Sarah Welch-Larson
@dodgyboffin.com
I write about movies, feminism, theology, and sad men in space for Bright Wall/Dark Room and Seeing & Believing.
https://bio.site/dodgyboffin
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Sarah Welch-Larson
@dodgyboffin.com
· Aug 1
Not now, widening gyre
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
Always read @dodgyboffin.com on anything
"Baseball is slow ebbs and swift surges, a sport of opposing forces thrown together into harmony. It’s bittersweet and optimistic; the territory of upstart children and aging adults alike, a way to be romantic about stats and charts."
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
Sisyphus and Baseball: Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!!
Both Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!! explore groups of men who are devoted to their sport, but have yet to figure out the rest of their own lives.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Always read @dodgyboffin.com on anything
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
Exceptional piece about two movies you should see. Among other things, it helped me get ready for another tortuous season of baseball. (I wouldn’t have it any other way.)
"Baseball is slow ebbs and swift surges, a sport of opposing forces thrown together into harmony. It’s bittersweet and optimistic; the territory of upstart children and aging adults alike, a way to be romantic about stats and charts."
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
Sisyphus and Baseball: Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!!
Both Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!! explore groups of men who are devoted to their sport, but have yet to figure out the rest of their own lives.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Exceptional piece about two movies you should see. Among other things, it helped me get ready for another tortuous season of baseball. (I wouldn’t have it any other way.)
Who the hell are all these "book assistance specialists" emailing me long ass AI-generated screeds about how I could be promoting my book better
February 13, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Who the hell are all these "book assistance specialists" emailing me long ass AI-generated screeds about how I could be promoting my book better
Thanks, Pages, for correcting me to “Mike-en-scene,” that’s the exact wording I was going for
February 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Thanks, Pages, for correcting me to “Mike-en-scene,” that’s the exact wording I was going for
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
"Baseball is slow ebbs and swift surges, a sport of opposing forces thrown together into harmony. It’s bittersweet and optimistic; the territory of upstart children and aging adults alike, a way to be romantic about stats and charts."
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
Sisyphus and Baseball: Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!!
Both Eephus and Everybody Wants Some!! explore groups of men who are devoted to their sport, but have yet to figure out the rest of their own lives.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:34 AM
"Baseball is slow ebbs and swift surges, a sport of opposing forces thrown together into harmony. It’s bittersweet and optimistic; the territory of upstart children and aging adults alike, a way to be romantic about stats and charts."
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
- @dodgyboffin.com on EEPHUS and EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
The five words every girl wants to hear
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The five words every girl wants to hear
Just filed a terrifying essay
a man singing into a microphone on a stage
Alt: Bo Burnham wearing sunglasses and playing the piano and laughing maniacally
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Just filed a terrifying essay
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
Over at @thebaffler.com, some thoughts on spiritual cinema, medieval mystics, Shaker chairs, dance music, and what it might mean for modern art to yearn for the divine. thebaffler.com/latest/wild-...
Wild Facts | Robert Rubsam
Spiritual cinema is fundamentally an aspiration: it must reach out toward something it cannot ultimately depict.
thebaffler.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Over at @thebaffler.com, some thoughts on spiritual cinema, medieval mystics, Shaker chairs, dance music, and what it might mean for modern art to yearn for the divine. thebaffler.com/latest/wild-...
First Cow, Columbus (2017), A Hidden Life, The Irishman
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
First Cow, Columbus (2017), A Hidden Life, The Irishman
My mom finally learned about AI output being called “slop,” which means the term has broken containment and gone fully mainstream. With genuine enthusiasm: well done everyone
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
My mom finally learned about AI output being called “slop,” which means the term has broken containment and gone fully mainstream. With genuine enthusiasm: well done everyone
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
February 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds.
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds.
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
Warm enough today to run outside instead of going to the gym, and I’m still not a great runner and likely never will be but I can go further and faster than I did when I started two years ago, and it was gratifying to run straight through the blocks that I used to need to walk when I first started
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Warm enough today to run outside instead of going to the gym, and I’m still not a great runner and likely never will be but I can go further and faster than I did when I started two years ago, and it was gratifying to run straight through the blocks that I used to need to walk when I first started
Personally I would just burn the building down
A smoke detector somewhere in my building has been chirping its low battery alert every minute on the minute for two straight days and honestly at this point I'd rather just be on fire.
February 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Personally I would just burn the building down
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
@dodgyboffin.com returns as @eyeoftheduckpod.com goes through the Wardrobe!
It’s the Chronic-WHAT-cles of Narnia! That’s right the Chronic-WHAT-cles of Narnia!
When choosing movies inspired by THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy to cover for our series, we knew Disney's mega-budget adaptation of C.S. Lewis's iconic children's classic was essential.
When choosing movies inspired by THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy to cover for our series, we knew Disney's mega-budget adaptation of C.S. Lewis's iconic children's classic was essential.
February 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
@dodgyboffin.com returns as @eyeoftheduckpod.com goes through the Wardrobe!
Reposted by Sarah Welch-Larson
And joining us through the Wardrobe from the Land of Spare Oom is our old friend – and expert on famous fantasy bros Tolkien & Lewis – @dodgyboffin.com!
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) with Sarah Welch-Larson
Podcast Episode · Eye of the Duck: A Film Podcast · 02/09/2026 · 2h 49m
podcasts.apple.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
And joining us through the Wardrobe from the Land of Spare Oom is our old friend – and expert on famous fantasy bros Tolkien & Lewis – @dodgyboffin.com!
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Once again, the tech bros demonstrate they don’t understand what they read at all. Mentats are humanity’s solution to the destruction of all computers in the Butlerian Jihad, because it’s been decreed that “you shall not make machines in the likeness of a human mind”
I'm tryna figure out who they are, and privacy policy often tells you.
Privacy policy lists Mentat Forge as their actual biz name.
Visiting MF website, it's AI bs, so I click "View capabilities", and the link is a broken # anchor.
The most on-the-nose tech demo ever.
mentatforge.com/
Privacy policy lists Mentat Forge as their actual biz name.
Visiting MF website, it's AI bs, so I click "View capabilities", and the link is a broken # anchor.
The most on-the-nose tech demo ever.
mentatforge.com/
Mentat Forge - AI Intelligence Platform
Advanced AI tools and cognitive enhancement platforms that amplify human intelligence. Build, train, and deploy next-generation thinking systems.
mentatforge.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Once again, the tech bros demonstrate they don’t understand what they read at all. Mentats are humanity’s solution to the destruction of all computers in the Butlerian Jihad, because it’s been decreed that “you shall not make machines in the likeness of a human mind”
This was great, now I can go back to ignoring NFL football again for the next eleven years
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
This was great, now I can go back to ignoring NFL football again for the next eleven years
That He Gets Us ad was the Super Bowl commercial equivalent of walking into an indie coffee shop in 2012 and getting A Certain Vibe
February 9, 2026 at 3:20 AM
That He Gets Us ad was the Super Bowl commercial equivalent of walking into an indie coffee shop in 2012 and getting A Certain Vibe
Profanity levels at House Welch-Larson rising dramatically every time there's an AI ad
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Profanity levels at House Welch-Larson rising dramatically every time there's an AI ad
I need the defensive line to get it together
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I need the defensive line to get it together
I think this counts as redemption for eleven years ago
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
I think this counts as redemption for eleven years ago
Did not have Lady Gaga singing “Jigglypuff” on my bingo card
February 9, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Did not have Lady Gaga singing “Jigglypuff” on my bingo card