Groupthink is soooooo easy to get carried away on. I’ve been guilty of it myself! But just because everyone else around you is losing their shit doesn’t mean they’re right! You don’t have to get swept away by the wave.
Jenny Hamilton
@readingtheend.bsky.social
she/her. southern geek feminist, genre critic, and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
literally me when you get me started about Pyrrha Dve
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 3mo agomy favorite historical wife guy is the Laudatio Turia guy, who constructed a giant stone monument on which he had carved a lengthy narrative about how hot and brave and politically savvy and good at weaving his wife was.
We have made our initial goal! Onward to stretch goals! (Also if you are a sick freak that likes video content, please click through to our first update where @pegasusunder.bsky.social has a rad video answering some questions about THESE HOLLOW BODIES)
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 3d agoLooks like we are one Club Serpentine paperback backer away from meeting our initial goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
You've read @gavia.bsky.social 's Vampire Lestat recaps. Now that the season has wrapped up, she's going deep behind the scenes, talking to production designer Andres Cubillan about a range of setpieces, from the tour bus to Lestat's childhood home to the Fang Gang's hideout. 🩸✨ Read or listen:
Inside The Vampire Lestat’s Brilliant Production Design
Blood farms and custom guitars: TVL production designer Andres Cubillan shares insights into the season’s most memorable setpieces.
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okay, I became afraid of my own ambition and made One Enormous Latke, which I put refried beans and cheese on top of. it was great. highly recommend. does this count as latke nachos?
gently, slowly incepting my Gen Z coworker into watching Veronica Mars
You guys is this the show I have wanted since my favorite part of Toy Story 2, the scene where the old guy comes in to repair Woody?????
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
I agree with this, and I think it typifies the tendency to get mad when all the possible solutions are imperfect and yet we still have to choose one. people want there to be one right solution with no downsides, and get weirdly furious when that doesn't exist.
Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d agoI think it’s hard to argue either that lockdowns were bad policy or that learning loss wasn’t real. We just have a society that makes no allowances for emergencies and affords no chance of making up. A lot of people are very mad about the effects of that without having any inclination to change it.
always funny when romance authors pivot to writing horror. like the connection is so so clear to me but I would struggle to articulate it. anyway I picked up some old Victoria Dahl paperbacks at the library book sale and I am excited to revisit them.
The Repair Shop and Penn and Teller: Fool Us on Tubi are getting me through life right now
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
100% one of my favorite streaming shows. Absolutely delightful. Could not recommend enough.
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
Competence porn at its best! Also, if you're a sympathetic cryer like me...have your tissues ready.😭
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
Our favorite TV show! Unashamed fans. We visited the barn where it is created as part of a trip to the Weald & Downland Living Museum in 2024; we own some seasons on DVD b/c for a while that was the only way to access in the US. (We binge on BBC iplayer when in the UK, too.) This is great news!!!
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
Premium positive vibes programming. Just lovely and competent people restoring things.
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
This show is so perfect. I cry at least once per episode because watching someone bring in their grandfather's travel trunk and the way they get emotional about the repair is so heartwarming. I would die for the stuffed animal ladies. Do yourself a favor and watch this.
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
Ceramics lady is an actual miracle worker and the teddy bear ladies are world treasures.
And Clock Guy is the kind of craftsman who will say "Oh, this is very difficult, I've never done anything like this before, a thousand things could go wrong" while his fingers are twitching with anticipation because he already has a Plan.
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d agothere is a ceramics lady. there is a clocks guy and his sister the leather worker. there are the teddy bear ladies. there is a carpenter. there is an upholstery lady.
oh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
thingswithwings@thingswithwings.bsky.social · 2d agonot enough people are out here talking about The Repair Shop!!! what about the sacred quality of objects that humans invest with their own history and emotions! what about the value of handcrafting processes that go back generations! what about the rich interconnections between craft and carework 😭
not enough people are out here talking about The Repair Shop!!! what about the sacred quality of objects that humans invest with their own history and emotions! what about the value of handcrafting processes that go back generations! what about the rich interconnections between craft and carework 😭
y'all I really love TV and watching TV *tears up* it's so fun and great okay thank you that's all
Incidentally I woke up thinking about time travel/alternate lives, so this article was perfect reading to chew on my own big idea, why getting to make different choices often unhinged a character from concern about consent.
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d ago"[Felicity] was also, looking back, such a rich text—a masterclass, really—on the purpose of speculative fiction." @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social on the startling joy of Felicity's genre shift, and how we can't be surprised by TV anymore:
The inimitable @heykellyjensen.bsky.social wrote this up, and you really, really need to pay attention to this law in Arkansas. Why? It represents an escalation and expansion of censorship from the public to private sphere. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
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When @mollytempleton.com says she thinks you'd write a great piece about glam rock and loving yourself and The Vampire Lestat, and you look up several thousand words later with a track list... reactormag.com/glam-rock-an...
7 (Un)Easy Steps to Loving Yourself: Glam Rock and The Vampire Lestat - Reactor
What's so great about being a rock star? It doesn't take an interview to tell your story.
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neeeeeeeeeeeeeew version of youuuuuu I need a new version of me-eeeeeeeee
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d ago"[Felicity] was also, looking back, such a rich text—a masterclass, really—on the purpose of speculative fiction." @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social on the startling joy of Felicity's genre shift, and how we can't be surprised by TV anymore:
Thank you, so much, @leahschnelbach.bsky.social and @reactorsff.bsky.social, both for giving me a very good excuse to rewatch Felicity in the year of our lord 2026 and for helping me to refine one of my perennial pop culture rants into an actual working theory of the purpose of speculative fiction!
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d ago"[Felicity] was also, looking back, such a rich text—a masterclass, really—on the purpose of speculative fiction." @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social on the startling joy of Felicity's genre shift, and how we can't be surprised by TV anymore:
AI and cults can never get me because I find it highly suspicious when someone I don't know well is nice to me.
I really need SFF publishing to invest in new really long series, sometimes I just want to read twenty books in the same world like Pern or Valdemar or the like but completely new to me and I am just not into the niches where this happens in self-publishing today like LitRPG or cultivation at all
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