And nothing of value was lost with this shutting down.

So I haven't done this in a while... Hi, I'm Neo, gaming streamer and podcast host, and I need some mutuals interested in: Video Games Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art Books Film and TV Writing Resident Evil MCU/Marvel Comics DCU/DC Comics Stephanie Brown Cassandra Cain Aerith Gainsborough Fighting Games Halo

We talked about the need for Mr. Rogers right now on the podcast and the need to help people and we brought up Ms. Rachel. It's great to see that unlike the bulk of folks who stopped paying attention when they got the little boy from MN out, she is still invested to stop what is happening.

Roye Okupe ("Iyanu") to direct "Malika: Warrior Queen", an animated feature film based on his comic book. Produced by YouNeek Studios, Doug Schwalbe and August Media. >> variety.com/2026/film/gl...

I've kind of known this was going to get released in the US via GKIDS because of their previous relationship with the studio and creative, but it's good to know it's officially now coming out this year.

I saw this back in October at Animation is Film and still think about it heavily. It's really shocking that a company like GKIDS still hasn't picked this film up for US distribution, because it's a real gem. It's also a film I know most animation talking heads/influencers on YouTube won't watch.

www.mediamagpies.com/demon-slayer... In my newest editorial, as we recover from Award Season glut, I talked about how no matter how 2025 turned out for animation, Demon Slayer Infinity Castle was never going to win an Oscar. #animesky #oscars #animationsky #animation #anime #filmsky #film

While I want Cartoon Saloon to always make original and exciting stuff, if they got commissioned to make a Star Wars animated film that had this tone, I would watch it. Still one of the best things to happen to Star Wars.

David M Bird, creator of Becorns, tiny handmade characters crafted from natural materials like acorns, twigs & seeds. Each figure is carefully assembled, posed outdoors & photographed in real landscapes. #photography #nature #animals #sculpture #art #artist #storytelling @davidmbird.bsky.social

People can mourn who they want, but I’m not gonna white wash Chuck Norris legacy. People tend to do this because of nostalgia and it isn’t healthy. You can mourn folks like him while also openly admitting he was a shitty person at the end of his days.

For the love of fucking god stop supporting this woman and her works, I don’t give a flying fuck about how they were a “precious part of your childhood.” Fuck your childhood, so many queer kids and adults are gonna get hurt by this woman’s hateful bigotry and money.

It's time to grow tf up, millennials. My God.

Two of some of the best offerings from China they already had an incredibly stacked lineup of incredible animated films.

While I personally know a lot of Canada in the world of animation is know for their shorts, I mean, can ya blame them? A lot of them rock. Canada has had some cool feature film studios as well. Just another cool side of the world of animation.

I do take pride as a creative that while I do have editors help with my writing who are awesome people, I type my editorials by hand. No Chat GPT or auto-writing AI or hiring someone else to write for me. Not gonna let someone else's voice take over mine. It's all me.

This is such a mood. I want to be known for writing not because I have millions of folks following me. Stop forcing journalists to be influencers.

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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is the fourth non-Disney film to win the #Oscar  for Best Animated Feature after GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO, THE BOY AND THE HERON, and FLOW.

I think my only Oscar’s “hot take” is I would have swapped F1, Bugonia, and Sentimental Values with No Other Choice, It Was Just an Accident, and Little Amelie/KPop Demon Hunters. But this is still a very strong Best Picture race this year. One of my recent memory favorite lineups.

I wasn't able to go to the premier of Boots Riley's I Love Boosters at SXSW (press credentials didn't get accepted), but Boots Riley is one of those creatives that will always be on my radar with whatever they make. He makes movies that make me go "this is why I love movies!" #SXSW #filmsky

Time to see how I motor and cycle through this movie. #filmsky #a24 #pillion

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

Like I just posted, fans and folks need to make a bigger deal about the toxic workplace nonsense that has festered in places like Pixar. No more stanning, fanboying, or dying on a hill for a studio, this is a huge problem that needs to be fixed.

Animation fans need to stop treating animation studios like they are mascots and game consoles (which was already a dumb thing), and focus on how places like Pixar have a really toxic workplace environment that does stomp on creativity. There are bigger issues at hand. Focus!

