Y’all wanna hear some Knives-Out level family drama from this weekend?
During my cousin’s wedding in the south of France, his stepsister’s husband went missing from the gorgeous chateau where we were all staying. 1/6
Anyway, aside from an itchy butt, a soul destroying hangover, a missed train, and a furious wife, my cousin’s stepsister’s husband survives to make more ill-advised decisions at the next family wedding, his dignity, however is lost for good. 6/6
I wish people talked more about how mental illness robs you of your memories. Whether it’s because being in a depressive state *physically alters your brain* or because you’ve just blocked out painful parts of your life, & any good that happened within them is collateral damage.
Being neurodivergent means that I over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that my over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing
Turns out, my cousin’s stepsister’s husband got too trashed, and after a night of joining my cousin and his new wife and their besties in several cancan competitions to Ra Ra Rasputin, he’d wandered off, ripped his pants, dropped his phone, and just decided to take a nap. 5/6
So off my cousin’s cousin goes, following the phone tracker into the woods behind the chateau, where, lo and behold, he finds my cousin’s stepsister’s husband, asleep in a BED OF POISON OAK. 4/6
But just as things are reaching a fever pitch, my cousin’s cousin—who, as an aside, is recovering from going into anaphylactic shock after eating sunflower seeds the night before—learns that while the stepsister digitally located the phone, NO ONE ACTUALLY WENT TO LOOK FOR IT 3/6
Next morning everyone’s whispering that he vanished after drunk dialing his wife at 5 & that they found his phone but not him. My cousin’s stepsister is beside herself. The chateau staff wants to call the police, because the place is huge. No one’s told the bride & groom. 2/6
Correction: I (an American) said poison oak because that’s what I was told by my cousin’s cousin (also an American), but after looking it up, I’m not actually sure WHAT plant he was lying in. Whatever it was left a bad rash but not having seen the plant myself, I’ve got no clue
So off my cousin’s cousin goes, following the phone tracker into the woods behind the chateau, where, lo and behold, he finds my cousin’s stepsister’s husband, asleep in a BED OF POISON OAK. 4/6
Omg this really took off lmao I am extremely sorry to inform everyone who thinks this is fake that it is, in fact, real. 😔 I also probably should have said Glass Onion but I really just wanted Benoit Blanc to come rolling in as soon as the intrigue began.
#TheWitcherNetflix
gave me:
- multiple storylines about saving monsters
- female sexual agency
- no graphic sexual assault scenes
- a mid-battle kiss between a pair of tempestuous lovers
- Geralt in leather pants
- 2/3 PoV characters that are women
- TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER
Did you know that some owl species including Eurasian Eagle Owls do this “wings hug” behavior to shelter their babies in the nest? In light of my human mother revealing herself to be a complete nightmare, I’ve decided that Cleo is my mom now. She’s doing a great job.
Zephyr, the baby peregrine falcon, is growing up so fast! He’s already wobbling around on his enormous feet and flapping his fuzzy little wings! 😭💗
#falconry
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS. Anxiety about adulthood is normal. But it’s deeply alarming that young self-identified leftists are SO anxious that even as adults they’re they’re infantilizing themselves & spouting the same rhetoric about sex & sexuality as the far right. 1/3
i can only assume that the "postminors" thing is happening because, as an alleged postminor myself, I suspect the kids who were antis have become adults and don't know what to do with themselves now that they can't use being a teenager as a shield for their shitty behavior lmao
Fanfiction as an art form that deserves legitimacy is the hill I'm going to die on. It's real art, real labor performed predominantly by groups of people who are seriously unrepresented in the world of mainstream fiction. Time for everyone to stop pretending otherwise.
This
#hozier
concert is wild lmao. The dude behind me won’t stop barking and. Couple at the front of the room got asked to leave because they wouldn’t stop kissing 😂😂😂
Dungeons & Dragons: Welcome to a wonderful world of magic and fantasy! Here you can be anything you want! Every game you can be someone new and exciting!
