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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 20h

my sexuality is postseason Kiké

Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 20h

4yo has claimed turning on Halloween decorations as his “leadership job” and I really want to know how I can get such a sweet deal because my leadership jobs do not feel as fun

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes I definitely think it’s worth 90% of my mental energy as a teacher to ponder how to help students understand how to use this very complex and societally important tool

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it's been 100 degrees for days now, sun went down, I went outside for 5 minutes, I got three mosquito bites in those 5 minutes, I quit LA

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lindsey romain @lindseyromain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

was the joy of my life to write about my queen diane lane in UNFAITHFUL and UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN for @brightwalldarkroom.com. two movies about what it’s like to be a woman in your late 30s, the impulse to tear it all down, and the joy of building it back up instead 🖤

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Two Diane Lanes at Midlife: Unfaithful & Under the Tuscan Sun

I am soon to be 38: the age when women disappear from movies. But once upon a time they did make movies about us, and they starred Diane Lane.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is exactly what I said afterwards! Like, I know you needed to “get in line” for the next movie, but jeez, allow yourself to be alive in this world’

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Posting this great @briannaduggan.bsky.social piece that we own on the occasion of seeing the 4K restoration of Wild at Heart in a theater and crying for the whole last scene like any civilized person with half a heart

Brianna Ashby illustration of Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern in Wild At Heart

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok we redirected back to HALLOWEEN and it’s perfect

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Update: he has requested THE SHINING instead?

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

is this the year we expose the 13-year-old to HALLOWEEN

Michael Myers staring down from the top of a staircase with a knife

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Related: can someone please check on the people watching today’s Dodgers game in the seats in full sun and keep them hydrated

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Putting up Halloween decorations when it’s 100 degrees outside, congrats America, you’ve achieved the horror of your dreams

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love a “here’s a fucked-up 24 hours” film

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just got told by a former student currently at an exclusive university that I do “elite” discussion board work and none of his professors have come close so I’m gonna put that in my pocket for a self-doubt day

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it’s time for me to rewatch SHAMPOO so I can write a thing about SHAMPOO and honestly there are worse things to have to make time to do

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay I guess I’m just a Big Sleep poster now (though next week I’ll be moving on to Double Indemnity) but my class is having its final discussion about the book tomorrow & man the second to last paragraph is just so fucking fantastic. Pardon my almost-correct Hamlet annotations.

Outside the bright gardens had a haunted look, as though small wild eyes were watching me from behind the bushes, as though the sunshine itself had a mysterious something in its light. I got into my car and drove off down the hill.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?
In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you greet were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were
the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big
sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. But the old man didn't have to be. He could lie quiet in his canopied bed
with his bloodless hands folded on the sheet, waiting.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the way some of these older scenes telegraph the horniness without dumb jokes or crassness & with erotic sincerity/commitment is shocking? Even today?

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What I have learned in the 30 minutes since posting this is that everyone is horny for implied rainy afternoon Bogart-Malone bookstore sex

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Truly fantastic sky tonight. Better than yesterday’s perfect orange sunset, maybe?

Gray and white clouds over a pink and blue sky, rotated vertically

A different angle of gray and white clouds over a pink and blue sky

Basically I love it when there are clouds in the LA sky.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes! Also, I think it's lovely to model falling in love with a text for students. A byproduct of the beautiful process of discovering new perspectives and ideas about a particular book or film or poem!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know I feel this way every time I teach a book for the first time, but teaching The Big Sleep for the first time has me fully convinced that it's the best book ever written

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love sharing the rec letters I wrote with students who ask about them. I still remember when my history teacher shared his rec with me, and the confidence it gave me in myself to see that someone else believed in me at that moment.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also I can't help but think that a human-authored letter is going to shine for that student EVEN MORE if the college admissions staff has read a hundred AI-authored letters in a row ...

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's college rec letter writing season, and I once again am committed to writing all of my letters MYSELF, despite more and more of my colleagues falling to the "this seems like a task for AI" trap. If you love your students, write your own sentences about them!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“And he needs to be eating worms” … perfection

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t want to be baited into commenting on the TV list but, I’m sorry, having Better Call Saul not even in the top 20 and putting Breaking Bad where it is is some bonkers shit.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need to know if every kid at every school is pantsing each other right now—and if so, what is behind the rise in pantsing cases (a turn to analog mischief and away from online bullying thanks to phone bans??)—or if it’s just my school. Is pantsing back in a major way? Who is on this beat?

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

today’s teaching tip is: sometimes you need to read the room, hit pause, cancel the reading homework, let kids who are behind catch up, let kids who are dwelling in drafts just dwell, and help everyone celebrate something they’ve done well recently

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you’re not putting True Detective Season 2 on your best 10 shows of the 21st century ballot I feel sorry for your brain

Rachel McAdams and Colin Farrell in a Twin Peaks ass bar under green and red lighting

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is where I sigh and have to go look at the top 20 to see which one of those show’s slots this one should have taken.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026

I feel like one of the few genuine takeaways of the past decade is that there are apparently no circumstances that would actually warrant the invocation of the 25th amendment

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one of the kids is getting into taking photos and now I have a new mild worry about physical safety

kid perched on a ledge under a bridge taking a photo

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

there's lots to feel bad about right now but also Spirit Halloweens are everywhere

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I enjoyed this conversation and loved rewatching this movie!

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The FINAL arc of BRIAR hit stands this last Wednesday, wrapping up our years-long fantasy epic. I am so proud of this book, how so unabashedly queer it is, and how we ended it. It became an anthem for folks that still show up in cosplay at cons. Grab the final chapter. I’ll miss these misfits.

Comic book trade cover of briar which shows briar and her cohorts ready to fight with swords and everything else they have against the forces of darkness art by Alex Lins

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am so there. And not just creative writing, but personal narrative writing, or anything that asks students to connect with themselves and with voice. Instead of doing standard close reading paragraphs on Shakespeare, I’ve been having my 10th graders write him letters …

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay wait I read it out loud in class and … the rhyming in the first few sentences! Fall, tall, wall, all!

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