Ross Hopkins, Commissions Open

Some days have difficulty remembering which of the Paul Thomas Wes Andersons puts his wife Milla Jovovich in all his movies.

I feel they should swap subjects just to experiment. Wes Anderson directs Dino Crisis. Paul WS Anderson adapts an Upton Sinclair novel.

Sometimes I get self-conscious about milling around alternate history forums my entire adult life, but paying even a small part in poisoning the viability of a coal-belching plagiarism engine fills me with immense pride.

PRIDE is such fucking great propaganda (laudatory). We need more movies like PRIDE. Y'all gotta be PRIDE-maxing. Cringe propaganda about solidarity is how we win. God bless PRIDE. Lib out on PRIDE.

String - Chapter 8 - Page 029 Si's attempts to reconcile the sectarian leprechauns runs into difficulty, but that doesn't stop Nancy picking up the baton.

In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, these wobbly-headed action figures will NOT SIT DOYN with the men of violence!

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4 panel comic Panel 1: A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop. Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform. Panel 2: Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself Panel 3: Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but… Panel 4: Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

There's got to be a term for this sort of reverse-PASOKification afflicting centre-right parties across the globe where instead of moderating into a grey sludge they shrink further and further from the sane consensus and just end up legitimising the insurgent populists threatening to consume them.

Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...

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Unironically my mum's favourite autobiography, along with its sequel Bring On The Empty Horses.

Had to be there for that one too.

tired: this robot story reminds me of apartheid
wired: this apartheid story reminds me of robots

*person who's only seen Detroit: Become Human* getting some real "Detroit: Become Human" vibes from this Cry Freedom flick

the best answer i got for this:

There definitely came a point in the history of sci fi when the allegories ceased being ways of bypassing censors and became ways of bypassing the writers' own discomfort surrounding certain topics.

My 6pt font treatises crammed into six panels feel super validated all of a sudden.

Manny Calavera approaches Cloud in the FF7 flower church, where he plummeted to his death.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Dr Samuel Johnson

This is what they mean by "every frame is a painting."

I'm as surprised as you are to discover that public figures having their social media posts handled by their PR teams turned out to be a load-bearing pillar of civil society.

There's definitely capital to be mined from pointing out that every time the populist right has won power on a platform of "we're TAKING BACK what the CORRUPT ELITES stole from YOU, THE PEOPLE" this is always followed by the greatest consolidation of wealth since the dissolution of the monasteries.

String - Chapter 8 - Page 028 Nancy, Si and Rab discuss how to resolve the situation unfolding beneath them, disagreeing if it's serious enough to warrant drastic steps.

In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, we must facilitate Good Friday to source stuffed toys for Black Friday.

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It's a pathology that deserves to be studied under a microscrope: "don't do homework, bullshit answer with unwarranted confidence, get told answer is wrong, get huffy and offended at interviewer's refusal to malform reality to her benefit."

It Happened Here.

Its awfulness is hypnotic. It's amazing, the sheer unmitigated decadence of it, formed from acres of rainforest and the carcasses of artists' livelihoods, the layers of mockery that reach into dimensions unmapped by science, it belongs in a museum dedicated to the 21st century's greatest horrors.

waiting for the sand tram

I am in awe of the poverty of imagination that would bar a rational mind from conceiving of a White Somalian.

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Recreating the prohibition outlaw folk hero except it's John Crichton and the crew of Moya.

A cartoon image of a small black cat riding in a tiny tank. The barrel of the tank is blocked with an oversized cork, and the tank has a caption on the side that reads “MAKE TEA NOT WAR”

#RONTOBER, day 1: Battle

a 3d render of a faux horror/action video game, with a cute streamer webcam overlay.

streamer

(solemnly) You've had mail.

We have reached levels of "this could have been an email" hitherto unforeseen by man. The apotheosis of psychopathic LinkedIn influencer peptalk made manifest. Yea, the four horsemen shall ride upon the breaking of the seventh seal and be known by their titles War, Disruption, Web3 and Tariffs.

String - Chapter 8 - Page 027 Our quantum irregularity hunters find the source of the disturbance to be a knockout sectarian brawl between two factions of...leprechauns.

In today's update of "String", an urban fantasy webcomic, what do you mean Old Firm matches look nothing like this?

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