That scene in 86 where soldiers ask the major if she's a virgin and she responded by becoming a sputtering mess made me feel old and tired.

Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of impermanence and imperfection, best exemplified by Zen rock gardens and that episode of DS9 where they leave the Bajoran pope on eternal punishment planet and never make the slightest effort to get her out or even visit her.

the problem with having both rainbow holographic heat transfer vinyl and a vinyl cutter is that the only thing stopping me from making pride shirts for horrible fictional companies is my own taste, and unfortunately I thought “happy pride from Anaheim Electronics” was hilarious

My man keeps getting into situations.

The best thing about auteur theory discourse is that no one engaging in it clearly hasn't even read the Wikipedia article. No, it doesn't mean the director is solely responsible for every aspect of the production. That would be an idiotic claim.

Social media has basically turned every centrist politician into a lower tier influencer constantly explaining why they couldn't upload a new video this week

My man keeps getting into situations.

They should have given this guy his own spin-off. Who wouldn't want to watch a Klingon legal drama?

Could homoerotic subtext in the original text (cf. Star Trek and Gundam) have saved Star Wars?

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I don't think we needed an Odo NTR episode.

How would Char react if you called him Charles Aznable?

I showed my preschooler niece the Sugar Sugar video on Youtube and explained the basic premise of Archie comics to her. Now she demands to see it over and over again and spends the whole duration asking why Betty, Veronica and Archie aren't a throuple.

This is such a good design. G-Witch had great grunt suits.

Absolutely disgusting, five stars.

My take is that Guel's arc is about him being a failed hero. Like some very annoying people, he figures he's had some character development and knows how the world works now, so he should be the hero instead of Suletta. However, he's no use as an ally to Miorine (beyond some dumb luck).

We must re-establish the relationship between artist and their audience on the model of Tomino and Gundam fans: The fans must have no way of contacting the artist. The artist must descend every six months to give an interview where they say some wild shit that causes at least two weeks of discourse.

Transporter accident episode where Colonel Lenaris of the Bajoran Militia switches places with Major Rawls of the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit.

Amazing that this likely AI-generated short story could win an award. It reads like a parody of pretentious litfic, going for at least one metaphor per sentence and getting hopelessly lost in them. Wet sacking, notorious for laying itself on men without asking permission, is a good one.

One of the joys of episodic tv is how even the best shows will at times give you absolute dogshit. Deep Space 9's Meridian, for instance, is about Jadzia having an unconvincing romance with a guy who opens by asking if her spots go down to her ass and Quark trying to make deepfake porn of Kira.

again,

Deep Space 9's S3 has the funniest opening. We've been building up to this for two years, but now it's time: war with the Dominion! ...Ah, it was a simulation. The results show they'll want to wait a couple of years. Have a comedy episode where Quark has to marry a Klingon instead.

“Your level of commitment?” The edgiest Gunpla commercial from 2001. #VideoBytes

Sunrise is too cowardly to make this from the perspective of a grandma whose world was rocked by Charma.

Ah, Victory Gundam.

I do admire the people who paint those super-detailed Warhammer minis. Each gunpla has like four pieces you can't easily paint a single color and I struggle with each one of them.

A fundamental text, to me

Important update. The art has been separated from the artist!

Current favorite genre of post: people being shocked that calling a moderator a pedophile is a bad idea.

Watching the Ferengi episodes in DS9 is so odd. That's lots of very good Jewish actors making these creatures charming and funny, and the writing's sympathetic to them. However, objectively we're looking at crude antisemitic stereotypes ten times worse than the wizard books' goblins.

I was not ready for the Bashir/Garak chemistry.

Ah, Deep Space 9 and pre-DVD television. where else can you get an episode about our heroes being possessed by scheming ghosts immediately followed by one where they investigate a possible concentration camp guard?

Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.

I don't usually have very strong reactions to films I dislike, but I still remember my visceral hate of the Hours (2002) for being a little too explicit about making the sensitive, queer, too-pure-for-this-world characters gorgeous film stars and the oafish conformists fat and average-looking.

Name your top 15 tv shows ever, gut instincts only: Scenes from a Marriage Fanny & Alexander Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Blackadder Pride & Prejudice Twin Peaks X-Files The Wire Andor The Simpsons Sailor Moon Revolutionary Girl Utena L-Gaim Zeta Gundam Devilman Crybaby

I like how fixated the teens in Twin Peaks get on the heart necklace when the only thing it proves is that James was Laura's secret boyfriend, which the cops figure out immediately. Feels like a very believable detail.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

I went heavy with the weathering there, but I figured it's justified for Barbatos. The poor thing did spend centuries in a boiler room.

Do you think Donald Duck has good politics?

Wild that they invented both old man yaoi and regular yaoi.

◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ Gundam 0083 CD Cinema 2 Mayfly of Space ◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢◤◢ Continuing my never-ending quest for all things Gundam to the masses, here's the subbed version of the Mayfly of Space drama graciously timed for me by MechaSalesman! Expect more in the future! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbP1...

Very therapeutic to spend all that time meticulously painting your gunpla baby and then messing it up with oil paint.

Heartbreaking: that expensive Citadel brush is actually really good.

mmm, garage extension with no permission you have. calling the council i am

Maybe I've finally grown up, but I can't handle anime with cool protagonists any more. You can't have a mecha pilot called Undertaker; he should be a mouthy kid who reacts so badly to a minor insult he gets both his parents killed and joins a subversive organization.

Studying Anglo-French yuri.