#Helen Phillips

[dk-thrive]

What was always true about raising a child is exquisitely true in the era of climate change: no one can absolve you or tell you with certainty that you succeeded. You live in the not-knowing, in the organ toward which the needle is moving, wondering whether, when it arrives, you might start to see.

–Katy Waldman, book review of Helen Phillips’ Hum titled "Is A.I. Making Mother's Obsolete." (The New Yorker, August 19, 2024)

[katrinahood]

Meet Helen Phillips. She's a manager of a daycare center, and she's got quite a strict demeanor. She's also in her eighties.

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

THE MESSY JOY OF THE FINAL THROES OF THE DINNER PARTY by Helen Phillips (2016) (link)

What an odd, odd joke for them to play on her - all seven of them frozen in place, the host half-standing to pour cream into coffee, forks held in various positions between apple pie and mouth, a hand thrown upward in emphasis, a head thrown backward in laughter, fingers wrapped fervently around wineglasses: a flawless tableau of the messy joy of the final throes of the dinner party.

AT NIGHTFALL, THE GOLDFISH by Melody Mou (2021) (link) - tw: death

My flowers asked me to leave the fact behind and give myself roses.

[book0ftheday]

The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips, designed by Meryl Sussman Levavi, printed 2015.

[night-eyes1]

[candiedblue]

Twister (1996) dir. Jan de Bont

[70zcowboy]

I LOVE THIS FUCKING MOVIE

[dingustripas]

Let Daniel Craig kiss Hugh Grant in the next Knives out Movie, pretty please. Let Phillip call Blanc “My darling” or “My dear” and let Blanc call Phillip “My sweetheart” or “my good husband”.

(TLDR: Let Phillip and Blanc be gay together, thanks)

[riversofmars]

Head Canon John Dorney approved.

[casasupernovas]

ANYWAY

Happy Birthday to the wonderful actress who brought Martha Jones to our screens!!!

Happy Birthday Freema Agyeman!

[foeofcolor]

Knives Out 3 : Helen and Marta kiss and go on a double date with Benoit Blanc and Phillip.

[glass-onion-incorrect-quotes]

Blanc: Phillip and I are having a baby.

Helen: That's grea-

Blanc, slamming adoption papers onto the table: It's you, sign here.

[the-almighty-pen]

If you haven’t put it together yet. Knives out / Glass Onion franchise is simply about Benoit Blanc finding children for him and his husband to adopt.

[book0ftheday]

The Need by Helen Phillips, cover design by David Litman, cover photos by Max Labeille. Paperback edition published 2020.