Happy Pride to everyone, but also specifically to Alyssa Milano's wardrobe from DOUBLE DRAGON. 🏳️‍🌈

Chances are a film that's apparently this good at tackling generational trauma and the issues people in their 40s-50s wrestle with *wasn't* directed by a novice 20-year-old whose name was just needed to give it cred with the fan community. There's no law that says they can't lie about that.

No spoilers, but I think someone needs to sit down with the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social writers and have a little heart-to-heart about what an idiom actually is.

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June 1: We'll ease into the gelatin with Nonalcoholic Jell-O Shots. This 1993 cookbook feels like it's trying to explain to clueless adults what the cool kids are into these days, because I've never heard of Jell-O shots being, "eaten like Italian ices." I'd personally go for creamy orange.

It's time for another recipe thread! Every day in June I'll share a drink, appetizer, or party snack from my collection of vintage and branded cookbooks. And yes, that includes some unhinged patriotic desserts. Stock up on Jell-O, soften some cream cheese, and let's get this party started!

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

There's an AI slop ad that's been stalking us on YouTube and I just screamed, "Oh god, the horse is back!" and my husband was yelling back, "Just hang in there, I can almost skip it!" with genuinely frantic urgency and truly I cannot wait for this fucking bubble to burst already.

Some wilderness years sound pretty good now. At least wait until they're willing to give the showrunner job to a woman instead of another man that literally shoves the female lead into a box then takes away all her agency and independence and leaves her in forced motherhood. Appalling shit. 1/2

If you're wondering how long my family holds on to things, last night my dad, completely unprompted, brought up the fact that he got knocked out of the 6th grade spelling bee on the word "flocculent."

Since I couldn't find enough weird patriotic recipes to fill the month, I'm going with a summer party vibe theme. Starting tomorrow, I'll share a vintage or branded recipe each day for a drink/appetizer with weird Americana desserts sprinkled in the mix (spoiler: there's lots of Jell-O).

When I watch Night of the Living Dead '68, I always think about the kitchen scene in Halloween II, where Mrs. Elrod asks her husband if he wants mayo or mustard, and pronounces it "mus-turd" NOTLD is playing on their tv. My first exposure to that classic film

They *aren't* "two original R rated horror movies." One is based on a shit-ton of YouTube and other online creative material & lore that's existed one way or another for about a decade, and the other is the four millionth version of "The Monkey's Paw" with an extra layer of pervasive misogyny.

"Remembering [person] on their birthday" is absolutely fine, but that "happy heavenly birthday" bullshit gets an instant block.

Read the replies to see how no one gets a joke anymore, and lots of people weirdly interpret this as if it's a request for information on what an avocado is and how to consume one. WTF, people.

100%. I've always picked the easiest mode for any game I play, and if they had a setting even easier, like "Just Wander Around and Do Some Shit, No Pressure," I would pick that.

I was reminded of THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK recently, and had find a copy. I would check this out of the library all the time as a kid, scouring the pages for details and writing short stories to pair with the pictures. I think I might try writing from it again and see what I come up with.

Sequential Scholars has been running a phenomenal series of threads on various aspects of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics as well as its overall legacy, and anyone interested in comics scholarship should read them all and share them far and wide.

Critiques in the 2022 Inks retrospective delve deeper into cultural politics. Per Rachel Miller & Daniel Worden's introduction: “The book is very white, very straight, and very male, not just in its color palette and interlocutor, but also in its accounts of art, comics, and literary history.” 9/13

Based on no less than six articles I read in the space of the last few days, all focused on a single filmmaker with a new movie out or on the way, the "exciting future of horror" appears to be films made by 20-something white guys. Do fucking better.

Make a horror movie that isn't a monkey's paw story challenge

The true creator of STAR WARS who turned that first film into a coherent, thrilling adventure. RIP.

Helen Mirren should be the next DOCTOR WHO.

This is the part in the Disney movie when the two over-the-top villains spot the girl and boy heroes escaping through the crowd during the climactic charity ball that's really a front for their world-dominating death ray project and start bickering about which one of them let them get away.

I've seen where this story arc is headed and it's a lot of fun!

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Still fucking there too, just checked.

Well, I just learned today that my favorite Michael Myers, stuntman Dick Warlock (Halloween II), was the SPACEBALLS guard that gets neck-pinched by Bill Pullman. Only took me almost 40 years to find out.

I'm enjoying POP CULTURE JEOPARDY, but they're deliberately including one clue *every episode* from that fucking wizard world franchise, and between this and the main JEOPARDY bringing it up fucking *always*, it needs to stop. This is an affront to the franchise and humanity in general.

"The home of STAR TREK," my ass. I hate everything. FUCK AI and anyone that uses it.

I'm sure everyone is doing this one, but I wanted to do it too. So here it is.

Of course real writers don't fucking use AI; no intelligent person does. AI is anathema to all human creativity.

Its this. If you literally can't take ten seconds to add alt text to your post, you just don't care about disabled people. Its truly that simple.

So, my dad just told me he found a gargoyle in their house and he doesn't remember it being there before... Is it a cursed object or a shapeshifter? I feel like I need to prepare for both possibilities because he said he wants to bring it over to show me. 😬

As soon as someone praises a movie or TV show for being a "harrowing" experience, I know I can skip it forever.

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Just blocked someone that rages against AI and reposts news reports about data centers etc., then posted an obviously AI cartoon of Popeye complaining about home ownership presumably because it made a point they wanted to make. THAT DOESN'T MAKE THE AI JUSTIFIABLE. STOP FUCKING USING AI!

That entire photo shoot is comedy gold. The ladies do their best in every single one of them, and Chris checked out before he even arrived. :)

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

I love how they felt they needed to give the very non-Heston-looking Taylor in this PLANET adaptation a quip that isn’t in the movie. “This is Marvel, our hero needs to quip every three panels!”

It's #WorldDraculaDay, so naturally the PR guys who bought Hammer are yet again perpetuating the lie that Christopher Lee was the first Dracula to show fangs on the big screen (he was not). 🙄 Want to learn the real story? We have a book for that: www.atbpublishing.com/product/coun...

I desperately need to mute the phrase "during Covid." Or even worse, "back during Covid." It's still out there making people seriously ill, so I guess you mean back in those long ago days of .... RIGHT FUCKING NOW?

I've been added to lists for "petty blocking" because they think I block them without looking at what they post. Why would you make that assumption? Trust me, it's because of what you post that I blocked you. :)

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Other scholars, like Ethan Frome, argue that by focusing on iconic images devoid of context, McCloud neglects the importance of narrative as a factor in identification. Without context, “although we can identify [Charlie Brown] as a boy, we have trouble identifying with him as a character.” 11/12