Christine M. Greenleaf

I write stories about vampires and Batman villains as M. H. Bryan and Christine M. Greenleaf, respectively. I have a PhD in vampire lit. Just call me Dr. Acula.

[Christine M. Greenleaf @Crazy_Meg18]

@HamillHimself is the best - spent hours interacting with fans at the London Premiere. Made my life with a picture!

[Christine M. Greenleaf @Crazy_Meg18]

@FreddyLA7 UNT is not a great football school, but Denton is the Halloween capital of Texas and it's certainly worth visiting during the fall to see all the decorations and themed events like coffin racing!

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

So long, America🫡🇺🇸

49 days ago we landed in the USA to follow our country at the World Cup. We had no idea it would turn into the trip of a lifetime.

Thank you to everyone who followed along, and to all the people we met who made this journey even more special. We honestly don’t have the words to express how grateful we are for everything you did for us.

This trip exceeded every expectation we had. We came here with an open mind, wanting to experience as much of the country as possible. I still remember telling my friends on the flight to Atlanta that I hoped we’d get to meet a few locals on this trip. Now we’re flying home with friends all across the USA.

Before we came, we heard so many stereotypes and warnings about America. People told us about safety concerns, that they might check our social media at the border, and all kinds of other things. None of it matched our experience. This was probably the most welcoming country we’ve ever visited.

So if you have the chance to travel, do it. The world isn’t nearly as bad as the media often makes it seem. 99% of people are awesome!

I heard this quote somewhere during the World Cup, and I think it sums up our experience perfectly:

“If you want to hate the world, watch the news. If you want to love it, travel it.”

Thank you, America ❤️🇺🇸

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Keir Starmer cries while resigning lol

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Political extremism on both sides is bad, but the reason I tend to zero in on the far left is because it’s hijacked everything I’ve ever loved—literature, art, music—and has convinced almost the entire world that the value of art lies in its relation to social justice.

[Frasier Crane & Co. @Frasier_Quotes]

Martin: You listen to Bulldog's program?

Niles: Yes, Dad. I can't sleep nights till I find out who hurled what ball through what apparatus.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

I was still kind of a lib in 2020 but I was totally unmoved by Floyd’s death. It wasn’t revelatory to me (just an ugly, pointless, small tragedy) and I didn’t think it meant anything. What I’ll always remember was how it felt to remain completely sober while so many people were swept away - it was disorienting to be in a totally different reality than the dominant culture, I almost felt like I was on drugs.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Man Sadly Informs Son After Watching 'Return Of The Jedi' That They Never Made Any More Star Wars Movies https://t.co/SVd12GgYY7

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Offhand —

* Vacillation on masks, with abundant motivated reasoning in every case.
* Promulgation of made-up thresholds with no evidentiary basis (e.g. 6 feet).
* Authoritarian delight in nanny state intrusiveness (policing the beach and such).
* 180 on many issues around BLM.
* Lack of effective response from science funding bodies.
* Denial of aerosolized transmission.
* Changing of trial readouts so that they’d occur after the election. (Confirmed to me by senior OWS officials.)
* Crazy criteria for vaccine distribution.
* Adamant insistence on vaccine efficacy beyond what was supported by data.
* Almost complete lack of follow-through on OWS (on pan-variant vaccines).

I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones that stick out.

[Danny Elfman @dannyelfman]

3 great shows in Dallas with a great warm Texas welcome @DallasSymphony

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Sure, there are many bad movies with Peter Lorre in them but all of them are watchable.

Because Peter Lorre is in them.

Do people like him even exist on earth anymore?

[Frasier Crane & Co. @Frasier_Quotes]

I need to rewatch this one soon! 🤣

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'He has a point, but he's too blunt.'

From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.

Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?'

As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist.

Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Man's Depression Once Again Cured By Watching Sam's Speech From 'The Two Towers' https://t.co/QUnqvSYkGn

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

The role of artists is to correct for the oversocialization of most people & their perceptions.

We go to to art to counter that over socialized consciousness.

It's one reason we like to read stories about the arctic, war, ocean voyages.

To escape the buzzing and the fakery.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Researchers Say Modern Man Unable To Create Shows As Good As 'Animaniacs' https://t.co/yTCBwjjGvG

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Frasier Crane & Co. @Frasier_Quotes]

Frasier: Niles, I would shave my head for you.

Niles: A gesture which becomes less significant with each passing year.

[Frasier Crane & Co. @Frasier_Quotes]

Frasier: Yes well, as I said to you the time you tried to jump out of the treehouse with an umbrella, "I suppose you know what you're doing.”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The man who witnessed me giving birth to his children might find it a tad odd that I keep announcing that I'm a woman before we have sex, but fine, I accept your terms.