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Chiara Codecà retweeted
The success of RWRB has been pivotal in proving that joyful queer projects with happy endings ARE commercially viable. You don't have to like it, but actively shitting on it for a hit tweet is shortsighted and won't help the queer media you DO like in the way you think it will.
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Chiara Codecà retweeted
I can’t explain it but Lord of the Rings (specifically Fellowship) is a Christmas movie.
Chiara Codecà retweeted
That teenagers now resist getting their licenses is wild to me. We were GONE. School, jobs, friends’ houses, shopping, stopping somewhere on the way home …no one was keeping tabs/tracking us.
Chiara Codecà retweeted
I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-)
Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!
Chiara Codecà retweeted
WELL DONE, PENGUIN! 👏
ALT Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training / The copyright page on new books and reprints now says they can’t be used or reproduced ‘for the purpose of training artificial intelligence.’
Chiara Codecà retweeted
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
Ursula K. Le Guin, born 95 years ago today, on the magic of real human communication: themarginalian.org/2015/10/2…
Chiara Codecà retweeted
“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, who would have been 95 today, on storytelling and the power of language to transform our experience themarginalian.org/2018/01/3…
Chiara Codecà retweeted
On his 89th birthday, celebrate the wholesome beauty of Jerry Orbach and Angela Lansbury recording Be Our Guest.
Chiara Codecà retweeted
"Somewhere along the way, publishing has convinced itself that it doesn’t know how to market books for teens, particularly teen boys."
Read more 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/ha…
Chiara Codecà retweeted
On the back of this thread, I got the opportunity to write about the desperate lack of books for teen boys in @thebookseller. Massive thanks to @mollyflatt for letting me write on an issue I'm hugely passionate about. Link: tinyurl.com/3mwnrczs
Chiara Codecà retweeted
133 years later, literary and pop-culture tourists unite at the @DickinsonMuseum.
Ever since @Dickinson debuted on Apple TV+, fans have flocked to her home. @atlasobscura profiles the museum, its history and the poet's pop-culture moment. bit.ly/4dWsVho
Chiara Codecà retweeted
“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016. nyer.cm/z2vqSUr
Chiara Codecà retweeted
Lots of purchases over the weekend. @questingvole book was a must. Very excited to dive in. I am SO SO excited and happy for @chrishaughton too - I am been chomping at the bit to read his History of Information. Congratulations both - a really excited and happy reader here
Chiara Codecà retweeted
The reason your brain associates them this way is because of the artwork of Alan Lee and John Howe for Tolkien’s writing. It’s easy to see why they chose these styles.
They also worked on designs for the Jackson LOTR trilogy. Hence why we all just seem to “know” which is which.
Chiara Codecà retweeted
The light rain really emphasising the autumn colour in the Cader Idris Nature Reserve,Snowdonia, a couple of weeks back.
ALT The light rain really emphasising the autumn colour in the Cader Idris Nature Reserve, Snowdonia a couple of weeks back.
Chiara Codecà retweeted
This is these guys in a nutshell. It's a shot-for-shot remake of the original trailer... except it's not even a good copy. It's not just that there is not a single original idea in there, they aren't even aware that they have taken out all the substance. (A li'l thread.)
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