Since he *had* to choose, he thinks he picked the wrong one, especially since Covenant wasn’t received as well as he had hoped.

I still can’t believe they made an entire franchise based on Pokemon Snap.

Any chance of getting lists like these divided between the ones already backed by trad publishing marketing dollars and actual indie authors who could use the spotlight?

If I had a nickel for every time a trailer said “A war is coming” I’d be able to buy Twitter and make it X-rated

I was going to say Legends of Tomorrow, the best-bad show I’ve ever seen.

With a grammatical error in the first sentence of the article’s main content...

You should take your kids to Tompkins Square Park, not all that different tbh

What I like about Hades and Persephone is that their story has pretty much never been told before in fiction.

Ngl, I would take an MPCU. Can we get a movie about Stalin Succession-ing Zhukov and Konev to take Berlin first, only to rip the victory away from Konev at the last minute AND only to find out that Germany basically knew jack about nuclear weapons? Just cast Margot Robbie as Stalin and I’m set.

They... literally gave you the obvious clues to the term in the article, right before it came up. Stop looking for something to be angry about.

Oh boy, I totally forgot this was coming. I sure hope it’s good, I’d love to sink my teeth into a Chrono Trigger -esque JRPG

I’d argue that memes back then weren’t nearly as based in a “gotta get high view counts for my TikTok account” mania that dominates today. They were done by randos, anonymously, and there wasn’t such overwhelming fighting for attention. I’m sure part of it was that social media Eternal September’ed the internet again…

Portal fantasy is on the rise again in general, which makes sense with pandemic blues and other existential stressors.

Clicked through just to confirm that was indeed one of the monsters from In the Mouth of Madness. What a fantastic movie that was way ahead of its time vis-à-vis its themes of post-truth and influence of media... not to mention some super fun shlocky Lovecraftian vibes. Sam Neill is also a treasure in this, further…

Isekai has been a big thing in Japan... forever. Olds like me remember watching Fushigi Yuugi and Escaflowne some... *checks calendar* ...jesus christ, 30 years ago.

Never felt like 2nd fiddle to me, more that it was less Bowie’s song than Freddy’s song and Bowie played the support role, if that makes sense. IIRC Bowie didn’t even perform the song live until he did a Freddy tribute concert in the 90s

But why meow models?

My issue with it is that—like most of TikTok and modern social media—it’s a big “look at me!” circlejerk where people are performing for the algorithm more than they are as their authentic selves. Do I believe lots of people love The Fourth Wing? Of course. Do I think people are exaggerating their love on BookTok…

Writing and writing profitably are two very, very different things and it’s a vicious lesson to learn. It’s much all the harder that to learn the marketing skills necessary to be profitable as an indie author, you need to research a ton, read a ton of what you’re writing and—hardest of all IMO—release a lot of work so…

As someone who hasn’t seen WfM but saw (and very much enjoyed) Gundam Wing back in the day, is there a reason Wing didn’t make the cut? Is it a pariah or something and I never knew it? It always seemed pretty popular...