#RHEA RETWEETED THIS AND I???

[sistertonin]

jhea finally hit waffle house :]

[alwaysmamitime]

spot the difference (impossible)

[jelloapocalypse]

Hello! Super excited to announce that we're going to be hosting a TWO-DAY EVENT for Epithet Erased's five year anniversary.

(Yes, it's been five years. Isn't that insane?)

The even will be streamed LIVE on our usual livestream YouTube channel, JelloPlaysGames, at 3pm EST on November 16th and 17th.

The first stream (click here) is a Voice Actor Panel, similar to the Two-Loween event held on the original anniversary. We'll be reading original scripts out loud, looking at fan art, doing signings, and more, alongside several special announcements including a preview of the Giovanni Lullaby. Ooh~

The following guests will be on this stream:

Dani Chambers (Molly)

Kyle Igneczi (Giovanni)

Zack Maher (Sylvie)

Lindsay Sheppard (Mera)

Anthony Sardinha (Indus)

Sandra Espinoza (Percy)

William T. Sopp (Ramsey)

Dawn M. Bennett (Zora)

Justice Washington (Howie)

Jordan Dash Cruz (Howdy Morning the Bartender)

Tiana Camacho (Lorelai)

Oz Ryan (Trixie)

Bryn Apprill (Phoenica)

Ray Chase (Rick)

Meg McClain (Spike)

Rhea Burtram (Character Designer + Lead Artist)

Bo Hello (Book Illustrator)

If there's a hypothetical scene you've ever wanted to see between two or more characters, let us know! We'll be reading lots of little skits with every single voice actor participating at least once, and we need lots of ideas!

The second stream (click here) will start the following day, Sunday the 17th also at 3pm EST. This one focuses on the Epithet Erased TTRPG book. It's a long way from done, but we have hundreds of pages to preview!

I'll be going over the general rules, artwork, and spending a lot of time diving into the setting's lore and the intricacies of the example character sheets.

If you'd like to submit fan art for the cast and crew to look at during the stream, please send it to contact@epitheterasedonline.com

RULES FOR ART SUBMISSIONS:

PLEASE send the name you'd like to be credited as

Art does not have to be new, you can submit old stuff

You can send multiple pieces, but we only have so much time on stream, so send your favorites!

No NSFW

I won't share anything that could be seen as the creator endorsing a headcanon. That means no shipping art, no non-canonical pride flags, no Anime Campaign stuff. This is my rule when reblogging and retweeting, too. Even if I like it, I won't share it.

Please submit BEFORE the stream starts

We got 1000+ pieces last time we did an anniversary stream, so we cannot guarantee that your art will be showcased, but we'd love to see it in the email anyways!

[domysterio]

the judgment day since rhea has been gone:

finn: wants gold doesn't care about anything else. sneaky fella. may go feral at any moment.

jd: does whatever finn says. roasts dom on twitter instead of trying to help. awful friend 0/10

damian: I don't need you guys. Dom handle liv. i'm champ i'm the best i'm the leader i'm not doing anything other than my own shit. (he cannot even handle his own shit, only retains bc of TJD but can't see it or won't admit it)

dom: the only one trying to handle liv. constantly failing at it despite trying. he's being followed, harassed, stalked week after week. somehow gets blamed for everything. gets beat by his father on a weekly basis now that he's cleared medically. kind of stupid, deer in headlights kinda guy without mami. cursed mustache. may be the greatest mastermind if he actually is on liv's side (there's nothing behind those big brown eyes so i doubt it)(why does he keep retweeting liv we may never know)

carlito: just happy to be there chillin in the lair

[zhindian]

I’m gonna make a new post for my reply because I don’t want this to get buried.

@eepyslut says:

“she literally posted he was the only one to check on her babe. and he could go out and get her not defend her. they fucked up the storyline by making dom jd's side piece.”

I’m going to break this down into chunks.

I must have missed where she posted he checked on her, because I run social scrapers for my server for all Judgment Day social media and I think I would have caught it.

But even if she did, she’s still doing all these little passive aggressive tweets against Dom. She retweeted that Dom is slipping, then last week posted Dom’s own words against him when he was angry about losing the title by himself at that last NXT PLE. But the most maddening thing about this?

Dom is not doing the same thing back to Rhea!

There is nothing from Dom’s socials sniping at Rhea that I caught. Nothing. And the only thing Dom has done is where he was angry was the aforementioned digital exclusive video from the WWE where he was calling out everyone, not just Rhea. It wasn’t a tweet or insta straight from one of his socials.

I could see it, and probably would want it, if they were both sniping at each through social. At least then we’d get some development with their relationship. As it stands now, Rhea is tweeting all this shit while Dom hasn’t posted about it, nor did he post anything while everyone was going on about Rhea’s flirting with Jey and Drew.

So Rhea is being hella aggravating to me right now. I’m not her ride or die. I’m Dom’s. And I hate how he can’t even contribute to this on social if they don’t want to do this on TV. He’s silent when he shouldn’t be silent.

Speaking of which, to your second point, yeah Dom could have came out and helped Rhea. Dom on Monday said he checked on her (which is why he was late to join up with Judgment Day in the backstage promo). But, has Rhea came and assisted Dom lately?

No. Not for weeks.

So why is Dom being held to a standard of him going out there and potentially getting his ass kicked when Rhea hasn’t been coming out to help him herself?

Rhea is the one running out by herself and getting her ass kicked. It shouldn’t be on Dom to have to go out there and potentially square up with Nia when that’s not allowed in the same way Rhea squaring up with a guy would be.

This is why I’m at the end of my rope with this relationship. Dom shouldn’t have to put up with shit and not say anything just because he’s perceived to be the sub. Because the sub has the most power in the relationship and that needs to be shown.

I might make another post about this standard Dom is being held to later.

[kamisadopteddaughter]

The social media aspect of it all:

The ig stuff was sneakier. If you think about it in a real life context Rhes wouldn't be following Liv, she'd be blocked, so if he likes her posts or comments she wouldn't see it just scrolling through her feed. However, they're in the public eye so you know people will notice it, screenshot it, post it, and tag her. Eventually she would see it.

The twitter stuff is a bit more confusing, it sends of a mixed signal. I think he started retweeting Liv's posts because El*n made it so we couldn't see other peoples likes but we'll never know for sure. He also started to comment and quote her posts. All of that was mixed in between his normal posts and him telling her to leave him alone. It was a lot more noticeable than the ig shenanigans, Rhea would still see it even if she had her blocked.

