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Charlotte Shane
@charoshane.bsky.social
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"As I’ve said many a time, I don’t like movies. They underwhelm and annoy me; I am immune to their alleged magic."

October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Summer reading roundup! charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/8/...
September 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I started a blog to share some recent delights: Chinese ballads, Buddhist books, KinnPorsche charlotteshane.com/reading-list...
I finally binged KinnPorsche, a Thai soap opera about mobsters fucking each other and falling in love. There's one straight couple in a character's back story but don't worry, they die. It took me until episode eight or nine-after scenes in which 1) bagged sliced bread is repeatedly brought to people on trays and prominently displayed on tables otherwise full of cooked food, 2) a mafia family throws a black tie gala to unveil their new product: sliced bread, and 3) Kinn and Porsche tease each other sexually with, you guessed it, sliced bread —before it dawned on me: this show is sponsored by sliced bread.
April 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Intention is all we have.
Intention is all we have when we do anything, including create. Intellectually I get it, but it's a terrible struggle to accept that the impacts are beyond you. The situation of Matt Furie, who created Pepe the Frog, is haunting. How would it feel to draw a cute apolitical cartoon that becomes a lasting calling card for white supremacists? Just imagine if some superficially innocuous sentence you wrote became beloved by Nazis-like, they're marching with it on posters, getting it tattooed on their bodies, making it their social media bios. I might want my work to do one thing and despite my best, most careful efforts, it might do another. If I truly can't live with that possibility, the only option is to do nothing. Which also feels unsustainably irresponsible.
January 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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People by and large are not hearing sex workers speak about their work, I think that’s very clear.
I believe most people who thank me for being "so open" or "so honest" mean it sincerely. But I also heard this from interviewers who asked disrespectful questions and betrayed a lot of biases in the course of our discussion, so I see disapproval and condescension inherent in it, however subconscious that may be. I think it also (usually) betrays tremendous ignorance about sex work. People by and large are not hearing sex workers speak about their work, I think that's very clear. Nor have they been exposed to sex work's various historical and cultural contexts. All they encounter is essentially state propaganda in support of extensive criminalization and surveillance, or radical feminist-inflected discourse rooted in antipathy.
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Elizabeth Hall interviewed me for Full Stop Magazine and asked the best questions. Here are a few excerpts. First: meaninglessness is a message. www.full-stop.net/2025/01/07/i...
In creative writing workshops, both undergrad and graduate, professors said that political art was impotent, ineffective, and destined to obsolescence. Clearly this is untrue, though whether it's the legacy of direct involvement by the CIA is beyond my expertise. Everything is political, even pop culture products designed for mindless consumption, intended as profitable entertainment with no meaning or message. Meaninglessness is a message.
January 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Beautiful tabby kitten getting a pet while she sits in a lap
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Freeze frame of tabby kitten getting attacked by adult tabby (she’s fine)
November 16, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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You all like kittens?
November 15, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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Oh yes it’s Fifa’s night and the feeling’s right
Tabby cat laying directly on her back on top of another tabby while looking at the camera
February 9, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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I have a podcast! With @jolivingstone.bsky.social! Featuring guests! We talk about books and reading and make each other laugh. It’s called Reading Writers and can be found in the usual places. (Also, I’m addicted to the theme song.) open.spotify.com/episode/3H8U...
Reading Writers podcast Logo: RW in white script over a dark still life background
February 8, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Most precious angel beauty baby
Tabby cat sleeping in front of a window while getting a pet
February 3, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Violet :)
Gray cat contorted in ridiculous position with legs up in the air and toes stretched
January 12, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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My life is improved immeasurably simply by looking at him
Beautiful one eyed black cat looking up at the sky
November 7, 2023 at 8:36 PM
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Remorseless dragon who kept me up in the middle of the night bc she wanted petting
Gray cat in a weird half crouching pose
October 19, 2023 at 3:20 PM
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Good morning from Fifa
Tabby cat sunning herself belly up. She looks ridiculous, and also like a precious angel
September 21, 2023 at 1:39 PM
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Everyone’s obsessed with this cream puff I’m cat sitting
Fluffy blue eyed Himalayan kitten sitting in a cat bed. Ear tufts like whoa Same kitten closer up
August 9, 2023 at 4:16 PM
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He’s just allowed to be like this?
Tuxedo cat with both arms stretched out and back leg against his face Different angle of droopy ridiculous tuxedo cat
August 4, 2023 at 3:49 PM
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Good morning
Gray cat and black and white cat looking at the camera
July 31, 2023 at 2:03 PM
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This Barbie is about to lick her butt
Plush gray cat sitting on a bed with one hind leg up
July 24, 2023 at 2:51 PM