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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 01/10/2026

I am really, really sad. That's all I've got.

Screenshot of the playlist "Jacob's Big List of (Other People's) Great Essays" made by Jacob Geller on YouTube. Video #5 is "A Very Halloween Special Episode" by Laura Crone, a video in which Laura talks at length about consent and about her experience being sexually assaulted.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 11/09/2026

Now reading Quicksilver by Callie Hart (non-derogatory)

Scrawled in the margin of a book: "HE'S A FUCKING VAMPIRE TOO?!"

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 11/09/2026

Absolutely fascinating to watch in real time as escape rooms go through the exact same conversation as video games but like 10-15 years delayed

"IS THIS AN ESCAPE ROOM? Not in the traditional sense, no."

"It is just as much of a show as it is a game!"

"Is this an escape room? No, this is a guided narrative adventure with some 'escape room-lite' elements."

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 09/08/2026

I would like to be quietly congratulated for my restraint in not indulging the impulse to show up at this panel and start shit

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 24/04/2026

Rereading The Kingkiller Chroncle for research purposes and many things about it are upsetting me but so far none so much as the fact that there is not a single Fela/Devi fic on AO3

Devi looked past me and her expression softened. "Little Fela!" She brushed past me and gave Fela a hug. "You're all grown up!" She stepped back and held Fela at arm's length, looking over her appreciatively. "My lord, you look like a ten-stripe Modegan whore! He'll love it."
Fela smiled and spun a little so the bottom of her dress flared. "It is nice to have an excuse to dress up every once and a while."
"You should be dressing up on your own," Devi said. "And for better men than Ambrose."

"I've been busy. I'm out of practice preening. It took me an hour to remember how to do my hair. Any advice?" She held her arms out to her sides and did a slow turn.
Devi looked her up and down with a calculating eye. "You're already better than he deserves. But you're all bare. Why don't you have any sparkle on you?"
Fela looked down at her hands. "Rings won't work with the gloves," she said. "And I didn't have anything nice enough to go with the dress."
"Here then." Devi tilted her head and reached up under her hair, first on one side then the other. Then she stepped closer to Fela. "Lord you're tall, bend down."
When Fela straightened up again, she was wearing a pair of earrings that swung and caught the light of the fire.
Devi stepped back and gave an exasperated sigh. "And they look better on you, of course." She shook her head with irritation. "Good lord, woman. If I had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now."

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 30/01/2026

I don't know if this script is going anywhere but this is in fact the best fragment I've ever written

Like, yeah, I kind of want to make out with the nebulous concept of channeling divine inspiration into the act of creating aesthetic wonder in the world! Sue me! I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t!

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 20/01/2026

I love the Bible because it's obviously a pivotal religious text rich with a lot of meaning that people have been fighting over for 2,000 years but it's also just literal letters that literal human doofuses sent to each other

"Frankly, I'm thankful I didn't baptize any of you, except Crispus and Gaius, so that none of you can say you were baptized in my name! Oh yes, I did baptize the household of Stephanas, but no one else as far as I can remember."

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

Many things suck but it is very cool to be acting again

Screenshot of an anonymized exchange of messages:
Person 1: Hello am I on the right track if I'm thinking of this person as kind of a coked up gremlin with the voice of an eldritch gos in their head that sometimes kinda takes over
Like Jesse Pinkman but like 25% possessed
Person 2: YEP exactly

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makai. A dual timeline story about the AIDS crisis in Chicago and its aftermath for the people who survived. Really drives home how the government actually decided the penalty for normal human missteps should be death. This took me a long time to read (complimentary).

