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"And, it’s like, be serious y’all. This is an important moment. We don’t have time for the memes. Yet, I engaged with the memes, especially the ones by dudes who posted videos where their friends teased them about looking just like the one person accused of being The Adjuster."

I wrote a longer version of a personal post.

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"Those with the most to lose invariably collaborate with an enemy, and those with the least to lose are the heroes, the ones who make the choice to fight back. It’s never as black and white as that, it’s never completely binary. But in this case, it’s the districts and areas of Chicago that are more on the margins of society, are less economically vibrant, that become the hotbeds of militancy. I think that’s looking to play to the truth. "— Rupert Wyatt

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"Those with the most to lose invariably collaborate with an enemy, and those with the least to lose are the heroes, the ones who make the choice to fight back. It’s never as black and white as that, it’s never completely binary. But in this case, it’s the districts and areas of Chicago that are more on the margins of society, are less economically vibrant, that become the hotbeds of militancy. I think that’s looking to play to the truth. "— Rupert Wyatt

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"Those with the most to lose invariably collaborate with an enemy, and those with the least to lose are the heroes, the ones who make the choice to fight back. It’s never as black and white as that, it’s never completely binary. But in this case, it’s the districts and areas of Chicago that are more on the margins of society, are less economically vibrant, that become the hotbeds of militancy. I think that’s looking to play to the truth. "— Rupert Wyatt

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"In their desire to reflect the community body of Wicker Park and Pilsen, Wyatt and Beeney split Captive State’s narrative between the story of a traditional protagonist/antagonist (Gabriel and Mulligan) and a hyperlink narrative."

The second part of my We Gotta Talk About series, published after four years of editing. Enjoy.

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"Complimenting this film on its visual direction is something akin to Aretha Franklin's indifference about Taylor Swift. “The Rise of Skywalker” has a lot of pretty trappings, but no voice to carry that forward."

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Et lux in tenebris servire.

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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

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"The pretense of Disney’s “progressive” steps forward with diversity remained something worth questioning as it was sequestered to the Expanded Universe or outright avoided."

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"John Boyega was portraying the redshirt of the Star Wars franchise. What was there to get excited about? Even knowing Abrams's pretension for trolling (misdirection), I figured that he would be a disposal character."

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Audio Reviews

I planned on doing this regardless, but would anyone who works on video essays, or podcasts be interested in hearing me audio-fy my letterboxd reviews?

I'm trying to get comfortable with speaking into a mic without having an anxiety attack, and I'd love some feedback. I know the confidence thing will probably happen over time.

Thank you for your time!

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When you start to hyperfocus on particular trends in mainstream film, it tends to feel like it's everywhere and permeates online discourse. Black-helmed films about Police Brutality and anti-blackness are one such subject.

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"The new dark money: How influencers get paid big bucks to court your vote"

"Critics say that the lack of transparency in the hottest new sector of political advertising could be abused by political groups to manipulate public opinion, and that federal election rules have failed to keep pace with the ways social media has transformed campaigning."

Remember that swathe of users on TikTok and Twitter that harassed a non-binary socialist (Madeline Pendelton) because they disclosed influencers were being paid to promote Harris and the Dems, but not telling their user base? Remember how they started calling them antiblack because they told (Dem supporter) Elizabeth Booker Houston that they thought all Democrats were vile for supporting genocide deniers?

This is what drove that harassment campaign and the following campaigns, which decry others (supporting Palestine, or defending the Arab American community for not backing Harris/Walz) as antiblack for not supporting Harris.

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My first piece for @superjumpmag covers the 2019 release of @SuperMGames's 'Man of Medan', based on the myth of the SS Ourang Medan, a ghost ship from the early twentieth century.

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"However different these movies are, del Toro set the bar high when for fight choreography, visuals, and characterization of either monster or human in Pacific Rim. Godzilla doesn’t scratch that surface."

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According to antiwar veteran Greg J. Stoker, the occupation intends to target and kill Al Jazeera's remaining (?) six reporters on the ground in Gaza, Palestine.

Their propaganda offices have cooked up some wild fanfiction about all of them working for the resistance, right down to fictional positions within the group.

I hope the journalist community never knows a day of peace fornwhat they allowed to happen to their contemporaries.

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According to antiwar veteran Greg J. Stoker, the occupation intends to target and kill Al Jazeera's remaining (?) six reporters on the ground in Gaza, Palestine.

Their propaganda offices have cooked up some wild fanfiction about all of them working for the resistance, right down to fictional positions within the groups.

I hope the global and Western journalist community never knows a day of peace for what they've allowed to happen to their contemporaries. Not a single day of peace.