Lacy Baugher Milas
@lacymb.bsky.social
✨ You ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out. ✨
Freelance writer & editor for hire | Bylines: Den of Geek, Jezebel, Nerdist, Tell Tale TV | Former Paste Magazine TV and Books editor | Ninth Doctor evangelist | Cat lady 🐈⬛ | #wahoowa
Freelance writer & editor for hire | Bylines: Den of Geek, Jezebel, Nerdist, Tell Tale TV | Former Paste Magazine TV and Books editor | Ninth Doctor evangelist | Cat lady 🐈⬛ | #wahoowa
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Lacy Baugher Milas
@lacymb.bsky.social
· Sep 23
How the Oasis Reunion Has Become 2025’s Most Wholesome Story
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
Never ever going to get tired of writing about the Oasis reunion, which is maybe the only categorically good thing we can say that 2025 has given us --- and a timely reminder that love, forgiveness, and rock and roll can maybe still fix the world. @pastemagazine.bsky.social
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The Cambridge Dictionary has chosen “parasocial” as its Word of the Year for 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Cambridge Dictionary has chosen “parasocial” as its Word of the Year for 2025.
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With #BlueLights back for season three, I went behind the scenes at BritBox, talking to its president about how the BBC Studios-owned streamer has carved out a niche of loyal viewers --and how they're trying to expand that base. In #Buffering and on @vulture.com now: www.vulture.com/article/brit...
‘Crime and Corsets’: The Great British Streaming Strategy
Here’s how BritBox forged a “profitable, enduring” bond with its audience — without leaning on hits.
www.vulture.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
With #BlueLights back for season three, I went behind the scenes at BritBox, talking to its president about how the BBC Studios-owned streamer has carved out a niche of loyal viewers --and how they're trying to expand that base. In #Buffering and on @vulture.com now: www.vulture.com/article/brit...
This made me cry --- it encapsulates everything I (too!) always wanted to do as an editor and a writer at this site, and what made being part of it so unconditionally great. Love you, @leilajordan.bsky.social.
I've been having a lot of feelings about the changes at Paste Magazine the past few days. So, in true Leila fashion, I wrote 2.5k words about it. You can read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/leilajor...
open.substack.com/pub/leilajor...
"I love this idea, go for it:" an ode to the Paste Magazine I knew
With the announcement that Paste Media is pivoting away from most its verticals except Music for its flagship magazine, I'm paying tribute to the website that gave me a career
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This made me cry --- it encapsulates everything I (too!) always wanted to do as an editor and a writer at this site, and what made being part of it so unconditionally great. Love you, @leilajordan.bsky.social.
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I've been having a lot of feelings about the changes at Paste Magazine the past few days. So, in true Leila fashion, I wrote 2.5k words about it. You can read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/leilajor...
open.substack.com/pub/leilajor...
"I love this idea, go for it:" an ode to the Paste Magazine I knew
With the announcement that Paste Media is pivoting away from most its verticals except Music for its flagship magazine, I'm paying tribute to the website that gave me a career
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I've been having a lot of feelings about the changes at Paste Magazine the past few days. So, in true Leila fashion, I wrote 2.5k words about it. You can read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/leilajor...
open.substack.com/pub/leilajor...
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It's that time of year! We're talking about the Best Romance Novels of 2025. We've chosen ten books that we love and that cover a range of historical, contemporary and paranormal, featuring romance with werewolves and cowboys, vaudeville actresses and vikings, Dukes and the actual Devil.
The Best Romances of 2025 — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
It's that time of year! We're talking about the Best Romance Novels of 2025. We've chosen ten books that we love and that cover a range of historical, contemporary and paranormal, featuring romance wi...
fatedmates.net
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It's that time of year! We're talking about the Best Romance Novels of 2025. We've chosen ten books that we love and that cover a range of historical, contemporary and paranormal, featuring romance with werewolves and cowboys, vaudeville actresses and vikings, Dukes and the actual Devil.
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In addition to the joy of writing for Paste Books, getting to write for Lacy was a professional highlight. The fact that one more place for books/TV/film coverage is shuttering is both maddening and disheartening.
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In addition to the joy of writing for Paste Books, getting to write for Lacy was a professional highlight. The fact that one more place for books/TV/film coverage is shuttering is both maddening and disheartening.
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Oh, gosh, this is such sad news. Any time a books vertical shutters, it sucks for all of us. I'm so sorry.
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Oh, gosh, this is such sad news. Any time a books vertical shutters, it sucks for all of us. I'm so sorry.
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Hire Lacy! She is brilliant and a champion for books coverage in all realms—interviews, reviews, yes-and-ing all manner of pitches. As an editor and writer both, she rocks.
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hire Lacy! She is brilliant and a champion for books coverage in all realms—interviews, reviews, yes-and-ing all manner of pitches. As an editor and writer both, she rocks.