[rhea-ripley]

tumblr user @queenof49ers is taking your rhea gifs and reposting them to Twitter! I had to block them myself because they stole a meme of mine that Rhea later retweeted! probably a good idea for you to block them from all of your blogs.

and here we go again 🤡 thanks for letting me know dear, again, unfortunately there's no point in saying anything people don't respect it when you ask them not to repost your stuff... i will block her to prevent her from doing that. thank you 😊

Btw what is her twitter?

[randgrrris]

small update, rhea saw the pic and judging from the teary smiling emoji on the quote Retweet i think she liked it :)

I love rhea, she's my entire inspo for JQ. I love when strong women are femme. she's a special kind of awesome and her lil pup bella is just too cute for words :)

[eradicateme]

I forgot about this! I posted a photo in Rhea makeup & she liked & retweeted me 🥺🥺🥺

[deepinmyheadcanon]

The inspiration just hasn't been gripping me lately, sorry! HOWEVER, a wonderful anon sent me a lovely, naughty little prompt and ooooooh baby! So, this is my 'attempt' at accepting my first request I guess? Hope you enjoy it!

Title: Lost and Found?

Pairing: None really XD

Characters: Damian Priest, Rhea Ripley, Nikki A.S.H

Word Count: 3318

Content Warnings: Language, Masturbation

Rating: Mature

Quick note: Damian lends Rhea a pair of his tights after she loses her gear.

rhearipley_wwe:

*LOST GEAR BAG*

My MosherZ of Albuquerque I know this is a stretch but, if any of you have seen a black travel suitcase around Office Boulevard & Montaño rd please hold onto it and let me know. It has all my gear in it, including my title. Cheers!

Damian looked at his phone, twitter app open in front of him, looking at the tweet Rhea had just posted. "Man, that’s shitty.” he mumbled to himself, retweeting it.

ArcherOfInfamy:

Help the homie out!

He tapped the ‘tweet’ button before cycling back to his Messages and starting a new text.

Damian: Hey, you alright? Left your stuff behind?

Rhea: Mate, I’ve had people commenting on the tweet saying ‘it’s gone, you aren’t getting it back’, ‘they’ve probably hawked it’, ‘good luck’ stuff like that. Just sent something out asking for people to look on things like Facebook Marketplace etc for people selling my gear! 😤

Damian: Shit…

Rhea: Yeah, my belt’s in there too! Honestly, the gear’s replaceable, it’s my belt! Props are gonna go mad… and Vince? Shit.

Damian: Double shit.

Rhea: Right? Got a fucking match tonight, no gear.

Damian sighed, scrubbing his face. It sounded stupid when he thought about it but, Rhea did have long legs.

Damian: I’ve got a spare pair of tights you can borrow for tonight.

Rhea: 😂 you must be joking!

Damian: I’m actually serious.

Rhea: Will they fit?

Damian: Don’t know, try them out. I’ll bring them to you when I get to the arena.

Rhea: Well, thanks I guess. They’ll be better than wrestling in jeans and a t-shirt!

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“That’s messed up.” Nikki crowed, sitting next to Rhea as she got her makeup done. “We were literally gone from the table for a few moments!”

“I know. Guess it only takes the time taken to get another coffee for some piece of crap to steal my case…” Rhea hissed, picking at her fingernails. “It’s never happened to me before.”

“Well, you can borrow my title belt if y’need to?” she offered.

“Please, yeah. That’d be great.” she rested her head on Nikki’s shoulder. “I don’t know what I’m gonna tell people.”

Nikki patted the back of Rhea’s head comfortingly. “I can guarantee you’re not the first person to get your gear nicked. It’ll be fine.”

“Thanks,” she tutted. “I feel much better.” she lifted her head and smiled wryly, rubbing her forehead.

“Delivery for a Miss Ripley?” Damian announced with a goofy smile, approaching the tag champions, a pair of folded up pants tucked under his arm.

Rhea shook her head, smiling as she stood up to greet him. “Hi!” She wrapped her arms around him, under his armpits, butting her forehead on his chest. “My hero.”

“Hey, I hope they fit?” he chuckled warily, placing his free hand in the middle of her back, reciprocating the hug.

“Me too.” she sighed, stepping back to receive them from him. “Thanks bud.”

“You’re welcome.” he smiled. “They’re just black ones. Oh and make sure you wash them before I get them back…” he teased, walking away from them. “You stink after a match, don’t really want Rhea stank on my gear!”

Rhea smacked Nikki’s arm with the back of her hand for laughing at his comment. “Thank you, thank you for that.” she snarled, calling after him. “You too by the way!”

“Bye Damian!” Nikki cooed as he turned off around a corner, laughing at Rhea’s disdain. Rhea heard him say ‘later!’ back with a dismissive wave. She unfurled the borrowed tights with a deep breath out of her nose, shaking her head at how long they were. She could deal with the waistband, but the leg length? “So… they’re gonna look hilarious on you.” Nikki teased.

“Shut up, you didn’t offer to lend me anything!” Rhea smirked, eyeing up Damian’s gear, scrutinising it, wondering if she could roll up the leg length at the ankles. Maybe some safety pins here and there?

“You’re taller than I am. Also, I’m pretty sure you said ‘No’ to the blue and gold?”

“Unless it’s Vegeta!” Rhea looked over at her and smirked. “That gear was fire!”

“Yup, unless it’s Vegeta.” Nikki chuckled, pointing at the material in her hands. “Did he offer to lend you those?”

“Yeah, I did ask him if he was joking…” she giggled.

“I’m just imagining you in those pants…” she laughed with her friend.

“Yeah well, at least they’re the right style!” Rhea stuck her tongue out at Nikki, turning away from her. “I’m gonna go and change. See ya in a bit.”

“In a bit!” she chuckled, turning her face back to their make-up artist.

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They actually didn’t fit badly at all. They were very long on her, Damian’s almost a foot taller than she is in bare feet. She folded up the extra lycra, tucking it into her socks, putting her Doc Martens back on. She tightened up the waistband with the laces inside of the fabric, pulling them as tight as she could manage. A wardrobe malfunction was at the bottom of her list of wants and needs right now. She turned to the side in front of her mirror, admiring the way the rest of the fabric clung to her butt and legs. The waistband looked a little bunched up though. Her brows furrowed in thought. Fortunately, the rest of her travel bags were still in her possession. She pulled out a punched belt and looped it through the belt hoops, smiling proudly when it did the job of covering up the faux pas.

“Thank you, Damian…” she grinned, smoothing her hands over her thighs and butt.

