Reading Chapter 16 of “A Parade of Horribles.” Man wish Donut had been there for Bear from Obsession.

The bigotry any marginalised opinion is bound to encounter gets amplified by the reality of a culture that doesn’t necessarily reward critical engagement and raises its own audience to be illiterate and hostile to anything that makes that obvious.

My video on Obsession might end up pissing some people off...

People don't get is my and most critic's goal is not to make ppl 100% agree with us (if they do, great!) but to understand our opinion through reasoned argument. But because marginalized perspectives rarely get empathy and oft villainized, they are oft seen as attacks on other (normative) opinions.

The fact they did both of these so soon after each other really does signal how little this companies give a shit any more about our opinion, instead assuming that we’re either idiots or can simply force their will on us with arguments that shit like this was “inevitable”.

Just a reminder that Playstation is the same company that, less than a week ago, removed 551 movie titles from people's accounts even if they were "purchased" and gave no refunds. They've already signaled they are not to be trusted with digital only products. blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

We earnestly should be meaner to straight people frankly. Y’all are lucky how nice queer people are sometimes.

I hate Gavin Newsom. He’s calling for a national billionaire’s tax (while fighting one in CA) cause he knows it’s popular for his inevitable pres run but packaging it with his real goal; an AI public equity fund. He's using populist rhetoric to funnel money to the tech sector he’s in the pocket of.

If you read a review of Supergirl that doesn’t mention “misogyny“ or “sexual violence” or a synonym for at least one of these things, then you’re probably reading a reviewer who didn’t get it and doesn’t understand the seriousness of misogyny as galactic villainy

The Supergirl discourse is frustrating to watch because ultimately it’s a mid movie; a mid movie with some interesting ideas that it fails to fully explore. But the discourse is it’s utter trash or needs (off chauvinistic) defending of its better ideas. Women’s media is unable to simply be mid.

I always hate hearing the phrase that "trans people are the canary in the coal mine of how fascists will target you" because it implies that trans people are here to die to warn cis people that they should fight back.

Lines are drawn between Adama and... democracy? Also the show realizes there've been open questions about a character for half a season. @jessiegender.bsky.social and I continue with Battlestar Galactica. YouTube: youtu.be/_4GL1G8kgKY?... Podcast: councilofgeeks.libsyn.com/frak-this-po...

Hell, and we cannot stress this enough, yes!

I know that are a lot of Trek podcasts out there, but it’s worth adding this one to your podcast listening.

New pod alert!!!!!!!! Thanks so much to Jessie and everyone for their help on this!!!

Hey everyone! So it’s official! I just began producing and cohosting a brand new weekly Star Trek podcast (kinda new technically) with none other than Star Trek’s own Tawny Newsome! Check out our first episode!!! youtu.be/dUqStd_gHKs

Just fucking give Emma D’Arcy their fucking Emmy now.

Agreed; this was my one major issue with this weeks otherwise fantastic episode.

Hot damn this episode of House of the Dragon.

Ya know, I wish mainstream movies were as queer as right-wing media scream that it is.

Absolute Batman is great and I’m sure the animated show will be too. Buts it’s wild that we got that before Absolute Wonder Woman as a series, as it’s the objectively better comic and we’ve already had so many Batman series. Hell, there’s another one on Amazon right now, Caped Crusader!

I just learned Lilith and Fraiser divorce and I’m absolutely devastated.

Finally saw Devil Wears Prada 2. All we need to stop a bad billionaire is a good billionaire who appreciates girlbosses rather than another mediocre billionaire who simply sexualizes them. Also, is it sad in this movie l about women, the best character is Tucci? Ahh well, it’s a fun romp at least.

Having heard one reviewer who claims to be a feminist say he didn't like the Supergirl movie because "I really couldn't identify with Supergirl because her origin is so skipped over" while just last year having praised Superman for skipping showing us his origin story... I have my guesses.

So now begins the question; are the Supergirl reviews accurate, or just because our culture does not value/overly critiques women-centered media?

