The Sheep Detectives is the pro-hollyhock movie America needed

Did we know that the toast dot net has been taken down entirely? I thought they were planning to maintain the website into perpetuity

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, in London 📸 Bassano Ltd (July, 1930)

Well I guess this ends my 15-year (give or take) relationship (experience?) with Fitbit.

The answer at the end of this thread is true and somehow crushing

Considering paying for this substack so I can know if the Pope and I endured the same deep suffering (First Midwest Bank being bought out by Old National)

Just wanted to say that I am having an excellent time with THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF. The book’s great, wonderful narration from Fiona Hardingham. I know V.E. Schwab and Cat Clarke have a lot going on but I hope they do more of these!

Is anyone around who could forward me the April SCBWI Insight email? I somehow fell off the mailing list, I think.

I’m sorry, I just learned that Jasper Fforde runs a yearly fan fest and it is called Fforde Fiesta. www.ffordeffiesta.co.uk?fbclid=IwVER...

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

The “See Also” on the Wikipedia page for Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is just, oh, exquisite

Anyone on here do gardening and know of these are weeds or garden plants coming up? We moved in this past autumn and are uncertain what may or may not come up this spring. There were tomatoes, zinnias, jalapeños, and thyme growing in the garden last year that we were aware of 🤷‍♀️

Everyone else has violets blooming in their yard and ours refuse to come up. To whom can I send my complaint?

We have forgotten the old texts

Middlemarch is basically “if you give a mouse a cookie” but the mouse is egoism and the cookie is a pier-glass minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions placed against a lighted candle such that the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

Found the veiled insult section at the greeting card shop

If you were teaching a class on great profile writing, what profiles would you assign to read?

My mom is out of the hospital which means I can finally lift my head up long enough to say, "Hey! I have a new book out tomorrow!" It's called Deep Blue and it's about conquering your fears to discover the joy of swimming in the ocean. You can order it here. bookshop.org/a/96530/9781...

If you were teaching a class on great profile writing, what profiles would you assign to read?

Listen, maybe it only bugs me because I paid tens of thousands of dollars for my MFA, but the kidlit community has got to stop this “MFA in a Day,” “MFA-style,” “mini MFA” phrasing for A WEEKEND CONFERENCE

Weather dot com has an April Fool’s “retro cast” with a 90s style display, but the joke’s on them because it’s the first time their site has been readable in 10 years (the retro cast has no ads)

So did the Tournament of Books fall out of favor? I am used to it being a major social media *event* but I haven’t seen a single post about it this year.

So did the Tournament of Books fall out of favor? I am used to it being a major social media *event* but I haven’t seen a single post about it this year.

The children yearn for the enneagram

Please stop turning my two asterisks into shorthand for making a word bold. Those asterisks are a *garnish*

I will never understand copying and pasting other people’s jokes from Twitter to earn clout on *bluesky* of all places

I swear every dystopian tech development is like "Hey, are you OK with being this much not-a-person in our eyes? How about this much? One or two? <clicking noises> OK, how about now—one or two?" like I'm at the devil's optometry office.

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

The library sending their overdue notices out on Sunday mornings is a violation of my religious rights

Who will write me 10,000 words on Lenten spon con

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

I have just seen Jurassic Park in the theater and for the first time, AMA

you live in a boxcar *one time* and they call you "the boxcar children" forever

If Carly Rae Jepsen has no fans, I am dead, but perhaps the “Call Me Maybe - Manhattan Clique Remix” that is essentially only the refrain “call me maybe” over 2012 dance beats for five minutes straight should be banned from whatever music services play in MRI machines

I am devastated to learn that I have missed H IS FOR HAWK in theaters. Gonna adopt a bird to deal with this grief.

The children long for The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Ron Charles is my all-time favorite book critic. For several years, I subscribed to this newspapers ONLY to read his reviews. What a sad and absolutely infuriating day. roncharles.substack.com/p/ive-been-l...

Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Well I hate this www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

So it's decided: Every documentary will begin with the subject getting miked in a sit-down interview, idle chit-chat with the offscreen director, and then cutting to the title card after they ask, "Have we started?"

This is a really beautiful reflection on the way Auschwitz is preserving small items—toothbrushes, shoes, artworks—in the hopes they can tell stories when the last Holocaust survivors are gone.

How is the Pachinko audiobook? Sandra Oh is great but I’m wary of signing up for 17 hours of celebrity audiobook reader.

by submitting a different manuscript 6 months later

What's a non-terrible web app for weather? I just want to be able to see current conditions and basic forecasting for the week without waiting for a billion ads to load.

Nobody admits it but the real reason most people get cats is because they make a really good noise if you prod them while they're asleep.