western-series

[sage remnant]

[limber urchin]

Stormlight I think is a tad longer overall

no way is it that much?

[sage remnant]

waiiit

sorry

[peak pilot]

The Stormlight book lengths aren’t a huge bother to me (right now) but I can’t go about reading 1200 page books back to back to back to back to back to back

[sage remnant]

I got confused with WoT

WoT is the one with that

[limber urchin]

jesus that is a lot though

[sage remnant]

OP then was like 1500

[peak pilot]

There’s no way

[limber urchin]

surely OP has 1K named characters or close to it?

[peak pilot]

No way one piece has 2500 named characters

[sage remnant]

no

it's WoT

I got confused

[limber urchin]

But, Storm of Swords is a book like no other Muk, you will like that one.

[peak pilot]

Ah

[sage remnant]

and mixed them

[limber urchin]

lol

[peak pilot]

2500 is kinda insane for a book series or am I tripping

[sage remnant]

Buffy

you would like The Darkness that comes before

The series name is The Second Apocalypse

[limber urchin]

Well, for ASOIAF, George has the habit of just naming even the most inconsequential of characters that have little to no impact on the narrative.

[sage remnant]

welll

so does Oda

[limber urchin]

They're both hacks

[limber urchin]

Same Mark Lawrence author?

[sage remnant]

No?

R Scott Baker I think

is the name

[limber urchin]

I know that name

[peak pilot]

Do the leather bound small print books rip easy. Would be nice to be able to read with my hand again

[limber urchin]

I have one small paperback of the second book and it can be a bit annoying to read

the hardcovers are a bit easier, but digital is the easiest for sure

[peak pilot]

I hate digital reading

[limber urchin]

i mostly read digital and then buy the books afterwards for the shelf

[peak pilot]

Unless you mean the kindle or something

[limber urchin]

as i get older, I have to take into considering how i treat my neck and the phone is ultra helpful

[modern lichen]

what's up

[vast root]

just watched Werckmeister Harmonies

[peak pilot]

Chicken butt

[sage remnant]

||
The setting being so anti of robots and machine. The most notable one that started the stories being against techno-optimism. A hero which goes fully destructive path. Openly hostile to the idea of charismatic leaders. Going against the sci-fun stories' of utopian society or fun space opera or space opera which doesn't treat the mass annihilation with the gravitas it has.

Take that to Dune which has Butlerian Jihad, human computers called Mentats. Bene Gesserit and years of experimentation and politics. The fabrication of a messiah. And then Paul’s actions unleash a devastating civil war on the universe in which billions will die. The moment when he overthrows the emperor isn't met with triumph or catharsis, but with catalyzing a universe wide genocide. It's more of a cautionary tale about fanaticism and charismatic leaders. And he expresses very little remorse for it, and does nothing to try to make amends for it || Dune book 1

@limber urchin

[vast root]

such a transcendental movie man rip bela tarr

[limber urchin]

before i read, is this about the deconstruction aspect?

[sage remnant]

Yes

[limber urchin]

ok

[sage remnant]

just some parts

[limber urchin]

Dune book 1 ||That first paragraph does bring some nice context. I'm guessing Herbert was trying to go against the typical sci-fi grain when he wrote the first book? For the second paragraph, I was kind of able to piece that part of the puzzle together myself; Paul definitely felt like some kind of warning about the consequences of power and seeing the future, but obvious you wrote it better within the context of fanaticism and charisma. Because of his visions, I 100% expect Paul to cause real and lasting harm across other planets.||

Note: I will eventually read Dune Messiah

[sage remnant]

Messiah is just him going "People didn't understand the point? I am gonna beat it to their head"

but not reallyy but also yesss

[frank rivet]

Avengers Doomsday News - || there has been a lot of reports that MCU is basically reusing the Kang story line and giving it to Doom ||

[sage remnant]

who cares

do you honestly expect them to salvage a good story?

I don't

[sage remnant]

Also when people like GRRM cite Dune as their inspiration

they are most probably talking about book 3

because that's where the || house politics || like that ASOIAF has is present

but also people sometimes give Dune unnecessary credits

like talking about how "first scifi which discussed real-world issues" or "trope of galactic empire"

first can be dated back to Frankenstein and probably even further back

and the second is in a 1920s work

[limber urchin]

Did Herbert or his son write that one?

[sage remnant]

no

herbert

[limber urchin]

ok

[sage remnant]

personally I would recommend till God Emperor of Dune

but even I won't want to reread them

[modern lichen]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2008593216124448792?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Sebastian Stan is in talks to star in ‘THE BATMAN: PART 2’

(Source: Deadline)

X · Jan 6, 2026, 5:35 PM

[frank rivet]

ooh that would be dope

He should play scarecrow

he has a scarecrow vibe

[sage remnant]

okay yeah I can see that

[half steeple]

I loved this series so much

[spiral quest]

I think that's because he looks like Nolan's Scarecrow in Cillian Murphy

I don't want that again so please be someone else

[modern lichen]

does he

that sounds like a stretch to me

cillian and sebastian dont look alike

[sage remnant]

He doesn't exactly look like him but like that photo of his give similar vibe as cillian's scarecrow in nolan's trilogy

[spiral quest]

He gives me that vibe anyway

They arent 1 to 1 in looks but that dude def gives Nolan's Scarecrow vibes

Which, are my least favorite vibes for Scarecrow since the first time he was on Batman the Animated Series

[regal root]

I can see him play 2 face

[modern lichen]

that'd be incredible

[spiral quest]

I could do with him being 2face

Or even black mask

If they are intent on doing another version of the Long Halloween, Batman the Long Halloween ||he could be a Falcone, Albert makes sense||

[regal root]

Also just want to throw it out there cause I feel like he's an under appreciated villain, but I think Stan could play a solid Firefly

[toxic pebble]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/2008436374156788113?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Dave Filoni & Lynwen Brennan will reportedly replace Kathleen Kennedy as the new Co-Presidents of Lucasfilm.

Brennan is getting promoted from General Manager and will oversee executive duties, while Filoni will lead all creative development.

(Source: https://t.co/zRRk9aTLJ1)

X · Jan 6, 2026, 7:12 AM

The insane 180 in reputation Filoni has gotten over the years is crazy 😭

From being worshipped during the sequel era to being mocked for having obvious favorites

[regal root]

I just want KK gone already

Don't care who replaces her

Make bad lady go away

[toxic pebble]

get ready for 10 years of Ahsoka slop

[regal root]

Fine with that

She just needs to go

[modern lichen]

kathleen kennedy gave us andor

and also the last season of clone wars

and also produced some of the best films of the 20th century

[white smelt]

Kathleen hate is highkey misogyny

[toxic pebble]

Honestly for the sequels I only blame her for not enforcing a plan as a producer

But also I blame JJ and Rian for writing trash

My only critique of Kathleen is that she’s very hands off when she needs to be more assertive tbh

[spiral quest]

I never understood what she did that was so bad to some

[modern lichen]

rian tried doing something different but terrio and JJ shat the bed so hard there was no consistency in that sequel trilogy

[toxic pebble]

Yeah I like TLJ more than the other sequels but that’s like comparing piss to crap

I appreciate it for being interesting

[modern lichen]

yeah TLJ is a pretty weak film on its own but at least it tried doing something different

TROS ended up reversing all that and also being one of the worst pieces of major franchise filmmaking ever

[spiral quest]

Rise of Skywalker was absolutely abysmal

[modern lichen]

me and my friend who went to watch it could only laugh when it ended

[sage remnant]

which one's the || somehow palpatine returned || star wars all

[modern lichen]

TROS

[spiral quest]

It sucks because I think the last jedi coulda set up some interesting threads but tbh were probably too different for standard star wars fans to accept

[toxic pebble]

Rise of Slopwalker

[modern lichen]

its the fortnite reveal that does it for me

crazy things happened

[spiral quest]

Not saying Last Jedi was my favorite movie ever but I think it did some nice things that a lot of fans didnt like because it challenged some of the ideas in Star Wars that are held highly. Not that it's wrong for them to not like it, I do the same for franchises that I feel do a disservice to the franchise. However not as venomous as they did

[toxic pebble]

I’d say it’s very interesting thematically, but I also feel like it’s always trying to “one up” the viewer

[spiral quest]

I can understand that view

And don't necessarily disagree

I also just like that Rian took it in a unique direction. Unfortunately, it was doomed to fail, most star wars fans don't really want conventional threads and concepts to be too pushed. Which in turn lead to the harsh overcorrection that JJ did that led to one of the worst movies in a major franchise Ive seen

[regal root]

https://tenor.com/view/mujikcboro-seriymujik-gif-24361533

Yes

[modern lichen]

lol

[white smelt]

You guys banned a long time user for saying something misogynistic

Interesting use of the Chad image

[regal root]

She also gave us the Acolyte

So

https://tenor.com/view/vomit-puke-throw-up-gag-barf-gif-11199247647189633146

[modern lichen]

i'm fine with the acolyte

but its not as if its completely her fault and that she's the problem

that's a flawed viewpoint

imo its gonna be worse under filoni

i doubt we'll get anything near what we got like andor

[spiral quest]

I stopped watching Star Wars content after I think season 1 of the Mandolorian

[modern lichen]

watch andor

[spiral quest]

Maybe I'll give it a shot, we will see

I need time I think before going back to Star Wars

It's been so over saturated

[modern lichen]

lmao sure

[jolly heath]

https://fixupx.com/i/status/2008374421103186385

TEOFT (@teoft_)

Concept art

Quoting respectful huff (@alexqarbuckle)
︀
don’t know why but the red gloves make him look like a character in a Kojima game. Ping Pongman

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FixupX · Jan 6, 2026, 3:05 AM

[modern lichen]

but andor is perhaps the best show of this decade so far

[sage remnant]

lmao

[spiral quest]

I have heard great things about Andor

[regal root]

Stuck his right leg in a tub of black paint

[spiral quest]

But the franchise rn is just tired for me, I'll let it rest for a while longer

Right now my focus is finishing off the Witcher Saga now that I've reread the books I started a while ago

[regal root]

Couldn't think of a better way on the spot to make a joke

I'm not perfect

[sage remnant]

i am ootl

what was the joke :kekhands:

[regal root]

You lose access to Nitro?

[modern lichen]

no he likes doing that

[regal root]

[sage remnant]

Ye

I sometimes use :OrochiScheme: in other places

just instinctive atp

[regal root]

You are a certified menace

[sage remnant]

thank you

:prayge:

[modest canyon]

Do you not have nitro

Also thots on Warbreaker

I’m starting that next

[worthy crypt]

I probably should get nitro just to help support discord for how much i use it

but i dont care about emotes at all

[regal root]

https://x.com/OneTakeNews/status/2008593448329425375

One Take 🎬 (@OneTakeNews)

Sebastian Stan will seemingly play Harvey Dent in ‘THE BATMAN PART II’.

(via @TheInSneider)

X · Jan 6, 2026, 5:36 PM

I don’t know if this is a reliable source

[tawny parcel]

Have you guys seen the “theres a secret final episode” floating around for stranger things

The ending was so mid people have gone full delusional

[spiral quest]

Buncha people who never felt the sting of a bad ending

[tawny parcel]

Everyone is saying January 7th is when the secret episode will release

[spiral quest]

Sometimes shit just doesnt stick the landing. One could argue Stranger Things had been on the road to tumultuous endings since they fucked up season 4's imo

Stranger Things series ||that and for a horror series, they are so toothless in killing anyone of any significance whatsoever. Gotta have the sacrifice character: Barb,Bob, Billy, Eddie, Kali||

[tawny parcel]

Stranger things end|| im less worried about them not killing people. If characters end satisfying then its fine. It just felt like there was never any stakes and that Vecna never ever had the upper hand. Hell he lost to derek bro. And we also just have like 20 million characters that should be chopped in half||

Stranger things end ||it is pretty funny they have a sacrificial lamb each season tho||

[frank rivet]

You mfers and your hate for S4 😭

actually ill go
Stranger Things End - ||

1. S1
2. S2
3. S4
4. S3
5. S5

honestly if they didn't show the mind flayer in S2 it would go below S4 also
||

https://tenor.com/view/why-are-you-booing-me-im-right-gif-10368876

[tawny parcel]

I dont really get why everyone here hates it lol

[frank rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/theyre-lame-cartman-south-park-they-suck-theyre-boring-gif-21975999

[spiral quest]

It built up well

Then they dropped the vol 2 and it undid all their work

It was depressing

If you enjoyed S4's ending, idk if we value the same kinda stuff

[modest canyon]

Started Warbreaker

Should’ve brought it to work it’s prolly gonna be a slow night

[pale trellis]

Harvey Dent

Please

[toxic pebble]

Can’t wait for his face to get ruined by acid/fire for the umpteenth time

[regal root]

Maybe even cause a cat lightly scratched his face

[toxic pebble]

This is a Captain Marvel dig right? Cuz ||that’s the canon reason why Nick Fury wears an eyepatch||

[regal root]

Mhm

[tawny parcel]

I’m sorry this stranger things cope is so funny beo

I keep seeing it pop up

Secret 9th episode tomorrow

[copper phoenix]

gonna tell my grandkids I survived thru a pandemic and the 3 worst tv show endings of all time

[tawny parcel]

Yknow what if there rrallt does rnd up being a secret episode

Which their wont

But if there is touche duffer brothers

You got me

[white smelt]

https://x.com/indianloonie/status/2008604011453444272

Sofia Coppium (@indianloonie)

Sebastian Stan is in talks to reprise his role as Donald Trump in ‘THE BATMAN: PART 2’

(Source: Deadline)

X · Jan 6, 2026, 6:18 PM

[crimson lance]

oh yeah meant to say @leaden depot im on 1997 of peanuts lol

thats 47 years out of 50 done

[leaden depot]

LOL

I'm up to 1968

68 included I mean

[crimson lance]

A good year 68

[leaden depot]

1968 is fucking nuts in a lot of ways, both in media and in the world

I mean, 1969 does have the fuckin moon landing, but man

[crimson lance]

Absolute martian man hunter || https://fxtwitter.com/javiercaster/status/2001705206195868091/photo/ || I dont know if youre keeping up with absolute martian man hunter but i bought these prints

Javier Rodríguez (@javiercaster)

Psst! Prints! 😉👉 thegreenroomcomicart.com/artists/javier-rodriguez/

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FxTwitter · Dec 18, 2025, 5:24 PM

[leaden depot]

Nice

[crimson lance]

wasnt going to miss a chance to get quality signed prints of one of my favorite comics

[leaden depot]

Spanish artists really rule DC

Jorge Jimenez is now on Superman

[crimson lance]

for lowkey evil reasons but yeah

Rodriguez has become a favorite of mine off AMM alone

[leaden depot]

Dan Mora must be chained to a room by DC 😭

[frank rivet]

ST END - ||I think looking at it all together the ending wasn't as strong but at the point of watching S4 when i didn't know what would happen in S5 at all, it was was a interesting setup...now that i know what they did with everything it was bad, this is because i was under the idea that that final scene looking into the collision was going to be the opening for the mind flayer from S2. S4 was the first time where i felt like the kids "Lost" and we didn't even know if Max was going to come back, but the Duffers pussed out. Unlike previous seasons where the story beats were their plan just magically working out and then everything worked out exactly as they wished. Maybe they had a sacrifice here and there (Bob S2, Billy S3), but never did they Lose. This was a complete failure on their part which is what made S4 interesting, not to mention losing Max who i thought was a top two character in the show was a great scene and moment between Lucas and Max. Even if they gave a small nod of her coming back, i didn't think she was going to be back healthy at all. The season gave that early GoT vibe where the ending was Bleak but it made it exciting for whats coming even if what came was absolute piss. Now in terms of what i didn't like about season 4, i didn't like they rought back Hopper but even after S3 i wasn't surprised, everything about S3 felt like a fake out so i knew he would come back that's why i wasn't as mad about that. ||

[night hollow]

Bro I feel like the animated show is gonna ruin the real show

https://tenor.com/view/stranger-things-el-eleven-jane-jane-hopper-gif-5110255298286405110

[white smelt]

Why

[distant minnow]

ATLA/Legend of Korra: @reef heart so ||korra canonically is dead||
great

[naive delta]

she dies so the next avatar is born into the earht kingdom

[frank rivet]

LOL bro

spoiler tags

[naive delta]

aw shoot sryt

[frank rivet]

@distant minnow
ATLA Anime News Latest - || i think the next one is after Korra, but i hate that they introduced so much technology so fast in Korra, it ruined the entire series for me. Just made everything so generic ||

[reef heart]

Avatar the last Airbender new series ||yea and she truly fucks the world lol||

Legend of Korra season 2 ||man I can't believe Bryke took an axe to their IP with the bullshit decisions made in this season||

[naive delta]

atla spoiler||Ppl say korra was a bad avatar but she never was able to learn to be an adult by herself and was always protected so it was easy to manipulate her and she wasnt as strong in the Avatar state because she wasnt a spiritual meanig she was weaker||

[distant minnow]

Avatar the last airbender / legend of korra: yeah that adds up with the whole ending, i'm ||surprised the next avatar can still exist after what she did, i thought she reset the whole system or something||
@frank rivet agreed, i grew up watching the OG so that childhood-childlike feeling was just gone

[reef heart]

Mods ask us to include series name on each post btw

I've had entire convos lulusia'd for not adhering to this

[frank rivet]

ATLA Latest - || its not that shes a bad avatar, its that the story put her at the origins of the avatar without any build up, and not to mention she didn't get to grow with the audience like Aang ||

[naive delta]

yo how do you ger the little bit before the spoiler part of the msg it isnt working for me

[reef heart]

Legend of Korra ||yea this is fine but Bryke severing the connection to the past lives and leaving the spirit portals open was such a braindead choice for a still young IP||

[reef heart]

This is how ||this part is in the spoiler||

[reef heart]

ATLA, Korra, and The Dragon Prince

||The reality is that Avatar was a group effort lead by brilliant world builders in Mike and Bryan and a brilliant writing team lead by Aaron Ehasz. We can see the strength and weakness of these minds via the sequel series

Korra had incredible world building concepts and magic systems but poor overall direction and character writing

The Dragon Prince had incredible overall direction and character writing, but a relatively bland world and magic system.||

[foggy mirage]

Legend of korra end spoilers s4 ||opening the spirit gates was the worst thing any avatar has ever done. Knowing how many dangerous spirits exist that humans cannot battle like ko, the forrest spirit and many more. Its downright irresponsible. The avatar is the bridge between the spirit world and the human world. A bridge connect 2 separate places and doesnt just fuse them together. They were separated for good reason.||

@reef heart @frank rivet

You might be interested in the take too

[white smelt]

Lady snowblood discourse wew

Any thoughts?

Last snowblood

|| https://fixupx.com/cinemafrances/status/2008339669780472262 ||

agnès tuna (@cinemafrances)

Lady Snowblood (1973)
︀︀
︀︀Arrow Disc BluRay vs Criterion Disc BluRay

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FixupX · Jan 6, 2026, 12:47 AM

[raw gate]

Peak. Discourse made me order the two films so I’m gonna rewatch them soon 😼

[white smelt]

It’s for sure striking, my one complaint is you lose out on so much detail in the black

[modern lichen]

criterion disc is just so striking

wow

[white smelt]

Kinda feels like fan scan situation with OP

[modern lichen]

this is why criterion is important haha

[foggy mirage]

Yeah criterion did a great job

[foggy mirage]

Its a lot

Like losing out on 20% of the shot which is wild

[white smelt]

Yeah

I wanna know what the original intent was though

[main lion]

is the left one not supposed to be the original?

I doubt the right is the original idk

lol

[white smelt]

It’s the transfer of the original

From like 2000

[nova saffron]

It's Marty Supreme day

[reef heart]

Legend of Korra end and new series synopsis ||what's even stupider is that Korra saw the result of open spirit portals in Avatar Wan's journey. Humanity forced to retreat to a select few enclaves for survival. And that's exactly what the new series' synopsis is. Such a boneheaded decision by Bryke to go through with that.||

[copper phoenix]

korra end || I'm gonna give them the benefit of doubt first before calling them stupid lol maybe korra is being frame in the new series and its gonna be a twist idk||

idk I always enjoyed atla and korra so I see no reason to doompost yet

[near echo]

Criterion is more accurate and it's hysterical how many takes in this thread are from people who have never even watched the movie

The black levels are way too high in the arrow release

[reef heart]

Korra end/new series synopsis ||nah it's not doom posting. But making such fundamental changes to your IP that will reverberate for the entire life span of it like getting rid of the past lives and leaving the spirit portals open to the point the entire planet is fucking dead was just dumb imo. The portals should have 1000% remained closed and the past lives left intact. And maybe they can have these decisions reversed to in-universe shenanigans but still||

[near echo]

I've seen more and more cinephiles hating criterion despite their stuff generally having pretty good transfers, extras and prices

Is it a gatekeeping thing

[raw gate]

I think people are just trying to be contrarian with that stuff

[spiral quest]

People hate on criterion??

[raw gate]

Shoulda seen the fit this dude was having about Eyes Wide Shut

[spiral quest]

It legitimately has some of the best quality and care in their releases and it is clear they love the movies they put out

[raw gate]

Yeah, I immediately went to purchase their release of Lady Snowblood upon seeing that comparison to Arrow’s release

[spiral quest]

If not contrarian, then cynical

Is this a new lady snowblood release from criterion?

I have a copy of lady snowblood from them from a while back

[raw gate]

Don’t think so

[spiral quest]

Then weird

[raw gate]

We shall feast tomorrow

[sage remnant]

What's the second

[raw gate]

Eyes Without a Face

[spiral quest]

I need to browse criterion's stuff again. I know they did a release of No Country for Old Men and I def need that

[near echo]

Two peaks

I'll probably pick up Lady Snowblood and Fantastic Planet during their next sale

got Eyes back in November

[raw gate]

I gotta figure out when I’m gonna take the plunge on the Ingmar Bergman collection I bought from them

39 films, a lot of which I’ve never seen before

Speaking of Criterion, I should have bought Elephant Man before it went OOP

[sage remnant]

Alsoooo

@spiral quest what's your updates

Hopefully you are continuing after NaNoWriMo

[jolly ruin]

Doomsday potential spoilers
|| https://fixupx.com/DamielBernaldo/status/2008621099186352376 ||

6ix7even (@DamielBernaldo)

hold tf up who that in the 2nd photo

Quoting Wong Updates (@WongUpdates)
︀
First look at the X-Men in ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’
︀︀
︀︀In theaters on December 18

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FixupX · Jan 6, 2026, 7:26 PM

[sage remnant]

Fixupx.com

Instead of x.com

@jolly ruin

[jolly ruin]

Damn this is awesome

Thanks

[sage remnant]

I don't understand

Elaborate

[raw gate]

Avengers Doomsday ||Charlie Kirk||

[sage remnant]

Uhh

ohhh

thatt

[raw gate]

Avengers Doomsday ||What’s up with Batman in that final screenshot lmao||

[sage remnant]

??????????????????

[raw gate]

That’s over exaggerating

[sage remnant]

Avengers Doomsday || That's comic accurate Cyclops the GOAT ||

that scene to that shot legit had me in tears

[tawny parcel]

Look below

[raw gate]

Avengers Doomsday ||It looks like a mannequin of Batman is lying on the ground at his feet||

[sage remnant]

|| Xmen nostalgia for the wiiinnn || doomsday

[jolly ruin]

If he does make a grand return in doomsday this movie about to clear 1 billion first week

[sage remnant]

Oh lmaoo

[spiral quest]

Still working on stuff, mostly short stories again

[sage remnant]

[leaden depot]

Liked that 2nd one

[tawny parcel]

Finished a confederacy of dunces yesterday night

Great book

Awesome start to the year

Just a riot

[raw gate]

Yeah, it’s cool. It’s like the genesis of psychological horrors centered around plastic surgery. I’m excited to eventually watch it again

[copper phoenix]

when the ending of your tv show is so bad it makes people theorize there is a hidden episode

tuff

[regal root]

Would like to say ST is the new GoT cause of the ending but it was never even close to that level of popularity

[raw gate]

I’m curious, as someone who never watched Stranger Things, if the show ever amounted to the quality of HBO’s Game of Thrones or other notable prestige TV shows

[worthy crypt]

i dont think so but i only watched the first two seassons

[raw gate]

I missed the hype train

[worthy crypt]

so i guess i dont really know but thats also somewhat of a signal because i stopped because i didnt think it was very good

[raw gate]

And apparently dodged a bullet 😭

[modern lichen]

mussolini: son of the century is an excellent miniseries

so powerful

joe wright's best work since atonement

[tawny parcel]

Thinking I might to Frankenstein next

Also a shorter book

That or something else

[worthy crypt]

i started pluribus yesterday got 2 eps in very interesting

pluribus ep 2 || shared rhea's disappointment in the other independent people that no one seemed to be on board to do anything about this ||

[half steeple]

DC Absolute Series ||HOLY SHIT||

[regal root]

It’s just peak after peak

[frank rivet]

ST ending was mid, GoT ending was truly bad

like leaving coffee and water bottles on set bad

[spiral quest]

I believe season 5, originally an actor was wearing underarmour branded stuff in ST

They went back and edited

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/tv/news/stranger-things-holly-wheeler-under-armour-shirt-b2893905.html

So I wouldn't necessarily discern GOT's final season that far off of ST

[crimson bane]

The whole conspiracy conformity gate sounds a lot like the Indoctrination Theory at the end of Mass Effect 3

[foggy mirage]

Absolute ark M ||so we got man bat, poison ivy, Hugo strange, scarecrow, clayface and mad hatter. Good to know we hitting some lesser known ones. And we got a glimpse of Slade wilson himself.|| @frank rivet @regal root

Now i just need my green arrow run and the next supes and ww issue

Fantastic one shot

[obsidian basalt]

WoT 12 || definitely feel like the egwene section would be stronger if elaida wasn't a complete dumbass||

[half steeple]

Absolute Ark M ||I'm sooooo hyped for Absolute Scarecrow I cannot express it enough. Next to Joker he's my favorite Batman villain. Poison Ivy is another I'm hyped to see. All of their Absolute backstories should be interesting||

[half steeple]

It sounds like a mass overdose on Copium tbh

[crimson bane]

It was. Although the Indoctrination Theory was stronger, all that was needed was a cutscene at the end. But that's when Bioware writers still thought they were pumping out classics

[frank rivet]

The Rookie S8 is out

[tawny parcel]

about to come out any second now.......

[foggy mirage]

Absolute ark M || I saw some stuff so this version should he interesting. I'm looking foward to seeing Hugo strange and mad hatter in this version. The absolute batman stuff is covered for a good while at this point.||

Im mostly adamant I need that next supes issue

[half steeple]

Absolute DC ||Yea I agree the writers have developed tunnel vision with Batsy rn. I want more Supes and Martian and Green Arrow and I also wonder about the rest of the JL. Like Cyborg and some of the lesser known ones.||

[half steeple]

Facts

[foggy mirage]

Absolute superman 15 ||finally going to metropolis.||

Absolute superman 16 ||and finally boxing hawkman, with some drama related to schemes in metropolis. We going on some OG superman stuff.||

[foggy mirage]

You dont feel this at all when you read other books

So dont worry

I'd just read the runs you havent and just not get tunnel vision like some readers do

[half steeple]

Yea I'm gonna catch up on the rest

[foggy mirage]

Absolute superman 17 cover

[half steeple]

Yoooo this is crazy

[foggy mirage]

absolute superman 17 ||that's parasite lmao||

[half steeple]

WORD??

Yea brb

[foggy mirage]

Absolute superman 17 ||I think that's a fitting proper first villain for a metropolis premire. With hawkman as an intro to the wider universe for kal and the justice league.||

[tawny parcel]

What book do I read next I have frankenstein brave new world and a Dostoevsky novel

[worthy crypt]

what kind of book do you want

[valid thunder]

which dostoevsky

[nova zephyr]

ok cool

beekeeper

[nova saffron]

Marty supreme. One of the greatest movies ive ever watched

[frank rivet]

ok

[nova saffron]

Loved every bit of it

[crimson bane]

Sounds like me when I first watched A Clockwork Orange

[main lion]

I haven't watched a clockwork orange since like 9th grade

[raw gate]

Watching more Cronenberg tonight

[raw gate]

Fourth or fifth favorite Kubrick film of mine. Used to be higher

[main lion]

it used to be my favorite movie but I was edgier back then

[white smelt]

I watched this in my dads car on one of those dvd tv headrest things and it made me motion sick and I never finished it

[main lion]

I cant stare at a screen for more than 30 seconds in a car without getting motion sick so I feel you

[white smelt]

I got filtered lol

Check the logs

[main lion]

ah

[foggy mirage]

@frank rivet @half steeple read absolute superman 15

Cried

Loved every single page

[modern lichen]

who let you watch it in 9th grade

[main lion]

nobody "let" me

Was a movie night sleepover at a friend's house

[modern lichen]

what the fuck bro

worst movie night movie ever

[main lion]

we also watched uh

rampage (2009)

and troll 2

[raw gate]

God, Croney’s such a freak

Love him all the more for it, though

[frank rivet]

lol who friend said "lets watch clockwork orange" in 9th grade

[sage remnant]

Good friend honestly

[worthy crypt]

9th grade is fine for clockwork orange

[main lion]

Yeah felt normal

Actually was a friend named youssef

Not to be confused with this server’s youss!

[raw gate]

Crash (1996) ||In the most vague and PG review of this film ever written, Crash basically encapsulates everything I enjoy about Cronenberg’s filmmaking style and takes the reoccurring themes/concepts of his work to absurd lengths, despite being the most grounded film of his that I’ve seen. As mesmerizing as it is worthy of grimace, a staple of Cronenberg’s work that has resulted in me gradually loving his art more as I continue to experience it.||

[white smelt]

You’re the only one to mention it 😭

I had no idea

[raw gate]

I mentioned it

I need to find the time to sit down and rewatch one of his movies this weekend

[white smelt]

Gonna watch satantango in his honor

No pauses

[tawny parcel]

stranger things episode 9

about to come

any second now

[frank rivet]

Batman 2025 Issue #4 - || so is TORUS like a new villain org ||

The Batman 2 News HEAVY Spoiler maybe - || https://vxtwitter.com/TheBatmanSagaNW/status/2009074798589300821?s=20 ||

The Batman Saga News (@TheBatmanSagaNW)

Sebastian Stan’s stylist, Michael Fisher, posted ANOTHER photo on his Instagram story seemingly confirming Stan is playing Harvey Dent in ‘THE BATMAN 2’

vxTwitter / fixvx · Jan 8, 2026, 1:28 AM

[modern lichen]

I would want to rewatch one of his films but they’re emotionally draining and very heavy so I also don’t want to

Haven’t seen The Turin Horse in a while so I was considering rewatching but then… yeah

[main lion]

If this is true its a way better casting choice for the character than ive seen thrown around

[white smelt]

When your stylist throws your likeness into grok

😭

[main lion]

Yeah..

[modern lichen]

Crazy way to confirm a casting

His stylist posted another one

[frank rivet]

https://x.com/screentime/status/2009112474625196384?s=20

ScreenTime (@screentime)

'THE PITT' has been renewed for Season 3 at HBO

X · Jan 8, 2026, 3:58 AM

[frank rivet]

Batman (2025) Issue # 5 - || This panel looks sick lol also looks like a bit of Durarara reference ||

[trim crown]

@modern lichen I'm don with the first book

The golden compass/northern light - his dork materials ||funny how pullman every times he gets the chance smacks down on the Catholic Church ||

[modern lichen]

The Golden Compass ||yeah he’s an atheist and it’s such a pointed critique of capitalism and the Catholic Church||

[valid thunder]

frankenstein 2025 || wish there was a bit more explanation for victors epiphany at the end but i suppose hearing the creature's side of the story did that? really impressed by jacob elordi and oscar isaac in this tho ||

[foggy mirage]

https://youtu.be/j6uDeBYDHu4?si=AVIKrieU4kKKbkXO

Will be there

[frank rivet]

thats the pink power ranger

[foggy mirage]

Which one

[frank rivet]

looks fire though

[foggy mirage]

Looks like nina kiri

Unless wikipedia bugging

Will tap in still

[sage remnant]

@modern lichen broo

what the hell is that "Toxic: Introducing Yash"

[modern lichen]

dont ask me

[sage remnant]

a friend just shared that in group chat 😭

[modern lichen]

looks like dogshit

[sage remnant]

half the time it looks like AI

[modern lichen]

same fuckin ultra slo-mo visual style and janky editing

there are some good shots and compositions in there but goddamn

[limber urchin]

Put down Prince of Thorns for now. Really not feeling it at the moment. May pick it up at a later date, but I need something less edgy for now. Thus, I restarted Mistborn last night. I at least want to read the first book; if it keeps my attention, I'll read the entire trilogy.

[modern lichen]

what happened to geetu mohandas

[frank rivet]

@foggy mirage have you seen Swarm

https://tenor.com/view/its-peak-old-man-shaking-head-gif-3938163323164042530

[foggy mirage]

I don't think I have ?

[frank rivet]

Swarm/Misery - || very similar premise to Misery but darker tone ||

TV series you should check it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDHxie2QcJI

[foggy mirage]

To the list it goes

[frank rivet]

man i really like batman 2025 but i still don't know whats the overarching themes

at least the action panels look good

[limber urchin]

“Themes are for eighth-grade book reports,” Benioff told me.

[leaden depot]

2025 stats are in

Clark was in like 7 books at the same time back then, no one was reaching his numbers lmao

[modern lichen]

the fucking KING

and stan lee

[leaden depot]

LOL

Nick Fury was everywhere bro

His war comic, his SHIELD comic, then cameos in Captain America, Iron Man, etc

Man was busy

Also lmao I cant escape Henry Boltinoff and his 1 page filler funny comics

[limber urchin]

holy shit, you guys blow me away

[frank rivet]

i read 30 issues this year

[sage remnant]

dw I have very less numbers this year

if you compare with Hog or Juba or Harsh

then you are bound to be blown away lol

[limber urchin]

wait is the 2,443 stories from this year alone?!

[half steeple]

ST ||So about that secret episode||

@frank rivet @foggy mirage

[sage remnant]

what happened

[half steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/nothing-happened-zoro-zoro-badass-one-piece-gif-21099082

The internet was so sure of it and it never came out😂

[sage remnant]

obv

[waxen gazelle]

Stranger things ending || even tho that secret episode was a massive copium, that's actually a huge blow and showcases even more how bad the finale was 😭 ||

[sage remnant]

good finale btw

[spiral quest]

If ya say so man

Wasn't my favorite

[modern lichen]

bro is the only one here who thinks the finale is good

[worthy crypt]

if you pretend it ended in season 2 i think it was a solid finale for me

[sage remnant]

I think it's a 6/10 ep in a season with just 2/10 to 4/10 eps

I don't say smth is an issue of finale specifically when it's an issue of the whole season

[spiral quest]

I mean, yeah the whole season was bad, the finale was just the culmination of it being bad

[frank rivet]

stranger things sure is popular 😭

[sage remnant]

For me the reason I consider it a good finale is || the cathartic moments like "I believe", the Mike-Hopper convo, and the next generation playing DnD scenes worked ||

|| Rest are just stuff that has been consistently an issue in s5. I don't expect a finale to completely resolve every issue it had from the beginning of the season ||

ST finale

If it had issues which were worse than the ones the season already had, then it would be a bad finale for me

[spiral quest]

ST finale ||my opinion on the I believe thing was that I didn't really give a shit because it undercut an actual meaningful character death, even though it's easy to poke holes in it. If she is alive, it means this horror show had z e r o teeth and there was no stakes at any point. I also have been detached from characters like Mike because the Duffers havent done shit with him since season 3 I swear. It all varies on opinion, but I was detached from most of these characters due to length of wait for the next season, no meaningful moments or actions by some characters in prior seasons, and the lack of stakes since Stranger Thing's biggest death was arguably Eddie||

ST finale ||writing sacrifice characters so you dont kill any of your main cast is kinda lame imo as well||

[sage remnant]

I don't disagree

But those issues aren't an issue of the finale but one from the previous seasons tho

[spiral quest]

But that's the point

Prior seasons sins make the finale a lesser product and feel hollow to me

That also doesn't really negate the things I feel the finale did do wrong outside of the prior seasons

[leaden depot]

This includes 1 page stories

The page count is the better metric here

[sage remnant]

For me, the phrase "bad finale" would mean the issues it brings are worse than or extra than the ones which were already there

[limber urchin]

oooooh i see hog

[leaden depot]

Yeah lol

And I had a 3 month hiatus lol

[spiral quest]

I feel bad can have many different ways of being manifested

[leaden depot]

In total I have read like 8100 issues since november 2020

[limber urchin]

i'm trying to wrap my head around that

[sage remnant]

yea agreed sab

[spiral quest]

And thing is, I am glad you enjoyed it

Or at least parts

[sage remnant]

I only enjoyed last 30 min ish

[spiral quest]

I am just stating why I feel it didn't work for me

[sage remnant]

s4 is literally the worst television I have watched

[sage remnant]

Yeah I understand and agree with your points

[spiral quest]

I liked season 4 up until volume 2

[sage remnant]

It's just a semantics discussion atp

oh s4 also had volumes?

like s5

[spiral quest]

Yeah they had 2 volumes

And the first was like

[leaden depot]

90 pages per day basically, so like what, 2.5 hours at most

[spiral quest]

Actually good

Imo anyway

[sage remnant]

I just hated every single ep of s4

there were good stuff here and there

but as a whole, I can't say I didn't hate any ep

[spiral quest]

To me

[limber urchin]

this has to be manga right? or comics?

[leaden depot]

Comics

Comic pages, especially bacjk then, were way more wordy than manga

[limber urchin]

ohhhhh ok this makes WAY more sense

[leaden depot]

So it takes a while to read them lol

90 manga pages would take me like 30 minutes lol

Maybe a bit more

[limber urchin]

goddamn i read slow

[spiral quest]

S4 ST ||introduction of Vecna and how brutally he killed was fantastic. It gave the series some bite it needed for being a horror show. The intrigue around who Vecna was imo pretty good and I thought it was fun. Then volume 2 dropped, Eddie died for no reason other than I think Joseph Quinn didn't sign a multi season contract so the duffers lazily killed him off with a Master of Puppets solo which Eddie woulda had to have been a guitar god to know how to play because the timeline of when Master dropped and the year of the show. Couple that with Max not dying somehow???||

[sage remnant]

S4 ST || I hated Vecna right from Introduction ||

S4 ST || It removed the eldritch horrory feel of the series for me||

[spiral quest]

S4 ST ||to me, Vecna was just another branch of the possible eldritch horror. Giving a face and mouth to it. At least at first it did||

[modern lichen]

https://x.com/cosmic_marvel/status/2009289563714322652?s=20

Cosmic Marvel (@cosmic_marvel)

Tom Cruise visited the set of Shawn Levy’s ‘STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER’ and ended up filming one of the lightsaber duels for the film.

(via https://t.co/i4k1p8glc0)

X · Jan 8, 2026, 3:42 PM

[spiral quest]

ST as a whole ||I admit they ruined him as time went on. He became way less threatening over time. I also think they ruined the mind flayer other than the design at the end. But I do think that Vecna at first was dangerous feeling, to me felt like a new weapon of the mind flayer that was immediately ruined. I at least liked him better than the mind flayer attempting to make itself out of humans in season 3, even if the idea of it is terrifying, it wasnt executed phenomenally imo||

[half steeple]

I wasn't horrible but it wasn't amazing either

[sage remnant]

I rather liked that aspect in s3 sab

[spiral quest]

ST as a whole ||also the Duffers introducing clock imagery with him and then doing absolutely nothing with it. Especially when they had 12 kids in the mind flayer is fucking stupid||

See I like the idea of it

I just think it wasnt done well, or at least convincingly to me

[sage remnant]

ST for me went shittier and shittier as new seasons came out

[spiral quest]

I agree

[sage remnant]

even tho I binged it all last month for the first time

[spiral quest]

Season 1 shoulda been the end

[sage remnant]

first and second season were less glaring

[spiral quest]

It shoulda been an anthology

[sage remnant]

ST s3 || you are telling me they managed to make a fucking scifi looking shit in the middle of hawkins at the height of cold war ||

[spiral quest]

Dude don't even get me started

ST s3 ||the russian shit was so fucking stupid. I hated it||

[sage remnant]

I think part of the reason why s5 worked slightly more for me than s4 is || I didn't have to again spend hours acclimating to them creating a new fucking shit for extending the story || Stranger things s5

[spiral quest]

Also ST s4 ||Hopper's russian side story was also dumb as hell. I am supposed to believe Hopper not only survived in season 3, was sent to Russia, but Joyce and Murray save his ass???? Come on dude||

[sage remnant]

ST s4|| And it didn't have the fucking bullying sideplot and the military shit wasn't as annoying in first batch as it was in s4 ||

[sage remnant]

well I had predicted that back in s3 lmao

|| that the fact hopper survived and is in Russia || ST s4

[spiral quest]

Nothing wrong with doing it but it hella wasn't believable is my point

[sage remnant]

It's w/e

its among the parts of s4 I rather enjoyed

cuz like

everything else was worse

😭

[spiral quest]

Which is crazy to me, because that's the stuff in s4 I disliked the most

[limber urchin]

ST ||sucks lmaooooooo get rekt bozos||

[spiral quest]

I mean

You're not wrong

At least most of it

[sage remnant]

real

time to post my ratings againnn

9/10
6/10
4/10
2/10
3/10

[peak pilot]

Stranger things latest season ||did anyone else start disliking most of the main group like I did every new season. Maybe dislike is a strong word but I stopped liking them as much||

[spiral quest]

I mean yeah

[sage remnant]

sab

just talked about that

[spiral quest]

Lmao

[limber urchin]

9/10
don't remember/10
didn't watch
didn't watch
didn't watch

[peak pilot]

I haven’t even watched the last season

[spiral quest]

This is partly due to the Duffers just not giving people shit to do

Also

[frank rivet]

9/10
7.5/10
6.5/10
8/10
2/10

[limber urchin]

Did ST get the GoT season 7 and 8 treatment?

[frank rivet]

atleast S4 was good

[spiral quest]

ST as a whole ||some of these characters I am indifferent too, I love two, and then I dislike Nancy and Jonathan||

[sage remnant]

s4 among the worst television

[spiral quest]

If ya say so

[frank rivet]

🥱

[sage remnant]

even got s8 was far better

[spiral quest]

The first volume I'll agree

The second volume undoes it all

[peak pilot]

Stranger things latest season ||I like max and Lucas and Nancy that’s about it. I prefer the quirky side characters like the science teacher||

[limber urchin]

funnily enough, despite only seeing seasons 1 and 2, I had to spoil myself on some of the story for a personal project. oh well

[frank rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/your-opinion-gif-24573780

[spiral quest]

ST ||Idk how people like Nancy. I didnt like her when she let Barb get chomped||

[spiral quest]

Yes exactly that's what this whole discussion is

[modern lichen]

lol

[spiral quest]

It's fine to have differing opinions

[peak pilot]

Big if true…

[limber urchin]

all these ST fans need to watch Welcome to Derry instead.

[spiral quest]

I am not trying to get anyone to agree with me, more just explaining why I felt things didnt work or what I feel

Welcome to Snoozevile

[sage remnant]

you know what yall should actually watch???

The Pitt

[modern lichen]

not sure who here is an ST fan

[sage remnant]

actual PEAK television

[modern lichen]

i dont see any

[limber urchin]

I've already seen Brad Pitt though

[spiral quest]

I am a season 1 ST fab

Fan

[sage remnant]

smh

[modern lichen]

so no one is watching welcome to derry

[sage remnant]

watch it nerd

[spiral quest]

Like that is unambiguously great TV

[sage remnant]

it has Noah Wyle Buffy

THE dude from ER

[limber urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/chii-kawa-chiikawa-chiikawa-beat-beating-ow-gif-16647359826059400487

[limber urchin]

The dude from Elden RIng! Poggers.

[spiral quest]

I don't really do a lot of Stephen King related stuff atm

[limber urchin]

i never watched ER growing up though

[sage remnant]

fake old man

[peak pilot]

I will

[sage remnant]

buffy's a zoomer posing as a boomer fr

[spiral quest]

Think they call that a millennial

[sage remnant]

yeah but I want to be mean to buffy

[spiral quest]

Then tell him Xenogears is bad

[sage remnant]

Xenogears is SHITTY

did you hear that Buffy

[limber urchin]

i have been found out

[sage remnant]

SHITTY

[limber urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/discord-1984-gif-8433559455380317911

Can't Hardly Wait ||Was rewatching this film while working for the first time in probably 20 years or so. I used to watch it a lot as a kid. I can't tell if it's just nostalgia or it truly holds up, but I genuinely still love this film. But I assume quite a lot of it will feel outdated or lost on people who didn't grow up during this time.||

Now, time to watch Scream 2 for the first time since forever. Let's see if it holds up as well as the first.

[main lion]

is there a reason this movie named itself something grammatically incorrect

like plot wise

[limber urchin]

I don't think it's grammatically incorrect, right? Like, this is a phrase I've said myself before.

[main lion]

I can hardly wait is the correct grammar

[limber urchin]

wait shit you might be right

[main lion]

kinda similar to how people say I could care less

but its I couldnt care less

[limber urchin]

that I know

[main lion]

but the opposite here

[limber urchin]

the movie must've messed me up

[main lion]

dock points from it on your letterboxd

[limber urchin]

i don't have one smh

[main lion]

!!!!

[royal flint]

true to that

[main lion]

ye doesnt seem many have made one yet

[royal flint]

welcome to derry was great

thankfully never bothered with stranger things

think i dodged a bullet there

[limber urchin]

at this point i'm afraid to ask what it is. movie review site for users?

[main lion]

its like myanimelist but for movies

and standalone tv shows

(like, only if the show has a season 1)

(but no season 2)

[spiral quest]

It's mostly movies

I mainly use mine just to wishlist movies essentially

[main lion]

Im only logging stuff Ive watched since creating it

[spiral quest]

Yeh same

[main lion]

so none of the stuff Ive seen prior

[spiral quest]

I forget to log half the shit anyway

It's not like my storygraph

[limber urchin]

i'm guessing that's also a user review site?

[main lion]

yeah its basically just for logging stuff youve watched

[limber urchin]

ok i'm too lazy

i'll just say what i watch here

[main lion]

https://anilist.co/user/RedTurtle78/

like we use anilist in #other-series

good way to know someone's taste etc

from their favorites

and for recommending

[limber urchin]

but tastes are questionable

[pale trellis]

I haven’t read enough adult literature to make one of these

[main lion]

you dont really need to

just log stuff when you do

[pale trellis]

Fair I suppose

All I’d be logging on the mf atm is mistborn kek

[main lion]

again, Im only doing it for stuff Ive watched since I created it in the first place

and anime movies count

oh its for movies not books

[pale trellis]

I was mainly talking about goodreads

But movies i watch so infrequently I cba

Actually im gonna make one

[main lion]

ye do it 🙂

also time for you to read haikyuu soon™

[limber urchin]

this shill

[worthy crypt]

i dont engage with any social features on goodreads but i do like it just for myself to be able to go back and see what i thought about at the time for books i read

[pale trellis]

Ummmm

Gotta run!

Hehe

[spiral quest]

I am glad I left good reads. Storygraph feels less advertiser heavy

I just wanted something other than a spreadsheet for tracking my reading

[burnt lake]

Went ahead and ordered the mistborn trilogy cause it was on sale

[burnt lake]

I love storygraph

[spiral quest]

https://tenor.com/view/head-nod-its-always-sunny-agree-stare-creeper-gif-18857358

[foggy mirage]

If they did that they would have gotten a way better show

And they wouldnt have to cope with something like conformity gate

@frank rivet

[foggy mirage]

I got the secret finale right here. St end ||You just had to wait till after the servers crashed.||

[frank rivet]

WTD is just good tv, probably the best show i watched this year

[outer tulip]

Traitor Season 4 tonight.. WE WON!!!

[foggy mirage]

It has a definite 3 season structure and isn't recycling the cast

Already makes sure it wont end up like st

Don't really have to worry about bill

He's not gonna suddenly age out

35

[frank rivet]

WTD Latest- || aside from the premise of the show, i am now more excited to see what more tie in to the SK universe and the actors they will bring for those ||
WTD Latest - || like Hallaran was probably my favorite character in the entire show and he only shows up like 2-3 times an episode ||

[foggy mirage]

Yeah they are good

[foggy mirage]

Wtd as a whole ||You will get more sense for the cosmology stuff when you go through the dt and his other books. Even IT if you ever read it. If you want more hallaran its shining and dr sleep.||

[limber urchin]

WTD ||Good show. ||

[frank rivet]

WTD Latest - || What year will next season be 1970s-1960s? ||

[foggy mirage]

Wtd ||thats where we are rn Lucy lmao. The next cycle would be like 1930s||

Wtd ||the last one I mean||

[frank rivet]

ah ok
WTD Latest - || lol it would of been crazy if it was in the 1970s and we saw a Carrie Reference ||

[foggy mirage]

Wtd finale ||we going backwards remember. So this next season is Bradley gang massacre.||

[limber urchin]

WTD ep 7 ||the entire season was worth it for the black spot sequences alone. equal measures amazing and horrifying, and no skimping out on the deaths - they went hardcore with the whole thing. and the cherry on top was richie sacrificing himself better than most i've seen in media.||

[foggy mirage]

Welcome to derry finale.

[limber urchin]

WTD spoilers all ||In all fairness, there might be more intelligence in a newborn than the military in this show.||

[frank rivet]

ST Finale - || https://vxtwitter.com/byerseason/status/2009231712946147435?s=20 ||

sena ⋆⭒˚｡⋆ (@byerseason)

bro 😭

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vxTwitter / fixvx · Jan 8, 2026, 11:52 AM

[foggy mirage]

Wtd ep 7 and finale ||the show came out more sincere because it was just better tv. It has consequences, actual chemistry that wasn't cheap and a better villain tbh. In the end it worked to its strengths and wasn't annoying its fans. There's the fact at this point I just think the Steven King verse ips are more interesting than ST.||

[limber urchin]

WTD ||I can't even speak on behalf of Stranger Things 'cause I didn't want to watch any of it after season 2 lol||

[foggy mirage]

Wtd abit ot ST s5 finale ||I can tell yoh this, you aren't missing anything. It did not make me feel much and I just ended up cooking the show for days after. Which is in stark contrast to the derry one which I actually enjoyed.||

[limber urchin]

i dodged a bullet

[frank rivet]

i have this immediate urge to watch nightcrawler again

[tawny parcel]

WTF

ANNAS ARCHIVE IS DOWN

WHERE DO I PIRATE MY BOOKS

[young compass]

https://open-slum.org/

[tawny parcel]

Yooo thank you bto

I cant believe it got shot

@limber urchin do i read these letters in frankenstein

Or are they author shit

[limber urchin]

i read them

[tawny parcel]

Sure i guess it cant hurt

[worthy crypt]

twok 18 || i dont think i really have any ability to armchair tactician here but even i can see this war is very dumb ||

[sage remnant]

Twok || ye cuz Alethi are.
||

[frank rivet]

@foggy mirage @half steeple
ST End - || Duffers Strike Again 😭 ||
|| https://vxtwitter.com/cassildez_/status/2009279682206634012?s=20 ||

cassia (@cassildez_)

to realmente começando a acreditar naquela teoria de que os Duffers roubaram o roteiro da S1 de alguém na faculdade, porque não é possível

QRT: ligadoemserie
Um irmão Duffer admite em entrevista: “nosso conhecimento sobre D&D é vergonhosamente baixo considerando o tanto que é importante para [Stranger Things], e logo o outro irmão tenta minimizar e se atrapalha também.

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vxTwitter / fixvx · Jan 8, 2026, 3:03 PM

its kinda crazy that i post links in other languages but when i see them they are in English 😭 grok kinda crazy for that

[sage remnant]

Hardcover.app ftw

I use that and Storygraph

[foggy mirage]

Posers but not a big suprise

[spiral quest]

What is hardcover.app

[foggy mirage]

St end || they barely used the stuff dnd as a cool tool to introduce stuff like beholders, terrasque,krell or anything like a diplacer beast||

[frank rivet]

Man jake gyllenhaal should of been nominated for an oscar for Nightcrawler

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-great-jackson-holidate-this-is-awesome-so-good-gif-18709423

[pale trellis]

Twok 8 || I love Yalb, this guy is my goat||

[sage remnant]

true

[valid thunder]

Zlib

[mild seal]

I think it never released in theaters and that's why he wasn't nominated

[frank rivet]

a DAMN SHAME

[mild seal]

Oh I was wrong

The Oscars just suck

For some reason I thought it was a Netflix movie

[frank rivet]

who was nominated that year

    Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking‡
    Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
    Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
    Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
    Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 

these were the nominees during the eligible year

😭 He got fucking ROBBED

[modern lichen]

These are all cool performances but it should’ve been Gyllenhaal instead of Cooper

[frank rivet]

https://x.com/MCUFilmNews/status/2009468304826744897?s=20

MCU Film News (@MCUFilmNews)

The ‘BLADE’ solo movie is no longer happening.

The character will instead appear in ‘MIDNIGHT SONS’.

(Source: https://t.co/G8E08RKqEX)

X · Jan 9, 2026, 3:32 AM

https://tenor.com/view/kevin-garnett-uncut-gems-gif-21907508

[sage remnant]

tf

[spiral quest]

The most predictably doomed ship is destroyed

[frank rivet]

honestly

i legit can't remember the last time i saw Hollywood make a vampire movie fr 😭

lol they use to be all the rage in the early 2000s

[modern lichen]

sinners

[frank rivet]

i guess thats true

[modern lichen]

did you not watch it

[frank rivet]

no it didn't cross my mind, i was thinking more like the vampire movies i watched in the past

[modern lichen]

before that there was nosferatu

[sage remnant]

also Interview with the Vampire

[modern lichen]

just in december

[frank rivet]

like underworld

[modern lichen]

yeah there's been quite a few vampire media lately

[sage remnant]

It's obv not the trend that's been chased like it was in 2000s

or 2010s even

Vampire diaries and that stephanie mayer's series

forgot the name

[frank rivet]

ya your right there have been a few, they just don't have the same feel as previous movies

[modern lichen]

you mean mindless action movies involving vampires

[near echo]

Bring back Underworld

[frank rivet]

yes

[frank rivet]

Peak

[copper phoenix]

mcu tryina ice skate uphill

[modern lichen]

wanna rewatch van helsing because its just so dogshit yet entertaining

[frank rivet]

van helsing was so good

[modern lichen]

its not

but its a nice trainwreck to watch

[near echo]

But yeah vampire media is healing after it's crash out in the early 10s

[copper phoenix]

watch twilight

[frank rivet]

lol im good

[near echo]

Even in games

Bloodlines 2, V Rising, Duskbloods

Redfall but we don't talk about that one

[sage remnant]

darkstalkers

[limber urchin]

play Vampyr

not the best, but interesting

[frank rivet]

i guess the last traditional vampire media i have seen that i can correlate with is probably Castlevania

[near echo]

Don't bring darkstalkers back I don't want to envision what that even looks like in the SF6 engine

But yeah watch sinners

[frank rivet]

sinners was great

[sage remnant]

watch Interview with the Vampire

[frank rivet]

is it a tv show?

[sage remnant]

yes

also has a old movie

[frank rivet]

hmm ill check it out lol but i don't have as much time as i use to

[modern lichen]

there's a movie adaptation with tom cruise and brad pitt and kirsten dunst but its bad

so yeah

apparently the show is good

i havent seen it

[sage remnant]

it's good but it started trying to spew out an universe

with bad stuff

[limber urchin]

i've seen the film but don't really remember it

[sage remnant]

Mayfair Witches and Talamasca

[limber urchin]

Like, an extended universe?

[sage remnant]

ye

had two spinoffs

[limber urchin]

Lord have mercy

[sage remnant]

.

[limber urchin]

universeslop is what i should start calling this stuff

[sage remnant]

mayfair witches atleast has daddario sooo

[frank rivet]

not doing any more witch stuff

im witched out

[frank rivet]

every fucking show is a witch/nun/some form of exorcism 😭

[sage remnant]

mayfair wtiches and talamasca

when the main show was soo good

[sage remnant]

just watch good shows?

like The Pitt

s2 out in 16 days

[frank rivet]

???

[sage remnant]

oh wait it's yesterday???

damn

well I'll just binge

[frank rivet]

lol ya i was confused

the Pitt came out yesterday

[sage remnant]

yeah I got confused

[near echo]

Oh Disney+ has Tron Ares now

I'll watch that this weekend

[modern lichen]

my deepest condolences

[near echo]

Here for vibes

What I'm actually waiting on is Predator tho

I couldn't afford to see most movies in November

[modern lichen]

badlands?

[near echo]

Yeah

[frank rivet]

oh badlands isn't on yet

[near echo]

Give it a month or two

Watching Rescuers this is cuter than I remember
What was Don Bluths obsession with rodents

[timber basin]

Tolkien: The Silmarillion ||Just got through my re-read. Just gotta say holy shit, the duel between Fingolfin and Morgoth might be one of the most badass things I’ve ever read in all of fiction. I truly think this was probably the moment that the forces of the evil Ainur (Morgoth, Sauron, etc) realized they were not invincible. Reading about the First Age is so fascinating.||

[half steeple]

I should've known tbh

[modern lichen]

watching the pitt s2 ep 1

we're so back

@sage remnant

[sage remnant]

I'll binge it

[scenic hedge]

pirates of the caribbean trilogy ||Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones||

[foggy rain]

Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy ||Yes, Davy Jones theme is really good||

🙏

[scenic hedge]

potc ||Davy jones especially, the theme song is so good, I ocassionaly listen to it on walks and such||

[toxic pebble]

I’m a huge fan of Legacy so hopefully this doesn’t butcher that

[limber urchin]

Yoooooo POTC ||One Piece reference||

[spiral quest]

Everyone knows Disney created Pirates of the Caribbean because specifically of One Piece

[modern lichen]

its dogshit

[spiral quest]

Pirates of the Caribbean is One Piece fan fiction

[modern lichen]

its basically a nine inch nails album that came with an additional really bad movie

[spiral quest]

So just listen to the OST got it

[modern lichen]

if you wanna look at jared leto's weird ass then go for the movie but yeah just the music

[spiral quest]

I didnt enjoy Leto before this so

No thx

My girlfriend loves Tron so when she saw the trailer with Leto she was beside herself

We didn't even go see it because of that

[modern lichen]

the leto of like requiem for a dream and shit like that long died

[spiral quest]

I never really enjoyed his stuff. I liked one thirty second to mars song and I think half of that is Guitar hero nostalgia

[modern lichen]

30 seconds before i fling myself off a cliff rather than listening to one song

[spiral quest]

Most of their stuff is pretty bad

There are far more bands in that sphere that Id happily listen to otherwise

[burnt lake]

Acquired

[peak pilot]

Enjoy. It’s a really enjoyable trilogy

[burnt lake]

As I've heard

[spiral quest]

I will eventually go on a Sanderson kick again. I think I need some time away tho, multiple Stormlight books in a year is a lot

[obsidian basalt]

WoT book 12 end || egwene is a top 2 character for me so obviously this book was fantastic, and might just be the best book in the series (although it doesn't quite have the peaks of the flashbacks fromm early on in it). rand hitting absolute rock bottom (hopefully, surely it cant get worse) was painful to read but well executed for sure, and 0 elayne chapters truly blessed the book ||

[worthy crypt]

wot 12 || i love that last chapter so much. Or maybe second to last? Veins of gold ||

[foggy mirage]

https://x.com/Godzilla_Toho/status/2009792397836693557

GODZILLA.OFFICIAL (@Godzilla_Toho)

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO from Takashi Yamazaki

Coming to North American theatres November 6, 2026
https://t.co/htSdiaadFA

X · Jan 10, 2026, 1:00 AM

[toxic pebble]

Ooooooh shit

My dad is a kaiju fan and we watched this in theaters. It was amazing

[foggy mirage]

You mean og right ?

Cause this is the sequel to minus one

[toxic pebble]

Yes minus one

We’ve also watched some of the original Toho and the newer monster verse stuff

[foggy mirage]

I just want another kaiju

In this one

Besides the obvious

[foggy mirage]

Definitely recommend shin if you haven't

And the millenium stuff

[toxic pebble]

I watched to see Shin in 4K but I missed it

[foggy mirage]

Yeah gonna have to catch the next anniversary

And hope

😭

[sage remnant]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2009019209758724409?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Warner Bros has rejected Paramount’s 8th attempt to buy the studio

(Source: https://t.co/1lK0GENUn1)

X · Jan 7, 2026, 9:48 PM

definition of "she don't want you bro"

[white smelt]

Are they allowed to do that when it’s so much more money than Netflix

Isn’t there laws in place for that

[spiral quest]

I mean

They are a privately owned company

Well

Sorta

But the point is they dont have to take the highest bid

[main lion]

Lets just be glad its not paramount

[white smelt]

I don’t believe they are

[main lion]

[spiral quest]

Well either way

[white smelt]

Bro Netflix is the worst option is it not

[spiral quest]

No

[white smelt]

Aside from the saudis before them

[spiral quest]

The Ellisons own Paramount

[white smelt]

Hasn’t Netflix dead ass said they want to do away with theaters

[main lion]

@white smelt

[white smelt]

Imagine the Batman 2 on Netflix only

[main lion]

I think they want to shorten the theater cycle so its on streaming sooner

[spiral quest]

If the Ellisons get it Batman would be a podcast alpha bro

So

You make your choice there

[sage remnant]

Yes but Ellisons owning entertainment along with already owning one of the largest data company

that's terrifying

[main lion]

netflix just makes me think theyll still maintain a lot of their current creative liberties and there will be other downsides

paramount would probably destroy the creative element

[spiral quest]

Beyond so

[main lion]

and thats ultimately the worst option

[white smelt]

Idk man Netflix has directors use specific cameras and lighting

[sage remnant]

Netflix would just shift more focus towards streaming and less days on theatre

[white smelt]

We will reach a terrible end through them

[sage remnant]

but they will slowly realise that won't work as well

[white smelt]

Every thing will look like wicked and stranger things

[main lion]

its still a better end than paramount

[spiral quest]

Agreed with Red

Without getting into banned topics, I think this is the better move

[main lion]

I also doubt theyll force certain cameras on The Batman considering cinematography was its greatest asset

idk about other movies tho

[frank rivet]

lol old news, they are about to reject the 9th

[tawny parcel]

netflix is the better of both evils

[frank rivet]

the worse thing is, 😭 i just don't know

Netflix is the biggest pusher of second screen initiative and they have ruined so many shows

they cancel so many shows, its like a miracle if your show makes it past S3

[main lion]

finally finished Frankenstein lol

||I had paused after part 1 and forgot about it. Finally went back. It was very good. I think the whole "Im gonna tell my tale" thing was a bit contrived but I guess it was a way for them to talk it out amongst each other for that final scene so it kinda had to happen that way. I think thats why I paused. I was just like "I dont wanna hear another flashback story rn "

Bro is a better man than me I'd never forgive victor but it was very sweet. And I like to imagine that was the first time victor didn't lie||

[foggy mirage]

Frankenstein 2025 ||it's a very beautiful movie and I love the monster most. The issue was Viktor ended up falling into the same pitfalls as his father. And dint consider he was making a person. Which would require you to have a mother figure to see what thats like growing up. He lost that early on and saw something similar with Elizabeth. Its funny considering Mia goth plays his mother and possible love interest. But the monster is absolutely justified in being pissed at Viktor for not taking responsibility and being a dead beat father. All this destruction comes from how horrible of a person viktor is. I do feel it did have to follow viktor first and then his son.||

[foggy mirage]

Jesus christ how many times do they need to hear no

[white smelt]

Can you just add whatever on letterboxd?

Just saw someone’s letterbox and it was a bunch of porn

[modern lichen]

Guess you can add porn on there yeah

As long as a movie is on TMDB

[foggy mirage]

Yeah I've seen that too

[main lion]

frankenstein 2025 ||I agree that it seems like the only way to tell this story. But it felt like a movie that was almost purely exposition because of it if that makes sense Still a good movie though. I liked how the two mirrored each other's "childhood" and victor didn't even realize. ||

[foggy mirage]

Frankstein 2025 ||the movie definitely clicked for me once the creature was alone in the woods after the fire. You can really feel del Toro the whole movie. The creation facing his creator always gets me.||

[frank rivet]

is Frankenstein 2025 good?
i never was a Frankenstein fan, is it actually a good movie. I get the overall aspects of him as a character but the movies have always been kinda meh to me.

[sage remnant]

It's okay

It's a good movie. But it's not as satisfying if you are a fan of the book

[tender fable]

Absolutely yes. It's nothing like other Frankenstein movies. It's very visually stunning esp if you are into gothics

[modern lichen]

as a fan of the book, the film loses on a lot of the book's gothic ennui

[frank rivet]

hmm alright bet, ill check it out, would you consider it more along the lines of the shape of water?

[modern lichen]

https://fixupx.com/CultureCrave/status/2009730802544750992?s=20

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)

Tom Hiddleston pays respects to Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man 🕸️
︀︀
︀︀"We're all here because of Tobey Maguire in a way. That film was the beginning of where we are"
︀︀
︀︀(via Happy Sad Confused)

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FixupX · Jan 9, 2026, 8:55 PM

[sage remnant]

MCU Doomsday || Tobey's spiderman is gonna get be killed in this movie isn't he ||

[tender fable]

I didn't want that one sorry!

[main lion]

Theyre nothing alike visually

[modern lichen]

they're alike in that del toro has a unique visual style of his own

but the intention of what drives the cinematography is different

absolute superman #15

absolute superman 15 ||oh fuck yeah||

[crimson bane]

This should be in #promote-yourself if it's your own video

[modest canyon]

Warbreaker ch 13ish ||I do like how the initial concept of the story has been flipped on its head. Vivenna is the one who was trained in the politics of Hallandren and has no idea what she’s doing. Siri didn’t pay attention to anything and she seems to be doing pretty decently by herself||

[jolly ruin]

We are now 8 days out from HBO’s 'A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS'