Samantha Gianulis
@wordsthatgotaway.substack.com
part of the resistance | querying fiction 📚 magical realism, suspense & romance | writing for healing (trauma & recovery) over on wordsthatgotaway.substack.com | pittie mom | SoCal USA |
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I Was Never Crazy
an open letter to someone. (TW: SA, DV, institutionalization, child abuse)
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this piece I wrote is for anyone who’s ever saved to drafts, spent hours composing a text they never sent, has recurring dreams abt vindication, wants to set the record straight & deep down knows only they can set themselves free #WriterThreads #writingcommunity #cPTSD #shadowwork
agreed! stop remaking films into subpar, made-for-thrills adaptations when artists are brimming with original ideas & eager to share their new takes on timeless stories with different plots, settings, and characters.
the thrill of something new > endless cash grab re-imaginings.
the thrill of something new > endless cash grab re-imaginings.
Honestly, nearly none? I'd rather see new ideas, in adaptation or originally written for the screen, than remakes. That said, if one must have remakes, I'd do the ones where the initial movie had a cool concept, not perfectly executed for whatever reason (time/money/effects/studio interference/etc).
Mind running with the last bit of that, O film critic turned novelist, and giving us your list of films you'd especially appreciate seeing remade?
December 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
agreed! stop remaking films into subpar, made-for-thrills adaptations when artists are brimming with original ideas & eager to share their new takes on timeless stories with different plots, settings, and characters.
the thrill of something new > endless cash grab re-imaginings.
the thrill of something new > endless cash grab re-imaginings.
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watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
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More Trump in the Epstein files, more Trump wanting his own name on massive, unneeded battleships, more Trump removing 30 ambassadors, more & more humans taken without due process…the grotesquerie of America’s mistake showcased day after day. So much work ahead to repair the damage.
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
More Trump in the Epstein files, more Trump wanting his own name on massive, unneeded battleships, more Trump removing 30 ambassadors, more & more humans taken without due process…the grotesquerie of America’s mistake showcased day after day. So much work ahead to repair the damage.
waking up to more of the biggest, sickest scandal and cover up of evil mother f’ers in US history
December 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
waking up to more of the biggest, sickest scandal and cover up of evil mother f’ers in US history
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So just to get this straight: 👇
Six months ago CBS paid Trump a $16 million bribe to get him to approve an $8 billion merger to allow David & Larry Ellison to effectively own Paramount, who then immediately made Bari Weiss head of CBS News so that she could kill damaging coverage about Trump. 😳
Six months ago CBS paid Trump a $16 million bribe to get him to approve an $8 billion merger to allow David & Larry Ellison to effectively own Paramount, who then immediately made Bari Weiss head of CBS News so that she could kill damaging coverage about Trump. 😳
December 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
So just to get this straight: 👇
Six months ago CBS paid Trump a $16 million bribe to get him to approve an $8 billion merger to allow David & Larry Ellison to effectively own Paramount, who then immediately made Bari Weiss head of CBS News so that she could kill damaging coverage about Trump. 😳
Six months ago CBS paid Trump a $16 million bribe to get him to approve an $8 billion merger to allow David & Larry Ellison to effectively own Paramount, who then immediately made Bari Weiss head of CBS News so that she could kill damaging coverage about Trump. 😳
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If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
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I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be
did anyone expect a different outcome? I wish I could take back every second I ever spent in church.
An ecclesiastical court in the Anglican Church in North America has acquitted a Chicago-area bishop who was accused of violating church laws by mishandling a sex abuse case and allowing men with troubling histories into his diocese.
After secret church trial, Illinois N. American Anglican bishop acquitted
Bishop Stewart Ruch III in the Anglican Church in North America was acquitted in an ecclesiastical trial.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
did anyone expect a different outcome? I wish I could take back every second I ever spent in church.
my dad and I have a complex relationship, but for the first time in ten years he remembered my birthday, despite his worsening dementia 🙂 I took him a pizza on my birthday. just because.
