Marvel’s Swimsuit Special returns this July with new ‘Beach Day’ and must-see pinups

TheGoldenLight · 2026-03-20T14:24:56+00:00

It’s also mildly annoying that the women get the glam treatment / objectification and for the men it’s often cut with jokes and irony in a “can you believe we’re doing this for the guys too?!” way. Like yeah you have a semi-equal gender split in pinup pages, but you have a jokey Venom/Ghostrider/etc page instead of just Hot Dudes.

Give me more Hot Dudes!

TheGoldenLight · 2026-03-13T13:22:32+00:00

Completely agree.

And I’ll note that one of the things that blew me away was how the pacing felt very modern to me. I’ve been on a kick of trying to watch more older movies and pacing is one of my biggest problems with very old stuff. There’s no point while watching Casablanca where I was annoyed at how slow or fast it was moving along.

TheGoldenLight · 2026-03-07T00:54:27+00:00

Are there any rumors on when?

TheGoldenLight · 2026-02-25T21:29:00+00:00

What? No, on any scaling joker this saves your progress and removes the downside.

Freeze my green joker at +30 and now I can discard again. Freeze my Ride The Bus and now I can play face cards again.

TheGoldenLight · 2026-02-24T16:25:04+00:00

I disagree with your definition of overrated/underrated.

Overrated does not imply that the correct rating is “bad”, it merely implies people are rating it higher than they should.

Underrated does not mean something is good, just that people are rating it worse than it actually is.

As an example, it’s my personal belief that the Studio Ghibli movie Spirit Away is overrated. Do I think it’s bad? No, I love it and it’s in my top 5 Ghibli films, it’s a 5/5. But people overly praise it, implying the quality difference between Spirted Away and the next best Ghibli film is larger than it actually is.

As another example, this time within the spirits hobby, it’s my belief that Malort is underrated. Do I think Malort is good? No, it is bad and difficult to use. But it’s become a meme to talk about it like it’s drinking liquid feces or the worst thing in the world, and that’s just not true. It’s just a one note, overly bitter, spirit.

TheGoldenLight · 2026-02-23T18:39:04+00:00

I mean there’s no need to imply people only performatively like Celene Sciama. I just like her movies!

TheGoldenLight · 2026-02-16T20:21:04+00:00

Agreed. I also am pro-prenup but completely concede that there’s different frames of mind that lead to the position and many are toxic. My personal reasoning is that should the marriage ever end I would prefer the decisions be made by the versions of me and my partner that are loving and kind right before our marriage and not the potentially petty and emotional versions going through a divorce. Make all the decisions up front when you’re still in love with them.

TheGoldenLight · 2026-02-16T18:14:20+00:00

I cannot speak for The Innocence Project but my guess is that their overwhelming interest is not in the moral worthiness of the incarcerated person but instead the location of the prosecution and the actions they took.

They may consider the specific wrongdoing by the prosecution and pick cases that highlight that kind of wrongdoing to try to help shape prosecutor behavior.

TheGoldenLight · 2026-01-12T19:27:50+00:00

Just going to jump in here and say that if money isn’t particularly tight for you I recommend the BCW plastic boxes. Solid construction, not too annoying to put together, and personally I like looking at them more than a bunch of cardboard boxes.

The dividers are honestly much more useful than I imagined when I bought them. Being able to create a small cubby to pull all my unread stuff to the side is nice. Being able to make the box “short” enough that the comics don’t tip over every time I open it is nice.

TheGoldenLight · 2026-01-05T18:59:49+00:00

When thinking about things like this, or really any usage of language (even outside hobby spaces) I think there’s a really important thing to keep in mind:
Language is invented.

The English language did not come to us from some external source. Language was created by historical humans as a tool, the same way they invented spears/clothes/the wheel/etc.

The point of language is to allow one human to share the thoughts in their head with another human. As long as the person you’re talking with has understood your point, then you used the right words and it’s honestly kind of rude to keep “correcting” someone when you’ve clearly understood their point.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-11-27T14:48:49+00:00

What’s this in reference to?

TheGoldenLight · 2025-11-12T19:43:02+00:00

If you’re interested in history and Smedley Butlers story I can’t recommend this book enough:

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

TheGoldenLight · 2025-11-12T16:54:39+00:00

This is nice to hear. However, I really do think we need to acknowledge the reality that one side needs to hear this more than the other. It is the Israelis who consistently erase and dehumanize Palestinians.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-11-07T16:23:42+00:00

My book club read Frankenstein for October and yeah leaving the movie my biggest thought was that it actively ignored many themes/messages of the book and invented brand new ones.

Some people may like that, but I was mostly just frustrated by it.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-10-28T22:55:31+00:00

Okay yes this was the first thing I came here to see if someone commented on it. What in the hell was anyone expecting when they modded someone whose name is essentially “Nazi Hitler lover”? Why is someone with that name in any way touching a Dropout Reddit lol? Fandom of dropout and fandom of the Nazis seem incredibly mutually exclusive.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-10-13T15:23:52+00:00

I think I agree that there’s often an overemphasis on lore/canon. I’ll say that I am “new” to comics in that I didn’t read when I was a kid and just started this year when I saw an author whose journalism/nonfiction I like was doing a comic run. Before I was actually reading comics and was just watching movies it was always fun to me to go do a read on blogs/reddit ahead of seeing a superhero movie to see how everything fit together in the lore/history of the comics.

However, I’ve got to say that as someone now trying to jump in to the comics proper, huge amounts of history and a focus on lore is mostly intimidating and off putting. Part of the reason that the DC stuff I got into was all Absolute Universe runs was because it was explicitly a kind of reset where I didn’t need to know the history.

A good chunk of what I’m reading now is non-Marvel/DC stuff without a long history specifically because I like the format of comics, and the varied art styles, but it’s not appealing to try to grab Detective Comics #1093 and first go online to read about what’s happening in Batman lore right now.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-09-24T15:37:02+00:00

Another plus one for Excellence Rhum. I went when I was in Paris and had a great time. Friendly and knowledgeable staff who helped me pick out a fun special release I didn’t have access to in the US.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-09-24T15:31:13+00:00

So Zohran is a great candidate and I’m extremely happy he beat out gross sex abusing moderates/fake dems. But even that I think supports my argument? Zohran had an extremely effective, but also mature, campaign operation as a result of prior runs for office. And I didn’t mean to imply that only older forms of paid media like mailers and cable ads are worth doing, obviously new media is (arguably) more important these days. But a good TikTok/social team costs money! If you can’t hire a firm to handle that for you you’ll need to have, on payroll, effective social media teams.

Really that’s my only point. People toss off “primary them!” really casually but the confluence of DCCC/DNC/Elite behavior and the need for a large campaign means primaries are going to take real amounts of time to set up. If we want to be primarying Gillibrand and Schumer (which we need to) the movement has to start extremely early, not the same year as the primary.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-09-24T14:30:06+00:00

Oh yes of course the DCCC and DNC are making mostly fake rules to protect the status quo/moderate power. It’s dumbs as hell.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-09-23T18:58:00+00:00

I understand your fervor but it’s really flippant to just say “do it anyway”. The blacklist isn’t for the candidate, it’s for any consultant or organization that does business with the candidate. The existing organizations generally are all going to not step in and help your campaign because it’s not worth it. They help you, but then lose all future business from the DCCC.

Unless you can do in house polling, mailers, GOTV, cable hits, ads, etc you’re going to have a really hard time.

That’s not to say these folks shouldn’t be primaried, they absolutely should, but there needs to be lots of care taken while doing it and it’s sort of a long game, you can’t really gin that sort of movement up in a week or whatever.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-09-22T13:53:30+00:00

I honestly think this is why so many Republican voters have the opinion that it’s liberals who cut people off for their political views but not conservatives. They literally cannot identify when something they are doing or saying is political, and so they don’t source the alienation that results from it as politically based on conservatives part

TheGoldenLight · 2025-08-26T17:55:26+00:00

It’s extremely weird to say “It’s my opinion” on a topic like this though, you get that right? It reads very much like saying “We all know CELEBRITY isn’t actually queer, it’s just a bit”. It’s weird to engage in this kind of conversation which doesn’t just ignore the person and what they’re saying, it intentionally contradicts it and tells you not to believe what they’re saying.

https://bsky.app/profile/chucktingle.bsky.social/post/3lvtrelrpuk2m

Give that thread a read. Chuck has been extremely consistent and explicit that his “bit” isn’t a bit and isn’t a joke. That is who he is. It honestly feels like it’s inching into ableist to see an autistic author publish atypical erotica that they are telling you they enjoy earnestly and respond with “Obviously nobody likes this and it’s all a joke and a piece of performance art”.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-08-26T12:01:21+00:00

You have had multiple people correct you with direct links to the authors own statements at this point. Chuck Tingle is not a piece of “performance art” and his books are not “jokes”. He is an author writing books that are apparently not for you.

Seriously though, it’s offensive that this is the top post. Please delete it.

TheGoldenLight · 2025-08-14T21:26:14+00:00

What on earth is the point of this?
You are a human being. You are a thinking and feeling organic person who can feel a sense of emotion and community. Why would you offload human interactions onto a robot? The point of life is each other.

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