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Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
Current mental health mantra.
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Current mental health mantra.
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As great as Lacy was running the Books section at Paste in public, she was even better behind the scenes. Enthusiastic, nimble, brilliant, always eager to let us chase our passions as much as her budget could possibly allow. I'll miss the work we did together, and thank you, Lacy, for a dream gig.
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As great as Lacy was running the Books section at Paste in public, she was even better behind the scenes. Enthusiastic, nimble, brilliant, always eager to let us chase our passions as much as her budget could possibly allow. I'll miss the work we did together, and thank you, Lacy, for a dream gig.
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Lacy is a fantastic editor and writer who you should hire, and it’s terrible to see the long history of (non-music) cultural criticism at Paste come to an end.
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Lacy is a fantastic editor and writer who you should hire, and it’s terrible to see the long history of (non-music) cultural criticism at Paste come to an end.
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This is awful for Paste, awful for my friends, awful for the industry as a whole. (Someone hire Lacy!!!)
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is awful for Paste, awful for my friends, awful for the industry as a whole. (Someone hire Lacy!!!)
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This brings to an end my couple of years as an associate film editor at Paste. I had an astonishing amount of freedom there as both a freelancer and later in my part-time gig, and the sheer number of movies they were willing to review or otherwise cover put a lot of movies-first pubs to shame!
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This brings to an end my couple of years as an associate film editor at Paste. I had an astonishing amount of freedom there as both a freelancer and later in my part-time gig, and the sheer number of movies they were willing to review or otherwise cover put a lot of movies-first pubs to shame!
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
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From MinuteEarth, a quick tour of all the different kinds of cats in the world, wild & domesticated, and how they are related to each other. TIL there was an American cheetah, almost as fast as its smaller African counterpart. [kottke.org]
All the Cats, Explained
From MinuteEarth, a quick tour of all the different kinds of cats in the world, extinct, wild, and domesticated, and how they are related to each other. Some interesting facts I learned:
The saber-toothed tiger was th
kottke.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
From MinuteEarth, a quick tour of all the different kinds of cats in the world, wild & domesticated, and how they are related to each other. TIL there was an American cheetah, almost as fast as its smaller African counterpart. [kottke.org]
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This is never ever ever getting old. Long may it continue. 🤍
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This is never ever ever getting old. Long may it continue. 🤍
This is never ever ever getting old. Long may it continue. 🤍
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This is never ever ever getting old. Long may it continue. 🤍
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
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I just want to say there are a lot of journalists and writers who do real, incredible work on topics that matter while maintaining high standards. Many of them do not have stable employment or recognition from major institutions.
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I just want to say there are a lot of journalists and writers who do real, incredible work on topics that matter while maintaining high standards. Many of them do not have stable employment or recognition from major institutions.
There’s so much worth digging into about romantasy as a genre and why, specifically, it’s so big at this moment, but this piece is so clearly from someone who doesn’t approach the genre in good faith OR read in it regularly that it just comes off as more pointless sneering at stuff women like.
“The heroines of romantasy are flicked, nuzzled, ridden, throttled, bitten, pulled, plowed, hit, filled, soaked, and — here’s a Maas favorite — shattered.” Daniel Yadin examines the genre taking over American publishing in a new piece from Issue Sixteen.
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
www.thedriftmag.com/escape-artis...
Escape Artists
Romantasy at the End of the World
www.thedriftmag.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There’s so much worth digging into about romantasy as a genre and why, specifically, it’s so big at this moment, but this piece is so clearly from someone who doesn’t approach the genre in good faith OR read in it regularly that it just comes off as more pointless sneering at stuff women like.
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
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I've been on a real foreign language period drama kick of late, so I'm over the moon to see HBO stepping into the space with French series #TheSeduction, a take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses that's full of female fury. My review:
HBO’s Sultry French Drama The Seduction Shakes Up the World of Dangerous Liaisons
The Seduction puts its own thoroughly modern spin on a period classic and reimagines the story of the famous Madame de Merteuil in the process.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I've been on a real foreign language period drama kick of late, so I'm over the moon to see HBO stepping into the space with French series #TheSeduction, a take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses that's full of female fury. My review:
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
I've been on a real foreign language period drama kick of late, so I'm over the moon to see HBO stepping into the space with French series #TheSeduction, a take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses that's full of female fury. My review:
HBO’s Sultry French Drama The Seduction Shakes Up the World of Dangerous Liaisons
The Seduction puts its own thoroughly modern spin on a period classic and reimagines the story of the famous Madame de Merteuil in the process.
www.pastemagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I've been on a real foreign language period drama kick of late, so I'm over the moon to see HBO stepping into the space with French series #TheSeduction, a take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses that's full of female fury. My review: