I have somehow put myself in a position of seeing The Importance of Being Earnest three times in the first five months of 2026. Two professional versions and one teen highschool version. Will report back.
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A theatre showing old cartoons, focused on an advert for cake that says MOIST!
Having the best time at this cereal and cartoon show.
I’m at a Saturday morning cartoon marathon and I just watched a cartoon where Gargamel devised a convoluted scheme to boil six smurfs and thru some mysterious process thereby gain the power to turn iron into gold. Were they all like this??
Up to Ch. 10 as of tonight. Doing 2 chapters a night. My reactions so far have mainly been, between Villefort and Dantes, can't believe how many weddings/betrothals have been upended thus far by Napoleon.
I love this!
Ch. 5. Edmond being like, "I'm actually so happy it makes me paralyzingly afraid something is about to go wrong" is so... #relatable. I too experience happiness as a kind of oppression.
Also: Fernand you STINKER.
It's here by the way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2c... The folks who have been working on this virtual recreation of ship and passenger movements have been working for over a decade on this. It's so fascinating.
So people are livestreaming a virtual recreation of the sinking of the Titanic on the day of its sinking and I find it such an interesting phenomenon. People really want to memorialize (and, for some no doubt, spectate) this event from 1912 in such a specific and embodied way.
Excerpt from Count of Monte Cristo where a man is described as an aged dandy "parading the newly opened gardens of the Tuileries and Luxembourg!"
Ch. 5. Oh to be an aged dandy of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Tuileries and Luxembourg!
I’m keeping to reading two chapters a night if you want to do a lil book club!
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Screenshot of text. "Death alone can separate them" remarked Fernand. Highlighted, the reply: "You talk like a noodle, my friend."
Ch. 4. Need to steal this one.
Ch 3.
⚓Fernand: Mercedes how will I EVER find a woman as good as you??
Also Fernand: I'm only considering women from this tiny insular village with just one street.
⚓Fernand: I'll fight the guy you love, maybe even kill him?😏
Mercedes: WHY would that make me like YOU??
Reading Count of Monte Cristo for the 1st time, totally unspoiled. Chapters 1-2.
⚓ Imagine being a CAPTAIN at 20?! I'd hate Edmond too.
⚓ Ok he wants to plant clematis for his old dad, maybe impossible to hate this guy...
⚓ So French to be appalled your elderly dad does not have wine in the house.
Like, you want to learn how to get good at characterization so good it can sustain a book's entire plot even if virtually nothing is 'happening'? Read romance! Here's four I read and enjoyed in the last two months alone!
I read lots of romance! Virtually everything I write has romance IN it (my upcoming novel Dead New World has two pairings, a librarian and a former ganger plus a polar explorer and a rock musician 🥰) but it's never like, GENRE-romance, which I respect the hell out of and learned so much from!!
I'm excited to see what kinds of scrapes this count guy gets into (I have somehow gone this long being almost entirely unspoiled beyond a basic sense of the premise!)
I actually think he's making them up now.
I'm starting to read Count of Monte Cristo for the first time and immediately I love the vibes of "author did a lot of research and really wants you to know it." The jib downhaul you say, Mr. Dumas?
FINALLY, I think the most valuable thing any kind of art, high or low, can do for us is allow us to live through different people's experiences, ESP when they vary from our own. I think relatability in something is valuable but only ever engaging art that reflects YOU is bad, actually.
This is such an exhausting mentality, one that doesn't teach men to be interested in women as people with interiority or characters in their own right, and one that means little girls are being trained to understand boys but boys are being actively discouraged from understanding girls.
It also obviously speaks to a much more insidious problem that suggests, as always, girls can and do find boys' lives interesting despite not 'seeing themselves' in them, but boys cannot and will not express any curiosity or interest in girls' lives.
I'd love to live in a timeline where people stop forgetting that little girls love art so passionately they are an extremely profitable market whether or not boys show up. Frozen is a billion-dollar franchise? Films like Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid are STILL merchandizing darlings?
I wrote a book about a future where ghosts are holographically resurrected but must work dead-end 'ghost only' jobs that I've been pitching as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice in a Queer blender. It's up for preorder now! RTing to spread the love for others! books2read.com/deadnewworld
who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep
At last I, the outspoken #1 nautical horror fan amongst my friends and family, am playing Return of the Obra Dinn! Any tips from established players would be appreciated, I feel a bit intimidated by the size of this one.
Giovanni's Room is so ruinously good...! My fav Baldwin.
I thought maybe it was a bit basic of a pick but honestly... classics are classics for a reason sometimes. It's that good.
Five books to get to know me by:
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Carmilla
3. The Murderbot Diaries
4. The Princess Bride
5. Monstrous Regiment