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel. A quantum physicist is recruited as the guinea pig for a breakthrough in the field of time travel and both his current wife and his ex, the mother of his child who died tragically young, get their lives torn up over it. A melancholy love story for adults. I loved it.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

Mona Acts Out by Mischa Berlinski. An acclaimed Shakespearean actress slated to play Cleopatra walks out of her home on Thanksgiving Day and grapples with the legendary director who "made her" being ousted from the company he founded over credible allegations of sexual assault.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I don't know what to tell you, Zadie Smith is a legend and I can only apologize to myself for taking this long to finally read anything of hers and I can't wait to read more.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby. An Atlanta hotshot returns to his small Virginia hometown following a tragic gang-related accident and is absolutely convinced it'll be easy to use his above board business skills to fix things. He is wrong. This whips SO FUCKING HARD.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

Woodworking by Emily St. James. I have absolutely nothing in words to add to the experience of reading this book but I loved it very, very much.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

The War of the Roses by Warren Adler. This is a straight-up horror movie. It is a WILD ride. It's terrible to watch and I couldn't look away. Neither film adaptation gets anywhere close to this level of sheer "what the FUCK."

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. I don't know where you've been if you need me to tell you this book owns. Speaking as a huge fan of Jones' work, I think this is a really accessible starting point and it's not at all surprising that it's escaped containment. The hype is DESERVED.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent. Of the trendy romantasy books I've read for research, this series is by far the most effective execution of the structure I've seen and it's a super fun time. Also I'm a sucker for a death tournament.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune. A scandalized DC reporter retreats to his family's cabin and finds it occupied by a young girl named Artemis Darth Vader and the hunky guy helping her hide from the government. Romantic, edge-of-your-seat, thrilling, structurally pretty weird (complimentary).

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman. The island of misfit toys of the round table have to figure out what to do in the wake of Arthur's death. A slow burn, character-driven adventure story with a diverse cast, some of the best written sword fights I've ever read, and solidarity with *gestures broadly*

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. A college-age single mother starts an Only Fans with guidance from her previously estranged professional wrestler father who is now her roommate and the grandfather who stepped up. Fun, messy, loveable people and constant hijinks!

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 19/12/2025

Richard Linklater does not understand wine moms, but I DO! An Entirely Unhinged Roast of Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019), up now: YouTube: youtu.be/YiUcgq5G-UQ Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/laura...

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 17/12/2025

I swear I did not intentionally make my stack of post deadline blowing off steam/Christmas vacation fun library holds this full of vampires it just happened

A stack of books: Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent, Songbird & the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent, We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Killer Croft, and We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 12/12/2025

Video's coming to you next week and will look like one of these things

Laura wears a fishing vest and looks over the rim of oversized sunglasses. Behind her are the movie poster and book cover of Where'd You Go, Bernadette with text overlaid "movie bad, book good"

Images of the book cover and movie poster for Where'd You Go, Bernadette are displayed above text that reads "richard linklater does not understand wine moms." To the side, Laura holds her microphone and drinks straight from a bottle of Butter Chardonnay.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 03/12/2025

PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE SO I CAN COMPLETE THIS

A DnD style alignment matrix. All squares are empty except for Neutral Good (Sister Agnes from Conclave), Chaotic Good (Martha Delacroix from Wake Up Dead Man), and Lawful Evil (Bev Keane from Midnight Mass)

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 21/11/2025

Like, this is from a Goodreads review that mentions (positively) that Acknowledgements paragraph. "I liked The Shining's discussion of alcoholism more than the haunted house story." "I liked Midnight Mass's commentary on religion more than the part with the vampires." Why are we catering to this???

"For me, I found the social commentary on feminism much more interesting than the [REDACTED [plot element serving as feminist commentary]] aspect. But, I thought the two paired together made for the perfect women's horror book. Here's a quote that really stuck with me."

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 21/11/2025

OK look I know I am generally a terminal optimist about Kids These Days in re: popular fiction specifically but reading this as the first paragraph of an Acknowledgements section feels bad, man.

