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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know it isn't really important, but calling "Dr. Masked Defender" "Mr. Mask" is so breathtakingly savage.

T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A new eastern Mediterranean food truck opened up down the block from my office. It was going to be a disaster for my bank balance and waistline, but they were kind enough to have a bunch of AI "food" images on their sign. Really did me a solid.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know I'm skeeting about a show that ended over five years ago that nobody watched, but it took exactly six seasons for "Younger" to... Whatever the positive version of jump the shark is.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who gives a shit. I'm busy trying to impress my 60 year old self.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Man, are Garth Nix's "The Old Kingdom" series the second best books about necromancy or is it just that Tim Curry read the audiobooks?

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" S1E1 for the first time in a minute and, uh, a lot of the staging reads like a bit of a roman à clef given subsequent reveals.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of my favorite things about doing a real big run is getting to eat SLOP. Today's SLOP is a cup of rice cooked in chicken broth topped with Progresso™ broccoli cheese soup. Yum yum.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We are watching the proshot of "Shrek: The Musical" (2013, dir. Michael John Warren). Pretty fun so far. But weird choice to have Donkey not be an impression of Edward Regan Murphy, but Chris Tucker's star making turn as Ruby Rhod.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Had to stay home from work with a migraine, but I did get to eat my first apple core of the season, so swings and roundabouts, I guess.

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Reena @reenamccarty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, believe it or not it's that time again.

25% off preorders at Barnes and Noble, for rewards and premium members. Online only, September 9-11. This graphic is suggesting The Uncanny Art of Faerie Contracts, by Reena McCarty, but any preorder is covered, so go wild!

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Reena @reenamccarty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Revive Aida you cowards.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I want to be on "The Traitors"! I'd be good at it! I like being outside! I'm a heartless psychopath! I would spend the whole time simping for Alan! It would be great! Get at me, NBC!

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Reena @reenamccarty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

While I'm promoing-book one is currently just 99p in ebook in the UK and is still only $2.99 in the US, so there's never been a better time to hop on it!

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

98% of the time, I don't share images without alt text. The 2% is because I missed it on first glance. If you're selling or crowdfunding, this matters to your bottom line.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is the best book I've read this year and it has EVERYTHING: Union negotiations, a fake dating plot, and - most importantly - the Big Cow.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The White Rat is my favorite active fantasy world and I am SO PISSED that I won't be able to read this for the next few months since the library only has one copy.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I like to think I'm pretty fit, but 15 minutes on one of these...

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The more I hear about Jack Reacher, the more clear it becomes that I'm going to experience some kind of apotheosis when I finally get around to reading the damn books.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We are watching a bootleg of the 2022 Broadway revival of "The Music Man" (dir. Jerry Zaks) that we found on YouTube. Because what better way to celebrate our anniversary than watching a show that famously ended at least two marriages.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The air settled down for our actual anniversary, so @reenamccarty.bsky.social and I are spending the day on the town. We started with the art museum, which was kinda a bust this visit (new exhibit 9/4, almost every gallery closed. Now we're getting boba. Fun fact: I've never had boba before.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are watching old seasons of Traitors for unclear reasons. This show is perfectly smooth. I forget we are watching it every night before @reenamccarty.bsky.social queues it up and Alan walks out in his slutty little outfits.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We designed dogs to Be Friends and Eat Garbage. "Sharing fries" is friend behavior and almost every french fry is garbage. I don't know why so many must stray from the light of a loving god like this.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I might be in worse trouble than when I said @tkingfisher.com is my favorite living author. They don't warn you about this stuff when you marry a writer!

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not very far into THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER, but I am deeply impressed by @stephengrahamjones.com going "You want to see me land a backflip?" about his own prose in the lead up to Arthur Beaucarne's journal, only to segue into a floor routine that I haven't seen all of, but is going to the podium.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you haven't read it before, you should! Depending on your temperament, it will ruin either your afternoon or your whole life. But in, like, a productive way. Probably.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Went to see "Hadestown: The Musical" (2026, dir. Brett Sullivan) with @reenamccarty.bsky.social today. Heck, if the ending doesn't get me every time. Also, I naturally overheard some Reeve Carney slander happening on the way out of the theater. But he's good! He's doing A Thing! It WORKS!

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I would feel worse about laughing in the face of the earnest young man canvasing my neighborhood if he wasn't canvasing for Seth fucking Bodnar. #mtpol

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I get around this by believing some people should be killed, but it is always wrong and the government shouldn't do it. That and violence might always be immoral, but sometimes not violence is more immoral.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I do wonder who, exactly, my copilot is sometimes. What is she thinking? Does she enjoy commuting with me? I hope so. Otherwise, it is laziness keeping me from washing my car, not hospitality.

Some manner of brown spider living on a web on a driver's side rearview mirror.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don't want Spain to lose, but I DO want them punished for letting their keeper so far forward.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We are watching a proshot of "Heathers: The Musical". It is one of the more uneven shows I've seen in a bit, even compared to the source material. Which is SAYING something.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"The Muppets' Odyssey" with Jason as Odysseus, Gonzo as Telemacus, Kermit as Menelaus, and Miss Piggy as Helen would fix everything currently wrong with the world. I don't know HOW, but I know it WOULD.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

To continue my "Younger" posting, every single thing that Sutton Foster and Hillary Duff do at the book publisher they work at makes me and @reenamccarty.bsky.social go "THAT'S NOT HOW ANYTHING WORKS!"

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We are three seasons deep in "Younger", the show where everyone pretends that Sutton Foster is in her 20s just because she's so dang cute. So far my favorite thing is that famously graceful professional dancer Sutton Foster STOMPS everywhere as a really funny character choice.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Would that it were sooner and worse.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is true for almost all "full time" artists of every type. Or, you know, family money.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I know nobody cares about this, especially not in this moment, but it really chaps my nips when people doing MCC Miscast sing covers of songs instead of renditions.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I really haven't been vibing with the book series I'm reading right now, but the last book has a plot point where they trick a centuries old vampire into becoming terminally online so he's easier to manipulate. I've never turned around on a series faster. This shit SLAPS.

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Reena @reenamccarty.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I really wanted to leave it there but pack it in pack it out also applies to books.

A copy of the tricky business of faerie bargains sitting on a thronelike stump surrounded by forest greenery

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Really not beating the Soft Hands Indoor Boy allegations considering I got a pretty good blister assembling a piece of flat pack furniture.

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Reena @reenamccarty.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I've had the phrase "a t-rex but make it Fosse" stuck in my brain for the last two days and I know exactly what this looks like but need a good dancer to please make it a reality because I just don't have the chops.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Having recently run a marathon where the drink sponsor was Powerade, I stand by this twice as hard.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Watching #ThePitt Season 2. My favorite part of this show is when they show the gnarliest shit you've ever seen and @reenamccarty.bsky.social and I start chanting "m e a t m e a t m e a t".

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Got up at 3:30 to spend four or five hours getting rained on. Hooray.

A photograph of the Missoula Marathon starting arch. The sky is barely lightened by dawn, but heavily overcast. The pavement is slick with rainwater.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There's a reason I don't go to that neighborhood.

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T. Stimac @tstimac.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Finally getting around to watching "Hush" (2016, dir. Mike Flanagan). Competent, well constructed film so far! I will say that the most fun @reenamccarty.bsky.social and I have had is speculating if a one million dollar budget covers a single broken window.

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