Emily J. Edwards

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i love unfollowing people on any social media platform who admit to using ChatGPT for literally any reason

same rules as local police”

my fella, i live in los angeles, that does not help at ALL

so, i recently figured out that one of my Polish family names means “pickled” or “sour” and now i have to wonder if my family members did all the preserving for their village or if they were so miserable all the time the locals were like, “get a load of Piotr Pickles over here”

exactly. i would prefer not to feel under siege if someone near me on transportation is chewing gum. it’s OKAY to feel under siege if you… are actually under siege.

my misophonia isn’t triggered by whistles BUT one thing misophonia does is start your fight or flight response. which is… probably good if ICE is near enough to you for you to hear the whistles

was just thinking the other day about how much of my college experience was shaped by the RUSHMORE and ROYAL TENENBAUMS soundtracks and high school was 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

lawyers always say MY COUSIN VINNY is the most accurate lawyer movie

OMG i love the cheshire cat slippers!!!

we're Samuel Alito’s Treasonous Semaphore and we're going to start with our favorite song about living in Los Angeles, "Fifty-five Year Old, First-Time Dads"

hit it

i am by no means a good critic or even an intellectual. but it's always been important for me to scratch at the surface of things and not believe PR spin and character rehabilitation.

This is something I tried to poke at with almost every ep of Fuckbois of Literature (and the spinoffs of Fuckbois of Classical Music/Fine Art). It's sometimes as simple as mentally reframing it from "they were a monster BUT made important art" to "they were a monster AND they made important art"

absolutely loving the one in the "choose kindness" sweatshirt just WAILING on the guy

Proud of them kids.

a rundown of dates and numbers starting June 27th 2025, Monday June 20th, 2025, and 45,500

Hit the halfway mark. Feeling good about giving characters I love a different mystery to work with. I will change those chapter titles, but I learned the hard way that you have to keep a handle on timelines when you're writing a mystery (don't give a week two Saturdays. Oops).

though we will miss you, i think if you do and it happens you might get a nice email from chicago pope

Iguanas are falling out of trees in Florida—here's why When temperatures drop, so do the invasive green reptiles. Here’s everything you need to know about cold-stunned iguanas.

Roses are red
Wild violets are free
Mind the frozen iguanas
Falling from that tree

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By @bittelmethis.bsky.social

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February 2026 Newsletter It's hard to act like anything is even remotely okay or normal right now, so I'm not really going to try. What we all (presumably; I assume most people who read me or my books are on the same general political page) saw on the horizon has arrived. I am scared, furious, despondent, but not hopeless. Never, ever hopeless. Perhaps some of that is because I think, read, and write about crime all the time.

February 2026 is giving us ample opportunity to think about power structures, community justice, and top-down policing– themes I discuss in Silver Screen Sleuths every month. PLUS! Find out what I've been reading and watching this year:

literally also bought syringes without needles so we can practice approaching him for vaccines. he’s a tough customer.

if you’re wondering how vet visits have gone lately, we had to buy a stethoscope to exposure train the dog 😑

has any drag queen out there done a spoof on Cunégonde yet? real missed opportunity imo

pitched last minute by a guy who had no idea how he was gonna get back into his apartment ALL DAY

it’s so base! it’s a gutter trash fight move and they were like… but make it esoteric!

i could not imagine how hard of a job that is, my brain would be jello trying to name like 100+ infernal creations

tepig becomes a nominally larger pig named pignite, a piece of copy that deserves awards

the best pig-name of all the games however is the bouncing one called a spoink

someone thought that up and congratulated themselves on an excellent workday

tiny*

my delight in pokémon copywriting is normally reserved for naming schemes (the brilliance of a time fire swine named tepig!) but hats off to whomever decided there should be a battle move called “zen headbutt”

a man in a yellow suit stands in front of a lamp ALT: a man in a yellow suit stands in front of a lamp

just a family of fredos