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Melody 💖

@idalupenis.bsky.social
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32, trans lesbian communist who likes movies and music. My writing can be found at The Singles Jukebox, PopHeist, and Rock and Roll Globe. Sometimes I write books too.

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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She’s becoming a lap cat
My cat, Isla, sitting on my lap
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guy who loves The Cure: Which do you prefer, Pornography or Disintegration? His clinically depressed friend who’s never heard of The Cure: Depends on my mood, I guess
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Funny how Robert Pattinson played a 100-year-old vampire dating a teenager in Twilight, his character in Good Time made out with a teenager, and then he played a pedophilic preacher in The Devil All the Time. Now he’s playing Chris Hansen.
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Scored a 61/80 on my PTSD test and an 8/10 on my autism test What do I win?
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Adult” seems like one of those things they shouldn’t have to specify
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year” by Michaelangelo Matos
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Made a scramble with mushrooms, scallions, and chives for dinner (and yes, I did put the sriracha bottle in frame so people don’t think I put ketchup on my eggs—my worst nightmare)
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Did my makeup for the first time in a bit
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A woman *and* a girl? In this economy?
CSN “Southern Cross” lyric card: “Looking for that woman-girl”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Made dinner with fresh tomatoes from the garden
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neil Young was only 19 when he wrote “Sugar Mountain,” what the fuck
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
😳
Led Zeppelin “Achilles’ Last Stand” lyric card: “the devil’s in his hole”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Am I alone in thinking that “Here Comes Santa Claus” has one of the most perfect melodies ever written? (Look, sometimes you’re writing a book about the greatest albums ever made and you end up doing a deep dive on Christmas albums in September.)
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JAV Titles @jav.scd.lol · 15/09/2023
Couple Does Toilet SEX
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For all the dismissal of The Monkees as a phony Beatles rip, “Daydream Believer” can really go toe-to-toe with some of the Beatles’ greatest songs
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just a little writing critique: maybe don’t use the adjective “little” there.
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fuck, that’s the one thing we had! 😢
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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On Ray Charles’ “Mess Around,” he sings “The band was jumpin’/The people, too.” This implies that the band is not comprised of people. I like to imagine it’s these guys.
The puppet band from Pee-wee’s Playhouse
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Mr. Dylan, please don’t call it that…
Bob Dylan lyrics from the song 10,000 Men:

“Ten thousand women all sweepin’ in my room/Spilling my buttermilk, sweeping it up with a broom”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looking at Rate Your Music’s best albums chart makes me feel like I’m glancing into an alternate dimension Like, what do you *mean* Lift Your Skinny Fists is better than Revolver, Kind of Blue, and every Velvet Underground album?
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Man, the Mike Love era sucked…
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On Ray Charles’ “Mess Around,” he sings “The band was jumpin’/The people, too.” This implies that the band is not comprised of people. I like to imagine it’s these guys.
The puppet band from Pee-wee’s Playhouse
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just saw a Meta ad trying to make the case that A.I. will make humanity better and lead us into the future, and the song they used was… “Five Years.” Did… did they *read the lyrics*?
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“[Patti Smith’s] masculinity was so concrete that the gay poet Allen Ginsberg once tried to cruise her at a Manhattan Automat, thinking she was an effeminate boy.”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me after Camp Miasma: “I can’t believe Jane Schoenbrun made a movie about me without my permission.” Roommate: “I did think of you several times throughout.”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Being gay is fucking hilarious. The fact that most straight people can’t make a funny gay joke is an indictment on the heterosexual sense of humor.
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Going to a bottom surgeon and requesting the “Hot Cock Annie”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I hate it when people rhyme “car” and “far,” except for when The Shaggs do it.
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want a film set in between Friday the 13th V and VI depicting how Tommy Jarvis got hot
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I love making lists so much A little sample from the (still way in-progress) list for my 1,001 greatest albums book (these will be in the back half of the book)
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Video essays have ruined me I clicked on an entry for “Theme” on the Wikipedia page for The Dick Van Dyke Show, fully expecting to read several paragraphs analyzing what the show says about the post-war nuclear family and suburbia, and was disappointed to instead be reading about the theme song
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A list of my 1,000 favorite singles from a decade ago. Still very happy with this.
melodytime.substack.com
My 1,000 Favorite Singles (List from 2016)
This is still one of the projects I’m proudest of, so I figured I’d post it here.
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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
FINAL DAYS of HOT POP SUMMER! And we want to have a COOL POP FALL filled with *so many retro recaps* — but we need 300 monthly subscribers to make that a reality. By subscribing, you're helping to pay a great writer to write about *any* show. Literally, *any* show ever. popheist.com/products
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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm proud to have all of Freaks & Geeks, recapped by @idalupenis.bsky.social, in our collection. A passion project if ever there was one, these will make you love this show even more. Melody was *just* getting started on Gilmore Girls! Your support will help keep it going. popheist.com/products
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Once again made pasta with fresh tomatoes and basil from the garden
A plate of tomato pasta
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
*watching Life is Beautiful* “This reminds me of being a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and living an extreme life.”
From Wikipedia: “Anthony Kiedis has stated that in the lyrics for the verses he is telling about his journeys and his experiences on them, about being a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and living an extreme life. He also noted that Roberto Benigni's film Life Is Beautiful was a lyrical inspiration.”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Julia Cotton from Hellraiser
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Damn, these movies are gonna be fucking terrible, huh? They look like they’re starring in a Beatles porn parody
Cast of the upcoming Beatles biopics
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Would I get sued by a JAV company if I titled my next novel “She Has an Innocent Face, But a Woman is a Woman?”
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Re-watching my fav gay fetish film
Jackass: The Movie (2002)
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
That’s actually 20 creampies, Suzu. You’ll never win a Guinness Record this way.
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Listening to RTJ2 for maybe the first time since 2014 and remembering this tweet
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is this Sleigh Bells?
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Working DoorDash. Just picked up an order at a restaurant inside a strip club. You ever walk into a place you expect to be a pizza shop and find yourself suddenly in a strip club with a pizza shop in the corner? Jarring experience.
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Album listening thread! 8/9/2026 - Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden (1988, Parlophone) Best tracks: “Desire,” “The Rainbow” Worst track: “Inheritance” Grade: B+
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NOW that's what I call the National Organization for Women
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Melody 💖 @idalupenis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Seinfeld pilot is different than I remembered
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