Valerie Anne @ NYCC

I know 90s media broke my brain because I think cigarettes are disgusting and cigarette smoke is foul and don't know why anyone is consuming tobacco in 2025...but someone just asked me for a light and I was ✨️honored✨️ that he thought I might be cool enough to have a lighter.

Screenshot of my author page from 9 years ago listing the Superqueero roundups I used to do.

Screenshot of my author page showing I've written 674 articles so far.

Nine years ago today, my first post went up on Autostraddle! 🌈 674 articles later, I'm still flailing about gay TV (and other such nonsense) every week! (And that doesn't even count the TV team/shared bylines from before WordPress let us have multiple!)

THE HORRORS PERSIST

The timing of it feels really unfortunate. And unearned in this specific case.

Another one bites the dust.

Make TV show writers scared of killing of queer characters for no reason again 2k25.

While the odds of being on the train with a banana, Colonel Sanders, and Wendy are never ZERO in NYC, they're significantly higher during NYCC and I love that for me, personally.

👻 BOO buckets! 🎃

Attn fellow millennials and gen x-ers. One of my favorite pieces of 90’s Halloween nostalgia are the McD’s boo buckets. All sold separately (can YOU snag all 3? 🤔)

•White glows in the dark!
•Available 6pm est
•Waverly Throne also available

I'm just a copy editor, standing in front of a client, begging you to stop using spreadsheet software as word processors.

'Gen V' Episode 206 Recap: What's the Plan, Stan? Marie & Co. escape the library, talk to Annabeth, run into some allies, and learn more about Project Odessa and Cipher's potential plans.

#GenVSpoilers Was your theory about the burned man correct??? Let's talk about this week's episode of #GenV! Here's my full recap: www.autostraddle.com/gen-v-season...

Are You Ready for the Return of Grey's Anatomy? The fate of the queers of Grey's Anatomy, Ginny & Georgia teases upcoming season, Cardi B's album goes double platinum, Elvira's cookbook, and more!

Anyone want to join me in crossing my fingers that the gays of Grey's are okay(s)??? www.autostraddle.com/greys-anatom...

I'm supporting Muscular Dystrophy Association Join MDA and help me fund research for cures for MuscularDystrophy, ALS and related #neuromuscular diseases.

My half marathon is 2 weeks away! (How?!) I’m training amidst the crazy and your help always keeps me going.

I know things are hard right now, so if you can, please consider donating or sharing my link to help raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. 💜

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Today my head is just an echo chamber of Lindsay Lohan saying, "It's October 3rd," and Erika Henningsen singing, "My new favorite day!" on a loop. Happy Mean Girls Day to all who celebrate.

Okay Earpers, because you asked so nicely I made another Waverly on her throne and some W&D Tubi love. I’ll keep making the Waverly one until it doesn’t go but I’m also going to make some Halloween stuff next too! 🎃

Available 6pm est
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#WynonnaEarp

'Gen V' Episode 205 Recap: Sister, Sister In which both Sister Sage and Marie's sister Annabeth make an appearance, our core trio tries to save Cate from Elmira, we get some questions answered and also some questions raised about Cipher, and ...

We've passed the halfway point of this season of #GenV and things are only ramping up! Join me in theorizing on what the HELL is going on with Cipher, won't you? #GenVSpoilers www.autostraddle.com/gen-v-season...

As someone who has had a fondness for Jane Goodall since I did a report on her in 5th grade, this is heartbreaking, but gosh what a woman she was, what a legacy she leaves behind.

Yes, on a show's page it will say "returning series" or "ended." It's great for that because I also sometimes lose track of if/when a show is coming back but then it will pop up on my "to watch" list and I'm like oh sweet. It also tells you which streaming platform it's on, which is helpful!!

Just introduced a new group of people to the Showly app to track TV shows and movies. I feel like @trakt.tv owes me commission for how many people I have personally influenced to download this app. 😅

Anyway, now she told my aunt, who also apparently had never heard that, so I'm sorry to any millennial children of boomers in the greater Boston area if I accidentally started a new trend for them.

My mother was telling me a story about a coworker who butted in on a conversation and I jokingly said, "Did you say, 'this is an A B situation so C your way out of it'?" And she died laughing and said I HAVE TO USE THAT. I was like I learned that on the playground at recess 94 years ago??

It's catchy as hell though so I'm going to give myself peace of mind and decide, despite Spotify and other lyric sites saying otherwise, that she's singing it condensed, like "all'va sudden."

I went to bat for Sabrina Carpenter when Espresso was popular because the phrasing, though unusual, still made sense to me. I can appreciate linguistic creativity, to a point.

There is no grammatical defense for, "When did you get hot all the sudden." The phrase is "all *of a* sudden". Sorry, girl.

'Gen V' Episode 204 Recap: Lovers and Fighters Marie and Jordan are pitted against each other in a Blood Bender vs Gender Bender match as their friends try to figure out some of Cipher's secrets.

#GenV is getting tense and I'm here to recap all the mayhem! Let's talk about Episode 204: Bags. www.autostraddle.com/gen-v-season...

I'm supporting Muscular Dystrophy Association Join MDA and help me fund research for cures for MuscularDystrophy, ALS and related #neuromuscular diseases.

Time has been flying by over the past few weeks, and my half marathon this year is sneaking up on me!

I know things are so hard right now, so if you can, please consider donating or sharing my link to help me raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. 💜

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The original soft blonde/tough brunette wlw ship! And horse girls to boot!

“I survived the 2025 rapture and all I got was a paperback of this amazing memoir that explains exactly how we got into this mess” t-shirts coming when

Happy pub day to Heretic!! 🎉🎉

ECHO ECHO ECHO ECHO

FIRST OF ALL she obviously knew what you meant so there was no need to correct you at all but SECOND OF ALL she is so confidently wrong it's almost funny.

If any millionaire who is planning on getting raptured tomorrow wants to do one last good deed to secure their spot, feel free to help me pay off my student loan debt. My venmo is PunkyStarshine. You can't take it with you and all that. venmo.com/code?user_id...

The answer was like "contact your local store for more details" and I was like THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT I WAS DOING