replaying clair obscur and noticing something new...

two episodes in... welcome to derry seems to have a real fixation on the horror of birth...

wow, not even bothering to make it subtle.

i have a lot of thoughts on the women who support pretty gay fictional tv characters and nope out when actual queer athletes exist (all. over. women's. sports.) probably because they don't watch or care about actual sports.

Again, I truly *loved* this week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, but IT IS A WISH FULFILLMENT ROMANCE. The success of a gay hockey romance TV show, largely watched by people who are neither hockey players nor hockey fans, is not “proof that the world is ready and all we would do is love you”

i do not at ALL like what the title of the #pluribus finale is implying.

I will never get over Karine from Traitors Canada not being my girlfriend.

My regular post wishing all if the Southeast Asian and LatAm people I follow on txitter would migrate. Sadly, not everything can be solved by becoming more insular.

Apparently the helicopters I've been hearing all morning are news copters, which is hilarious because I don't even know how to find breaking news anymore now that the internet is slop.

and a day later i see all the typos 🙃

I didn't really like Wake Up Dead Man (it's fiiine) but gosh, Louise. Bridget Everett is a powerhouse. Incredible what she did wjtb abojt 2 minutes inscreen and 3 minutes of just voice. Anyway, go watch Somebody, Somewhere.

Apparently yesterday there was someone wandering around Brown posing as a federal agent. From a local school:

i wonder if the "as i suspected" was necessary here 🤔

not that I'm one to defend trump, but lots of accounts were sharing that. including "legitimate" media (not that there is such a thing anymore) also, folks. shooter(s) still at large. priorities.

for folks who know where i live and might be worried: I'm okay. sheltering in place. most of the activity is 1/2 to 1 mile away as of right now. I'm getting alerts from a friend whose sister works there.

Started playing Blue Prince again the other day after a few months of a break... today I accidentally discovered an entirely new puzzle. What a great game.

Back in the… aughts, probably? There was this husband/wife couple who made movies starring the wife, always as a lesbian. They weren’t very good movies, but you know. Slim pickins back then and, like many other bad queer movies of that era, were beloved by many.

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This auction is super cool. I wish I could afford literally anything. (I’d go for the signed bidet, tbh). But, you know, AI ate my job prospects. Anyway, it’s raising money for public media… if you have money to spend on a good cause, give it a look.

been up since 4am, watching traitors canada because, like, you know. whatever.

i randomly started rewatching terminator dark fate last night but got distracted and now I've decided to rewatch 1984 terminator first to once again feel smug in my "dark fate was an intentional mimic of 1984, because that was the whole point of the changed fate stuff."

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

truly a joy to check out a tv show for the concept and discover the lead is a queer woman. usually i have to seek out the queer women!

life has been very weird (complimentary) for the last 6 weeks.

nooooooo they're lisping, it's european spanish 😭

I started playing Cyberpunk in Spanish... it was recommended on a subreddit I found while looking for children's video games to help me learn. I know more Spanish than I thought! Which is next to no Spanish. Good luck, V. My friend suggested I do this with Mass Effect instead and... yeah.

Worf's parents being Russian Jews is faaaascinating. I guess I don't know they're Jews, but the actors both are. Plus, they're a very specific type of Jewish parental stereotype. Also I guess the actor playing the dad was a huge Zionist, so that's gross!

i have been through sooooooo much therapy in the last 35 years. the opening scene with troi therapisting at Picard is hilarious now.

Is there an episode of TV that's more important, narratively, than "The Best of Both Worlds"? It affected every bit of Star Trek that came after it.

i remember pausing my 10th birthday party to watch the episode where picard goes home to deal with his ptsd. needless to say, as a 10 year old, i thought it was boring. looking forward to it now!

That Locutus reveal still hits.

I've restarted the all-Trek rewatch that I started like a billion years ago and stopped with "Best of Both World" because I was worried I wouldn't like it as much as I did when I watched the first time, when I was 9 years old. So far, I think Riker's being a dick. When I was 9, I was on his side.

cool, a new adderall shortage

I will not be seeing Tron: Ares in theaters. Tron is my favorite movie of all time. There are folks on the Tron subreddit (the first sub I joined, lol) saying we should see it so Disney makes more Tron. I don't understand this mentality. I'd rather no more Tron than bad Tron.

Please do as shaun says, but not before reporting the account for spreading disinfo. genAI is so good nowadays that we're all gonna get got eventually, but being told/shown over and over that you're disseminating a lie, and just ignoring people who point it out, is a serious red flag.

uh, when did we find out the palisades fire was arson?

week 1 spooky season (new to me) watches: where evil lurks santa sangre bring her back birth/rebirth

I appreciate Shudder dedicating part of the 100 Greast Horror Movie Scores to sound design, because... yes. Sound design is so cool and so overlooked. But wild not to mention David Lynch in that!

I've been quasi-obsessively playing #HadesII (it's SO much better than when I last played in Early aaccess) and I am in deep for Melionë and Eris, tyvm.

Ooh, Shudder got a bunch Hitchcock movies.

Holy shit, this is not a joke 🇫🇷🇪🇸 Netanyahu plane is flying AROUND France and Spain, due to international arrest warrants, on his way to NYC Even Netanyahu knows he is WANTED all over the world for the crimes he committed in Gaza Shame and disgrace to the Jewish people.

Weapons is reaaaaally good.

Four of the five #Taskmaster s20 contestants are making a solid go at"if I were the Doctor on Doctor Who" with their task costume choices and I approve.

The amount of headlines I've seen calling Kirk a "political activist" is actually stunning.

It’s kind of surreal watching the fascists and the fake opposition party come together in mourning over the death of an ultimately inconsequential influencer and in real time retcon him into some kind of lionized, mythical figure, a god among men. The fuck? He was some asshole with a very large head

I think the real problem that’s worth discussing is that one side of politics is sitting there with their fingers on the trigger looking for any event to begin murdering Democrats. But here we are yelling at liberals to not antagonize them.

they shot dem legislators! blew up a boat of random people! and I'm sure they already have t-shirts praising that. asymmetric rhetoric is brutally effective and everyone's been leaning into the punch for pretty much my whole life

"they are going to use this against us." where you been, they are murdering black people in the streets for selling CDs, they are rounding up hispanic people for being at a home depot, they are sending people to foreign torture prisons for tweeting about Palestine. The terrain is SHIFTED