Isabel Cooper
@isabelcooper.bsky.social
Author of paranormal romance and romantic fantasy. Roleplayer. Occult dabbler. Feminist. She/her, pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-abortion, pro-sex, "work ethic" is a fake idea.
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Clearly Everyone Else Likes The Preschool Troma Movie is a worldview, younger self.
February 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Clearly Everyone Else Likes The Preschool Troma Movie is a worldview, younger self.
...and that everyone else singing the song down through the years would just be cool with that.
Like, I don't recall ever thinking to articulate what bothered me enough for somebody to correct that, I just read the right version sometime later.
Like, I don't recall ever thinking to articulate what bothered me enough for somebody to correct that, I just read the right version sometime later.
February 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM
...and that everyone else singing the song down through the years would just be cool with that.
Like, I don't recall ever thinking to articulate what bothered me enough for somebody to correct that, I just read the right version sometime later.
Like, I don't recall ever thinking to articulate what bothered me enough for somebody to correct that, I just read the right version sometime later.
Mostly because I misheard "goon" as "goo" and thought this was some sort of end-of-Robocop/I Have No Mouth scenario.
Which, okay, kids are weird, but it just now strikes me that YoungIzzy had no problem assuming the "Good" Fairy would casually inflict the torments of the damned...
Which, okay, kids are weird, but it just now strikes me that YoungIzzy had no problem assuming the "Good" Fairy would casually inflict the torments of the damned...
February 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Mostly because I misheard "goon" as "goo" and thought this was some sort of end-of-Robocop/I Have No Mouth scenario.
Which, okay, kids are weird, but it just now strikes me that YoungIzzy had no problem assuming the "Good" Fairy would casually inflict the torments of the damned...
Which, okay, kids are weird, but it just now strikes me that YoungIzzy had no problem assuming the "Good" Fairy would casually inflict the torments of the damned...
So, per this awesomeness: youtube.com/shorts/qjfVY... and discussion with friends, I ended up talking about how Little Bunny Foo Foo traumatized me as a child, like I couldn't even stay in the room when they sang it in preschool.
Why Bad Bunny Is Such A Controversial Super Bowl Halftime Pick
YouTube video by Tawny Platis
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February 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM
So, per this awesomeness: youtube.com/shorts/qjfVY... and discussion with friends, I ended up talking about how Little Bunny Foo Foo traumatized me as a child, like I couldn't even stay in the room when they sang it in preschool.
Reposted by Isabel Cooper
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Dunwich Horror but it's secret baby romance plot.
February 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Dunwich Horror but it's secret baby romance plot.
"I just can't imagine caring that much about achievements."
"In games?"
"...yeah, that too."
"In games?"
"...yeah, that too."
February 10, 2026 at 10:25 AM
"I just can't imagine caring that much about achievements."
"In games?"
"...yeah, that too."
"In games?"
"...yeah, that too."
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"everything bad or corrupting that ever happened to a thing you once enjoyed, even back to your literal childhood, is constantly revealed as having been the shadowy machinations of the same 5 to 6 cartoonishly evil people"
oh ok these writers are wrapping it UP, this is some real Dr. Claw type shit
oh ok these writers are wrapping it UP, this is some real Dr. Claw type shit
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 AM
"everything bad or corrupting that ever happened to a thing you once enjoyed, even back to your literal childhood, is constantly revealed as having been the shadowy machinations of the same 5 to 6 cartoonishly evil people"
oh ok these writers are wrapping it UP, this is some real Dr. Claw type shit
oh ok these writers are wrapping it UP, this is some real Dr. Claw type shit
This is good to know—thank you!
February 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
This is good to know—thank you!
Ooh, yes. We won't let you sell erotica, but we'll pay Joe fucking Rogan millions to destroy society with his bullshit.
February 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Ooh, yes. We won't let you sell erotica, but we'll pay Joe fucking Rogan millions to destroy society with his bullshit.
(Meanstwhile, I keep hearing about genre-specialty indies doing great, and particularly a romance-focused one popping up soon in my parents' neighborhood. This is both objectively good and deeply satisfying to my inner Nelson Muntz.)
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
(Meanstwhile, I keep hearing about genre-specialty indies doing great, and particularly a romance-focused one popping up soon in my parents' neighborhood. This is both objectively good and deeply satisfying to my inner Nelson Muntz.)
I don't think they did very well. I don't know for sure, though, because I never went in them more than once, and neither did a lot of other people.
Not saying. Just saying.
Not saying. Just saying.
February 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I don't think they did very well. I don't know for sure, though, because I never went in them more than once, and neither did a lot of other people.
