I think a lot of the problems with successive generations of Star Wars media come back to how everyone forgets that the primary antagonist of A New Hope is Moff Tarkin

ALCS: helping authors to feel loved since whenever

There's this whole nostalgia thing about Back to the Future that almost obscures the fact of what a Delorean actually was in 1985 pop culture. Thing is, if BttF were remade in 2026, the only contemporary vehicle that could fill the same cultural niche is a Cybertruck.

I'm still recovering from this film My partner told me that thirty seconds in they could see my soul departing from my body. It got worse from there.

Primary school teacher. Me and my colleague who teaches the other class take turns to make maths worksheets for both classes to do. Made him one where the answer to every single sum is 67 and you could hear the shrieks across the school.

Best Godzilla movie for ages

This week, an anguished piece about a big artistic swing in the face of studio meddling with The Bride! [sic] As ever, it's only a buck to subscribe and get access to years of writing. If you want to sub, read and unsub, I won't take it personal like. www.patreon.com/posts/153499...

I keep meaning to do this again

I saw The Bride! Last night. I did not love it. Or to put it another way: on the way out, the loved one sitting next to me said "I could see your soul leaving your body thirty seconds in."

"There are Palestinians in this moment who are going to feel driven to extremes, and it doesn't mean you can ignore everything they say" and "Good politicians should nevertheless firmly distance themselves from actual antisemitism" are opinions you can hold at the same time

This is where I ruin everything by mentioning that there was in fact a sizeable body of opinion in the early church that Jesus didn't in fact fart, pee or poo either.

BRB off to the newsagent

OK, real talk, and yes, the Real Weebs are going to roll their eyes because probably everyone knows this, but about ten episodes into Mobile Suit Gundam, Amuro, the teenage protagonist, starts showing fairly well represented symptoms of PTSD and I'm like, wow, they went there

I love these people so much

OK, I need a stable job. Someone's got to need a professional writer, editor and critic with an international award nomination for criticism and experience working in a housing nonprofit right? I'm very nice.

On the Patreon: where I look at a now-beloved horror film I really hated first time around and 20+ years later, give it another chance. Was I wrong? As always, it's only $1 to subscribe and gain access to writing that's been nominated for awards and stuff www.patreon.com/posts/152940...

Well now

I thought it was just me

Minutiae like this fascinate me.

On the Patreon: where I look at a now-beloved horror film I really hated first time around and 20+ years later, give it another chance. Was I wrong? As always, it's only $1 to subscribe and gain access to writing that's been nominated for awards and stuff www.patreon.com/posts/152940...

We’re very lucky to have @tobyhadoke.bsky.social who’s gone out of his way to make us all feel part of something very special.

YES. Right back to ancient history. Again and again Western forces made headway into Persia, but it never lasted. The one time Persia was successfully conquered by the West, the result was the Seleucid Kingdom, a nation remarkable for only ever shrinking.

I only got on one block list, for "AI Haters" and yeah, honestly if that explains why I don't get any engagement from people who like the Theft Machine, then the system works

I wonder what people from other linguistic/cultural storytelling backgrounds find to be weird counterintuitive dealbreakers in English language media genres?

I finished my rewatch of Attack on Titan and I didn't feel like doing more than one Gundam ep at a time, because early Gundam is... repetitive. And I've got ad-free Crunchyroll. Come on, WeebSky, recommend stuff (that's easily streamable) to an anime novice, please? (Preferences below) 1/

On the Patreon: another look at problematic anime fave Attack on Titan, this time as a giant monster story. It's only $1USD to subscribe and it gets you access to a bunch of words going back to 2017. www.patreon.com/posts/151725...

I'm seeing this more and more.

On the Patreon: another look at problematic anime fave Attack on Titan, this time as a giant monster story. It's only $1USD to subscribe and it gets you access to a bunch of words going back to 2017. www.patreon.com/posts/151725...

This is basically the whole thing in a nutshell. I got into an argument this morning with someone who was insisting that allying with people who just think the Final Solution to the Trans Problem should be sorted out in a legal, measured way, and baffled that I wouldn't feel safe around them

Anime has been on my mind lately, and so here is a look at Attack on Titan, from the perspective of it as a Giant Monster story. As ever, it's only 1USD to access the whole archive. www.patreon.com/posts/151725...

Sian got me into the models before Xmas, and I’m now on a slippery weathering paints slope, but I don’t know any of the backstory other than “these look cool and are fun to build”. This thread is gold and has one excellent pun.

OK, look. I don't know about anime much. I've watched a handful of the core movies (Akira, GitS, Paprika, Perfect Blue) and seen a handful of anime series through (NGE/Rebuild, Cowboy Bebop, Attack on Titan). I checked out of FM Alchemist and Demon Slayer because grating tonal whiplash... 1/

ATOS has found Ayatollah Khamenei fit for work

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On the Room 207 Press Patreon: a look at tremendous 2023 French psychological thriller Red Rooms, wherein an online poker pro descends into something very online and very grim. As ever, it's only $1 to get access to the whole archive! www.patreon.com/posts/151583...

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

I'm in a small regular movie group where we only watch Nic Cage movies and it's wild that this this is the thing I'm most excited about rn

Imagine raising small children in a warzone, the entire infrastructure of modern life systematically stripped away by people trying to erase you from existence. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a. chuffed.org/project/157569

Everyone go sign up for Sian's great writing!

Today on the Patreon, 1978 Richard Burton-led supernatural thriller The Medusa Touch. Did it really get banned from broadcast after 9/11? No clue. But one thing is for sure, they don't make them like this anymore. It's only $1 to get millions of words. www.patreon.com/posts/151220...

Today on the Patreon, 1978 Richard Burton-led supernatural thriller The Medusa Touch. Did it really get banned from broadcast after 9/11? No clue. But one thing is for sure, they don't make them like this anymore. It's only $1 to get millions of words. www.patreon.com/posts/151220...

b) There'll be a time when the transphobes of today are viewed will have the following at the bottom of each of their Wiki pages: 21st-century American murderers | American murderers of children | American people who died in custody I won't still be alive when it happens, but I know it will.

a) I see people reacting to something Malcolm Gladwell wrote and I feel sad. Gladwell is a 21st century hybrid of Hal Lindsey, JT Leroy/Laura Albert, and Jayson Blair. He deserves exactly as much attention as one would pay to a puddle of slush, which is also the precise value of his writing.

We're so hosed.

London gig imminent - I am on a lovely bill at Quantum Leopard this Saturday www.ticketsource.co.uk/quantum-leop...

On the Patreon, which is a HUGE part of keeping me eating, I've recently done Rambo, I've done toy merchandising, I've done Japanese monster movies. Now it's time for the serious stuff. As ever, subscription is cheap and gets you access to a huge archive. www.patreon.com/posts/150644...

On the Patreon, which is a HUGE part of keeping me eating, I've recently done Rambo, I've done toy merchandising, I've done Japanese monster movies. Now it's time for the serious stuff. As ever, subscription is cheap and gets you access to a huge archive. www.patreon.com/posts/150644...

I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?