It looks like they’ve done a mix - genderflipped some roles (including Rosamund Pike is the Black Rabbit of Inle!!) and added some new characters. Looking at the cast list on the Wikipedia page, I’m guessing a lot of the new female characters will be Efrafan does.

“Chain curls in, treasure within!

I decided they’d fallen down a hole or got stuck in a crevice or cave, possibly injuring themselves in the process, and died slowly and horribly from dehydration and starvation and also probably pain if they had broken bones. That definitely gave me the creeps when I was a tween/teen.

Okay, apology, that’s good. But now what? Saying sorry is easy peasy, it’s appreciated, but you don’t get to dust your hands off, consider the problem over, and carry on the way you were. After you apologise for your actions YOU CHANGE YOUR WAYS.

Are you looking forward to the Netflix miniseries? The voice cast looks AMAZING.

I cannot take credit for that. ‘‘Twas the autocorrect on my iPhone, I must have missed it before hitting Publish. :)

Oh god I’m looking forward to watching this. I laughed and laughed at the trailers and how much the showmakers want us to understand this IS NOT OUR GRANDMA’S PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, it is SUPER SEXY AND HOT AND MAKES THE SUBTEXT THE TEXT IN A VERY SEXY WAY. I haven’t quite decided yet whether making Mrs Appleyard hot…

The “here’s a refresher on who everyone is” bit at the start of every book always harped so much on how much junk food Claudia ate and yet how thin she was, my friends and I were convinced there was a subliminal eating disorder subplot going on that would feature in a book one day but never did. I mean, I was also…

I remember how nothing seemed to drain a Walkman’s battery faster than rewinding or fast-forwarding. So to make it last we’d do it manually, by sticking a pencil through one of the spools (is that even the word?) and whirling it around.

Hello! Are you in the industry or industry adjacent? :)

Fuck them all. Is Bateman literally the character of Jennifer Garner’s terrible husband he played in Juno? (I don’t know whether I should be asking if he’s literally the character he plays in Arrested Development. I have never, ever, ever been able to get into it, it’s always felt like one of those white people shows…

DISCLAIMER: I KNOW THIS IS NOT THE MAIN POINT OF THE STORY.

.....yeah that’s probably a fair call.

See the beauty of this (otherwise dark and utterly unrealistic and dysfunctional) scheme is that it puts the onus of change squarely on all the men who aren’t mass murderers and rapists but think that’s all the effort they need to go to, and demand our constant validation and commendation for meeting the bare minimum…

Do you think compulsory attendance at a polling booth on election days and laws making it a lot easier for everyone to vote would make a difference? That’s what we have in Australia (elections are always on a weekend, there’s a zillion other ways to cast a vote if you can’t attend a polling booth, employers have to…

Full disclosure: currently the only sex with men I have is on condition of compensation in cold hard cash, I rely on the income, so I do not undertake this lightly. But if all the women having sex with men because the social contract says so, or because they feel like it, or, as is most common, a combination of both,…

Sometimes I fantasise about the women of the world pulling a Lysistrata 2.0. No sex for the men until ALL THE BULLSHIT ENDS, ALL OF IT. No reproductive rights or sexual health care? Better not risk getting knocked up or catching something then - no sex. No such thing as rape, just a silly woman misunderstanding a…

My only hesitation over wishing the cancer be terminal is that I know that, hypothetically, there may be someone in Trump’s life who is not a total garbage person who would be saddened by his passing.

I like the idea of him suffering for a horrendously long time, and surviving, but missing parts of his face or other extremities, or having to wee, shit, eat, or breathe through a bag for the rest of his shitty life.

I do NOT say this lightly. And I say it as someone who has been personally impacted by the condition, both through deaths in my immediate family and a scare myself. And I’m not sure why reading this, out of everything that’s happened since January last year, has been the straw that broke my camel’s back.