This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com

fox is giving sincere overly serious cartoon character in a way i've never fully appreciated before

MphTF. is this anything

no he's like that

getting that SRS (speed racer surgery)

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

both teared up during the final race lap and felt my heart rate spike an alarming degree. a future of filmmaking that never came to pass but still could. i do this because i don't know how to do anything else

hell yeah brother

hey so speed racer is probably the best movie we ever made

TODAY

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

pitt fandom is so weird bc the very thing they cite for season 2 being bad (robby sucks now) is the reason i think the show has gotten even better. it's kind of a reverse ted lasso s1 to s2 progression

noticing a new wave of trans movies that are about a pre- or post-transition ghost self and I honestly find it such a boring idea

i was about to make this same post

cute!

"molly which one are you" yes

i don't think he goes in as deep as i would have liked but it is fascinating to watch every one of them become immediately defensive around him, even before he really asks them anything

me and who

the same mindset as when my laundry machine started leaking

very funny that for all the advances in medicine, sometimes the best you can do is "stuff em like a pinata"

i think theyre mixing it up w the new york times

A comic. Emma is wearing a hospital gown in a nondescript white space. A voice says, “you’re so pretty.” She responds with irritation, “me? you must not have noticed my many flaws i'm actually large and awkward and lumpy and sweaty and i-” She is cut off mid-sentence by a corrective electric shock. “no,” says the voice. “i like your comics,” the voice says. Emma, who is still recovering from the shock, says without thinking, “you are so full of—“ before catching herself and amending to, “nnnice words,” but she can’t stop herself from adding, “but i genuinely can’t see my work as anything but trash and it makes me thínk less of you for liking—” She is cut off again by a shock. “no,” says the voice. The voice says, “you’re a good mom.” “Tha—“ says Emma, starting to contradict, before gritting her teeth and saying, “—ank you. That’s kind of you to say.” She holds her forced smile but flinches, anticipating another shock. Instead, the voice says, “you’re good at your job.” Emma, frustrated, yells, “what???” She quickly tries to add “a sweet thing to say,” but is cut off again by another shock.

a quick comic about deflection

demi:

never thought about it this way before...

woah!

i have such an ick around apolitical hopepunk lmao

oh eisenstein we're really in it now

it happened to me!