"He wanted to look but at the same time he felt disgust & held back. For a time he struggled & covered his eyes. Then desire got the better of him. He rushed over & forced his eyes wide open, saying 'There you are, curse you. Have a really good look. Isn’t it a lovely sight?'" 2/2

Reddit has a copy of the non paywall if, like me, you cannot look away.

I have 162 works / editions in this database across 6 names. Indie authors, be sure to check!

your honor in my culture it’s actually very common to rob the Bellagio

AI slop creator: Privileged elites are CRUELLY HAZING US by GATEKEEPING artistic skill and the masses WILL NOT STAND FOR IT! Dude who learned how to draw: ????

honestly "the chatbots are essentially the fae" would probably be better for normies as a mental model

girls love it when netherfield park is let at last

Some people say criticism is dead. I say show them this.

It’s really very simple! It turns out that, when given the economic and reproductive freedom we have never enjoyed before, many more women CHOOSE not to have children than any economists expected. The desire for motherhood may not, in fact, be innate to women’s DNA!

tiffany they were gay

I’ll take your copaganda TV and raise you mainstream legal TV shows that help most people believe that, if/when accused of a crime, the justice system will always provide them with fair due process and their day in court, administrated by officials acting in pursuit of the truth.

If you ever think English isn’t a needlessly complicated language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme but read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

Having a full backyard firework show on July 5th should be illegal I JUST GOT MY POOR BABY PET THROUGH LAST NIGHT YOU WANKERS!

it is really weird that publishing decided that instead of having a marketing budget, writers should just become cult leaders

The Materialists is FANTASTIC. It is very funny in places and very romantic in places but it is not a classic romcom despite what the marketing may want you to think? I adored it.

Lord, give me the confidence of the man sitting down to brunch beside me at 11.20am who just casually remarked that his international flight leaves IN TWO HOURS. Sir, SIR!

The leopards They are eating each other yes YES The leopards are HUNGRY

If you've let your guard down? It is time to be vigilant.

LEVERAGE meeting 2008: “The trick is, slide the social critique in behind the fun. I don’t want to push.” ME IN EDITING IN 2024: “Do we have a take of the white techbro chasing our heroine with an ax screaming ‘THIS IS EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!!’ where he looks directly into the camera? No? Damn.”

“Is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil?” is a question all creatives need to ask about EVERY so-called opportunity and collaboration (grim pun intended).

Love in the Time of *Gestures Frantically*

Ask a tech company how they feel about patents and they’ll suddenly get real interested in enforcing intellectual property rights.

Get in loser we’re creating honest sentimental art without a trace of irony and putting a piece of ourselves out into the world

Today's information environment is spectacle. It's about attention. The way to win in that environment is to genuinely believe what you believe, to believe in yourself, to *actively try to draw attention*, to showboat & peacock & find gimmicks & excuses to highlight the fights you want.

Going straight from the Andor finale into Rogue One because I haven’t cried enough this month.

Want to know what a 6-week pregnancy/abortion actually looks like?

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

Once the world is just scammers and suckers you become a sucker just by not scamming people, because your life gets shittier even if you're not directly getting scammed, because everyone around you is getting scammed

And just having this moment of life "oh you can get rich doing scams. It's easy to run scams now. It's just going to be scams from now on"

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

I wish I could tell the poor woman next to me that if you’re spending 30 mins desperately explaining to your boyfriend how much ANY romantic gesture would mean to you, and all he does is stubbornly shrug that they don’t mean anything to him? The relationship is already over, babe!

Chicago Pope sounds like a new CBS drama.

Does bring us a step closer to the ACTION POPE franchise tho. Kicking ass, saving souls.

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

I bet you he thinks small businesses are just ones that wanted to be big but failed. Suckers and losers.

Oh my gawd. A friend pointed out he might not know the difference between a foreign film or an American film *made* in a foreign country. Either way this is insanity. But I'd love to see the reaction of studio heads to the president saying he's going to kill any and all tax breaks they get overseas

HOW WOULD ANY OF THIS EVEN WORK??!!!

ANDOR is even better than everyone is saying, and I don’t watch a single other Star Wars spin-off property.

Might it be because the people with real power in politics and media are overwhelmingly white men over 40 who are mad that they got told one time not to harass their female subordinates and so secretly are just fine with the male authoritarian dominance project? 🤔

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

I went to check out the cart of general cleaning products/household stuff I've been assembling this week and... half the prices are already 15-20% higher. This is your reminder to get on it.

I hope the AI Agatha Christie abruptly and unaccountably goes missing

so anyways it’s currently grossed over $120 million

Bucky Barnes McDonald, 2014-2025. 💔 He passed on Friday. (I am a wreck.)

If anyone feels like THE HOLIDAY: SUMMER EDITION, I’m open to swapping my house in LA for something cat-friendly in London with outside space for 2-3 months. Let me know!

I'm trying to find an illustrator for paid work (in a specific style), and EVERY image I click through from pinterest/insta/stock sites turns out to be ai generation. Real artists are being drowned out by the sheer volume of slop, and are impossible to find.

People will always say they’re your friend and they support you no matter what but then they’ll say some toxic shit to you like “you have to let go of the cursed amulet, it’s changing who you are” and “don’t let its power corrupt you” all because they want the amulet for themselves

HEARTBREAKERS reboot tv series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and her kid as the next generation of loveable scammers when?