Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social
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cinemashoebox.bsky.social
i am often described as
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
you got in just under the line! (and congratulations!!)
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
there are enough books. 100 year moratorium on new books until we've all caught up
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
how it started/how it's going
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
god i love when the NYT writes about britain
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
...Peasant's War into something potentially much more impactful: whether that be a religious figure like Luther deciding to back them or the emergence from the chaos of a political leader like Cromwell.
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
a genuinely popular, transformative communist leader in early 20s Germany would have changed a lot. there are a few people who get close but nobody quite has the full Lenin suite of skills.

going back further in the same part of the world, a true central figure could have made the German...
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
LLM stands for Lin Lanuel Miranda
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
i assume Manacled is still circulating online and you should try reading that shit because it is *wild*
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
i don't say this as a bad thing, i think it's lowkey radical and absolutely fascinating how HP has been mined for extreme sexual deviance and then used to turn a profit. but credit for that radicalism goes to horny writers and horny readers, not the tedious publishing middlemen
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
it's easy and not entirely inaccurate to call the Dramione stuff slop, but it's worth actually reading some of it to know how *weird* the slop is. Like, yeah, this is kind of lazy publishing, but it's lazy publishing that's turning sexual-slavery-and-impregnation fic into massive bestsellers
stefmowords.bsky.social
honestly why do we even bother
Substack post from Lincoln Michel: 

"Alchemised debuts at #1 with massive sales, making it the THIRD Harry Potter Draco-Hermione friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025. It's easy to say that publishers are just feeding readers slop, but harder to admit that they... enjoy it. They’re going to keep publishing it if people gobble it up by the ton."
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
never kill yourself
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
[thick russian accent] chess is pain
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
i won't name names but i just stumbled across what's nakedly an attempt to do 'the red scare podcast but for britain' and i crave death more than i ever knew was possible
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
was interested in ratings differences between lichess and chess.com and found a clickbait article on the subject with this insane ai graphic. ches.com vs The chess (83S) for the Middle-Earth (??) title
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
don't look at me, i've never read a word of his stuff. no dragons in it
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
litbros cumming harder than they knew they could
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
litbros thrumming, hovering six inches off the floor
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
litbros thrumming, hovering six inches off the floor
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
[previous post deleted because the girl on the right in the picture evidently agreed with me and has got her picture and name taken off the piece and honestly fair play]
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
oh, so she did. i'll take this down
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
"fun" fact about the guy on the left