Rebecca Rubenstein

@rrrubenstein.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 Freelance Editor & Writer | Fiction Editor at The Offing | EIC at Midnight Breakfast | Tin House Summer Workshop '20 & '23 | she/her | Scrabble + coffee + cross-stitch Work with me! - https://rebeccarubenstein.com/editing-services

A still from I Think You Should Leave, with a man dressed in a hot dog costume yelling “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”—even though he’s just crashed his weinermobile and it’s clearly him, he’s the culprit, there can be no one else at fault

An un-ironed and slightly creased but finished cross-stitch, featuring a quartet of cross-stitched spiky succulents in colorful pots on navy blue cloth. On the top left, there is a succulent with green leaves in a blue and fuchsia pot. On the top right, there is a succulent with pink and purple leaves, in an orange and green pot. On the bottom left, there is a succulent with orange leaves (that look like flames), in a green and blue pot. And on the bottom right, there is a succulent with blue leaves, in a pink, purple, and orange pot. The succulents are giving Andy Warhol vibes.

An example of the Bluesky phone app navigation menu at the bottom of the phone screen, with the My Feeds icon circled in red

Roman Roy, in a still from the Succession finale, cradling a block of cheese in his hands and making a face while threatening to lick said cheese. He is a white, brown-haired man in his 30s, wearing a baby blue t-shirt, with dark blue and yellow stripes on the sleeves, from Wal-Mart, even though he’s also part of a billionaire family. This is perhaps one of his finest moments.

A still from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. In it, a close-up of Philip Seymour Hoffman as Phil Parma, world’s greatest nurse/home aide. He is wearing pale blue scrubs and resting his fist beneath his chin and smiling knowingly.

A cross-stitch pattern on navy blue Aida cloth, featuring a half slice of lemon, a full slice of grapefruit, tiny purple flowers, small white flowers with gold centers, two-toned leaves in light and dark shades of green, and a ghost with orange spots. The pattern is circular and the cloth is tensioned in a bamboo hoop.

The beginnings of a cross-stitch pattern involving citrus, flowers, leaves, and ghosts. The pattern is currently being stitched on navy Aida cloth, and you can see 4 small white and gold flowers, 4 small purple flowers, a half slice of lemon, a full slice of grapefruit, and 2 tiny green leaves.

The front exterior of my apartment building, with pale, creamy white, deteriorating siding. Visible are the sooty outlines of several handprints, which appear ghostly in nature. You can see a dimly-lit doorframe and a mail slot, as well as the numbers 9 and 1, which denote part of the address.

A giant red fire truck sits in front of a firehouse and raises its ladder high in the sky. Off-camera, children are chattering and in awe of the spectacle.

A city street. The image contains a lot of things—a street cleaning NO PARKING sign, a fire station in the background—but the focus of the photo is a sapling that has just been planted. It is surrounded by incredibly green grass and is just starting to bud.

A photo of a cross-stitch project in progress. The cross-stitch pattern is rainbow chard leaves, but so far you can only make out a few stems in gold, lavender, and coral, and the beginnings of a leafy green. The cross-stitch is on white Aida fabric, inside a bamboo hoop.

The hot dog hands from Everything Everywhere All At Once, tenderly touching. They are disembodied from their human host and on a white background.