You should read Gigi Pandian’s “Secret Staircase” mysteries—about a former magician who comes home to work for her family’s renovation company, but instead of normal renovations they specialize in secret rooms and stairways and stuff.

No, but in college I turned every freshman philosophy paper into a Thing. I did my Socrates paper in the form of a Socratic dialogue, and my Kant paper turned into a fantasy short story exploring why the categorical imperative doesn’t work in real life.

I can see the blurb now: "Your anthology made my uterus whisper 'finally, someone gets it'"--Random AI scambot that probably doesn't have a uterus

(I didn’t mean to suck with my first comment, and I apologize if I did…I GENUINELY didn’t know there was a whole body of humans outside of franchise-chasing studio heads who long for more Bond movies; now that I know I’ll STHU. :-) I hope they reboot it and it’s the best Bond ever. 🍸)

I can blame anybody! I’m a crabby old person now! 😆

But really, I hope they don’t “undo” his death. Heck, at this point they could do a total reboot, back in the sixties, start fresh.

(Also I’m a writer who kills characters just to give them great death scenes…I hate to see gifts rescinded…😆)

Fair.

It’s a pet peeve of mine, when writers are like “let’s raise the stakes! Mortal injury and death!” and then undo it, which of course obliterates the stakes.

(And I do like Bond—my forever fave is Dalton sledding down a mountain on a cello case.) (Guess I’m getting old and crabby. 😆)

Oh totally—if people want them, for sure, go for it. But…the way the article frames it as “Ohmigod he must live how can we get past the whole death thing” feels…squicky to me.

There are options, of course—any storyteller can find them—but if death is so easily undone, IMO, doesn’t it lose meaning?

I loved that film…it so gleefully leaned into its own ridiculousness (e.g. sledding down the mountain on the cello case steering with the end pin of a Strad)…it was my first Bond and I’ll always adore it.

Or, you know, we could just like decide 27 films was enough for this franchise and…let him stay dead? Go back and rewatch the movies we have?

Do we really need MORE Bond movies?

(Cheering hard for Team Lupin over here…how ‘bout more of those? ❤️❤️❤️)

I was rolling my eyes going “PLEASE do we really need another Bond movie?” until I read this and realized I definitely would go see this Bond movie.

and the yarn…the YARN, it shouldn’t take up so much space, and yet…😆

The old “A Chorus Line” from the eighties. (It’s not very good…but it’s comforting!)

THE. WORST. I felt sick as a dog for 3 days after the damn thing and wiped out for 4 more…couldn’t sleep on that side for like a week…and we have to go back in a few months and do it AGAIN.

(Note: the above is an example of an autistic person attempting humor and irony.) (I’ll go for a walk later, really I will.) (Probably.) (Maybe.)

NOOOooOOOoo I refuse to believe it, the DT has gone over to Big Exercise and spreading these horrific rumors!! It isn’t true, it cannot be!

(Goes downstairs to the couch to curl up under 3 blankets and 2 dogs and contemplate mortality)

The finger was exactly the thing. Without being spoilery, I’ll just say you can’t just randomly do what they did re whose finger it was without laying the groundwork.

I would have preferred the finger to have been a nothingburger (pardon the expression) when all was said and done.