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Author of PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE, ROLAND ROGERS ISN’T DEAD YET, and PUCK Managing editor @them.us

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In Uncertain Times, We Can All Agree on Leon S. Kennedy The 'Resident Evil' frontman is helping to pull shut the ever-closing gap between straight and gay horniness.

In Uncertain Times, We Can All Agree on Leon S. Kennedy

06.03.2026 20:31 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Great Queer TV Character Smackdown: Rue vs. Smithers Two of television’s most tragic yearners face off.

The Great Queer TV Character Smackdown: Rue vs. Smithers

03.03.2026 14:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

On a scale from 13 GOING ON to ZERO DARK, where do you fall on the 30 gender spectrum?

21.02.2026 15:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

excited to have an essay in this! Love the bachelor? Hate the bachelor (like I did, until the golden bachelor)? You know what to do!

14.02.2026 16:33 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The fact that the past tense of “go” is “went” is fucking insane those are all new letters

20.01.2026 12:19 👍 45 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0
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“Fix Your Hearts or Die”: David Lynch’s Work Has Always Been Deeply, Powerfully Queer The filmmaker was so much more than just an influence on his legion of LGBTQ+ fans.

we lost David Lynch a year ago today (and in the time since, I've seen "fix your hearts or die" on more protest signs than ever before). what I wrote at the time:

20.01.2026 21:11 👍 401 🔁 93 💬 4 📌 1

Where

is

Bloodborne

17.01.2026 22:29 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0

babe wake up, one of the "tradcath egirl summit" chicks is transvestigating sydney sweeney's neck

14.01.2026 21:45 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch the Bachelor Why We Watch the Bachelor

How are we doing book promo right now other than dropping links and feeling sheepish?!?

bookshop.org/a/20948/9781...

14.01.2026 19:46 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 4
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Puck NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

😍 Got approved on Netgalley to read Puck by @samanthaallen.bsky.social! This looks like such fun and exactly the kind of thing I need right now.

Also I will forever like Samantha for helping me carry books to my car at PNBA even though we'd just met like 3 minutes before. A truly nice person.😄
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12.01.2026 21:53 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

did my best to break down what we know, and how Trump officials have lied so far, about Renee Good and her murder today:

08.01.2026 19:22 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Here For All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor|eBook The Bachelor franchise has been around for over two decades and amassed an army of fans across its four shows. While contestants battle to prove they’re here for the right reasons, Bachelor Nation is ...

The anthology by and about The Bachelor fandom that I've worked on for five years is available for pre-order in that big B&N sale, and I'd love it if you pre-ordered it there or elsewhere! It was a huge and lengthy labor of love and I'm so proud of it.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/here-for-a...

01.01.2026 01:49 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Avatar has apparently had the greatest cultural impact of any movie ever, based on how goddamned much all of y’all are talking about it today

27.12.2025 17:15 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The Avatar movies are good, wildly entertaining, and visually spectacular. People like that. This is my expert analysis.

27.12.2025 05:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Merriam-Webster defines ‘faith’ as…”

11.12.2025 22:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Michael Clayton 2: Baguette It Again

11.12.2025 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

3D TVs, the Metaverse, pictures of apes…

30.11.2025 00:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Put words after other words

28.11.2025 00:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s a little early still, don’t you think?

27.11.2025 16:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Mug is the answer

25.11.2025 01:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Root Beer is a wholesome beverage for families

24.11.2025 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Root Beer should not have caffeine

24.11.2025 18:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Counterpoint: The grilled cheese looks burnt and borderline inedible.

19.11.2025 18:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor edited by Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais. It features four women - white with glasses and short hair, Black with long hair holding a wine glass, white with reddish hair holding a wine glass, and brown with log hair up in a bun and glasses - sitting together with their backs to the viewer looking at a big TV screen with the title of the book on it.

Cover of HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor edited by Ilana Masad and Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais. It features four women - white with glasses and short hair, Black with long hair holding a wine glass, white with reddish hair holding a wine glass, and brown with log hair up in a bun and glasses - sitting together with their backs to the viewer looking at a big TV screen with the title of the book on it.

She's here, she's available for preorder, and she's available for ARC requests 🥹

HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor is an anthology of 29 essays by 30 contributors, and includes pieces about racism, spoiling, love, loss, friendship, heterosexuality, and so much more.

06.11.2025 17:56 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
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The Daniel Docs Interview: Samantha Allen The "Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet" author chats about smash burgers, sapphic sasquatches, and Starbucks

hello! @samanthaallen.bsky.social entered a Daniel Doc! www.danieldocs.com/p/the-daniel...

03.11.2025 16:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Patricia Wants to Cuddle — Multnomah County Library Patricia Wants to Cuddle — Allen, Samantha (Journalist), — "When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwe...

If you're looking for "Sapphic spooky vibes for someone getting into the genre (audiobook preferable)," we suggest Patricia Wants to Cuddle by @samanthaallen.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian

23.10.2025 16:34 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Sophia Takal Directing Adaptation of Horror-Comedy Novel ‘Patricia Wants to Cuddle’ for Votiv (EXCLUSIVE) Sophia Takal will direct an adaptation of the horror-comedy novel 'Patricia Wants to Cuddle,' which sends up reality TV, for Votiv.

Hello, people of Bluesky. A film adaptation of PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE is officially in the works. I am super excited about this:

variety.com/2025/film/ma...

04.09.2025 20:50 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
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ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs? One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI?

my latest @teenvogue.com

07.05.2025 15:07 👍 1198 🔁 480 💬 30 📌 51
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I Asked a Grammarian to Help Me Unpack “That’s That Me Espresso” The nonsense line in Sabrina Carpenter’s summertime bop is open to interpretation.

It has taken me almost a year to look for a forensic grammatical breakdown of 'Espresso' and all I can do is say thank you to @samanthaallen.bsky.social: www.them.us/story/sabrin...

31.03.2025 16:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nicole Maines Packed DC’s ‘Secret Six’ Full of “Flawed Queer Bitches” The actress and writer talks to Them about writing Dreamer and surviving the anti-trans hellscape.

today on Them, my interview with @nicoleamaines.bsky.social on writing the new SECRET SIX miniseries (out today!), the rapid evolution of Dreamer, and complicating the "queer superhero" in 2025: www.them.us/story/nicole...

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