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Darren Ridgley
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Author. Editor. Here for a chill and good time.
Rewatched Annihilation and was reminded that Jennifer Jason Leigh is maybe the only person to ever conspicuously state the title of the movie they are in and make it rule.
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It really is not. GDT is a swooning dramatic mall goth, not a hardcore horror type, which is why every movie he makes now is just some derivation of Edward Scissorhands.
Saw this image on another post. Sometimes I suspect horror is not for Guillermo Del Toro
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Under” the eyes but I’ll count it. Eye thread.
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I am in awe.
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
An urge I know well.
That urge to learn the hurdy gurdy grab a deer skull and just dissappear in to the woods and become a cryptid.
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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the big emotional climax where link uses a boomerang to hit three switches in quick succession to open a door is gonna go crazy
First photos of Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda live-action movie released www.vooks.net/first-photos...
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel?

my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live
October 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Spinning Foghat and making Saskatoon pie. Happy Sunday folks.
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I like that pro wrestling works more or less like The Muppets, in that a Kermit figure (the GM/owner) is just trying to put on a dang show but is undermined and accosted constantly by the sociopaths and buffoons which make up the cast. Plans laid to waste by violent cartoon characters.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Watching online conservative personalities attempt to be handy
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The more I watch this the more questions I have. Why is he nailing a wooden stake to a gate? Why is it upside-down? Why does he need eye protection to tap in a nail?
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]

🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Also saw a story on here that she’s trying to pass the bar with help from AI. Maybe she’s not cut out for lawyering, I dunno.
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Rewatched this with my kids a few years ago and it’s kind of wild how cutting it is, for a family movie, in depicting the immigrant experience. Fievel’s dad gives the officers his extremely Slavic surname and they immediately rename the family like, Johnson or something.
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Happy Godzilla Day, everyone.
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Let's gooooooooooooo!
The #GodzillaMinusOne sequel is officially titled ‘Godzilla: Minus Zero’ 🎥
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Beat Ghost of Yotei. 👍
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Re-upping this because it’s tomorrow! Hope to see you there!
Reminder that you can catch me, @smbeiko.bsky.social, @chadwickginther.bsky.social, and @patrickjohanneson.com at Sookram’s here in Winnipeg on the 29th for a great reading series! Many thanks to our gracious host @badguybirnie.bsky.social!
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is the world me and all the other millennial anime heads forged when we spent our time watching Evangelion and Satoshi Kon movies in 120p on malware-ridden websites. We paved the road.
Nature is healing when one MCU movie after another can’t get any traction while every month or two some Japanese anime I have never heard of called “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle” makes a fortune. This is how it should be
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Just finished up my PG (Pumpkin Grade) 1:1 Haro!
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
John Hodgman doesn’t get enough credit for accurately identifying the nerd-jock convergence years ago, even if it was a gag.
This was posted by the official MLB social media account
October 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
October 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM