Rebecca Henely-Weiss

@rebeccahenweiss

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)

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Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· 28d

Only one answer for me these days:

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jul 6

Well, Little Lady … we made it through.

Me in the hospital holding my newborn daughter.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jul 6

And finally for the Readathon challenge ... I tried to write a book and failed. (Couldn't manage it with the full-time job, two kids and pregnancy fatigue.) I'm using my DNF award for this. It'll be called "People With Mortgages" if I ever finish it.

In a perfect world, or even a slightly better one, this wouldn’t be the way that Angelica Price met her fiance’s daughter and ex-wife.
Originally, Derek’s plane was supposed to leave Heathrow late last night and arrive at Dulles in the afternoon. Then he was hit with a one-hour delay that turned into four hours, and then turned into the entire flight getting cancelled until the next day. When Derek called to tell Angelica the shitty news, he explained that he had already asked Heather if she could bring their daughter Layla over tomorrow. Unfortunately, Heather was already an hour into the drive from New Castle in Delaware to Damascus in Maryland and she said there was no way she was paying the Baltimore toll a second time.
“So she’s still coming today?” Angelica asked, rubbing her temples as she sat at their new kitchen table.
“I’m pretty sure,” Derek said, his voice sounding choppy over his rented phone. “Heather said she and Kayla would probably stop for lunch so that gives you a little extra time, but … I think she’ll be showing up soon.”
“Any chance she changes her mind?” Angelica asked.
“Probably not,” Derek said. “She said she’s got her own flight out to Buffalo tomorrow afternoon and needs the packing time.”
Fuck my life, Angelica thought to herself, then added in a, and fuck the airlines for good measure, even though she knew every air traffic controller in America was basically in the same shitty situation she was in right now.
Well, kind of … at least they still had their jobs.
“I’m really sorry I can’t be there with you,” Derek said. “Trust me, nobody wants to be home more than me.”
Angelica snorted. She lifted the back of her left hand in front of her face and slowly rotated her hand back and forth so the light fixture above the table would make the diamonds on her engagement ring sparkle. “I know I’d rather spend a day alone at a hotel in London than an afternoon with your ex-wife.”

“She won’t be there the whole afternoon,” Derek insisted. “I mean, don’t push her out the door without offering her something to drink …”
Angelica squeezed her left hand into a fist. “Do you know me?”
“I’m just saying. She’ll probably see herself out within the hour. If you want you can time it, we can make a bet on it …”
Angelica rolled her eyes. She got tired of sitting at the kitchen table and got up to pace around the island counter, her eyes noting the dishes in the sinks and the used single-serve coffee pods that had been left out as she walked. “What about Layla? Is she really going to be OK staying over with me?”
”Why wouldn’t she be?”
“Because I’m the trifling hoe who stole her Daddy?” Angelica asked in a voice that she hoped came across as teasing, but …
Derek let out a long, rough noise, somewhere between a sigh and a moan of aggravation. “Angie, you know that’s not what happened.”
”It doesn’t matter what happened, it’s what she probably thinks.”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jul 5

Did another Readathon Task Challenge … draw a picture of a scene from your favorite book!

A black and white drawing from GREAT EXPECTATIONS of Miss Havisham looking over Pip and Estella as they play a game of cards.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jun 22

[anime villainess “Oh ho ho ho” laugh]

Text: “Golda could have agreed with much of the column. She did not speak Russian, she had no interest in the fine points of diplomatic life, and she was among the most anti-Communist of all her colleagues. Time and again, during World War II, she reminded her comrades of the anti-Zionist positions the Soviet Union had taken and warned that young people, dazzled by the heroics of the Red Army, might lose faith in their own country’s ideals. She even placed the Bund, the early socialist party that had opposed Zionism, above Jewish Communists. “They are Jews, she said, “in my eyes, the Communists are not Jews.” The Bundists had rejected Zionism, but they had maintained their Jewishness; many of the Communists had tried to obliterate all traces of their Jewish identities.”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jun 18

To be fair, there were signs the mangaka of FIRE FORCE was a foot guy …

Cover of the FIRE FORCE omnibus that shows the main character in a fireman’s uniform with blue stripes. He has no shoes and fire/sentient fire balls are coming from his bare feet.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jun 16

Another thing for the Readathon within the Readathon I finished … this TBR game I made.

Game board drawn in colored pencil where the player is taken on a path through THE FOUR LANDS OF READING: “Land of Tales” (Short Stories), “Land of Vistas” (Comics), “Land of Epics” (Novels) and “Land of Knowledge” (Nonfiction). I’ll post the rules in another post.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jun 8

Sharing something I wrote for a reading challenge within a reading challenge. Prompt was "Write a Poem About Reading."

