Kathryn VanArendonk

Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

I swear to GOD: if your show has shapeshifters please just tell me!! I’m not mad, I’m *disappointed*

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

also Anna Chancellor is in it! And Rob Brydon! they are good and funny! PLUS: people turn into bears. and hawks, and dogs. and there’s a crazed nun who, guess what, IS ALSO A SHAPESHIFTER

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

THAT’S IT THAT’S THE ONE

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:40 UTC

IT'S SO GOOD / DUMB

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:38 UTC

okay but this is bluesky, i know what shapeshifter reference is gonna play here

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:36 UTC

truly cannot express what a miscalculation it is! by the end of episode one she is in a marriage of convenience to a guy she hates and also he's hot! episode two: HE'S ALSO SECRETLY A HORSE

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

am seeing some confusion and continued bafflement so i just want to make sure to be very clear: my lady jane, the amazon prime show, is lady jane grey but also shapeshifters. it's a tudor animorphs show. hope this is helpful

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 11:09 UTC

has seen our suitcases; is Not Pleased

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:55 UTC

ooh thank you! This was my madness descent today

www.vulture.com/article/the-...

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:54 UTC

excellent, I will join you in crackpottery - I think the review says the dining room of the Bear is bad but the sandwich window is fantastic

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

it totally works if they’re fake because it’s all about Sydney’s headspace! just go in and fix it with a lil edit and make them into the same anxiety flashes, The Bear (I am also not a crackpot)

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:50 UTC

and also why anywhere would want to profile him at all?? unless there was a general agreement that the place was good?

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

yeah but their existence at big national outlets (again: if real, which I agree the show suggests they are) would put way less pressure on a trib review, surely?

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:46 UTC

my big Q is if the profiles of him that Sydney reads are real because if they are… why is this review so important? but also she is scrolling them on a computer!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 23:34 UTC

I assume pink pony club is widely popular for exactly the same reason that I like it (good to rewrite so it’s about your pets)

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:40 UTC

it’s SO WEIRD no one realized they needed to put way more attention into the sandwich shop?!! and I mean that both inside AND outside the show!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

today a Trader Joe’s employee overheard me on a call with my dentist, and when I finished, he said “dentists, man. My 92 year old grandma had so many bridges, when you went to kiss her you needed an EZPass.” poetry is everywhere

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

was out in the garden and then went heads down on a deadline, and then popped out of my office to hear VOICES IN MY SUPPOSEDLY OTHERWISE EMPTY HOME had no idea my husband was working from home this morning, was jump scared by mine own family

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:57 UTC

the root canal I had today gave me a squishy stress toy shaped like a tooth

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:47 UTC

by SO MUCH

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:33 UTC

after realizing that the nearest white male owner of a car dealership could’ve won this election as long as he was under the age of 70, I have decided to turn off the debate

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

I got a root canal today and now I am, for some reason, watching this guess which is more painful

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

the bear s3! still great in scenes; a mess overall

www.vulture.com/article/the-...

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

but what if it's a framed set of several hundred dollar bills!! WHAT THEN!!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

1) of course I know it's strippers 2) this child absolutely did not hear this song by mistake, this song was deliberately and gleefully played for her by one of my oldest friends (who also happens to be queer)

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 00:14 UTC

oh 100%

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 00:13 UTC

a girl from the “pink pony club,” according to 7yo: - Jean jacket that says “pink pony club” - pink tshirt - teal “stretchy pants” - pink and white tevas - she rides bikes - you can see her purple pony tail under her bike helmet

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

some days I don’t think about my midwestern heritage, and some days I come very close to pitching “all the times someone in house of the dragon should’ve said ‘ope’”

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 00:24 UTC

we have, as a family, been playing this game called vampire survivors, and I am absolutely not a video game alarmist, am very open to letting kids play lots of video games but I think maybe that game has given me brain damage

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

lmao

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

spoken like someone who’s never tried it

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

it’s the onion + chocolate that really takes it to a weird and different place

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

7yo’s current preferred sandwich is Nutella + sour cream and onion potato chips this is innovation on a level I had not considered possible

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 13:13 UTC

I am prepared to call it: the proven winners meteor showers verbena is the annual of the summer

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

YES - there ABSOLUTELY are cases where grad school is the right choice, most importantly when they’re tied specifically to advancing within a field you’re already working in.

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

the two guys who’ve been busking in Penn Station on Wednesday nights lately do a decent Mrs Robinson

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

in this case it was actually very funny to just be like, "so from the jump i disagree with literally everything you just said"

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 17:39 UTC

one of my polite suggestions was that maybe they need to find better porn?

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

yesterday i got a request to do a radio hit about Bridgerton, and in a pre-call I learned the framing was "isn't it terrible that this is essentially porn, and there's no sense of propriety or dividing line between porn and mainstream TV?" based on my response they decided not to book me lmaooo

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

oh my god I have also given alt-ac talks and it is WILD. i usually start with how weird it is to frame them as "alt ac" at all, with academia as a default and *the entire rest of the world* presented as some kind of lower class tier for failures

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

look: i have been there!! i get it

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

this is much more helpful in my experience!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

those adults are trying to save you!!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

overhearing an enthusiastic young person in this coffee shop musing about how nice it might be to go to grad school, doing my best not to appear suddenly next to their table like the ghost of grad school future

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

NOW VARLEY
THE BUGS

www.vulture.com/article/brid...

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

there’s only one way to say that line, and that is: with urgency 😆

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:17 UTC

i think i love it? but it just hits my ear in such a silly way!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:14 UTC

to be clear, i love this little turn of phrase but it also makes it sound like she's an old timey newspaper editor or something? get on the horn and search up more info about that new city councilman!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

yes absolutely! but something about it also makes me laugh, it's very old timey

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 13:04 UTC

does anyone else's kid use the phrase "search up" in the same way you'd use "google" as a verb? I can't tell if it's widespread or just a funny quirk of my kid, who is always telling me to please search up some youtube phenomenon, or to search up socks that look like boba, or etc

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