Me, creating the 9th version of my favorite character archetype in a slightly different color: coolcoolcool
Here’s my best piece of writing advice: if you’re feeling bored and uninspired by your story, then just go apeshit. Write the most unhinged thing you can think of. Go big and then go BIGGER. Let your Id run the show. Pretend no one will ever read it and be absolutely shameless.
I don’t want to add to the retelling discourse, but I wish publishing would quit labeling every mythological retelling from a woman’s POV as feminist. Women can be agents of the patriarchy too, and female authors can have deep threads of internalized misogyny.
If your audience can predict some major plot beats in the third installment of your trilogy that’s not called being predictable that’s called good writing that pays off the story beats that came before.
This has been a free writing class.
You’re welcome, Hollywood.
Today is hilariously weird for me in light of both the Star Wars and Lizzie McGuire news because... my friend Clayton, who I dressed up as Kylo Ren, is the actor who played Ethan Craft.
This tweet brought to you by my mom telling me that one of my best friends from elementary school moved to LA recently, but I have literally no memory of this person.
It's really quite impressive how Star Wars went from the one and ONLY franchise that I would spend money on official merch for to a franchise that I will never give another dollar to ever again over the space of a single movie. It's been a month and a half and I'm still reeling.
The "authors" of AI-generated stories, trying to get traditionally published, don't understand the fatal flaw in their plan. Being the first AI "author" to slip past the filters won't gain them accolades. When people find out—and they WILL find out—all that's waiting is ridicule.
I always see people talking about fantasy that’s “based on European history” like it’s a neutral, safe, default source of inspiration. But let me tell you, as a Jewish person, there is NOTHING neutral or safe about European history.
I just learned that parrot parents name their chicks before they’re even hatched and the chicks use that name through their whole lives. I’m SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT THIS. 😭😭😭
After 6 LONG months of waiting, I can finally announce that CROWN OF STARLIGHT, my Ariadne and Dionysus in space retelling is coming spring 2024 by
@DelReyBooks
&
@PenguinRandomCA
!
I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying!!!!
What I hope creative industries at large take away from the Barbie hype is how desperately people want new things. The reaction to this movie isn't a fluke; it's evidence of a profound hunger for unironically gleeful, subversively earnest, and joyously weird art.
Also:
- PoC characters!!! So many!!!!
- hilariously bad CGI that actually makes the show more fun
- intensely weird costuming choices that again, make the show more fun
- a super tight, complex plot that keeps you hooked the whole way
- Geralt in the bath tub x2
The greatest tragedy of modern queer culture is that the AIDS crisis robbed a generation of queer teens of the knowledge & support of community elders leaving them vulnerable to bad actors who packaged radical evangelism in social justice language & turned them on each other. 2/3
Imagine rushing and phoning in the ending of the MOST POPULAR TV SERIES EVER so that you can race off to make a WHOLE ORIGINAL TRILOGY for the MOST POPULAR MOVIE FRANCHISE EVER only to brag about how bad you were at the TV show job which gets you fired from the movie gig.
I can't stop looking at this picture. It fills my heart with joy. Three badass, diverse, powerful women out there KILLING IT in STAR WARS. This is everything the whiny fanboys were afraid of. And I am LIVING.
My goal in life is to make enough money that I can just be as generous with my friends as they've been to me. I want to send people gifts just because. I want to donate to all your ko-fi's and subscribe to all your patreons and support everyone's gofundme's and kickstarter's.
Happy birthday to my birthday twin,
@matthewmercer
! Thank you for the joy you bring to this world with your stories and I hope this next year has good things in store for the both of us! 🎂🎊
The evidence that they built the last scene of TROS in post-production and didn’t actually shoot the ENDING OF THEIR MOVIE THAT ENDED THE WHOLE SAGA is making me want to jump into a volcano.
I just realized something: GoT HATED being a genre show and you could feel its resentment in the way it kept refusing to laugh at any part of itself. Meanwhile The Witcher LOVES that it's a genre show and leans hard into the absurdity of everything, to it's immense benefit.