Rachel Hawkins/Erin Sterling
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Bestselling Author, Silly Human. Rep: @hroot Thrillers- Rachel Hawkins (THE VILLA, SMP, 1/3/23!) Romance- Erin Sterling (THE KISS CURSE, Avon, 9/20/22!)
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I just dropped a full huge jar of spaghetti sauce on the kitchen floor, and it SHATTERED when it hit the tile, and the mess was so big that for a second, I considered just...walking away. From my house, my family, my life. From the oregano-scented horror I'd unleashed.
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Hate it for the Swifties, but "your friend in her 30s broke up with the man she's been dating since her 20s, the man you ALL THOUGHT she'd marry, and now you have to deal with at least 18 months of her making the Most Unhinged Dating Choices Imaginable," IS a Phase of Life.
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I know there's nothing new/interesting to say about The Kate Issue now, but it is still wiiiiiillllld to me that they made the Photoshop Fail HER fault instead of being like, "We are so sorry, our intern, Cuthbert Bottingsly-Smythe, was overzealous and has thusly been beheaded."
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AGAIN, if no one in your faux-medieval world is getting lice or dying because they can't stop pooping, and you feel the need to be sure there's sexual violence because "realism" or whatever, you should maybe look a little closer at why that is! Just a thought!!
@HouseofDragon
@HBO
#HouseoftheDragon
“pulls back” on the amount of sex but will depict sexual violence inherent in its Middle Ages-inspired world: “[We] don’t shy away from it. If anything, we’re going to shine a light on that aspect. It shouldn’t be downplayed or glorified”
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"Let me fat in peace" is my new favorite thing anyone has ever said.
For the record, Cardi B isn't pregnant: "I'm just getting fat. Let me fat in peace."
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As a Southerner, it is my duty to remind everyone to stay the f*ck away from this lake, IT WILL EAT YOU, IT IS EXTREMELY HAUNTED I WILL NOT SLIPPY-SLIDE INTO HELL, THANK YOU!!!
Georgia’s first ‘waterslide coaster’ to open at Lake Lanier this spring
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There is for sure a weird thing that happens when dudes think they're writing for other dudes, but then it turns out they're actually writing for women, and instead of being like, "WOW OKAY NEAT LOVE A BIG PASSIONATE AUDIENCE!" they get, like, very mad and Need To Punish.
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Also, worth noting that Mary Higgins Clark who was literally called "the Queen of Suspense" and has sold millions and millions of copies did not publish her first novel until she was 48. It is never too late to eventually end up Running This Shit.
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A woman just whizzed past me on a bicycle wearing a super high ponytail and casually holding a half-full glass of white wine AS SHE BIKED, and I regret to inform my husband that I must leave him to pursue this woman.
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Practice saying things like, "She's in a weird place right now," or, "I KNOW, but he seems really into her at least?" and know that after this stage, she will inevitably meet and marry a Magical Unicorn Man you love.
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I (43F) just had my son (17M) tell me, "You'll never appreciate Nirvana like I do," when a video of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came on You Tube.
This is in zero parenting manuals.
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Sometime I think about that period in the 90s when the Caesar Cut had an absolute chokehold on actors of the day, and how virulently I, a teenage girl at the time, haaaaaated it because I truly believe this is such an ugly haircut on otherwise insanely handsome men.
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I just remembered that I once desperately wanted to write a Western where thanks to a mail mishap, a lady rancher ends up with a mail order bride, and the Fancy Society Girl who turns up is absolutely DELIGHTED with this turn of events and Romance Happens.
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Oh my GOD, remember how just YESTERDAY we were all like, "WOW, Meghan looks ESPECIALLY PRETTY right now??" IT WAS BECAUSE SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW THEY WERE PEACING OUT!!! HAD THE GLOW OF A WOMAN WHO EXECUTED A PLAN FLAWLESSLY!!
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HOW are the Jonas Brothers punching SO FAR ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT in this the year of our lord, 2018???
Guys, Sophie Turner Is So Pumped About Having Priyanka Chopra as a Sister-in-Law
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This scene in Titanic where everyone is chilling inside in their life jackets because it's "too cold and noisy," on deck, and the guy who built the boat KNOWS they're sinking, and is wandering around looking at everyone laughing and drinking....
