Lara Elena Donnelly

I don’t newsletter as often as I tweet (which tbh has become infrequently), but in case of emergency you can find me here: laradonnelly.substack.com

@JacksonEflin @TheBrianMcNatt The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham! Siegfried Sassoon by Max Egremont! Nobody Said Not to Go! West with the Night!

@JacksonEflin @TheBrianMcNatt The Dawn of Everything! Fabric: The Material History of a Hidden World! Operation Doublecross!

Give this man more money, he is the only person making the kinds of movies i want to see.

Achievement(s) unlocked laradonnelly.substack.com/p/on-finishing…

@tramontela But as a collection of things, what are those! What would the title of the powerpoint slide be?

@larazontally Leveraging human capital. Building tomorrow’s future — today. Our people are our greatest asset. Driving today’s solutions to tomorrow’s problems. Now, more than ever. A new mindset for the next millennium. Roadmapping change.

I need some crowdsourced corporate speak for a company's guiding principles: Guardrails. Core values. Mission Statement. Come on, give me your worst jargon!

@lbrothers Yes but what do we CALL those bits of pablum? Foundational tenets? Keystone principles?

@LadzWriting CORE TENETS

found this paper by one of my kids and was immediately taken aback so i asked him what was written on it..... he was confused because he didn't write anything at all, he drew a picture of a fork, knife, plate, napkin, and spoon......... i was like oh okay nevermind😭😭😭😭😭

truly cannot believe this INSANE SHOW with such a BISEXUAL PLOT aired in the year of our lord 2010

I am finally watching the og gay pirate show and prepping to defend my thesis, "Black Sails: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Indictment of Kyriarchy." (no spoilers I am only just finishing season 2!!!!!)

Working on the second book in a row where a ZipCar has featured as tertiary character.

"Now, Sir Gawain, if ye be as bold as ye claim, meet me on New Year's morn at the Green Chapel, and I shall give you a blow such as ye have given me."

...are people still on Twitter? Should I come back? I honestly haven't missed it that much but I guess as an author it's like...moderately useful? Also there are good memes here.

@CarolineMEisen Man you weren't kidding. This hit right where it hurts.

There really was this sense of limitless expansiveness, especially heady when paired with the limitless expansiveness of being young; that feeling of freedom is totally missing from being online now. It's a truly intimate, wistful piece, one that made me ache

This essay from @chaykak--adapted from FILTERWORLD, out 1/16--is an excruciatingly lovely piece about growing up digitally at a time when being online felt boundless, and what has been lost as the internet has curdled, turned contained and commercialized newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

hello, you may now find me at larazontally.bsky.social. I was given a beautiful chance to get off of social media forever and I...didn't take it :P

Every pink-covered woman at this theater greeted one another with enthusiastic “hi Barbie!!!”s and I feel like I have transcended from this plane to a feminist dreamscape hello

If you're in the Pittsburgh area, come to our @AlphaWorkshop event on 7/22 at 7pm, at the Greensburg Barnes and Noble! Students reading, @casskhaw reading, books signed, friendly faces! Big nerding out about books!

I'm staffing at @AlphaWorkshop for the next two weeks, which means i gotta go on BARBIE BLACKOUT until I get back.