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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also, totally taking some of these suggestions to get an early start on filling out next year's Knit Madness bracket

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The description of the sweater on the auction pages says it’s gray!

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It is a bit funny that, for whatever reason, the auction page blurs out character faces when including reference photos for the costume

An auction page for Rand al'Thor's costume from WHEEL OF TIME 1x01, "Leavetaking." The image on the left for Lot # 12 is of Josha Stradowski as Rand al'Thor (left) and Michael McElhatton as Tam al'Thor (right) in a scene from the show, but their faces are blurred. The current bid is £100 and is asking for £125. There is almost 16 days left in the auction.

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Although, my birthday is coming up soon, so... (jkjkjk...unless...)

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm *pretty* sure that Rand's sweater is hand-knitted and made from natural fibers, and that kind of yarn can be pricy, so £100 for his sweater (and several other items of clothing) is a steal. I can't afford to partake—and it'd never fit me tbh—but those two sweaters should go to a deserving home!

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not only does Rand have a Good Sweater*, but it also has the distinction of being the runner-up in the first-ever Knit Madness tournament! And it got pretty close to winning! knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne... *Thanks to WoT's lighting, I was convinced that his sweater was blue for ages, tbh.

Josha Stradowski as Rand al'Thor in THE WHEEL OF TIME season 1. He has red hair and is wearing a gray striped sweater.

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

TIL that you can bid on Rand's sweater and the rest of the gorgeous costumes from the highly underrated THE WHEEL OF TIME propstoreauction.com/lot-details/... propstoreauction.com/lot-details/... (Thanks for the heads up, @tofystedeth.bsky.social!)

An auction page for Rand al'Thor's costume from WHEEL OF TIME 1x01, "Leavetaking." Lot # 2 features a gray striped sweater, brown trousers, a brown leather chap belt, and black boots. The current bid is £100 and is asking for £125. There is almost 16 days left in the auction.

An auction page for Rand al'Thor's costume from WHEEL OF TIME 1x01, "Leavetaking." Lot # 12 features a gray striped sweater, brown trousers, a brown leather chap belt, and black boots. The current bid is £100 and is asking for £125. There is almost 16 days left in the auction.

An auction page for Rand al'Thor's costume from WHEEL OF TIME 1x01, "Leavetaking." Lot # 2 shows a close-up of Rand's gray striped sweater with the tag "5. Rand Bk1 Ep1 H1" attached.

The current bid is £100 and is asking for £125. There is almost 16 days left in the auction.

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It looks like they're auctioning off two versions of The Sweater? (Lots 2 and 12.) Bummed that this signals an end to it all, but I hope a deserving WoT fan or two can get their hands on them!

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh my GOD (bookmarking all of this for later)

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"How could I, an adult, read fan fiction?" — A sentence I read in a major publication just now. These articles could stop whenever we want them to. It would be quite simple. Everyone would just need to agree to it.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026

Wait you guys are getting job interviews?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...

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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)

The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Journalism has been so shredded that the New York Times, one of the last stable major outlets, employs 5% of all US journalists. Yes, that's right. Five percent. Just that one publication.

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And they shouldn’t have to publicly shame an institution that’s infamous for ripping off smaller publications without giving them credit and seems to be allergic to linking to other publications to get a crumb of acknowledgment

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe traffic from a link that simply acknowledges that someone else covered this space first is a blip for a national pub. But it would’ve been huge for a place like @fansplaining.bsky.social, which does vital work with a fraction of the resources. (Disclaimer: I wrote for them in June.)

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I lucked out that my piece went massively viral back when Twitter curated my posts about it into a Fleet (remember those lol) and it was at the top of the Entertainment tab for like 12 hours; chances are that some of that went back to the places I linked to.

