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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thank you! When I’m in the thick of it, it feels like it will last forever. But rationally I know that it can’t. Man. It’s amazing how one can be undone by a little lack of sleep.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thank you. I feel like I am losing my mind haha. Last night I went to bed at 9 pm, then woke up at 11 pm with my mind spinning. What the hell.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Unfortunately, it’s the butts. She might deny it, but the reality is that I’m right and she’s making excuses

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The movie The War of the Buttons is an all-time favourite in our household, and this is the song that Little Con sings when he’s drunk as a skunk, so naturally it does numbers around here

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s the middle of the night here, I haven’t slept more than four hours in a night for 6+ weeks, but here’s a video that’s been bringing me joy:

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That would definitely make it feel very postmodern!

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Of course! J’irons could do no less

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

YES. I think a lot about the part where Sebastian is in that messy living situation in Morocco, and says that he gets some kind of fulfilment from living with the German guy because he likes being needed (crummy paraphrasing, I know). It just means so much to him to not be the damaged one, for once.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All those glorious butts. And incredible acting, beautifully shot, amazing script, etc. But the butts.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah that sounds about right! I normally hate adaptations, so I’m surprised by how much I’m enjoying this one (butts aside, even)

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hahaha that’s an excellent summation

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Aw yeah you should! I love that she named one of the cats Sebastian, he’s such a wonderful character.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The more she tries to exert control, the worse the outcomes are. She’s awful, but I have some sympathy for her. Though of course not as much sympathy as I have for poor doomed Sebastian, who can’t admit to himself just how much he hates her.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I guess I just want to pick people’s brains about all the relationship dynamics in the book. The mother fascinates me — she’s trying to micromanage her kids to fit into this elite insular world while also making sure they don’t turn out like their father, but eventually she realizes that 1/2

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“What if they were sunbathing nude on the roof and we had double butts?” Genius, honestly.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The three of you are my favourite literary people maybe on this planet, so I cannot express how delightful this conversation is to me

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love the abbreviation JIB and will use it all the time forthwith

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Having said that, I think my favourite character is Anthony Blanche, the only straight-talking (no pun intended) person in the novel who tries several times to tell it like it is to Charles

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

PLEASE. You can be in my Brideshead book club.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wish you were here! (So we could have in-depth discussions about this). I’ve been haunted by this book ever since I finished it. Among other things, I love the complicated relationships all of the Flyte siblings have with their parents (except maybe Brideshead, who is too oblivious for complexity)

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

HELL YEAH. I’m so excited that you’ve read and loved it. And I shouldn’t be surprised. Omg we NEED to talk about it the next time we hang out. I am ~slightly~ obsessed and need to get it all out.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ok perfect, you can be in my book club! It’s called Iron Butts

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh man!!! I wish you were geographically close to me so that we could go for a drink and dish about the whole Flyte family.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just want people to talk to about Brideshead Revisited, because no one I know in real life has ever read it.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I joke, but this is genuinely one of the best literary adaptations I’ve ever watched. The book is 430 pages, and the show is 11 episodes averaging about an hour each. It’s basically just the entire book, perfectly wrought. I mean, the audiobook is 11.5 hours unabridged, read by Jeremy Irons. So.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you ever want to see a young Jeremy Irons’ butt, may I recommend the 1981 Brideshead Revisited miniseries. Butts galore!

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Me too!!! He clearly has a strong bond with the raccoon

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Only in Montreal can you quit your job to be a full time raccoon daddy

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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I thought that must be it! Have the best time, I loved Sicily

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

SO good to see you today!! I hope the Peking Duck was incredible

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg where??? Train on a boat is like a dumpling of my favourite kinds of transport.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry!!! I should’ve included photo evidence.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very much agreed! I don’t understand why restaurant owners think this is a good idea, I feel like they must have some kind of AI blindness or something

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh hell yeah. Look at those meaty thighs.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hahaha to be fair, it’s a very hateable city! (The hate only makes it stronger). I don’t know why I still ride so hard for it five years after I left. I’m like one of those critters with toxoplasmosis trying to cozy up to the thing that wants to eat me.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was listening to a podcast about ALS today and learned that one of Lou Gehrig’s nicknames was Biscuit Pants because apparently he had a big fat case of junk in the trunk that looked like a pair of rear end biscuits in his little baseball uniform

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Vancouver should be illegal. It shouldn’t be allowed to have the mountains AND the ocean. Banned.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some cities really know how to city.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like, oh, you guys had real urban planning? And now you don’t have a city that’s mostly made up of single family dwellings? And you have mid-rise buildings that were deliberately built to house families, not just rundown mansions carved up into crappy units and/or steel and glass high rises? WILD.

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