Valerie Anne
@punkystarshine
Queer nerd/professional TV watcher/casual gamer. 🌈📺🎮 All the places I live on the internet: she/they
My newest pet peeve is when jobs are listed as "creative writer" on LinkedIn but when you read the description what they really mean is "AI slop generator." I promise I would do a better job than the robots (and I'm funnier, too).
Hot take: If you're playing your music at a volume where your downstairs neighbor (namely me) can not only make out words but also Shazam the song, IT IS WAY TOO LOUD. 👵🏻
The robots aren't spying on me hard enough if they think this is why I went to see The Last Five Years at Radio City.
Not to brag but I currently have FOUR dogs following me around in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Pretty sure I have won the game.
Don't tell me what to do, Wikipedia. I'll call it M'three-gan if I damn well please.
My Nana just told me I'm more interesting than the Olympics. Take THAT, athletes.
I logged on for my birthday to celebrate with my sons and I was like, "omg this place is so cute" as if I didn't spend months, maybe years, making it. 😅
In no particular order, the energy I'm bringing into 2026: Chaotic, feral writing; be gay do crime (especially anti-fascism crime); loving whatever I love with my whole heart (to be cringe is to be free); and being the gay goth cottagecore nerd of my dreams. Happy New Year! #Hello2026
Not to brag but I think I just saved Christmas. And I don't even eat roast beast.
Week two of Media Mayhem is here! Today we're talking MOVIES. I watched everything from Weapons to A Very Jonas Christmas Movie and so many random things in between. Find out how gay it was and what I thought of the films with little to no spoilers. valerieanne.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
My family is always wondering if I'll ever get married, meanwhile I 100% thought this said "honmoon" at first and then was disappointed it wasn't a KPop Demon Hunters themed sandwich.
In my Rachel Zegler era. Every few years when Stranger Things re-emerges, so does my obsession with Ingrid Michaelson's Stranger Songs. It's also Hazbin O'Clock again! (Musicals are always in rotation.) And if you don't know Nxdia YOU SHOULD. #SpotifyWrapped
Want to see something depressing? Tell me how I've paid $90k in 20 years but have only actually paid down this loan $16k. Student loans are a scam.
Nine years ago today, my first post went up on Autostraddle! 🌈 674 articles later, I'm still flailing about gay TV (and other such nonsense) every week! (And that doesn't even count the TV team/shared bylines from before WordPress let us have multiple!)
The original soft blonde/tough brunette wlw ship! And horse girls to boot!
Nine times out of ten, this is how you will find me 12 hours before I leave for a trip. Unpacked, unprepared, and with hair dye everywhere from the inside of my ear to the grout on my bathroom floor.