Not saying. Just saying.
Not saying. Just saying.
And there were a fair few number of small bookstores, especially in college towns, which either confined all of That Sort of Thing to one small shelf in the back or would sniffily tell you that they didn't sell it.
February 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
And there were a fair few number of small bookstores, especially in college towns, which either confined all of That Sort of Thing to one small shelf in the back or would sniffily tell you that they didn't sell it.
Also, because I'm old: back when the indie conflict was with Borders/B&N physical location, I tried to buy from small bookstores, and sometimes that was great! But I--and a lot of other people--tended to read romance, or horror, or sf.
February 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Also, because I'm old: back when the indie conflict was with Borders/B&N physical location, I tried to buy from small bookstores, and sometimes that was great! But I--and a lot of other people--tended to read romance, or horror, or sf.
So, in a Not Learning From the Past installment: @bookshop.org, @draft2digital.bsky.social, what's up with this nonsense?
You know what happened with Tumblr, right?
You know what happened with Tumblr, right?
Unfortunately they are blocking all erotica from distribution. Very sad to see a champion for indie bookstores take such a restrictive stance on fiction.
February 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
So, in a Not Learning From the Past installment: @bookshop.org, @draft2digital.bsky.social, what's up with this nonsense?
You know what happened with Tumblr, right?
You know what happened with Tumblr, right?
Ugh. Do you mind if I share and demand an answer from the organization?
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Ugh. Do you mind if I share and demand an answer from the organization?
February 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Things I bring to the table as a tech-focused editor: excellent grammar and spelling knowledge, good time management, ability to take criticism.
Things I absolutely do not: ability to read the phrase "penetration testing" without giggling for an hour.
Things I absolutely do not: ability to read the phrase "penetration testing" without giggling for an hour.
January 30, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Things I bring to the table as a tech-focused editor: excellent grammar and spelling knowledge, good time management, ability to take criticism.
Things I absolutely do not: ability to read the phrase "penetration testing" without giggling for an hour.
Things I absolutely do not: ability to read the phrase "penetration testing" without giggling for an hour.
(I mean, I had a minor freakout in my late 30s when I realized--thanks to a former FWB going full weirdo about COVID and 5G--that I now physically didn't want to fuck people I had reason *not* to respect. It was very Shadow over Innsmouth WHAT AM I BECOMING?)
January 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
(I mean, I had a minor freakout in my late 30s when I realized--thanks to a former FWB going full weirdo about COVID and 5G--that I now physically didn't want to fuck people I had reason *not* to respect. It was very Shadow over Innsmouth WHAT AM I BECOMING?)
I suspect it boils down to an unrecognized difference between aspec and allo points of view, but: if most of us only lusted after people who'd earned our respect, my twenties would have been *way* less dramatic.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I suspect it boils down to an unrecognized difference between aspec and allo points of view, but: if most of us only lusted after people who'd earned our respect, my twenties would have been *way* less dramatic.
Always amused/perplexed by people critiquing the instalust trope in romance novels or games, especially where they describe it as (per one FB comment about a Choices story) the guy not having "done anything to earn respect."
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Always amused/perplexed by people critiquing the instalust trope in romance novels or games, especially where they describe it as (per one FB comment about a Choices story) the guy not having "done anything to earn respect."
CRIMINAL CONVERSATION.
North Carolina still has a law that I last heard about in Victorian porn.
North Carolina still has a law that I last heard about in Victorian porn.
January 16, 2026 at 1:14 AM
CRIMINAL CONVERSATION.
North Carolina still has a law that I last heard about in Victorian porn.
North Carolina still has a law that I last heard about in Victorian porn.
In explaining the whole Sinema situation--Sinematuation--to my BF, I looked up "alienation of affection" and...okay, so the full title of the NC law includes the phrase alienation of affection and criminal conversation."
January 16, 2026 at 1:14 AM
In explaining the whole Sinema situation--Sinematuation--to my BF, I looked up "alienation of affection" and...okay, so the full title of the NC law includes the phrase alienation of affection and criminal conversation."
Also, maybe it's the romantasy reader in me, but when I read "slept with her bodyguard," I do not picture the guy in the photos.
January 15, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Also, maybe it's the romantasy reader in me, but when I read "slept with her bodyguard," I do not picture the guy in the photos.
Have only glanced at the headlines for joke purposes, but my stance on infidelity is a firm "whatever" and the person wrecking the marriage is the person who was part of it.
January 15, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Have only glanced at the headlines for joke purposes, but my stance on infidelity is a firm "whatever" and the person wrecking the marriage is the person who was part of it.