Lily
@lilywrites.bsky.social
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
I paid eleven American dollars to see Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach's new horror movie in theaters. Little preview below!
February 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I paid eleven American dollars to see Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach's new horror movie in theaters. Little preview below!
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"we don't know if the models are conscious or not" okay do you understand why, if that were true, it would be horrifying??
"we created a sentient being! for safety and legal reasons we tightly control all stimulus it is exposed to. Ideally we want to reproduce it billions of times to toil ceaselessly, at all moments, completely destroying most white-collar work. If it doesn't work how we want it to we'll extinct it."
February 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"we don't know if the models are conscious or not" okay do you understand why, if that were true, it would be horrifying??
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I wrote about the best Olympic sport
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High-Level, Actionable Insights From Watching Doubles Luge For The First Time | Defector
To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of holding onto a sled real tight as it goes fast down the ice. Of course, this o...
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February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I wrote about the best Olympic sport
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defector.com/high-level-a...
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oh when i'm done watching your prestige streaming show, should i go listen to the Official Podcast? yeah? do you think i'm stupid? you don't respect me? is that it?
February 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
oh when i'm done watching your prestige streaming show, should i go listen to the Official Podcast? yeah? do you think i'm stupid? you don't respect me? is that it?
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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
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it seems to be the discourse of the day and i have five minutes between commitments so here are THREE TAKES I HAVE ABOUT AI. thread, obviously
February 11, 2026 at 9:34 PM
it seems to be the discourse of the day and i have five minutes between commitments so here are THREE TAKES I HAVE ABOUT AI. thread, obviously
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this may be the most English man ever to exist.
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
this may be the most English man ever to exist.
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Wrote about my complicated relationship with Buffy, my complicated relationship with Joss Whedon, and my complicated relationship with my own fucking body.
Part 2 of 26 episodes!! A paid subscriber exclusive!
Part 2 of 26 episodes!! A paid subscriber exclusive!
In this week's installment of 26 Episodes, @emilystjams.bsky.social on Buffy the Vampire Slayer's best and most devastating episode
The many legacies of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's best episode
A strange, austere hour remains unlike anything else in TV history
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February 11, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Wrote about my complicated relationship with Buffy, my complicated relationship with Joss Whedon, and my complicated relationship with my own fucking body.
Part 2 of 26 episodes!! A paid subscriber exclusive!
Part 2 of 26 episodes!! A paid subscriber exclusive!
insanely good work from Emily here. please give it a read!!! so, so many parts of it that deserve to be excerpted, but here's one that really got me
February 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
insanely good work from Emily here. please give it a read!!! so, so many parts of it that deserve to be excerpted, but here's one that really got me
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some years ago “geese tiny desk” would have been a viral cute animal clip they would run on the Ellen show. makes you think
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
some years ago “geese tiny desk” would have been a viral cute animal clip they would run on the Ellen show. makes you think
i think Iron Lung may have been the worst movie i've ever seen
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
i think Iron Lung may have been the worst movie i've ever seen
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I wrote about the Olympics
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Which Other Olympic Mascots Could Italian Stoats Tina And Milo Slaughter In Cold Blood? | Defector
Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but the mustelid of the moment is the stoat. The mascots of the 2026 Winter Oly...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I wrote about the Olympics
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defector.com/which-other-...
this episode fuckin rocked. little preview courtesy of @oliviaawood.bsky.social!
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
this episode fuckin rocked. little preview courtesy of @oliviaawood.bsky.social!
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In this week's Heated Rivalry recap, @lilywrites.bsky.social and @oliviaawood.bsky.social gab about a fantastic episode with, like, eight different Big Special Moments in it
Heated Rivalry: Episode 5, "I'll Believe in Anything"
A really amazing episode gets Lily and Olivia chatting about trust, vulnerability, and foreign-language love confessions.
episodes.ghost.io
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In this week's Heated Rivalry recap, @lilywrites.bsky.social and @oliviaawood.bsky.social gab about a fantastic episode with, like, eight different Big Special Moments in it
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voice on tape: HELLO DIPSHIT
you: oh no. i got captured by Mean Jigsaw
voice: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME. OR ARE YOU TOO BUSY BEING POOR
you: Mean Jigsaw stop
you: oh no. i got captured by Mean Jigsaw
voice: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME. OR ARE YOU TOO BUSY BEING POOR
you: Mean Jigsaw stop
February 10, 2026 at 12:03 AM
voice on tape: HELLO DIPSHIT
you: oh no. i got captured by Mean Jigsaw
voice: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME. OR ARE YOU TOO BUSY BEING POOR
you: Mean Jigsaw stop
you: oh no. i got captured by Mean Jigsaw
voice: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME. OR ARE YOU TOO BUSY BEING POOR
you: Mean Jigsaw stop
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
what are some good "beginner sports" to start watching? preferably women's sports. i live in minnesota so probably the wnba right?
I am typically not a "sports person" but I am not immune to the charm of a curling team where they're both named Corey
February 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
what are some good "beginner sports" to start watching? preferably women's sports. i live in minnesota so probably the wnba right?
I am typically not a "sports person" but I am not immune to the charm of a curling team where they're both named Corey
February 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I am typically not a "sports person" but I am not immune to the charm of a curling team where they're both named Corey
i need more people to actually read infinite jest so that more people can make infinite jest memes
February 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
i need more people to actually read infinite jest so that more people can make infinite jest memes
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In this week's Monday Rundown: This week: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and the epic highs and lows of horror cinema.
Episodes Monday Rundown February 2–8 2026
This week: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and the epic highs and lows of horror cinema.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
In this week's Monday Rundown: This week: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and the epic highs and lows of horror cinema.
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it's amazing how often i'll see someone post something kind of wild on here and then find out they spend 40% of their waking hours "talking" to a large language model
February 8, 2026 at 2:10 AM
it's amazing how often i'll see someone post something kind of wild on here and then find out they spend 40% of their waking hours "talking" to a large language model
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Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:
You Know, You Can Just Say "Patriarchy"
These analyses of the Epstein case are... missing something.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files: