😍 (and also that pattern is now permanently linked with zevin's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow in my mind)

my most serious novel yet 😔😂

i was so ignorant 🙏

you will NOT regret it!!

every time she walked on screen my husband and i would both shout LEGS!!! 😂

like look, i am always down for a sexy heist mob situation. but then you give me a woman with a pickup truck and a dirty white tanktop??? and a nice little thesis about sex work, survival, and the necessity of queer solidarity??? oh let's go

i didn't know til i read about it afterwards!!!

amongst everything else, what a wholesome message about sex work as labor, and class solidarity??

it's lots of them but in this case it's mary balogh's A Summer to Remember 😂

lately I've been doing heavily edited versions for my 9yo, too, who doesn't understand in an entirely different and funnier way. "well i still think she should marry the guy with the scar. scars are sick" fair!!

he's right, actually

oh no, not at ALL!! the more profound their derangement the more appealing their arc, in my culture 😂

a quarter!! that's just an excuse, frankly 😂

sometimes the conventions of the genre are simply unconvincing, to an outsider. "wait it's just a cold? why can't she go home??" "i guess i just think two people can share a bed, in an emergency, and not have sex" "if i ever challenged someone to a duel i think you would kill me first"

a perfect choice, obviously

"if he isn't willing to give up his title i'm just not sure he deserves her." so true, so true

haahaha it has only become MORE true 😂

i just think it would be neat if we made policy based on data and best practices, prioritizing the well-being of our kids, rather than whatever seems easiest and most familiar to admins :)

and yet my local school board acted like it was in bad taste even to bring it up! in 2025!!