Harwin Strong is one cool, classy mf because if I had bagged Rhaenyra Targaryen, ‘The Realm’s Delight’ while Alicent, Criston, Daemon and the unnumbered masses seethed?

I would never, ever shut up about it.

Risk to honour, life and limb be damned; they would all be sick of me, let me tell you.

The vampire to end all vampires

it's all tswift all the time for me for the foreseeable future and i have to say my early impression is

a) I'm not wild about this in much the same way i'm not wild about midnights. it's fine. i'm sure there will be like five songs i come out of this really liking. a lot of these songs are brutally overcrowded and messy but i guess that's what she was going for.

b) exiting a six year relationship with one dude only to date another dude for three months and release an entire album about how you and mr. three months invented cosmic life changing twin hearts beat as one love and you're correspondingly devastated by the breakup is the move. no notes. good for her.

c) i love lana del rey and the national so me and taylor have that in common.

d) if i was going to make wild inferences about people i don't know based on taylor swift's discography it would be that matty healy and jake of red fame are the only two people she's dated who know how to fuck. a sad state of affairs for the famous men of the world.

e) taylor you are the most famous woman in the world and also a billionaire. i'm sure this comes with challenges but you can actually do whatever you want. even if other people say "wow those sure were some derogatory and racist things he publicly chortled along with." like i believe u the dick was good but that's not really a mitigating factor bcs he does not stand accused of not bringing enough to your relationship.

I met Mr. Peter Cullen a couple of days ago at the San Francisco Comic Con! I painted a portrait of his brother Larry for him and I’m so glad he liked it🥰 His lovely wife told my mother, who is also his fan and got to meet them, that they’re going to put it “in a place of honor” of their home. 😭 I’m just so happy I can’t even express it!

Oh yeah, well can AI-generated fanfiction do THIS? 

::spends an hour researching Rebellion-era starfighters with wings shaped in such a way that they could conceivably be used to construct a makeshift cantina bar, only to cut that paragraph from the story::

2024 is the year of amber volakis

Punk and Darby doing a pale imitation of the clearly superior Better Than You Baybay double clothesline

"Me Gus! Me strong!"

Gus the Gorn working out this morning in Bronson Canyon.

I've been writing my human!Swatch as an intersex baby at birth, who had masculinizing surgery as an infant, and identifies as nonbinary as an adult, but have not explained the background as to why in-story during the events of CALL SIGNS.

Should I?

There's a scene coming up in a WIP chapter where Swatch does actually wear what might be considered femme clothing, although I personally think of it as more unisex.

Input and opinions welcome.

so uhhhh............ hi!

twitter is dying like it's disco thanks to the Muskrat. I guess that means I'm back here now with a brand new account. Not exactly sure what I'll post here, but I've heard this site has mellowed out over the years, so I'm thinking things will be pretty chill. Guess we'll have to find out!

(Shame I still can't jerk off on here...)

Dublinn: We must ignite the reeds! That will surely flush out the enemy and make them easy prey!

Lol, said the Abyssal Hunters. Lmao even.

My opinion: Nobody else could play Villanelle and Eve like Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh but...Jodie is 29 and Sandra is 51. The 21-22 age difference is kinda disgusting. I guess an older actress could've been cast for Villanelle, or a younger actress for Eve, but then again, nobody else could play these characters. What do you think?

I agree with you that nobody else could have played these characters. Not the other actresses that read or tried out for the part of Villanelle and certainly not Maya Rudolph as Eve. Sometimes the planets and stars align and the coffee is brewed just so and the music hits the perfect note and you just get it right. Sandra Oh IS Eve. Jodie Comer IS Villanelle. I can't conceive of any other actress playing those parts. Accept no substitutes.

The world is full of beautiful and talented and capable actresses who could have been Eve and Villanelle. No question. Maybe Sandra decides she doesn't want to spend months on end flying from L.A. to London. Maybe Jodie decides not to fight the odds to be cast as Villanelle and tells, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Thanks, but no thanks." I don't get what's so "disgusting" about the age difference between the two leads. Younger women can't be attracted to older women or something? If it bothers you, then stick to Luke Jennings' books where Eve and Villanelle are closer in age. For the purposes of Waller-Bridge, she chose to go with Oh and Comer based on their chemistry together and not their age gap. There are many reasons why it shouldn't have worked, but none of them matter. What does matter is it did work. PWB, BBC America, and Sid Gentle Productions paired a young White woman from Liverpool with a heavy accent with a mature Korean woman from Canada and living in Los Angeles as an Englishwoman, and said, "Make magic happen." They made the magic. PWB's brilliant writing got the ball rolling, but it was the awesome abilities of Comer and Oh as the thespians who made Killing Eve's heart beat so strongly that carried the show through four years of churning through head writers, directors, actors, scripts, dialogue and plots of wildly varying quality. Sandra wins a Golden Globe. Jodie scores a BAFTA and an Emmy. The show garners near-universal praise and acclaim for a brilliant first season. The momentum slows in the second season but remains high with Comer's Villanelle emerging as the show's breakout sensation while Oh plugs away in a secondary, but still significant role. Along comes Season Three and with it a noticeable and precipitous drop in momentum and quality. Oh is stuck muddling along in a reduced role that only reacts to the actions of others and precipitates nothing, and is so overlooked and ignored by the head writer Eve is completely written out of an entire episode despite being the titular character. Comer sleepwalks through the third season only coming alive briefly in the award-bait solo flex for Villanelle and random moments throughout.

Season Three is lesser Killer Eve with both actresses left stranded by muddled and unfocused writing as well as the unnecessary introduction of superfluous characters and dead-end plots, but it's brilliant compared to the shitshow that was Season Four, the one season that doesn't require a deep dive because it gives me a fucking headache to say any more about it over than fuck Laura Neal. Yet despite the drop-off of Season Three and the catastrophe that was Season Four, at no point in Killing Eve's brilliant rise and graceless fall can the blame be placed on Oh or Comer going through the motions and phoning it in. They TRIED hard. Even in the moments when Jodie seemed checked out, she was still balling hard and acting her ass off. Both were again nominated in the lackluster two seasons for Best Lead Actress in a Drama only to lose to Zendaya for Euphoria in 2021, an outcome that may play out again in 2022 next month at the Emmys. Who cares? Awards are nice little ego strokes for the winners and help them maximize their earnings potential, but they are lousy measuring sticks for what's really exceptional and what's not. Win or lose, Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer remain the saving grace of Killing Eve. Nobody else could have made the magic in quite the way they did.

SPIDERVERSE MOVIES ONLY MOVIES

Heartbreaking: The Cafe You Went to Only Serves Half-Sour Pickles

From Accept no Substitutes, Veronica #95 (2000).