A lot of these Heated Rivalry takes are massively underestimating how many heterosexual women have done anal sex.

Inclement Greenberg

Word of warning people on Twitter are apparently incapable of discussing the awful Grok images without screenshotting/quote-tweeting so maybe stay away for a minute.

I started to write one of these type of posts asking if people know what Cockaigne is, and then I was like, girl, you know they don't. So why bother asking? Really I just want permission to make a very complicated book-spanning joke about yay.

Thought of this is as I was telling someone about how Zohran had to pay a $9 fee to become mayor.

See you space cowboy

Wishes and Dreams For 2026

No big resolutions this year. Just need my book to be hailed as a modern fantasy classic, to meet the love of my life, and to grasp for myself the life I have always dreamed of. No pressure.

Wait I think my book might be the only traditionally published book by a Black trans woman about an out Black trans woman. Bananas.

A villainess and a villain from alternate worlds fell in love 10 years ago but can only see each other when their universes overlap. Now, semi-reformed and stumbling through their 30s, they have one last chance to figure things out. But what if staying together means tearing both their worlds apart?

I fear I will have to make a thread.

I think authors reposting negative reader reviews on their social media is gauche.

Even the mildest, least challenging 00s comedies were obligated to have at least two transphobic jokes over the course of the series. I think maybe it was a contract thing, like Van Halen making people pick out the brown M&Ms.

I mentioned that I am heterosexual and someone accused me of participating in global femicide.

I don't love how many people's personality is "woke ethnographer" now.

I hate it when people interrupt me when I am discoursing with fellow weirdos. Like, go back to your hovels, peasants; hermits are speaking.

I despise Gavin Newsom and genuinely hope he never comes anywhere near the presidency while also acknowledging he would dogwalk JD Vance like no other.

Some translations really make you aware that the translator is a very good academic and not a very good poet/author.

They're rebooting Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa?? For whomst?

The power went out at my house and I had no choice but to reread the only book on my tablet, my own novel. I fear I must inform you that it is, indeed, a modern fantasy classic.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I think a lot of fantasy authors wildly underestimate the role of religion in society before the Enlightenment.

One of the most shocking things for me as I have gotten older is realizing that a lot of people genuinely lack ambition. Like for a long time I genuinely thought everyone was just being polite and exercising "humility" for social reasons. But no, people really want simple lives of quiet contentment.

Robocop 2, particularly the scene where Robocop is dismembered.

JCO's takes on classical poetry pissing me off as much as they did 15 years ago

Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!

I truly cannot believe you guys are still falling over yourselves to argue with/dunk on Stancil.

Seeing people who for years said that porn is inherently liberatory and transgressive now tut-tutting at romantasy and Heated Rivalry. Rolling my eyes so hard that, if harnessed, the force of the rotation could power the electrical grid of a mid-sized American city.

I don't think any character in any movie has ever given me more ick than Jamie Dornan's Christian Grey. Just constant douche chills.

I've never understood the problem with Pluto and Goofy both being dogs. They are clearly distinct species. Their most recent common ancestor was millions of years ago. It's like a human with a pet monkey.

- Five apples tall - Weighs three apples - British - Twin sister Mimmy - Boyfriend Dear Daniel - Not a cat

Found a novel I started and abandoned like 12 years ago on an old usb. Really interesting to me how similar it is to my current writing voice while also being completely hollow, just all surface.

do you think the grinch is like, "no, i'm not from the whoville where everything is super-small. there's more than one whoville. i'm from the whoville where we have all accepted jesus christ as our lord and personal savior."

ICYMI: the first new Violet story that you don't have to buy an anthology to read in like four years, here for you to read.

The Thin Man is obviously the best Christmas movie. No competition.

I totally forgot that I took up smoking and quit again this year lol

Saw a review of a book that called it anachronistic to have "ok" instead of "okay" in a medieval fantasy setting, but ok is the original and also wildly anachronistic regardless of the orthography.

Based on current projections, Gen Beta will be really into the number 65.

I think what irritates me about a lot of current book discourses is how people act like enjoying fun, not-particularly-demanding literature is a new, never before feature of late capitalism and not the state of things since the dawn of literacy

I'm not trying to defend Marvel movies but I don't think you can talk about bad 00s/10s action movies without also talking about the Transformers of it all.

I've been thinking about doing a fantasy novel riffing pre-WWII Americana, mixing folklore and with real historical figures, and as I do a bit of cursory research on the relevant personages, I am comforted, as I am reminded that everything has always been as insane and absurd as it is now.

Father Coughlin was Canadian??

Revisiting Randy Newman today, and it's really interesting how much he influenced me as an artist. He showed me that I could be a spiteful bitch with a heart full of hate and still crack a smile and tell a joke.

You're telling me a well tempered this clavier??

I keep seeing takes that basically amount to "this person can't be bad, their writing demonstrates great morality," and it's like, you know you can just say whatever, right?

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a... Wonderful writeup in the Ancillary Review's 2025 Notable Books -- you can always rely on them to have some of the most thoughtful criticism in the field.

I try not to be a doomer about this stuff but sometimes it's just really depressing.

No, book website, my interest in transgender fiction does not extend to "The Farmer and the Femboy." I fear that even after all these years of watching me browse the web and listening to my phone calls, you still do not understand me at all.