violet allen

Minimum wage is the dream.

I guess people are surprised that a bestselling author only makes like 50k a year?

Election is wild to me because it has all the ingredients of a good satire of misogyny but it doesn't understand that is what is going on at all and so it just ends up sicko mode misogynistic.

We had kind of a bicker-y relationship so maybe he thought it would be just another thing to bicker over but I simply have no investment int he ontological status of "coffee."

One time I was at Starbucks with this guy and I got a Frappuccino and he went off on this thing about how it isn't real coffee and I was like "Whatever, I don't care" but he kept going like he had prepared the argument in advance and he was the one who wanted to go to Starbucks in the first place.

The tragedy of being an avantgardist in a world of engagées.

I really do hate how conservative literary culture can be.

Anyway, Your Name Here is a good book, and reading how much trouble Helen DeWitt had getting it published made me realize that I was filled with an obscene hubris thinking that anyone would ever publish my insane book (though it did work out for me).

It's Delany, you sausage-fingered peasant.

I don't know if people are familiar with Delaney's critical essays about his own work from the perspective of an idealized fictional critic but that shit is wild.

Samuel Delaney did shit like this but he didn't do it before the first book even came out.

I genuinely considered writing something like this but I decided it was too vain, even for me.

If anyone wants a review copy to do it with, there is a really serious review essay to be written comparing/contrasting @blipstress.bsky.social forthcoming Plastic Prism Void with Helen DeWitt's recent Your Name Here

There is also a divide between the black and white versions but that is less lowkey and weird and more a fundamental feature of US society.

There's lowkey a weird divide between exvangelicals who were deep in it and then left and those of us who were raised that way but were just like "nah," when were like 10.

Imagining DW Griffith depicting but not endorsing the image of the Reconstruction-era South being run by foolish, corrupt Black politicians and plagued by monstrous Black ruffians where the happy ending is the Klan doing voter intimidation.

I do kind of wonder what he thought Birth of a Nation was about. Like what story did he think was being depicted but not endorsed?

I was tricked by a joke post claiming that Manny Jacinto had been cast in a queer romcom. But for a moment, a single shining moment, I truly knew what it meant to fujo out.

Evergreen

Am I crazy that I think it's weird for a famous book critic to say that they don't read novels outside of the books they review when they only review like four books a year?

Idk, my dad died last year so now I spend a lot of time thinking about stuff like what the meaningful difference is between a rock, a river, and person as natural processes (speed and complexity are not meaningful), and I think the dog is absorbing a lot of that energy from me.

The dog definitely loves me, but what is her metacognition of her own emotional states. Answer me, Google. Explain.

Taking care of a dog for the first time is funny because my Google searches go back and forth between stuff like "can dogs eat blueberries?" and "do dogs understand the nature of dreams?"

Some of the most important parts of Ulysses are written in first-person, dullard.

The association it draws between first-person and easy, unchallenging fiction is inane.

That article about first-person pov pissed me off.

Honestly we live in a very citation needed world just in general.

Noticing a trend of people placing various things they notice about contemporary fiction (positive, negative, or neutral) downstream of fanfic in a very "citation needed" kind of way.

(if you actually decide to watch this movie be warned that it is more racist than most screwballs, though still less racist than most non-screwball 30s comedies)

Happy International Women's Day to Claudette Colbert's character in The Palm Beach Story.