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Schoolhouse Rock!: The Official Guide | Tom Yohe, George Newall

I have had this on loop all day. 250 years later, and we're still fighting this. Thanks to all who went out there today to fight the good fight. I got blindsided with a hellacious cold and didn't want to spread my germs, but I've been there in spirit. #resist 💙✊🏻♥️

If you've never seen Schoolhouse Rock, especially this one, it's worth 3 minutes of your time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo

Ruthiella ✊✊✊ 2d

TheBookHippie Feel better!!!! 2d

ChaoticMissAdventures I live in Portland Oregon so we are pretty learned in the protest ways. I was Bail Friend today. Meaning I hang out, all my friends have my number written on their arm and if they get arrested or sent to hospital I am in charge of organizing their release. We rotate Bail Friend duties. It has been a quiet day and all my people are done for the day so that feels good. 2d

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Aims42 Hope you feel better! Yeah, 250 years later and we‘re back to this 🙄 2d

Graciouswarriorprincess Sending hugs! Hope that you feel better soon! I was there today protesting! 2d

Leftcoastzen There is a terrible cold going around. My letter carrier had it . He kept thinking he had COVID, but tested negative 3 times. His lasted nearly a week 2d

Deblovestoread Feel better! We had good weather, larger crowd, lots of honking and some fantastic clever signs. 💙✊🏼💙 2d

dabbe @Ruthiella ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2d

dabbe @TheBookHippie How the hell do you get a cold when it's 100+ degrees outside? 🤔🤣 2d

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures What a stellar idea! I've never heard of that before! Glad all your peeps are safe. ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2d

dabbe @Aims42 TY! When will we learn? 😳 2d

dabbe @Graciouswarriorprincess Yay you! I hope all went well and that everyone is safe. ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2d

dabbe @Leftcoastzen #ruhroh You know, I didn't even think of testing to see if it's Covid. I wonder if my kits have expired. 🤔 2d

dabbe @Deblovestoread TY! You people in Oregon ROCK! ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2d

Graciouswarriorprincess @dabbe Yes. We stayed safe and it was peaceful protesting. 2d

Ruthiella @Deblovestoread The signs are the best. Such great reading this afternoon. One of my favorites was History: “Don‘t make me repeat myself”. 2d

melissajayne The photos I saw from the various rallies looked amazing, meanwhile turnout for Donnie‘s party was in the toilet 2d

TheBookHippie @dabbe S T R E S S … 2d

dabbe @Graciouswarriorprincess Yay! 💙♥️💙 2d

dabbe @Ruthiella @Deblovestoread My favorite was “The only good orange monarch is a butterfly.“ 🦋 (which there was a monarch emoji!) 2d

dabbe @TheBookHippie I have no reason to be stressed; I'm retired! 🤣 Yet ... 2d

TheBookHippie @dabbe your immune system sees stress and lessens and thus ….a cold. 2d

TheBookHippie @dabbe 🤦🏻‍♀️😵‍💫🫣👀🤷🏻‍♀️ 2d

dabbe @TheBookHippie 😘 2d

dabbe @TheBookHippie You hate Schoolhouse Rock? 😲 2d

TheBookHippie @dabbe no -colds. 2d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Whew! 😅 2d

IMASLOWREADER feel better 2d

AnnCrystal Best that you stayed home and rest. Hope you feel better soon 🙏🏼💝. 2d

dabbe @IMASLOWREADER TY! 😍 2d

dabbe @AnnCrystal TY! 😍 2d

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JenlovesJT47

James Dean: The Biography | Val Holley

I love Old Hollywood and especially James Dean. Came across this gorgeous pic of him and what can I say, he inspired me. 😬

Beautiful dreamer —
a misunderstood rebel
who left us too soon.