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After his match, Damian watched the action from the side of the stage. If it was on TV, he’d be in his locker room watching on a monitor, but that's just the way live events go. There were only two matches left on the card; Rhea’s match was up next, a fatal four way for the RAW Women’s Championship. He’d already showered and changed into jeans and sliders after his match, towel slung around his neck to stop the water running down his back and onto his pants. He massaged his scalp with the towel as he watched from his seat. Bianca and Sasha had already made their entrances. Charlotte, as champion, would come out last, so Rhea was next out. He chuckled to himself, thinking about the specific pair of tights he’d lent to her. He’d fully expected them to swamp her.

When her music hit, he leaned further out to catch her come down the ramp. He was already smiling like a total goofball.

But then, out she came.

And the smile immediately fell from his face.

“Dios mío…” he whispered to himself. His hand shot up to his mouth in an attempt to conceal his expression. He watched her pose for the crowd in a state of shock and… very sudden lust. He’d never looked at her that way. Though there was no doubt in his mind that she was beautiful, she was his friend. One of his best friends. Nothing more. He couldn’t believe that those tights weren’t made for her. She was wearing his gear and it fit her like a glove. On her top, just a crop top that he’d seen her wear at the gym… now he was seeing it as if it was the first time he’d seen her wear it. He shifted in his seat, examining every contour of her body in his clothes. Her ass looked firm and round, her thighs looked toned and strong, her belted waist hugged by the material. The smile only began to return to his face when she posed on the ring apron.

“Good match, brother!”

He startled when he heard a voice and felt a slap to his back, wiping his lips, drying them off. He looked around, briefly, with a courteous smile, snapping his attention back to the ring. “Thanks man!”

“You’re very welcome!” Riddle smiled broadly, as he often did, leaning on the back of Damian’s chair. “Oh crap, I didn’t know Rhea’s match was on yet…”

Damian cleared his throat and wet his lips, his lips were dry, but he was salivating, his mouth like a waterfall. He kept gulping, trying to stop, but he couldn’t. “Yeah, just starting now.”

Her match went by like a blur. He saw everything but, he wasn’t focused on the pace of the match. Just her.

When the final bell rang, he came around a bit, Charlotte’s theme music signalling her victory. At least she wasn’t involved in the finish, that was Sasha’s fall. She looked to be out at ringside. He stood up to get a closer look and gave a tiny smile when she stood up and walked to the back of her own accord. “Good.”

“Yeah’d’you see that bump she took off the apron? Gnarly, bro.”

Matt was still there. He’d probably been trying to talk to him the whole time. “She’ll be fine.”

“Always is!” he nodded his reply and hopped into Damian’s vacated seat. “Staying out for the main?”

“Nah, not my scene until I’m in it.” Damian smiled gently, a lie but a worthy one in his eyes.

“Alright, bro, catch ya later!”

“Yep, later…” he strode away into the backstage area, tossing the damp towel into one of the baskets in the gorilla position. He tracked back towards his dressing room, momentarily ignoring the pull of his instincts. All of his senses were sharpened, tuned up. He idly adjusted his pants as soon as he was sure no-one could see him. “Fuck…” he groaned quietly through a smile. He was more turned on than he thought he was. He decided to wait for a moment, a moment to calm down and collect his thoughts. He hopped up onto a cargo crate outside the door and took a deep breath, adjusting until he felt comfortable, sighing out with a lazy smile. He planted his hands down, holding the edge of the box as he tried to calm himself, closing his eyes. “Fuck!” His head was slightly bowed, long hair hanging down the side of his face. He couldn’t stop thinking about her body. About her. He really was trying hard. Thoughts like these ruined friendships and her friendship was important to him. “Shit-fuck.” he cursed himself aloud, calm was the last thing he felt right now. Awakened, needy, aroused, confused? Yeah, all of those things.

“You…” a happy voice filled the corridor.

Damian’s eyes blinked open and he immediately looked up to his right. He took in a shaky breath as he saw Rhea bounding towards him. He slid down from the crate and slowly walked over to meet her.

She smiled brightly as she came closer to him, wrapping her arms around his waist. “There you are! My life--” she gasped sharply. Damian wrapped himself around her, his long, muscular arms holding her body to his, trapping her against him, his hands coming to rest on her lower back. “...saver…” her voice quietened, a hint of worry in her tone. “Hey… what’s u--” Suddenly, she felt his body tighten, his arms holding her closer to him. She gasped softly, blushing hard when she realised, but didn’t dare to tease him about it. She could feel all of him pressed against her. His face was hot against her cheek, his breath heavier than usual, he hugged her tighter than usual and she could feel a bigger bulge in his pants than she was used to. “Are we okay?”

He made a contented noise as he let the scent of her hair products fill his nostrils. “I don’t know what... took over me…” he explained, his voice just loud enough for her to hear, a low, deep rumble.

She smiled, enjoying his warmth. “How do you mean?”

“Seeing you… wearing my gear, I just…” he sighed softly. “I… Amo tu trasero en mis pantalones.” he whispered, voice thick with lust, his hand moving on instinct, trailing down her back.

“I understand pantalones…?” she teased, leaning her head back to see his face. “Inglés?”

Damian sighed, closing his eyes for a second. “I’ve honestly… before today… never thought I’d see you as anything more than my friend?” he began. “I never would’ve thought, in a thousand years, that lending you my gear, seeing you in it... would make me realise how badly I wanted you…” he smiled, biting his inner lip.

“Oh…” Rhea’s face read surprised, her blush deepening at the sound of the low tone in his voice. “Well, none of those words were ‘trousers’…”

He chuckled nervously, hiding his face in her shoulder. “Your ass… damn, it looked so good in my pants.”

“It really did, didn’t it?” she agreed with a small nod, nudging his face with her shoulder.

“‘Scuse me?”

“That material really hugs everything…” she smiled. “Feels like a second skin.” When he looked back at her, his eyes had darkened. She bit her tongue. “No wonder you like them so much…” she shivered as he pulled her in closer to him, pressing his hips against her belly.

“See what’s happening to me?” he breathed deeply, bowing his head. He could feel his pants growing tighter by the moment, his body warming, a rivulet of sweat trickling down his spine.

She grinned, slowly scratching at his sides with her long nails. He let out a slow, bubbling moan that made her stop dead. “I can feel what’s happening to you. You’re toeier than a pair of thongs...”

He laughed despite himself. “What?” he asked, shaking his head incredulously.

“You’re horny as fuck.” she nodded, Damian blushed, lips parted. “You translate for me, I translate for you.” she smiled, biting her bottom lip. “Now, let me go, I need a shower and, no thanks to you, I’m sweatier than I was before.”

