J.A. Prentice

In his "autobiography" (more a loosely edited diary), John Adams on Sep 9, 1776 noted without comment—in one sentence—that Congress had officially adopted the name "United States."

He then spent over 500 words recounting an argument w/ Ben Franklin about whether to close bedroom windows at night.

Pixar was the single handed most misogyny I ever experienced to my face in my life, stemming from my work being "too girlish" with an insinuated, but never directly stated "and too gay", while also complaining that I was perplexing for not behaving like their perception of a normal "woman"

A Zarbi looking for din. Digital drawn.

Zarbi!

#DoctorWho

There is, really. It's the commerce that's hard to separate.

I mean, if I have a DVD of CHINATOWN, I can watch it and experience the art without benefiting Roman Polanski. I can separate art and artist to my heart's content. If I _buy_ a DVD, though, maybe not.*

I have virtually all of Neil...

Death in the Family sure is a comic that exists.

When a male author can't write women it's usually like reading about space aliens. When a female author can't write men it's usually like watching a movie where through clever camera trickery every male role is played by the same guy. Like, she can totally write MAN, but just the one.

What new punishments must we invent for ecological rapists?

After 5k likes (now 9k and counting), OP fessed up that he didn't "create the diorama" and credited someone on Facebook who also likely shared it unattributed. These are from thecollector77 on Instagram, who says these (and more like it) are cgi figs:

www.instagram.com/p/DVKIJzPDmV...

The thing in the movies is that they tone him down, they make him reluctant and unsure about being king but in the books he’s like hell yeah call me King Blaze Shatterstar maybe I have a few DUIs who doesn’t

I like how Aragorn has different names for himself in different places in Middle Earth because he bounces checks or something

It is completely insane that they are putting people's names into their paid product as "experts" without their knowledge. And Grammarly's response is to say people can OPT OUT?? There's not even a definitive list to see if you're on it.

It's funny how you can post something harmless like "I love cookies" and then get a response from someone named "IHateCookies" who found your post because they spend every second of every day searching for posts about cookies, and they'll be like, "Well some of us hate cookies."

Absolutely insane to me that they got a titan like Delany to write Wonder Woman and then lost him after two issues. An amazing get followed by a really stupid fumble.

Remember when Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser rolled in to DC Comics for a hot minute?

They appeared in an issue of Wonder Woman written by Samuel R Delany!

There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.

There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.

This is also why art is important. I learned about the Troubles because of the Cranberries song Zombie. I was only six or seven at the time, but it was such a powerful and terrifying song and music video that I asked my family what it was about. They told me as best they could.

John Waters

an insult to McCarthy and Le Guin and whoever the others are, but also to everyone literate, and to life itself

Billy Campbell and Jennifer Connelly in a promo photo for THE ROCKETEER, Campbell in costume and Jennifer Connelly in a dress that inspired a million obsessions.

also I enjoy the Stephen Sommers MUMMY but come on, why doesn't THE ROCKETEER get mentioned in the same breath when talking "fun 90s pulp adventure throwback starring ridiculously photogenic people."

Oh I love these pages.

I know this is a thing I keep hammering, but I really appreciate the use of just...a lot of text. I want to see more of this.

This is a very common problem between minority communities: people often try and demonstrate how bad an attack is on theirs by saying some variation of "Imagine if they said this about [x other minority]." But, of course, they *do* say that about [x minority!] Fairly often!

The girl who opened the empresses’ throats hailed from the salt flats, smelled of horses and the moon, and wore her left hand with three fewer fingers than was fashionable. Nothing more would be known of her by any soul that lived for a year and a day after she vanished.

Yaphet Kotto

I don’t necessarily think he’d have been an improvement for either role but I think they’re absolutely fascinating to imagine as a thought experiment, like how one of the finalists for Picard in Next Gen was Yaphet Kotto

YouTube video by The Academy Tim Curry Breaks Down His Most Iconic Roles

This is delightful which of course it is because it’s Tim Curry dammit but it contains two earth shattering revelations for the Curryverse and they are

1) he was considered for Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

2) he read the screenplay for Silence of the Lambs and wanted to be cast as Hannibal Lector

this review for “birth of a nation” makes more sense (derogatory) when you understand it’s from human pet guy. doesn’t make it any better, just tracks in a way.

It is really weird to me when people don’t like reading and books.

I get not having enough time to read. I get wanting to read more, but there are just too many distractions around you. Obviously, I get having disabilities that make it difficult to read.

But just not liking books? Who are you?

Illustration of a sunfish (also known as a Mola Mola) floating above an aerial view of some farm lands. A plane flies next to the fish, really putting into perspective of just how large the sunfish really is.

I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️
#art

I think he looks like he's about to announce that the Bajoran workers have taken control of Ore Processing and have three minutes to surrender before neurozine gas is vented into the compartment.

Did the president just declare war via truth? Fine. Share it.

But did he just say something unhinged and cruel? Do we have to know that? What is the value in knowing that?