Reading Dr. Seuss to my Sons
By Rebecca Henely-Weiss

Isn’t this the Place I wanted To Go?
”What do you want to be when you grow up?”
“A writer!” I said, because my favorite thing was reading.
And I read a lot of Dr. Seuss …

But what was I reading, really?
Rhymes and simple words and moral lessons,
Delivered through drawings of furry, saggy monsters.
I don’t draw like that.
I don’t write like that.

Still, the books are good fun that is funny,
As the old doctor once wrote …
No, no, they were always more than that:
First stories, first rhymes, first morals.

A recording of me at 2-years-old, reciting the lines of “Grinch”
is locked on an unplayable VHS tape.
It’s mirrored in a video of my then 2-year-old son locked on The Cloud
His high-pitched tones almost rendering indecipherable:
“How do you do? Would you like to shake hands with Thing One and Thing Two?”

Our early stories shine gold in our memories,
But one former child’s treasure is another grown-up’s pablum.
And gold can develop tarnish, enshrinement covered in oobleck.
I know too much — the racist drawings, the affair, his first wife’s suicide
My younger son watches that horrible Lorax movie a lot.

One can’t really be faithful 100%.
More stories come, more writers come.
The 2-year-old’s hat-wearing cat
Is replaced with the 7-year-old’s underwear superhero.
I have read a lot in four decades.

And yet my younger son learns to read
Connecting the “up” and the “pup”
And the “hop” and the “pop”
And while I may not have gotten
to The Place I want To Go
When he reads I remember where I’ve been …

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jun 1

Second batch of HRCYED 2 completions:

Animal Friends
House Pets - Cat-astrophic Love by Kat Summers (Cat)
Exotic Pets - Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo (Raccoon)
Farm Animals - Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Chickens, Cows, Horses)
Wild Animals - Watership Down by Richard Adams (Rabbits)
Zoo Animals - Wintah by Lara G Elmore (Lioness)
(I did it!)

All the Adaptations
Modern Retelling - Given to the Beast by Magen Cubed (Source Material: Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (Not Read))
Musical - Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Source Material: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Previously Read))
Graphic Novel/Comic - Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy & John Jennings (Source Material: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Previously Read))
Play - The Cat in the Hat - Live on Stage! (Source Material: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (Previously Read Many Times))
TV Show - Heated Rivalry (Source Material: Game Changers and Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (Not Read))
Web Series - Public History: A David Copperfield Web Series (Source Material: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Previously Read)
Animation - Watership Down (1978 movie) - REWATCH (Source Material: Watership Down by Richard Adams)
Movie - The Girl With All the Gifts (Source Material: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey)

(I did it!)

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jun 1

I'm not even going to get a bingo (much less a blackout) on HRCYED 2 but here's my thread of some of the tasks I've done and I'll keep adding until the challenge ends/I deliver my baby. (Feel free to ask me about any of these books too.)

24 Hour Readathon:
Still Waters, Sharp Teeth - 47 pages - Read
And Then There Were None (Incomplete)
Given to the Beast - 24 Pages - Read
Hawkeye: Little Hits -136 Pages - Read
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 2 (Incomplete)

Total Read: 3
(I did it!)

Nonfiction Challenge
Epistolary - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanif
Comedy Memoir - Vacationland by John Hodgman
Gender Studies - Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex and the Truth They Reveal by Lux Alptraum
Graphic Memoir - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Paleontology - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
(I did it!)

Disability Challenge
Diabetes - The Boyfriend by Abigail Barnette
Depression - Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Mobility Issues/Cane User - The Billionaire Boss by Abigail Barnette
Compulsive Buying Disorder - Half His Age by Jenette McCurdy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian
(I did it!)

Spooky Creatures
Vampire - Blood Work by Lara G Elmore (Vampires)
Shifter - Braylen by Lara G Elmore (Tigress Shifter)
Magic User - Sourcery by Terry Pratchett (Wizards)
Fae Folk - The Rise of the Legion Queen by Kate Seger (Fae/Elves/Sidhe)
Ghosts - The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer (Ghosts)
Merfolk - The Girl From the Sea by [Deadname for Lee Knox Ostertag] (Selkie)
Zombie - The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey ("Hungries")
Other Creature - Dasher by Poppy Minnix (Krampus)
(I did it!)

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· May 20

Picture of me in my late 20s:

Exit 12 Left Meme:

Way Straight Ahead: “Eat prepped meals in office where you hate your editor or apartment with roommate who hates you.”

Exit That the Blue car is screeching into: “Go out to eat at a different ethnic restaurant in Queens every night”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· May 10

I had this idea for a sequel to my HELLUVA BOSS fanfic that Millie’s subplot is to in a moment of insecurity over becoming a mom gets sucked into one of my Goetia OCs’ tradwife videos and now I want to write it to spite this video essayist in particular.

Video titled “HELLUVA BOSS REINFORCES PATRIARCHY” with Verosika looking off into the middle distance.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· May 5

You gotta be kidding me with this horseshit.

