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Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

Growing up, I was told that the demise of Christianity would be caused by our country rejecting God. Now I believe it is actually caused by Christians blatantly rejecting the teachings of Jesus for the sake of political power.

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

Yes, the Trump-Vance administration just told Germany it should make nice with a far-right political party with a history of using Nazi rhetoric and accepting racists and antisemites. And no Republican will complain. This is neo-fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

Roses are red Violets are blue

We are watching in real time why Jesus said we can’t worship both God and money.

By far the funniest #Superbowl commercial: "FOX NEWS" "For All America"

I honestly don't understand how someone who has read a thing in their life could deny that Trumpism is fascism at this point. But then I felt the same way on 1/6/21, so I'm certain they'll figure something out.

Trump is suing Illinois and Chicago over their sanctuary policies because the right wing believes in the concept of states rights only when it protects racists and steals rights from women.

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

Still processing the fact that the richest man in the world, who was not born in America and holds no position in government, is currently destroying all elements of the rickety federal policy infrastructure that insulate working class Americans from harm

In mythological depths of the 7th century Antarctica, a halfhuman warrior princess and her ex-childhood friend undertake a doomed quest to save her father's corpse from the writhing forest lair of a elder god. Death, madness, and body horror follow. The Ritual X The Left Hand of Darkness #miserypit

THE EXODONTISTS, 94k: A loving family of tooth-craving wraiths must defend their home and free dental clinic when it’s taken over by a chain Halloween store. 🦷 Eric LaRocca literary vibes 🦷 Dark and whimsical 🦷 Comps: The Book Eaters and We Can Never Leave This Place #miserypit #H #A #DF

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED X YELLOWSTONE 💉A serial killer deathly good at twisting the righteous words 🚓 A local cop racing to stop a Luciferian evil 🥃 Moonshine, mining, & madness 🤕 Traumatic pasts 👻 Haunting history of the Irish who came to the US & settled the West #A #T #Q #miserypit

THE CLACKITY x WILDER GIRLS Oh, Child, the girls of Screamerwood are like family now. Same nubby fingernails. Same scabby knees, too. They've even been collecting your family's lost teeth for generations. Just look at those smiles--such a resemblance! Now, everyone say, cheese! #MG #H #MiseryPit

DONT LET THE FOREST IN x TOGETHER WE ROT A botany student haunted by the whispering woods searches for the missing boy who vanished from his kegger as a siren lures him and his friends into the water in this dark re-imagining of Morgan Le Fay. #miserypit #Q #YA #T

Stephen King's IT x Monsters, Inc. An otherworldly terror is coming for Tim Beaulieu and his daughter Cleo. Tim must look into his past in order to save their future. Will they be able to defeat THE MONSTER IN THE CLOSET? #A #Horror #Q #MiseryPit

#Q #agentsguide KINSHIP, 84k, #A #CT w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #miserypit

St. Bellmont's Academy for Young Women is a sanctuary for troubled girls to find their paths. But with the principal dead, and both of them being the main suspects, Vesper and Safi must uncover the truth and prove their innocence. But older the places, darker the secrets. #MiseryPit #YA #CM #WIP

Dorian Gray X Frankenstein At a gothic university steeped in mist and secrets, a disillusioned scholar and a beautiful, haunted student make a pact to cheat death through alchemy. But as obsession twists into tragedy, they must face the cost of immortality—and love. #MiseryPit #YA #HT #FT #WIP

Vampires, Wealth, inspired by The Godfather A peasant girl becomes the mastermind behind an evil power seeking to enslave humanity. She must choose between strength and death on her 25th birthday. Will her need for strength consume her, and how many must die for her to find out? #MiseryPit #Q #HT

SHARP OBJECTS X HILL HOUSE w/ (10) lit agent interest✨ Baylor’s obsession with Kara is dark and consuming—even on their first date. But when she vanishes, he’s hunted by his doppelgänger and must confront himself before time ticks. #MiseryPit #H #T #A #Q #querying #litagents

#MiseryPit As teenager Evie lies in a coma, a stranger offers her mother Anna a final chance to save her. Anna must journey through her buried past, relive her worst memories and choose someone to die in Evie’s place. But what is the stranger’s motive? And does Evie want to be saved? #CT #A

A Fate tasked with scheduling the lives and deaths of mortals must track down a killer when the unscheduled body of a Chosen One lands on the doorstep of her best friend, Death. Whimsical bureaucracy of The House in the Cerulean Sea X small town charm of Murder, She Wrote #MiseryPit #A #Q #FM

GUMSHOE FRANKENSTEIN: A real-life Frankenstein's monster seeks a Dracula ring stolen by the secret immortality cult that runs Hollywood. Hardboiled and snarky. 68K words. Will appeal to Jim Butcher fans, and would fit inside the world of Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water. #MiseryPit #A #FM #Q