C.L. McCartney

Beautiful, intricate, expensively crafted wheels. That are square.

Meanwhile, I'd say the wheels came off the cart for all three of those shows, sooner or later, in one way or another.

Duffer Brothers, Benioff & Weiss, Payne & McKay - I'm fascinated by the willingness of studios to hand incredibly expensive TV shows to pairs of men with zero showrunning experience.

Meanwhile I can think of a tonne of great, diverse, experienced showrunners who can't get a project off the ground.

Any trans people struggling with the news from Girl Guides and Women’s Institute…

Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits?

DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜

This is genuinely massive, like earth-shakingly big in terms of pushing back the anti-trans exclusion drive.

The anti-trans movement have lost a case they didn't expect to lose and really couldn't afford to.

I can't imagine them not appealing (near infinite money) but now the precedent exists.

My beloved em-dashes have a reprieve. Now when we're checking for AI slop we can just keep an eye out for awkward product placement.

Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Well quite. 🙄

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Must try harder.

Go on then, @profanity.accountant

How disappointed will I be?

Not a certain author headlining a lit fest in Dubai. Because obviously she really needs the exposure at this point in her career. 🙄

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Wanda and Cheryl gave me Kay pretty firmly.

Ohhh, that's fun 😁😈

A side by side comparison of the variant cover for Batman and deadpool which is an homage to the famous gay art Longhorns dance. Below it is a quote from Grant Morrison reading - "At my request, the Frank Quitely cover is an homage to the illustration Longhorns Dance by Jim French, which depicts two gay cowboys, naked from the waist down except for gunbelts, boots 'n' spurs. The drawing appeared in French's gay magazine Man Power in 1974 and was appropriated in 1975 by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren who détourned it a little to create an infamous T-shirt design!"

I love Grant Morrison

Well that's genius 😁

Replies have a GREAT list of recommendations that I *imagine* people following me might be interested in and/or be able to contribute to.

As someone who enjoyed The Steel Remains back in the day, I'll note that Morgan is straight (and you can tell), the sex scenes aren't very erotic, and he's at least TERF-sympathetic, regretfully.

Gregory House, Disabled Bastard, in House MD Season 1 Starting with E1: Everybody Lies. Analysing House MD S1’s approach to disability and ableism within its narrative.  House MD is one of the most shows ever made, and I love it, I think it’s great, I…

part 1 of please please don't ask me that of analysing themes of disability and disabled identity in gregory house in our very own hate crimes MD

house md essay! it's here! it's long! it's literally just one episode! wuh-oh!

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Twink obliteration - pairs brilliantly with coffee, a crisp sauvignon blanc, or schadenfreude.

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THIS SATURDAY.

The Cymera Writers' Conference is a fucking brilliant event, and the writer folks amongst you should absolutely consider going, even if it's not to listen to Chris & Trip.

...although you SHOULD listen to Chris & Trip. Cause they're great. 💙

Ok, someone gimme a post-collapse coming-of-age story about a young train nerd who realises his time has come.

Love interest/rival works on a canal.

I keep reading her books and keep having this reaction. She picks big, interesting ideas and themes that get me really excited, and then I read them and get the sense that she never really had anything much to say.

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

Although I'll concede it's *quite* funny in the Year of Our Lord 2025 to see a twink on TV say "If you want to get me pregnant, you're going to have to work a bit harder at your homework, daddy."