Viola the Impaler

Writer, wanderer, lover of the dark fantastic. Author of THE DIABOLICAL MISS HYDE series at @HarperVoyagerUS. Repped by @MarleneStringer. She/her.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

@dumblydore LOL I guess so! I mean, Charlie Hunnam is cute, but if someone on this show says 'pussy' one more time I will throw something at the tv :D

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

Yes I am about 10 years late but I've started watching SONS OF ANARCHY, aka Everything That Is Wrong With White Men.

Wow. Excellent television. But jeez. These sexist assholes are so Not Hot. How did "MC romance" ever become a thing? #violadoesnotgetit

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[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

Last night for some stupid reason I decided to watch ALIEN 3.

Boy, is it stupider than I remembered. And really crappy effects for its day. The alien honestly looks like a person in an alien suit.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

@SebastianMalloy yup :)

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

I've been in a reading slump. So last week I thought, "let's read a pile of books that Book Twitter says are 100% awesome!"

Reader, they weren't awesome.

One was great. Most were meh at best. A few were honestly bad.

So why are we all hyping crappy books? I have THEORIES.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

All the above argue for authors staying out of 'reader spaces', where readers have no obligation to say things are good when they aren't

"Check out my friend's new release!" does not have to be "OMG I LOVED this BOOK" and I wish we would all stop

ok yes thankyou for listening

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

One is that a lot of reviewing/word of mouth is done by authors. Because we're told we must 'engage'. And authors don't like to badmouth other authors. Say something nice or don't say anything.

Another is dumbed-down retailer websites. Anything less than 5 stars is death.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

Seriously, if I hear much more about how awful it is to be part of the British royal family? I might just eat a rich person.

Doesn't have to be a royal. I'm not fussy. Any old pampered millionaire with an exaggerated sense of how fucking important they are will do.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

I did not know that.

Also, that book has (in a good way) been screwing with my brain for thirty years and will probably never stop.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT well NOBODY KNOWS actually so your confusion is totally ok

[STARBURST MAGAZINE @STARBURST_MAG]

Did you know that sci-fi author Gene Wolf developed the machine that makes Pringles?

He also wrote the classic sci-fi novel The Book of the New Sun, and the amazing @foliosociety have just produced a gorgeous edition with art from @sampaints and an intro by @neilhimself

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

So is there a memo going around among NY editors where characters telling each other things they already know is pronounced the next big thing?

This is the third 'big book' I've tried to read this month where the first chapter is infodump-a-rama. C'mon, authors. Do better.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

"...and you go in pieces, asshole."

no what do you mean of course I haven't seen this like six times

[ChristianV @GenreFilmAddict]

I Come In Peace aka Dark Angel (Craig R. Baxley, 1990): Either The Hidden’s less fun/more over-the-top cousin, or Predator 2’s less fun/more explosive cousin. Regardless of comparison, a goofy sci-fi action romp with a metric ton of roundhouse kicks, slit throats, and explosions

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

@1015elvis oh well, I say, I'll just STAB THEM AGAIN

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

I often wish I lived in the world of Assassin's Creed

where someone I don't like walks past

and I go, yes I believe I'll just stab that person now

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

@DjangoWexler and the game gives you a stern talking-to. "Assassins did not kill civilians YOU IDIOT"

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

Next morning I'm still low-key annoyed by I CARE A LOT.

Like, don't come at me with 'violence against women!' as the sole empathy play for a pair of awful human beings & then insinuate that I'm wrong if I hope they lose.

If these characters were men? They'd still be arseholes.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

For some reason (probably mostly Peter Dinklage's truly outstanding haircut) I just sat through the entirety of I CARE A LOT.

File under 'Films that fall for their own bullshit', cross-referenced with 'subtlety is dead'

I did enjoy Mr Dinklage's haircut, though.

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

Just bumping this because hell yeah the nineties

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

I mean honestly

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

I mean honestly

[Viola the Impaler @viola_carr]

Random rewatching of ROMEO + JULIET and it occurs to me that there is this big bunch of people going around on earth today who are too young to have been alive when DiCaprio looked like this and I am so sorry for you