"This book is a satire--the focus on white, cisgender, able, attractive, upwardly mobile, and university-educated women is intentional, and many of the views expressed herein are ironic and/or aggressively limited in scope in service to the narrative. I was not specifically writing with the goal to educate. If you are looking to reconsider the lens through which you view feminism and intersectional politics, there are countless better resources, one seminal title and personal favorite being Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall. Read diversely and do it on purpose--publishing as an industry does not necessarily create the circumstances for incidental exposure. The arguments presented in this book are just theoretical starting points, if you, like me, like to ponder things.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 10/11/2025

btw we're on the timeline! I'm gonna do my damnedest to get this thing out before the end of the year and it WILL be up free with ads on YouTube! (+ ad-free behind the paywall per usual 😘) Looking like it's probably gonna clock in around an hour for once which is a fucking godsend.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 09/10/2025

My (so far) yearly "did an immersive horror show + low key could've handled it being scarier" post, @timestar.bsky.social is a true pal for having the "oh shit I just remembered I'm SCARED" moment in perfect unison with me about 10 minutes before we went to hell or whatever

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 06/09/2025

Good to see I am not alone in my reaction to a classic

Screenshot of "Reviews of Poltergeist" from Letterboxd. The top review from user Lucy reads: "ya sonofabitch ya MOVED the cemetery but ya left the bodies DIDN'T cha! ya sonofabitch ya left the bodies and ya only moved the headstooooooooooones! YA ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTOOOOOONES!!! WHYYYYYYYY?! WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!?"

Letterboxd review of Poltergeist (1982), watched September 5, 2025 [aka this one was written by me]: "SONOFABITCH YOU LEFT THE BODIES AND YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTOOOONES! YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTOONES!!!! WHAHAHAYYYYY!!! WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!"

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 20/08/2025

New video up now for patrons and Nebula subscribers. It is personal, weird, and messy, and while I'm working on a project that will repurpose a lot of the research and writing that went into it, this version will never be available this side of the pay wall.

Laura sits on the floor surrounded by computer printouts, books, empty bottles and glasses, and string lights. Blue text across the image reads "trauma theatre".

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 17/08/2025

Me when I attempt to attend my first haunt in 16 years and I accidentally end up at a preview of a Christian maybe hell house disguising itself as a photo opp

Laura sits on a Game of Thrones style throne made of swords with a crown hovering above her head. A mysterious demon thing with massive wings lurks behind her.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 12/08/2025

Behold the prettiest loaf of bread I have baked so far

A loaf of crusty white bread on a cooling rack. It's scored with a cross pattern and has risen in a dome shape.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 01/08/2025

Ok I would like to update this take with the corollary that BOTM applying the Sprayed Edge Tax to THEIR PICKS so that the only way to choose that book is with the upcharge is VIOLENCE. I paid for my annual subscription! In what world does that not pay for any twelve of their selection of books?!

Screenshot: a blue button reads "Make my BOTM". Text below: "Get this limited edition design for just $2.99 more than a regular book."

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 27/07/2025

I did not have that on my radar but this cover art is making me extremely nostalgic and excited!

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 27/07/2025

Like even with the books I've enjoyed so far I am admittedly hamstrung by the fact that I am simply not a person who will ever have fun reading a sentence like this to open chapter 2 of a book that has defined none of these terms, I'm sorry!

"F'lar, on bronze Mnementh's great neck, appeared first in the skies above the chief Hold of Fax, so-called Lord of the High Reaches."

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 27/07/2025

Been reading some duds for romantasy research but whoa I'm instantly sold on The Cruel Prince

Heading: CHAPTER 1, surrounded by a pattern of dandelions, mushrooms, a bumblebee, and a spiderweb
Text: In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television.

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Laura Crone @lauracrone.nebula.tv · 11/06/2025

I would say welp except this is a curfew on literally one square mile that goes into effect around sunset and was announced more than two hours ahead of time, which is still basically Tuesday compared to what was happening around the George Floyd protests!

Tweet from Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA):

"I issued a curfew starting tonight at 8pm for Downtown Los Angeles to stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the President's chaotic escalation.

If you do not live or work in Downtown L.A., avoid the area.

Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break the curfew, and you will be prosecuted."

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