Tessa Kaur

Smurfs (2025) On feeling blue

In my most blatant cry for help yet I watched and reviewed Smurfs (2025) johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/smurfs-2025

you are so kind jake thank you for the support 🤍

this is craaaazy jake 😭

there is no further descent into dystopia. we are already here.

i don’t know how to act like things are normal when people are being starved and murdered in gaza. i don’t know how we’re supposed to keep going to work and buying groceries and going to the gym. the grief is intolerable. no action or donation feels sufficient. every day my heart is broken again

Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank Awdah Hathleen, a Palestinian activist who helped film 'No Other Land', was allegedly shot in the chest by an Israeli settler

Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-activist-who-worked-oscar-winning-no-other-land-killed-occcupied-west-bank

There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

Don't be distracted. Focus on the REAL enemy. (pointing to the logos for Visa and Mastercard). In between these two messages is a Bluesky textbox which says "Okay guys I didn't want to weigh in on the latest controversy but"

screw it imma start making propaganda posters to stop this dumb payment processing fascism. here's one

i know beau is afraid is very polarising but holy god i love that movie

yes i just saw bring her back. absolutely nauseating watch. agonising even! good horror movie, but i haven’t quite collected my thoughts on whats off about it yet. that said - incredible gore.

what is wrong with the philippou brothers

icymi: suburbangothic.substack.com/p/guest-cont...

so moving, jake

How I pitched the stories I wrote this week When I first started freelancing before I got a full-time position at Polygon, my favorite thing to do was to take off during the day — without letting anyone know — to bring my dog, Major, to the par...

just published the next issue of my newsletter, save spot. trying something different this week—a lesson on how to pitch. i've explained how and why i pitched the six stories i've published over the past two weeks, including the exact pitch email i sent out for one

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the craziest part of superman (2025) is that jimmy olsen writes a world changing story directly in the CMS

aw jade i’m so sorry 🤍 i hope things get better

bro my poem was between theophilus and alfian… colour me GAGGED

Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry (second edition) Catching crickets after school, waiting for class to end, playing with lanterns during Mid-Autumn festival, watching the rain and the world go by—these are some of the little things that the poems in ...

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😭 thank you jake!!!

thank you my friend 🤍

omg the speed 😭😭😭 i’m sure they’ll restock soon, the edition JUST launched today

ethos books website or store! it’s the little things anthology 🤍 i got 10% discount code if you want LOL

thank you 🤍🤍

did a poetry reading today because i’ve had my first poem published in an anthology! amongst some of singapore’s greats, no less - what an honour

I NEED YOUR HELP.

We're down to the last 30+ hours of the games submission for the Play for Palestine charity drive and we are at 258 submissions. I'm hoping we can hit 300 by the close 🇵🇸

Link: itch.io/jam/games-fo...

BIG THREAD BELOW 🧵/

as a Known Superhero Movie Hater…. superman ruled

i cried reading this