one of my favorite little moments, in any movie, ever. Hooper, drunk as shit, jumps to a joke about Quint’s tattoo, and instead of berating him like he has up to that point, Quint just reaches out and gently touches him to settle him down in preparation for what he’s about to say

https://twitter.com/awoodustin/status/1963287989938741725

It’s like he doesn’t have it in him to be angry at Hooper because he’s away that *Hooper has no fucking clue about how dark it’s about to get*

It’s such an interesting and nuanced gesture, especially for such an abrasive and curmudgeonly character

The directors cut of Event Horizon is one of my white whales, and it sucks that there’s virtually no chance we’ll ever see it. It’s practically guaranteed lost media.

The final runtime of the film is 96 minutes

The original cut was *130 minutes*

https://twitter.com/sseeley92/status/1959660860726522308

Apparently a lot of the excised stuff was gore and more information about the hell dimension. Kind of a bummer that we’ll never see the full vision, because while i like EH a LOT, you can tell that it’s kind of tonally all over the place because of the edit.

There is a fable in my family, something that really happened that has become its own mythos. I’ll tell it to you know.

This is the story of the apple and the roof.

🧵 My dad’s side of the family is comprised exclusively of people that never should have married each other. My family knocks off divorces like a subway punch card. We are obscenely un-catholic despite hailing from the deepest armpit of Ireland.

My grandparents hated each other

they badly fucked up the timeline for climate collapse and it’s a lot closer than the projections were for most of my life, and the incoherent aggressiveness of world governments we are seeing right now is a hoarding panic disguised as abstract “peacekeeping”

https://twitter.com/mollyploofkins/status/1927227766283305197

I think the explosion cell phones and internet ubiquity has had more of an effect on our physical planet than we realize. Between the energy required and the rare earth materials that are fundamental to construction, we had a massive boom period of burning through resources

Robocop is a prime example of how much you can do with commitment to the bit

If you break any part of this down, it’s silly. The rubber parts of the costume being so obvious in 4k. The self serious score. The literal *robot walk* at the start

But it commits. It’s earnest

1/2 The pure dichotomy of robocop can be summarized just a few seconds apart;

Just when you start to feel like it’s all getting a bit silly, it pulls back to this high tracking shot, reminding you that this is a *real fucking movie*

And it immediately gets a bit silly again

if they revoke approval of the polio vaccine that’s kind of the point of no return on a societal collapse.

that’s era ending and historically defining shit. just like nuking entire future generations of the human race because you can, like not even profitability in it. just taking a flat victory and blowing it up to look smarter than other people

we painted on cave walls. we wrote odyssey’s. we carved the soft contours of flesh in stone. we did it because it meant something

the fundamental heart of AI is to turn passion into a product. it is designed to lessen our mark on our world. we must reject it.

art is what we ARE

https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1841828201804300491

artifice has no place in passion. it says nothing. it accomplishes nothing. it celebrates nothing

it makes beautiful and special things pedestrian

that’s anti-human to its core

the simple fact that phone companies wouldn’t consider it politically or practically safe enough to send technicians in to maintain and service phone towers would be enough to cripple the infrastructure of a rural secessionist state in 2024

https://twitter.com/matthewdmarsden/status/1819360463336947758

like this isn’t the 1800’s, this is a modern online world

You disrupt internet access for even a day you’ll fuck up an entire state

if you come in to my replies to do a just vote spiel, I’m just going to block you because you aren’t actually hearing what I talked about early. And honestly a block just saved both our time here in that regard

I have never told anyone not to vote.

1/5 I HAVE expressed my deep disillusionment with the current administration. There are many favorites that play into that, all of them lived

But I’m also not ignorant of what the alternative is. I am very aware of what is coming, because I’ve seen it coming for four years

I’ve talked about this

AT LENGTH

but allow me to break it down once more: WB needs harry potter. WB does not need joanne, and internally probably doesn’t hold their high graces anymore

🧵

https://twitter.com/wizardingnews/status/1800223764065690069

let’s set the stage

wb, through extensive mismanagement, repeated flops, and shaky finances, is BLEEDING money

every movie being destroyed for “tax reasons” is an attempt to throttle that bleed. the problem is, money isn’t coming *in* as they’re doing it

holy shit, this rolling stone interview with kid rock is insane

like everybody knows dudes an asshole, but it’s not just that; *he’s a fuckin hive of brain parasites*

he’s legitimately fucking *nuts*

link below





rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

ill die on the hill that batman, superman, the hulk, and spider-man are the four definitive superhero archetypes

every other comic book superhero falls somewhere within the the venn diagram of the four “what about Wonder Woman?” when I say definitive you have to consider the gender politics of their formative years

Super strong? From somewhere outside of human civilization? can fly? superman

Let’s talk about justified anger.

I transitioned in 2018. I’m coming up on almost five years. I’ve been around long enough to see a culture war evolve in real time. I was in transition when JKR let the mask slip and went all in.

🧵 I was in transition during the trump administration when it was decided that the community would become the experiment in stripping medical autonomy from others. I was there when the tactic is used against us laid the groundwork for revoking roe through discrediting of doctors

I am sitting in my idling car in the parking lot. It is late-morning Sunday. The grocery is busy, but not as busy as it will get when the hour clicks past noon and the world of the Midwest rouses to make chili and casseroles.

I’m gonna go inside. As a woman.

🧵 I have done the work; I’m dressed in jeans and a sweater, with a jacket bundled overtop. I’m wearing an infinity scarf that looks large and billowing on my squat 5’5 frame (It would come down to 5’3 over the next couple of years)

hasbro just laid off 1100 people a week before christmas, most of them being artists. while reading up on it, I saw that they had posted a job listing for a digital artist not long ago with specific needs:



I’m gonna explain how disgusting this is

1/3simplyhired.com/job/ljRoeATEvQ… ppl know I have a BA in English, but I also have an associates in graphic design. I worked in the industry for over a decade

the below might just seem like a wall of buzzwords, but it’s not. I know what this is

if you don’t have artists, whose artwork are you touching up?

2/

god forbid your moral stance is “hey maybe using the munitions equivalent of two atomic bombs on a civilian populated area also fucking sucked when america did it the first time”

euromedmonitor.org/en/article/590… idk maybe it’s because, as I’ve said many many times before, I remember Afghanistan and Iraq just a little too well

“what rights do I have that transgenders don’t have”

well you don’t carry the burden of explaining the kings english to the yeehaw neckbeard midnight society on a daily basis with new lessons added every single fucking day of your existence do you wake up every day like oh cool the guy who blows up rockets and named his kid the internet decided we’re gonna get to talk about latin today

being an American reading about places in the uk I have zero familiarity with hits some sort of place between quaint and these are not real people

rogue legacy 2 is on ps plus and my goodness do I love these games. I don’t usually play rogue likes, but something about the personality, art style, mechanics, and gameplay loop just clicks

these are like my warm blanket games Like you can play for fifteen minutes or two hours and get a full enjoyable experience

another strange dream

I found myself walking in my old gayborhood, and it was it’s summer celebration. The world was green and warm and there were chalk drawings on the streets.

As I was walking I came across my old apartment - the last place in my old life I was happy

🧵 Oh friends this place was lovely; wooden floors, high ceilings. Small, but comfortable. The hall to the bathroom was just slightly skewed.

I looked up and saw that there were people working outside of that old apartment on the second floor on scaffolding

haven’t done this in a bit let’s see how it goes

ngl.link/girldrawsghosts oh my gosh 💜💜💜 thank you