Christopher Caldwell Wins Crawford Award

I’m very dumb. Is Jenova just John Carpenter’s the Thing?

It is a phenomenal debut.

One of the things I liked most about the Last Jedi was its attempts to steer us away from that family

I’m not being greedy, but you *can* vote for Call and Response for best collection if you have the inclination

Nebula voters, explain to me how Andor season 2 did not make the finalist list for the Bradbury? EXPLAIN!!

Aaaaaaahhh!!! It’s Black! It’s queer! It’s here! It’s *award-inning*!!! Promise I’ll be less effusive in a few days

Did Remmick steal his gold from Lucky the Leprechaun? Did the klansmen steal their robes from Bed,Bath, and Beyond? Did Quentin Tarantino have liver plucked out by an eagle as punishment for stealing crash zooms from the gods?

Not Maui with the shake-and-go. The DISRESPECT!

I have to find bios with tongue-in-cheek “award-losing,” and politely ask for them to be amended