It hits different now.
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"We need r*pe to be realistic to that well-known historical era, Dragon Time."
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Oh, neat, so she's playing the daughter of one of them, that is so- *checks notes* oh, the wife.
She's playing the WIFE of one of them.
FUN.
.
@jodiecomer
was only 4 years old the last time
@BenAffleck
and
#MattDamon
worked together for
#GoodWillHunting
, but she’ll star alongside the two in Ridley Scott’s new film
#TheLastDuel
: “It’s insane”
#NYCC
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It seems...telling that my fellow white lady authors 100% understand how shitty it can feel reading a Terrible Female POV from a dude author, but as soon as POC are like, "Hey, maybe it's not your lane to write a POC POV," it's all, "DO NOT CENSOR MY ART!!" or whatever.
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Apparently British tabloids are trying to make a thing of Prince Harry turning in multiple drafts of his memoir. "THE MANUSCRIPT WENT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN HIM AND HIS EDITORS SEVERAL TIMES!!!"
Guys, I...uh. I have some news for you about How Books Work.
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What if I write a Christmas Romance Movie where the heroine dumps her Smalltown Boyfriend Who Likes Plaid and Dogs for the Suit-Wearing Big City Lawyer??
WHAT THEN??
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This is still my favorite of the Beyond Belief Videos because someone once tweeted it with, "When your editor sends line edits."
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I love that the British media was all, "Harry actually regrets talking to Oprah!!" and then Harry went BACK to Oprah, all, "AND ANOTHER THING!!!!"
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I have bought....23 romance novels since March 9th.
This is a solid coping strategy, I encourage all of you to adopt it.
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Rewatching Ted Lasso, and the scene with Keeley and Roy in the pressroom with her acting as a journalist asking him questions about the two of them remains one of the swooniest RomCom Moments in ANY media.
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Tomorrow I leave for one of my favorite Annual Traditions, The Reading Vacation. 2 nights at a midrange hotel I can pay for with points, only other requirement be that they do room service or have easily available food. Then I settle in and READ for 2 days. That's it!!
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NOT NOW, SUPERVOLCANO!!!
Unusual uplift at Yellowstone volcano was caused by magma rising up deep beneath the surface, study finds
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Wait, they're making HER eat this after literally doing "📷: Prince of Wales?" WHAT IS GOING ON OVER THERE???
Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C
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The knighting of Ser Brienne of Tarth by Ser Jaime Lannister was both a fulfillment of the narrative arc of knighthood and what it means to be a "true knight" that runs through both their stories, and also a metaphorical wedding ceremony. In this essay I will-
#GameofThrones
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My husband, who has never participated in fandom in his life, does not even know what Tumblr is, and just baaaaarely watches the Marvel movies just referred to Bucky as, "Captain America's moody boyfriend."
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I taught HS for three years. I saw lots of fights, broke up a few, including one where I put my 9 months pregnant body in between two boys who were much larger than me. Teachers deescalate fights between kids every single day without feeling the need to reach for a gun.
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Me At Sephora: Yes, hello, I need the Anti-2016 and 2017 Sheet Mask, please.
Sephora: Wut.
Me: The sheet mask that takes the past 2 years off my face.
Sephora: An anti-aging mask?
Me: No, one that gives me the face of someone who did not experience these last 2 years, thank you.
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Honestly, I usually don't like sequels, but I feel like Impeachment 2: The Repeachening has the chance to fix some major issues I had with the first one.
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YOU GUYS WHEN I CALL MY SENATOR NOW I GET TO CALL DOUG JONES. I USED TO HAVE TO CALL *JEFF SESSIONS* FFS.
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One of the things I always admire about Taylor Swift is how efficiently she can tell a whole story in one line. "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter," "Please don't ever become a stranger whose laugh I'd recognize everywhere."
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But WHOMST Did Sex with Palpatine?
BUT WHOMST?????
Whomst.
??????
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Every Romance Editor in 2-4 days: "why...do I have 4,891 Scottish Baker Romance Book Proposals in my inbox?"
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ANYWAY, that's my 2 cents. Real weird, very mishandled all the way around from a PR standpoint, and also pretty striking that apparently you CAN tell the British press to stand down and they will if the princess you're trying to protect isn't Black. SO.
