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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 20h

This is one of those movies where I'm reading negative reviews about how it "never comes together," or "has no thematic substance," or whatever, and I'm like, then this movie wasn't FOR you... if you're writing about how this adaptation "strips away the politics," you have missed what it's doing! 🤷

eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 21h

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN is in theaters now!

I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie that so intimately understands the healing power of queer diva worship like this one. It's a statement of purpose as we face a frightening future: we demand the right to find our own joy.

medium.com/everythings-...

‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review — An electrifying ode to the healing power of diva worship

A review of the new musical, in theaters October 10, 2025

medium.com

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 21h

Netflix… lol

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 2d

we are enjoying IS IT CAKE: HALLOWEEN

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 2d

Can you guys include sources on stuff like this please?

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 2d

Obsessed with the fact that he clearly wrote “so we can announce deal first” but scratched it out and wrote “you” 💀

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 2d

I took this pic in LA 119 days ago. As this spreads to other cities, my only advice—my ask!—is that people get out there, see it, and document it.

Considering AI, personalized algorithms, and a government dismantling our understanding of reality, objective truth online is DEAD. We need each other.

A man in camouflage looks out warily from behind a shield reading CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD; yellow flowers are on the step below him

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 2d

JLo on Las Culturistas talks about something I found really incredible about KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN -- it's entirely earnest about fan/diva worship, never once pathologizing fandom. Escapism into pop culture IS a survival strategy for queer people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnjY...

Incredibly, Kiss of the Spider Woman resists pathologizing that fan/diva relationship. A lesser film would’ve included some kind of moralizing — some kind of lesson about how escapism is a denial of reality and can therefore be seen as a moral failing — but this movie isn’t interested in that. This movie understands that escaping into pop culture is a tried-and-true survival strategy for queer people. It’s healing. It works.

eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about how we got everyone thoroughly-addicted to mindlessly scrolling short videos just in time to be able to make short videos that are indistinguishable from reality just as we got a mad-king president determined to fully obliterate the concept of objective truth… future shaping up well!

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 4d

Loved everything about KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN. JLo is ON! Diego Luna is an all-time cinematic cutie! and TONATIUH, my GOD! They're as great as you've heard... a charming, silly, seductive, BRAVE performance in a film unashamed to be not just a musical, but a musical for the gays.

A delight.

‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review — An electrifying ode to the healing power of diva worship

A review of the new musical, in theaters October 10, 2025

medium.com

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 7d

Last few photos from tonight’s protest outside the Tesla Diner in Hollywood

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 7d

More photos from tonight’s protest outside the Tesla Diner in Hollywood

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 7d

Photos from tonight’s protest outside the Tesla Diner in Hollywood

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Reposted by eric anders

spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 7d

THERE IS VIDEO OF IT. SHE DIDN'T SAY IT, IT HAPPENED.

THE FASCISTS DID IT ON CAMERA YOU DONT HAVE TO BOTH SIDES IT

memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 7d

Chicago alderperson says federal agents handcuffed her at Humboldt Park medical facility (ABC7)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 9d

A reason I try to avoid trailers: I was not prepared for Glenn Powell’s Chad Powers accent choice and I got to hear it for the first time when it drops in the show and I am so delighted

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 13d

He posted an AI video of a fake segment of his daughter-in-law’s Fox News show, including AI-generated clips of himself announcing “MedBed Hospitals,” a QAnon thing that insists machines exist that can cure anything.

Literal fake news, posted on “Truth Social.”

TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social · 13d

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 13d

See also: “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you,” a perfectly-clear idea that people inexplicably treated like disqualifying, risible word salad

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 13d

We should’ve known we had a major, major literacy problem when there was all that performative “WhAt CoULd He PoSsiBLy eVeN MeAn?!” reaction to Noah Centineo saying “It matters not what you’ve done, but what you do with what you’ve done for others.”

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 14d

The President of the United States just authorized the military to use “Full Force” on US soil to quell protests.

fucking impeach him TODAY what are you all DOING

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 14d

A sucky time to be alive as a writer who loves to use an em-dash — we exist and are real humans, okay?? — and also a photographer in California who likes to edit my photos a little bit warm to suggest that beautiful LA sunshine! People think both are evidence that I’m a computer mimicking reality!

Spider-Man looking out from between two out-of-focus people in the foreground

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes all we can do is not look away.

Blue and white signs hung on fences nearby read “WE LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH BIG I!” and “COME HOME SOON BABY, PLEASE FELIPE - BBG”

eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 15d

Everyone protests in their own way. For some, it’s a spiritual practice.

A black and white photo of a pearl rosary hanging on the fencing in front of the Metro Detention Center

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes it feels surreal.

a black and white photo of a man in an ANARCHY IS LOVE helmet clutches a boba tea as he rides his motorbike past a graffiti-covered wall

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 15d

All day long, the big white vans without license plates come and go, and there have been protesters there to document, 24/7, for 76 days and counting.

ICE agents watch the protesters watch them, and they’re refusing to comply with California law that they must unmask.

A protester takes video of a white van with no license plate leaving the Metro Detention Center

A masked ICE agent in camo stares down from a perch on an upper level of the detention center

A DHS agent watches protesters on the sidewalk, half hidden by a big stadium light pointed away from the building

A DHS cop pushes the fencing shut that surrounds the detention center

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eric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 15d

Even as people go about their daily lives, there are reminders everywhere of what’s been happening here.

A man on his phone walks past colorful graffiti reading FUCK ICE

A black and white photo of joggers under big graffiti reading FREE US!

A graffiti’d mexican flag; underneath says DETENTION CENTERS ARE DEATH CAMPS

Green graffiti reads 100 BORDER PATROL FOR 1 STRAWBERRY VENDOR. Red graffiti underneath says FUCK ICE

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