Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social
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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*
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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
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litbros thrumming, hovering six inches off the floor
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litbros thrumming, hovering six inches off the floor
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[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]
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oh, so she did. i'll take this down
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"fun" fact about the guy on the left
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
i have no great desire to live in or visit the Gulf and that's fine but the amount of wildly racist shit you see posted about the countries and people there, totally unchallenged, is pretty revolting
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possibly, altho ideally i'd see them unmaintained and gradually becoming weird monoliths, and i don't see that it's absurd to ask for a site plan that aims to preserve them while scrapping the uninteresting parts of the station. *definitely* don't see how this means that all Grade II is invalid
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
why do you need to "get something" out of them? they're interesting structures in their own right.
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"maybe i'll do a post about the intractable chaos of the tupperware shelf," mused Ben, who still believed 20-year-olds were essentially his peers
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you watch one stand-up vid on youtube and your entire feed becomes SIX COMEDIANS BREAK DOWN THE COMEDY SCENE and KUALA LUMPUR COMEDY FESTIVAL REACTIONS and IS COMEDY DEAD and WHO KILLED STAND-UP and YOU SHOULD BE BEATING YOUR GIRLFRIEND MORE OFTEN
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this was truss. i don't even think badenoch's that interesting
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
what the fuck is this outro music
cinemashoebox.bsky.social
it should be legal to park lime bikes on cars