J. Elle Edmonds
@hijaykayelle.bsky.social
she / her || apparently I’m a triple Virgo and “that explains a lot” || moderate interest in most things, deep interest in reading while eating baked goods, absolutely no interest in bowling
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here's my simple diagnosis about what's going on: you can't tell interesting stories if you're not curious about people. and these books are just not curious about people.
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
here's my simple diagnosis about what's going on: you can't tell interesting stories if you're not curious about people. and these books are just not curious about people.
I have consumed two separate 2lb bags of peanut butter M&Ms since the beginning of November, and I am seriously considering getting a third. Living my best life or coping poorly? Who can say… who can say…
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I have consumed two separate 2lb bags of peanut butter M&Ms since the beginning of November, and I am seriously considering getting a third. Living my best life or coping poorly? Who can say… who can say…
Hamnet was so good. That is all.
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hamnet was so good. That is all.
Airports are liminal spaces where everything is expensive and time doesn’t exist. Get yourself some cheez-its, peanut butter M&Ms, and the largest beer you can find. I support this airport management practice.
I wrote an important essay that will improve your holiday travel if you follow its very specific instructions:
airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com
airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com
Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better
An essay by Austin L. Ray
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December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Airports are liminal spaces where everything is expensive and time doesn’t exist. Get yourself some cheez-its, peanut butter M&Ms, and the largest beer you can find. I support this airport management practice.
This thread is a church+pun nerd delight.
Our local church chorister has chosen to change gender, from now on he wishes to be referred to as he/hymn.
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This thread is a church+pun nerd delight.
I will always proselytize for The Director’s Cut of The Kingdom of Heaven. One of Ridley Scott’s best.
Today's installment of The December Comfort Watches looks at 2005's The Kingdom of Heaven, which exists in two significantly different versions. Why do these different versions exist, and which version do I prefer? It's all at the link.
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The December Comfort Watches 2025: Day Eight: The Kingdom of Heaven
There have always been “director’s cuts” and “extended cuts” of films, particularly in the era of the DVD and Blu-Ray, when a film’s distributor could slap in a …
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December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I will always proselytize for The Director’s Cut of The Kingdom of Heaven. One of Ridley Scott’s best.
“They also serve who only stand and wait”
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“They also serve who only stand and wait”
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...Barth also says that the Virgin Birth had to happen because, among other reasons, men in particular had damaged the world so deeply by doing war and fascism (etc) that men in particular could have no part in the logic of the Incarnation.
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
...Barth also says that the Virgin Birth had to happen because, among other reasons, men in particular had damaged the world so deeply by doing war and fascism (etc) that men in particular could have no part in the logic of the Incarnation.
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
I am getting a lot of enjoyment out of the Falklands discourse.
I’m on the periphery enough to just see the salty clap backs without being enraged, and my IR / European Studies nerd heart is delighted.
I’m on the periphery enough to just see the salty clap backs without being enraged, and my IR / European Studies nerd heart is delighted.
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I am getting a lot of enjoyment out of the Falklands discourse.
I’m on the periphery enough to just see the salty clap backs without being enraged, and my IR / European Studies nerd heart is delighted.
I’m on the periphery enough to just see the salty clap backs without being enraged, and my IR / European Studies nerd heart is delighted.
Leftover chana masala and Diet Dr Pepper for breakfast. Following it up with a few strawberry cough drops for dessert.
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Leftover chana masala and Diet Dr Pepper for breakfast. Following it up with a few strawberry cough drops for dessert.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
Nothing hits quite like an ice cold ginger ale.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Nothing hits quite like an ice cold ginger ale.
At any given time I am in need of 3 vacations:
- a restorative vacation (stare at water and read escapist books)
- a reading vacation (be cozy and read more complex or non-fiction books)
- a tourist vacation (travel somewhere else and do new / different things)
- a restorative vacation (stare at water and read escapist books)
- a reading vacation (be cozy and read more complex or non-fiction books)
- a tourist vacation (travel somewhere else and do new / different things)
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
At any given time I am in need of 3 vacations:
- a restorative vacation (stare at water and read escapist books)
- a reading vacation (be cozy and read more complex or non-fiction books)
- a tourist vacation (travel somewhere else and do new / different things)
- a restorative vacation (stare at water and read escapist books)
- a reading vacation (be cozy and read more complex or non-fiction books)
- a tourist vacation (travel somewhere else and do new / different things)
Mostly taking the opportunity to plug my favorite secular Christmas song.
