the moomins went folk horror

in light of today's "The Big Game", it is my pleasure to report that avgn's football rant is highly compatible with laura palmer's theme

I'm not kidding when I say this should be illegal, even if it weren't also a transparent scam on this idiot's part.

“Talent is gatekeeping” sorry can’t hear you over my joyously shitty guitar playing

Lot of people injecting intent from him into this so let me make it clear: this was part of a larger quote I didn't have time to fully transcribe. I highlighted the part I found most interesting as a fan. There's selection bias by me at play. It's not a big bombshell or anything, it's just how TV is

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Not sure I’ve seen a single piece of 70s science fiction that aged as well as this PSA on the end of an episode of The Rockford Files.

this, like all Seeming records, is immediately one of my albums of whatever year it came out, and shortly thereafter becomes one of my fave albums of all time

What's the fucking point

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

I do believe in redemption. I believe that people can make mistakes, learn from them, and improve. But I also believe that there is work involved in self-improvement, whether it be therapy or redirection or...it's all therapy. It's just different ways of doing therapy. Humans are fancy animals.

A glimpse into what might have been: looking at Scream of the Shalka for the 250th(!) episode of the podcast. Wow. Thanks to special guests @michaelwhovian.bsky.social and @deathchrist2000.bsky.social #DoctorWho www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4YM...

“TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.” I'd donate to this place simply for that advertisement alone.

"I see it as an antidote to all the corporate bullshit, a place that takes movie culture away from just buying and selling."

King: boy those Epstein emails King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate Neil Gaiman: hello everyone Gaiman: i'm back Barker: oh boy Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

From El, 32,000 words.

To those struggling to maintain New Year's resolutions...

If anybody thinks this is a joke

happy bhm

At long last, we have created Solaris, the Tyrant Sun from Grant Morrison's classic comic seres "Don't Create Solaris, the Tyrant Sun."

Hugo peeps, this piece is legitimately excellent longform, deeply researched criticism and you should please vote for it, especially right now

Obviously abolish ICE and all that, but it’s increasingly clear that having immigration judges be political appointments operating outside the judiciary is a massive problem that desperately requires reform.

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Let's Keep Calling!

I think a $46 million opening for a $90 million movie is better than an $8 million opening for a $40 million movie, and yet

Please, I’m begging

Do you need 32,000 words on From Hell? El's got you sorted.

Chappell was right

A massive post on Alan Moore's best comic. A cracker of an analysis highly recommended.

Today on Eruditorum Press, a massive post in every sense as Last War in Albion reaches From Hell. Make yourself a fresh pot of tea and settle in with it; this one’s a wild ride.

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

Hugo eligibility post! “The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

Gacha games are designed with obsessive attention paid to trends so they can pace events and storylines to a degree that will make people pay money and attention to them with a clinical and statistical degree of addiction and I joked that HSR was the endgame of that; turns out I was 100% correct.

It’s really embarassing how rampant anti-intellectualism is. Like we are getting to a point where a solid percentage of the world feel knowing things for certain is for soy cucks. Like it doesn’t matter if it’s actually true as long as it FEELS true. Embarassing.

Today my 10th graders shared their reactions to the end of Things Fall Apart and my 11th/12th graders finished watching The Conversation and it was one of those days I felt really grateful to be present with kids experiencing art and literature and empathy

Selected images from Saturday's installment of Last War in Albion.

here is a foundational problem with AI art that AI cannot solve: anyone using it to make art cannot identify bad art. you learn how to recognize bad art (and improve as an artist) via MAKING art, which they have already fully rejected. the sets do not intersect.

Wuthering Heights, The Brothers Karamazov, and This Year

90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off

every time the Doomsday Clock is mentioned I can’t help but think about how the only reason anyone under 65 knows about it is because Alan Moore included it in Watchmen. been coasting off that shit for decades

Little preview of Junji Ito's forthcoming MOBY DICK adaptation. He seems to be... taking a few liberties with the original text lol.

I’ve given it some thought and Return to Silent Hill might be the best film I've ever seen. Free to all subscribers www.patreon.com/posts/148963...

⭐ GO-MAN VS. THE STAR DRAGON ⭐ Cover Reveal for Volume 2! This follow-up to Go-Man: Champion of Earth finds Tobi getting more comfortable with his superhero persona, but his best friend Grace is struggling with her own identity and how it fits into Tobi's larger-than-life adventures.

Big news, gang: IN YOUR SKIN, a new comic book written by me, drawn by artist Som, coloured by Francesco Segala, starts publication in April from @imagecomics.com, produced by @readtinyonion.bsky.social. @popversesays.bsky.social has the exclusive details: www.thepopverse.com/comics-in-yo...

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Just a few hours after celebrating Sal B's birthday, I got the news that Sal has passed away. An enormous loss for our industry and for all of us who knew and worked with him. Safe journeys, Sal. We'll miss you.