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REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

When I first joined twitter, so many years ago, I followed many people who were smart about politics and activism. Which is how I ended up following a bunch of romance authors.

I think about this post a lot.

when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 25th 2026 (Evil), in less than 14 minutes
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Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 24th 2026 (Hard), in less than 12 minutes
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I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Valentino wears a dark jacket and white pants; Vodianova wears a chiffon dress.

RIP Valentino Garavani (here, with Natalia Vodianova in 2012). Photo: Cathleen Naundorf

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

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Favorite quote?

Excellently put.

Anyway if you are interested in Sebastian Stan with two faces please watch A DIFFERENT MAN it is what he should have been nominated for anyway

Bowie smokes a cigarette in a shot on the cover of M, the magazine of Le Monde. The story: "Bowie et nous".

Remembering David Bowie on his birthday 🎂
📷 Markus Klinko & Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, for the album Heathen, 2002

"Bowie was his generation’s standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could."
- Jon Pareles

a beautiful palette of 4 watercolor paint hues , 2 teals and 2 golds

A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for

www.beampaints.com

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

YouTube video by DuranDuranVEVO Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake (Official Music Video)

Duran Duran, “Union of the Snake” (1983). Between this, “New Moon on Monday” and “Hungry Like the Wolf,” Duran Duran were the king of Music Videos Where There’s Kind of a Narrative? But The Exact Details are Lost in a Cocaine Haze.

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The Dogs of 2025

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YouTube video by Princess Weekes Why Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Actually Understands the Novel

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Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance

Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn

Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

Some of the most underrated craft of the year. A gorgeous film that should get more attention for its cinematography and production design.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.

A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.

This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!