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Lily
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Managing Editor at @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social. Words in @racketmn.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, others. Ex-MFA person. She/her. All views my own!
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Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social · Nov 6
trying very hard to think about non-election things rn. like for instance how in the buffy episode where faith steals her body she has the exact cadence, intonation, and editing rhythm of jenny nicholson making fun of a star wars character she doesn't like
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i am completely serious i stared at this for fifteen seconds thinking she meant ari aster
Ariana Grande Dedicates Her Oscar Nomination to 'Tiny Ari'
January 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
so much to critique here but i feel like i have to mention how hideous the serving vessels are. feels very "we had $80 to spend at target." hideous ostentation mixed with Hearth + Hand by Magnolia® vibes mixed with a disposable sheet tray of unseasoned elbow macaroni
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 9h
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A Thanksgiving spread of foods.
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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williambaude.bsky.social
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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episodesnewsletter.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving from your pals at Episodes! We've got an open thread on your fave movie from your birth year going for paid subscribers; if you're already one, click below and jump on in! (And if you aren't a paid subscriber yet, you can become one today at episodes.ghost.io !)
What's the best movie from the year you were born?
Discuss amongst yourselves! (And/or, read our answers below.)
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November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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memles.bsky.social
As an editor, I need it to be clear that I basically told @lilywrites.bsky.social to reject my offer to give up all her holidays to write about #StrangerThings Season 5, but Episodic Medium's fall coverage is better for her stubborn refusal to listen to me.
Review: Stranger Things, "The Crawl" | Season 5, Episode 1
The town's changed, but the problem is the characters haven't
www.episodicmedium.tv
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
just finished watching Stranger Things (for work) and my biggest takeaway is that I can't BELIEVE no one ever called him Eddie Munster
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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episodesnewsletter.bsky.social
In this week's Monday Rundown: summer blockbusters, feel-bad Bible cinema, and a cake.
Episodes Monday Rundown November 17–23 2025
In this week's Monday Rundown: summer blockbusters, feel-bad Bible cinema, and a cake.
episodes.ghost.io
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
Bluesky has so many issues but I was about to tweet "who up considering they tetrapod" but then I thought "wait this is the thirty year old gay person website, I doubt this is an original thought, and
I would not be the first person to make that stupid joke turns out
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
guy who thinks her name is Nuzzi because one of her ancestors was Jack "Cowboy" Kelly
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Sam Altman: yeah so data centers, well you know they take a lot of power to run. And I figure, what is more powerful than Goku?

Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful.

Altman: Goku will power our data centers.

