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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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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