yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

We will have to change our lives permanently because of the sea changes AI will cause in society. You'll have to remember that everything American Tech Does Is Adopted By The World Forever. Which is why we all own VR goggles

the LLM use in writing is so funny to me because no one has to be a writer and actually it is pretty hard to make it as a writer so the writing itself must be its own reward. if you can't enjoy it, you shouldn't do it! no one is making you!

the new changes to the green card lottery are bad, but some of the claims that spread online last week were more conjecture than analysis. I talked with Malita Picasso from @aclu.org's LGBTQ & HIV Project to see which was which:

ahahaha i missed this last week. thanks for the shoutout @them.us / @samanthaallen.bsky.social www.them.us/story/leon-s...

Profiled T Kira Madden for ELLE! Read not only for WHIDBEY BTS, but also for a true example of what committing to this writing life can look like—and how freaking fun it can be amidst all the hard work. www.elle.com/culture/book...

This cheeky riff on A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Samantha Allen drops Puck, here reimagined as a nonbinary reality TV producer, into a friend’s wedding week, where they can’t resist their professionally honed urge to meddle. It’s a delight. @zandoprojects.bsky.social

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough. American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

In Uncertain Times, We Can All Agree on Leon S. Kennedy

The Great Queer TV Character Smackdown: Rue vs. Smithers

On a scale from 13 GOING ON to ZERO DARK, where do you fall on the 30 gender spectrum?

excited to have an essay in this! Love the bachelor? Hate the bachelor (like I did, until the golden bachelor)? You know what to do!

The fact that the past tense of “go” is “went” is fucking insane those are all new letters

we lost David Lynch a year ago today (and in the time since, I've seen "fix your hearts or die" on more protest signs than ever before). what I wrote at the time:

Where is Bloodborne

babe wake up, one of the "tradcath egirl summit" chicks is transvestigating sydney sweeney's neck

How are we doing book promo right now other than dropping links and feeling sheepish?!? bookshop.org/a/20948/9781...

😍 Got approved on Netgalley to read Puck by @samanthaallen.bsky.social! This looks like such fun and exactly the kind of thing I need right now. Also I will forever like Samantha for helping me carry books to my car at PNBA even though we'd just met like 3 minutes before. A truly nice person.😄 🌈📚💙

did my best to break down what we know, and how Trump officials have lied so far, about Renee Good and her murder today:

The anthology by and about The Bachelor fandom that I've worked on for five years is available for pre-order in that big B&N sale, and I'd love it if you pre-ordered it there or elsewhere! It was a huge and lengthy labor of love and I'm so proud of it. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/here-for-a...

Avatar has apparently had the greatest cultural impact of any movie ever, based on how goddamned much all of y’all are talking about it today

The Avatar movies are good, wildly entertaining, and visually spectacular. People like that. This is my expert analysis.

Michael Clayton 2: Baguette It Again

3D TVs, the Metaverse, pictures of apes…

She's here, she's available for preorder, and she's available for ARC requests 🥹 HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor is an anthology of 29 essays by 30 contributors, and includes pieces about racism, spoiling, love, loss, friendship, heterosexuality, and so much more.

hello! @samanthaallen.bsky.social entered a Daniel Doc! www.danieldocs.com/p/the-daniel...

If you're looking for "Sapphic spooky vibes for someone getting into the genre (audiobook preferable)," we suggest Patricia Wants to Cuddle by @samanthaallen.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian

Hello, people of Bluesky. A film adaptation of PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE is officially in the works. I am super excited about this: variety.com/2025/film/ma...

yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI? my latest @teenvogue.com

It has taken me almost a year to look for a forensic grammatical breakdown of 'Espresso' and all I can do is say thank you to @samanthaallen.bsky.social: www.them.us/story/sabrin...

today on Them, my interview with @nicoleamaines.bsky.social on writing the new SECRET SIX miniseries (out today!), the rapid evolution of Dreamer, and complicating the "queer superhero" in 2025: www.them.us/story/nicole...

the National Park Service erased the word "transgender" from its Stonewall National Monument page today and replaced "LGBTQ+" with "LGBQ+" -- here's my report for @them.us: www.them.us/story/nation...

we're all rightfully stressed about The News; on a dif note — been thinking a lot about the lack of awards recognition for I Saw The TV Glow despite its long tail of influence. sharing this profile I did of the film's music, talking to Jane Schoenbrun, Frances Quinlan of Hop Along, and Sloppy Jane

Fantasy books are so much more versatile than anyone realizes right now. In my latest book review column, I look at four books that range from romantasy to ecological weirdness to wuxia action. Gift linK: wapo.st/4hqE3Fu

wrote a farewell to my, our, beloved David Lynch: about getting "fix your hearts or die" tattooed, the legions of queer and trans art his work has since enabled, and losing his genius in part to the ecological decline caused by the human hubris his work obsessed over. @them.us

His health bar is huge

Santa as sleigh is Cronenberg esque and absolutely sick. This is what liberals want to do to christmas

ROLAND ROGERS ISN’T DEAD YET is super fun, has tons of great cultural references, and the ending made me WEEP! It’s so touching and heartfelt. Gah, I loved this book and I love @samanthaallen.bsky.social . If you adore books about movie stars, this is a most read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This one's not out yet, but I had the honor of reading Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet for a blurb at the beginning of the year, & it still sits with me. I read a lot of books & do a lot of blurbs, but this one really struck a chord in a way most others just never can. Both hilarious & heartbreaking.

i like all the little cinematic undercuts. the pile of cigarettes! the raviolis! people being upset about procedure! conclave is really about how difficult it is to be a project manager

If you need a break from the dumpster fire of democracy and like me, have kids who have been screaming all week “daddy, play Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso one more tiiiime,” the following may be just the medicine for you: www.them.us/story/sabrin.... @samanthaallen.bsky.social, you made my day.

“That’s that me espresso” is catchy, but what does it mean? www.them.us/story/sabrin...

CHALLENGERS altered my brain chemistry.

Today on This Is Horror Podcast, we talk to Samantha Allen in the first of a two-part conversation. In this episode, @samanthaallen.bsky.social talks about M to (WT)F, dark humour, women’s restrooms, and much more. www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-561-sama...

ROLAND ROGERS ISN’T DEAD YET is coming September 10, 2024 from the fine folks at Zando Projects. Check out the cover — and the beautiful blurbs!

Stop calling all good writing "lyrical" challenge

The hot new trend is kissing your co-star.

Talked with the one and only @jamesfactora.bsky.social about the many, many, many gendered memes of 2023.

At least 2023 had some good reality TV!