I'm just asking questions! (pretty sure it's true, though)

This one hurt. (Maybe just watch the first and final ten minutes?)

Everyone wants to talk about Superman saving the squirrel, or saying I love you 3 months into dating, or holding a dying robot, and I just wanna shake them and shout "And *why* do you like that part??" (This is why.)

The Vulcan underground depilation community must be *wild*. Wild, I say. Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm thinking about when I watch TV.

I don't care if it's overcrowded, give me every superhero story where we skip origins, always.

I know this is a losing battle and yet! I will die on this hill: SIX EPISODES IS NOT A SEASON IT IS A MINISERIES

The thing I realized as we put these lists together is that, regardless of subject matter or genre, I have 2 main desires: slapstick soulmate shenanigans or *gay ennui* Even the stuff that didn't make the list pretty much always hit those two categories.

Anywho, here are all my Andor recaps in one place:

Those last twenty seconds nearly ruined the entire show for me. I'm going to pretend they never happened.

Get thee to a theater, trust me, just go.

My body is on some kinda quest to destroy me (that's unfair, it hasn't caught a break in well over a year), but I have to admit, there is nothing objectively funnier than sneezing while wearing a neck brace.

How'd everyone like the Thaddeus Ross movie where Captain America showed up sometimes? reactormag.com/captain-amer...

Lynch was a saint cloaked as a transgressor in a world full of transgressors cloaked as saints.

This is the exact opposite of what this week needed.

It just seems like folks have real strange ideas about what constitutes "holiday cheer" and "romance" and also "use of image consent."

Updated my voter registration! Which is wildly difficult to figure out when you've got a name change in NY (it's in a very weird place and the website only suggests you go change it in person, which, no), and these past weeks have been *rough* so this is my major win for the time being.

James Earl Jones was supposed to live forever, what the FUCk is going on here.

It's so cool what you can do when you want to be creative with your pals instead of pressuring everyone to make a billion dollars in a weekend? ...That's probably not the takeaway they wanted me to have.

Hope you wanna hear about that Megalopolis trailer clusterfuck because my brain will NOT shut up about it.

Hi this is my Joker origin story?? Brothers. Dorian and Basil are being made into BROTHERS.

This is all we can talk about this morning

You have to love these flaccid Calvinist hot takes by highly successful people. Systemic inequality is good, actually, bc it allows the elect to demonstrate their profound virtue and genius. If you are truly pious, you will achieve prosperity via God's special underwear gnome economics

NEW FROG AND TOAD JUST DROPPED

If you, like me, have not finished your Hugo nominations yet, I hope you might consider nominating my Reactor column, Mark as Read, for Best Related Work. Here's a little thread of some of the 2023 pieces I'm fondest or proudest of, starting with "On Learning to Read Generously"

Good stuff for Hugo noms! I think the deadline is tonight though, so I'm guessing everyone's already submitted their lists because they're not my level of procrastinator.

Every time someone I love slams Maestro, my heart grows three sizes bigger. This is not a joke, I walked into my parent's place for the holidays and they were like "We just watched Maestro and we did not like it at all" and I was like "You are extremely correct, it was bad." The RELIEF and LOVE.

I have just discovered that there is no feeling more powerful that telling insurance that they fucked up your billing and emerging victorious. Like, for-profit insurance is a blight on our species, but right now I'm pretty sure I could attack and dethrone God.

insert "it's alive!" GIF here:

The Reactor crew are doing a Reddit AMA, if that's your thing. Ask us stuff!

Answering your questions about the rebrand! The important parts are: nothing is written by AI, we are all the same people doing the same weird stuff, Stubby the Rocket is eternal.

We are gonna be brand new! With a redesign and our lovely new name (which I picked out and may brag about forever. It's not a big deal. I just like it. *foot scuff*)

The problem is that most party dresses fall into the categories of "elegant," "sexy," "cute," or some combo thereof, and I want none of those things, where is my dress selection for "grungy little guys"??

We're sick and watching Muppet Christmas Carol and we need to talk about the fact that the premise is literally Gonzo being like "I'm Charles Dickens" and Rizzo going "oh, this is the weird roleplay we're engaging in tonight? sure thing"

Come tell us of your Nerdy Joy this year - we'll tell you all about ours in return.

I didn't know Paul King could make me sad.

happy "zack snyder's new movie is getting impressively panned" day to all who celebrate

Because I gotta review Wonka this weekend, I rewarded myself by writing about the only true Willy Wonka. (And how this is just a "why the fuck did you eat the fairy food" story on '70s steroids.)

David Tennant owes me money for how much I've cried this year.

wow it has been FIVE WHOLE YEARS since me and @use-theforce-em.bsky.social and @zutsuit.bsky.social made the GREATEST SPREADSHEET EVER www.tor.com/2018/12/06/s...

i miss when spooky was this kind of stuff on Doctor Who.

I just think they're NEAT. *sobs*

Yes, I did call He Who Remains "The Man Who Would Be Kang" in this review, a joke that me and possibly two other people will get.

The fact that this movie had such a dismal premiere weekend is appalling? GO SEE IT.

Part of a growing issue: It's not just exec suite harassment and Tomatometer rigs that we have to worry about these days. There's a direct push to prevent critics from creating cultural discourse until studios have the chance to steer the conversation. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

It's always something when you want a movie to make you feel things, and what you wind up feeling is rage? www.tor.com/2023/10/04/m...

Marty don’t miss variety.com/2023/film/ne...

What if I only use this account to kvetch about chronic pain and illness haha what I would never do that it's just real hard not to because *~hyperfocus~*

No, absolutely not. We’re not calling it “the content industry” now, you psychopaths

Wait I just got on the app and i love how squared off everything is, it feels like livejournal circa 2006