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I had a conversation with Isabella Rossellini about her veterinary medicine studies in New York. She was lovely.

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Gawain the green knight opening a letter sealed with wax

Little Alex Horne in his studio chair with the caption "so a simple task: land a fair blow anywhere on the green knight. One year later meet him at the green chapel, receive the same blow yourself."

A cut to a wider shot showing Greg Davies in his throne turning to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Well surely no one just ran up and whanged his head clean off."

Cut back to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Let's see Gawain first."

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

Selfie of a smiling bearded black man in front of a Srarfleet Academy logo.

For two years, it was my honor to write for STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY. My first episode of the show airs today. And that honor has only deepened. Because this series dares: with a setting populated primarily by immigrants - often staggeringly alien, always undeniably "human." It dares: with a central institution that venerates the foreign-born, treasures their starry treks, delights in their arrivals, houses them from harm. It dares: with a law enforcement protagonist striving to reunite a family she separated. It dares: with a body politic seeking redemption for othering its neighbors. It dares. And it does so on the shoulders of immigrants, or the children they raised. Which includes the series creator, Gaia Violo: my co-writer for this episode, and the light of the writers' room. Our head of production, Olatunde Osunsanmi: born to Nigerian parents, and born to lead. This episode's starring actor, Karim Diané: whose descent is from a West African tribe, and whose love on set formed a new tribe altogether. The list goes on. Whether first-generation or from strange new soils, so much of this series is owed to people who "boldly go." To "foreigners" who wrote scripts, gave notes, delivered dialogue, manned cameras, designed sets. There was power in holding them close. Family made in the filming. And out of it, this fourth episode. The story of a refugee, adrift. But surrounded by friends who love him. And remarkably, a government that does, too. For years now, we've been told who to blame for our ills. Where to aim our bricks. And why we should discount who laid them. But we can be more. And I'm proud that this show dares us to be. less 29 January

This is lovely: on the value of immigrants from writer Eric Anthony Glover, who wrote the Klingon episode 'Vox In Excelso' a few weeks ago. #StarfleetAcademy

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HAPPY PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!!!

If you are a Canadian writer with a book in a public library, you get paid just for your book being available in sampled libraries! I’m going to spend my smutty werewolf money on something irresponsible!!! #PLR
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I cannot tell you how much I loathe this man.

In case you were wondering about his education and qualifications, they basically come down to "born."

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

WHY DO HETEROSEXUALS WALK SO SLOW?!

Cover of Always Raining Here, showing our two main characters leaning on each other at a bus stop in the rain.

Always Raining Here is in bookstores in now! This is a graphic novel adaptation of our BL romance webcomic featuring redrawn interiors and new bonus comics! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal - Dame Magazine What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.

“I have a sick feeling in my stomach all the time.”

If you feel this way, you’re not alone.

It’s not just political stress. It’s moral and psychic injury. 🧵1/

Achilles & Patroclus (2021)

Describe your bluesky account in a single image.

SCTV Lola Heatherton in Concert with Catherine O'Hara YouTube video by SCTV

Celebrity deaths don’t usually get me, but this one’s hard for me. Total icon and comedy queen.
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There’s, like, a good version of heartbroken. Or maybe cathartic? Like, you’re standing at a bus stop on a cold winter night, thinking about missing someone you loved. Then this gorgeous mash-up of a song they loved comes on randomly, you’re just reminded how big and beautiful love is. That kind.

working on kuramei artbook cover

This said, I am curious about connecting with other freelancers in Quebec who might be interested in joining forces under one banner, to share these expenses, and lighten the collective load.

Are you in the Heated Rivalry handbasket right now?

Perhaps you’d like to read a series of original smutty stories about clueless hockey boys? This is number one in the series, which follows Nick and Kolya as they orbit each other awkwardly for years.

wint @dril might passive aggressively post "Oh! The website is Bad today" if i dont get some damn likes over here. just constantly treated like a leper

Since it’s my birthday I’d love if you shared my ocs 🧡

Also, please excuse the absolutely garbage preview image. I'm not sure why Wordpress hates me so. Homophobic.

BLog: Heated Rivalry BLog reviews recent boys love, yaoi and LGBTQ+ English translation manga–and occasionally non-manga LGBTQ+ media! Heated RivalryCreator: Jacob TierneyBased on: Game Changers series by Rachel ReidSt…

Why yes, thank you for asking, I have watched #HeatedRivalry. You’re only the hundred-thousandth person to ask me that.

I did indeed watch the hockey yaoi show, and I have some thoughts. I thought it was good, I thought it was sexy, it didn't blow me away.

Read my full review on my #boyslove blog!

Well, having finished #HeatedRivalry yesterday, the resurgence of Russian pop duo t.A.T.u.'s "All the Things She Said" makes a lot more sense.

Tumblr post: [guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.

This. Fuck, this so often

In an effort to celebrate accomplishments:

I finished a first draft of a story I've been agonizing over for a sci-fi story challenge! It's a cyberpunk retelling of the story of Hermaphroditus. It's imperfect/1000 words over the maxiumum word count 🙃, but that's a problem for tomorrow! #amwriting

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Smut with plot (and tyre strategy)!

(Reposting because I realized I forgot to put the hyperlink to the first story… and I’d actually love if people read it…)

If you end up reading it, let me know your thoughts! @s2b2.bsky.social is an amazing free ezine, check out smutty m/m stories and more!

In “Come As You Are”, Bastien heads to Ben’s home race, where tensions flare under the blazing Melbourne sun. Gay bars! Betrayals! Daddy issues! #F1 #smut

Published in @s2b2.bsky.social’s sequel-themed issue, a chance to return to my horny racecar idiots!
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Like #HeatedRivalry? Craving more #rivalstolovers #sports #boyslove #smut? “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is the story of childhood friends-turned-rivals Bastien and Ben in their rookie #F1 season. From in @s2b2.bsky.social‘s “Barely Legal” issue.
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I was ranting to my manager an hour ago about how Japan-Thailand-South Korea are so so much more evolved on big budget adaptations of same sex men’s romances. Hopefully NA is finally realizing this, and I genuinely am so proud everyone’s loosing their minds over Canadian hockey yaoi! 🇨🇦🫡