Seeing this article make the rounds this week and here's what I could see happening to both lots and, spoilers, it's nothing good. 🧵 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

I still love and recommend seeing Hoppers because it's a darn good movie, but I won't judge folks who don't want to see it until a certain point in time because of Pete Docter's recent antics. It sucks in a weird, ironic way for the guy behind UP, Soul, and Inside Out to have said those things.

So, animation "fans" are mad for some asinine reason that Tom Kenny was in the recent Helluva Boss Short? Do these friggin losers have any real life or actual worries, or are they just that inept and dimwitted to find time in their short, pointless lives to be mad at this nothing burger topic?

I really loved Pixar’s HOPPERS. I reviewed it for LA Times 🦎🦫👑 Read: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

America's future looks bleak (and boring). Anti-intellectualism is in vogue. The arts are being punished by AI/funding cuts. Hollywood is merging into a bland singularity that greenlights safe slop. Cool people who can afford it are leaving, and teachers are quitting because kids can't/won't learn.

Time to see how I hip and hop with Pixar’s new movie Hoppers. #animation #animationsky #hoppers #pixar #disney

How I arrived on Bluesky

From the first trailer of "Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) + Folivari. Coming in 2028. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn9...

1. Picked up a crab and let it pinch my finger 2. I forgot the name of the pepper but bit I think it was a pequin pepper and I bit into it.

A global phenomenon, KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is nominated for 2 Oscars. For LA Times (De Los) I profiled Danya Jimenez, the Mexican American talent from Orange County who co-wrote the animated hit. Read here: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Time to check out GKIDS’ first real foray into live-action cinema with Japan’s smash hit Kokuho.

The 2026 edition of @sxsw.com kicks off next week and there's a *long* list of titles screening throughout. Myself, @dubsreviews.bsky.social, & AJ Friar are covering remotely and put together a list of titles we hope to screen for ourselves. Maybe it'll help you put together your own list. #SXSW

I really wish the Goddess character in Sentenced to Be a Hero had a lower-pitched voice (and not kid-shaped) and that it had more interesting female characters, but among the fantasy shows from the Winter season, it has a lot more going for it than 99% of fantasy anime. #animesky #animationsky

What the ever-loving hell did the folks behind The Testament of Ann Lee get to deserve such a historically bad marketing campaign, bad rollout, no Oscar noms, and no physical release? Is Criterion going to have to come in to save the day or something?

holga and karlach taking notes #bg3 #dnd

This is my current obsession, I love the art so much. You can see the care put into it with how gorgeous and delicious the pan looks, and the added elements make it more engaging than a standard puzzle stacker game. Plus it's only $6.39 on the eShop right now! @sixoneindie.com, check it out!

Kate is one of the few folks I trust to check out action in the action movie scene so I’m gonna have to watch this now.

Whatever happened to that plan that Universal and Illumination were setting up a studio system for more experimental/non-family-based animation? Did that get canned? Because we haven't heard a thing since that announcement about the studio called Moonlight.

Would have loved to have seen the discourse and box office for Lupin The First with Lupin's first CGI film venture or On-Gaku Our Sound and wonder if the latter would have had a 100 Meters streaming release boom (same director of 100 Meters btw).

The profound sense of millennial exhaustion at the fact that we're doing this all again; that we seemingly learned nothing from the last time; that this time, they didn't even bother trying to convince us before launching us headlong into another bloody conflict

It'd be really cool if we could get a single morning where we don't wake up to headlines that the current president of the United States has once again somehow been involved in the rape and/or murder of children somewhere.

www.mediamagpies.com/whats-with-t... Wrote my first editorial after a severe case of writer's block and burnout. I decided to talk about Pixar's Elio, how it got Oscar-nominated, and how it seemed to have gotten a possible redemption tour.

Unless the merger falls apart, I'm not going to cover or tackle any movies from Paramount. I don't care what they've got coming out, I'm not seeing their films in the theaters. Not even VOD. Even before all this happened, I was feeling ready to cut them out of my viewing habits. The Ellisons suck.

People have to start abandoning franchises and IP when terrible people get control of them. At the very least temporarily. It’s just not worth it. But if people passively consume they’ll just keep going. I don’t think it’s really a problem for bsky people.