One day somebody NEEDS to write a dissertation about the royalist politics of these 'fake European sovereign nation Christmas romance' movies where Americans can live out the fantasies of marrying into royalty unburdened by any meaningful politics or histories.

The best part of 12 Angry Men is Juror #8 smiling as he instigates fights between the other jurors like Noemi Malone starting a fist fight on the dance floor at a nightclub.

Look I’m not trying to sound egotistical but I just feel like if I was there during the Salem witch trials with all those girls screaming about being collectively cold, I’d be the one going “guys this is dumb.” I just really think I’d be That Bitch in the witch club.

My #1 fav romcom trope is the pathologically boundary-trampling friend who lives exclusively to force the protagonist into various dream situations and never once thinks of wearing the dress, going for the promotion or dating the senator herself.

This looks amazing!

Charter rights are ours to protect. Sign BCCLA’s People’s Pledge today to take action.

Thanks for the shoutout! An academic book of mine is out in the wild as of last month.

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein ending with a quote by Lord Byron... Famously, a great dad...

In Search of Absent Pigments, part 1 of 4 🩵✨ A short comic by myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social, originally published in the Come Together anthology in 2019.

If you live in Alberta, please sign this. Danielle Smith cannot be allowed to casually trample our rights our of sheer malice and laziness. Alberta's education system needs a leader, not a coward. savethecharter.ca

best thing that happened to me all year. yes i said TO ME because that's how invested i am in everyone finally having a chance to realize what I've known for over 15 years, that Lin is the best writer in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❤️❤️❤️ I am so excited to be writing scifi ghost mysteries!

I'm so excited to announce that I have a book series officially forthcoming! It's Beetlejuice x Bladerunner but make it Queer, funny and romantic, about ghosts technologically resurrected and left to navigate dead end jobs to support themselves. TY to @LucienneDiver!

been lucky enough to see some of the first book and I’m DEEPLY obsessed with it, you don’t understand, you will not be able to shut me up, I couldn’t be more ready

I saw Re-Animator (85) at a theatre! I love how often someone grabs Herbert like a misbehaving cat & goes "HERBERT NO" because this man refuses to stop doing outrageous unethical science, will not apologize for his outrageous unethical science, & will not be denied his outrageous unethical science.

I'm so excited to announce that I have a book series officially forthcoming! It's Beetlejuice x Bladerunner but make it Queer, funny and romantic, about ghosts technologically resurrected and left to navigate dead end jobs to support themselves. TY to @LucienneDiver!

I play Book Bingo every year and I think I crushed it for 2025! My bingo card + the bonus side! MORE PEOPLE SHOULD PLAY BOOK BINGO!

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

personally i love him

Third film for #CIFF: Hedda, a Sapphic adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabbler that updates the play from the 19th Century to the 1950s. I felt it was a bit psychologically restrained, but the recasting of Lovborg as a woman is genius; genuinely elevating to already great material.

Second film at #CIFF: Blue Moon, about Lorenz Hart trying to keep it together on the opening night of Oklahoma! Marathon Ethan Hawke performance. A movie about the pains of collaboration & the agony of popular inoffensive art. 2 scenes made me absolutely lose it--spoilers in 🧵

She's one of those 'constantly making you hold multiple complex ideas in your head at the same time' writers, which I love.

Seeing some films at #CIFF! First up: Kiss of the Spider-Woman. I liked the central paradox, that we can't live without fantasy but, conversely, cannot /live/ in fantasies. But I thought the in-world film they're recreating together could have better evoked the style and look of old Hollywood.

Second film at #CIFF: Blue Moon, about Lorenz Hart trying to keep it together on the opening night of Oklahoma! Marathon performance from Ethan Hawke in a movie about the pains of collaboration and the agony of popular inoffensive art. Two scenes made me absolutely lose it, though--spoilers in 🧵

Do you hate reading but kind of wish you didn't? Here are some tips for getting into it from a lit professor. 🧵 With good book recs for reluctant readers!

Kpop Demon Hunters is really about the undeniable power of three girls walking together in a line.

The funniest part of Murderbot and ART's relationship is that Murderbot is a fundamentally good person made to work for an evil institution, and ART is a fundamentally evil person who works for a good institution.

My favourite Robert Redford movie is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a movie where the heroes spend the whole moving running away and are probably in a throuple with Katharine Ross. They also go on a really long vacation and do bike stunts. RIP.

You look like your day would be improved by photos of Groucho Marx staring adoringly up at tall women.

#RandomMovieRecs Starting Halloween off early with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), a movie about how spooky it is to be married for a really, really long time.

Reviewing Classic Vampires. Lord Ruthven, The Vampyre, 1819. Literally Byronic. Described as "profuse in his liberality," constantly enabling "the profligate" to wallow in lust and sink deeper into iniquity, seemingly for just the thrills. You have to respect it. 8/10.

Watched Sing Sing (2023) and thought about the human act of creation. letterboxd.com/wisteriajones

Shoutout to the Shaderunners commenter who compared this panel from the Zoll/Ara myth in Act II to this panel of Dom and Ezra in the most recent scene... rest assured, it was unintentional. congratulations you are smarter and more perceptive than I could ever hope to be

Aaahhh!!!

Saw Challengers for the second time and what I really dig about it is that everyone is both a real, living, desired body AND a symbol to the other two and the whole movie is about the shifting dynamics between three symbols/bodies is various stages of WANTING.

Games studies folks! Crime and detective studies folks! We want your work! Emphasis on the 'fiction' part.

The ending of Robert Browning's Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came is one of the most haunting vivid literary images: "There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides—met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all."

Games studies folks! Crime and detective studies folks! We want your work! Emphasis on the 'fiction' part.

CFP : Videogames and Crime Fiction. Crime Fiction Studies invites contributions for a themed issue on crime fiction and videogames! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/...

if you look hard enough on the left of the pic you can see I am in this 🌠 I find the ways we reinvent classic narratives so interesting, it was great to get to talk about!

Proponents are trying to call it a 'porn ban' which is patently absurd. Imagine living in a fantasy land where Albertan middle school librarians are filling their shelves with so much porn the government has to step in?

Didn't see my carpool had arrived and the group chat roasted me, thanks for nothing Edgar Allen Poe

CFP : Videogames and Crime Fiction. Crime Fiction Studies invites contributions for a themed issue on crime fiction and videogames! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/...

Me writing 'fragile' on the moving box containing my physical Nancy Drew PC game collection so that the movers treat it like gold.

'Punk rock' dinosaur with metre-long spikes discovered

Utterly ashamed to be an Albertan today. Per my teacher friend, now parents must opt IN to him teaching Shakespeare (which technically counts as 'explicit content'). Can't teach Handmaid's Tale, Kite Runner, 1984, etc. Absolutely monstrous. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I feel like one of the best things about Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 is that he makes jokes about being a vampire constantly but if YOU make vampire jokes you get instant disapproval.

The Greatest Show on Earth is considered one of the worst Best Picture winners, but I actually liked it. The dynamics between the three leads--two competing trapeze artists and their beleagured circus manager--are underdeveloped but have LOTS of potential. #rewritingBestPictureWinners