Rebecca Henely-Weiss
@rebeccahenweiss.bsky.social
Fortysomething mom, semi-pro writer and Jewish person. I'm posting about fandom stuff and reposting politics stuff until I get my act together. (She/her)
If you see this, post a Spider-Man
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
If you see this, post a Spider-Man
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
Here you go (threw in his Vox drawing, too)! I feel like this guy might be a bit scarier.
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Here you go (threw in his Vox drawing, too)! I feel like this guy might be a bit scarier.
“Recule, espece de bete immonde!” 🌈
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
“Recule, espece de bete immonde!” 🌈
I just went to Vivian Wilson’s page since the first time since I followed her and … oh. I knew she followed Vivziepop but she’s a FAN fan.
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I just went to Vivian Wilson’s page since the first time since I followed her and … oh. I knew she followed Vivziepop but she’s a FAN fan.
Does anybody else ever think about this?
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Does anybody else ever think about this?
And finally, I've left a lot of other 5-star books out, but I'm going to highlight an impulse read that knocked my socks off: POSSESSION by A.S. Byatt. The plot is exciting, the story has a lot of insightful things to say about academia and I'm still blown away by the poetry. LOVE IT!
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
And finally, I've left a lot of other 5-star books out, but I'm going to highlight an impulse read that knocked my socks off: POSSESSION by A.S. Byatt. The plot is exciting, the story has a lot of insightful things to say about academia and I'm still blown away by the poetry. LOVE IT!
I wasn't much of a reader as a kid, but a favorite book was CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY, about a knight's daughter who is constantly fending off her father's attempts to marry her off with hilarious results. I got a lot of stares when I kept reading this book at school and laughing. Couldn't help it.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I wasn't much of a reader as a kid, but a favorite book was CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY, about a knight's daughter who is constantly fending off her father's attempts to marry her off with hilarious results. I got a lot of stares when I kept reading this book at school and laughing. Couldn't help it.
I'm so sad I'll skip ahead to a more recent 5-star rating: THE DISASTER ARTIST (i.e. THE ROOM memoir). If you liked the movie adaptation and/or were let down by the movie, the book is SO much more mind-boggling. Consider it on audiobook so you can hear Greg Sestero do his mom's French accent.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I'm so sad I'll skip ahead to a more recent 5-star rating: THE DISASTER ARTIST (i.e. THE ROOM memoir). If you liked the movie adaptation and/or were let down by the movie, the book is SO much more mind-boggling. Consider it on audiobook so you can hear Greg Sestero do his mom's French accent.
When I was a baby I tried to review some webcomics for SEQUENTIAL TART I liked, only to have a lot of those webcomic creators get really pissy about being criticized. I was ready to give up on the medium entirely when I read the heartbreaking memoir MOM'S CANCER. I'm so glad I did.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
When I was a baby I tried to review some webcomics for SEQUENTIAL TART I liked, only to have a lot of those webcomic creators get really pissy about being criticized. I was ready to give up on the medium entirely when I read the heartbreaking memoir MOM'S CANCER. I'm so glad I did.
I'm on the part of my library where I started adding graphic novels and I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about WATCHMEN. I know it's a basic bitch answer but it truly is THAT GOOD, got better with every read, and is the reason I still have many of my friends. Also, if you hate Rorschach fight me.
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm on the part of my library where I started adding graphic novels and I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about WATCHMEN. I know it's a basic bitch answer but it truly is THAT GOOD, got better with every read, and is the reason I still have many of my friends. Also, if you hate Rorschach fight me.
I'm avoiding putting most of the books I read for college on here, but I remember this being pretty unique and part of my favorite college writing class. THE MIDNIGHT DISEASE is a nonfiction memoir that talks a lot about the science behind hypergraphia and writer's block. Would love to revisit.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'm avoiding putting most of the books I read for college on here, but I remember this being pretty unique and part of my favorite college writing class. THE MIDNIGHT DISEASE is a nonfiction memoir that talks a lot about the science behind hypergraphia and writer's block. Would love to revisit.
Also, things may have drastically changed since the book came out. LUCKY makes me sadder now that we know the real ending. The author went through something horrible, portrayed it masterfully and thought she did the right thing ... and now we know she (& the justice system) made a terrible mistake.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Also, things may have drastically changed since the book came out. LUCKY makes me sadder now that we know the real ending. The author went through something horrible, portrayed it masterfully and thought she did the right thing ... and now we know she (& the justice system) made a terrible mistake.
