The more you explore the history of anime, manga, Japanese games history, the more you are confronted with the fact that MANY of the forms’ most potent innovations sprang out of and could not have existed without pornography. It’s integral to and inextricable from these histories

She’s so unserious I love her

Hey folks, In the wake of Kaylee Hottle's tragic passing, we are selling a limited run of "Jia & Kong" prints from our store, with 100% of the profits going to Kaylee's family. Thank you everyone ❤

This is an appalling lack of judgement and the surest sign yet that Britain will continue to be Trump's lackey. The war in Iran has cost countless lives, and breached international law - yet we continue to support it. Very, very concerning. Very, very continuity Starmer.

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also block freely, block often.

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read.

I just had this conversarion with an editor yesterday. If you start hedging for imagined bad faith readers, you have stopped writing and started journaling a fan fic to them.

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The holy grail of Muppet Lost Media has finally found it's way online; the original unaired pilot episode of The Muppet Show. Here's a preview featuring the original extended opening.

The worst part of the social media age is now everyone thinks they’re a butcher because they can see how the sausage is being made.

had this pulled up for my freelancing guide how topical indeed

i can appreciate people's resolve to say "boycott these brands!!" but this gigantic list highlights the point: there's too many brands to boycott. at a certain point you're just opting out of the fight entirely instead, these contributions should be illegal

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if you are using genAI for "good left wing images" you are still getting blocked like the right wing chuds, you can put as much glitter on the doo doo pile it is still poop

Food for thought: Christopher Nolan is on the record saying he loves the Fast & Furious franchise. You can love all kinds of films. I’m excited for Doomsday in the same way I’m excited for all of the Oscar-worthy fare coming later this year — I like *characters* and *themes* and how they move me.

The binary between “real movie” and “slop” is one of the worst things to happen in recent discourse. It’s so embarrassing. I think about the stories of Stan Lee saying he was embarrassed to say he wrote comics back in the day, and I realize that those attitudes around him never went away.

It's only homework if you let it be

“It’s a homework movie!” That is entirely self-imposed. It’s a trick. A trick that worked to great benefit for a long time! But it’s still just that. Let go. Just watch what you want to watch! If you’re genuinely curious about something you see, then take the ride with that part of it. Relax!

Some of you would not survive the perilous jungles of big two comics fandom. You just wouldn’t. You would not be able to handle half of the things that get done on the page. You think you’re on to something by pointing out that it’s a lot of characters? Yeah, dude. Stuff gets wacky.

You gotta go in acknowledging that a film can only be the first movie *once.* And you can only be the first sequel *once.* And you can only be the first mega saga-ending crossover *once.* And this can’t be any of those, so it can only be itself. It can only be a big story. And that’s okay.

I greatly enjoyed the Doomsday trailer and I’m very excited for the film. Seems like everyone wants to get into a dunk-off over it, I guess because we’re back in “Marvel over,” after Daredevil was just “Marvel peak,” so please spare me versions of the same shit we’ve been hearing since Iron Man 2.

Especially funny bc Alan Cumming keeps talking openly about how much he hated the experience of working from Fox & Singer X2, but loves working with Marvel Studios. And Florence Pugh repeatedly talks about loving her role even though film nerds hate it.

I liked the trailer Sure, I’d like a Romani actor to play Doom But again, not convinced this is the defacto Dr Doom for the MCU The Russos have a history of pulling the rug under the audience and I’m expecting it this time I’m not HYPED hyped for it but I’m definitely curious

"why does the UK change leaders so often?" there are diminishing returns wrt how long each vessel can house thatcher's spirit. by the end of the century we'll be getting through 1000 prime ministers a day

Manifesting Spanish miku 🍊⚽️ #初音ミク #worldcup

Yu-Gi-Oh king of games.

Zohran Mamdani will arrest war criminal Netanyahu if he ever comes to NYC. This is what real leadership looks like.

Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger vs. Hurricaneger (2004)

At the launch of Trans Pride. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.scenemag.co.uk/zack-polansk...

Don't constantly ask someone "are you okay?" It's okay being worried but some people might just need space. Time alone and to think things over. People handle situations and emotions differently. They will talk when they are ready, be there though the silence. It will mean so much. 🫂🤍🤍

My GOAT needs a W in these trying times

top 3 worst types of people of 2020s 1. politicians 2. tech bros 3. scalpers

I'm sorry I don't see the hype for this show

They're building a digital prison and most people don't even know it. Your art, your free expression, your dissent. Literally anything they find objectionable they want to label as "obscene" and debank and imprison you for.

The End of Evangelion was released on this day twenty-nine years ago and will be the focus of today's posts.

I say Neo-Saban was the worst era for the show itself Because for what little Hasbro had, it was at least above average on.. er, average

I understand the outrage from Voltron: Legendary Defender now

It's a shame Mystery of Convoy sucks mega ass because I'd love a new side-scroller Transformers game like that again

y'all gotta start fact-checking and stop blindly trusting these "news accounts" 🫠 no, disney's not making ai cartoons. just the previous iger regime got them stuck contractually distributing a french ai-assisted cartoon. not ai-generated, but *still* ai slop regardless.

it's an import. disney didn't make this. contractually obligated to release this due to a 2025 deal as part of the Disney Accelerator program. they didn't account for one of the shows being overseas ai slop.

Same thing happened with Pedro Pascale. Everyone loved him till he started appearing in more stuff. Y'know- like a movie star is supposed to do. Then he was "overexposed" and people were "sick of him."

We do have "new" actors. Glen Powell was set up for big things. People seemed to like him. Then he starred in the Running Man which dared not to be perfect and everyone couldn't wait to talk about how much he sucked and how overexposed he was.