to be fair, it kind of sits better in the overall album. every song deals with an event from American history and most of them show how the events are more tragic or darker than they initially seem. it’s a really clever and well-written critique on the idea of the country’s unimpeachable “greatness”

Protest the Hero just released a song about this called “All Hands” on their latest album. it’s really fucking good, and the album is surprisingly informative

I feel like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been effortlessly doing the kind of representation the movies are totally lacking for years. The majority of powered people/Inhumans that are main characters on that show are POC, and the main cast is very evenly split (moreso in the later seasons than it was in S1+2). Most…

yeah, Brooklyn 99 has never shied away from showing that there are terrible people on the force too. hell, pretty much everyone outside of the main set of characters who’s on the force is either corrupt or totally incompetent

my experience wasn’t as bad as yours, but comparable: I was reading it in my first rental house, a ridiculously big wooden-floor thing that could have fit like 6 people, but there were only 3 of us living there. I had the light on in the kitchen, everywhere else was dark, and I was gunning through the passage where…

13 is a favourite, musically and artwork-wise. I love the shine on top of the figure's head - I have no idea what it means or why it's there, but it's just perfect somehow 

“I Contain Multitudes” is my favourite Dylan song in a few decades

Lisa Hannigan is a fucking queen

“Graceland Too" might be my favourite song of the year so far. Stirringly gorgeous, and if the lyric wasn't heartbreaking enough on its own, the song is very likely about the wonderful, talented Julien Baker which makes it infinitely sadder

I don’t know if there’s even been a finer Donald Glover line delivery than “this thing called slavery happened, and my entire cultural identity was erased”

well the house in House of Leaves is also bigger on the inside, and that shit is pretty fucking scary

I think No Flashlight is probably my favourite Elverum release, but I can easily see why people think he never lived up to The Glow Pt. 2. very excited for this new one

yeah, something about how fucked-up that game is, even down to the design level, is just entertaining instead of being disturbing. it’s so ridiculously replayable and the expansion packs have only heightened my love for it - I’ve been giving it a few hours a day since quarantine began

Hope Downs was full of bangers, excited to hear the new one

nah.

when they finally get her phone and are watching back the footage and they see what came out of the lake

That’s what I’m getting at, really - the show’s character development is temporary at best and serves the immediate plot rather than a real arc. There were traces of it throughout the last two seasons as the other commenter said, Morty fighting for agency and Summer getting more jaded and lashing out... but they lead…

I honestly think it’s fruitless to compare Rick and Morty to Bojack in terms of character development. Bojack, for all its wackiness, was one of the most considered and engaged character studies in the medium, and the major arcs from that show are all tracing its characters as they go through genuine, massive personal…

I’m confused about the question of logistics this article raised. Presumably it will work the same way every pay-what-you-want album has ever worked, including every previous RTJ release?

I just watched this and it was so, so good. I love that you could essentially leave your screen off and listen to it as a radio play, but leaving it on gives you the benefit of the absolutely breathtaking camera work