Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning

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That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise. Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds. No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· 27d

a still from one of the Little Rascals shorts, depicting the boys' makeshift clubhouse and its sign "He-Man Woman Haters Club: No Girls Allowed"

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· 27d

it's "It's a Good Life" but with armies and nukes instead of psychic powers

a still from the 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, "It's a Good Life," showing a room of adults clustered around a child

the plot of the episode is that the child has psychic powers and can use them to destroy people, and has indeed destroyed almost the entire world, so all of the surviving adults are anxiously placating him to avoid death

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· 27d

everyone who does not have children, whether by choice or circumstance, has been a child and almost everyone who does not have children has friends and family with children it really isn't a "walled garden" at all, it hardly has even one of those tiny decorative fences

an image of a suburban garden with a low metal fence around it

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· Jul 9

Incredible Mr. Limpet cosplaying Top Gun

an image from the promotional materials for the 1964 film The Incredible Mr. Limpet, which is about a bookkeeper who dreams of becoming a fish, somehow magically does, and then becomes the US Navy’s secret weapon by identifying ships and submarines to target

the image shows Don Knotts, the star of the film, a slender white man with a somewhat recessed chin and a prominent Adam’s apple, making a fish-like mouth gawp at his animated counterpart, a stylized fish that looks like him facially

both Knotts and the cartoon fish are wearing pince-nez style round glasses

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· Jul 9

this is the energy I’m bringing to the world today

a sign above where the cord for the window blind in a cafe should be

handwritten on a circular sticker, it reads “I’m broken {frown face} please don’t adjust me”

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· Jul 7

I cannot confirm that this image represents his groin, but I cannot refute the rumors

a close up photo of some pineapple isopods, very spiky little critters who resemble their namesake in shape and color

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· Jul 7

I dressed up as the St. Pauli Girl for Halloween one year in grad school! but yeah, now I am going for Jeanne Moreau in Un Amour de sorcière

a still from the 1997 film Un Amour de sorcière

actor Jeanne Moreau is playing the powerful witch Eglantine, pictured here in her magical laboratory

Moreau is a 69-year-old, distinguished-looking white French woman with carefully styled hair and makeup

she is wearing a white lab coat over what looks like a silk dress

she is surrounded by iconic trappings of witchcraft (a candle, a bell, ancient books) and science (a bubbling retort, test tubes)

her expression is one of determined concentration

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· Jul 6

we’re all still jumpy from the fireworks

a photograph of a fireworks display taken at a moment when the sky was lit up with bright red

the heads of some of the people watching are silhouetted against the sky

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting· Jun 29

the annual fair in Hardwick, Massachusetts (population 2,667) is put on with a budget of $50,000 total, $3,000 contributed by the town of Hardwick complete banger compared to this