I'm not a huge Stephen King fan, and I understand people who prefer Stanley Kubrick's movie (and King didn't cover himself in glory with his own adaptation), but damn I really did like novel of THE SHINING. The flashbacks and intergenerational abuse stuff really got me.
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I'm not a huge Stephen King fan, and I understand people who prefer Stanley Kubrick's movie (and King didn't cover himself in glory with his own adaptation), but damn I really did like novel of THE SHINING. The flashbacks and intergenerational abuse stuff really got me.
I ... don't remember why I gave LIFE AFTER GOD 5 stars. I don't really remember much of this one at all except for one image of kids relaxing in a pool in the suburbs and feeling at peace with the universe and I think I liked the idea of finding something profound in something mundane.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I ... don't remember why I gave LIFE AFTER GOD 5 stars. I don't really remember much of this one at all except for one image of kids relaxing in a pool in the suburbs and feeling at peace with the universe and I think I liked the idea of finding something profound in something mundane.
OK, I think this is going to be the last English class coded one. I remember A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN in segments more than in full, but I really liked how well it described the feeling of growing up, and as someone whose grandparents grew up in New York this felt like a picture into their lives.
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
OK, I think this is going to be the last English class coded one. I remember A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN in segments more than in full, but I really liked how well it described the feeling of growing up, and as someone whose grandparents grew up in New York this felt like a picture into their lives.
JANE EYRE may be my second favorite book. I really like its portrait of the main character's life and while the romance isn't unproblematic (wish I liked WIDE SARGASSO SEA better), I think Mr. Rochester manages to walk the line between scary passionate and loving passionate. Really love this one.
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
JANE EYRE may be my second favorite book. I really like its portrait of the main character's life and while the romance isn't unproblematic (wish I liked WIDE SARGASSO SEA better), I think Mr. Rochester manages to walk the line between scary passionate and loving passionate. Really love this one.
I think early on my husband he said he thought this was the worst book he ever read, but to me DRACULA is still the best of the horror classics. I like how much action this book has even with the epistolary format, how the threats slowly unfold and the relationships between the characters.
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I think early on my husband he said he thought this was the worst book he ever read, but to me DRACULA is still the best of the horror classics. I like how much action this book has even with the epistolary format, how the threats slowly unfold and the relationships between the characters.
English/Lit class got a little easier when we read plays, and I really enjoyed CYRANO DE BERGERAC. I do wonder if I'd have more trouble with how little agency Roxanne has and the long diatribes on selling out if I read it today, but I'm amazed at how funny this was even in translation.
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
English/Lit class got a little easier when we read plays, and I really enjoyed CYRANO DE BERGERAC. I do wonder if I'd have more trouble with how little agency Roxanne has and the long diatribes on selling out if I read it today, but I'm amazed at how funny this was even in translation.
OK, my first 5-star book is very favorite book adjacent, DAVID COPPERFIELD. I read it when I was a teenager and it's very similar but longer and with a happier ending. One of those nice longreads that take you through the main character's life, and I love Betsey Trotwood!
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
OK, my first 5-star book is very favorite book adjacent, DAVID COPPERFIELD. I read it when I was a teenager and it's very similar but longer and with a happier ending. One of those nice longreads that take you through the main character's life, and I love Betsey Trotwood!
May delete this post later but I've been talking about this fanfic for weeks so ... here's a HELLUVA BOSS fic I wrote where Octavia goes ham on a bunch of magic homophobes.
archiveofourown.org/works/73697331
archiveofourown.org/works/73697331
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
May delete this post later but I've been talking about this fanfic for weeks so ... here's a HELLUVA BOSS fic I wrote where Octavia goes ham on a bunch of magic homophobes.
archiveofourown.org/works/73697331
archiveofourown.org/works/73697331
Expectation: "OK, I'm just dipping back into fanfic as a pressure valve. I can vomit up my feelings and keep it somewhere under 5,000 words, nice and simple ..."
Reality:
Reality:
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Expectation: "OK, I'm just dipping back into fanfic as a pressure valve. I can vomit up my feelings and keep it somewhere under 5,000 words, nice and simple ..."
Reality:
Reality:
Anyway here’s my kids, Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Anyway here’s my kids, Happy Halloween!
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM