The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes movie is actually a pretty great adaptation of the book. It doesn’t quite manage to translate the absolutely scathing depiction of a narcissist, but honestly it’s so skilfully and subtly done in the book I am not quite sure how they could have achieved it.
03.02.2026 01:02 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
One of my favorite movies, but especially feeling the need to plug it now.
“The Great Dictator” 1940
29.01.2026 01:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I worry about mine sometimes but then I remember they don’t JUST talk through their roots, they also talk through VOCs (volatile organic compounds) they emit
We BREATHE the words of plants
We can TOUCH the words of plants
The human way of saying words must be spoken is so limited!!
28.01.2026 23:06 — 👍 72 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 1
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."-Elie Wiesel
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Makin’ ears happy with non mainstream since 12/25
Share the feels. Hit repost.
This week’s playlist
Tidal https://bit.ly/49UbHTb
Spotify https://bit.ly/465SE6b
On loop 🎵 Velvet Gravity (collab 😉) https://bit.ly/3YRn3kr
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
Reader. Processing Archivist.
a work in progress (and occasionally a “writer”). she/her.
✍️I write Pocket Observatory, an attention reclamation project.
🗞️My work also appears in places like Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, Slate, BBC and NPR.
https://linktr.ee/megconley
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
she/her 📚Librarian📚 Author of DEAR LIBRARIAN ✨BUY MY BOOK✨http://bit.ly/3gZYTfc
reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
An American cartoonist in Portugal
Writer. Elder Millennial. My personality is “from Boston”
Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Writer and academic working on smell. ‘One of those academic types who turn to books as a substitute for social interaction’. 👃🏻📚🏳️🌈
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧 (thank goodness!). I’ve managed the selling of a lot of things (bookstores, at the V&A, and now Tatty Devine in London). OCD stuff. Pro Wendy’s and Sees Candies.
Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Founder of Tiny Kindness Insta (https://www.instagram.com/tinykindnesses/). Author of Mother's Milk & I Gave Her a Name w/ BCC Press. Editor of Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings w/ Oxford University Press. Tired.
Editor, writer, cinephile, redneck.
New dad. Lawyer/Writer/America’s Grandma. Humor columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune. Creator of the Strangerville podcast. Humor essays here: https://linktr.ee/Elimccann
Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar
