Sometimes I like spoilers. I look up the endings to things so I can enjoy them with less anxiety. I read horror and romance, two genres where I'm either guaranteed a bad time or a happy ending. But its NOT cool to spoil things for people who dont like them and its NOT COOL to share leaks. Be cool

All social media website honestly are just full of idiots

Bob Iger to Alan Horn after The Hunt For Ben Solo news dropped:

Big reason i don't cavetch about any major IP's Marvel or Star Wars is i still buy the stuff. If I really thought things were going downhill I'd stop giving them my money.

Only if there is enough pressure and if the Execs care enough to listen. Iger retiring soon keep in mind so he may not give a shit anymore to be honest.

The thing ultimately about any franchise is that eventually they come back around. It may take a while but they get their. DC was actually pretty HUGE in the early 2000's with Begins, Knight and Rises, then you had 2013-2024 of DCEU, and now DCU. So yuh know, it all turns around eventually.

Instead of asking "I wish Star Wars would do X" other films and franchises do X, go watch those.

Well yuh know Star Wars fans don't have to always watch Star Wars Yall could just support new stuff? Yuh know.

My conspiracy brain is Adam Driver knows Iger about to retire and is pressuring future Disney leadership to make the deal.

You know who supports #BringBackBenSolo THESE GUYS 👇👇👇

Man this one dude on the Jedi Council Forum REALLY hates Kylo Ren and what they did with him in Last Jedi.

You can have Ben Solo back but Rey gonna have to be Han's secret daughter and the Palpatine thing was a lie ;p

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Online trans culture is getting so much more pessimistic and it's starting to actually affect me. Fatalism about transition not doing anything and resignation about being third-sexed is so common now. As is talking about lesbians as though they're distinct from and antagonistic to trans women.

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

It's wild looking back on all the YouTube critics of various mediums I used to watch back in the 2010s and realizing just how much the grand majority of them sucked. Especially if they were entrenched neck deep in geek culture, which almost all of them were. lol

I'm so torn between not wanting to hand ANYTHING to Iger and also feeling like "Steven Soderbergh's Ben Solo movie" is just the LAST combination of words I want out of a "STAR WARS" thing. Just... no, huh? No more grasping quasi-prestige schtick, no more tedious BLOODLINE LORE, no more.

I’m sure fandom will receive this news with an eerie calm.

Also Star Wars IS a film franchise! Star Trek has ALWAYS been TV first. So lets not act as if Star Trek not having movies isn't necessarly a bigger deal compared to Star Wars.

Into a period where both Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh were interested in having a crack at these venerable franchises and neither panned out.

Star Wars and Star Trek have kind of been in the same place the past few years with multiple abortive film projects and most of the brand being buoyed by a variety of streaming shows. The difference is the fallow film period for Star Wars has been much shorter (2019 vs 2016) and ends next year.

Counterpoint: Star Wars can’t continue until fans come to terms with the ST and insisting on some sort of canonical wipe of it is an absurd fantasy that isn’t going to happen

Just saw the poster THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU in the flesh. Can’t wait for this movie.

Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

Today's take-away: There are a lot of awful presidents

No Kings wasn't "cringe". Peaceful protests are good, but the Very Online Pundits just have this weird need to pick a fight with everyone. www.theargumentmag.com/p/no-kings-w...

If Nyssa's internet is shut off, she's likely to be out of contact for at least the next couple weeks. We're finally starting to get some traction now so please, please if you can help my girl out it will mean a lot. #MutualAid #AidSky #Fundsky #Helpsky #MAboost #helpfolkslive2025 💕💸

Learn to be chill with the endlessness of "Simpsons discourse" now; because when it eventually does end the void will fill in with the endlessness of "MCU discourse" (nearing its 20th birthday and only the first of its likely soft-ish quasi-resets)

Among Trump's many crimes against humanity, there is the whitewashing of Dubya's term in office, which you and I remember as a Dark Time, but it seems to have been memory holed in the popular psyche.

I feel like there was an American President BETWEEN Bill Clinton and Barack Obama whose administration and distinct political ideology were also contributing factors here, and it's ..."a choice" to remove him from the conversation 🤷‍♂️

Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, Trump, etc. Historically very good at "not pulling the shiny lever"

I'm gonna repost that if the Insurrection Act was such a get out of jail free card that let big boy Trump do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted and bing bong so simple and not something that's legally fraught and potentially destabilizing to the point of regime change, they would have done it.

No matter how many years pass, I find myself unendingly amazed by the narcissism of people who spend time online responding to articles they make clear they absolutely refuse to even read. It is truly sociopathic and yet normalized and common.

...is going to skeleton-key the next whole generation of narrative shortcuts. It's a question of when, not if (and whether America does it ourselves or some outside IP does it for us)

It's kinda ugly, but the FIRST popcult institution that fully seizes-on and exploits that "unsympathetically poverty-coded white MAGAmuricans" are going to be mid-21st Century's universal "Free shot to beat down and belittle"/dont-count-as-people baddies the way "The Russians" were in the Cold War..

The media is 10-15 years behind the culture-curve and hasn't fully grasped that, electoral "power" or not, MAGAmerica is actually a despised minority of subhumanoid freaks in the wider perception, and a VAST ocean of purple-to-blue "normies" are ACHING to make them a universal punching bag.

The media is pathologically, self-desteuctively afraid of saying plainly the honest truth that "rural(ish) middle(ish)-class white people in red districts are frightening stupid and morally evil" bc they perceive them to be "the mass audience;" ignoring that a MASSIVE audience is aching to hear it

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Financial discussions only really matter in regards to what gets a sequel and what doesn’t. As fans, we do way too much armchair quarterbacking on this when most of the time we don’t know what we’re talking about. The idea of something being “good” or “bad” based on its profitability is hogwash.

And, really? Nicholson wasn't funny? Nicholson? "Oh there'll be a hit time! In the old town toniiiiiiight!"

I saw a thumbnail recently about a ridiculous take of "none of the live-action Jokers were funny." I've always thought Ledger's comedic chops in the role was incredibly underappreciated. He actually was pretty funny at times. "Oh, by the way, the suit wasn't cheep. You oughta know, you bought it."

I'm begging people who spend all day reading theory to be less illiterate

walking and chewing gum is not only possible, but ideal, turns out

but even if we ignore that, it's telling how many people on here and in the broader left, who consider themselves great tactical and strategic minds, keep showing they barely understand force concentration, opportunity cost, and like... contrasting two really simple numbers

"why are all the communists I looked up to turning lib" is a really funny refrain I keep hearing because like, of all the people to meet the masses where they're at, 80% of communist writing is about that, not whining at them and expecting spontaneous change.

Masters of the Universe 1983 Montgomery Ward

In my experience, the best places to plant the seeds for radicalization are non-political spaces and by engaging with apolitical people that know something is wrong but don't have the language to express it. It's far easier than trying to convert someone with an established political perspective.