Liz

Diane Warren’s just lucky she’s never heard my opinion of “Faith of the Heart”

(Her house burned down in the Altadena fire around that time, it looks like she had to fly back to California to deal with admin.)

Going by Gina Yashere’s socials at the time season 1 was filming, she may have had other commitments.

X Æ A-12's pedagogical accomplishments will be remembered long after his father is forgotten.

Lorca says "make the Empire glorious again," but, um, I would not call that a positive reference

I'm genuinely impressed by how much of the dialogue in Fennell's film is from the book, and it's easy to see why this was received on publication as trashy and dangerous and [insert contemporary romantasy discourse here]. It's bad, but it's more-ish.

Nelly's like, "Welcome back to my channel, we are here to SPILL SOME TEA about the PEOPLE I USED TO WORK FOR, don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE and TEACH YOUR KIDS EMOTIONAL REGULATION!" while the comments are all, "I feel like this lady is super into the drama she says she hates."

I'm halfway through Wuthering Heights - I feel like Cathy is gonna kick the bucket any chapter now - and I cannot get over how great Nelly Dean is as a narrator. The story absolutely withers and dies when it returns to the framing device dude.

In this episode, I pitch a Lura Thok animated series to make up for her absence in the back half of the season, and I really do think I'm onto something here.

Yup, sometimes I write fic in the 1st person because it's a fun challenge, but the REALLY hard bit is persuading anyone to read it!

What's interesting about this is that, in my experience, if a show really is unpopular, sites don't need to pay anti-shills, they can just harvest the all-natural organic hate.

Extremely important question: when will the Iranian soccer players who have just received Australian visas be added to the Matildas line-up

No, that's fair!

Caleb is meant to be 20-21, so Anisha could have had him at 19. It works for me. Aside from her wig.

A very fat book labelled WUTHERING HEIGHTS and a much thinner but otherwise identical book labelled WUTHERING HEIGHTS IF CATHY EARNSHAW WAS PRESCRIBED RITALIN

"From the hour she came downstairs till the hour she went to bed, we had not a minute’s security that she wouldn’t be in mischief. Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going—singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same."

But even the yellow ones that look like jaundiced parsnips are good! HOW????

Why are heirloom carrots so much better than the regular plebeian carrots? How do we account for the generational carrot wealth disparity?

But you see my vision.

Not that long, either.

Okay, not that intricate.

I wanna rewatch season 3 of Discovery when SFA is over, because I feel like Nus Braka has a long and intricate backstory where Osyraa was mean to him once and that's why he's a misogynist now.

Aw man, I've been enjoying it for free, like a chump!

I checked out a YA novel from the library on the weekend, and I wanna thank the Libby app for reminding me that I DNFd at 36% because I had absolutely no memory of trying to read it. (The prose. The prose was not memorable.)

IMPORTANT QUESTION: did you ever see the Ally McBeal photoshoot done in the unisex bathroom, where everyone is either in a stall or peering into one? It was amazing - unhinged, an actual reflection of the show, and also echoing The Social Concerns Of Decades To Come.

Anyway, JBL's wired USB-C headphones now come in little paper envelopes instead of using plastic pieces in the packaging, and the sound is fiiiiiiiiiine. Not as good as my AirPods, or as comfortable, but these can live in the pocket of my handbag for next time I forget.

I left my AirPods at home. This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

The DW official thread overnight about how people are asking if their "states" are introducing age verification made me wanna do a pass-ag "did you know there are countries that aren't America and they're also doing age verification bullshit" quote.

Guys, I need to shout at clouds for a minute.

THERE ARE TOO MANY TYPES OF BAND AIDS NOW. PLEASE RETIRE SOME BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO CHOOSE WHICH BOX TO KEEP IN THE HOUSE FOR GENERAL MINOR INJURIES.

Thank you.

And you can stop blaming fanfic, too, first person is WILDLY unpopular among that readership.

I DID I watched the first season in lockdown! It was so good!