Anna Holmes

No, there’s a difference between feeling evoked by the narrative and feelings evoked by the experience of reading.

I can’t with ASOIAF; that’s just all around rage inducing.

I agree with this, but I am extremely biased!

That’s like…the movie Speed but for your brain

I don’t read or write contemporary romance. Just not my thing. I’m sure as shit not going to pretend like I know all there is to know about the genre.

Not sure why people feel entitled to shit on YA without having read any in 15 years (it’s misogyny and contempt for kids).

Yes, reviewers’ experiences are important, but never so much that you need to suffer through something you hate.

The flip side, though, is that you don’t speak like you’re an expert on books you haven’t read.

Hot take: don’t hate-read books. One wild and precious life, and you want to spend it mad? DNF and go find something you like.

You ever think about how today's trad wife farm lady schtick is basically the same as Marie Antoinette's thing for cosplaying as a shepherdess

Saying “we’re absolutely talking about this” doesn’t actually mean you’re doing anything about it.

The “I need to make this socially acceptable so I can just get through the conversation” tactic. We’ve all done it. I tell people I’ll put their favorite books “on my list” when it’s a mental list of things I will probably not get to.

When we’re talking about people being hurt—that’s more urgent.

I’m getting tired of—exhausted by—dealing with the bad faith acknowledgment of harms. The “you’re right, that’s very serious and we need to consider it”

When it is being used to protect the speaker from having to consider it. It gives off the same vibes as “we totally need to hang out sometime.”

She was nice about it and said if it were up to her I’d have it, at least, but I wasn’t there for fun! No one is!

Apparently the wild WBC fluctuations my whole life after a case of rubella only count if they can point at a book written by a dead white guy and give it a name.

It’s incredibly painful to get to and from the hospital, and I am already hurting AND was unable to get to school because of crowding on the train.

So I am tired, pissed, and of fucking course it was an AI mistake! Can’t have people getting vaccinated who don’t “deserve” it.

Well. My day has been worse than a waste.

The NHS computers flagged me for a pneumonia shot. Great! I thought. I have always been denied that because of the lack of definitive dx for the immune deficiency.

And then I got there and the nurse denied it because of the lack of dx.

My hot writing take about tense and POV is stop blaming YA for why some adult romance readers are demanding first person POV. Deal with your own readers. Stop using YA as a cudgel for everything you think is wrong with adult books.

Cross-sex! Femme-presenting cis women have testosterone, and your dudeliest cis dudes have estrogen. There is no such thing as a "cross-sex" hormone.

BBC should be ashamed for warping reality to suit these goons.

This is not reflective of the majority of Glaswegians. Being Extremely Online can afflict anyone.

I had a really hard time with it

Me: time to look for updates on the fire, let’s see how things are progressing

Them: stream of “probably burnt it down on purpose for student accommodations”, racist shit, one really weird post positing it happened because of its position on leylines

Me: that’s enough of that

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Literally everything the Heritage Foundation suggests is nauseating

“The state’s proposed “trigger laws,” …are direct challenges to Plyler v. Doe, a narrowly decided 1982 Supreme Court case that enshrined the right to a free K–12 public education regardless of immigration status.”

Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.

Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱

This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’)

1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺

of the GFM’s i’ve seen for businesses lost in the fire, one had over £6k in donations in just four hours, another has had over £2k in 50 minutes 💖💖💖 this is something glasgow is especially good at, i even read recently that GFM said glasgow is the most charitable city in scotland - & 2nd in the UK!

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)

It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

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YouTube video by Guardian Australia Too lazy to be a guide dog: how Marcus found his calling as a therapy animal

It promises to be a rough week so I’m sharing one of my recent fav videos about dogs, this time about Marcus, the lab. After training to be a guide dog, they found that he was too ‘lazy’ (lol) to be a guide dog so he now is a therapy dog for cancer patients

youtu.be/dt7MRUGhcKg?...

the funniest part of this article is when the author hits pause to be like "I personally don't read romance, I am in a book club called the Difficult Books Club where we read the Brothers Karamazov and kind of hate it." seems like the wrong person to be writing about romance and fanfic then idk

I’m just fine! So far, no injuries reported, and fingers crossed it stays that way. Luckily for me, I use the kind of secondary station; it’ll just be crowded (which can be tricky with competing access needs).

This one has been standing since 1851! Repaired over and over over the decades! I cannot imagine what all is going into people’s lungs. Also air filtration isn’t at all a common thing for older buildings surrounding.

I expect it’ll be really busy for a while! (Queen Street is my daily commute.)