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Valerie Ettenhofer

@aandeandval.bsky.social

TV critic, writer, fan of little treats. Words at Slashfilm, Film School Rejects, IGN, The Playlist, Nonfics, Certified Forgotten, and the Hey, What Are You Watching? newsletter. Critics Choice + GALECA. Just moved to Scotland.

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I love being in my ultrachill medicated phase, but i also need whatever pill will motivate me to update letterboxd for the first time in six months

11.12.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I imagine every Safdie film pitch is "what if there was a guy who you wanted to be dead for the entirety of a movie's runtime?"

11.12.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We've slowly been watching all of Criminal Minds because its clockwork procedural beats and ridiculous version of the world eventually become comforting. Tonight I accidentally gave myself psychic damage by throwing on the next episode in sequence...which turned out to be "Nelson's Sparrow." Ow.

03.12.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Top artists: fall out boy, mcr, beyonce, chappell roan, mika. Top songs: sushi glory hole, the blob, everybody stay safe, hot to go, everybody have fun. 7911 minutes listened. Emo top genre

Top artists: fall out boy, mcr, beyonce, chappell roan, mika. Top songs: sushi glory hole, the blob, everybody stay safe, hot to go, everybody have fun. 7911 minutes listened. Emo top genre

My listening age: 79

My listening age: 79

I never use Spotify anymore but here's James' wrapped since we listened to all the same stuff. Our top 5 songs include two versions of a Wang Chung song (regular and COVID lockdown version), the theme song for The Blob (1958), and song of the year Sushi Glory Hole. We are not serious people.

03.12.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Accidentally got too close to the babies when i was idk maybe 8? And the mama flew onto my head and beat me up 😭 i came away with some battle scars and very tangled hair

28.11.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Chicken goose cat dog mosquito

28.11.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the current plan is to put my coverage on my own site for free, but if anyone wants to pay me to put em somewhere else, let me know!

28.11.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've written at least 40 articles about Stranger Things over the years, so you bet your butt I won't miss out on digging into the final season just because I'm not regularly contributing to major sites anymore. Thoughts to come!

28.11.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Okay the last couple eps of this show were actually a blast, i stand corrected. Feels like Big Little Lies fanfic in a good way

28.11.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

DS9 Mirrorverse writers were really just like "imagine a world like ours, but kinkier and gayer and hornier and with fewer showers." And they were right to say it!!

28.11.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spent hours yesterday putting together a list of movies to watch before the end of the year, then proceeded to ignore it and marathon a bunch of the exceedingly dumb crime show All Her Fault instead.

26.11.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

[The recovered journal ends here, though it's not known exactly whether Valerie succumbed to the unspecified plague that fell upon her house or died as a result of the harsh clime that surrounded her. Or maybe she was eaten by a pigeon.]

26.11.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've never felt more like a Dear America protagonist than right now, making a humble mash of peanut butter, sunflower seeds, and expired naan for our backyard birds since I find myself too sickly and without funds available to travel into town for the appropriate nourishment. Winter is upon us, and-

26.11.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, thanks, Insomnia isn't one I hear tons about. The man has been so inexplicably problematic for 50+ years so i won't hold it against you if you forgot something! I currently have The Dead Zone and Christine queued up, but might need a brief King break after Revival.

21.11.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
My review of Sociopath by Patric Gagne. 1.5 stars, "I support sociopath rights but girl you are just a narcissist."

My review of Sociopath by Patric Gagne. 1.5 stars, "I support sociopath rights but girl you are just a narcissist."

Don't forget to be my pal on Storygraph, bookworms. app.thestorygraph.com/profile/valett

21.11.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finished the book! The end of the 5th ep of Midnight Mass certainly made me feel the same way as the end of Revival, so that would've been a good match.

21.11.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus. Y'all were not wrong about the end of Revival.

21.11.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, thank you!!

15.11.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And also not knowing which of the newer ones are good because I get all my King recs from my mom and she always forgets which ones she's read

15.11.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
List of stephen king books from the 90s

List of stephen king books from the 90s

This question is brought to you by me realizing I've somehow never finished a King book written between 1990 and 1998.

15.11.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Good list! I'm hoping to finally tackle 11/22/63 soon.

15.11.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So what I'm hearing is you're a fake fan? Kidding, thanks for always weighing in on my King Qs. I'm reading Revival now with no idea what to expect!

15.11.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Horror readers: name your favorite Stephen King book from each decade.

15.11.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ’™ sending so much love

28.10.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I always hesitate to talk about my freaky vax reactions in case it fuels anti-vax agendas, but I think the opposite should be true. It's a point towards the safety of vacc*nes that I can feel whack as hell after a shot, but even my rare, weird side effects can be explained and easily treated.

28.10.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If anyone else out there deals with benign fasciculation (muscle twitches and jolts) after getting vacc*nes, try taking magnesium and loading up on vitamins both in the weeks leading up to the shot and the day of! Doing so cut my personal twitchy time down from a week or two to less than two hours.

28.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Full disclosure: a couple of these were Β£2.99! Treat yourself.

24.10.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
My Kobo recent buys page featuring the covers of the following books:
Our Share of the Night, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, and Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, all by Mariana Enriquez
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Terror by Dan Simmons

My Kobo recent buys page featuring the covers of the following books: Our Share of the Night, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, and Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, all by Mariana Enriquez The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann Jaws by Peter Benchley Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley The Terror by Dan Simmons

More ebooks:
Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials,
Eyes Guts Throat Bones
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Star Ghost
Blood Canticle
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Armand
Claudia's Story
Blood & Gold

More ebooks: Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials, Eyes Guts Throat Bones Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Star Ghost Blood Canticle Interview with the Vampire The Vampire Armand Claudia's Story Blood & Gold

More ebooks:
Meet Me At The Surface
The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
Life Ceremony
Out There Screaming
Barrowbeck
Phantom Limb
Ghost Wall
The Dead of Winter

More ebooks: Meet Me At The Surface The Trials of Marjorie Crowe Life Ceremony Out There Screaming Barrowbeck Phantom Limb Ghost Wall The Dead of Winter

You know a 99p spooky season ebook sale hates to see me coming!

24.10.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a woman is holding a stuffed animal in her hands and looking at something ALT: a woman is holding a stuffed animal in her hands and looking at something

I feel like I've been slacking on horror this year. Can you give me

1) your favorite horror film so far this year
2) a hidden gem from this year

20.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

oh okay

20.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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