Thank you! And thank you!

Thank you! I’m binge watching The Pitt while lovely @andrewmale.bsky.social does the chores so it could be worse

It’s my fiftieth birthday tomorrow and I’m sick with a vile cold, cough and laryngitis which has left me totally mute. I’m getting myself this as a present! Because Susan Pevensie and I are worth it!

Well, I’m reading this

Wait, now I need to read this. What are the Susan Pevensie tells? Does she wear lipstick?

Two posts from Marie le Conte: Dec 19 2024: lol Mandy will absolutely have to resign in disgrace in the next 10 to 20 months 21 mins: lol

You could have tried placing a bet but they would just have laughed and handed your money back

The names of the Avengers films increasingly reminding me of the drafts of my novels: “final draft”
“absolutely final draft” “absolutely final draft with corrections”

Everything Will Swallow You, with an owl bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a Green Man bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a chicken bookmark.

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo.

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You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Had a dream that Bill Murray had found out a way to predict the future by something called a Sex Ladder where he watched people have sex on a ladder. However it was later discovered that it was merely an elaborate ruse to allow him to watch people have sex on a ladder. 1/2

It was a lighthearted post about the Hollywood tendency to romanticise England in a way that I find ridiculous. It may be that those trains are in service somewhere but choosing them is a syndrome of that tendency. The film might be fun and great, I’ll probably see it anyway.

They were raised together though, so they are properly sisters even if they aren’t blood sisters

Little Sara Gilbert with her big sister Melissa Gilbert

Here they are together!

Melissa Gilbert was the adopted daughter of Sara Gilbert’s mother

OK further digging reveals that they are not blood relatives, which helps a bit, but still.

I just discovered that Melissa Gilbert (Laura in Little House on the Prairie) and Sara Gilbert (Darlene in Roseanne) are sisters and now my brain is broken.

Bobby Ewing in the shower

Newly added Endgame footage:

To be fair the house you see at the start is their house in America, before they cross the Atlantic for unspecified (Lee Pace based) reasons

No complaints there

That’s the magic

A classic!

In my rules, which nobody adheres to, if you’re going to reference online dating in the dialogue you also have to have train seats that aren’t forty years out of date.

Practical Magic 2 | Official Teaser Trailer YouTube video by Warner Bros.

I regret to inform you that Practical Magic 2 takes place in England and judging by those train seats it’s the kind of Hollywood England Kate Winslet lived in in The Holiday when she commuted from a tiny isolated rural cottage to Central London for work every day youtu.be/iSWP2feb4rw?...

Comic with a fella holding vinyl records behind a girl, saying he can't compete with these. She says "Music means everything to me!"

Poetry Challenge: Memorize “The More Loving One” by W.H. Auden (Gift Article) It’s about love, the cosmos and everything in between. And all week we’ll have games and readings by poets laureate, beloved authors and an Oscar winner to help you memorize it.

The NYT this week is challenging readers to memorise Auden’s The More Loving One, and to this ends has asked various writers and actors to film themselves reading it. The only one who makes a really decent fist of it is Josh Radnor. Poetry reading is a dying art! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Indeed. But it’s a tradition for me to go see them with my dad, ever since Octopussy (I was seven, thought the title was a cute name for a squid) so despite the MANY flaws I have positive associations. He is 88 so they’d better hurry up and cast the new one because it won’t be the same without him.

My cousin Shawn took weed to impress a girl when we were teenagers and his asshole & penis switched places. All the doctors at the (real) Pitt threw up when they saw it. Be my guest and Get “high” if you want this to happen to you

My favourite moment in the most recent film is Ana de Armas’s look of horror when Bond mistakenly thinks she’s making a pass at him

I understand why the books are still in print but to not even address it in the forewords is appalling

Some did! It was a lovely crowd of gender-non-confirming 19-year-olds who were kind enough not to make me feel like I’d escaped from a care home