Kathryn VanArendonk

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Kathryn VanArendonk

@kvanaren.bsky.social

critic @vulture
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that is a real issue with this book, I will grant you that
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i love this scene so much of course and yet somehow have never thought of it as me!! dang
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somehow i have never consciously thought of that scene as aspirational before but ... wow, yes
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"wow, you, kathryn, loved a new lev grossman novel? a king arthur fantasy about the way our imagined ideas of people and places create those things regardless of physical reality, a wide-arms inclusive sponge of all the arthurian stories for centuries that also subverts them?" i know SHOCKING NEWS
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honestly I don’t mind some overages here and there! but I simply cannot accept episodes that do not at least hit this lower end quota
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every episode of slow horses should have between 45 and 150 seconds of jack lowden absolutely fucking booking it down an alleyway; tunnels or open fields also acceptable
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i updated my computer and it shuffled a ton of random images that'd been lurking in piles on my desktop into a beautiful, visible, organized grid in order from oldest to newest and here is the very first one
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in a truly inevitable development, my children are obsessed with a 45 second song on Bluey that was written to be a song kids love and adults hate
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distracting myself from the news by dealing with kid bedtime, where 7yo just stared, resigned, at the shower and said “you know, I don’t think I’ve been properly dry in a long time”
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weirdo AI images have also made it into gardening influencer spambot pages
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it's the season of texting STOP to quit
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I swear to GOD: if your show has shapeshifters please just tell me!! I’m not mad, I’m *disappointed*
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also Anna Chancellor is in it! And Rob Brydon! they are good and funny! PLUS: people turn into bears. and hawks, and dogs. and there’s a crazed nun who, guess what, IS ALSO A SHAPESHIFTER
am seeing some confusion and continued bafflement so i just want to make sure to be very clear: my lady jane, the amazon prime show, is lady jane grey but also shapeshifters. it's a tudor animorphs show. hope this is helpful
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okay but this is bluesky, i know what shapeshifter reference is gonna play here
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truly cannot express what a miscalculation it is! by the end of episode one she is in a marriage of convenience to a guy she hates and also he's hot! episode two: HE'S ALSO SECRETLY A HORSE
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am seeing some confusion and continued bafflement so i just want to make sure to be very clear: my lady jane, the amazon prime show, is lady jane grey but also shapeshifters. it's a tudor animorphs show. hope this is helpful
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has seen our suitcases; is Not Pleased
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excellent, I will join you in crackpottery - I think the review says the dining room of the Bear is bad but the sandwich window is fantastic
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it totally works if they’re fake because it’s all about Sydney’s headspace! just go in and fix it with a lil edit and make them into the same anxiety flashes, The Bear (I am also not a crackpot)
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and also why anywhere would want to profile him at all?? unless there was a general agreement that the place was good?