Laura/inksea

@inksea.bsky.social

Pens • books • knitting • politics (occasionally) 🏳️‍🌈🌹 she/her

Still absolutely floored by the genius writing and pacing of Mike Flanagan’s FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, half prestige drama and half Poe-flavored horror show. It’s seriously so good and so underrated, go watch it!!

FROM THE CREATOR OF THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF
USHER
ONLY ON
NETFLIX | OCTOBER 12

Sorry, but “history” proves mass nonviolent community protests NEVER work. The ONLY thing that can bring people together is reading my miserable posts. Smiling people hugging in the sunshine accomplishes NOTHING. Reading my punishing content, indoors and alone, is the only path forward.

One of my complaints about Severance -- which I like quite a bit -- is how obvious it is that no one involved in it ever worked in a corporate office environment. Hollywood in particular is very bad at depicting the hopelessness of a dead-end job with no prospects

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

there's a years ago tweet that basically said that anyone writing TV or movies by definition managed to land their extremely-hard-to-get dream job and it colors how they think about work and jobs and wish fulfillment in the stuff they write, and i think about it a lot

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

theguardian.com