Shelley Franklin Collum

I fear my online energy is a drunk person at the bar who wants to interrupt your conversation about the Super Bowl to tell you about how much I like the movie Nope and that fuckin scary chimp.

He's come a long way since throwing chairs about Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy.

I do like that there was a moment where he had to make the decision to put himself as Markiplier in the opening credits. I thought that might be a ding on his credibility, but they let McG direct however many things with that goofy ass name.

I've finally found a book about writing craft that doesn't make me want to stab out my frontal cortex, so that's nice.

I put down on “Here’s why you should read Ulysses”, but if he’s a Finnegan’s Wake guy it’s gonna sink my parlay.

Went to see Iron Lung at 2pm on a Tuesday and the theatre was full! I am really surprised, good for Markiplier. I wish more rich people would fund creative projects instead of spending their time and money on making life worse for not-rich people.

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I just need everyone to know that I found a DDR machine today and it had End of the Century on it and freaking 20 year old muscle memory came through. Like riding a bike, baby. I'm super cool.

I love it here in the UK so much please let me stay, I swear I'll start spelling color with a u and everything.

The National Theatre production of Doctor Strangelove does some amazing work mixing screens and special effects with the talents of Steve Coogan an eerily persistently timely environment of governmental war mongering and ridiculousness.

Who wants to come over and we can listen to REM and stuff zines into empty cassette cases? My mom will order pizza and then she promises to leave us alone.

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I need more discourse around the fact that kid in Stranger Things had a Sega Hang-On machine in his room. I wannnnnnnnnnnnt iiiiiiiiiit right now I still hear the music in my head when I shut my eyes and dream of Village Inn Pizza Parlor. Why does that kid get one, I'm an adult! And not fictional.

Wow how neat, turns out it’s a book written by a wonderfully brilliant lady I went to school with. Opened it up to see a chapter all about Clytemnestra, and right now I’m in the middle of a deep dive of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, so it’s like a delightful dovetail of nerdishness.

I got a notification that a book is being delivered today but I have no idea what book it is! it's like Christmas, what did I order? When I was still drinking random stuff would show up all the time, so this is a treat.

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I love the movie Speed so much- the magical physics, the ability to go over 50 mph in LA, if it was any more of a fantasy thered be dragons. My comfort watch.

The UK saw all the tech companies in a position saying "We've dumped so much money into this pit and we have to make it work" that they then said "us too!"

My husband justified his 3D printer by presenting me with an epic Bender. May he look over my desk and forever invite everyone to bite his shiny metal ass.

I can’t believe they’re gonna restrict Pornhub in the UK before I get to find out if that girl ever got unstuck from the washing machine.

Melania is going to get the palm d'or at Cannes as soon as they find the opener.

Hell hath no fury like a group of moms with a WhatsApp group and a mission.

Aren't these the people who throw batteries? I wonder if ICE Agents take Cs or Ds, just like their grades in high school.

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In general the news around Youtubers doing anything in the larger media is pretty lacking, but Markiplier actually making a movie out of that sweet little indie game Iron Lung and taking it into an international cinema release ... I mean.. that's pretty goddamn baller.

I don't know how to do anything today other than watch a slow motion car crash.

About to talk to my family in the US and I don't know if i should first ask about the ice storm or about the ICE Storm.

Almost done with the rewatch of all the Hunger Games movies and I want to end it with some words about revolution and oppression but I’m too hung up on Mockingjay having no business being two movies.

My child just asked me "Do you know who Adam Sandler is?" and my instinct was to shout 'they're all gonna laugh at you' but she's 9 and I'm not gonna traumatize her. I mean, i'm sure I will but I'm not going to with 30 year old Adam Sandler quotes.

Surprisingly interesting time to rewatch all the Hunger Games.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

two men are standing on stairs in front of a wall with a guitar on it and a sign that says " love capitalism " ALT: two men are standing on stairs in front of a wall with a guitar on it and a sign that says " love capitalism "

I am 46 years old and it's still my dream to work at Empire Records.

You are in for a treat!

How many times in a row can I wear an Animaniacs hoodie to school pickup without getting some sort of reputation? let's find out.