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SUPERMAN | 2025 ↪ teaser trailer

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love that the superman trailer doesn't even show you the title of the movie. yea that's right motherfucker you know what this movie is, you'll be in that seat day 1, we don't have to tell you shit

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David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane in Superman (2025) dir. James Gunn

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DAVID CORENSWET as CLARK KENT Superman (2025) dir. James Gunn

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SUPERMAN (2025)

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SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn

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SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn

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my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:

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...I had a guy come in today asking about how to get his kids library cards. I told him. He asked me how hard it would be for them to get them, and I said that all it took was their presence and his government ID.

He told me about how nice the system was here, where it was so easy to get a card; he said that there was a beautiful public library in Beijing that was top of the line and everything, but that the only way to access it was if you were a high ranking government official or a top professor or something. Instead, our library "serves the reader." His kids will be able to take chapter books home at no cost. He'll even be able to get books in Chinese here so that his native language skills don't atrophy.

I didn't even really know what to say, so I told him how to ask us to buy books for him that we don't already have so that he can still read them at no extra cost. I don't know how to shore up what it must feel like to know that there are books out there you can't read; I've always grown up with a good library nearby. It reminded me of working in my old library, though, where families who spoke Spanish were startled to find out we took any government ID with a formal address in town— even foreign IDs— so that their kids could get access to all of our titles in all the languages we offered.

Ah. Anyway, I hope you check out a library book with this thought in mind. I checked out the first volume of YJ98 today with that thought in mind. I didn't have to pay anything. I put it on hold, and there it was.

Edit: for those who struggle with reading comprehension; no, this patron interaction is not meant to represent the status of the Chinese public library system at large nor the country of China itself; this was my response to a random Chinese immigrant dad's anecdotal concerns as he expressed them to me, because the whole breadth of concern I'm responsible for while on desk starts and ends at recommending which library services would fulfill his needs. If you think he misunderstood or was lying about the status of public libraries in China, that isn't something I'm charged to verify before writing my thoughts and feelings about the patron interactions I was exposed through throughout my day. Expecting anything else is absurd.

Edit edit: Also, your library may not actually use Libby as the distribution method for their ebook collection. The best way to find out about how to access your library's ebook collection is to call them directly.

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y'all there's a lot to conspiracize about in this particular case but have you ever read a tech bro's papers? attempted to grade a comp sci major's American Politics 101 essays? that piece of writing is incredibly on brand for someone like Luigi and everyone who thinks otherwise is very fortunate to not interact with them on a regular basis.

I really think we should just acknowledge that the statistical probability is that a) yeah he absolutely did it and b) what's actually going on is a bad attempt to construct parallel explanations for how the police actually caught him. Specifically in order to avoid explaining that they used advanced surveillance state infrastructure that's probably not legal to do it

To everybody claiming that luigi mangione really is the guy.

This is the manifesto the cops say they found

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

like "ohh yeah we got our guy, he was holding the murder weapon, a manifesto that says "Hey feds! I did that crime and did it with this gun!! this is because the US has the most expensive healthcare but we don't even live as long as some other countries? and its the fault of the american public who I hate!" anne 10 grand! is obvious that this is our guy, and he's just a low down criminal who hates your! the american public"

also if they did find him with that why would he respond to their arrest with immediate legal defense rather than dignified resignation like the manifesto implies.

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sometimes you’re normal and sometimes you realize you’ve memorized “i didn’t have the right to call you back” “the right? i’d die for you, bruce” and “you know i’d rather lose both arms than you” and “i was robin. i had to save him” and “the only time i’ve ever felt pride is when i look at nightwing. sometimes i think he’s the only thing i ever did right” and “i miss those days. for that it’s hard to be around him” and “i’ve gone through hell with him and because of him. don’t lecture me about him until you’ve cared for him and loved him as long as i have” and “the early years. i’ve forgotten if… they were good for you, weren’t they?” “the best” and “why didn’t you ever try to adopt me?”

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fuck/marry/kill father son holy spirit

That's one guy, you fucking shit

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how my life is going right now: sipping wine out of a big mug while I write letters to the local fire marshal at midnight

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since we’re apparently getting a live-action remake of Tangled (which....why, but that’s a different issue altogether), I have an idea for how Disney can go about making a movie that is recognizably Tangled but is still its own movie and its own take on the Rapunzel story

concept: the story gets restructured around a dual Lost Princess of the Sun Kingdom/Lost Prince of the Dark Kingdom narrative. The opening narration by Eugene remains, but gets revamped to include the Sundrop/Moonstone backstory and the Fall of the Dark Kingdom in addition to the story of the magic flower and Rapunzel’s birth:

Gothel, of course, would be further contextualized as one of Lord Demanitus’s allies in the fight against Zhan Tiri, who found the Sundrop!Flower and decided to hoard its powers for herself rather than use it to help Demanitus or re-summon Zhan Tiri:

Baby!Eugene and Baby!Rapunzel are explicitly paralleled with each other as a child given away and a child stolen away, and the lanterns get to be a symbol of both characters re-discovering themselves and where they come from (and if you wanted to include or reference Cassandra, she could be contrasted to the both of them as a “child left behind”). You know from the very start that Rapunzel is the Lost Princess, but the movie would attempt to keep you guessing about whether Flynn is actually Prince Eugene or not by sprinkling in hints throughout the movie and then finally revealing his identity at the end.

Rapunzel and Eugene would also meet a little more traditionally than they did in Tangled, with the 'Rapunzel, let down your hair!' motif and multiple meetings at the tower being played straight before she asks him to take her to see the lanterns, and then you get the same basic plot as the movie from there.

From that premise, you can pretty easily mix and match plot/character elements from Tangled, Tangled: The Series, and the varying iterations of the Rapunzel fairy tale to make something genuinely interesting and not....well, a repeat of Beauty and the Beast (2017)'s shot-for-shot recreation.

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Being in a fandom for 20+ years is weird because you’ll see posts like, “How come I never see people mention x” and it’s like. We did. We talked about that a lot, actually. Actually it’s something that came up. And it’s hard not to be like, “Yeah, we discussed this fifteen years ago.” Half of this fandom wasn’t even born when these discussions happened. Wild.