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Emily St. James
@emilystjams.bsky.social
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out March 2025). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Poorly plotted picture books: Most of my childhood.
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A lot of leftist arts critique is useful and valid, and a lot of it is just reverse engineering a negative opinion from kneejerk disgust at cringe online fandom, and it's important to know the difference.
Perhaps the hardest rule of arts criticism to remember is: Don't review the audience. Yet we all fuck this up all the time.
a lot of it is just reverse engineering a negative opinion from kneejerk disgust - my bio
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Emily St. James
@emilystjams.bsky.social
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out March 2025). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Poorly plotted picture books: Most of my childhood.
13.5k followers1.4k following3k posts