@emilyhughes
Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉 readjumpscares.com https://www.patreon.com/c/ReadJumpScares
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Chris and Mitch join me to talk about Daytide and their collaborative efforts. It's a fun time where Mitch and Chris don't make ANY jokes AT ALL and are TOTALLY SERIOUS the whole way through. Links:
not only did my friend's kid say his first word today ("ball"), I got to be the first person to yell HE KNOWS BALL in the group chat. Ws all around.
"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages
it does and OH MY GOD
I *love* this book and you will too
HELEN I LOVED THIS GAME
I bet you can guess the demographic background of this reviewer
Screenshot of a two-star goodreads review: "Author takes horror movies, and herself, very seriously as she examines sociology and culture today through the lens of the genre. Her list of horror movies to examine begins with 1960's "Psycho," but mostly covers late 20th- and early 21st-century films. Was hoping for a much broader treatment. Her rundowns did not make me want to find and watch any that I hadn't seen."
not to do a "would you say a male author took himself very seriously" but like... would you?
that's wild
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
and if you need a movie to go see with your parents, oh baby this is the one
I didn't, largely because I'm a real hardass about anything with an actor in a fat suit, but I could be persuaded!
they should honestly just give him next year's editing Oscar right now
saw the Elvis concert doc last night and honestly? Baz Luhrmann might have been born to make concert films out of historical footage. best thing he's done in 25 years.
wow he really is constitutionally incapable of shutting the fuck up, huh
Off to give Claude a fatal dose of House of Leaves
"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing
I’m gonna be a MENACE
hahaha uh my deadlift goal for 2026 was 300lbs and I did a one-rep max at 350 today
Billy Bob Thornton cell phone provider ad playing before the movie and the woman behind me is going “who is that? That’s a famous actor, what’s his name” and it’s KILLING me trying not to respond
An image of Daniel Kraus and Gretchen Felker Martin about an event on Friday, March 13 at 7:30 PM at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts
FRIDAY THE 13TH / CAMBRIDGE / DK + GFM. 🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟🧟♀️🧟♂️
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I'm watching For All Mankind to get my Dorman fix now
it's SO GOOD and it made me a lifelong Michael Dorman stan!!!
genuinely love when I manage to make a post for nobody
god I would LOVE to ban golf. turn all golf courses into public parks immediately!!!
when you start planning a new novel the most important thing is how many lesbians you're gonna put in there. triples is safe, triples is best, but more really can't hurt
my eye is twitching constantly but I'm doing my damnedest
the thing is that if you actually think that trans people in sports are a Real Issue, you are dangerously stupid, and I'm not voting for anybody dangerously stupid for any leadership role, ever. that simple.
my resident bunny has taken to scavenging for birdseed under the feeders and I whispered "soon, buddy" out the window at him this morning. brain doing great!