He loosened his grip on her, taking a deep breath. “Tease.” his lip curled into a lopsided smile.

“Hey, you’re the one rubbing your dick against me…” she whispered. “Go, get a cold shower, tame that… uh,” she glanced down at his crotch, his flesh making a hard outline in his jeans. “drain pipe down and come and, uh, talk to me after? Okay?”

“‘kay.”

She escaped his embrace and headed off toward her locker room with a playful swing of her hips. “Mmmhmm, I might keep these…”

He bit his lip hard, feeling his cock jump at the sight of her moving her body like that, as he grabbed the handle of his locker room door and wrenched it open. He hoped that no-one was waiting around for him in there as he locked the door tight behind him. He was, thankfully, in luck. He kicked off his sliders and practically ripped the buttons of his jeans open, tugging them down off his long legs, his boxers caught in the wake. He shuddered when the cooler air from the AC reached his hot length. “Shit… aaah goddammit...” he laughed to himself, his foot stuck in the leg of his jeans, nearly tripping him in his urgency. He lifted his leg up to his knee and yanked the tight material from his foot and cast it aside. As soon as he got into the shower area, he struck the power button and lay back against the wall, seething under the cool water as it hit his heated skin.

As the water got hotter, he scrubbed his hands under the stream, ducking his head under, wetting it through. He breathed softly through his parted lips as he took his heavy balls in his hand and warmed them, massaging them with his palm heel. His eyes rolled shut as he tugged gently at his flesh with a shaky, rumbling breath. He took his cock in his other hand and held it for a moment, tracing the pulsing vein underneath it with his index and middle fingers, lips parting when he came to the base, applying more pressure as he did so. The last he saw of her was the lycra of his pants clinging perfectly to her hips as she walked away… and that image came flooding into his head. “So hot…” he growled quietly, feeling his cock swell in his hand and with a hungry grin, he squeezed himself, stroking up his generous length, sighing at how good it felt. He could see her black rimmed eyes and black painted lips in his mind, her standing in front of him, touching his sides, scratching his lower back with those claws she called nails.

He pressed down under the head, closing his fist around it and lifted his hand from his balls to his base, chasing his hand up to the top and back down again. I wish it was her lips he mused, moaning eagerly as he simulated a gentle sucking motion on the tip, rubbing himself slowly in long strokes with the other hand. He growled harshly as he felt his orgasm building, balls tightening up, blood rushing to the head. He began to stroke quicker, switching his stroking hand, just holding the base of his cock up, touching his balls with his fingers as he worked the top of his aching pole. “Mmmm fuck…” his hips jutted forward in his hand, back coming away from the wall a little. He imagined her again, knelt in front of him, naked and soaked with water, lips wrapped tight around him, cheeks hollowed, letting him sink himself into her mouth. “Oh my god…” he thrust into both of his hands, slowly to begin with but, quickly picking up the speed. He wished he’d had something to hold onto, a bar or something, since he was quickly losing control. His ass and back quietly smacked back against the wall with every move he made, his hips thrusting wildly into his tight grip, pre-come leaking out of the tip mingling with the hot water.

When his groans of desperation grew more urgent, he let go of himself with his top hand, finding the wall with it and holding it with the flat of his hand, gripping at the tiles with his stubby nails to steady himself. “So good, so close…” he panted, rutting into his hand, teeth clenched and eyes screwed shut. “Oh fuck!” he shouted loudly, bucking up into his hand as he started to come over his fist, clawing at the wall next to him. His neck and upper body flushed bright red with his completion and the heat of the water as he continued to stroke himself fast, growling and keening as he spurted white threads onto the wall in front of him. “Fuuuuuck…” he groaned finally, tight, racked muscles failing him as he slid down the wall with a satisfied, lazy grin. He chuckled to himself, running his clean hand through his hair and looking up at the ceiling, blinking the water out of his eyes. He chewed his inner lip, smiling, thinking of her again. Her pretty smile, her cute demeanor, the way she bounced around the halls like a kid. “Dammit, Rhea…” he sighed, getting his composure and cleaning himself up.

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Once he was dry and dressed, he decided to check his phone. He noticed that Rhea had posted a clip of her coming out to the ring earlier on Twitter. It was a view from her front, the side he didn’t see.

rhearipley_wwe

No gear, no problem. Thanks for the pants ArcherOfInfamy 😅 WWEElPaso

Eleven minutes ago. Thanks for the pants... she knows what she’s done. Damn tease. he thought with a perplexed sigh. How was he going to just go over there and ‘talk’ to her after that? His reply? A gif. Since he didn’t know quite what to say after she’d left him so flustered.

“I’m never lending her my shit again…”

[lochnessies]

You know what I'm really tired of seeing? The entire killing-Rhea=good because then you reunite her with her dead mother argument. Like what the fuck.

literally!!! ok so this reminded me of this post i saw on twitter. somebody drew some pretty art of rhea reuniting with her mom on cf (and i did retweet it bc i liked the art) but as we all know, nobody can behave in the notes and here was some of the replies

like idk how to tell people this, but killing a traumatized/mentally ill person isn’t a mercy and it isn’t a good and ‘wholesome’ ending.

also ty jake for being a rational individual

[flintandpyrite]

The “Knitting Lady” is a Surgeon, and She’s Paying Attention

Unlike Phones, Handiwork Does Not Distract

Original source: Medscape, 8/12/2019, Nick Mulcahy

Last month, Rhea Liang, MBChB, attended a professional conference in her homeland of Australia. She brought along her current crocheting project, a lap quilt that will be a wedding gift for her cousin.

Liang, an associate professor of surgery specializing in breast cancer at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service in Robina, does "wool craft" during lectures to help her listen to and recall information.

Toward the end of one presentation, Liang and her crochet quilt were thrust into the meeting spotlight — a moment she (@LiangRhea) described on Twitter.

Invited presenter at a small surgical meeting- 'The knitting lady isn't paying attention'. 1. I'm a surgeon 2. It's #crochet, not knitting 3. I haven't taken my eyes off you. Why don't you pick on the guy next to me playing on his phone?#ImplicitBias#ILookLikeASurgeon

1,055 people are talking about this

The tweet set off hundreds of retweets and responses, mostly from healthcare professionals.

Dozens of nurses, physicians, occupational therapists, medical students, midwives, and others tweeted that they can't pay good attention — unless they knit, crochet, knot tie, macrame, sew, needlepoint, or doodle. Repeatedly, people said their mind wanders without manual activity.