A YouTube video titled “Traditional FEMALE Songs in Animation Worldwide!” that puts the Yemeni flag under Israeli-born Ofra Haza’s character from THE PRINCE OF EGYPT.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· May 2

Criticism was a mistake.

A video essay by Council of Geeks called “The difficult art of the redemption arc” with a picture of three cartoon characters with a word in red written across their eyes: Vox from HAZBIN HOTEL (“MONSTER”) Omni-Man from INVINCIBLE (“MURDERER”) and Rose Quartz from STEVEN UNIVERSE (“LIAR”).

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Apr 25

Um, what’s Stolas growing back there?

Blitz from HELLUVA BOSS strolling by a plant with lemons on it and a sign that reads “NO WHORES.”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Apr 6

Am I doing this right?

A display of sweetners near a DIY coffee bar labeled “White sugar, Pink Sweetner, Splenda, Raw Sugar, Blue Sweetner, Green Sweetner.”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Apr 5

Just got a recommendation for another Hellaverse hatedom video and Bro, what did Vassago even do?

A screenshot of a YouTube video (author censored) titled “Horrible Twink Rep in Hazbin.” Shows a collage of St. Peter, Vassago, Stolas, Fizzaroli and Angel Dust with the words “GAY MOCKERY” over it.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Apr 3

Z’’L to this poor bastard with the now-unfortunate name in the Golda Meir biography.

“He told Ben Shapiro, founder of Chicago’s Poalei Zion,”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Mar 25

Like, compare the thumbnail of S@i’s video that @nth0ny called “cruel” to a recent one that Cr!m drew for @nth0ny’s channel. If anything, I think the latter is meaner. But hey, it’s a picture of The Second Story and she’s a right-wing Helen Lovejoy scold who lies a lot, so it’s OK.

A thumbnail showing Artiece (an orange catgirl furry wearing a purple shirt) crying while pointing at Blitz and Stolas from HELLUVA BOSS while screaming “ABUSE!”

A picture of The Second Story - rendered as a cartoon with giant yellow demon eyes and a drooling mouth - crouched over a giant teacup and glaring at a werewolf ripping off his flannel shirt. The words “Monster F****ng Killed Reading?” are in the background.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Mar 2

The beef industry has got to be fucking us with this shit.

A picture of cooking sprays:
Avocado oil - $6.99
Wagyu beef tallow - $12.99
PAM - $3.99

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Mar 1

Purim Chag Sameach!

Me wearing a red and black shirt with a purple and white domino mask and fairy wings.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 28

MAIL DAAAAAAAY!!!! (Was actually Thursday night but I finally opened it.)

Mug with a picture of Stella from HELLUVA BOSS doing an anime “Oh ho ho” laugh from Sai Scribbles.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 24

Oh, I forgot about this moment, too. I guess this is literal internalized misogyny or something.

AO3 Screenshot:

“ moonlight_howling_666: Hey … remember when I said nobody has the right to tell you you’re never supposed to have been born?

moonlight_howling_666: Well, that includes yourself, OK?

Octavia took a deep breath. She understood what Loona meant, but ...

gothchk17: How do I get myself to shut up, then?

moonlight_howling_666: Pfft! Fuck if I know. I’ve been trying to get the bitch in my head to shut up for years.

moonlight_howling_666: But sometimes even if you can’t shut the bitch up you can get another voice in there to remind you that she’s wrong.”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 24

I’m not a big fan of this channel but 10/10 on the thumbnail here:

A YouTube thumbnail of a video titled, “Why Ballerina Farm Gave Up On Raw Milk.” Shows a picture of a white blond lady in a dress jeans and old style cap in front of a line of cows with giant letters in white reading, “THE POOP WON”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 23

OH NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Photo of a sliding glass door with visible snow piled up on the bottom and spread across the top

Photo of a snowy backyard with a lawn chair of snow piled up to the seat, plus snow piled up on a grill and on a deck.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 15

Computer … enhance.

A closeup drawing of Vivienne “Vivziepop” Medrano peeping from behind the curtain in a bigger print featuring several HELLUVA BOSS characters.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 8

I was playing CRAZY TAXI with @ronchronchronch.bsky.social last night and she was like, “This chick looks like Mary Jane Watson in the 90s. Like this is her side gig.”

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 7

I had to clean up three turds tonight and now LOOK AT WHAT THIS FUCKING BITCH IS DOING!!!

My tuxedo cat leaning up against my pillow on dark blue sheets and sleeping.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Feb 6

(For context, this happened once in one episode and I’ve seen it happen in every third Stolitz fanfic I’ve read, I think.)

Stolas answering the phone with pupil hearts in his eyes.

Rebecca Henely-Weiss@rebeccahenweiss· Jan 20

What’s a comic book costume you know is terrible but you love it anyways?