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Brian Collins

@bdcollins95.bsky.social

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Messy bisexual, genre fiction fan, movie snob, reluctant blogger, they/them. Hosts Science Fiction & Fantasy Remembrance.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · Jan 1

One New Year's resolution I made is finally hopping on the media thread bandwagon.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 2h

I didn't get to post about this earlier, but D'Angelo passing really sucks. One of those cases where an artist really improved on his craft over time and went out on a high note (yeah I like Black Messiah more than Voodoo). He had his inner demons, but he was a true artist.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 16h

Can we do Reddit atheism again, but wokely this time?

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 18h

Doesn't matter if you have a rescue team of highly intelligent robots, if these robots don't know what it is they're rescuing. It's "Lost Memory" by Peter Phillips, from the May 1952 issue of Galaxy!

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Short Story Review: “Lost Memory” by Peter Phillips

(Cover by Jack Coggins. Galaxy, May 1952.) Who Goes There? I don’t have much to say on today’s author, partly because I’ve not read anything by him until now and partly because th…

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 23h

Israel has killed at least 9 Palestinians since the ceasefire, including a journalist. And the people in Gaza are still denied the right to govern themselves.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 1d

#414. The Bad Guys 2

A Lupin III story for kids and furries, and also scalies. There’s a butch cat lady and an autism-coded hog lady. Mr. Snake is super horny in this one. ACAB, fuck ICE, etc.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 1d

Morgan Wallen is Drake for white men while Taylor Swift is Drake for white women.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 2d

#413. Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

I get the sentiment, and I get why Mott wrote it when he did. I just wish it was a better novel.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, John Scalzi is very openly an asshole and his books still do well.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about that one throwaway George Carlin bit where we call Israeli murderers commandos and Arab commandos terrorists.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 2d

The Gaza genocide might be the first since the dawn of the 20th century where liberal democracies in the west support the country committing the genocide to one degree or other. With the Holocaust or even the Armenian genocide this would’ve been unthinkable, but not so now.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 3d

Ranma 1/2 uses harem comedy tropes but is ultimately a subversion in that it's made very clear (especially in the new show) that this is a love story between Ranma and Akane. Hope this helps!

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 3d

#412. s/t - They Might Be Giants

Some of the production is very '80s, in a way that I feel may have been uninentional and just a product of the time. But this is a good deal of fun. I didn't laugh out loud at any of the joke lines, but these are some catchy songs.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 4d

#411. True Names - Vernor Vinge (reread)

Still honestly impressive that this was published three years before Neuromancer, and also packs about as much mindbending shit into just a hundred pages.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 4d

Got a few people into Steely Dan recently, I be doing God’s work.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 4d

So much great American literature, especially following the end of WWI, despite this country’s propensity for philistinism and backwardness culturally.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 4d

Concocting a fake murder to substitute for the real thing sounds safe and secure, but maybe not according to the law. It’s “Punishment Without Crime” by Ray Bradbury, from the March 1950 issue of Other Worlds!

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Short Story Review: “Punishment Without Crime” by Ray Bradbury

(Cover by Malcolm Smith. Other Worlds, March 1950.) Who Goes There? We’re keeping things short and sweet today, with a rather self-explanatory story by an author who has little need for an in…

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 4d

Wild that the founding fathers had the foresight to come up with the 3rd amendment but could not muster the moral fiber to abolish chattel slavery.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about how the streak Square had from 1991 until the merger with Enix in 2003 might be the greatest run for a game developer ever.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 5d

We never get a clear answer as to what extent Perfidia and Lockjaw’s relationship is consensual, which will inevitably ruffle some feathers, but I think it’s fascinating.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 5d

“How woke is Pynchon?” Pynchon was poking fun at Zionists and Ayn Rand in 1963.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 6d

The Nobel committee could’ve easily given it to Salman Rushdie and Greta Thunberg, people who have risked their very skin for their art and activism respectively, people who actually stand for human rights, but they just went in the total opposite direction.

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 6d

Am I the last person here to have gotten Shadow Ticket?

Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 7d

#410. The Long Run - The Eagles

Ahaaaa, so this is like, what Steely Dan sounds like to people who irrationally hate Steely Dan. (I actually didn't hate this album, but it is very "racist alcoholic boomer aunt" music.)