Kathleen Wild, MD, general practice lecturer, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, spoke for many (@KathlWild): "Knitting helps me pay attention to what's going on, if I wasn't knitting I'd be daydreaming!"

Another Tweet was also representative of the responses: "I'm able to better pay attention to you because I'm knitting, not in spite of it."

Kerry Wilkins, MD, a psychiatrist in private practice, Millbury, Massachusetts, (@KerryWilkinsMD) provided neurological explanations about what others described anecdotally.

Wilkins' "illuminating" comments, said Liang, "back up what many crocheters/knitters have figured out empirically for hundreds of years." To wit: "Knitting grannies don't miss a thing," she summarized.

Before the tweetstorm, Liang believed her crocheting-while-listening-and-learning at scientific presentations was an "individual quirk." Now she sees it as evidence of "neurodiversity" and is grateful to have met so many similarly wired learners through her post.

Not all Twitter users were supportive.

Al Rush, former paramedic, Royal Air Force, UK (@RAF_IFA), saw Liang's crocheting as a problem. "Don't you think it might be a little disrespectful/distracting to the presenter and/or other delegates?" he replied to Liang's original tweet.

Liang countered: "Any more than everyone else tapping on phones, scribbling on paper, or typing on devices?"

Next, Rush, a retired paramedic, posted a photo of himself as a young man with three women, all kneeling by a Resusci Annie doll: "Me, teaching infant Emergency Life Support — too important for knitting."

In response, Liang pointed to sexism from the presenter at the surgical meeting.

"My original point stands — calling me out when I am paying attention, while not calling out the guy next me [who is] not paying attention — there are only ugly reasons #bias," she posted.

Related Science

Much of the understanding of how repetitive physical activities are connected to attention and cognition comes from brain imaging studies of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, the Massachusetts psychiatrist Wilkins told Medscape Medical News.

However, the general population also has its own "regulation strategies" to enhance focus when there is "motor overflow" in the brain, which may occur when we confront big cognitive challenges (like listening to a scientific lecture), she said.

Think of the work colleague, Wilkins gave as an example, "whose leg is always moving up and down under the table during meetings, or someone who taps his pen when he's focusing intently."

Knitters, crocheters, and other handiworkers have not been studied in this regard. (A PubMed search turned up nothing.)

However, doodlers have been.

In a first-of-its-kind study, adults randomized to doodling recalled 29% more information on a surprise memory test than controls after listening to a mock telephone call (Appl Cogn Psychol. 2009;24:100-106). "Unlike many dual task situations, doodling while working can be beneficial," wrote study author Jackie Andrade, PhD, University of Plymouth, UK.

Jan Odom Forren, PhD, RN, agrees. "I have friends who knit or crochet in meetings. I doodle while I listen. For all of us, it helps us stay focused!" tweeted Forren, professor of nursing, Lexington, University of Kentucky (@JanForren), who responded to Liang's tweet.

The Surgery–Handiwork Connection

Today's medical school students are less dexterous than in the past, which may impact new generations of surgeons, argued a group of five physicians in a New York Times article published earlier this year.

The reason? The rise in screen swiping and decline of manual hobbies such as woodworking and sewing, they speculate.

Crocheting improves manual dexterity, shouted Twitter users after breast surgeon Liang's dustup.

Lisa Dietrich, PhD, behavior researcher, Stony Brook University, New York, humorously stated the obvious (@lldiedrich): "She [Liang] has nimble fingers. Just like...wait for it...a surgeon."

In vascular surgery, the relationship between crochet and surgery could not get any more direct: there is a "crochet hook method of stab avulsion phlebectomy for varicose veins," as described in an article published in the American Journal of Surgery (1996;172:278-280).

Manual Hobbies Are a Learning Aide — But Not a Fully Accepted One

As responses to Liang's tweet indicate, handiwork is a learning aide for some healthcare professionals.

Patricia Furey, MD, vascular surgeon, Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, New Hampshire (@drpfureymd), tweeted: "I spent the first 2 years of medical school knitting during lectures at Dartmouth 20 years ago."

But other people indicated that the practice is not routinely accepted.

Kayte Kett, MD, a pediatrician in the UK (@kayte_mccann) also knitted during medical school lectures: "But, I used to do it under the table in old fashion lecture theatres in case I got told off. It kept me awake and I was knitting hats for the delivery suite."

The fear of being caught was also expressed by Elva Robinson, PhD, senior lecturer, biology, University of York, UK (@Elva_Robinson). "Recently did some sewing during a course and it genuinely increased my concentration — but I was nervous I would be called out on it," she tweeted.

Liana Clark, MD, said knitting is not allowed in the pharmaceutical industry. She is senior medical director, Global Medical Strategy, Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater , Pennsylvania.

"Never had trouble knitting in peds/adolescent medicine. But pharma? You would think I was doing a pole dance! There's no knitting in pharma! #knittingislife," wrote Clark (@teendoc), formerly at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "It's just the culture. Knitting seems unserious," she said.

Manual crafts are esteemed and tribal at some scientific conferences.

Sunae Reilly, midwife, Gold Coast, New Zealand (@saltwater_sunae), tweeted: "As a midwife, it's EXPECTED we knit or crochet at conferences."

Sarah Bodell, occupational therapist, Salford University, Manchester, UK (@OTSalfordUni), told Liang: "You need to join at the @theRCOT annual conference. We have zones for knitting, creating, sewing and more."

It's a Female Thing

Manual crafting or handiwork is perceived as a female thing, Liang said: "I think what the presenter conveyed was — 'I am uncomfortable that one of the audience is doing a generally female activity.'"

Practicing a golf swing would have been more acceptable, she quipped.

Gender-limited crafts are a loss for males, said Robert Hill, MD, chief executive officer, Harmonigenic, a cancer diagnostics and outcomes company in Rochester, New York (@harmonigenic).

"My son began knitting in 4th grade & started knitting on the way to school riding the bus, but wasn't able to continue with all the teasing," he responded to Liang. "More people should normalize it."

Manual crafts are not gender exclusive, observed Charles Jenkinson, MBBS, cardiothoracic surgeon, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Australia (@charlesj_au).

"My grandmother taught me to sew and knit in primary school...I still fix all of my children's toys — these days with 3-0 prolene or silk," he wrote, in response to Liang.

Also, Michael DeBakey, MD, artificial heart pioneer, "credited his surgical success to his Mom teaching him how to sew and knit," tweeted Sara Jiang, MD, associate professor, pathology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (@Sara_Jiang).

