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Rewatching #RogueOne in my post #Andor finale devastation & noticed Cassian’s last words are: “Your father would be proud of you” As he holds the sister he did find after all—from a certain point of view. No spoilers but given the last shot of #Andor I just started SOBBING

The problem with how good #Andor was is that it makes ANH hit a little different, even though it doesn’t mean any harm. Just…all that pain, slaughter, sacrifice, horror, the grueling, creditless work…then this barely-legal nepobaby shows up all “Tee hee I have a laser bat!”

When I was tiny, bc the clothes looked the same as Imperial uniforms to me, I thought the audience in this scene was Empire people who came to say they were sorry for being evil After #Andor, I’m not sure I was 100% wrong. Gotta be like 4 in there hoping no one calls on them…

Cancer is a horror story, and I’m very sorry for Joe Biden and his family.

The Childe greeted me at the top of the stairs this morning singing ESPRESSSSO MOMMIATO get it mom I’m being #estonia do you get it though? #eurovision

AMAZING how many words the right has to gin up, & how often they have to cycle them, to demonize "normal people who aren't hateful, rude, sadistic pieces of shit" just to push their pantomime of being Joe Main St, USA. We're on DEI/woke now, but it's been hippie, PC, SJW, CRT...

New #WIP excerpt up on Patreon! This month's got witches in it... patreon.com/posts/excerpt-…

I resent so thoroughly how much ChatGPT has made people recoil from the em dash EMILY DICKINSON AND ALSO I HAVE NOT LIVED AND FOUGHT IN VAIN THE ARTROOMBA ROBOTS WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM US

Those of us whose work was used to train LLMs should file a class-action custody suit as ChatGPT’s genetic parents I’m not kidding. Real Life Actual Court. We playing law games? Oh, ok, let’s play If corpos are people, I’m .01% that little shit’s Mom See you at pick-up, OpenAI

New Recipe up at Patreon! This month: Brown & Black "Mac & Cheese" A brown-butter, black garlic, & bold cheese pasta Thing I invented for my kid's WEIRDO PALATE. They INSISTED I tell "the internet" how to make it: patreon.com/posts/130350375

New Random Access Mind piece up on Patreon! This month: the best and most beautiful rose that ever was and also sublimating anxiety severely via gardening. patreon.com/posts/130374610

I just want you all to know I'm completely by myself in my own home right now. My child's with their other parent, my niece is at her sibling's graduation, my handy friend who was helping me rebuild my house is gone, it's juuuust me I do not remember the last time this happened

New essay up exclusively on Patreon! This month is inspired by and involves some mild spoilers for the conclusion of #Andor. A Tale of Two Gritties: Miracles, Survival, and Hope in "Serious" Stories patreon.com/posts/130379268

New essay up on Substack concerning #Biden's robot-clone cancer and the hot fucking mess of a media response. Had to pause the ongoing series to YELL ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS. catvalente.substack.com/p/i-am-joes-ag…

From my new piece on Biden’s cancer diagnosis, the media & online response, and what controlled opposition actually means… catvalente.substack.com/p/i-am-joes-ag…

Joseph Campbell said, “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning … a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and might be,” and I’m not kidding when I say this could change lives.

One of the more insidious ways in which technology kills creativity is by depriving people of time to be alone with their thoughts. You need hours of unstructured thinking. You need to be going for walks. You need time for solitude and silence.

If this No Tax On Tips thing passes, I’m insisting on a tip jar for every single short story I write and I will not hear one breath of bitching about it holy shit

Genuinely I think this is what the fuck is my problem lately. Brought to you by the internet and also men in my life

Come on, Elon. Say you stole it. Spill it all. You know you want to. So much attention. You can do it.