JP Larocque
@jplarocque.bsky.social
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Screenwriter & Producer (Sort Of, Allegiance, North of North, Small Achievable Goals, SkyMed, Coroner, Slasher, Jann, Diggstown, Another Life, Popularity Papers, Home Sweet Rome). Sometimes journo. they/them
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Me: I feel an incredible sense of dread hanging over everything. This isn't good. Something bad is coming.

Me, twenty minutes later: Oh, shit. I've only had a protein bar today!
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Who knew the power of telling people that being kind is heroic and that family and identity are choices we can make?
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Reading the comments on YouTube videos from James Gunn's Superman and the stories of adopted kids and adults crying through the final scene and NOW I'M CRYING.
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I get fed a lot of ads re Ontario place (Ontario taxpayer $). I hadn’t seen this rendering of the amphitheater before. Wild - a total rebuild? Note the spa doesn’t exist in background. Anyway, bookmark this image.
Rendering of new sleek amphitheater
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Didn’t read it as such! Totally okay to disagree on things like this. 🙂
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Again, I’m not crapping on Swift — she’s talented and people like her. I do take issue when she presents herself as something that she isn’t, and when a fandom doggedly rejects any kind of criticism of an artist. And I also don’t view sales figures as an indicator of artistry.
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Business acumen is apparent in spectacle. It’s collector’s editions of albums. It’s friendship bracelets evoking childhood. Some songs are catchy, but it’s the experience — a theme park ride.

And an artist’s legacy extends beyond fans. I don’t have to like The Beatles to understand their legacy.
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Neither of these things are bad. And Taylor Swift is absolutely the defining star of our time. She’s a billionaire who evokes childish nostalgia through the lens of capitalism.
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Whether you like her or hate her, there are two truths about Taylor Swift:

1) She was never the artsy drama kid or the misunderstood outcast. She is and always was the rich popular girl.

2) Her defining legacy as an artist isn’t her music but her business acumen. Period.
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Whether you like her or hate her, there are two truths about Taylor Swift:

1) She was never the artsy drama kid or the misunderstood outcast. She is and always was the rich popular girl.

2) Her defining legacy as an artist isn’t her music but her business acumen. Period.
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The coolest thing about the Immortalverse vampires is that they all have these incredible manicures after they get turned. Between that and the blue contacts, I’m pretty sure I made out with one of the undead at Woody’s in 2004.
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I’m absolutely an autumn, but cosplayed as a summer this year and I gotta say — Toronto is truly a top-tier city from May to October.
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I’m absolutely an autumn, but cosplayed as a summer this year and I gotta say — Toronto is truly a top-tier city from May to October.
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Sometimes I try to act tough but then remember that I literally followed a hummingbird into a bad area of Vancouver and had to text a friend to help me find my way home.
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I know it's easy to rip on stuff you don't personally like/get, but most of life is misery these days and if someone has a better day because of the new Taylor Swift album, I say go for it.
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I just looked! Everyone is going to be horny again!
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Horny Toronto
(May 10th, 2025 - October 1st, 2025)
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There's always that first day of autumn that sorta throws an ice bucket on the horniness of Toronto, and I'd argue that day this year was October 1st.
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Late to the party on this (like two-years late) but finally watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. Delightfully surprised by how they revisited the film while interrogating some of its more odious parts and giving the excellent supporting cast more to do.
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Once upon a time, Twitter really could be very good.
screenshot of a Twitter conversation:

Margaret Atwood: Thank you but what is a baller? 
Liz Shannon Miller: Gonna tag @TheRock in here.
Dwayne Johnson: Why thank you Liz. 
*ahem 
*raises eyebrow and smolders (which in some cases may look like constipation) 
That’s a baller.
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Buckingham Nicks! We're partying like it's 1973 tonight.
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Whole new world, Christopher
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If you’re my real friend, you’ll buy me this Young Richard Dreyfus in Jaws action figure. The perfect man —a dreamboat, my husband. I was born in the wrong time.
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If you’re my real friend, you’ll buy me this Young Richard Dreyfus in Jaws action figure. The perfect man —a dreamboat, my husband. I was born in the wrong time.