Final Thought

Among the Twitter respondents to Liang was Jelte (@JltJ), a general practitioner in Arinagour, on the island of Coll in Scotland, UK, who is living with primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma and is recently 1 year with no evidence of disease.

The physician, who does not list her name in her profile, had some advice for Liang — via Batman — on how to handle future troublesome meeting presenters.

Oh so annoying when

- they pick on you for the wrong reason - people belittle you as ‘the knitting lady’ - they mistake crochet for knitting!

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

roddy plays fire emblem: three houses - prologue

all I know about this game I learned from twitter. I don’t know much of anything about this game. but I’ll tell you what I know about the characters anyway.

I’m only doing characters who I can distinctly recall off the top of my head. I’m not looking up anyone’s names because there are so many characters in this game.

Byleth - the player character. a teacher at this academy, despite not being much older than the oldest students here. game devs are cowards who couldn’t believe that lady Byleth could be Big Sexy in proper armor and instead they gave her fuckin....thigh-highs and lace and a titty window and a belly-button window ma’am your organs are there, you can’t expose that. my disdain for impractical lady armor is outweighed by my desire to play as the girl whenever possible, so like, I’ll play Lady Byleth, but I just won’t be happy about it. 

Jeralt - Byleth’s dad? I think it’s Jeralt? There’s some other guy who looks a lot like the guy who I think is Byleth’s dad so I can’t actually tell you if I got the name right. he’s a mercenary. I don’t know why he and his kid are hired at a fuckin....church academy? but they are. he raised Byleth basically as a feral child and he doesn’t even know how old they are? even though his wife died in childbirth and I think he talks about how long ago that was? or something? there’s something about him not knowing how old his own kid is. Dad what the hell.

Rhea - the lady pope of The Church, but not a cool ladypope like Leliana Dragon Age. I saw someone compare her outfit/hair to Ghetsis from Pokemon and I sent that meme to Wolf and Liam asking if they could confirm or deny and they told me that’s an insult to her but Ghetsis is slime of the earth so relatively, we still don’t know. I don’t trust her because I don’t trust quasi-historical-inspired-setting fantasy church leaders, except for Leliana/Vivienne/Cassandra.

Seteth - green hair? all the church people have green hair are they related? is it magic? I think it’s magic, Byleth’s hair is sometimes green. he’s like the Hot Dad but since he’s not your dad you can romance him. I don’t know if I trust his goatee but one of my friends retweets a lot of art of him and I trust her so maybe I trust him? he’s on thin ice.

Flayan? Flayn? Flyann? I’m calling her Flan like the custard but I know there’s a Y in there somewhere right? - more green hair, so a church person I guess. I have no idea how old she is because this is anime and she could be anywhere from 12 to an ancient dragon person because I know this series has some of those. maybe Seteth’s daughter?? I get that vibe??

Sothis - the ancient dragon person who looks like a 12 year old girl. more green hair. I couldn’t tell her and Flan apart for a while.

BLACK EAGLES

why aren’t they the Red Eagles? they’re red. the other two are blue and yellow. who named these guys. what the fuck.

Edelgard - every time I see the pokemon Eldegoss in SwSh I think of her. leader of the BE. controversial. very controversial. doesn’t like the Church. I can handle this, I romanced Anders in my first playthrough of DA2 which was my first time playing any Dragon Age game, controversial and Church-hating is like.... sometimes you just gotta blow up a fantasy church, you know? I get it. even if I don’t end up agreeing with her, like, I get it, I guess. she didn’t always have white hair but something happened. there sure is a lot of magic hair color shit in this game. I think Dmitri is her stepbrother.

Hubert - Edelgard’s right-hand man. vampire jokes for days. I’m gonna cut myself on that edge....the edge of his cheekbones they are Sharp. I don’t buy that this guy is a teenager. I don’t know whether he’s actually tall or people just play that up because it’s funny to draw him Tall and Looming behind Edelgard.

Ferdinand von Aegir - I AM FERDINAND VON AEGIR!!!!!!!!

Dorothea - she’s the opera singer one, right? if I got the name wrong, I’m talking about the pretty opera singer one with the hat that’s kinda like a beret. she’s my favorite because I’m gay and she’s very pretty and looks very sweet. she’s like the only one of the Eagles who’s a commoner I think? I don’t know why she’s here but okay. I like her. I would like to kiss her.

GOLDEN DEER

Claude - that’s not his real name. leader of the GD. he’s an archer and he has a big fuckoff dragon wyvern. his mother is from whatever country this game is set in but his dad isn’t and lots of people are rude and racist to him for it. he seems kinda chill but also suspicious of everyone which honestly I get it. also he might poison people? I trust him and I’m sure he has good reason to do it. I support him.

Hilda - Claude’s right-hand lady. pink hair anime girl with a giant fuckoff axe. I thought I knew more about her than that but nope that’s all I’ve got. has an older brother.

Lorenz - purple haired anime boy. look at his post-timeskip haircut this boy is Gay and there’s nothing anyone can tell me that would change my mind. needs to be smacked with some good ol’ Character Development to grow past being a pretentious noble prick but he’s pretty cool once that happens. one of the artists I follow who turned overnight into a FE3H twitter for like six months is a big Lorenz stan so I think I could be biased toward him already but that’s just How It Be when you’re coming into this via osmosis.

BLUE LIONS

Dmitri - leader of the Blue Lions but everyone calls him a boar. gets absolutely hammered by Bad Times in the timeskip and comes back with an eyepatch and absolutely feral and unhinged. murdered a bunch of people? Dimi You Can’t Just Go Around Murdering People. 30-50 feral hogs in a big fuzzy mantle. very unfortunate that he’s being forced to do Leader Shit and just wasn’t allowed to be chill and relax and get to work through his issues instead of getting more of them and going feral.

Dedue - you cannot convince me that this man is not a 30-year-old father of two. how is he a student. get out of here. you’re wrong and you’re lying. who did these character designs. I think out of almost everyone here, he is the guy who Does Not Deserve All Of This but fate has been a dick to him. everyone he loves got murdered by I think Dmitri’s countrymen but now Dedue is Dmitri’s right-hand-man which I do not understand. He deserves better both in-game and also from the writers because they just kind of write him out post-timeskip I hear. just free this man from whatever the fuck is going on in his life and the game. I still don’t believe you that he’s of any age to be a student.

Sylvain - the redhead. childhood friends with Dmitri and someone else but I don’t remember who. The Horny Guy. may just automatically be recruited by Lady Byleth to their class, betraying his country and his oldest friends because he saw a belly-button window. just y’know. sometimes it be like that. 

