This is extremely funny

Stage managers. What you’re looking for is stage managers

I cite bits of it so often, to my NF students!

This book is so good

Can an AI Performance Win an Oscar? Val Kilmer’s Digital Resurrection Is Forcing Hollywood to Create New Awards Rules Can an AI performance win an Oscar? Val Kilmer's role in "As Deep as the Grave" is forcing awards bodies to reckon with its acting eligibility rules.

we should start describing "AI performances" for what they really are: ANIMATION. variety.com/2026/film/aw...

fuck yes

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oh my goodness, thank you! it means a lot to know it's still being read

Add this to the list of "dissertations I'd write about Le Guin in another life"--Le Guin's romances

The cover of the book The Possibility of Life by Jaime Green

Just hit the three-year anniversary of my book's release. Trying to feel celebratory and not "oh shit i am so behind on book two" but it's at least a bit of both.

Very proud of her though:

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

I can't decide if I want to make a joke or just yell IF YOU DUNK ON THE ARTICLE WITHOUT READING IT YOU'RE JUST SPREADING MISINFORMATION YOU DIPSHITS

And this is why I had the idea for my book in the middle of reading Red Mars

This sounds like something both my kid and I would love!

I fed a question into the word association machine programmed with a praise kink and it produced content

Pretty sure one of them is in my wedding photos

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

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Like, that Le Guin quote could slot into the end of A Wind in the Door with zero problem!

I'm sure someone somewhere has written a lovely dissertation about the power of names in Le Guin and L'Engle, and I gotta track that down

hi gabe!

all i want is that brain back (i probably need to quit social media too for it)

let me say this again: come and take it

"i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus."

damn, dark as shit

Gah that’s a great panel

yeah I have a book to write but I also have a DMV appt next week so it's time to think about VANITY PLATES

oh god their kids were home

Moon grown to sun, oh shit that's a big one

The reason LLMs use it is because *people* use it! Gah I hate these fuckers so much