I miss Batman oreos. They were from the early 90s and had yellow icing. I swear I did not make this up but can’t find proof of their existence.

I think Ledger’s gives an incredible performance in an obnoxious and repugnant movie, and I’d be hard-pressed to call his Joker one that anyone should emulate as it is as toxic as the film property it attached to.

And with all that being said it’s a million times better than Nicholson’s. The comment below me saying “He…

Hi, I come from the future to tell you that in the dystopian year of 2019 people are openly, vilely racist all the time in the highest offices in America, and that episodes seem more relevant now than they did in 2012.

I mean that’s a slippery slope.

Primates can be trained to read.

Boy that header image really is... competent. That sure is competent art. Art that was drawn by someone who can draw things recognizably as things, that’s for sure.

Boy howdy. That sure is a thing you can say about it. It sure does... exist.

I really liked Kevin Smith’s relaunch of Green Arrow.

And literally nothing else he’s ever done.

I haven’t touched his Arrow book since I was a teen so I may even not like that anymore.

Anyways, in summation, Kevin Smith is just some guy, you know?

People get really, really angry when you critique Laika’s storytelling, and I don’t get it. Laika has some of the most talented artists in the world - every frame of Kubo represented not only hours of labour but skill and craft and time and passion.

So why shouldn’t the script be treated to the same standard? Why are…

This feels like the kind of movie i’d hate but struggle to articulate why without coming off like a cynical asshole.

But have you seen my avatar? I’m down with light and whimsical works - but live action works so often seem to fail at getting it right. The only way I can think of descrbing it is “trying too hard.” Juno…

Queen of Mars from Olympus Mons to Tarsus!

Why the fuck are we still doing this? Why are we still treating these Serious Adult Works seriously? The Joker isn’t mentally ill - I speak on behalf of mental illness sufferers everywhere whenI say he’s crazy. He’s a guy who dresses as a clown to taunt another guy who fights crime dressed as a bat.

He is not grounded…

Tell them I’m glad that anything I wrote makes any sense and that if they feel like reading my ramblings makes them “feel smarter” they should re-valuate themselves s someone who is pretty damn smart to begin with.

I studied the history of the early church in university, and even by the second century the rich new convert to the faith were finding ways to say “well actually” about all the things Jesus said weren’t literal.

And this in an era when the words of Jesus had been recorded in the daily Greek used by everybody (except,…

Argh! “This thing I disagree with is lengthy.” I have been utterly bested in the war of ideas by this insightful rebuttal of the things I said! It’s all going dark. Kiss me, Hardy.

People often point to the Crusades as a sign of Christianity not living up to its ideals - but in a time when most people were illiterate brought-up in a church that actively dissuaded people from reading the few bible that did exist and having priests be the sole conduit through which the masses were brought to faith…

And here it is, top comment, the same politely phrased hate speech every person with a disability has ever been told:

You’re the problem here. It’s probably better if you leave, so we don’t have to bother making our club less exclusive. There’s lots of other clubs out there - they’re almost all like us, mind, all…

Kubo and the Two Strings is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen - every frame a painting, an incredible display of the animator’s craft.

It was also terrible.

A bog-standard hero’s journey plot with some pan-Asian visuals added for ‘exotic flavour’ [like a 50s Suburban American stir-fry recipe that’s green …

Should i feel good or simply ignorant that I have no idea what NXIVM is?

Did the show not swap Gilly’s baby for Mance’s kid because Jon Snow was worried Melisandra would sacrifice him? I’ll be honest I wasn’t keeping up with the show that far and that my memory of Gilly’s and Sam’s relationship is from the books, where they’re as fucking miserable as everybody else.

It’s a fair point: my…

The short version of this is that Pratchett, like Tolkien, understood that bad and horrific things can happen in the world, but the worst thing you could do was normalize it or resign yourself to it by writing humanity off.

Thank you.

I largely failed an exam because I chose to spent the night before reading all of book five rather than study - there was a time those books meant a lot to me, and the show delighted me, but as I’ve grown older I find the more I become an adult the more childish and juvenile they seem, as do its imitators.

Its…