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Every now and then I think "maybe I'm not actually queer" and then present-day Robin Weigert happens to me

Here is a thing about me:

If you are my friend I am going to try to cook you dinner and/or make you a cocktail and I am great at both

This is a hilarious mistranslation actually. I suspect it originally said something along the lines of “Impregnerad mot vatten”, i.e. “Water proof”.

Impregnering is the process of making a material resistant to water/heat. The swedish word for water (vatten) is similar to the word for goblin (vätten) so I guess there was a mixup.

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GOBLIN-PROOF

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The mice are having a picnic :)

Felt so tender for Marty Moss-Coane this morning as she was interviewing Professor Michael E. Mann, author of The New Climate War, who was listing the ways that people resist acting to reverse climate change — “from denial to despair, delay, distraction, deflection…”

And she murmured softly into the mic:

“Lotta D’s”

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Another morning, another old-ass white man abortion clinic protester meekly telling me “thou shall not murder, ma’am”

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ooh he got sassy only when I left, and called after me, “bye, baby-killer”

Another morning, another old-ass white man abortion clinic protester meekly telling me “thou shall not murder, ma’am”

Today I said "avocado" when I meant "Oklahoma" and then later "sauce" when I meant "tea." Anyway when I die of a stroke soon please know it was a pleasure to have met you

I am in an organic cotton track suit drinking Prosecco and watching a gay nun horror movie with my buds; my late thirties are All Right

Am I back here after a nearly five year hiatus after nearly ten years active? WHO KNOWS the world is ending hi friends

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All I really need to say:

In canceling Milo’s book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision when they decided to publish that man in the first place. When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized it would cost them more money to do business with Milo than he could earn for them. They did not finally “do the right thing” and now we know where their threshold, pun intended, lies. They were fine with his racist and xenophobic and sexist ideologies. They were fine with his transphobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They were fine with how he encourages his followers to harass women and people of color and transgender people online. Let me assure you, as someone who endured a bit of that harassment, it is breathtaking in its scope, intensity, and cruelty but hey, we must protect the freedom of speech. Certainly, Simon & Schuster was not alone in what they were willing to tolerate. A great many people were perfectly comfortable with the targets of Milo’s hateful attention until that attention hit too close to home.

Because I’ve been asked, I will not be publishing my book with Simon & Schuster now that they have dropped Milo. After I pulled my book, they changed the release date of Dangerous from March to June 13, the day my next book, Hunger, comes out. I said nothing because I was neither threatened nor concerned but it did reinforce for me that this was not a company I wanted to do business with. My protest stands. Simon & Schuster should have never enabled Milo in the first place. I see what they are willing to tolerate and I stand against all of it. Also, I’ve received far better offers for How to Be Heard from other publishers.

There are some who will spin the cancellation of this book contract as a failure of the freedom of speech but such is not the case. This is yet another example of how we are afforded the freedom of speech but there is no freedom from the consequences of what we say.

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Coming back to Tumblr for the first time in months just to say: thank you for this, all of this, Roxane Gay.

Reel Talk Q3, haiku edition

Dumb haiku about the movies I’ve watched in the past three months.

Find Q1′s haiku here, and Q2′s haiku here.

Q3

Tickled

Endurance tickling Doc. Political thriller. Buckle up, kiddos.

Finders Keepers

Just a partially Mummified foot and the men Who both claim it’s theirs.

My Friend Rockefeller

Hard to vilify A dude who mostly preyed on The most pretentious.

The Lobster

A stomach-churning Look at the way we lie to Ourselves about love.

Ghostbusters

Gonna need BAE Kate McKinnon to star in an Action film, keep winking.

10 Cloverfield Lane

A good reminder: Trauma survival does not Mean heroism.

The Meddler

Self-delusion, lack Of boundaries, and the dire Need to feel needed.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

“Put on something dumb,” I told my spouse; “I’m knitting. I don’t really care.”

Man Up

The two leads’ charm Helped me overlook the mild Sociopathy.

Interview With The Vampire

The perfect ‘90s Homoeroticism. How had I missed this?

[bonus haiku:]

(Slater, Cruise, and Pitt All sound like the names of gay Bars. It’s just perfect.)

Demon

Terrifying look At how we ignore our past, Perform a new one.

Other People

Death is not the end For the bereaved; it urges Us to love smarter.

The Lovers and the Despot

Thankful not to be Cool enough to be kidnapped By a dictator.

#reel talk 2016

What I Read in August and September 2016

Ten novels, one collection of short stories, two collections of personal essays, one food/culture journal, one phenomenally fierce poetry manuscript, one memoiristic work of fiction told in diary entries and comics, one handbook to officiating weddings (it kind of helped!), and Sylvia Plath’s children’s book.

Titles:

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit by Sylvia Plath

By the Power Vested in You: How to Officiate a Wedding, a Guide for Ordained Ministers

The Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob

A Bestiary by Lily Hoang

Lucky Peach, Vol. 20: Fine Dining

She Came From Beyond! by Nadine Darling