Emily

@themerriest

Aspiring starving poet. Weird mom. Oversharing on the internet since 1999. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 Let's be pen pals:

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Emily@themerriest· 24d

Listen, she made it work, honey. via archive.is/vvJcT

A screenshot of the linked Vulture article. It reads:
I have another question about actors and their choices: When you show up on set, like you did for Peggy Sue Got Married, and realize that Nicolas Cage has decided to play his part with such an unusual voice — that he was doing a thing — how did that affect how you calibrated your performance?

It was tough to not say, “Cut it out.” But it wasn’t my job to say to another actor what he should or shouldn’t do. So I went to [director] Francis [Ford Coppola]. I asked him, “You approved this choice?” It was very touchy. He [Nicolas Cage] was very difficult on set. But the director allowed what Nicolas wanted to do with his role, so I wasn’t in a position to do much except play with what I’d been given. If anything, it [Cage’s portrayal] only further illustrated my character’s disillusionment with the past. The way I saw it was, yeah, he was that asshole.

Sorry, Nicolas Cage or his character?

Listen, I made it work, honey.

Emily@themerriest· Jul 8

Sometimes I’m like, “The Pacific Northwest isn’t a foreign country, you’re being dramatic,” and then the kids show up to summer camp and there are government employees with a dead fish and some paint to do a fun craft.

A large, dead fish on some newspaper. It’s sort of dark grey. Its eye is intact. It’s covered in red and green paint.

A white bandana being held up by two pairs of gloved hands. On it is a print of the dead fish in red, blue, purple, and green. It’s weirdly beautiful. The giant fish is also there. It is, and I cannot emphasize this enough, incredibly grey and dead. And its eye is intact.

Emily@themerriest· Jun 19

Fully roasted by my husband handing me a book called Seahorse Is Furious And There‘s Nothing You Can Do About It.

A photograph of a picture book open on the floor of a bookstore. The left page has a bright blue background and a small red octopus holding up a big plate with a sandwich on it. The text reads, “Whatever you do; don’t ask him if he’s hungry.”

The right page has a bright red background. A furious grey seahorse is taking up the page and he’s yelling: “SEAHORSE DOES NOT WANT YOUR SILLY SNACKS.”

Emily@themerriest· Jun 17

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you, Lindsay Price edition.

Emily@themerriest· Jun 10

I hung up my free print from the zine fest I went to a couple of weeks ago. 😭

A photograph of the view from bed: A gold nightstand with an eReader, a pair of glasses, and a cold bottle of water. A print the size of a quarter of a sheet of paper is taped to the wall.

A closeup of the print. It’s a black and white illustration printed on light green paper. A deer is sleeping surrounded by plants. Text above and below it say, “I DESERVE REST,” in bubble letters.

Emily@themerriest· Jun 8

LOL

A photograph of an issue of US Weekly in a rack at Target. A white man in a suit is on the cover. Large white text over him says “This Is My Destiny.” Text above his head says, “Can Spencer Pratt Really Run LA?” And P.S., it turns out NO. lol

Emily@themerriest· Jun 6

By the way, the little outfit they give you for your mammogram? A serve.

A photograph of a white woman pointing her camera at a mirror in a clinical dressing room. She’s wearing a black KN95 mask and a pair of tan sandals with an ankle strap. The clinic has provided her with a pair of disposable navy elastic shorts, the size and shape a clown might wear. Sort of an a-line short, if you will. She’s also wearing a light blue drape that sort of looks like a chambray shirt combined with a giant chambray scarf. If she had a giant sun hat on it could almost be a beach look.

Emily@themerriest· May 22

A photograph of a giant thorn. It looks like the tooth of some horrible animal. It’s flanked by several pots of Citadel paint.

Emily@themerriest· May 11

Evergreen. via www.etsy.com/listing/1704...

A cross-stitched gravestone with a single red rose placed at the base of it. The grave reads: “her labs were fine.”

Emily@themerriest· May 7

I liked them before it was cool.™️

Screenshot of Gourmet magazine. It reads: BITTER, PURPLE, AND READ ALL OVER
The wonderful weirdos at the food zine Radicchio Salad have written a wide-ranging prose poem that is the last take any of us needs on the adverb-y recipes coming out of the New York Times. I didn't expect them to bring The Matrix into it, but it does kind of make sense.Weeknight chicken? No surprises there!
—N.S.

Emily@themerriest· May 3

A square, zoomed-in photograph of a table at a park. A bright blue metal grid of 6 by 6 squares with a bright yellow flower stuck through the top left quadrant.

Emily@themerriest· Apr 29

A photograph of a pale yellow bloom on the pavement of a grocery store parking lot. The bottom petals are almost translucent. A worn, white piece of trash—a candy wrapper, maybe?—is next to it. A diagonal line from where the pebbled sidewalk transitions to the parking lot cuts through the bottom half of the photo and there are bits of scraggly greenery poking through.

Emily@themerriest· Apr 27

I call this look Please Don’t Puke In the School Drop-Off Line Chic.

Photograph that a sick human woman took of herself at a sort of five-foot-nothing birds-eye view. She’s wearing an oversized grey knit cardigan, fuzzy black pj pants with a white reindeer print, and a pair of leopard print ballet flats. In her non-camera hand is an open yellow travel mug full of milky tea. She did not puke in the drop-off line. Please clap.