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If you're making any reading goals in 2022, let me pass on my best piece of advice: Quit any book you're not feeling. I try to give something 20 pages, and I also ask myself, "is this not for me, or not for me RIGHT NOW?" and reshelve/donate accordingly!
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NO I'M NOT DONE BEING FLOORED BY THIS, OH MY GOD, JUST PUT IT ON AO3 LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL, FRANK.
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Are you all looking forward to my new RomCom where a girl who carries Fiji Water on a red carpet ends up in an Embarrassing Mishap With A Hot Actor that goes viral, and then, idk, they fake date, probably? Anyway, look for THIRST TRAP, coming Spring 2021.
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There are so many actresses from the 90s that have made me go, "Wait, where did they go?" and time after time after time, it has ended up being the result of this situation. Heartbreaking. Enraging.
Julia Ormond, the English actress best known for her roles in ’90s films such as “Legends of the Fall,” is suing Harvey Weinstein for sexual battery. She is additionally suing CAA, The Walt Disney Company and Miramax.
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About once a year, my mom posts this letter Mr. Rogers wrote me when I was little, so that means that about once a year, I Ugly Cry over it.
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE, J HAS ONCE AGAIN FOUND AN *EXTREMELY* HAUNTED HOUSE HE THINKS WE SHOULD BUY! Only $250K, a BARGAIN for the sheer amount of ghosts we will no doubt have!
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The Battle of Bosworth was 532 years ago today, and I'm sure there's a dude who can tell you about that, but I AM HERE FOR SEXY HISTORY.
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W just came downstairs and said, "Mom, what time was I born? A girl needs to know, I don't know why."
It begins.
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My Beloved But Apparently Idiot Husband wants to add a brick aspect to our driveway, and is talking about getting said bricks from the fallen-down old house in the woods behind our home.
Look for my next book, MY DEMON-POSSESSED DRIVEWAY, around 2023.
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I am getting DRESSED UP to go vote tomorrow, y'all. I am HOT ROLLING MY HAIR. I am PAINTING MY LIPS RED. I am STRUTTING into the Fire Station where I vote. I am CONSOLIDATING MY POWER to kick Roy Moore in the nads with my vote.
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This is my take now as well. W and K are kinda lazy and kinda dumb, they surrounded themselves with Yes Men who are VERY lazy and dumb, and that's made them forget that not everyone is lazy and dumb, and also the internet is more Conspiracy-prone than ever, ergo, This Cock-Up.
the most boringly plausible explanation for the kate middleton situation is she just doesn't want to appear on camera for divorce/illness reasons and the royal family's dueling PR teams have mishandled this to a comical degree.
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@ktb38
Flooded a town to make it (and a town that already had a dark history of racial violence at that), allegedly all the residents didn't make it out in time, possibly on purpose, and now a lot of people die in it every year.
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Is anybody doing "Being a Successful Author" better than Nora Roberts? Not online save a blog, still putting out multiple great books EVERY YEAR, going on lovely vacays with her family, and funding smalltown libraries against bigots. Just nailing it on ALL FRONTS.
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On Monday, I get to indulge in my favorite Annual Tradition! I go to a mid-range hotel about 3 hours away, and spend 2 days ordering room service, reading, and taking 6 baths a day. It is a relatively cheap hard reset, and I guard its sacredness like a DRAGON.
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SO HEY!! WOULD YOU LIKE SOME EXCITING NEWS??
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Lololol, Biden's spokesperson saying the American gov't is perfectly capable of removing "trespassers" from the White House, THIS IS THE ENERGY I DESIRE!!
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Sometimes I think about Ada Lovelace, and how if you wrote her as a character in a book and were like, "so she's a mathematician because her dad was this FAMOUS WILD-ASS POET, and her mom was all, 'YOU DO MATH NO WILD-ASS POETRY!!'" your audience would be like, "BIT MUCH."
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ONE LAST THING before I fling myself into the sea: Sometimes you look around and are like, "WHY ISN'T THIS A THING?" and the answer is, "HOLE IN THE MARKET! GO FOR IT!"
But SOMETIMES, the answer is, "Because It Is Not A Good Idea, Please Talk To A Lawyer, Oh My God."
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Probably worth tossing into the Disc Horse that MANY Bi Women in Relationships With Men tend to be super self-conscious about not taking up space or hogging the mic, which means we often don't perform or sometimes even address our sexuality.
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Parenting a teenager is interesting because they'll sleep until 11, then suddenly they're UP, and they'd like to talk to you about MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS and OTHER DEEP TOPICS right this second, it's like a cat who also goes to grad school or some shit. WILD.
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Ben Barnes finally getting the excellent YA adaptation he has deserved since 2009, you truly love to see it.
#ShadowAndBone
— based on
@LBardugo
's Shadow and Bone and Six of Crow novels — has found its cast: Ben Barnes as General Kirigan, Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker, Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Amita Suman as Inej, and Kit Young as Jesper Fahey.
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*Fancy Society Lady From Boston, Thinking She's Gonna End Up With Some Old Dude Who Wants Her To Have Babies, Actually Lands Gwendoline Christie In Chaps*:
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Everybody all, "WHOMST shall release the Song of the Summer??" never realizing that somehow Kate Bush would emerge from the mists of 1985 like an Elven Queen to claim that crown. Amazing.
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So at lunch, there was this dad just validating the SHIT out of his 3-4 year old daughter, all, "And I am so PROUD of you, you used your WORDS to tell us how you were feeling, that's so good, you've worked so hard!!" and I was like, "Aw, that's nice!" BUT THEN!
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I don't know what I thought Marriage or Mortgage was about, but apparently it's choosing between a Dream Wedding and a WHOLE ASS HOUSE??? That is NOT EVEN A CHOICE, KIDS.
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An interesting side note from the whole Sophie Turner/Joe Jonas nightmare is that apparently a LOT of people on here had no idea dual citizenship is a thing! Seeing a lot of, "AMERICAN KIDS, AMERICAN PASSPORTS, DOESN'T MATTER THAT THEIR MOTHER IS BRITISH," and sirs.
SIRS.
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Saw a review for a movie (won't say which one, but y'all probably can guess!) that was like, "THIS PLOT TWIST IS BANANAS OMG WHO COULD'VE PREDICTED!!" aaaaaand Romance Twitter literally called that twist within 30 seconds of the first TRAILER. Come on, Movie Bro.
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Hillary, making the same face most of us do when our racist uncle is talking at Thanksgiving, and we promised our mom we wouldn't argue.
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I never even MURMURED the word "period" to any boys I knew as a teen, and W just Door Dashed a friend some candy and supplies she needed during HERS, the kids are, frankly, AMAZING.
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F*CK, I tried that Comic Sans trick, and F*CK F*CK F*CK it actually WORKS, UGH, I hate EVERYthing (but also wrote like 4K yesterday thanks to that ugly font.)
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I bought a bag of lemon drops on impulse and A) grandmas are hardcore because my mouth is F***ED! UP!! from all these lemon drops, and B) I was like, "I should get a CONTAINER for these, like a glass BOWL of some kind," and that's how it starts.
That's how it starts.
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W: I need to go buy a notebook to write my ideas in.
Me: *takes deep breath, wipes away tear* My son, I... I think it is finally time for us to dip into your inheritance. *leads him to shelf of 5,692 empty notebooks*
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So W has a new GF, and she just called a few minutes after he got off the bus, and HE!! A TEENAGE BOY!! SAID VERY GENTLY TO HER!! "I like to talk to my parents when I first get home, so let me call you back in a bit."
I...literally teared up.
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Y'all, I thought I was prepared for how unhinged this would be.
I was not.
The Daily Mail on Kate Middleton being hospitalized is honestly one of the most mental pieces of journalism I've ever read.
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If you are worried you'll miss the whole House Sorting thing, caaaaaan I interest you in becoming An Astrology Bitch?? It's way more fun, the memes are EXCELLENT, and there's more variety than "brave," "nice," "smart," and "evil!"
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This is actually very comforting.
Don’t feel bad: even Danielle Steel, author of 179 books, couldn’t write under lockdown |
@lithub
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And whatever genius coined the term "Swim Shady," for Lochte, MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR IT, GOOD PERSON.
