The specifically zillennial pain of being just to young to ever try original recipe Four Loko but being old enough to know many people who did.

If you have not yet read Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, it's like if Emperor Constantine was raised by KGB monks in the year 1 million AD and wrote self-serving propaganda autobio

Taking fandom seriously would mean subjecting it to criticism so serious that fans would wither away entirely

I hadn't thought of Eric Garland in so long

I thought it was funnier with the mistake

Lovely more academic-minded thread about Absolute Wonder Woman. 🖤 [Beware of spoilers for the first volume].

Eric Garland, who OP mistook for Alex Garland

<THREAD> I'm now hearing this meme that says Boyle, Travis, et al are directing no movies, just gave up.

Guys. It's time for some Civil War theory.

Did you see that real interview the other day where both Maury and Adam Friedland thought they were the one being interviewed? We gotta recreate that with Adam and Vic

BE COURAGEOUS, DAVID

I was just about to say, I heard her describe on a podcast (might have been SKTCHD, but I don't remember for sure) that she views Orion as the righteous anger of the anti-fascist

They should call it pre-salted

Has any rapper fallen off as much as Lil Wayne? You can listen to No Ceilings and think, this is the stuff he thought wasn't good enough for an album?

Vykin the Black: Wrong! Mother Box lives! She talks to us -- protects us! We shall need her when the time comes to rescue the Beautiful Dreamer. Some dude: -- I-is that right -- how about that --

Talking to AI boosters feels like (From FOREVER PEOPLE # 1)

The 15 year old autists are but I don't think we should make policy based on the exceptions

You could very easily update this to explain exactly why AI translations don't work.

matttt - comic & manga history

Anything on @mattwith4ts.bsky.social's channel youtube.com/@mattwith4ts...

...intentionally subverts the comics portrayal to smuggle in revolutionary ideology under the guise of the villain and giving T'Challa the comic Killmonger role of opening up Wakanda for business, and furthermore, by reading text against itself y'all realize how smart I am compared to everyone els

*pulls out red string and corkboard* In the comics, Killmonger is portrayed as a hyper-capitalist, bringing McDonalds to Wakanda and opening it up for international markets. Coogler, knowing Disney-Marvel would never let him make the lead of the film into my conception of a perfect Marxist, (1/2)

👀 What's is new in the third edit and fourth edit? Cannes and Theatrical, I know.

Yes! I can't speak to Kubrick but Pinocchio is a repeated reference point in Spielberg's ouvre. The inverse of AI in this sense is Close Encounters, in which the absentee father is the lead that Spielberg is at pains to give a nobler purpose to and redeem.

Ah, it's two of the leads in the Love and Rockets comics. Maggie is one of Jaime's main characters in a fictionalized LA and Luba is one of Gilbert's main characters in a fictionalized Latin American town

Maggie vs Luba

Formally accusing Trump of crimes will distract from our campaign to convince voters he is corrupt

This is what the promise of the internet was, and it is necessary to preserve and share these small pockets of utility.

Benefits of reading @mikester.bsky.social's blog: learning about kwakk.info, an indexed and searchable archive of comics culture magazines, fanzines, and more.

Grand Budhapest Hotel is one of the best on the subject imo.

Is there a WATCHMEN or PULP FICTION for romantasy books? In other words, a book aware of the genre tropes that breaks down, reassembles, and twists the conventions to build something transcendent? And I don't mean Deadpoolesque mere pointing out of tropes.

Now we need the chopped and screwed remix

Like, one third of all Europe died during the Black Death and they kept having children like nobody's business

People have been (rightly) doing the "modern idolatry is when you value something more than God" for years only to reinvent classic style idolatry.