Michael Mammano-Cheydleur

Writer. Geek. Highbrow Hedonist. (he/him)

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@awk_ashleigh Girl, are you okay?

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@awk_ashleigh The Haunting of Hill House, Haunting of Bly Manor, pretty much anything Mike Flanagan has done for Netflix.

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@roastmalone_ Are we just ignoring the probability that a bunch of them are fucking each other?

I mean, they’re probably spinning Vanity around like a lazy Susan.

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@notsoavgfangirl Glad you and your family are okay. 🙂

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@klhicks912 My novel is about a group of suburban queer kids in the 90s, so… yeah. There are a few tricky spots.

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@retrocvnty I’m cool with Anya’s death but not when it happened. “Selfless” should have been the conclusion of her Season 6 storyline. It would have been more thematically appropriate. Instead she spent all of Season 7, wasting screen time just to be fattened up for slaughter.

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@AuthorGoodwin I have one series of 7, another of 5, and another of 12, plus a few stand-alones, so… 30-ish?

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@thejollyraja @OmgMoreJames I think they don’t get that we were raised in a sea of condescending, paternalistic repression and we had to FIGHT for our sex scenes, for media that wasn’t sterile and didn’t pretend we were all smooth like Barbie until we received our genitals on our 18th birthdays.

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@thejollyraja @OmgMoreJames I’ve seen them described as “puriteens,” and I can never go back. 🤣

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@SusanSavageLee1 It depends. Some books need them, some don’t.

I tend to like them, provided they’re either pithy, witty, or themed.

If your chapter titles are something to the effect of “The Bus Stop” or “Dave Takes a Nap,” you can probably do without them.

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@RebeccaEvita Popular manicure styles for black women in the 90s.

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@missjuliebrown The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I read it when I was 21 or 22, and to this day, it’s my comfort read. Rich prose, not a word wasted, vivid characters. Good to the last drop every time,

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@FabianNicieza Oh, Fabian… we don’t have that kind of time.

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@ShadowTodd It’s actually a pretty good album. At least every other song on it is. “Hopeless” and “Whipping Boy” still slap for me.

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@retrocvnty I mean, given what we know about Whedon now, I can absolutely believe it. It makes me want to heave, but I can believe it.

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@TeeEss Or what is so, so right?

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@Trosshappy I actually prefer the show. It’s got everything important—yes, I said it—from the books, while paring away unnecessary bloat and toning down some of the more irritating quirks of Jordan’s writing.

And the score is a fucking banger.

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@SailorMoon_News @senshifag Same.

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@senshifag Im not in anyone’s “army” and honesty don’t have a dog in this fight.

You asked a question. Your question suggested an entire generation hadn’t occurred to you. I named it. End of story.

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@jon_cronshaw Dance of the Dead by Christie Golden