anyway. still stressed as fuck about money/moving, but I just did that thing where I lay down and stretched my legs just right so I’m good for a while.

kind of wild that “someone actually thinking of the children” has become a revolutionary act.

dammit it's _state sponsored violence_, i got so worked up i forgot how words work.

any writer who says they only write to "entertain" is either a liar or an idiot. possibly both.

The Yoda fight gave me a lot of joy the first time I saw the movie. It’s goofy as hell and I’m not sure I’d defend it now, but it was the only thing I like when I saw it in theaters.

imagine thinking "Star Trek tries to _say_ things too much" is a legit, worthwhile point to be making in the year of our lord 2026. yes, out of all of popular culture, some writers occasionally trying to make a point needs to be address. what next? people _caring_ about things?

grow the fuck up.

Your ol' pal Rowan is fundraising for rent help! Help the worst cat in the world, the best cat in the world, and a pretty okay trans woman with a pretty bad heart condition out! Venmo: venmo.com/u/RowanKaiser Paypal: paypal.me/rowankaiser

well, time to do this again--i miscalculated on a bill and now i'm in the negative on my bank account. i also have to move next month. I have a Ko-fi account (ko-fi.com/zacharyhandl...) and a Patreon, where I'm currently doing movie reviews by commission (and other stuff):

well, time to do this again--i miscalculated on a bill and now i'm in the negative on my bank account. i also have to move next month. I have a Ko-fi account (ko-fi.com/zacharyhandl...) and a Patreon, where I'm currently doing movie reviews by commission (and other stuff):

for a while, I had this dream of owning all of the collected Peanuts volumes, despite having no where to store them; this is extremely cool. (I'd still like to own the physical editions, but this is way more plausible!)

we're midway through Hell Week of the show (did a run Wed, Thurs night, doing one tonight, tomorrow night, and Sunday afternoon), and while I don't feel tired, I've lost most of my shell. it's more difficult for me to recognize when i'm talking too much or being weird. this should be a fun work day.

what the hell do i do now? "look at porn" oh please, where on earth can I find porn, it's not like there's a whole electronic system that's designed to provide me with even the most esoteric erotic visions 24/7

hey, I finally finished writing about every chapter of The Stand! I'm going to do Night Shift next, and then Pet Sematary.

always a good sign when you give an award to someone that retroactively embarrasses everyone who's already received that award.

this is great as everyone says it is.

so Stephen King is the reason I started writing, and he's a huge influence on me, but realizing that his brain is wired to write the way he does (I suspect he's got some form of ADHD, which would also fit the booze/drug addiction) helped me feel better about failing to match his output.

these look like the instruments for "mutant women" Jeremy Irons used in Dead Ringers.

watching the new Potter show isn't about "being a bad person," it's about the simple fact that if you watch it, you will be supporting (in a very direct way) a rich and powerful creep who will use that support to do more creep things. stop making this about you.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

i didn't realize i was 16 when this came out.

my experience as well--the difficulty discussion got super weird (like they always do), but for me, it just came down to not wanting to struggle for _everything_.

honestly it makes sense that all the platnerheads want to talk about is whether he’s truly a Nazi in his heart of hearts because the other important discussion is whether he’s as dumb as a post

Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne DLC; Sif in Dark Souls; Midra in the Elden Ring DLC… From is just really, really good at that stuff. Not the main reason I love their games but a big part of it.

Someone needs to draw this poster like the Days of Future Past comic cover

new Babylon 5 review is up for my patrons--talking about "Survivors," which gives us some much needed (if fairly mundane) background on Garibaldi:

feel like people posting images from legitimately scary movies to say "this traumatized me as a kid" are losing out on the fun of showing just how terrifying _everything_ was growing up.

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid.

i think the claim that it's "stolen" is utterly absurd, but the movies do have an extremely similar "we start off being one thing and then halfway through we become something a lot less interesting" vibe (Sinners pulls it off far better, but the comparison isn't completely insane.)

is there a better expression of the creative exhaustion of modern movie studios than this shit? it's the sort of thing that would be charming from a bunch of kids, but is so endlessly embarrassing, cheap, and ugly looking when done by adults.

…legit thought this came out and was forgotten years ago.

Speaking as a parent of two teenagers, members of a cohort who know Charlie Kirk ONLY as the loser from the memes who got shot in the neck on tv for being a piece of shit, this is a VERY valuable thread to read

one easy and free way to do this is to email the library and thank them for whatever they're doing that you like

For those who may not know, yes I am the person who chalked on the sidewalk in front of Susan Collins’ house. Not only did she call the police to erase my work (violating my 1st am right), but she’s since moved to a house without a sidewalk. She’s already made it clear that she’s intimidated by me.

THERE IS A GOD and unsurprisingly they love Dana Scully.

I mean, the most likely explanation is “Brendon’s star had imploded, so people didn’t want to post about him,” but I wanted to get the rush of comparing Twitter to BlueSky

I cannot explain to you how much it hurts me that the pictures are in the wrong order. It was there. It was right there. why do you -hurt- me

one thing that is different from Twitter: celeb deaths don’t seem to hit the same way. I don’t think I saw more than two posts after Nicholas Brendon died, and on Twitter, I feel like it would’ve been Buffy clips all day and “Xander wasn’t the best but”

Marathon sounds like something i'd be into if it didn't require playing with other people. god what a weird, meaningless post this is! complaining about a game for its _literal genre_. i need to lie down.

He feels like someone who enjoys the image of “I’m just saying what others are afraid to say,” and that shit can lead you down some real bad paths. I wish I could get more of my local friends to get this. Some of them are all in, in a way that makes them difficult to talk to.

Ye Olde Onion Headline: "Gentleman Always Experiences A Brief Rise In Excitement When Informing Others Of Edgar Allan Poe's Child Bride"

i only know the basics about the Shy Girl thing, but this is a good read.

Someday...

I have said this before and will say it here: if, for God knows whatever reason, you have not seen this clip before, you may think you are ready for what occurs but you are not youtu.be/K2_SvX4PEbU?...

“what if Annie Wilkes got Ozempic” vibes right here

I think part of my problem with feeling bad about how I look in pictures is that it makes me feel guilty to be attracted to people? …oh right, world’s on fire, briefly forgot!

say a fella who never read Faulkner before was thinking of changing that. where's a good place to start?

i am regularly baffled by people's constant need to assess and reassess a social media platform. i've done "ugh, this place sucks!" jokes before because that seemed to be the vibe, but i never sit around thinking "how good _is_ Bluesky, really?" it's just a place i post stuff, and read stuff.