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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 5h

Or at the very least set a higher standard for streaming subtitled material so that your competitors have to up THEIR game to meet your level! Make them insecure!

Of course it doesn't work when your higher-ups are ex-Netflix people who just want to turn their site into Netflix But Just For Anime.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 6h

Back cover synopsis for Selling Frankenstein’s Feet Pix Online

FRANKENFEET FOR SALE
Read the hastily scrawled note posted everywhere from the account DRAXHOTPIX32. Dracula was not good at the computer, but he did know how to take pictures with his phone and send them to people who paid him - which is exactly what he did with all the photos he took of Frankenstein's bare feet crushing over-ripened fruit, wedding cakes, and miniature models of a pre-9/11 New York City. You see, Frankenstein has a bit of a destruction fetish; with mad scientist laboratories being his favorite thing to destroy. So when Dracula called him up and told him he had some things for him to step on, Frankenstein didn't think twice about stomping on over and crushing up a ground zero while Dracula snapped away.
But when the Union of Monsters & Dark Creatures catches word of Dracula's scheme, they launch an investigation into the Frankenfeet operation. They discover that Frankenstein has not received one cent of the cold fortune Dracula amassed. Is it really exploitation if Frankenstein's feet aren't his own to begin with?' Dracula argues. Frankenstein was sewn together from the body parts of executed criminals, but is a frankenbody not his own? What follows is the great courtroom drama of our generation featuring all the famous monsters shouting at each other and yelling 'objection.' The Mummy is the judge.

WOW, DRACULA IS A BAD PERSON.
Martin J. Wolfman, Monster Times

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 6h

Photo of a vintage book cover featuring Dracula dropping gold coins onto his pile of gold coins, he’s smiling as he clearly is a greedy individual. A full skeleton lays on the pile of gold, perhaps it is one of his girlfriends. A naked woman looms in the background for some reason. Copy and title read:

HOW DID DRACULA GET RICH?

Selling Frankenstein’s Feet Pix Online
By Herman Baldsack

Dracula made a fortune off of Frankenstein's feet without his permission and he is a disgusting piece of garbage for that

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 8h

If you enjoy this (or just our usual anime and manga related stuff, you can support my blogs via Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/MeganD

Megan D | Patreon

creating Manga Reviews & More

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The Manga Test Drive @mangatestdrive.bsky.social · 8h

Today we're doing something a little different on Renaissance Josei. Every October I watch a full month's worth of horror films, chronicling them on my social media. This year I'm expanding those thoughts to my blog, starting with the first, Gothic horror-heavy week.

HorrorMeganthon Part One

Halloween is my favorite holiday. It’s a time for fun, for costumes, for candy, and for something I love almost as much as anime and manga...

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 12h

It was an absolutely arresting experience, one that reminded me strongly of later works of his like The Fly and Dead Ringers, the films that drew me to his work in the first place.

It's also a film I first learned about in this book back in college and have wanted to see ever since.

The Naked And The Undead: Evil And The Appeal Of Horror

Horror is often dismissed as mass art of lowbrow entertainment that produced only shirt-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral eff...

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 12h

There's so much you can read into its gender politics and how abuse and trauma can echo through multiple generations of family, topics far beyond the grasp of a mere BS thread, but it's also just refined in a way that his earlier films were not, in both tone and acting quality.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 13h

But i guarantee you he picked Greenwood entirely because the only song of his he knows is "God Bless the USA," and that's all shitheads like him want to hear: empty-headed, major key jingoism.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 13h

I think somebody else already tried to push that whiny little shitface Jason Aldean.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 13h

The Brood was David Cronenberg's way of working through some of his feelings during a divorce, and while that much is obvious (for good and for ill), it's also the earliest film of his I've seen that FEELS like one of his classic films, moreso than its predecessor Rabid. #horrormeganthon

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 13h

So foisting some one-hit wonder country singer, a man performing at county-fair level venues, on a national stage like the Superbowl when you could have a rising rap star like Bad Bunny is fucking LAUGHABLE.

Unless of course, you're a racist with no fucking taste like Mike Johnson and his ilk.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 13h

And because it was the year after 9/11, every single song break was composed of some variation of "Thank the cops! Thank the firefighters!" and all the usual jingoistic bullshit of that era.

That was my first concert ever. It was also the worst I've ever been to, bar none.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 13h

Beyond his one song, I don't clearly recall any of the songs he performed - they blurred into a bunch of inchoate, country-fried background noise. I just remember him on the big screen, looking for all the world like the sequin-covered mutant love child of Lionel Ritchie and Phil Collins.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 13h

Christ, I've been forced to sit through a Lee Greenwood concert and I wouldn't wish that shit on anyone!

Context: It was 2002 Summerfest in Madison, around the 4th of July. Me & my friend Kristen went up there, and you had to sit through the concert if you wanted a good seat for the fireworks.

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 14h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t pick up the phone please, I’m trying to transmit a signal

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Jetzero Infinity @ Snobby Black Weeb @jetzeroinfinity.bsky.social · 19h

So uh...not sure if CR has actually gone back to using Aegisubs overnight, but they HAVE at least gone back to their old subtitle font, so looks like bullying works

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 1d

I think my version is usually "Oh for fuck's sake"

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 1d

Oh goddamn it!

Wait...I did see Mickey 17 in the theater, so that's something.

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

Oh wow, Google is really sneaky with their AI Mode button on the new tab page in Chrome. Here's a very unintuitive way to disable it.

1. Open chrome://flags/ in your browser.
2. Look for "ntp-compose-entrypoint".
3. Switch to "disabled".
4. Restart your browser.

#chrome #googlechrome #ai #aimode

A screenshot comparing a portion of the "new tab" page in Google chrome, with and without an "AI Mode" button inside the Google search bar.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not much of a kaiju/monster movie kind of gal and I don't have much experience with the works of Bong Joon-Ho beyond Thirst and The Handmaiden, but I do know I liked this a lot.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 1d

I remember hearing good buzz about this film back in its original release, long before your average American knew who Bong Joon-Ho was, and now I see why. It's more focused on human drama than monster rampage, with a weird comic streak and a really strong cast of actors.

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 1d

The Host is the story of how one fractured family manages to save Seoul from the incompetence of both the US military and thoughtless South Korean bureacracy.

Oh, and I guess also from a mutant river monster.
#horrormeganthon

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 1d

"There's something different about the subtitles this season. Namely, they're all ass now."

Isn't the problem that they're not .ass now?

Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 1d

It's time to talk about the enshittification of Crunchyroll
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The Enshittification of Crunchyroll

YouTube video by Mother's Basement

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SCREAMchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 1d

More like a battalion of Paul Blarts, right down to the mustache.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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