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I love how so much of the X-Files is just, "we have enough science in the world to understand that nothing is beyond measuring and analyzing, but we haven't advanced to the level of technology to destroy all belief in the improbable" If I tried to tell a story about say, a hallucinogenic tattoo whispering murderous thoughts in your ear, like today I could probably only get it on air as an episode of Evil.

Just watched the episode of X-Files where Scully is studying a striated chunk of metal removed from the sinus cavity of a possible alien abductee. The FBI's equipment isn't good enough, so she goes to a grocery store and scans the chunk of metal at a bar code scanner when nobody's looking, and the cash register starts beeping erratically and displaying weird glyphs.

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finally a gender option I can get behind. I would like to opt out of gender, please.

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why does my butt plug have dailies

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Captain America: Brave New World (dir. by Julius Onah, 2025)

I saw Captain America: Brave New World. It’s not good enough to be worth recommending, and it’s not terrible enough to make for a laugh watch. That's unfortunate for a movie with two armored birdmen and an angry red guy who tears up some of Washington D.C.'s most treasured scenery.

Brave New World desperately wants the reverence accorded to 2014’s Captain America: Winter Soldier by MCU die hards. There’s an abandoned military shed filled with evil stuff, an old friend turned brainwashed assassin. But it devolves into oddly paced busywork for its heroes.

The best stuff comes, unsurprisingly, from Harrison Ford, who plays Thaddeus Ross. The late William Hurt originated the character as a kind of ornery political tugboat, but in Brave New World he's a sweaty, mercurial mess – desperate to prove he can be a force for change and unity.

I’ve long warmed up to the idea that spoilers aren’t such a bad thing, but Brave New World’s problem is that the best spoiled reveals aren’t made better by the telling. There’s no texture or nuance to the Red Hulk, returning characters don’t complicate or twist its intended themes. Already there’s buzz among nerds about how this is effectively a sequel to 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, sans an actual appearance from THE Hulk. And while it’s great to finally see some dormant plot threads resurface, Brave New World doesn’t do anything with them. They’re just pretext.

Regarding Ruth Bat Seraph, the Israeli character who, in the comics, is an agent of the Mossad: She’s paper thin, an inconsequential non-entity who exists so that Cap has someone to talk to other than Joaquin. Her background is retooled for Brave New World, but there’s no reason for viewers to care.

But the worst thing about Brave New World is it still does nothing to lock Sam Wilson for everyone to accept as the new Captain America. I’m not crazy about Anthony Mackie as an actor, but it’s not his fault that the MCU continuously fails to make a compelling argument for him. 2021’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sat on its hands over the same issue, one inflicted upon the character by the disprivilege of being Black in a mostly white milieu and fighting an uphill battle against the worst elements of pop culture fandom.

But Brave New World refuses to properly thread the needle when it comes to the legacy of the Captain’s mantle and Sam’s own impostor syndrome, by refusing to let those insecurities be fully explored or reckon with the full mythopoetic implications of a Black man wearing the stars and stripes.

The MCU is a bunch of cartoons featuring people who fly, punch and fire death beams while holding forth on global security and uncertainty in a multiversal cosmos. I eat that capeshit slop up, for sure, and never expect more. But that doesn’t mean Brave New World has to meet me at the basement.

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sorry for posting abt how much I enjoy riverdale. I mean it with utter and absolute sincerity and it will happen again

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Shadowzel (inspired by Sailor Moon) - by @beneceadraws

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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

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ik it’s important for boycott lists to be focused and limited in scale in order to make results more visible and avoid overwhelming consumers, but personally? i am a born hater and i’m always ready for another company to hate on. i don’t need a strategic objective i’ll do it just for the love of the game

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Not saying anything nobody's said before, but the way Fallout is a foundationally anti-capitalist story that got turned into funkopop sci-fi pastiche slop for morons is painful to the point of brilliance. Makes its points about greed and power that much more salient.

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Me, sometimes, out of nowhere, at no specific time and for no specific reason.

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maybe it's just because i spend my time scrounging around libraries and itch.io and such but i'm often bewildered whenever people talk about everything becoming the same or death of art or everyone being afraid to Get Weird with It. i promise people are still out there getting weird with it. the hegemonic mainstream art remains hegemonic and mainstream like usual. counterculture remains counterculture. as usual. interesting and somewhat off-putting zines cost a little more but the cost of living is pretty high right now, and i don't particularly mind giving an independent artist a few more bucks for their work

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I have the blizzard diversity chart installed in a gland in my brain and this is how i look at passersbys as i calculate their points on it