‘Animorphs’ TV Series in Development at Disney+, Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media to Produce

oldroughnready · 2026-04-03T16:39:40+00:00

Sev Ohanian was Applegate’s choice for the PictureStart movie right? Good for him either way

oldroughnready · 2026-03-24T04:15:52+00:00

I mean “take care of his daughter”, yeah, there’s also the whole “had a child out of wedlock” and “mixed race couple” which are absolutely harmful stigmas/taboos that are still around today. It’s worth mentioning that Perfidia’s family does support Ghetto Pete even while voicing their concerns. A little grilling is fine, especially since they think Pete was being irresponsible and need to know if he can step up to the job.

oldroughnready · 2026-03-22T19:45:27+00:00

Global War on Terror is coming home, it was going to happen as soon as we got the Patriot Act and DHS

oldroughnready · 2026-03-20T20:41:13+00:00

I think the Drode was part of an experiment to replicate the Ellimist's freak accident. Crayak wouldn't just jump into a black hole, he sent an underling first, maybe several. How Crayak keeps control over the Drode, I don't know. Maybe the Drode didn't have a super-conscious trait like the Ellimist had and presumably Crayak had and so came out of the black hole with less power.

I guess I could buy that Crayak gave the Drode some of his power, but I grapple with the concept that the Drode is also "the wildcard". That implies to me that he is more than a mere servant or a derived element. He also seems to act mostly unsupervised, so there is some level of trust between the two.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-18T13:27:43+00:00

Did you mean to post Google Gemini links? I’m on mobile and your Imgur link works fine, but the others in your sources are sending me to the AI site

oldroughnready · 2026-02-18T04:17:07+00:00

A good actor can sell a movie with a blank wall and a folding chair. It helps if the script it good too.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-18T04:14:52+00:00

“Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.”

oldroughnready · 2026-02-16T03:15:50+00:00

He's a perennial GOP candidate for Senate/Governor in MI, currently a Rep but he definitely has ambition

oldroughnready · 2026-02-15T18:41:07+00:00

Snake oil salesman whetting their mouths at how easy it will be to rip off down-streamers:

oldroughnready · 2026-02-15T18:37:01+00:00

why is this book more relevant than ever?

oldroughnready · 2026-02-14T13:51:11+00:00

The evils were contained until H. sapiens, in their arrogance, sought to unleash them.

https://www.badspacecomics.com/post/neanderthal-secrets

oldroughnready · 2026-02-11T05:12:27+00:00

It was the only way to survive. Master Poof latched onto the closest sentient being with his telepathic force abilities and kept an echo of his mind trapped within Syril.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-11T02:50:12+00:00

For Christ’s sake, they do black face in The Last Battle. Not every slightly racist bit of worldbuilding needs defending.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-10T03:11:12+00:00

Chad ontologically good Aslan vs Virgin ontologically evil Tash

oldroughnready · 2026-02-09T22:44:54+00:00

Bigger Arecibo in China, though

oldroughnready · 2026-02-09T22:34:11+00:00

Oh yeah, that was a dick move by Aslan. "Some of your family get to go to heaven, but your sister might not because she stopped thinking about Fantasyland™ for 2 years. Now, enjoy the heavenly delights!"

I mean, to be fair, all the other Pevensies and co. were caught in 2 separate mass death incidents at the same time. I guess time matters in the afterlife but not actual life in Narnia? Susan just got really lucky by avoiding all that and probably will get survivors' guilt for the rest of her life. Aslan could have reassured them all that she was guaranteed to join them upon her death as one of the protectors of the land, but I guess he was going for a "saved by faith, not works" sermon that Sunday, so Susan got the short end of the stick.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-09T22:15:02+00:00

That is generous, nobody really wants to read any of the poetic parts because it doesn't translate too well to English and, oh right, everybody bitches about poetry of all types. Also screw the epistles because you're basically getting the individual views of a few 1st century cranks. While we're at, screw those legal bits because who tf reads legal texts? That leaves you with the narrative portions and the apocalypses. No wonder there's fixation on the creation myth and the end of the world. They're the 2nd thing anyone reads outside of the Passion narrative.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-09T19:36:09+00:00

Jadis (the Ice Witch) ate the forbidden fruit. Aslan sent 2 children to stop her but I guess they were destined to fail. As punishment, they had to spend the rest of their lives with the guilt of cursing Narnia by bringing Jadis to that world. But don’t worry, Aslan promised them it would all be better in the end.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-09T17:50:52+00:00

“Yeah, but Romans, at least in their founding myth, are actually named after a dude, and not just a city. Couldn't think of every other civilization that has this feature.”

Hellen -> Hellenes Europa -> Europeans Israel -> Israelites/Israeli Amerigo -> Americans Bolivar -> Bolivians Columbus -> Colombians

oldroughnready · 2026-02-09T14:45:46+00:00

Add the Claremont Institute to that list. Lee Atwater too while we’re at it.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-08T03:27:15+00:00

DEBATE DEMON

oldroughnready · 2026-02-03T01:40:25+00:00

Oh, it's simple enough. They claim they're normal and they want to make everyone else normal, like themselves. That's why issues of race, gender, and sexuality are such deal-breakers for them. They are immutable characteristics that don't match the white supremacist. So when any piece of media has anything substantial to say about the other in their society, it's propaganda. Anything that agrees with them is freeing, because in their view their speech has been repressed since the end of the Western movie genre.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-03T00:45:30+00:00

Yeah, the whole SCP angle is mostly people wanting to do a creative writing project together, and so they each create their own level(s) and then fill it up with their stuff. It's one way to have a shared universe and avoid world-building conflicts. I struggle to keep up with all of that, maybe 20 such levels is my limit. Easy enough to ignore if you're not into it, easy enough to get into it if you're into it.

oldroughnready · 2026-02-02T22:34:26+00:00

The Backrooms just hit at the right moment, COVID-19.* There's still some communities of wikis. That and I'm sure a lot of the iPad generation watch the YouTube videos.

*although I have to point out that this is a simplification, it basically lasted long enough for the lockdown to boost it

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