Lin Darrow

The vibe dysphoria of listening to Naked Lunch on audiobook while waiting in a glacially slow line at the post office.

Yes! And I think it just misses an opportunity to like, write desire in a grounded and lived-in way.

Even if your character IS hot, if you temporarily imagine that they're not, it's a writerly challenge to consider 'What about this person's personality or behaviour is attractive? What does my protagonist get out of being around them? Why do they want to be closer?'

I've developed a rule for reading and writing #romance and #romantasy: the "hot people make bad romance" rule. If your romance wouldn't happen if the characters weren't physically attractive, I'm bored. The *dynamic* needs to be sexy, not the bodies.

I WAS secretly hoping someone would rec me a good Twelfth Night by replying to this! Thank you, I’ll check it out!

I think mine varies by production. It's Twelfth Night on paper, but I can't think of a production of I've seen that it I've really loved. The Catherine Tate/David Tenant Much Ado is transcendent, on the other hand. Also recently saw a Queer R+J locally that was incredible!

One thing that the Les Miserables movie just can’t capture is how incredible human voices sound live singing one of the most demanding and complex musical scores out there. It’s like you just can’t believe humans can do something so beautiful and that feeling is sustained for nearly 3 hours.

Marius and Cosette were already on speedrun also they just seem even more bonkers than usual. I think I love speedrun Les Mis???

Which made it even funnier that the priest really made a meal of the last note in “I have bought your soul for godddd” which necessitated a dutiful applause and they could NOT stop to let him appreciate it.

I’m seeing Les Mis for the first time after realizing that the tour has to come in under three hours or everyone gets overtime. Everyone is speedrunning through it and the theatre anxiously called me the day before to say they would start PROMPTLY on time. I think this is Capitalist Les Mis.

Beautiful!

Thank you so much!

I got very lucky!

I hope you enjoy! Thank you!

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My friend and I are doing Fredric March Madness this month and watching a ton of his movies partially because we thought it would be a funny thing to do. Anyway here he is as Jean Valjean.

Two tuxedoed men flank a beautiful woman

Another shot of tuxedoed men flanking a beautiful woman in a car.

Gilda lies across a bed as her two boyfriends sit next to her and gaze down at her

Tom holds Gilda as George looks on

I swear you find the gold in old movies! 1933's Design for Living is a pre-code movie about a throuple of artists trying to make it work in Paris. Gilda's job is literally to draw Napoleon in underwear.

Hi guys, im so sorry but I need...a lot of help this time. Due to my IIH ive become near partial blind & need new glasses, I cant afford them on my own. I also still need to pay bills. As well start saving for inevitable surgery later this year. Im sorry to constantly ask for help.

This is such a winning premise!

UK chums, this is a full five-alarm fire. Write your MP, call them, whatever. The government’s own survey showed 97% of us wanted copyright strengthened, and those abject fucks are weakening it anyway to appease snake-oil grifters and thieves

I did a PhD on ghost stories and then wrote a book about technologically-resurrected ghosts that is basically Beetlejuice x Murderbot, if that counts? I think it's horror disguised as Queer workplace comedy.

Now to peruse others...! podiumentertainment.com/titles/13452...

This is so heartening!

A man submerged dreamily beneath an ice-covered ship in a dive suit. From AMC's The Terror.

A holographic woman leans over a man looking up at her. From Bladerunner 2049.

Two people in glowing blue suits in a virtual space. From Tron.

Ghostly figures beckon you closer to a dreamy dinner table in deep saturated interstellar colours. From The Fabulous Baron Munschausen.

Vibes, but somehow funny.

It looks so self serving to RT this but I truly wish having an artist best friend could be experienced by everyone.

Congrats, this sounds amazing!

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

I would probably write romances with really wild dynamics like Norma Desmond/Joe Gillis or the Pacific Rim scientists energy. Just bombastic personalities interacting in ways impossible to straightforwardly describe.

💿 👻 ✨ I’m thrilled to show off Barbara Ciardo’s glorious cover for Dead New World, my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes that’s available for preorder now! buff.ly/xWdY6xp

Not that I think you need another definition, but from my POV as a lit prof, I would say it's whenever academia becomes a Gothicized space in some way. That's broad, but deliberately so: school, but make it feel wrong, whether the horrors are supernatural or social. The Secret History is the og.

Every day I wake up angry that we let swashbucklers disappear as a genre.