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #OldHollywood #JamesDean

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheSpineView @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Eggs @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader 4d

Itchyfeetreader 😍😍😍 4d

AnnCrystal Much too soon 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🤩🎬🐝💝. 4d

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TheSpineView ❤️🎬💛🐝💛 4d

bellabella 💛 🐝 💛 👏 👍 4d

Eggs Tragic - like so many others, so much promise and gone too soon 4d

lil1inblue 😍 😍 😍 4d

dabbe You caught his essence with your words. 🖤🐝🖤 4d

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uncommonlycozies

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist | Liz Pelly

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Pelly untangles how most music discovery gets nudged by invisible hands – makes you wonder what‘s shaping your next #bookish obsession. It‘s like #truecrime without the serial killers, talking about algorithmic influence in a tech driven investigation. 🧐
It takes a little extra concentration to adsorb.

#tunestuesday #popculture #bibliophile #2025
#librarybooks #uncommon #nonfiction

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ICantImReading

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music | Rob Sheffield

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This was a fun and quick read that touches on the impact of Taylor Swift‘s music (so far) on a micro and macro level. It kind of jumps all around and I didn‘t always fully agree with the author‘s song interpretations/opinions (although that‘s the beauty of art). I did also learn some new things. It was especially satisfying to listen to this in celebration of Taylor gaining ownership of all of her masters! 🎧

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Robotswithpersonality

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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Has English come up with any secular equivalents for the phrase 'preaching to the choir/converted?' It's the strongest feeling I had while reading this: I'm glad it exists, I'm not sure I needed to read it.
I will say, I was not familiar with all examples of media (film/television) discussed, but the author did a great job of summarizing each such that I never felt like I was unable to follow the thread - 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? why that example was provided for the trope being discussed.
I like that there was an evolution tracked in each chapter, the history of the trope/stereotype in Hollywood, edging into pop culture and society, how it has evolved, hopefully with a more nuanced approach, how various journalism/scholarship has started to examine each of these archetypes, though there are examples throughout history of savvy women aware of these roles, 4w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? their possibilities and pitfalls, how the types mostly emerge from misogynistic/patriarchal thinking and can reinforce negative views, and how they may be subverted.
Some repeating themes:
How these types have been part of internalized misogyny, pitting women against other women, against female characters, how the type in fiction bleeds out and can be indiscriminately used to tarnish the actress/celebrity associated with a role. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? So, so many examples of the double standard, behaviour in male characters praised, while similar behaviour in female characters lines them up for a negative label, (though there are moments where actresses gain critical acclaim, where the character is loved for her unconventionality, where maybe the absolute of 'men this, women that' is blurred); 4w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? acknowledgement of the further reductive stereotypes applying to women of colour, how even within the range of juicy unlikeable roles that may be controversial or may be award fodder, it's historically only been available to white women who fit a narrow beauty standard; reclamation of some terms but not others, author is not alone in having a complicated relationship with some of the words used. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? I do feel a little like the message is already out there, though obviously, quoted short form journalism vs a book may reach different audiences, and just because I feel it's acknowledged fact doesn't mean there isn't a large swath of the population the author knows is unaware and needs to be schooled. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 I think most of all Bogutskaya had a great time discussing female characters from film and television that were formative in their portrayals, if not completely unproblematic, and in many cases need a second glance because they may have been overlooked/unfairly maligned when first seen on screen.
⚠️SA, misogyny 4w

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Robotswithpersonality

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

“We can't avoid being influenced by the stories we see onscreen, but we also have the power to influence the stories that are made.“

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Robotswithpersonality

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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GingerAntics

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television | Thea Glassman

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This felt like 6 shows that had adults playing teens, and 1 that actually cast teens. After Fresh Prince, So-Called, and Dawson‘s, it felt like the book deteriorated into ways show business is horrible to people - people in show business, fans, and people in general - and how that was expressed in the next four shows.
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GingerAntics There was a lot of “no one had ever done this before,” but she said the exact same thing about the show before it when it did pretty much the same thing. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2mo