Emily@themerriest· Apr 23

Screenshot of a tweet. Avery Edison @aedison. I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
7:53 AM • Mar 24, 2023 • 4.1M Views

Emily@themerriest· Apr 8

Meanwhile, at the playground:

Photograph of the sidewalk at a playground. A strip of bright green grass is at the top. In the middle, written in white chalk in a childish scrawl, reads the word: butt.

Emily@themerriest· Mar 27

I used to have the dinky little CD single of it. Also I’m furious about this now… www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Shaznay Lewis knew from the start that she would always be the outsider in All Saints. Soon after the notoriously volatile band signed their first major label deal with London records, she discovered that the rest of the girls - Mel Blatt and the Canadian sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton - had presented the label head with a tape of vocal recordings they'd made without her. As it turned out, it was their version of Shaznay's own song
"Never Ever" that made him sit up and pay attention.
"He asked who had written it, so then they were forced to come back and get me," she recalls ruefully. "Looking back on it, that was pretty low. I think that's why the whole time I knew that if I didn't write I'd be out on my ear."

Emily@themerriest· Mar 17

It’s literally baked potato day at work today. 🥹

A photograph of a cut-open baked potato on a green plastic plate with a computer keyboard in the background. The potato is loaded with butter, cheddar cheese, barbacoa, sour cream, and chives from someone’s garden.

Emily@themerriest· Mar 17

Weirdest morning shuffle pick ever. Elicited an actual laugh. Obviously I listened to the whole thing.

Screenshot of YouTube Music: Clone High Theme by Abandoned Pools.

Emily@themerriest· Mar 10

A photograph of the hood of a light blue car covered in frost. The patterns in the frost look like big feathers swirling around each other.

Emily@themerriest· Feb 14

This is…the worst fucking thing I’ve ever seen.

Screenshot of an ad on Pandora. A vaguely grungy brown background, a header that says, “Message From Pandora Alternative.” A dark blue circle in the center has a chunky font that reads, “CIGARETTE MOM ROCK.” The text is annoyingly off center like there’s an extra space in there or something. A white button at the bottom reads “Tap Now to Listen.”

Emily@themerriest· Jan 12

Sparkles is serving today.

Screenshot of the Finch app widget. A blue bird is wearing black boots, green check pants, and an Icelandic patterned green sweater with a purple floral cowl scarf on top. She’s also wearing a purple hood with a fur lining and purple cat-eye glasses. She’s dancing and smiling. A tiny raccoon named Crumbs stands next to her. She’s achieved 21 of 35 lightning bolts. A skyline including the Hallgrimskirkja is behind her.

Emily@themerriest· Jan 7

A meme that’s text on top of a photograph of an orca popping up out of the ocean. The text is written in Comic Sans, the least serious font, and it reads, “I came out of the ocean because you need to stop.”

Emily@themerriest· Jan 1

The last picture in your roll is your vibe for 2026

A split of cheap prosecco and a bottle of simple syrup on the conveyer belt at a liquor store. Supplies to make French 75s that are currently untouched in the fridge.

Emily@themerriest· Dec 29

My ketchup spill is winking at me.

Ketchup on a grey pillowcase. It’s natural ketchup and the lighting is bad so it looks more brown than red. It has created the crude shape of someone with a bald head and a big beard. There’s one splash that appears to be a winking eye.

Emily@themerriest· Dec 21

Love this guy. (It won't let me put alt text on it but it's a cartoon of a red Frosty cup and he's wiggling from side to side in a little dance.) He's lived on my computer since November 24, 2024.

Emily@themerriest· Dec 21

Theory: Men are aging into Tig Notaro.

A photograph of Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers, holding a microphone on stage. He's wearing a purple jacket with black lapels and black skinny pants. He has one hand on his hip. He has short dark hair, and maybe it's my face blindness, but it's giving Tig. This has been on my desktop since July 6, 2025.

A screenshot of Adam Scott from the show Severance. He's wearing a white shirt and a blue-grey tie, jacket, pant combo. He's squatting down to crawl through a small door. He has longish dark hair, and again, I do have mild face blindness, but he is also giving Tig. This has also been on my desktop since July 6, 2025.

Emily@themerriest· Dec 21

The two genders, etc.

A screenshot from some sort of Amazon product, possibly a silicon muffin mold? On one side is a plate of five cupcakes in wrappers, each with a dollop of white icing and topped with a sugar-dusted raspberry. On the other side is three muffin-shaped eggs with lightly crisped edges, dusted with an alarming amount of what I want to say is chives. The caption reads: "Cream Muffin / egg muffin." This has been on my desktop since January 28, 2024.

Emily@themerriest· Dec 20

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER is a perfect holiday movie and a perfect rom-com. The way Jimmy Stewart gazes at Margaret Sullavan!

Still from THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940). Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart sit back to back at adjacent cafe tables. She’s looking at something out of frame and he’s looking at her over his shoulder like she’s the most beautiful, frustrating woman alive.

Emily@themerriest· Dec 10

I forgot to skeet this, but it’s been so nice to come home and be greeted by this little guy, courtesy of @bagofmoons.bsky.social. He arrived safe and sound the week of Thanksgiving. 💕

An Indonesian mask hanging on a white wall.

Emily@themerriest· Dec 9

Hugs from the hug guy.