Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again
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I read. I write. I drink tea. Filatina American 🇵🇭🇵🇷🇪🇨🇺🇸 East Bay. she/her
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Today (or any day, really) is the day you can start reading my post-punk romance about the songs that save your life, If I Never Saw the Sun, on Tapas! Like, subscribe, you know how it goes. tapas.io/series/If-I-...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you are using without explanation
The kid needs new shoes and knew exactly what he wants: high top Chuck Taylors and 16-hole Doc Marten boots. Plus ç'est la même chose.
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The kid needs new shoes and knew exactly what he wants: high top Chuck Taylors and 16-hole Doc Marten boots. Plus ç'est la même chose.
Tonight is our sword and archery school’s solstice feast! We go in period costume, so it’s time to ready my chemise, petticoat, and kirtle!
December 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Tonight is our sword and archery school’s solstice feast! We go in period costume, so it’s time to ready my chemise, petticoat, and kirtle!
I’m internally debating whether I will refuse to watch Hamnet on principle because I found the novel’s central literary premise—that there’s nothing in Shakespeare’s work that can be interpreted as responding to his son’s death—faulty.
From King John, the first play after Hamnet’s death:
From King John, the first play after Hamnet’s death:
![CONSTANCE
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?
Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
[She unbinds her hair.]
I will not keep this form upon my head
When there is such disorder in my wit.
O Lord! My boy, my Arthur, my fair son, My life, my joy, my food, my all the world, My widow-comfort and my sorrows' cure!
She exits.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7atr6fz5wmah35t6jc4l2rj6/bafkreigm26fsgwmt5npyifmcadl6syvoa7na2d77wexi47ws6oncdhsy7y@jpeg)
December 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m internally debating whether I will refuse to watch Hamnet on principle because I found the novel’s central literary premise—that there’s nothing in Shakespeare’s work that can be interpreted as responding to his son’s death—faulty.
From King John, the first play after Hamnet’s death:
From King John, the first play after Hamnet’s death:
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Hahahahaha it's sincere!!
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hahahahaha it's sincere!!
Look at this beautiful, crazy bastard… how could they do what they did to him
HOW? 😢
HOW? 😢
NEW • Still of General Hux from 'STAR WARS: The Force Awakens' for the 10th Anniversary!
December 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Look at this beautiful, crazy bastard… how could they do what they did to him
HOW? 😢
HOW? 😢
I was trying to remember the 1986 movie Desert Bloom, which was on HBO often in the late ‘80s
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I was trying to remember the 1986 movie Desert Bloom, which was on HBO often in the late ‘80s
Batman Returns
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Batman Returns
update: Chick Corea's Mozart piano concerto performances are now among my favorite. He plays with a bit of syncopation, playful liveliness, a few flourishes of his own. I think Mozart would have approved--it's how he reportedly played himself.
I’m absolutely obsessed right now with listening to different cadenzas performed in the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto #20 in D minor (my favorite concerto). I just found out that Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin did a version with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra!
The Mozart Sessions by Bobby McFerrin - Apple Music Classical
Listen to The Mozart Sessions by Bobby McFerrin. 1996. 7 tracks. 1 hour 6 minutes.
classical.music.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
update: Chick Corea's Mozart piano concerto performances are now among my favorite. He plays with a bit of syncopation, playful liveliness, a few flourishes of his own. I think Mozart would have approved--it's how he reportedly played himself.
ME: "What's-his-name was in it... you know... Irish guy. With the eyebrows?"
MINA: "Isn't every Irish guy the Irish guy with the eyebrows?"
ME: "Yeah... that's like saying 'the Irish guy with a big head.'"
(I was thinking of Colin Farrell)
MINA: "Isn't every Irish guy the Irish guy with the eyebrows?"
ME: "Yeah... that's like saying 'the Irish guy with a big head.'"
(I was thinking of Colin Farrell)
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
ME: "What's-his-name was in it... you know... Irish guy. With the eyebrows?"
MINA: "Isn't every Irish guy the Irish guy with the eyebrows?"
ME: "Yeah... that's like saying 'the Irish guy with a big head.'"
(I was thinking of Colin Farrell)
MINA: "Isn't every Irish guy the Irish guy with the eyebrows?"
ME: "Yeah... that's like saying 'the Irish guy with a big head.'"
(I was thinking of Colin Farrell)
Woke up saying, “No, Streaky is the Super-cat. *Comet* is rhe Super-horse.”
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Woke up saying, “No, Streaky is the Super-cat. *Comet* is rhe Super-horse.”
