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I can only hope to see a resurgence in alt weekly interest, but the Chicago Reader for example has been struggling for a while now and continues to struggle. Really want the best for them. Announced last week that they're going monthly

Gift 🔗

Five years ago you could search: "when did the saxophone become an indication of sexy times in film" and you'd get somebody's well-researched article.

Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")

Want this on a sign so I can tap it

Ingenious 😂

FFS

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.

It's frustrating. I've just started using the block add-on tool on authors who do it, because it started making me dislike Beatrice as a character. They can write what they want to write; I simply no longer read it.

Or she's there to serve as Beatrice's emotional support NPC. :/

Josh Cox's 'Muse' Transplants the Gothic to New York - The Fandomentals But with Muse he embraces genre filmmaking, the horror genre, to put a fine point on it. At only a little over four minutes long, Cox takes what he knows,

This week, @jshermancritic.bsky.social checks out Josh Cox's experiment in surrealism: Muse.

www.thefandomentals.com/josh-coxs-mu...

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I'd make a new post about being a Chelsea fan, but this just fits so well at the moment.

a man with a beard is standing in front of a classroom full of students Alt: Lisa Simpson left alone in an empty classroom hanging her head in shame as the lights go off.

Being a Chelsea fan right now.

"You became the very thing you swore to destroy" [image of a black cat dressed up in Christmas lights and a star on its head.]

Keep an Eye Out for 'Carry-On' - The Fandomentals Carry-On is a perfectly serviceable example of glossy junk. Its heroes aren’t that bright, and its villains are too clever for their own good, and all the

Run, Taron, Run! www.thefandomentals.com/keep-an-eye-...

Spot-on Chelsea win group after Macario’s double sees off Real Madrid The American forward scored twice from the penalty spot as Chelsea fought back from a goal down to beat Real Madrid 2-1 in the Champions League

Tonight’s match report www.theguardian.com/football/202...

She made her fair share of mistakes in canon (some she apologized for, some not) and it's not fair to jam her back into that perfect box her parents forced her in, nor is it fair to make Ava always the one having to come back and apologize.

The YouTube algorithm somehow got around to recommending videos of Waterloo Road and now I'm down a rabbit hole and can't see daylight.

'Hundreds of Beavers' Marries the Old with the New - The Fandomentals Movies like Hundreds of Beavers remind us that no matter how bleak the current Hollywood landscape may be if you peek outside, you will discover untold

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is hands down the funniest movie I've seen this year. www.thefandomentals.com/hundreds-of-...

my favorite thing all week 💜😂

Two Chelsea games in one day. I need stock in TUMS, but dayum, what a way to spend a Sunday morning. 🔵

Basically, just because you love something doesn't make it free of criticism, and this is a legitimate area where the show could have and should have done better. And it sadly had a ripple effect on some viewers who adopted the OCS opinion without real examination to demonize Ava instead.

the majority of their order were killed by Adriel. A foundation built on rotten roots isn't going to magically get better until the rot is both acknowledged and cut out. And let's not forget some of the RW atrocities already floating about that church that painfully enhance this issue. (cont)

As mentioned, a lot of the "sins" of the sisters and the OCS are simply glazed over in season two, probably for narrative reasons and Netflix constraints. But I still think it was something that needed to be addressed and the horror aspects of the OCS seemed to be handwaved after (cont)

Warrior Nun Struggles As a Trauma Narrative (Part 1) - The Fandomentals Warrior Nun presents Ava as an abuse survivor who grew into an empathetic, subversive feminist, but viewers can easily miss that as the show does not address the Sisters’ mistreatment of Ava.

This is a #WarriorNun post, so everyone else can keep scrolling. Still thinking about @simplykorra.bsky.social's post yesterday, and how badly the OCS treated Ava. We had a whole series on this over on the Fandomentals. www.thefandomentals.com/warrior-nun-... (cont)

One of my lasting critiques of the series is that it never truly addressed any of this. By season two it's handwaved and forgotten, and Ava never got an apology for any of it. I maintain if the drugging and waking up bound to a bed scene were with a group of guys, it'd be the setup to a horror film.

Vespa in Pakistani Truck Art style

Vespas in Pakistani Truck Art style

Someone in North Carolina is selling these hand painted vespas on Facebook Marketplace and god damn dude.

'We're attacked and abused as we try to save lives' Almost 45,000 assaults were recorded by ambulance services across England over the last five years.

Absolutely shameful.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Monday, we meet again.

There is a special circle of hell reserved for package thieves. 🤬

Photo of the paperback edition of George IV: The Grande Entertainment by author Steven Parissien as taken on a tartan fuzzy blanket.

Next up on the reading list - George IV : The Grand Entertainment by Steven Parissien. This should be fun.

Why Do Recipe Writers Lie About How Long It Takes To Caramelize Onions? Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...

never forget the most important food journalism of our time
slate.com/human-intere...