you claim to dislike doctor who and yet you know a lot about it a) shut up b) remember in the five doctors there was this assassin robot where they said it could move faster than anyone could see when what actually happened is that it jumped in the air and then vanished with a sad little fart sound

Cinema verité is the most dishonest form of documentary filmmaking except for all the other ones

I don't care how much the New Year message quote has lovely sentiment, if you're quoting a disgraced, abusive fantasy novelist and comic writer then maybe you should go and find a different quote.

You can only laugh at the absurdity.

Hollywood is a cesspool

This year I was in a play, directed a play and made the biggest inroads into my stupid eternal project since five or more years ago. I also had a ruinously bad four month relationship and started oestrogen

I need explicit permission to flirt before I awkwardly attempt to do so

Don’t transition you’re such a hot little twink

This but for "Bury Your Gays," too. Especially if most of the cast is queer. It does not just mean "a gay person dies," people!

Nice acquaintance. Auld?

Its fascinating how we're steadily moving towards the idea that anything that hurts my feelings should be a crime while simultaneously careening towards white theocratic nationalism and loss of civil liberties These things are probably unrelated tho.

"should I engage with art by and about marginalised people" ideally yes pushing back against epistemicide is. kind of a big transfeminist thing

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Bring back Lexi you bloodthirsty genocidal assholes

Bro they're feeding you various nuts and berries in the QRTs. They're sampling you with many delicious jellies and jams. Its so over for you bro.

I think every comics creator should internalize the fact that using a.i. for any part of your job not only comprises your work but it also fucks over every other person working with you. It's not worth it. Ever.

[cherrypicking scenes to define genre the way people do with Ghibli movies] The Godfather is "cozy."

AVERAGE BRITISH PUNDIT: it is ever so uncouth that those undesirables are permitted to exist AVERAGE AMERICAN PUNDIT: every normal american is a latent hitler, and that's what makes our nation great AVERAGE AUSTRALIAN PUNDIT: at least we'll never have -those- problems! *reproduces their causes*

“What do you mean the woman I called a guy was trans? The fact that she had a trans flag in her profile, a picture of herself, and her pronouns listed wasn’t enough for me to realize she was a woman! I’m such a good ally! I won’t apologize, though.” Mmhmm… yeah.

the luddites destroyed technology not because they opposed technology but because the technology was owned by the capitalists and used to extract labor. genAI is not new, and marxist analysis is almost on the nose applicable.

I'm being glib here but I'm actually very serious about this. I'm tired of every part of culture being about competition. Everything framed in terms of winners and losers, as though life is zero sum. It isn't. We make everything better when we see peers and friends, not enemies.

However, a true boon of modern literature and film, to me, is that entire perspectives and walks of life now have more cache in the cultural mindshare. Which is why one cannot ONLY consume older work - you may very well recreate the biases of the past. Balance in all things.

This is especially true of American art. You are going to get more out of art made at a time when our literacy standards and widespread cultural literacy were both higher than much of what has been made post-2000.

Consuming new art is important. But it's more important - yes, more - to educate yourself on older works. The novelty of surprise can never replace the comprehension of context.

The average professional artist (and I’m talking getting paid literally anything for their art) has a skill set that is rarer, harder to do, and that takes longer to master than any middle management type you’ve ever met, but those do-nothing dipshits can make six figures with no one getting upset.

Arguments that any technology "can't be put back in the bottle" are always the stupidest thing I've ever heard We put asbestos back in the bottle We put lead paint back in the bottle We put leaded gas back in the bottle Why can't we put AI back in as well? Just demolish the data centers!

it takes time & the end result will be worse. and if you don’t take time to fix it, it’s *even worse*. what is the advantage exactly? I’m not in a race with other authors to crank out books ASAP. there’s a deluge of garbage on the Kindle store but that’s a different market altogether. why do I care

always baffles me when I see “but writers/creatives/etc. HAVE to use AI to remain competitive!” besides AI writing being worse, there’s no evidence it gives any real advantage over not using it. you’d still have to fix all its screw ups, which takes time you could use to do it right the first time.

for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism

The “ableist” accusation from gAI boosters pisses me off so much. You know what’s really ableist? Telling my students they can’t possibly engage with difficult (or any!) text without the help of gAI. They prey on students’ crises of conference in a way that is truly disgusting.

The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.

I don't mean to be mean but even without the whole "zionism is sexy" bullshit that guy has only gotten worse at acting over the years and nothing I've seen from this season seems to convince me otherwise

it rules how much everyone in the stranger things cast just wants it to be over with except for noah schnapp, someone that does not appear to have very many career prospects when this show wraps up

Today, I wish to discuss how the difficult questions of third world feminism are elided and obscured by Western feminists---both white and not---and kindly ask feminists all over the world to grow a fucking pair. Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...

DUNE: WHERE’S MY CAR?

"Retcon" is short for "retired constable"

there's nothing more offensive to a comfortable person than the idea someone might experience consequences, social or otherwise, for doing awful things to maintain their comfort

Who up toejamming they earl

Chewbacca predates ciabatta

There's a certain strain of nerd not reacting well to hints that they are not in fact the lords of culture

what makes me a man is that i am me. i know some of you 'materialists' too stupid to understand the term only really care if i look male, but ones intentions and behaviors are also MATERIAL CONDITIONS in a way that gets COMPLETELY IGNORED in these moronic discussions

i take ritalin because i have adhd. some people take ritalin because they want to party or lose weight. does that mean we are both the same kind of person. surprise, the latter group justifies taking away medication from the former, and it does not mean that i dont support the latter

if a woman is too manly shes a man, duh. theres nothing inherently reactionary or misogynist about it, its obvious that a woman with high T levels and an interest in bodybuilding is actually just a male. this has no negative implications for womanhood btw

That thing where you want cinema to be respected for what it is, but also, where my funko pops at?!

make no mistake, EVERY time immigrants protest against police violence, the french state and media crack down on them with full fucking force. they make no apologies for their violent, inhumane treatment of their colonial subjects. if youre a white european and bitching at americans, eat shit imo!

ask these europeans how they feel about african migrants or romani and watch them morph into adolf hitler before your eyes

european racism is lounging on the beach and looking bored while a romani child drowns in the surf