this is the thing about The Odyssey - might be a historically-accurate epic but it's a MYTH it's RIDICULOUS it should be WEIRD AS ALL HELL with insane costumes and people chewing the scenery because they're GODS and MONSTERS. A Knight's Tale was THE modern translation of a classic work. i want that

Whenever I read something like this I just spend the whole time weeping for teenage bounty hunters to somehow get a new series. Which is only a small part of the point.

but not everything is bingeable tent-pole content, and the business needs to come to an understanding that art needs to be fed, creative people need to be groomed and trained, and some works of art are not the kind that open huge but the kind that grow powerful with time.

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)

one of the most exciting parts of the seven-part pact release for me is the highest tier, which will (amongst all the other gubbins available for the campaign) feature a very special object ... a hand-illuminated, hand-painted limited print of the Orrery done by jennifer dragon, my real-life mom

Seven-Part Pact will launch on Kickstarter July 14th, an auspicious day for powerful magic !! the game includes multiple decks of cards, including a deck of destinies wielded by the sage for determining the narrative future of the pact

Wrote some words about Disclosure Day that probably won't make sense to anyone who hasn't seen the film, and might not make sense to anybody but me. Helpful! www.patreon.com/AvaFoxfort/p...

the thing is right. £5m is _so much money_

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

Oh I would not have expected to be so sold on this.

I actually really loved Disclosure Day. Don't know if I'm just in a weird headspace but I cried a lot. A few things rang really personal, and overall I value empathy and hope in ways that really matter? This felt like it acknowledged that? Weird ways to be heartbroken.

Wait, in the Disnept advert at the cinema what does she sing instead of famefucker, bloodsucker?

I wrote something cute! Actually! No content warnings, no toxic Yuri, just a sweet group of trans girls playing a board game. And a cat.

In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.

Really, looking at NFTs and GME etc should have taught a lot more people how dangerous retail stock markets are.

i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose

Surprised nobody has said Harley Cameron. She was a QTV extra and then chewed up so much scenery that she became undeniable.

You can't chase the polls to find out what people think because you'll only find out after you've already lost. You need to understand the underlying breakdown of human interests and then provide novel solutions to them that aren't already on offer done better by someone else.

So the vibe here is rancid, but also a teachable moment: tired school kids today should be on strike or at least pulling a sickie. (Also it's Bailey not Blake)

I am like. Absurdly in love right now.

There he is

Bless her. I'm hoping my final form will be Toksvig-esque

I'm quite concerned at how much the Pop World Cup has turned me into a Mexico fan and if I say this to the wrong people I could get in a lot of trouble.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

ME: So they made this musical about you, and it was a huge hit, but it was also kinda the death knell of American democracy? A sort of hip-hop threnody for the Republic. Oh wait, you don't know about rap! It's this-- RESURRECTED ALEXANDER HAMILTON: {not looking up from his kalshi trades} Yeah great

I don't think enough people have sent me horny Takeshita videos.

My cover for die issue nine has been announced. Needless to say I am extremely hyped.

I think this vindicates my belief that the UK's whole image as a modern country is based on lies. The logical conclusion upon reading this report is that the UK has been lying to the world about its human rights record for at least the last two decades.

I've had conversations about Andy Burnham that start 'well apart from the obviously terrible stuff' and go onto say maybe he'll do something with trains and stop reform and I'm like, babe that's one to three genocides you're brushing under the rug.

The assumption is if it's working for them more or less well enough other people must have nothing to really complain about and they do not understand that relationship as one of the political system advantaging them over those who are complaining.

we are SO back

If someone lets the people at the multiple children's events in town at pirate themed venues know about this it would be the cornerstone of the whole playlist. The Wellerman fad was the only innovation to happen to that industry in the last decade

Portsmouth (or Belfast depending on which list I use for population estimate). Kinda proud I'm pretty well travelled but sad I've not been to Ireland.

ROBOT TAX! ROBOT TAX!

(Technically I think UBI is the only real way to pay for the theft by AI of training data, but this wasn't really the focus of this thread)

Transphobia is THE key component of modern fascism. You are a fascist if you are a transphobe regardless of any other political positions you claim. Fascism is always the same, the only change is the wrapper. The wrapper always targets the current lowest hanging fruit, which RN is trans people.

It's so tiring when a piece essentially saying 'its not helpful to make sweeping generalisations' still makes a load of sweeping generalisations.

Indeperineum days

I like that she's dressed like a command and conquer fmv cutscene character

every day we creep closer to a Second Great Western Schism and I for one cannot WAIT for the untold posting potential it will create

Everything I hear about this leaves me pondering the line between nervousness and excitement. A genuinely incredible undertaking. Incredibly strange creation. I really hope it finds it's audience.

The more I read, the less interested I become in winning arguments and the more interested I become in understanding how people arrive at their conclusions.