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There are going to be SO MANY articles about how Trump is breaking with typical norms when he's in his fourth term.

IT IS CONFIRMED.

This is so true. I have pestered many people to read this book, with its deeply excellent classical dick jokes. @lishmcbride.bsky.social and @charishkristi.bsky.social can confirm.

Why hasn't Emperor Palpatine released the unredacted Jedi Youngling massacre files? The Corellian Stock Exchange is over 40,000 and you have Palpatine Derangement Syndrome! Is Leia even your real daughter?

Make the Empire Great Again

#MEGA

Congratulations to David Ellison. Word on the street is that his father just bought the entire Slytherin team new brooms.

@stephenblackmoore.com Okay, firstly, I remember this and it was amazing and fun.

Also HOW THE FUCK WAS THAT ELEVEN YEARS AGO, WHAT THE EVER-LOVING SHIT?

"Mrs. Dobbs, can we please get the banshee off of the roof? It's a nursing home, for god's sake!"

I LOVE that book! Southon is absolutely one of my favorite historians -- I have screenshots of some of her most banger lines just for the days when I need something to cheer me up.

I particularly love how she establishes context of just how LITTLE we actually know, and the thinness of sources.

baseball players have the hand eye coordination of greek gods, the athleticism of a guy who played football 4 years ago and the situational awareness of a lemming

Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

okay, this is funny, though

I think few people fully appreciate how a fight between almost any pair of writers would basically be the posh boy fight between Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY.

Which. Yes. Obviously, I would like to see and would enjoy quite a bit.

Well, great. This is now going to occupy my thoughts forever.

image is a redesign of xkcd comic 2501. ponytail says "monstrous children of narcissistic parents are second nature to us wizards vs lesbians fans, so it's easy to forget that the average person only knows Orion lake, Gideon Nav, and Marceline." cueball adds "and fetter, of course," and ponytail agrees, "of course."

me talking about the latest queer sff with my friends like

This one hits hard.

Winds Suck Dicks

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

This really is a great picture:

Okay, but write it from the POV of the third girlfriend whose goal it is to leave HIM for dead to avenge the first two.

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

AMAZING. Bring this woman's energy with you into the world.

Cover of the book: Gentle Reading Advice, by Chuck Wendig.

Thank you @chuckwendig.bsky.social for Gentle Writing Advice. I needed to be reminded that I love writing more than I dread rejection -- and that there are ways to deal with the latter without breaking into pieces. Now, I can pick up the quill again with my mind at peace.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Once more for the weekend crowd...

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

It's such a high-wire act. I'm always blown away by those who do it well.

And when it isn't done well..... uuuuughhhhh.....

Maximum Effort There’s a little maxim you may have heard– work smarter, not harder. If you haven’t, what it means is some folks solution to every problem is to throw 100% of their effort at it. They’d throw 110% at ...

Forgot to mention last week on the ranty writing blog I blathered on about working with bad directors, unnecessary camera moves, and giant robots.

And storytelling. Also that.

Go read it before I put up a new one tomorrow!

Though, admittedly, I grade him on a curve, given how utterly trash most of the other dudes in the book are.

A pestering need to solve the mystery of the stranger is pretty standard in the gothic genre, so I don't think this has as much to do with his gender as with his position as the narrative teller of the tale.

Wait, I could've just linked to that HARK, A VAGRANT comic:

www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

If we're talking 2/3 Bronte sisters, though, Anne's TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL has a woman who left her alcoholic husband, protected her child AND her elderly servant, earned her own living by painting, and ended up marrying a very sexy and age-appropriate gentleman farmer after he learned it all.

Damn their cute, furry faces.