FELIX - he’s the other childhood friend. I don’t know shit about him.

OTHER STUDENTS WHOSE NAMES I CAN RECALL BUT I DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AND IT DOESN’T MATTER BECAUSE YOU CAN RECRUIT ALMOST EVERYONE TO ANYWHERE ELSE

Caspar (artist?), Linhardt, Bernadetta (Bernie, my brain keeps just swapping her and Dorothea around because they both have these long regal names but I don’t think they’re actually anything at all alike), Petra, Leonie, Marianne,

ASHEN WOLVES

they’re not really a house they’re just a bunch of people who live in the fucking basement and I think it’s the church’s fault.

Yuri - the other purple-haired anime boy. got kicked out of war crimes academy somehow. declared himself the leader of the basement people and they were just like “hey sure cool I guess”. 

Someone who’s a friend of I think Hilda’s older brother - not even a student or someone who needs to be living in the basement, he’s just down here for tax fraud? debt evasion? again, it be like that.

THE PLOT

matchmaking simulator. Byleth plays matchmaker for all of their students by setting them up into the most healthy friendships/relationships that are as ambiguously gay as the COWARDS writing this game will allow. I know there are a few, but it’s mostly a few Byleth romances, so. that.

also Byleth makes the other professors’ jobs easier by poaching all their students so that they only have to teach like two people while Byleth has everyone in their class. recruit the students by giving them gifts and having tea with them. eat lunch like five times a day trying to hang out with everyone. go fishing. go fishing some more. the game limits your amount of bait per month because otherwise this will be a fishing simulator. I know this specifically because I asked Wolf and Liam if I could just fish infinitely forever and they told me no. I was upset. the day that the game starts is 4/20. I know this because Wolf made a meme about it and that’s what started our long conversation about the game that established nothing.

immediately after everyone graduates, Byleth goes into a fucking coma for five years and wakes up and the five-year reunion is interrupted by a war between the three houses. -rimshot- also there might be some greater threat called the Flame Emperor or some shit but I know fuckall about that. mostly I just know everyone’s despair as they are forced to kill their friends who they didn’t manage to recruit.

I’ve never played a Fire Emblem before and I’ve never known what a tactic is in any RPG I’ve ever played. this is going to be fantastic.

[domysterio]

I'm sorry but Twitter is making me lose my mind, as is tradition, and I gotta have a piece of your mind on this: do you think Dominik is playing Rhea? Everybody thinks he was acting by how he was so boisterous about how he rejected Liv, and they're sure he'll turn on Rhea and betray her on SS :( but then there's Finn, who's so obviously stirring shit between them that everybody was getting weirded out by him as well. So, do you think our lovely couple is truly safe? Because, not to be dramatic, but I think I'll never get over their breakup. :(((((

So there's a lot of things happening. I think there are multiple people lying here, if not everyone. Damian knows something we don't. Why was he sooo giddy about Dom getting in trouble? Why was Rhea only acting mad at Dom in front Finn, JD, and Carlito? Why did she flip so quickly and say Dom was hers?

She could be using Dom. Damian and Rhea could be planning behind everyone's backs. Maybe they know Finn is being a snake. Maybe they wanted to test Dom's loyalty to see if they could trust him. Then have him lead on Finn and Liv and ultimately betray them. (Leading on FInn and Liv doesn't make much sense now, unless Liv knew he was going to cuss her out.)

Finn has been caught with Liv. Things keep happening to Dom where it's obvious someone is setting him up (the hotel keycard, his vest, just tonight Finn purposely sending him in Liv's direction). It's likely Finn trying to get Rhea and Damian to turn on Dom. It seems like Finn is trying to manipulate Dom as well.

Dom has consistently told Liv no. He has told her over and over again to leave him alone. It clearly stressed him out when the others don't believe him and tell him he isn't doing anything. If he wanted to side with Liv, they've been alone multiple times. Going with Liv gains him nothing. He's with TJD because he wanted out of his father's shadow and wanted a family. It wouldn't make sense for him to betray them.

On the other side, Dom on social media retweets Liv, posts sus songs with Liv, etc. There really isn't much "evidence" other than that. Also, Dom not contacting Rhea for 3 months is REALLY suspicious. That's the thing that doesn't make ANY sense to me. Was it a lie? It was said in front of FInn and JD... was that on purpose?

So anyway, I think it could be four things.

One, the most obvious thing in the world where Dom betrays Rhea and goes with Liv. To me it doesn't make sense long term. Or short term. Or at all, really. It's just the most obvious way for things to go.

Two, it's a whole plan between Rhea, Damian, and now Dom to lead on Liv and Finn and ultimately have Dom side with Rhea. He might even cost Rhea the match at summerslam... but on accident.. on purpose? If that makes sense. Then eventually betrays Liv and goes back to Rhea. (This is the most drama filled fun option IMO.)

Three, it's just as we see it and Liv is delusional Dom doesn't want anything to do with her but is very stupid and easily manipulated and will probably cost Rhea the match making Rhea upset and angry and she'll drop him.

Four, it's just as we see it and Dom is loyal. It's Finn that turns on the group and helps Liv. Dom picks Rhea's side because he's a good boy and picked sides tonight and it was all 100% genuine.

Idk truly but I also will not survive their break up.

[bae-leth]

Do u have any idea who the English VA’s r for this game after all the gameplay shown already? I have bad hearing so lol maybe u had a better chance :p

I'd love to tell you! ... alas, I really only some VAs, and the voiceovers in p much every gameplay video we've gotten make it very hard to hear any talking, really :c I'll give it a go though!

Edelgard: DEFINITELY Tara Platt, no question

Claude: I keep hearing Ray Chase?? From the 'Over here!' in trailer 2, to the 'wow this reunion sucks' line.... perhaps this is just wishful thinking on my part, because he did reply to someone asking him on Robbie's retweet of trailer 2 back ages ago saying that he wasn't voicing anyone, but that might just have been standard VA NDA stuff. So maybe.

Mercedes: Xanthe Huynh with a much higher voice, or someone similar. Mercie sounds like Haru when she says 'Here we go!'

Rhea: She had hints of Elizabeth Maxwell, but I'm going to agree with the people who are saying it's Cherami Leigh.

Felix: Lucien Dodge! ("Next time, bring your friends" LMAPO)

Sylvain: Robbie Daymond, especially his level up quotes!