Interviewer: yeah
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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episodesnewsletter.bsky.social
In this week's Monday Rundown: a better-late-than-never binge watch, Emily's favorite romance author, and two plays of wildly varying quality.
Episodes Monday Rundown November 10–16 2025
This week: a better-late-than-never binge watch, Emily's favorite romance author, and two plays of wildly varying quality.
episodes.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
‘dear rax, the VP at my day job is an AI true believer and it fills me with despair — is hope lost?’
www.patreon.com/posts/143594...
What I do know is that AI is not your fucking game and it's not mine. You see your slop-gobbling VP going one way, you go the other way. You hear me? The LLM-lubbers go one way, you go the other way. Hell, the hard part's done: you already know you don't want to live an AI-inflected life. A whole lot of people out there don't realize that yet, and for some of them the knowledge will only come after a great deal of pain, but you know what you must do. Write a novel, write a poem, scribble them on printer paper when your VP isn't looking if you have to. Get flowers for your desk and frames for your photos, write longhand in a diary every day. Buy a secondhand DVD player and secondhand DVDs. Smell a library, pull faces at a baby, splash cold water on your face. Call your friends on the phone even though it sucks and everyone hates it because texts and DMs suck more, just nobody realizes it yet. Pay for more things with cash and drop the change in a desperate man's paper cup. Cook enough of every meal to share with your neighbors, especially the unhoused ones. Sing Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" at karaoke because it's fun and everybody loves it. Live a life out in the real, palpable world that you can be a little proud of; refuse assaults on its dignity. You can only do what you can do, and life will feel wonderful again once you truly get that—fuck, I'm tearing up, believe me, it will shock you how wonderful life still feels. And the rest, again, is not your game.
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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markpopham.bsky.social
why is it so funny that it's lunch
them.us Them @them.us · 15d
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
lilywrites.bsky.social
anyone know any good songs for someone who is at a Newborn Tiny Baby Kitten skill level to learn on guitar lol. bonus points if it is not classic rock (the preferred genre of the online course i'm doing) and is easy to sing for an alto with a very bad voice
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
GDT's Frankenstein: it's Franken-fine! Takes attached! Li'l preview for those of you who aren't yet paying Episodes subscribers!
So, no, I don't think the issue with Frankenstein's script is its sincerity or its willingness to have its characters speak its emotions earnestly. I think my issue is that the way it tells its viewers what those emotions and characterizations and themes are meant to be steps on both its characters' actual actions and on the more interesting visual themes in the film. In telling you exactly what you are meant to take away from it, the film buries so many other interesting things that it is doing at the same time.
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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onioncereal.bsky.social
picture of jeff bridges as "the dude" from THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998?
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
lilywrites.bsky.social
behold: the emmmmmmmmmmmmmm dash
like 12 hyphens separating two parts of a sentence in the shitty post quoted
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
agree extremely hard with all of this but this paragraph especially made me nod my head EXTREMELY hard
The good man of the reasonable center, in Galloway’s view, adheres to a code indistinguishable from that of the Boy Scouts: mental and physical fitness, emotional resilience, hard work, financial prudence, caring for others. Few could object to any of this. But the person it describes—a kind and conscientious sort, who aspires to make a decent living and who looks after their loved ones—seems blessedly gender-free. So why make this about manhood? Even the Boy Scouts have gone coed.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
I am glad people are finally talking about this!! Infinite Jest is Good Actually!!!!
joshgondelman.bsky.social Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 17d
This is such a hack answer, but reading Infinite Jest really exploded my understanding of and empathy around the issues of depression and addiction! It legitimately made me a better person!
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18d
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
lilywrites.bsky.social
i will never forgive or forget the 2014 white girls who called me a misogynist for not stanning her
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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episodesnewsletter.bsky.social
In this week's Monday Rundown: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read
Episodes Monday Rundown November 3–9 2025
This week: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read.
episodes.ghost.io
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
proud of this one! give it a read! here's a lil teaser!
text that reads: I hope it's clear from the paragraph above that I don't disagree, exactly, with pop-cultural consensus opinions about Lanthimos. But I don't think those opinions give a thorough enough account of what Lanthimos is doing, especially with Bugonia. His movies aren't empty vessels for hatred. Rather, they are uncomfortable artistic objects for a reason. They have themes, and that discomfort is how they make you feel those themes. What Bugonia and particularly that scene with Teddy and Casey make clear to me is that Lanthimos is not merely interested in politeness and power as a simple juxtaposition. I think he's interested in the inherent irony and hypocrisy of attempting to map morality onto a power relationship, how the terms of polite engagement are so often an excuse for the powerful to sleep easy at night after doing what they were going to anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
lilywrites.bsky.social
today i found out that there is a Harry Potter store in New York in the dead center of the city's toilet district. location, location, location :)
the harry potter shop, at 22nd and broadway, on google maps a stunning number of, this is not a euphemism, toilet stores clustered around that same intersection
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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judedoyle.bsky.social
No love for the OTHER historic victory of the day I see
thefilmupdates.bsky.social Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 24d
Jennifer Lawrence reveals she and Emma Stone are producing a Miss Piggy movie with Cole Escola writing the script:

- So you and Emma are going to be in it too?
- I think so, we have to.

(Source:
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM