To my infinite regret, I have committed Helen DeWitt Discourse (DeWittscourse?):
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Who's up for some Heated Rivalry Fanfic Bingo?
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Woot Woot!

Hehehehehe i am honoured

Actually exhausting how 13-year-old self-insert Mary Sue it is.

i should have someone stitch this on a sampler for me

On the antivaxx Mary Sue stylings of Maggie o'Farrell's Hamnet, and how Ursula le Guin said it best:

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Also it looks like everyone thinks I should have titled this one 'Huthering Whites, well done @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is strictly a one-pepper menu item This is just sad, Emerald

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned (posted a "Wuthering Heights" take):
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This is a horrible situation that brings the extremely valid needs of two sets of marginalised communities into stark opposition, and I don't know what the right response is.
I can tell you what the WRONG response is: saying Black people are ableist because they don't want to be called a slur.

Sorry, still mad about this. I gave this film so much grace! I rolled with the repeated 'It's OK's! But why is this Tudor woman expecting her husband to behave like he has access to therapy? Why is she bitching at him for being away? Woman, he has at least three mouths to feed.

If you don't want to engage with the period, why make a period drama?

i saw it last weekend and still had my coat on when i hammered out a thread on all the things that made my eye twitch.

Going ra-ra about giving birth alone in the woods by hashtag My Hole is n u t s. Women have been helping each other through childbirth for basically as long as there have been women!

Also, w i l d to me that herbal lore is considered unusual among women in Early Modern semi-rural England.

Jessie Buckley's great, but Hamnet's misconceived Not Like Other Girls heroine made me wince

Yeeeeeessssss

Why Connor Storrie's accent work made me try to convert Bridgerton fans to Georgette Heyer.
Go on. Do it for Ilya.
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It's been a while since I read Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, but i remember it being such a blast.

This Is Who You Lose The Time War The rootless Doctor Who fanfiction of This Is How You Lose The Time War

In which I am definitely not saying that This is How You Lose The Time War is DoctorXMaster fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off
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Well, I didn't like Frankenstein (2025) Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein doesn't work as adaptation, or film

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@vpj.bsky.social being authoritative and delightful on my screen!

Terror CAMP and not least of the joys of this blessed event is Reg's voice purring soothingly from On High

This is insanely generous, thank you so much!

Huh, didn't realise RF Kuang was in the news again for cluelessness. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the ChatGPT intellectualism of Katabasis.
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Gentle keems atop agata's lovely head

But also FR mute me for like the next hour.

I'm sorry Agata I'm really sorry! The fits are fire though.

I am highkey delighted with this pun, NGL:

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Also who the hell is surprised at lusting for The Creature. For example, there was a production directed by Danny Boyle where Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller alternated the role of the Creature. I was there, Gandalf, and I assure you the girlies were hornt for him.

What even is 'the right amount of horny' for a fictional character anyway?