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@AlishaGrauso
Aug 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Lost in all the business with COVID-19 and jokes about the #NewMutants release date carousel is the fact it will be the first live-action superhero movie to feature a queer relationship. Not queerbaiting, not a tease, but a relationship. atomtickets.com/movie-news/the…
I just really feel like this should be getting more attention. It's a shame that coronavirus and TENET have overshadowed everything else because seeing queer representation on the big screen, especially in a comic book movie like #NewMutants, is so important and so overdue.
For those who will inevitably ask me: No, I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm just going by what we've been told in press conferences and in 1:1 interviews I've done.
Yes, yes, Yukio and Negasonic Teenage Warhead but, guys...c'mon. Not to take anything away from them but I mean an actual relationship that is explored, part of the story, and with developed characters. It's not just there for the sake of being there.
I'm not taking anything away from Deadpool 2, nor from The Old Guard, both of which I loved. But seeing a fully fleshed-out relationship in a big-budget theatrical traditional superhero tentpole from one of the Big 2 (Marvel & DC) will hit different for many fans. It just will.

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Jul 2, 2021
What you're looking at is the Gulf of Mexico on fire. As in the actual gulf, i.e. the ocean. All thanks to a gas line that burst underwater near the offshore platform you see there. It's apparently been burning for hours.
Another view of the fire in the Gulf of Mexico:
Super super super cool considering the ecosystems in and around the Gulf of Mexico still haven't fully recovered from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
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Jul 1, 2021
The LAFD reportedly put the confiscated fireworks in the truck before detonation, as it was apparently reinforced to contain the explosion.
Bomb squad: What should we do, Chief?

Chief: Put it in the truck and detonate

Bomb squad: They're just fireworks, Chief

Chief: Yeah but we don't know where they came from, this will be safer

[one hour and one explosion later]

Chief:
As long as no one is badly injured and the people's homes/cars will be covered by insurance, I find this entire situation absurdly hilarious in a Suez Canal Boat way.
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Feb 16, 2021
Regarding the news bit that's been going around, there is no "faithful" retelling of the King Arthur story because there is no definitive version of it. It's literally impossible. His story isn't historical record but myth that has been added to by various writers over centuries.
Almost all the most famous stories and characters we know were added by either Geoffrey of Monmouth or Chrétien de Troyes a full 600+ years after "Arthur" was roughly dated to have lived. Scholars can't even agree on whether there WAS an Arthur.
The problem with people being tired of Arthurian legend movies isn't that the legends are boring or overdone but because Hollywood keeps telling the same damn love triangle story (Troyes' invention btw), or, when it does branch out, it's usually been done badly.
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Dec 17, 2020
I don't actually think we're talking enough about how bad this is. Or connecting the dots between Trump failing to adequately staff important positions, then firing everyone and installing clueless yes-men with zero experience, and the extent of the Russian hacking efforts.
For those who haven't been following this story: Russia hacked a number of vital agencies' data, including:

- U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile
- The U.S. Treasury
- The Pentagon
- CDC
- State Department
- Justice Department
- DHS
- multiple utility & tech companies
We still don't know the full scope of the data they got, or how fully widespread it is. The hack started IN. MARCH. and our gov't. agencies only found out about it a week ago because an outside company alerted them to the breach.
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Dec 15, 2020
I have to question the wisdom of releasing a heavy, dark superhero movie in theaters while there's still a raging pandemic, a movie the majority of general audiences will realistically only see as a 4-hour cut of a movie that already underwhelmed them once.
I'm genuinely trying to understand the reasoning here & failing. A movie that did so-so with general theatrical audiences once & only got a greenlight to be recut in order to boost a struggling streaming platform now potentially undercutting that by also opening in theaters? Why?
This is not whatsoever a commentary on the quality of the finished product. I have no idea if it will be good or not. This is simply me trying to figure out the logic here from a realistic business and financial perspective.
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Sep 19, 2020
Donate, but donate smartly. A thread.
For those who are wondering how to donate smartly, @actblue has a general donation fund that's being split between all Dem candidates win winnable Senate races. You can donate here:
The Senate race is as important as the presidential one. Arguably more important. It doesn't matter if Trump is removed from the White House if the GOP maintains control of the Senate & Senate Majority Leader position. Donate if you can, share if you can't. #FightLikeRBG
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