Jamie

@jayelharris.bsky.social

Film, television and video games writer in LA!

I know you can’t say the quiet part out loud but that actress hasn’t not worked because she’s middle aged. It’s because she’s middle aged, plain looking and never developed a signature type role she can slot into.

I do appreciate the recurring subtext in house of the dragon that Hightowers are easily twice as smart and generally component as Targaryens and if it was an at all a level playing field would be running shit instead of the emotionally dysregulated platinum incest crew.

I just started watching House of the Dragon so I’m binging it and omg we are so blessed to have a GOT showrunner who can actually write. The liberties taken with the story are so so so good.

You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.

This. People will say it’s because of college scholarships but unless something has changed in these past decades, getting an athletic scholarship is much more like running a campaign. It’s not as simple as you’re .03 seconds slower than the woman next to you.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

I think that not only is this good politics, but the stability of American society depends on it. Liberal American normies are out for blood, but *everyone* is in an anti-system mood. If we don't feed that beast some sacrifices, it'll find someone who can, and those sacrifices will be innocent.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d ago

Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

George RR Martin just needs to lock in and deliver the beautiful ending everything is pointing to: Jon and Dany on the throne where Dany is the real ruler and Jon is just her man who literally and figuratively cools her down. A more equitable world for the common folk and one where women inherit.