Reaching for yet another cookie, just to make sure they haven't gone bad since I had one (or two) a half hour ago. I'd hate to poison someone because I didn't complete adequate testing.

Holiday Hot Take Number 8: All official lists of people, organizations, and cultural works based on ideology are very, very bad except for Santa's. (Even if you think it's a good list, it can be weaponized rapidly in the wrong hands. Please don't make lists of people, especially marginalized ones)

Happy Halloween, internet pals.

This is what I mean when I talk about artistic integrity.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Reposting in case someone knows the book!

I'm generally a good, quiet neighbor. But every now and then "Fortuosity" from The Happiest Millionaire (1967) comes up on the playlist, and suddenly I'm belting high notes at the top of my voice. With apologies to the neighborhood, it's simply impossible not to. 🤷‍♀️

Ye Line forever!!!

Van Heflin should be better known. Tall, broad shouldered, handsome but not glamorous, equally believable as a philosophical autodidact or a plain spoken working stiff who just wants to get paid and laid. There's an angry, resentful edge to him that is perfect for film noir and procedurals.

Men: Is super-jacked Wolverine the female gaze? Meanwhile, women (including the woman herself, Bette Davis): Claude Rains could get it.

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

Lifting weights is just me preparing to reorganize my books.

We're getting horror movie previews year-round now, so NO ONE can complain when I start decorating for Christmas in October and keep it going through February. The world is broken, and I need therapy and this to survive the sudden nightmare fuel during the ad breaks of my cozy tv shows.

I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.

Imagine having a day like this and NOT putting it in your memoirs. Like, if I got to walk a big cat, I'd never shut up about it.

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"What did PBS shows teach you?" Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable. Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy. Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends. Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.

I've DNFd my last three historical romances for just... not bothering with the history part and I'm depressed. :/ IDK. I read historical romance because I *like* historical settings with people behaving and speaking differently to now. Feels like many people consider that a bug, not a feature.

I can only assume this is Miles Vorkosigan, but if there's anyone else who fits that description, I WANT TO READ THAT BOOK TOO.

Telling me to be afraid of Transwomen cause they “could actually be men hiding in the bathroom to assault women” makes me scared of men, not Transwomen. Cause, they’re not men. Y’all just literally acknowledging that the problem is men. Leave Transwomen alone. They’re women.

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

I can't repost this enough.

Candlesticks are always nice.

once again, "having rizz" is paying homage to rizzo the rat. not many people know this

I don't think I've seen any actor consistently give 100% to every role, regardless of the genre or even the quality... except Joan Crawford. What she does may not be in style now, but her acting has a purity unlike any other's. And not to bring up the feud, but Joan's eyes deserve songs, too.

A Merle Oberon biography that's well-researched and sympathetic? The most automatic auto-buy I ever bought. Now excuse me while I wait sort-of-patiently at the door for my B&N delivery.

I logged on too late to vote, but please know I'm judging everyone who CHOSE NOT TO vote for one of the greatest romcoms of all time. Incomprehensible.

The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.

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Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer. And yes, I will use the entire 10 minutes to discuss why Max and Deb are the unsuspected king and queen of kink.

I'm relying on the Slow Horses??

You know you're reading a pre-2000s book when someone explains how to use a search engine and then is asked, "Where did you learn about the internet?" 😂

Harrison Ford talking about Shrinking it’s the best. You can tell how much this tv show means to him.

people say “you have to judge slaveholders by the morality of their own time, no one knew it was wrong” and then you read about some Quaker named, like, Mr. End-Slavery-Now who was also a feminist and a vegetarian and advocated the overthrow of capitalism.

People are trying to do another "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and fight every single one of them until they learn some basic critical thinking.

Review up for My Favorite Leopard, @booksbybrianne.bsky.social's new romantic novella from the Phoenix Pictures Vault! If you're a fan of Old Hollywood and aren't reading these books yet... what are you waiting for??? bookitwithbecca.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/m...