In Obsession, I would argue Wish & human Nikki are separate entities, but both are more victims than Bear. The mistake is reading Wish Nikki as the abuser of both, when she is Pygmalion’s statue: a woman made for desire with no interiority of her own, then blamed for the fantasy projected onto her.

Frak this Podcast breaks from the main episodes to catch up on the season 4 webisodes. @jessiegender.bsky.social laughs at my continued pain as we worth through Battlestar Galactica. YouTube: youtu.be/YGOVvNr4dYY?... Podcast: councilofgeeks.libsyn.com/frak-this-po...

That moment where you come up with a great idea while driving to an event, and then all you want to do is go back home and write it up instead of being social.

We're are working on a video about this but I really think Obsession is SO good but its 100% unambiguous in that Bear is a POS, and gives Nikki interiority, but because the movie makes Bear relatable people think its ambiguous and misogynistic; and it's telling how men don't want to self-reflect.

Oh no Giraffe has a video game opinion again AND WITH @jessiegender.bsky.social this time 🤩

In fact, I'd even go so far as to say there isn't enough ink being spilled about the very obvious parallels with what's happening involving queer and trans people right now and the post-reconstruction clawback of civil rights and gains that led firmly into Jim Crow. The similarities are stark.

It’s my birthday!

Hexed does really look like The Owl House, and it has me wondering if we’re about to be in for a glut of shows that are just “Former popular show, but more straight”

The BBC announcing the Doctor Who Christmas Special and then instead putting the franchise out to tender feels like it echos heavily with Microsoft announcing Ninja Theory’s Senua just a week before cutting the studio in hopes of getting investors. Just shows how we should not trust any company.

Frak this Podcast continues as the fallout from the revelations of the last episode. And @jessiegender.bsky.social and I try to muscle through some real hot nonsense that happens with one of the characters. YouTube: youtu.be/DvNaxqBkuj0 Podcast: councilofgeeks.libsyn.com/frak-this-po...

I mean I do understand it’s her arc. I just hate that arc cause it’s the stereotypical “woman needs to learn empathy” nonsense that women characters always get put into. A woman wants to focus on her career? Girl needs to be more empathetic!

My favorite XFiles are the episodes where its 100% clear that God and demons exist within the same series that aliens do.

Another thing I hate about Disclosure Day is the gender dynamics. Of course, the boy gets science powers, and the girl gets THE POWER OF EMPATHY despite Emily Blunt characterized as heavily career-focused to the point of alienating her boyfriend. She's just gotta learn to be more emotional you see!

Jesus Christ. I swear to god if Microsoft closes down Double Fine Studios I will flip a shit. Mega corporations are legit just a parasite on anything human, especially art.

Fuck Peter Serafinowicz.

Finally saw Mortal Kombat II. Ya know, I’m proud of Cole. He survived way longer into that movie than I thought he would, despite every line he had being a foreshadowing of his death.

Basically every major blockbuster alien invasion movie is just “what if aliens did to white people what white people did to everyone else?”

I always find this shit so telling because shit like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has for over a decade consistently pushed the boundaries of crude humor, and it’s still hilarious, whereas washed up conservative comedians just want to point and laugh at minorities.

Council of Geeks takes a look at two recent cases of Hollywood trying to covertly smuggle AI into filmmaking how their caginess around this showcases it's not working and how media is consolidating efforts to make these uses socially acceptable

What are your favorite exposition chapters in books. Like the opening of The Hobbit when the dwarves explain the story of Smaug and the Lonely Mountain.

Disclosure Day is basically the best directed terrible mythology episode of the X-Files. One of the ones where they forget how to write Scullys religious beliefs in an interesting way. Also, the idea of “ground truth pixels” as a way to determine something is AI had me dying with laughter.

the fact that the TADC collab with fortnite is a real thing and not a shitpost is terrifying like okay yeah sure let the show with the trans creator collab with the company that has no qualms with giving rowling more harry-potter-tranny-go-bye-bye-from-public-life money why not at this point

Post something that still traumatizes you.

Honestly, the Fortnite crossover with The Amazing Digital Circus is like the one Fortnite crossover that makes canonical sense.