“Deer might fly, why not? I met you.” - Just a banger lyric to me. Plus there are jingle bells.
Sufjan’s Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (it’s on the Christmas album) or Tracy Chapman’s version of O Holy Night.
“Deer might fly, why not? I met you.” - Just a banger lyric to me. Plus there are jingle bells.
Sufjan’s Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (it’s on the Christmas album) or Tracy Chapman’s version of O Holy Night.
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Mostly taking the opportunity to plug my favorite secular Christmas song.
“Deer might fly, why not? I met you.” - Just a banger lyric to me. Plus there are jingle bells.
Sufjan’s Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (it’s on the Christmas album) or Tracy Chapman’s version of O Holy Night.
“Deer might fly, why not? I met you.” - Just a banger lyric to me. Plus there are jingle bells.
Sufjan’s Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (it’s on the Christmas album) or Tracy Chapman’s version of O Holy Night.
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it’s Vogon poetry, isn’t it
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
it’s Vogon poetry, isn’t it
I’m still amused by this… and the fact that I really have seen multiple Medieval Times commercials today.
I just got a YT commercial about the exciting new plot and characters at Medieval Times. Sounds more like a renaissance to me…
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’m still amused by this… and the fact that I really have seen multiple Medieval Times commercials today.
Happy Thanksgiving from this guy I saw on my way to work this week.
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from this guy I saw on my way to work this week.
I just got a YT commercial about the exciting new plot and characters at Medieval Times. Sounds more like a renaissance to me…
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I just got a YT commercial about the exciting new plot and characters at Medieval Times. Sounds more like a renaissance to me…
Head cold means I got no work done yesterday. But this morning the drugs are working and my brain is working, so here’s to a productive day…
Written 189 words so far.
Written 189 words so far.
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Head cold means I got no work done yesterday. But this morning the drugs are working and my brain is working, so here’s to a productive day…
Written 189 words so far.
Written 189 words so far.
I want a North and South miniseries written by Emma Thompson and directed by Joe Wright.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I want a North and South miniseries written by Emma Thompson and directed by Joe Wright.
I’m fighting something off and I cannot afford to lose my steady productivity ahead of my Dec 1 deadline. Here’s to drugs and sleep… please work, please?
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I’m fighting something off and I cannot afford to lose my steady productivity ahead of my Dec 1 deadline. Here’s to drugs and sleep… please work, please?
We’re a taco soup and leftover tamales family.
But what I really care about is Christmas breakfast: sausage balls and monkey bread. It’s not Christmas without it. I care more about that than any other food traditions.
Do other people have designated Christmas breakfast?
But what I really care about is Christmas breakfast: sausage balls and monkey bread. It’s not Christmas without it. I care more about that than any other food traditions.
Do other people have designated Christmas breakfast?
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
We’re a taco soup and leftover tamales family.
But what I really care about is Christmas breakfast: sausage balls and monkey bread. It’s not Christmas without it. I care more about that than any other food traditions.
Do other people have designated Christmas breakfast?
But what I really care about is Christmas breakfast: sausage balls and monkey bread. It’s not Christmas without it. I care more about that than any other food traditions.
Do other people have designated Christmas breakfast?
If working in male-dominated industries had taught me anything, it’s this: the lads love to chat on the phone.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If working in male-dominated industries had taught me anything, it’s this: the lads love to chat on the phone.
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A national bond that transcends race, religion, politics and class is our shared agreement that the Muppets are real. They are real people with jobs and lives. Listen to that crowd screaming. They know they're seeing a celebrity.
Sabrina Carpenter arrests Miss Piggy at the final show of her Short n’ Sweet tour in Los Angeles.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A national bond that transcends race, religion, politics and class is our shared agreement that the Muppets are real. They are real people with jobs and lives. Listen to that crowd screaming. They know they're seeing a celebrity.