It almost sounds vaguely eastern—like traditional Chinese music.

...Asriel Dreemurr?

Look, if you want to do Shakespeare and horror just make Titus Andronicus.

No, I meant they didn’t send them back to their own families, in Japan, as souvenirs.

Hey, at least the Japanese never sent those heads back to their families as souvenirs.

Regarding “Recessional”, I think it’s worth quoting what George Orwell had to say about it in his long and fairly critical essay about Kipling (simply called “Rudyard Kipling”):

Because Christ imagery.

The episode where we get to see Lethal Weapon 5.

WHAT’S IN THE MYSTERY BOX???

How is The Nutcracker WASP-y? WASP means “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant”. The story was written by a German (Ersnt Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), adapted by a mixed-race Frenchman (Alexandre Dumas), and given music by a gay Russian (Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky).

How many heads is the Mouse-King going to have?

Eh, he could’ve included a little Donald Swann:

There are already enough low-budget movies that are openly about Jesus being made and marketed to the TBN audience; do we really need mainstream Hollywood hiring up-and-coming directors to make a big budget movie that’s sneakily about why Christianity is right all along?

Send in the Seven Dwarfs!

It undermines transpeople because there are still a lot of people who refuse to believe in gender identity and see them as delusional. Women like this (who are undeniably delusional) provide an example for them to point to so they can justify their prejudices.

This comment needs a lot more stars.

The concept of uplifting animals to higher intelligence has a long and colorful history in science fiction, from H.G. Wells to Star Trek. In Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard, Schoen takes the idea further than most: his dozens of different races are different microcosms of human nature. Indeed, while Dogs are fiercely…

Like this?

The title’s actually “Little Shop of horrors”; “The Little Shop of Horrors” was the 1960 Roger Corman movie it was based on.