My husband just reminded me that 2010 was fifteen years ago. How is that even math?

I will never understand all the kids in movies whose first thought on being left home alone is to throw a massive party. Everyone I know is like, “yes! Quiet! I will do nothing! Maybe I will let my closest friends come over for a chill movie night!”

ADHD parenting is a trip. I just had to remind my kid how to stand up, recognize that she was cold, and get dressed. I was then assured by multiple family members that this was normal and they had experienced it too.

Nap

Tonight is the night. Tonight I will share the two somewhat inappropriate stories from my mom that relate to Bill Clinton.

Part of why I love horror is that it reminds us that humans are small and naked and weak, and something bigger than us can still eat us. It’s good for us to get the reminder.

When you’re the kind of parent who shows your eight year old the 13th Warrior.

Started reading The Incandescent, and as someone who works in a high school, I am hooked.

If Evie had a union, she wouldn’t have been using an unsafe ladder with unbraced bookshelves. Her employer is at fault.

It’s been twenty years, but I did it. At my undergraduate college, there was this delightful little cafe in the science center. They served an amazing drink called hot spiced chaider, which was chai mixed with apple cider. Every time, I’ve tried to recreate it, the cider has curdled the chai.

Happy New Year, witches!

Homily: Who is your favorite monster hunter? :D Shesheshen: ...I don't have one. They're all terrible. Homily: Is she niiiice? Shesheshen: ...Yes.

I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start. via White Rose Resistance

Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

This books is so good.

Another amazing food to eat while high: caramel apples.

Sappho says, “that the most beautiful thing upon the black earth is whatever it is you desire.”

This is your reminder that Thor and Achilles canonically did drag.

Horror Rereads I Use to Get to Sleep: The Twisted Ones The Hollow Places A House with Good Bones What Moves the Dead What Feasts at Night Into the Drowning Deep The Haunting of Hill House Lute Wylding Hall

I’m starting my last T. Kingfisher reread of the year. It’s a heavy moment, but it’s time for a serious comfort read. And next year I’ll have more of them to reread since new ones came out this year.

5 movies to get to know me: Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Labyrinth One Cut of the Dead Practical Magic The Mummy

I was corny before it was cringe.

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

We can’t test our way to academic success, y’all. When school becomes endless test prep, real learning fades while anxiety & learning lethargy grows…we have DECADES of proof of this. Let’s give kids time to learn by sticking to the federally-required tests only…& drop the rest!

Perfect anniversary date: pub food and Celtic music, then The Black Phone 2.

There are two types of hotels: a mountain of pillows that you have to move off the bed; and two tiny flat pillows on a massive bed.

I’m listening to The Haunting of Hill House AKA That Horny Gothic Lesbian Romance. And there’s this bit where Theodora gives up on sitting on furniture and sprawls on the hearth like the bisexual bombshell she is.

🧵It has been clear for years that a key difference between past instances of book banning and the present censorship cataclysm is that the banning happening now targets not only books, but librarianship as a profession and libraries as an institution. 1/4

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

Weeded book is back.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Let me just whip out my boob at the makeup counter.

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title: John Carpenter’s Return to Oz

It’s either an obscure older person with a battered guitar who makes the circuit at medieval fairs, a filker who sells cds out of a backpack, or a high school student scribbling in a notebook.

What if no one is actually neurotypical? What if some people are just super-maskers?

Republicans can end their shutdown and all the pointless pain it’s causing at any point. Instead, they’re intent on raising your health care premiums and unleashing flight delays, missed paychecks, and chaos on Americans.

Pretty sure someone will give him money to continue making them.

They also serve who only stand and goof. 🙃

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

This is not the answer I expected.

Requested my library purchase it as soon as I saw the cover.

I may disagree with everything either of them is done, but my poor dead Southern mama would be ashamed of me if I didn’t offer them congratulations on their engagement. I’m also curious to see what kind of ring you give a man whose wealth was founded on emerald mines.

“Not all my impulses are noble ones. I just do my best to make the noble choice when the nasty impulses make their presence known.”—Seanan McGuire, Silver and Lead

If we’re going to pass a budget for the U.S. government, we need to save health care for millions of Americans. Period.

Looked at the news. What the actual fuck?

Gotta nerd out. In Hades 2, when we first meet Selene, Melinoe uses the phrase “I draw you down,” which is a reference to real Ancient Greek witchcraft. I love all the deep cuts in these games.

When you’re critiquing bad people (Trump), I am begging you to be aware of splash damage. If you are making fun of them in a way that makes someone who isn’t them feel bad, maybe rethink the joke.

I truly do not care what causes autism unless learning that information can be used to support already existing autistic people live easier and more fulfilling lives

“No, you move.”