don't feed the trolls (official US government information outlets)

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 154: Feed your writing daily. Feed it with fiction, non-fiction, news, games, theatre, films, art. Feed it with conversation. Feed it with experience. Feed it with curiosity. Don't expect to get anything out unless you also keep putting in.

Eva (chara in my pfp) has this damned-if-you-do-or-don't complex going on where she wants to be the one laying out the plan and being the tip of the spear...but also gets gutted by guilt over the consequences of stretching herself thin and holding herself responsible for everything.

Becoming increasingly wild-eyed as I painstakingly explain the complete timeline of the Ayreon Cinemusical Universe to people

For spooky month I've got a new article looking at a couple of the Nightmare Before Christmas sequels in various formats, and we ask ourselves the question: how does its medium impact a sequel's focus? 🎶 This is analysis, this is analysis 🎶 thegamerslookingglass.com?p=1028

DOGGI MART

Was at a friend's kid's birthday party and one of his relatives made a bespoke cake of @realgdt.bsky.social's Pacific Rim (everything one-of-a-kind handmade save for the figures). Talk about destructible art. 😀

I sincerely hope that when it happens, I find out via the Destiel meme

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

Those first few nights after the weather turns and it's cold enough to finally put that extra layer back on your bed and you tuck in like HNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH YES

American Psycho does not need a remake but if they did, it should star a gen Z woman just so the tagline can be "SLAY, QUEEN"

I am the very model of a modern queer millennial I have a Bluesky and a prescription for estradiol I'm shunned by Baby Boomers for a haircut asymmetrical And for my views that they think can border on the heretical I can list the industries that I've killed off in order alphabetical

Incredibly telling that CNN was able to provide more incisive and hard-hitting coverage of Taylor Swift's fandom experiencing what appears to be an honest St. Anger moment than about the fascist regime that has bought and sold their journalistic integrity.

>last winter I upload my objectively largest media analysis article ever in a fit of absolute hyperfixation >followed by ten whole months of website silence >today I get inspired for a Halloween-appropriate new article >I write it all in a day Looking Glass is doing a thing get in?!

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

This is the part of the movie after an important character dies, but it turns out they've left a message to be released after death and it hits hard as hell. But this isn't a movie, and this is our one world, and its species, we need to steward better. Journey well, doctor.

Al-Namrood, a Saudi metal band with anti-religion, anti-autocrat lyrics, whose albums are distributed out of my Canadian town (!) rather than their home country because if their identities were traced to their music their gov would fucking execute them, have bigger balls than Chappelle ever will.

Remarkable thread. One thing maddening about today's MAGA fascism is how it gaslights so many of its supporters into really, truly believing they're not fascist. But by the same token, those whose actual job it is to study the historical lineage of fascism saw this coming a mile off.

The Sign #art #furry #anthro #horrorart #horror

The regime's jackboots are dragging people naked from their homes kicking and screaming, beseiging whole apartment complexes. "Official" story is almost certainly just lies. Captured media will bury the shit out of this so I'm doing what I can to spread it. ICE and MAGA are enemies of free society.

If you like furry art or high fantasy or both, you need Alec's graphic novels in your life and on your shelf. Get in on this!

So are we still doing the "someone wake up Billie Joe" jokes this time of year or are there a few too many Things going on for that to be a great use of the gestalt this year

Can't say I'll be buying any new EA games now that its revenue will be flowing upward to not one, but two authoritarian regimes. That is gonna hurt if Mass Effect 5 turns out to be amazing, but now I kinda don't see ME5 happening at all. Instead of Mass Effect we'll get Mass Layoffs (I kid but not)

The Mandela effect but it's those moments where you are briefly but genuinely convinced that Moushley was actually in the Resident Evil 4 remake

To anyone who bought my books or read my articles lately, first of all, thank you so much, but secondly, I really hope I'm able to give you some entertainment or escape or indulgence right now because we are going through it and we are NOT okay but we are holding onto ourselves and our sanity.

Taken on shadow flights to third-party countries (but then wouldn't they be able to call their families from that country's consulate)? CECOT? Or are there new body pits in the Everglades? That MSM is barely covering this is an obscenity in itself. Any real reporter needs to demand proof of life.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Just finished watching Flow. What a movie. I have experienced an emotion

Inside of you there are two wolves. One is called Anger. The other is called Compassion. They're the same wolf. You're mad as hell that these motherfuckers are doing this to people.

On a wander and cut through a schoolyard, was not aware measures had been taken to deter hoodlums from breaking out a quick nine of street golf on school grounds

Streaming/downloads are never going to be as good as physical media and giving away the ownership rights of access to the media you enjoy is a huge society-wide mistake. (But the amount of fuck-you-over coming from the corporations who control digital content is bringing more people around to this)

True - hang out with people who respect you enough to be happy that you've found media that makes you happy even if they don't share the same tastes.

You're not going crazy, hanging on to baseline reality against the sheer firehose of institutional gaslighting ever since January has been like holding on in a hurricane. You're not going crazy. You're sane in an insane time.

It's a really nice day outside, I just got my old job back, I'm having a pumpkin spice latte, I'm happy

This is your periodic affirmation of real creativity and reminder that every AI-generated cover art for an album or book etc is in a very real sense food being swiped off the table of an actual artist.

I like/love all the Hellboy movies each in their own way (Del Toro's duology is peak and the horror direction of The Crooked Man was lit), but the fact that the last two have been back-to-back reboots is actually insane, how are they this terrified of committing to a particular continuity?

I never want to see a right winger open their mouth about the 'liberal media' ever again after this absolutely insane week of watching the whole major media apparatus rush a hatemongering propagandist to sainthood while aggressively shouting down anyone who said "hey um about that"

The fact that he got handed a multimillion dollar empire to spread hate and nothing but, while most of us are just barely scraping by while trying to do it honest, is an indictment of a deeply broken society.

This Hades II run at @framefatales.com is immediately sending me because of the Beelzebub plushie behind the runner, just...happily observing one of the other underworlds in silence

I just signed off an email with "and the writing never stops", it was relevant to the discussion, but then I thought, boy, there's a life summed up #booksky #WritingCommunity

So @astridcraft.bsky.social's outro speech at @framefatales.com about the power of creating cool weird passion projects is sending me to some kind of place. It's something we need so much.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watching the entire American media bestowing sainthood upon a fascist propagandist who was one of the most hateful discourse-poisoners of this sordid MAGA era. A man whose words are so loathsome that any honest account can only call him a stochastic terrorist.

Loved the new Helluva Boss re-pilot. Much better look at the show's modern form for new viewers. Also very excited that sick metal version of the I.M.P. jingle is gonna be on the season one OST!

To be an Iron Maiden diehard is to explain yes you really do need all these live albums because the faster tempo on The Evil That Men Do and the extra drum fills on Brave New World and the extra atmosphere of Fear Of The Dark and Phantom Of The Opera is better live and so is Sign Of The Cross and-

Day 6- Fossil #swordtember I'm dropping off participating for now (very busy!) but I'll be back to it at the end of the month for the last four prompts ⚔️

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Cannot begin to describe how unheimlich it was when I was watching this one French parkour action movie then in the last act the protagonists straight-up did a teamup with literal Nazis and the film saw no moral issue with this.

Director's assistant for a local film production company. I don't remember my exact salary but in its stead, I want to shout out Ontario's steadily upcreeping minimum wage; it's not keeping up with the cost of life but it's a godsend compared to many US States and I don't take that for granted.

Do you enjoy media? Do you make media? Creator or fan, Collective Shout do not intend to stop until all of us are Under Their Eye unless they are shouted right back down by a bigger collective than these deranged inquisitors could ever muster.

So basically the entire free world has lived this whole weekend within that Endgame "don't give me hope" .gif