Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold

don’t repost stolen AI garbage what the fuck

new Khamenei just dropped

lol i didn’t even know about this book, what was it

it’s genuinely a problem if progressives are making the same arguments as conservative book banners but “leftistly.” then it’s just a question of power and control

one of the challenges of writing this book was conveying the proper nuance. yes, conservatives are banning books and that’s the real threat. but also a fair number of progressives have adopted an unhealthy censorship mindset, which changes how they view and patronize art

Not to hawk @lytagold.bsky.social s Dangerous Fictions again but it's such a timely and thorough discussion if issues like this are on your mind.

I’m not 100% convinced by this thread (as I understand it, the Marines’ forearm tattoo rule may have applied in Platner’s case) but he still had a Nazi chest tattoo, lied about it, and went on an antisemitic YouTube show in JANUARY 2026 jewishinsider.com/2026/02/grah...

oh well at least kristi noem is dead

imagine the parent newsletter at Sunnyvale High

it’s so clear that Agent Coulson in Avengers is another Whedon stand-in character and that’s very creepy vis-a-vis Whedon’s perception of himself. he doesn’t think he’s the real talent in the room but he loves being able to control them

this is why you NEED other characters to say it

also Xander is a sinister misogynist cleverly packaged as a loveable loser

Angel is this weird creepy guy that just shows up, they don’t have chemistry. Buffy has a heartbreaking early ep where she falls for a regular human student. But the script is full of “wow you’re totally into Angel, right?” “Angel, he’s so hot”

rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time in ever and noticing that Buffy + Angel is absolutely forced

I mean tbf most people don’t have the time. I wish I could devote the energy to more than 100 books a year

anyway you will never, ever grow broke in criticism by telling your readers that they’re special and the last stalwarts of a vanishing civilization. this is nerd viagra

it’s bad that a lot of people don’t read, and especially bad that some people have outsourced their critical thinking to AI. however many people do read, and there’s always been a gap between readers & nonreaders. how are we to understand this. an impossibility.

the post-literate society that will subsume and destroy everyone but you! the girl reading this

if you’re going to argue it’s good when dictators are murdered, then,,

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

check Fetterman and Rep. Greg Landsman today!

I’ll concede the point on the AGs! I was thinking more about Congress/the Senate, which for the most part have been woefully inadequate

the effective resistance has come from activists not the Democratic party

congress already HAS the sole authority to declare war, they don’t need to pass bills about it. they need to impeach him. they need to stop confirming his goddamn nominees!!!

I guess I stand corrected that the Dems have tried to pass a few war powers bills that have been/are going to be easily defeated, a thing they knew would happen. They’re definitely hamstrung by Republican intransigence but have failed to take unified stands and also keep confirming his nominees etc

(I shouldn’t say “none”—maybe congress will actually try to impeach over iran. but it will lack any teeth and we know it)

trump declared an illegal war without even the pretense of going around congress, and there are going to be no efforts whatsoever to impeach or stop him

I think it’s cool that we live in an open dictatorship that completely disregards the authority of all the other branches of govt, and (with few exceptions) the opposition party’s response is enthusiastic approval or mild complaint

donald! the dove?

they fought the claude and claude won