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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

YOU WOULD THINK!!

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

I mean lbf who is 💜😘

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who turns their nose up at ~genre fiction~ (like scifi, specfic, romance, etc.) as being inferior to ~literary fiction~ and thus not worth reading is a boring snob who lacks imagination and i have no time for them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

OMG PERFECT

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

Deeply unpleasant circumstances.

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

Your dog 🤝 Kitsi

He gives us THE most offended look ever every time we sneeze too! Wakes him up from a dead sleep.

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

Yes please! 😄

Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

We just had actual hysterics over make some noise, top 3 episode of all time

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 2d

OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

and since he really does have a quote for everything, in the wise words of Sir Terry Pratchett: “Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

#vaccine side effects were surprisingly mild this weekend! Not complaining! Still feel quite tired, though that could also be the dog needing to go out at 5am this morning and fucking up the rest of my sleep cycle. 😐

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

I already preordered this but this teaser just confirms that it's exactly what i want to read at this point in time! Cackled out loud several times.

Dylan Morrison @dylanthyme.bsky.social · 2d

TWO! DAYS! TIL BOOK DAY! let me take you away from all this (the stresses and horrors of the dystopian present) to a better place (still full of stresses and horrors, but only for the characters, and with much lower stakes). excerpt so you can give it a vibe check! geni.us/1204-al-aut-am

"The guy in the video—Pete—is handsome in that relaxed, unin‐
tentional way Ben associates with people who had a great time in
high school. There’s something about him that’s almost familiar,
and he looks older than Ben, in probably his early thirties. His dark
wavy hair, faded tight on the sides and left longer on top, clearly
just lies that way, in the sort of easy dishevelment no one can pull
o$ when they’re trying. As if all that wasn’t enough, he’s broad
shouldered and well muscled—not a full gym rat like Ben some‐
times pulls on Grindr, but de!nitely visibly toned. It’s a look Ben
associates with rock climbers, although admittedly that may be
situational bias, because he is also wearing the type of T-shirt-with-
sleeves-cut-o$ Ben associates with rock climbers. However, the
idiot has distinguished himself from the pack by electing to do this
to a shirt with Ask Me About Canned Beans scrawled across
the front in a gigantic, hideous font.
And Pete is, above anything else, an idiot. Sure—he’s a little bit
hot. Ben can admit that to himself, here in the safe anonymity of
the New York City subway system, where anything could happen
and does, every day. Pete is a little bit hot. That doesn’t make it
okay that somehow, despite having presumably been a talented
enough chef to land one of the coveted, cushy positions as a
Gastronome test cook, he has produced what has to be the single
worst collection of cooking footage ever created by man.
“Hi!” Pete says, waving at the camera, in the !rst take. But he's"

"holding a spoon in his waving hand, and it goes !ying and hits
someone nearly out of frame in the back of the head, and they yelp,
and someone else o" camera yells “CUT.” With no pause for
recovery, it’s the next take, and Pete says, “Hi! I’m Pat,” and then,
“Wait, no I’m not,” and then, nervously, like he’s not quite sure it’s
the right answer, “Pete? I’m… Pete.” They cut again, and then it’s
the hideous take after that, in which Pete holds up a bunch of
greens and says, “This is kelp—kelp—KALE. Good God. But could
we make it with kelp, do you think? I never thought about kelp—
aw, wait, these are collards, actually. Uh. Are we still rolling?”
Ben misses his train. It goes whooshing by as Pete very
earnestly tells the viewers that he thinks everyone can learn to cook
while, next to him, a piece of notebook paper that clearly reads,
DEAR PETE, REMEMBER: BUY TARRAGON, TOILET
PAPER. NO MORE HOISIN! LOVE PETE inches towards the
stove. It catches $re at the same moment Ben realizes that it’s a
local 1 train pulling away, and he releases a little gasp of surprised
annoyance in the exact moment that Pete does on-screen.
That disquieting moment of similarity is enough to get Ben to
close the computer. He tells himself he’s not going to open it again
until he has his mysterious mixed drink in his hand to dull the pain
but only lasts $ve minutes before he $nds himself reaching for the
laptop again. An express 2 train chooses that exact moment to turn
up, running as always on a secret schedule known only to itself,
which is all that saves Ben from spending the next several hours on
the platform. Instead, he spends the standing-room-only ride back
to his apartment stewing about the video, and how on earth Pete
even got a job, and how on earth he, Ben, is supposed to do his job
and edit this nightmare into watchable content."

The Recipe for Trouble cover (two men cooking together against a periwinkle background) displayed on an ereader, sitting on top of a cutting board and a green gingham towel. Blue text on a yellow circle to the right of the ereader reads "PRE-ORDER NOW."

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

I am so excited for this already!! I preordered it on the power of the blurb but this is everything i could want and more. Absolutely just made me cackle out loud three times in a row.

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 2d

I would love to hear it!!

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 3d

OMG RIGHT??? I watched the s3 trailer and had to yell about it to A, it's everything i wanted!! This show is so smart and so tight, the acting is out of this world! Rory Kinnear as thee most disgusting narcissistic sleazebag is incredible! I love the Wylers' dynamic! Everything about it is so good!!

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 3d

Finished watching s2 of The Diplomat today and holy shit that show is EXCELLENT. Fantastic cast, twisty complex plot, i LOVE it. And s3 out this month!!! I can't wait!!

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Neve 🌈 @drniftyplum.bsky.social · 3d

I remember when he was super confused that people found his villains hot and Aabria yelling 'why do you make them hot if you don't want people to find them hot??' at him

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