my sexual prowess as a character

It's 1987. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters. It's 2025. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.

Polite small talk with someone you used to be head over heels in love with is a special kind of hell.

My story is called PARTISAN 43 pages of eviscerated androids, clicky buttons, CRT displays, airlocks, memories downloaded to VHS tapes via RCA cable ports embedded in a brain, and burst skulls inside of a cryogenic sleep chamber!

Noted misogynist Martin Scorsese read Die, My Love - a transgressive, dangerous novel about female rage - sent it to Jennifer Lawrence, saying ‘This is right for you’ - then hired Lynne Ramsay, Enda Walsh & Alice Birch to make it into a transgressive, dangerous movie

I really hope I never attract the attention of Joyce Carol Oates, Kendrick Lamar, or menswear guy.

could use one of these actually the depersonalization is quite loud today

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

Cowardice. I refuse to believe that THIS becomes the sticking point for realism in the Bond franchise. Not the ridiculous names, or plots, or villains, or the idea that anyone plays baccarat.

Why are they talking as if Craig’s era didn’t start with him being like “I’m James Bond at the start of his career” and at no point did Judi Dench say “who was Pierce Brosnan then?”

I love 007 and couldn't agree more with this. You don't have to mythologize the character, ever. You could open a bond movie like he's always been around- drop right in, no explanation, and as long as it's a new face- nobody is gonna care. Even the teaser for GoldenEye winked at this sort of thing.

On her birthday, we'd like to remember special effects makeup artist Milicent Patrick who famously designed the Gill Man suit for Universal's CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

Tatsuya Nakadai riding a demon motorcycle to death in The Wicked City. What a legend.

Yes pls.

Today is gonna be a good mf day

The men's fashion guy is writing pure smut on the tl!

This lives rent free in my mind, why did we let this die??? 😭

Damn. Angela Bassett is fucking legendary. Such a great movie.

Satoshi Kon would have turned 62 today ;_; Fanart by Jinou (x.com/Jinou_rakugaki)

What're y'all reading lately? What's some good books you'd recommend? I'm into fiction, I wanna dive into reading again. I'm open to any genre, horror, sci-fi, romance, thriller. Lay it on me.

79. Still Life (2006, dir. Jia) among the many peaks of Jia Zhangke's realist fiction is this tale of two relationships, legitimacy and illegitimacy, and the new Chinese civilization and demolished towns. poetic and moving.

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

laura palmer / everybody scream

If you work for ICE, you should quit.

I mentioned offhand in a reddit thread how I watched a certain instructional video by Nina Hartley back in the day and it *really* paid off in practice. Now my notifications are swamped with dudes asking for the link. All fucking day. People have even replied with the link, and they STILL asking.

All my time on social media has taught me that its best when used to get movie recommendations from women with immaculate taste.

"No, Nicole Kidman, you cannot sit on my face for a third time today" is something you'd simply never hear me say

TRON is a super cult-ass franchise *anyway* but I promise you more people would have gone to see it in theaters if Jared Leto wasn't in it

I never felt any word of mouth love or hype for Outland, The Hidden, The Last Starfighter, or Tron growing up. Growing up, these movies were seen as mid by adults when they were acknowledged at all. Genuinely felt slept on for the longest time.

YES. THIS. A thousand times this. Let Cheryl Lynn Eaton save Frank Castle!

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric. That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Some deranged fool (me) asked the gc would they rather have to drink a shot of guy piss or a cup of girl spit. I figured it'd be a laugh. But it's been two days, and they're still debating piss logistics and selecting specific donors? I'm a girl-spit kind of guy surrounded by guy-piss apologists

Who's up and wants to yap? I'm more productive with conversation lol

w/o downloading anything new - where are you mentally?

My dear friend Leah told me that whenever she gets a dick pic from a random guy in her DMs, she replies with this picture, and the guys immediately block her almost every time:

Maybe video games are okay

Peak boy energy was back in 2022- my roommate and I sharing wine and binge watching The Vampire Diaries on Netflix every night after work. Fwiw, we both readily agreed that he's a Damon, and I'm a Stefan. iykyk

Damn, The Crow soundtrack just remains a fucking all-timer doesn't it? This was peak. If I had to save a few soundtracks from my collection out of a burning building, The Crow, Spawn: The Album, Judgment Night, and The Matrix are my essentials.

THE. FUCKING. HAGUE. ✊

I'm a skeptic of long-term intellectual property and corporate copyright, but trying to argue that individual artists not wanting to be ripped off by corporations is the same as corporations zealously protecting their IP is incredibly stupid

Finally got this baby framed and ready to hang.

This is all I want, is that too much to ask?

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

ICYMI: After hearing yesterday that FX legend & Oscar winner Michele Burke had passed away, I decided to publish her book chapter in its entirety (I also have some pics she shared that never went into the book in there too): from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/celebrating-... Cheers!

tfw it’s Monday

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.