GingerAntics Maybe I‘m not the target audience? I grew up watching Fresh Prince and Dawson‘s Creek. The rest of the shows I never watched and hadn‘t even heard of some of them. I have seen some episodes of Friday Night Lights, but everyone I knew who watched that show was a middle aged woman, so I never saw it as a teen show. When I asked these fans now, they were all baffled that anyone would call it a teen show. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2mo

GingerAntics “It had teens in it, but it wasn‘t specifically aimed at teens. It was a family show maybe” was the general consensus. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2mo

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GingerAntics If Glassman was trying to bring new fans to these shows, she utterly failed. At first, I thought I‘d check out the shows I hadn‘t seen before, but that quickly deteriorated. I do want to check out My So-Called Life. Hearing about the crappy way Apatow treated the Freaks and Geeks cast, I‘m not about to support that. Five minutes into the discussion of The OC the creators were quoted as saying “too Jewish” twice. Nope. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2mo

GingerAntics Then it turned out the directors and crew talked crap about the actors behind their backs. Double hope. I was actually really excited to watch Glee. I knew several fans when it was on the air, and I just didn‘t watch it for whatever reason. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2mo

GingerAntics Then she talked about the writer/creator of Glee venting his own body shaming, homophobia, racism, and general bad humanity through the characters - making actors say and do horrible things to each other for his own joy? Hard pass. 2mo

GingerAntics #TheaGlassMan #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #TeenTV #unpopularopinion 2mo

TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 I‘ve watched zero of these shows 👵🏼 I did see a few Fresh Prince episodes 🤷🏻‍♀️but that‘s it. 2mo

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I'm intrigued because I've watched 5 of the 7 (not Glee nor FNL), but not sure if care enough about them to read behind the scenes drama. 15 years ago, sure. Today? Meh. If you can watch My So-Called Life, I'd suggest that one of the bunch. One short season, a 90s time capsule, and pretty Jared Leto if you're into that. 2mo

GingerAntics @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick yeah, it‘s less BTS and more (supposed) cultural importance. There is a bit of BTS type stuff. I don‘t think I would have gotten through the whole book if it was just BTS stuff. My favourite to hear about, honestly, was Fresh Prince. lol 2mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie lol that‘s fair… this was pretty niche watching, so if you didn‘t have someone in the right age group who actually watched these shows, you‘d really have no reason on to watch them. This was definitely a millennial anthem in a sense. Glee probably did have some gen Z and Fresh Prince had some younger gen X, mostly millennial shows. 2mo

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I find it interesting my childhood shows still run 😂 I mostly watched old movies with my grandma and I‘m so grateful. I watched Gilmore Girls with my daughter, Fraiser with Mr BookHippie- but we mostly watched VHS BLOCKBUSTER 😂 I worked more than two jobs 14-40 so not much TV for me 🙃 2mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie yeah, long work hours do make it hard to do much outside of work. Gilmore Girls was a brilliant show. I really love that show! VHS Blockbuster seriously brings back memories. lol 2mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I feel like Gilmore Girls would have made a better teen show than some of the nonsense that was listed in this book. Maybe more men need to get comfortable with that show, because seriously that is a show full of powerful women and girls! 2mo

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GingerAntics

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television | Thea Glassman

Perhaps Glassman should have called ANY Celtic Thunder fan, ANY Damian McGinty fan, ANYone involved in creating Celtic Thunder or literally ANYone in all of Ireland. It‘s really bad when you mispronounce the name of an internationally famous band. Just saying. This ain‘t Boston where they are so disconnected from the Irish Celtic roots they think a C sounds like an S. 🤦🏼‍♀️
#TheaGlassman #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #CelticThunder

GingerAntics Never mind the multiple Celtic Thunder DVDs where they are literally introduced correctly as Celtic Thunder. Oh my god, I liked this book, but now I‘m questioning my feelings. 2mo

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