Screenshot of Twitter circa 2021 when Fleets could appear at the top of a section tab. Listed under the Entertainment tab:

Pop culture • Yesterday
How pop culture enthusiasts are reverse-engineering knitwear from their favorite movies

Esquire UK • Yesterday
Writer-director Sam Levinson on the
'Malcolm & Marie' backlash

Variety @ • Yesterday
Olivia Wilde Has a "No Assholes" Policy

Rock • Trending
AxI Rose
Lead vocalist of Guns N' Roses Axl Rose turn: on February 6
5,661 Tweets

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That’s not what happened in my case. Theirs was a newsy trend piece, mine was more of a historical deep dive with a lot of technical jargon. But it cost me, a person working at a smaller pub with much less clout at the time (and minimal now), absolutely nothing to throw in a link archive.ph/FqANs

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had colleagues whose work got ripped off by larger pubs like NYT—and who covered areas that weren’t as historically looked down upon as fandom—all the time. If you were lucky, they got shamed into citing you after the fact and acted like *you* were the unreasonable one for ensuring credit

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In 2020/2021, I was working on a feature about fans who reverse-engineered knitted garments. Then Bernie wore mittens at the Inauguration and the NYT beat me to the punch. That piece had nothing to do with mine and the two shared exactly one source. I linked to it anyway because I’m not a dick.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wrote about the proposed Paramount-WBD merger and why it is bad across the board.

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hate to break it to all the bots, but there is no longer such a thing as "mainstream media" in the US. There are some good journalists and editors approaching total burnout, a large ring of freelancers trying to hang on, and a larger group who are either unemployed or now in other professions.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 14/08/2026

Absolutely enormous respect to whoever understood that the necessary follow-up to “what if Reacher faced a larger man” is “what if Reacher held a tiny kitten”

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/08/2026

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I just left AMC with my tickets in hand—didn’t have much else to do today so I made the trek—and I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The guy at the front desk keeping one kiosk open for today’s screenings was like, “I know you’re here for THE ODYSSEY but SPIDER-MAN is really good” at one point

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Was a bit curious about this one since the buzz broke through—it's popped up a few times at my local used bookstore, but I've never been motivated to run over and nab it as soon as it got posted on Instagram—and YIKES

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

jk rowling quotes an account called trans widows’ voices

rowling says:
Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund.

trans widows’ voices says:

Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do not have the same power or influence to defend ourselves

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For context, trying to save a PDF of something I wrote, went to Canva to edit the PDF (needed to remove some repeating text), and that popped up once I signed in 🙃

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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

it's very cool that i (and many many of my talented friends) had to leave journalism in order to consistently pay my rent and now it's full of people who actually hate writing

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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Fansplaining is officially open for pitches! 🥳 Please read our guide to get a sense of what we're looking for, and if you have any questions we haven't answered here, feel free to get in touch! info@fansplaining.com

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Write for Us

Fansplaining, the publication by, for, and about fandom, is excited to expand our freelancer pool and open to pitches.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 08/07/2026

PSA If you do NOT want your Instagram posts to be AI fodder, do this: -open Instagram - tap your profile - tap the three lines in the top-right - scroll down to “Sharing and reuse” -turn that sh*t off (screenshot below)

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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

they just want George R.R. Martin to finish Game of Thrones

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David Daut @davidmdaut.com · 23/06/2026

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

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Aja Romano @bookshop.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"What started as a hobby and became a job soon turned into a life raft I quietly resented." For House of the Dragons' return, @michejaw.bsky.social takes us on a bittersweet nostalgia trip through a truly wild decade for geek media in today's @fansplaining.bsky.social longread.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dragons

Recovering from the Game of Thrones content mines.

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Bunch of tables over at Union Square!

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Loved this piece by @michejaw.bsky.social. All culture critics how risky it can be to cover stuff you love—there's no surer way to suck all the fun out of it—but with Game of Thrones, outlets' endless desire for ~content never ceased. I'm so glad she was able to find her way back to enjoying it!

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I went to Jersey for a week and came back to, no joke, a dozen political flyers. One for Schlossberg. One for Conway. Three pro-Bores; one anti-Bores from that AI PAC. Six for Lasher (two of which include notes from Nadler and Bloomberg). I need this primary to be over yesterday

A dozen political flyers for the NY-12 primary. So much wasted paper!

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Michelle Jaworski @michejaw.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I wrote about the past 15 years: One part self-reflection on a property that took over my life (not always for the better), one part view on the deterioration of entertainment journalism, and one part on shitty algorithms amplifying the worst parts of outrage culture fansplaining.com/how-i-learne...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dragons

Recovering from the Game of Thrones content mines.

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