Forget about it, cuh. It’s Chinatown.

Taylor Swift is an egregore dreamed into being by people of a normie or basic persuasion. They see themselves in her and think the world through her. As long as she embodies their appetites, she will never die

The events depicted in Absolute Martian Manhunter happened to me continuously from 2019-2022

One of the best defenses against ennui is the way your relationship with art—even favorite works you think you understand comprehensively—changes as you age and your perspective shifts. A text is completed by its audience; as long as you can change, it can change

“Beyond the Sea” has my favorite cold open in The X-Files. The specter of Scully’s dad is uncanny—and melancholy—in a way that only the best ghost stories can be. M.R. James by way of David Lynch.

William Gibson was channeling something unimaginably vast and powerful when he came up with the names Neuromancer and Wintermute

myself to myself, on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run.

The X-Files episode “Ice” had to be one of the first attempts to reclaim The Thing. It doesn’t just borrow the setting, theme, plot points, etc.; it homages specific shots from a movie that was only about a decade old, ate shit at the box office, and was widely reviled

Much more interested in people’s critiques of Robert Eggers’ writing than the usual complaints about symmetrical framing or his alleged pretentiousness. There’s an underlying “Who does this asshole think he is?” vibe to a lot of Eggers discourse that I find worse than useless.

To Mr. and Mrs. Scaggs, a son: Boz

Very intrigued by the Werwulf trailer, particularly Dafoe’s evil shaman-type guy, whose pessimism (“Thy world is cursed”) reminds me of Dr. Mirabilis, the leader of the Satanic cabal in Peter Ackroyd’s novel Hawksmoor:

Dragon show back on top. I’m sure the fans will show their appreciation in a very normal way

There is no daylight between the Minions and the Mutants from The Dark Knight Returns in my eyes. They are both nihilistic menaces to society who talk weird

RIP Miwa. You drove Mishima deeper into madness with a withering insult, portrayed one of detective fiction's most iconic villains beautifully, and produced rare footage of Miyazaki actually smiling. Your power was immeasurable.

Mr. Two Surgeries In As Many Months Because I Eat Stuff I’m Not Supposed To

What if the Dark Knight returned. What if The Black Casebook returned

Dying at this ruse in L-Gaim. Works every time!

The worst thing they could do with an Absolute Batman show is a 1:1 adaptation a la Invincible. The project becomes worthwhile if 1) it deepens Gotham in a way they haven't explored yet in the book and 2) it looks like Devilman Crybaby and has a Death Grips soundtrack

they keep comparing what the dsa is doing to strategies that worked and gave the party everything they wanted which should tell you what the real objection here is

I am not interested in discussing Supergirl’s box office tracking because I am not a shareholder of the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate

Everywhere I look it's Backrooms this, Nikki Obsession that, but I haven't forgotten who the real enemy is. Don't get too comfortable, you son of a bitch.

I'm sure people are really amped for the Knightquest movie. They can’t wait to see Dr. Shondra Kinsolving heal Bruce Wayne’s broken spine with her magic powers. They’re lining up around the block for the Tally Man and Abattoir's silver screen debuts

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

One flaw in HotD that I fear no amount of improved writing is going to solve: despite being perfect casting on paper, Matt Smith just isn't very charismatic as Daemon Targaryen. He has his moments, but in general he's about as convincing as the evil lady pirate (i.e. not very)

Common sense solution: make it mandatory for every high-hood truck to be painted like Grave Digger

This is a hard day for sons of toolmakers everywhere

Happy Father’s Day, hope your chud son doesn’t get dragged in the ocean and pincushioned like a fucking idiot

My dad died seven years ago following a long illness. He dealt with extensive mental health struggles too, but he never made me doubt that I was loved unconditionally. When I show kindness the way he did, it feels for a moment like he’s alive again. Little Father’s Day tip.

I know I was talking earlier about adaptational “accuracy,” but I do kinda feel like Batman has to talk a little shit in order to feel like Batman. Whether or not your Batman actually buys into his own hype, he has to maintain some smug mystique. He has swag.

id smoke a black & mild with tarman

Do you want to party? It’s party time.

shit, you don't even have to look that far. The Batman completely guts the entire persona of Bruce Wayne as the charismatic playboy in favor of a tortured, unemotive recluse and in turn produced the best depicition of bruce we've ever seen on the screen imo

you: Please, dr moreau. your unholy creations are an affront to god. creatures of land should not combine with creatures of the sea. a baby belongs with its mother sheep, not imprisoned within a pearlescent shell until you see fit to pry open its hinges dr moreau: clamb

One of the biggest shifts in the way I think about art is that I simply do not give a shit about an adaptation being faithful to its source material at this point. All that matters is whether or not you’re doing something interesting with it. Book’s still on the shelf if you want to read it.

Difficult to overstate the degree to which I’m Going For It with this Dark Knight Returns episode

Guy who skips everything but the Johnny Truant sections of House of Leaves

I think I figured out the secret to live action Robin. Make him a 13-year-old, give him a 50:50 chance to survive the movie, and embrace a Safdies-style feverish pace where his relationship with Bruce is progressing too quickly for you to process the gravity of the situation

Directors I would most want to hire for an anthology film if Batman went into the public domain tomorrow: Michael Mann Claire Denis The Coens Nicolas Winding Refn Park Chan-wook Alfonso Cuaron Danny Boyle Kiyoshi Kurosawa Jonathan Glazer Bertrand Bonello Olivier Assayas

this is the true strength of david lynch, it’s near impossible to execute both without one cheapening the other or making light of something so devastating, but he somehow does it in a way that makes it feel tangible and painful to everyone regardless of their proximity to the subject

Twin Peaks BOB is real and a metaphor at the same time. In Gothic fiction, the sins we deny and repress—incest most of all—come to life as monsters, giving voice to the unspeakable. The awful truth is that the crime and the horror of living through it are equally, terribly real.

Contemporary fiction is short on gibbering old coots. Widow’s Bay understands this

Black Easter rocks. Blish researched Western occultism about as deeply as you can and created a horror novel that takes its premises 100% literally

"Satanachia" its inspired by one of my favorite movies "El Dia de la Bestia" and James Blish amazing book "Black Easter".

I wish Absolute Batman would flesh out Bruce’s alleged blue collar identity, but it’s just not that kind of book. Bruce is working class insofar as he represents the interests of workers against capital, embodied by Joker’s Satanic cabal. It’s not Spider-Man, it’s Berserk.

Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19734

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It’s a Republican War on Kids

I know there’s an X-Men old timers circuit—Claremont and Nicieza have both done minis recently—but who the fuck is clamoring for a John Byrne book of any kind in 2026? Even the insipid nostalgia of the current X line is chasing the high of Jim Lee and the cartoon, not Byrne.

Been on my mind a lot lately thanks to The Bone Temple. You can’t heal the wasteland by following the wasteland’s rules; you have to go beyond them, even if that choice is patently irrational, foolish, even suicidal. This is the sacrifice myth requires.