Profiled T Kira Madden for ELLE! Read not only for WHIDBEY BTS, but also for a true example of what committing to this writing life can look like—and how freaking fun it can be amidst all the hard work. www.elle.com/culture/book...
This cheeky riff on A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Samantha Allen drops Puck, here reimagined as a nonbinary reality TV producer, into a friend’s wedding week, where they can’t resist their professionally honed urge to meddle. It’s a delight. @zandoprojects.bsky.social
Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.
On a scale from 13 GOING ON to ZERO DARK, where do you fall on the 30 gender spectrum?
excited to have an essay in this! Love the bachelor? Hate the bachelor (like I did, until the golden bachelor)? You know what to do!
The fact that the past tense of “go” is “went” is fucking insane those are all new letters
we lost David Lynch a year ago today (and in the time since, I've seen "fix your hearts or die" on more protest signs than ever before). what I wrote at the time:
Where
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Bloodborne
babe wake up, one of the "tradcath egirl summit" chicks is transvestigating sydney sweeney's neck
How are we doing book promo right now other than dropping links and feeling sheepish?!?
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😍 Got approved on Netgalley to read Puck by @samanthaallen.bsky.social! This looks like such fun and exactly the kind of thing I need right now.
Also I will forever like Samantha for helping me carry books to my car at PNBA even though we'd just met like 3 minutes before. A truly nice person.😄
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did my best to break down what we know, and how Trump officials have lied so far, about Renee Good and her murder today:
The anthology by and about The Bachelor fandom that I've worked on for five years is available for pre-order in that big B&N sale, and I'd love it if you pre-ordered it there or elsewhere! It was a huge and lengthy labor of love and I'm so proud of it.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/here-for-a...
Avatar has apparently had the greatest cultural impact of any movie ever, based on how goddamned much all of y’all are talking about it today
The Avatar movies are good, wildly entertaining, and visually spectacular. People like that. This is my expert analysis.
“Merriam-Webster defines ‘faith’ as…”
Michael Clayton 2: Baguette It Again
3D TVs, the Metaverse, pictures of apes…
Put words after other words
It’s a little early still, don’t you think?
Mug is the answer
Root Beer is a wholesome beverage for families
Root Beer should not have caffeine
Counterpoint: The grilled cheese looks burnt and borderline inedible.
Cover of HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor edited by Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais. It features four women - white with glasses and short hair, Black with long hair holding a wine glass, white with reddish hair holding a wine glass, and brown with log hair up in a bun and glasses - sitting together with their backs to the viewer looking at a big TV screen with the title of the book on it.
She's here, she's available for preorder, and she's available for ARC requests 🥹
HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor is an anthology of 29 essays by 30 contributors, and includes pieces about racism, spoiling, love, loss, friendship, heterosexuality, and so much more.
hello! @samanthaallen.bsky.social entered a Daniel Doc! www.danieldocs.com/p/the-daniel...
If you're looking for "Sapphic spooky vibes for someone getting into the genre (audiobook preferable)," we suggest Patricia Wants to Cuddle by @samanthaallen.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian
Hello, people of Bluesky. A film adaptation of PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE is officially in the works. I am super excited about this:
variety.com/2025/film/ma...
