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I write with VivaciousVandal. Won an Inevitable Fellowship for writers with disabilities. S2 Stunt List. Welcome to Bsky, or "Good Twitter," as I call it!
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Some people like to say there is no such thing as a perfect movie. They are wrong.

Show us your writing process in a GIF. I was looking for Harley & Ivy ones, but I couldn't resist this.

Inaccurate but a high compliment!

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The kids ARE all right. And I’m proud of them. And Maine.

HADESTOWN (2019)

Emily knows what she speaks of - she‘s a writer on Shogun and like all of us has sacrificed years to projects we can never talk about. So many accidents and fuckups led to Gilroy getting such license to go all out on an I’m 64 years old and most of my best work never got made fuck it opportunity.

Look, I know that these are all real band and musician names, but they *sound* made-up when you list them off in a commercial… Portugal the Man! Peggy Gou! KHRUANGBIN! (it's pronounced CRUNG-ga-bin.)

DIM THE LIGHTS AND CHILL THE HAM, the COMPLETE first season of MULTIPLEX OVERTHRUSTER (summer of ‘82) just dropped! available wherever reputable podcasts are dropped! and COMING VERY SOON SEASON 2 - summer of 83!

rejected titles for “conclave”: - sunday in the park with pope - popelight express - hamilpope - little pope of horrors - popelahoma! - merrily we pope along - lend me a pope! - la cage aux popes - joseph and the amazing technicolor dreampope - popewig and the angry inch - mamma mia!

"Of all the things at risk, the loss of objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest"

I think about this comic at least once a week

Impeach and remove is the moderate position. The correct one is to call for entirely new presidential elections.

For anyone who needs a distraction from… NBC cancellations, the hellscape, anything… the "Genius" annotations for Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer" song are quite good. genius.com/35187634

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Cuomo pushed out Andy Byford, a world-renowned transit expert, because Byford’s successes stole his spotlight. Cuomo’s governing philosophy is whatever strokes his ego the most

The world is a stage and we are inexperienced understudies thrust into starring roles after the main cast quit over a pay dispute.

#booksky

personally would not describe the myth of a man cursed to roll a rock uphill FRUITLESSLY FOR ALL ETERNITY as “a reminder that you can overcome anything” but you do you, meta ad

Topic of discussion: Dreams ME: …the nightmare was stressful, but I figured out what it was telling me. AOIFE: I had a nightmare too. ME: Oh no! What about? AOIFE: Your face. 🙄 😅

Dear god let this man cook.

New Song - Gator Days

my favorite scene from Conclave (2024)

woke up with this in my head and now it's your problem

There is a great biography of Dumas' father, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss