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movie-related flash-fiction freebie: “Disney Dystopia”

Mon, Sep 02, 2019
4 comments

“Hey, so you wanna go to the disneys tonight?”

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curated: we are the frogs slowly boiling in a soup of hatred and lack of compassion

Sun, Jul 28, 2019
6 comments

We are in big trouble.

| 6 Comments

curated: bonding over movies is in our genes

Fri, Jul 19, 2019
8 comments

We are primed for storytelling, and story-listening, and — it seems — for stories told visually. Amazing.

| 8 Comments

curated: were the works attributed to Shakespeare written by a woman?

Mon, May 13, 2019
5 comments

This is the first argument against William Shakespeare as the playwright that seems convincing to me. And it’s not only plausible but deliciously radical.

| 5 Comments

curated: explaining Captain Marvel’s vitally important, gamechanging character arc

Fri, Apr 05, 2019
3 comments

I don’t expect the whiny manbabies to get it, but at this point, it won’t be for lack of trying.

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curated: toys of Japanese monsters giving press conferences to apologize for destroying cities

Wed, Mar 13, 2019
2 comments

This may be the best thing I have ever seen.

| 2 Comments

curated: White Savior: The Movie Trailer

Wed, Mar 13, 2019
1 comment

Yup.

| 1 Comment

curated: the arts contribute more to the US economy than agriculture or transportation

Wed, Mar 13, 2019
2 comments

Imagine how much more the arts would contribute to the US economy if there were actually meaningful support for them!

| 2 Comments

curated: all worldbuilding is political…

Fri, Mar 01, 2019
4 comments

…even when it might not look like it.

| 4 Comments

curated: the da Vinci money-laundering scam to benefit Trump that will make a great movie

Tue, Jan 08, 2019
2 comments

If the world survives President Donald Trump, that is.

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