December 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
my dad and I have a complex relationship, but for the first time in ten years he remembered my birthday, despite his worsening dementia 🙂 I took him a pizza on my birthday. just because.
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#SanDiegoStateUniversity #SDSU administrators voting to enrich each other while raising student fees, as students need food assistance/live out of cars/classes are cut/prof's losing benefits, is DISGRACEFUL. #CSUChancellor is paid over a mil--a 66% INCREASE FROM 2020! #GREED IS RUINING EDUCATION.
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#SanDiegoStateUniversity #SDSU administrators voting to enrich each other while raising student fees, as students need food assistance/live out of cars/classes are cut/prof's losing benefits, is DISGRACEFUL. #CSUChancellor is paid over a mil--a 66% INCREASE FROM 2020! #GREED IS RUINING EDUCATION.
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The ghosts we really need this Christmas Eve
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The ghosts we really need this Christmas Eve
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Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale https://theonion.com/study-finds-processed-meats-carcinogenic-but-they-were-on-sale/
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale https://theonion.com/study-finds-processed-meats-carcinogenic-but-they-were-on-sale/
no one:
#SpotifyWrapped: you’re actually 66 years old because you listen to Joni Mitchell.
#SpotifyWrapped: you’re actually 66 years old because you listen to Joni Mitchell.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
no one:
#SpotifyWrapped: you’re actually 66 years old because you listen to Joni Mitchell.
#SpotifyWrapped: you’re actually 66 years old because you listen to Joni Mitchell.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Sexual assault survivors are seeing politicians and TV personalities fall over themselves trying to obfuscate the horror of what Epstein did. Turn cartwheels to protect his powerful cronies.
Imagine the message that sends to them.
Now imagine why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward.
Imagine the message that sends to them.
Now imagine why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sexual assault survivors are seeing politicians and TV personalities fall over themselves trying to obfuscate the horror of what Epstein did. Turn cartwheels to protect his powerful cronies.
Imagine the message that sends to them.
Now imagine why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward.
Imagine the message that sends to them.
Now imagine why sexual assault survivors don’t come forward.
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In other fabulous election results news, it seems giving a shit about your fellow human beings is a winning message. #TaxTheRich #FeedThePoor
coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...
coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...
Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps
Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students
coloradosun.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
In other fabulous election results news, it seems giving a shit about your fellow human beings is a winning message. #TaxTheRich #FeedThePoor
coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...
coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
if you used the song from the silence of the lambs movie (you know the one) in your reel and you’re not sure if people hate you for it, I promise, they do
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
if you used the song from the silence of the lambs movie (you know the one) in your reel and you’re not sure if people hate you for it, I promise, they do
I hope John Roberts is held accountable in my lifetime.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I hope John Roberts is held accountable in my lifetime.
for these agents, the only thing that could be better than brutalizing others is getting paid for it. fuck that and fuck them.
"One agent appeared to grab a woman’s phone as she recorded him. When she tried to retrieve her phone, he grabbed her by the hair, pulled her across the road and pushed her to the ground."
Happening in tiny Durango, CO today. www.durangoherald.com/articles/con...
Happening in tiny Durango, CO today. www.durangoherald.com/articles/con...
Federal agents use pepper spray, rubber bullets on Durango protesters
Organizers said they planned to remain peaceful while delaying ICE efforts to separate the family. Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Durango Police Department officers arrived to monitor the situation. The...
www.durangoherald.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
for these agents, the only thing that could be better than brutalizing others is getting paid for it. fuck that and fuck them.
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If you boycott elections, candidates logically ignore you and focus on the voters they can still get.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If you boycott elections, candidates logically ignore you and focus on the voters they can still get.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
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We invented programs like SNAP and ACA because we're supposed to be leaving a better world behind for the generations that follow us, not wielding poverty against the marginalized
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We invented programs like SNAP and ACA because we're supposed to be leaving a better world behind for the generations that follow us, not wielding poverty against the marginalized
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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.