A.L. Goldfuss

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.

"But I don't think they make that much!"

Halve that. Halve it again.

You know if I had tagged an AMAB non-binary person the OP would’ve had a conniption.

Yesterday I saw someone group women and non-binary people together for International Women’s Day (tag ur favorite enby!) and I did not take the bait, thank you

One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

holy shit

So many houses per barrel

Millennial here: How many avocado toasts are in a barrel of oil?

We "know" short-form content and doomscrolling and second screen viewing are bad for us.

But, seriously, boredom is so good for you. If you reward your brain for thinking, it will keep doing it.

A bottle I found on the ground on my walk

The label says Dear Momma Moisture Milk

You know how sometimes you’re playing a video game like Resident Evil and you see a bottle on the ground and you zoom in to read the label and realize that you’re not actually supposed to read any of the text and what you’re looking at is something surreal and confusing

I haven’t reached that part of the draft yet, but I’ve been worried about it. I love that my brain builds the road when I need it.

I love when I’m hanging out in silence and my brain leans over and whispers the solution to a story knot I’ve been chewing on for a month

“Sci-fi/horror Piranesi but written by Gene Wolfe” is about the best description I’ve got. Perhaps “sci-fi Gormenghast by Wolfe” is better, but I haven’t read Gormenghast.

Anyways, that’s my pitch, so if that’s your jam, go read it

ME: wow it’s still light out at 6 pm
CLOCK: I’m lying to you
ME: that’s right!!

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

This is what ecocide looks like.

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

RE9 Leon sounds like Dean, voice actor-wise

Whiteboard in Capcom HQ covered in photos of Dean Winchester with notes like “snappy one liners” and “bi??”

Oh my god, I figured it out. I figured out who RE9 Leon is.

He’s Dean Winchester.

GAME: this puzzle is in Braille
ME: I can read Braille
GAME: no! you can’t!
ME: it’s like two words, so—
GAME: nooooooo!

I made a face like this >:C

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.

but also how exciting to see paid critics responding to each other's essays!! more of that please

Finally catching up on this week's fantastic SFF criticism and anyone who thinks literary fiction is about a powerless character unable to change the world should read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Two days ago I saw someone treat a (non-flashing) red light like a stop sign. They went from a full stop to driving through.

Ummm... Excuse me, can I help you find something?

The people who only read shorter pieces in the past read nothing now, they only watch videos. The only readers left are those who like reading, and they’ll read anything.