Laura Crone
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- I don't know if this script is going anywhere but this is in fact the best fragment I've ever written
- I love the Bible because it's obviously a pivotal religious text rich with a lot of meaning that people have been fighting over for 2,000 years but it's also just literal letters that literal human doofuses sent to each other
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- Truly who among us does not need our cloak back!
- Look if you ask me Best Original Song 2026 is no less than a battle for the soul of the movie musical
- This is what I'm saying, this category simply is not prepared for this year!! bsky.app/profile/gliz...
- Musical v. musical, is the BEST SONG the one that whips on the radio but exists in context to get cut off repeatedly and be disappointing, or the one that whips in context but is a little tough to parse in isolation? This is a genuinely fascinating question and I hope we get to actually ask it!
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- Yes this AND I think Wicked is only in the conversation by default!
- I cannot fucking believe Sarah J. Maas made me sit through TWO BOOKS of terminally straight couples fretting about what to get each other for Christmas before FINALLY giving me a DEATH TOURNAMENT?!?! I honestly cannot tell whether I'm more angry or delighted.
- (yes technically the terminally straight Christmas shenanigans are only like 5-10% of the second book in which they appear but that's still TWICE IN A ROW which is like one and three quarters too many times!!!)
- If I had a nickel for every romantasy series I've read where one of the second heroine's defining characteristics is that she reads romantasy, I'd have two nickels, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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- Ooh that's super interesting! I could totally see this being a thing if there were more low/urban/parallel world romantasy but since most of it's more high/epic I think it's closer to the rom com heroine who blows off steam by reading rom coms in the bathtub without realizing that she's in one.
- (Is it weird that this happened twice? People who have read more of this than I have, please weigh in.)
- Many things suck but it is very cool to be acting again
- Here is a thread of some books I read in 2025 that were very good. No specific number, no ranking, just things I read that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to a person who's interested in them, in approximately the order I read them.
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View full thread(This was my BOTM Lolly pick easy but unfortunately the consensus on the app is that this is a failed Blake Crouch novel, which is so incredibly sad for them I just want to stroke some bitches' jawlines and ask who hurt them)
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makai. A dual timeline story about the AIDS crisis in Chicago and its aftermath for the people who survived. Really drives home how the government actually decided the penalty for normal human missteps should be death. This took me a long time to read (complimentary).
- We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad.
- Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel. A quantum physicist is recruited as the guinea pig for a breakthrough in the field of time travel and both his current wife and his ex, the mother of his child who died tragically young, get their lives torn up over it. A melancholy love story for adults. I loved it.
- Mona Acts Out by Mischa Berlinski. An acclaimed Shakespearean actress slated to play Cleopatra walks out of her home on Thanksgiving Day and grapples with the legendary director who "made her" being ousted from the company he founded over credible allegations of sexual assault.
- I have ooks about the ending! And the author's note that follows! They are significant! But the journey was a worthwhile good time. If you, like me, love Slings and Arrows but have kind of a hard time with the gender of it all these days, I think you'll appreciate a lot of what's happening here.
- King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby. An Atlanta hotshot returns to his small Virginia hometown following a tragic gang-related accident and is absolutely convinced it'll be easy to use his above board business skills to fix things. He is wrong. This whips SO FUCKING HARD.
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I don't know what to tell you, Zadie Smith is a legend and I can only apologize to myself for taking this long to finally read anything of hers and I can't wait to read more.
- The War of the Roses by Warren Adler. This is a straight-up horror movie. It is a WILD ride. It's terrible to watch and I couldn't look away. Neither film adaptation gets anywhere close to this level of sheer "what the FUCK."
- Woodworking by Emily St. James. I have absolutely nothing in words to add to the experience of reading this book but I loved it very, very much.
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent. Of the trendy romantasy books I've read for research, this series is by far the most effective execution of the structure I've seen and it's a super fun time. Also I'm a sucker for a death tournament.
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. I don't know where you've been if you need me to tell you this book owns. Speaking as a huge fan of Jones' work, I think this is a really accessible starting point and it's not at all surprising that it's escaped containment. The hype is DESERVED.