Ashe: methinks Bryce Papenbrook. I hear the komeada

[greensparty]

2021: The Year in Green’s Party

Its been another fun filled year for my pop culture obsessed blog. Back when I first began this blog in 2013, if you had told me I’d one day get to cover the following on this blog: Quentin Tarantino’s novelization, The Beatles documentary as well as their reissue and companion book, and Bruce Springsteen’s live album and concert film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, and Nirvana’s Nevermind reissue - I wouldn’t have believed you. But I got to do all of that and more! Here are some of the highlights of 2021:

- Retweets: There were several times when this blog got retweeted on Twitter or by other fans including Omnivore Recordings and Conqueroo retweeted my album review of Matthew Sweet’s Catspaw and they also shared my interview with Matthew Sweet, Foozie’s Foo Fighters News shared my piece about meeting the Foo Fighters in 1999, Rhea Seehorn liked my Best TV Shows of 2020 list, Salem Horror Fest retweeted some of my coverage, I tweeted a birthday greeting to Ben Stiller and he liked it, and U2 Tour Fans tweeted my Achtung Baby reissue review and included it in their Newsletter. 

- Movie Reviews: While there was a slow return to the movie theaters in 2021, most of my movie reviews were done via screener links. Thank God for movies, during a Pandemic now more than ever! I got to review a ton of movies including One Night in Miami, Supernova, Bliss, A Glitch in the Matrix, Down a Dark Stairwell, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Minari, Truth to Power, My Zoe, Coming 2 America, Tina, Rock Camp, French Exit, my guide to the 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films, In Search of Darkness Part II, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, 24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko, The Amusement Park, Punk the Capital, The Tomorrow War, Brothers of a Feather, Val, Woodstock ‘99: Peace, Love and Rage, Coda, Small Engine Repair, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Velvet Underground, Joy Ride, Being the Ricardos, and Licorice Pizza.

- TV Reviews: In addition to movies, I got to review limited TV docuseries including From Cradle to Stage, McCartney 3,2,1, and The Beatles: Get Back.

- Album Reviews: There were tons of albums I got to review this year including Matthew Sweet’s Catspaw, John Carpenter’s Lost Themes III: Alive After Death and the Halloween Kills soundtrack, Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories, Sting’s Duets and The Bridge, The Black Crowes’ Shake Your Money Maker Super Deluxe Edition, Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett’s Her soundtrack, Chris Cornell’s No One Sings Like You Anymore Vol. 1, Badfinger’s No Matter What - Revisiting the Hits, The Sweet’s Isolation Boulevard, Joe Strummer’s Assembly, Cheap Trick’s In Another World, Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ When God Was Great, Mammoth WVH’s Mammoth WVH, The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang: Live at Copacabana Beach and Tattoo You 40th Anniversary Edition, the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World special vinyl soundtrack, Jeff Ament’s I Should Be Outside, the Almost Famous soundtrack box set, Ronnie Wood and the Ronnie Wood Band’s Mr. Luck - A Tribute to Jimmy Reed Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Billy Idol’s The Roadside EP, Johnny Cash’s Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash Live at the Carousel Ballroom April 24, 1968, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Edition, Parquet Courts’ Sympathy for Life, The Beatles’ Let It Be Special Edition, Snail Mail’s Valentine, Aimee Mann’s Queens of the Summer Hotel, Speedy Ortiz’s The Death of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker...Forever, Courtney Barnett’s Things Take Time, Take Time, Jonny Greenwood’s Spencer soundtrack, Nirvana’s Nevermind 30th Anniversary Edition, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts, Oasis’s Knebworth 1996, Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Paris ‘67, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition, and U2′s Achtung Baby 30th Anniversary Edition.

- DVD and Blu-Ray Reviews: I got to review some blu-rays including Cinema Paradiso, The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang: Live at Copacabana Beach, and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concert.

- Book Reviews and Coverage: I got to cover a ton of books including Stevie Van Zandt’s Unrequited Infatuations, The Beatles: Get Back book, Melissa Maerz’s Alright Alright Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed & Confused, and Quentin Tarantino’s novelization of Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood. 

- Interviews: I was lucky enough to interview Matthew Sweet (one of the highlights of this blog!), Andy Scott of The Sweet, members of The Living including John Conte and Greg Gilmore, the crew of Dave Grohl’s What Drives Us documentary producers James A. Rota and John Ramsay and editor Dean Gonazalez, and actress/writer/producer Siobhan Fallon Hogan.

- Film Festivals and Events: I got to cover the 2021 Independent Film Festival Boston in May, 2021 Salem Horror Fest in October, 2021 Nightstream in October, and 2021 IFFBoston Fall Focus in October.

...and the biggest posts of the year:

- 1/2/2021: Green’s Party turned 8!

- 1/27/2021: I wrote about the passing of Cloris Leachman. 27 notes.

- 2/5/2021: I wrote about the passing of Christopher Plummer. 11 notes.

- 2/24/2021: I wrote about the passing of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 19 notes.

- 3/11/2021: My Best Movies of 2020, #10-1 list. 18 notes.

- 4/15/21: My article about The Living and their 1982 recording finally being released. 26 notes.

- 5/4/21: My interview with the crew of the documentary What Drives Us. 19 notes.

- 5/6/21: I posted about the Foo Fighters Ram Trucks ad. 18 notes.

- 5/8/21: I wrote about the passing of Tawney Kitaen. 15 notes.

- 5/26/21: I posted a combined remembrance about the passing of Kevin Alexander Clark, Samuel E. Wright, and Eric Carle. 137 notes, my biggest post of 2021!

- 6/5/21: I wrote about returning to a movie theater for the first time in over a year. 

- 6/19/21: I shared Sesame Street’s “Let’s Celebrate Juneteenth Song” video. 26 notes.

- 6/23/21: My This Month In History column about June’s anniversaries. 29 notes.

- 6/24/21: My article In Praise of Conan O’Brien. 17 notes.

- 7/4/21: My post about the anniversary of both Jim Morrison and Mark Sandman on the same day. 12 notes.

- 7/6/21: I wrote about the passing of Richard Donner. 38 notes.

- 7/26/21: My This Month In History column about July’s anniversaries. 15 notes.

- 8/22/21: I wrote about the passing of Don Everly. 13 notes.

- 8/25/21: I wrote about the Nevermind baby’s lawsuit against Nirvana. 41 notes.

- 9/27/21: I posted the trailer and movie poster for Licorice Pizza. 11 notes.

- 11/9/21: I wrote about the passing of Dean Stockwell. 17 notes.

- 11/27/21: My review of The Beatles: Get Back. 23 notes.