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To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

happy birthday! that sounds delightful.

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I tried to go see this at my local cinema, which participates in National Theatre Live, but when I got there it was sold out with a giant line of disappointed people out the door

let's all watch this this weekend

I'm really impressed by these feet!

aw that's lovely! I should've known that her polemic about how reading requires context came from someone with Experience in Fandom Bullshit

wait wait what

yeah, exactly. sometimes Greg goes a little over the line for me, but Tom is way past that line. Plus Greg actively enjoys gay stuff which helps!

imo he picks on every gay contestant and it gets worse over the seasons. he's a homophobic and ableist bully (this is why I had to stop watching TM AU)

Terminator 2 made me gay and also is just such a banger action film!!! so excited for anyone who gets to watch it for the first time

in How to Read Now Elaine Castillo has a chapter entitled "Reading Teaches Us Empathy, and Other Fictions" and I really wish more people would read it and understand it. The idea that fiction is medicine puts so many shitty burdens on marginalized writers

holy shit

Fading to black but it’s just for complicated action scenes while all the sex scenes are written in full

I'm sorry to hear this! I'm glad you have some help with this task.

move slow and repair things

Happy women's day if you're a woman

if you're not there's always next year

yes.

screenshot of text::"The United Nations instituted International Women’s Day (IWD) in 1975—or so the official story runs. Few remember not only that the origins of March 8 lie in the history of the international workers’ movement, but that it was the socialist movement in the United States that first launched the idea of a day devoted to women’s rights centered on working-class women. In fact, the Socialist Party USA first established a day of education and action around women’s rights called “Woman’s Day” in 1908, and the following year U.S. socialists held demonstrations in several cities to demand women’s suffrage. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed the transformation of the U.S. Woman’s Day into an international day of action—International Working Women’s Day—which, in 1914, started being celebrated on March 8. Three years later, on March 8, 1917, Russian women workers took to the streets in St. Petersburg, organizing a strike to demand bread and peace. It was the beginning of the Russian Revolution."

a useful explainer of International Women's Day by Cinzia Arruzza

Read the Vulture article on Sam Reich's decision, after being approached by the creatives of ABC's The Rookie, to go through with the crossover, and the fact that he's nothing but gleeful at the opportunity is as galling as it is disappointing.

Again, and this point continues to be glossed over...

happy birthday!

you can!

Lolsob—imagine a world where Diane Wynne Jones and Diana Duane were THE Famous Wizard Writers and JKR is crowdfunding for heating oil. Probably that timeline has different presidents and less warcrimes too

Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it first—in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking ‘longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave. The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchange—my boy’s flinching heart—a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees? The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so:

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I was like . . . wait . . . is that . . . ? and then I was so happy it was her!

intentional compensation for eating is one of the most common normatively-disordered behaviours I see people engage in

we should probably talk about that

A TRIAD HOUSE

for two weeks in a row #StarfleetAcademy has shown me that they remember and care about Voyager episodes other than Threshold or Tuvix and honestly I'm reeling with shock. A Real Life reference AND an Omega Directive reference? Ambassador, you're really spoiling us

a lot of you haven't rewatched firefly recently and it shows, in the sense that you probably shouldn't rewatch it ever if you want to keep thinking it was good. it was a mass delusion that i also participated in but in my defense i hadn't started reading feminist blogs yet at the time.

it's structurally fascinating! Jacques is one of my all-time favourite Shakespeare queers because like. what is he DOING