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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 35m

*pours one out for the GOAT*

Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 39m

R.I.P.

www.slashfilm.com/1996528/drew...

Drew Struzan, The Greatest Movie Poster Artist Of All Time, Has Died At 78 - SlashFilm

Drew Struzan, a titan in the world of illustration and movie poster art, has passed away. If you have a favorite movie poster, he's probably responsible for it.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 38m

The heroes, contemporary and historical, are EXACTLY what I want from a male lead in a romance, too. Interestingly complex, respectful of women as human beings regardless of class status or history, fully understand boundaries and consent without *sounding* like a 2025 guy displaced to 1783.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 44m

Also the sex scenes are all in the third-person historical chapters, not in the first-person contemporary ones. Our heroine gets laid on the regular — there’s a hero, and an ongoing relationship, and *delicious* drama with his ex and his ex-BFF — but she alludes to it delightedly and that’s it.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 46m

Another thing about these books is that they involve epic historical romance, and what sex scenes there are don’t seem to be written for the purpose of arousing the reader the way books classified and sold as Romance generally do these days. This asexual who likes romantic stories appreciated that.

Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 1d

Have I talked about the author Irina Shapiro before? I love Victorian mysteries and have read The Highgate Cemetery Murder but then I discovered her Nicole Rayburn series, which is about an author and historian who researches historical mysteries. The reader knows more than Nicole because+

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 1h

Widget is yelling “Mom, MOOOOOM.” He objects to the water falling from the sky. We are indoors, baby cat.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 1h

Oooh, loud rain

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 1h

When it cools off here I get 14lb of cat lying lengthwise against my lower body, on top of the covers so I can’t get up. Because cats get heavier when they’re asleep. It is known.

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Keith Chaffee @keithchaffee.bsky.social · 16h

“Literary fiction” is a genre with unspoken rules, tropes, and expectations, and just as much predictably and gatekeeping as any form of what is condescendingly dismissed as “genre fiction.”

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 4h

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 2h

"Hey, can I feed the art you've spent years cultivating and honing into the digital pig swill machine and bask in your reflected glory without having to learn or do a single useful or creative thing?"

"No."

"yOu'LL GeT LEfT beHiNd."

Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 5h

Another day, another ai enthusiast warning me I’ll get ‘left behind’ if I’m not careful. He makes the future of entertainment sound delightful

An ai arsehole tries to defend his use of ai

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 12h

Watching previously rational and level-headed artists/writers succumb to the stolen siren song of Sora like

a man wearing sunglasses is smoking a cigarette in front of a shoe display

Alt: Ryan Gosling in 'Crazy, Stupid, Love'. He's wearing a nice suit and sunglasses inside a shoe shop. He's looking in disgust at someone. Shelves of shoes are behind him.

media.tenor.com

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 12h

The name, y’all

Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 12h

heh.

well, fuck that restaurant.

Pair of LA restaurants accused of racism towards customers

YouTube video by NBCLA

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 12h

Someone’s passing comment on Threads sent me over to Apple Music to satisfy my curiosity and now I have Masayoshi Takanaka queued up for the week’s background music.

You’re welcome in advance.

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Rachel Walens @rwalens.bsky.social · 13h

LA County Library is partnering with the LA County Dept of Public Health to offer a FREE vaccine clinic for Flu and COVID shots, no insurance required. Friday October 24, 10 AM to 12 noon. Go here for details and to make an appointment:

lacountylibrary.libnet.info/event/14546049

Free Vaccine Clinic: Flu and COVID-19 for for All Ages

LA County Department of Public Health is partnering with LA County Library to provide FREE flu vaccinations and the 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccine for individuals 6+ month. Health insurance is not required,...

lacountylibrary.libnet.info

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

Someone on Threads said it bothers them that these days ppl are not only incompetent but they don’t need to be competent

And IDK if they meant ppl aren’t expected/required to be or that they don’t personally feel a need to be competent but I think the latter is true more often than it ought to be

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

In the run-up to my visit to my folks I dialed my consumption of horror media WAY back because I was so certain I was going to get triggered on my visit so I needed to be as invulnerable as possible and now I’m back home and my brain is like FEED ME ENTIRE SHUDDER CATALOG

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

Mostly because media conglomerates own both publishing and film companies and there’s a lot of self-dealing

Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

For the record, I automatically assume that if a book was not self-published and came out after 2010, someone owned the rights before it even went to print.

Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

Meanwhile studios who snap up the film rights for living authors’ works often sit on them just so nobody else can get at them

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

The Ritual (2017) is on Netflix if you haven’t seen that

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

AMC is the best investment I’ve made in a streaming service so far

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

Lake of Death on AMC+
Apostle on Netflix

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 14h

Meanwhile studios who snap up the film rights for living authors’ works often sit on them just so nobody else can get at them

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 15h

STOP adapting 80-year-old books into movies and TV series. Stop it. There are a million new novels published every year and 99% of their authors are broke. Stop giving dead people’s descendants money. Books were NOT better a century ago, they were WORSE. They were ALL
WORSE. Create in THIS century.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 16h

Because of a large storm moving into Southern California over the next couple days the areas of the Palisades and Eaton burn scars are under flood evacuation warning.

If you live in those areas you might want to consider leaving now. Mudslides are not to be fucked with.

abc7.com/live-updates...

Evacuation warning issued for Eaton, Palisades burn scar areas due to possible mud, debris flows

Ahead of showers across Southern California overnight and on Tuesday, an evacuation warning has been issued for the Eaton and Palisades fire burn scar areas.

abc7.com

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 15h

Actually I’m the white girl version of Rod from Get Out but I’ll allow it

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