- The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. The island of misfit toys of the round table have to figure out what to do in the wake of Arthur's death. A slow burn, character-driven adventure story with a diverse cast, some of the best written sword fights I've ever read, and solidarity with *gestures broadly*
- The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune. A scandalized DC reporter retreats to his family's cabin and finds it occupied by a young girl named Artemis Darth Vader and the hunky guy helping her hide from the government. Romantic, edge-of-your-seat, thrilling, structurally pretty weird (complimentary).
- Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. A college-age single mother starts an Only Fans with guidance from her previously estranged professional wrestler father who is now her roommate and the grandfather who stepped up. Fun, messy, loveable people and constant hijinks!
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- I've described him as kind of the heir to Crichton in this way. Very fun if you enjoy the pure thought experiment of "here's an impossible scientific problem" (me!) and ripe for adaptations that breathe more life into the characters, but yeah, there's a reason no one really cared about Artemis.
- Stranger Things finale really triggering my "everyone but me is wrong about why this is bad" impulse (spoilers in thread)
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- I cannot speak to DnD specifically but from my uninformed position this feels spiritually true.
- ...and ending THAT SEASON with Joyce just anticlimactically beheading the monster while everyone has flashbacks about how much he deserves it is my Iron Giant used as a war machine in Ready Player One. Fuck's sake.
- WHERE IS MY SECRET THIRD THING? WHERE IS MY DEEPER MAGIC FROM BEFORE THE DAWN OF TIME? WHERE IS LITERALLY ANYTHING OTHER THAN "HERE'S THE PLAN," "COOL WE EXECUTED THE PLAN?" It's boring! I'm sad about it!
- We get a whole backstory for how Henry got this way and he goes "yeah, I know, I like it that way and I don't want to change" and everyone's just kind of... OK with that? We just go back to trying to kill him? In the show about the power of love and friendship???
- Building a season of Stranger Things, a show which has time and again been about how love is more powerful than anger, around A Wrinkle in Time, a story where the monster's power is specifically overcome by stopping the fight and instead loving as hard as humanly possible...
- Last 40 minutes? Fine! Last 10-20? Solid gold! Just not REMOTELY earned by what came before!
- You're telling me you spent all of 5 setting up how this villain has been behind EVERYTHING, THE WHOLE SHOW, and the way we defeat him is... to come up with a plan that basically just straightforwardly happens, leading up to a battle scene that's not even top 5 battle scenes in the show? WEAK!!!
- Important, I'm not someone who thinks the show's been getting worse! 4 is probably my favorite season and I know that's an unpopular opinion but if there was a person set up to love this it was me!
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- Literally I finished January at close to a dozen and was like "oh. Oh no."
- Richard Linklater does not understand wine moms, but I DO! An Entirely Unhinged Roast of Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019), up now: YouTube: youtu.be/YiUcgq5G-UQ Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/laura...
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- Says the guy who's been releasing a video a week for the entire year!!! (And I am a BRAKEBILLS GRADUATE thank you very much)
- Nobody is allowed to ask me why this is the thing I was able to get done this year, I'm just as clueless as you.
- I swear I did not intentionally make my stack of post deadline blowing off steam/Christmas vacation fun library holds this full of vampires it just happened
- (currently within the last hundred pages of We Who Will Die and wouldn't really recommend it unfortunately!)
- (loved the Crowns of Nyaxia I've read so far so I've been saving Songbird for this trip, thought Slaying the Vampire Conqueror was a novella but I'm rolling with it, and I adored Rachel Koller Craft's debut so We Love The Nightlife has been on my TBR for a while and was calling to me, bruh, idk)
- It's almost pointless to say at this point but truly I am baffled by the way that YouTube's caption editor seems to get worse every time I use it. And now I can't even be truly mad at it because well, at least it GAVE me captions instead of sitting in processing hell for multiple weeks!
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- I'mma take a wild guess that they consistently Can Fix Him with God's help (+ finish your drink any time the dynamic between the heroine and Jesus gets weirdly sexual)
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- (to the movie too, presumably! Impossible to say at this stage! But not knowing what was coming was a REALLY cool part of the reading experience and I hope that's preserved in adaptation to some extent even if the marketing has kinda jettisoned it.)
