is it too late to call Bryan Fuller's Hannibal "Eated Rivalry"

Mother Jones and other outlets fought to unseal documents that show that the Trump administration targeted students for Pro-Palestinian speech. We won.

Collaborators. The Neville Chamberlains of our time.

"Just stay cool and don't make trouble until the midterms" is not going to cut it as an opposition response to a murderous regime whose masked thugs are killing people in the streets and then attempting to round up witnesses and destroy evidence.

Okay, yup, Cannibal Mukbang was definitely up my alley

Last Four Watched (all in one week this time!)

A 2-year old. This is a baby. newrepublic.com/post/205638/...

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

Ugh, I tried to get rid of the Twitter link icon on my website design (because I deleted my account, so it's a dead link), but now I've just messed something up

I did it! I made my favorite films of 2025 list! This was mostly an exercise in making myself write something (anything) www.delayedresponses.com/blog/leahs-f...

Yes I did pick this header image as a private little joke because there are two Robert Pattinson movies on my list

I did it! I made my favorite films of 2025 list! This was mostly an exercise in making myself write something (anything) www.delayedresponses.com/blog/leahs-f...

It's been a few months, and I still find it so fucking funny that the entirety of the sex scene in F1 was in the trailer. I'm not saying I wanted more, but the trailer tease being... it is so pathetic

Here's a link to @aadowd.bsky.social's piece, which is very good!:

As far as what WAS nominated, happy to see FRANKENSTEIN in there swinging. Warm congratulations especially to @realgdt.bsky.social who pulled off a major feat of adaptation.

A VAMPIRE MOVIE IS THE MOST NOMINATED OF ALL TIME.

And, oh, how that jumpscare blossoms into an instantly iconic villain in The Bone Temple

My stupid little posts are for me and my friends only, thank you very much

It will never not be jarring to me to hear Christian Bale's real English accent (I always completely forget he's British)

This should be up this week, we're trying our damndest to resurrect Delayed Responses this year. One unhinged post a month, baby

Honored to have been asked to contribute to @hifemme.bsky.social's beautifully ecclectic best of 2025 list hi-femme.com/high-femmes-...

It's a martini and film noir kind of Saturday night

Probably Gangs of New York, self-inflicted. I keep revisiting it every few years, wondering if it will hit me differently one of these times. It never does

Last 4 watched (from maybe the last two weeks?)

Lol, if the vampire ending had gone through, I simply would have been forced by fate to write an essay about my personal obsession with this stunt casting variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Honored to have been asked to contribute to @hifemme.bsky.social's beautifully ecclectic best of 2025 list hi-femme.com/high-femmes-...

There's some construction on the sidewalk right outside of my house today, and they're jackhammering the cement. One baby woke up from his nap, and the other just snoozed right through it. A jackhammer right outside of his window, and he stayed asleep

So far The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is living up to the hype. (But horror westerns are, admittedly, extremely my shit)

This about summarizes is the Heated Rivalry essay I wrote, lol hi-femme.com/heated-rival...

Post four TV couples you love (both actual relationships and profound yearning are acceptable)

For the good people of Slate dot com, I wrote about Hamnet, Shakespeare in Love, and why Shakespeare‘s prestigiousness does his work a disservice. slate.com/culture/2026...

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

I've taken Sudafed every four hours for too many days in a row and reached the insomnia stage, AMA

Had a two movie day today. One was wonderful (Father Mother Sister Brother), and one was decidedly not (People We Meet on Vacation)

Watching IT: Welcome to Derry was actually the perfect antidote to the stink bomb of Stranger Things S5

Half the blurbs are done, who is this 2026 version of me suddenly inspired to type again

I've seen it come up a lot that women like male/male romance to because there aren't gendered power dynamics as present (and I hear that). But to these people I say, queer up your het romances then, I'm tired of heteropessimism! (If you just like thinking about men banging, then more power to you)

We really need to move past the thing where we feel the need to justify or sanctify all of our sexual desires. If you're a straight lady who is into male/male romance, it *is* a little weird and a little fetish-y, >

I do not get the love for Timothée Chalamet in this at all. He felt completely out of his depth to me

Oof, Marty Supreme left me so cold. Not a fan. But could I write 2,000 words about the scene where Kevin O'Leary's pen magnate spanks Timmy with a ping pong paddle? Yes

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Hannibal's up there, which is why my spiciest take is that I never want season 4

Oops, I did it again (made someone watch Music and Lyrics because they'd never seen it and then got "Pop! Goes My Heart" stuck in my own head on an earworm loop)

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

ICYMI, I snuck in an essay under the 2025 wire. It's tied to Heated Rivalry, but it's really about why I think Hollywood has struggled to get in on the erotic romance craze sweeping the publishing industry. hi-femme.com/heated-rival...

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Accidentally have like four vampire books lined up in my tbr pile, finding my way back to my truest form in 2026

Clocking in for my shift at the Heated Rivalry reaction factory

Trying to figure out how I want to recap IWTV S3 (podcast or written), because I AM doing it. Nothing's going to stop me this year

New today on the site! @carriecourogen.bsky.social on Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, and the enduring power of A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE