You can read or watch low culture without framing them as guilty pleasures or breaks from serious high culture. You can express an opinion without qualifying it as Just Your Opinion. You can do nothing for a while (to whatever small extent is possible, capitalism &c.) without needing to justify rest

But doctor, you are Pagliacci

I am once again begging Amazon to let me see Charlie Vickers as Sauron the Vampire living on Werewolf Island

I have found myself in conversation using the term ‘worldbuilding poisoning’ to describe books I’ve read that visibly suffered from the dull assumption that a speculative setting must always be a fully realised secondary world that you could also, for example, play a tabletop game in.

This is why we invented rolling deployments

Which X-Men story is this from

Why do conservatives make trans people look so fucking cool omg

I remember when Ghostbusters: Afterlife came out all the nerds on twitter used this truly bizarre phrase I had never encountered before: finally a Ghostbusters film that honors the fans. "Honors the fans"? What a fucking horrid concept. If I'm a fan of anything, I regard myself as a mere worm.

Get Gosling and Tatum in a musical rom com about competitive bodybuilders , Cena is the rival, it’s called LUNKS IN LOVE and the central song is THE HEART IS A MUSCLE do I have to think of everything around here

I wish comics could let the status be quo for a dang minute. We don't need this many paradigm shifts... Let a book breathe dang it!

I fell for it again. The internet is talking about X-Men and I love X-Men. But social media is all hate-clicks and ragebait and the bigots are out in full force.
I miss curated forums. I'm tired of rereading the opinions of anti-woke blockheads every time I want to engage with something I like.

I've seen a lot of complaints about rumoured Pirates of the Caribbean 6 casting. Haven't we, as a society, moved past the need for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow? I'd love to see a pulp serial PotC with different characters, actors, directors, and writers every time. The horizon is calling!

If you're like me, you've asked the question, "What's the deal with Taylor Swift? Her music is good, but why is it such a big deal?"
I wondered this out loud once, and the YouTube cyber spies were here to suggest this outstanding deep (DEEP) dive. Check it out!
youtu.be/Mdmhiv7O5m8?...

I wish to be a cat

Wow, that video seems like it has compelling information. Unfortunately, watching it would take at least ten times as long as reading an article covering the same material, so I won't be clicking play.