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wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French
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The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place
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People make fun of the names from Dune: Paul, Jessica and Duncan Idaho all seem weirdly out of place, but not enough is made of the fact that Frank Herbert was sat there going “I want a planet that’s Iraq-ish, Iraq-ish, *snaps fingers* Arrakis! And Paul’s family are traders… hmmm, Atreides!”
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
People make fun of the names from Dune: Paul, Jessica and Duncan Idaho all seem weirdly out of place, but not enough is made of the fact that Frank Herbert was sat there going “I want a planet that’s Iraq-ish, Iraq-ish, *snaps fingers* Arrakis! And Paul’s family are traders… hmmm, Atreides!”
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This feels like someone bet the director that he couldn't turn a 30 second spot for midbudget women's fashion into a tragic doomed romance laden with implicit generational trauma, and then that person lost *hard*
December 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This feels like someone bet the director that he couldn't turn a 30 second spot for midbudget women's fashion into a tragic doomed romance laden with implicit generational trauma, and then that person lost *hard*
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Guillermo del Toro: "I've taken some liberties in adapting the Mary Shelly novel, I hope everyone understands."
Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."
Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."
December 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Guillermo del Toro: "I've taken some liberties in adapting the Mary Shelly novel, I hope everyone understands."
Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."
Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."
Christmas movie discourse is getting stale. Time to take it to exciting new places:
One Battle After Another is a Christmas movie
One Battle After Another is a Christmas movie
December 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Christmas movie discourse is getting stale. Time to take it to exciting new places:
One Battle After Another is a Christmas movie
One Battle After Another is a Christmas movie
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The debate about Avatar "having no cultural impact" is kind of a smokescreen for the actual argument which is that Avatar is "boring" and "bad" and "has terrible characters, worldbuilding, plotting and dialogue"
December 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The debate about Avatar "having no cultural impact" is kind of a smokescreen for the actual argument which is that Avatar is "boring" and "bad" and "has terrible characters, worldbuilding, plotting and dialogue"
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
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Wait is Campbell just 20th century Jordan Peterson
December 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Wait is Campbell just 20th century Jordan Peterson
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Just write what you know. If you just write "what you know", you've got three words, and no matter how many times you repeat it, it's still going to be a crappy story.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just write what you know. If you just write "what you know", you've got three words, and no matter how many times you repeat it, it's still going to be a crappy story.
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DIE HARD alternate ending where Al Powell after rediscovering his bloodlust looks in the rearview mirror like the end of TAXI DRIVER.
December 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
DIE HARD alternate ending where Al Powell after rediscovering his bloodlust looks in the rearview mirror like the end of TAXI DRIVER.
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This and It’s a Wonderful Life came out within days of each other and have really similar themes and are both incredibly beautiful.
Tonight on TCM #TCM
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)
A British fantasy romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. One of the best! Highly recommended.
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)
A British fantasy romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. One of the best! Highly recommended.
December 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This and It’s a Wonderful Life came out within days of each other and have really similar themes and are both incredibly beautiful.
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One of my strongest crackpot opinions is that comics and movies have spent too much time remixing Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, and not enough time playing with Batman: The Cult.
Everyone picked the wrong 1980s Batman graphic novel to obsess over, and it's been bad for pop culture.
Everyone picked the wrong 1980s Batman graphic novel to obsess over, and it's been bad for pop culture.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
One of my strongest crackpot opinions is that comics and movies have spent too much time remixing Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, and not enough time playing with Batman: The Cult.
Everyone picked the wrong 1980s Batman graphic novel to obsess over, and it's been bad for pop culture.
Everyone picked the wrong 1980s Batman graphic novel to obsess over, and it's been bad for pop culture.
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Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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You know, technically Moffat is the only modern showrunner not to get Doctor Who cancelled.
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
You know, technically Moffat is the only modern showrunner not to get Doctor Who cancelled.
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FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
ZERO STARS/****starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winsletscreenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silverdirected by James Cameron by Walter Chaw I think, for white ...
filmfreakcentral.net
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...
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Visualising a universe where Russell Tovey occasionally emerges from the sea to take his abandoned child out for a McDonald’s meal.
The staff sigh as they fill a barrel-sized paper cup with water for Tovey to slosh in, used to the routine.
Kirby, glaring, orders the Filet-O-Fish. No salt.
The staff sigh as they fill a barrel-sized paper cup with water for Tovey to slosh in, used to the routine.
Kirby, glaring, orders the Filet-O-Fish. No salt.
December 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Visualising a universe where Russell Tovey occasionally emerges from the sea to take his abandoned child out for a McDonald’s meal.
The staff sigh as they fill a barrel-sized paper cup with water for Tovey to slosh in, used to the routine.
Kirby, glaring, orders the Filet-O-Fish. No salt.
The staff sigh as they fill a barrel-sized paper cup with water for Tovey to slosh in, used to the routine.
Kirby, glaring, orders the Filet-O-Fish. No salt.
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SEE???? "OBSESSED WITH CHILDREN'S GENITALS" IS A CLUB AND THEY GIVE EACH OTHER PROMOTIONS
December 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
SEE???? "OBSESSED WITH CHILDREN'S GENITALS" IS A CLUB AND THEY GIVE EACH OTHER PROMOTIONS
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John Cleese is a very famous comedian. He comes from a showbiz family though - his brother Andrew’s act with the Lion was legendary…
December 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
John Cleese is a very famous comedian. He comes from a showbiz family though - his brother Andrew’s act with the Lion was legendary…
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Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder
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Yeah I don’t imagine studying Roman military history is any less employable than any other history PhD.
I’ll repeat my standard advice to anyone considering a PhD: would you still want it if you knew, with absolute certainty, that you would not find a job in your field? If not, don’t get one.
I’ll repeat my standard advice to anyone considering a PhD: would you still want it if you knew, with absolute certainty, that you would not find a job in your field? If not, don’t get one.
This is 100% incorrect as the explanation for why someone obsessed with Roman *military* history is not being hired.
December 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Yeah I don’t imagine studying Roman military history is any less employable than any other history PhD.
I’ll repeat my standard advice to anyone considering a PhD: would you still want it if you knew, with absolute certainty, that you would not find a job in your field? If not, don’t get one.
I’ll repeat my standard advice to anyone considering a PhD: would you still want it if you knew, with absolute certainty, that you would not find a job in your field? If not, don’t get one.