Anna Cabe

Before our January issue hits the archives, please check out the funny heartbreaking "Ten Times Sadie" by Stephanie Meade Gresham. Woof.🐶 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Today we shared what our contributors are reading and watching. What are you reading/watching/listening to these days, fam? 🎶 You can get recs from our contributors right here: buff.ly/gKoGAw6

Just a vibe of a weekend.

I am not generally a Sports Person (TM), but the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, figure skating, the Bad Bunny Halftime Show, and the Patriots losing make me cheerful.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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I'm rooting for Teyana Taylor in Best Supporting Actress but I'm SO HAPPY Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku got nods. 😊 Insane year for performances because I would have tapped Hailee Steinfeld, too! I need to watch more of the nommed films.

See the full list of 2026 Oscar nominations Horror movie Sinners has a record 16 nominations this year, including for best picture, actor Michael B. Jordan and a new category: achievement in casting.

It's a great year for movies, and the only snub that enrages me is *nothing* for No Other Choice. www.npr.org/2026/01/22/n...

Interrupting my stream of tweets about movies and Heated Rivalry to say IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE, the first @splitlipthemag.bsky.social issue of 2026 is here, and it's a tender-hearted beauty!!! ❄️🙌🎇

The show is *not* pretending to be prestige television, and it's all the better for it. It's well-made erotic romantic drama. Don't be so precious about it, y'all. 😂

Also, keep twisting Francois's words out of context lol. Like they're incensed because they think he called the show porn (he didn't), and I'm like, guys, this is hockey smut. It's fine!!! It's well-written smut, but it is what it is.

Like I did see a few tweets whining that Connor (a 26-year-old) is being groomed by Francois and that he's ruining his career and I'm like NO. DON'T DO A SUPERNATURAL OR SHERLOCK FANDOM, Y'ALL.

Apparently, some folks saw Francois and Connor together and think they're dating (????) and now they're being harassed, in real life, to the point a writer is defending them.

Oh no. Oh no. Please Heated Rivalry fandom, don't ruin one of the one things that ended my 2025 with joy. 😭😭😭

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TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old United Auto Workers Local 600 line worker at the factory, told The Post that he was the one shouting at Trump. He said he has been suspended from work pending an investigation. “As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,” Sabula said, though he added that he is concerned about the future of his job and believes he has been “targeted for political retribution” for “embarrassing Trump in front of his friends.”

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

ICYMI: We loved the tenderness and absurdity in this story about the approaching death of a family member. Also, I am pleased to have ushered in my first ever translation as an editor! @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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I don't even like football but I have a genetic hatred of the Packers lol. #BearDown

One Poem by James Davis May - Terrain.org James David May's lovely eulogy "My Patron Saint of Distance," with audio, is in honor of his murdered high school running coach.

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Pilate ponders where she belongs the man who hit me goes / to make love to his wife after.

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The Last Flesh Figure Skaters The first time I saw you, you laced up your skates, adjusted your knee mods, and I was just another unremarkable face as you fluttered to the ice. My mother snapped at me to watch you, but it was like...

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I just want to squish them and bash them against each other like they were Barbies lmao.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

I dunno about attraction (as a mostly straight women) but Heated Rivalry (plus Interview with the Vampire) made me deeply regret not being more of yaoi fangirl during my fandom heights in the early 2000s? I was such a serious anti-shipping fangirl, lol.

If you're headed to AWP, save the date 📆: March 5th is our fundraising reading to benefit CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth. We'll have food, drinks, and a wonderful reading 😊Check out CHARM's site for all they do to support young Baltimore writers: buff.ly/iknCACH

Okay, rewatched a few episodes and still chuckling at how Shane folds his clothes in the middle of the dirty 🍆🍑.

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FINALLY GOT TO THE FINALE 😭🛖🏡🌅🌲🛼🏒👨‍❤️‍👨💏🏳️‍🌈