I’m absolutely obsessed right now with listening to different cadenzas performed in the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto #20 in D minor (my favorite concerto). I just found out that Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin did a version with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra!
The Mozart Sessions by Bobby McFerrin - Apple Music Classical
Listen to The Mozart Sessions by Bobby McFerrin. 1996. 7 tracks. 1 hour 6 minutes.
classical.music.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I’m absolutely obsessed right now with listening to different cadenzas performed in the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto #20 in D minor (my favorite concerto). I just found out that Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin did a version with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra!
Not quite happy with any of them, but oh well
December 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Not quite happy with any of them, but oh well
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Not because they’re bad but because they’re devastating:
Heavenly Creatures
Dancer in the Dark
The Long Walk
The Piano
Heavenly Creatures
Dancer in the Dark
The Long Walk
The Piano
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Not because they’re bad but because they’re devastating:
Heavenly Creatures
Dancer in the Dark
The Long Walk
The Piano
Heavenly Creatures
Dancer in the Dark
The Long Walk
The Piano
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The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font because it was “too Jewish.” alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar...
1941: The Nazis ban Jewish fonts
In 1941 the Nazis continued their campaign of persecution against Germany's Jews - by banning all Jewish fonts.
alphahistory.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font because it was “too Jewish.” alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar...
“BARK! BARK BARK! BARK BARK BARK BARK!”
“No, we’re not going out. It’s dark.”
“Woof.”
“You’re just going to have to poop in the backyard.”
“*huff.*”
“Don’t you huff at me, young man.”
“No, we’re not going out. It’s dark.”
“Woof.”
“You’re just going to have to poop in the backyard.”
“*huff.*”
“Don’t you huff at me, young man.”
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“BARK! BARK BARK! BARK BARK BARK BARK!”
“No, we’re not going out. It’s dark.”
“Woof.”
“You’re just going to have to poop in the backyard.”
“*huff.*”
“Don’t you huff at me, young man.”
“No, we’re not going out. It’s dark.”
“Woof.”
“You’re just going to have to poop in the backyard.”
“*huff.*”
“Don’t you huff at me, young man.”
I’m pescatarian now, but I can still be annoyingly rigid about my moral stances: I will not eat octopus. They’re the closest thing we can experience to alien intelligence, imo
wapo.st/4901Hak
wapo.st/4901Hak
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I’m pescatarian now, but I can still be annoyingly rigid about my moral stances: I will not eat octopus. They’re the closest thing we can experience to alien intelligence, imo
wapo.st/4901Hak
wapo.st/4901Hak
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When I was starting out as an erotica writer, I hung out a lot with an older gay man who'd been writing smut forever. He told me that without straight women writing gay paperbacks in the 1950s, gay culture as we know it might not exist. He insisted gay men owed these ladies a huge unpayable debt.
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
When I was starting out as an erotica writer, I hung out a lot with an older gay man who'd been writing smut forever. He told me that without straight women writing gay paperbacks in the 1950s, gay culture as we know it might not exist. He insisted gay men owed these ladies a huge unpayable debt.
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The Acolyte, no questions—new characters, new lore, Manny Jacinto’s arms
Which Star Wars live-action show would you most like to see get a new season? (excluding Andor and The Mandalorian, otherwise it's no fun 😁)
1/ The Acolyte
2/ Obi-Wan kenobi
3/ Skeleton Crew
4/ The Book of Boba Fett but only with Boba Fett this time
1/ The Acolyte
2/ Obi-Wan kenobi
3/ Skeleton Crew
4/ The Book of Boba Fett but only with Boba Fett this time
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Acolyte, no questions—new characters, new lore, Manny Jacinto’s arms
Ate too much Turkish delight. Had to try all the flavors…
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Ate too much Turkish delight. Had to try all the flavors…
No. Absolutely not.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
No. Absolutely not.
Did somebody say “Poor quality copper”? #TheArchers
The image that gets used for Ea-Nassir (pic 1) is about 1000 years too old to be him. Pic 2 and 3 are dudes from around 1900 BCE, which was Ea-Nasir time.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Did somebody say “Poor quality copper”? #TheArchers
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"Instead, we should deny the entire framing of the natalism debate."
This is the piece I've been waiting for as legacy media has spent the last couple of years sanewashing far-right pro-natalism.
This is the piece I've been waiting for as legacy media has spent the last couple of years sanewashing far-right pro-natalism.
New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.
What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Instead, we should deny the entire framing of the natalism debate."
This is the piece I've been waiting for as legacy media has spent the last couple of years sanewashing far-right pro-natalism.
This is the piece I've been waiting for as legacy media has spent the last couple of years sanewashing far-right pro-natalism.