Jake Casella Brookins

a lot of people think you can save a few bucks and skip the rotoscoped lightning bolts arcing all over the place, but listen: this is your special day

Guy holding up his hands: "I thought this was about politics." Guy with a knife: "It's about biological inheritance."

every star wars property for some reason

Critics I trust are *raving* about it

Guy holding up his hands: "I thought this was about politics." Guy with a knife: "It's about biological inheritance."

every star wars property for some reason

like to be clear it's still pretty jarring

i don't think they'd ever admit to it, but I still give the Andor team immense credit for slowly dropping the quality over the course of S2 so that it's not too jarring when you follow it up with a Rogue One rewatch

oh that is DIRE. also I was mistakenly mentally bracing myself for a chillhop study-hour cover of The Future Freaks Me Out, thought I was ready

When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.

Do you realise Sivraj backwards is Jarvis? DO YOU?

The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries

Doesn't feel real that Udo Kier will never again turn up in a ludicrously terrible film and make it watchable while he's onscreen. Irreplaceable.

Serrano's irritable US partner is Flapjack Montgomery

A shopping bag that says Jamon Serrano.

good name for an international detective tbh

If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Once I get some work admin out of the way I am very much looking forward to curling up with Slow Gods by Claire North for some SF in my life. What are you reading at the moment?

impossible to overstate how much ILL improved my life as an isolated rural library user

"hauve covid" Kate

just got the advice that when looking at houses one should be happy to see lots of spiderwebs: no radon!

trying to decide if this lowers my overall anxiety levels or not

Damn

It's somehow *different* than the sum of its parts in ways that are hard to encapsulate. Really fascinating artistically & still timely, but I haven't found it rewatchable the way say DS9 is, ymmv tho.

A sleeper hit, if you will

I think it remains a massive failure, both of courage and of building the democratic temperament necessary for future mobilization and justice, that state government of Illinois did not pursue the arrests of feds openly engaging in blatant gangsterism.

"fey" in the sense of "unhinged, perhaps supernaturally" is used not infrequently by Tolkien, at least in The Silmarillion; wouldn't surprise me if it got in their brains that way

it's similar to that whole "don't punish desired behavior" thing that goes around periodically; you can just rotate your response a little bit and the effect is much better. Big denotative/connotative gap between "OMG you haven't read that?!" & "Oh, you'll probably really dig that!"

yeah, what corporate IP is probably doing to baseline assumptions about art is pretty concerning. I was actually wondering, given this specific phrasing - "open source" - if it might be some fanfic or selfpub terminology or mindset, though.

The bigger thing here is—outside certain extremely narrow professional competency areas, you must train yourself not to get mad at people for not having read something. I fight the instinct all the time! But we all get one life, and there are too many books.

The Rialto Theater Marquee reads “DETAIN BOFA DEEZ”

Raleigh, NC

Time to be sincere on main: there’s been a truly heartening community response to the presence of these goons in Durham. The fascists will lose.

GHOST PIPE SPOTTED

gothiest of the kingdom plantae

(Read Karlo's stuff: it's rad. subcribe to Typebar: it's rad.)