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This was a great take on last night's ep. It's not the WHAT, it's the HOW/WHY that's the issue. And I think, as disappointing as all this is, there are SO MANY GOOD LESSONS about writing to be learned by watching GoT shit the bed so thoroughly.
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I've written horror and I plan on writing a lot more of that, and I'm just gonna go ahead and make y'all a promise right now:
I'm never gonna kill an animal in any of my horror.
The dog? Gonna live super hard.
Cats? Please. They're basically immortal.
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Y'all, if it really IS a school assignment to ask an author about their sexuality because they wrote a queer book, you might want to push back against said assignment and not contact a stranger to ask a highly, highly personal question.
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Anti Cat People: Cats don't REALLY love you.
Actual Cats:
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The, "I have never personally experienced this, ergo, you are wrong," thing is disingenuous at best, gaslighting at worst, and BOY do we do it a lot to minorities trying to tell us a thing.
Chris Pratt defends church in response to Ellen Page backlash
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WHOEVER IT IS IN MALIA OBAMA'S FRIEND CIRCLE THAT KEEPS TATTLING ON HER, I WILL FIGHT YOU IN THE STREET.
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@cali4niaenglsh
@ms_papoose
And Sleepy Hollow and The 100...sadly, lots of shows have fallen victim to this!
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The fact that gay people exist in a book does not count as "mature content," and y'all need to stoooooppppppp with thaaaaaaaaat.
#PSA
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And now we're FOR REAL done. All art up, all walls painted (bonus shot from bedroom so you can get a sense of the general layout!)
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I do kind of love that there's no redemption arc for Rose's mom. Totally just, "Anyway, I let that bitch live the rest of her life thinking I drowned! 🤷♀️"
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All these British people being SHOOK by the awesomeness of this preacher is the best thing.
#RoyalWedding
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He added, "You were ANGRY and you told us you felt angry!! That's great!!" and it took it to a NEW LEVEL OF GREAT! Little girls being validated for expressing "ugly" emotions, too!! EXCELLENT WORK, RANDOM FATHER PERSON!!
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Reporting Live from my own memories of the early 2000s: They were REAL MAD.
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THIS. I read motherf*king WIFEY when I was like 12. From 7th grade on, I EXCLUSIVELY read adult books. Anne Rice, Stephen King, Dean Koontz. It is just INSANE to me that this generation of parents apparently forgot that Kids Reading Wild-Ass Adult Books is a developmental stage.
Fear mongering nonsense. Parents really are refusing to parent.
Again, we could spend time on solving some actual issues. But it's easier to do this.
It's Twilight moms, part two.
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So happy to share the cover for THE KISS CURSE! Coming September 22 and featuring Gwyn Jones being The Best, Wells Penhallow getting absolutely WREKT, and Sir Purrcival getting as many treats as he wants.
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So THE EX HEX has earned out which is BANANAS TO ME, thank you all SO MUCH for being like, "Hocus Pocus But They F*ck? Yeah, I'll read that." I love you all and am just gonna keep on writing whatever Weird Ass Book my heart desires forever and ever. xoxoxo
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This is all great, but the "Lost to Vanderbilt" dig is truly *chef's kiss*
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On the whole, I love living in a college town, but I cannot overstate the weirdness of having 20,000+ Brand New People appear in your town OVERNIGHT every single year. All at the same time! Just 20,000 people suddenly here who don't know You Can't Turn Left There.
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LRT: "BOOK BANS SELL COPIES!!" is a thing that makes people feel better in the short term, but it's not about selling copies. It's about ACCESS. A lot of these books might not get "officially" banned, but they'll stay off library shelves. THAT is the issue.
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This is awful. Bad for authors, bad for publishers, bad for readers. The NYT gets most of the "glamour," but the USA Today list was where Actual Math and Numbers were happening.
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It's Tuesday, so welcome to Part II of
#SexyHistory
! Today we'll be discussing James VI/I, and how X-Treme Thirst nearly got him killed!
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Bought this Sandalwood and Citrus Soap, so I now smell like all your favorite dukes, plz allow me to consensually ruin you at Almack's.
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Look, I love Rome as a city, but that airport is maybe my least favorite in the world, and this feels very On Brand for it, tbh.
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