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And You Thought It Was Safe(?)

@aytiws.bsky.social
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A writer of fiction, like yourself...And occasional movie & video game reviews. | www.youtube.com/c/Aytiws | Portland, OR, USA, C-53.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 16h
We used to give serious answers to, instead of raising serious questions about, fascists
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Autumn Warhammer Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 16h
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Wesley in the Willows @earthpigjohnson.bsky.social · 16h
I was born here in the city With my back against the wall Nothing grows, and life ain’t very pretty No one’s there to catch you when you fall.
In the Hills, the Cities art by John Bolton
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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 17h
Frank Herbert supposedly saying “we don’t need AI, we need witches”. It’s a Dune joke, son.
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 17h
Logging in
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nothing but respect for my MANTIS/Martin Manhunter
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The US just is Russia in the 90s now & we'll cut our tongues out before we admit it.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Alex Niccol's critics, 1997-2011: "You have to stop. Your allegories too clunky. Your metaphors too on-the-nose. Your bitches too bad. They'll make you do a Stephanie Meyer adaptation."
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Phantom Tollbooth — Chuck Jones (producer & co-director), 1970
A cel from an animated film showing a boy named Milo standing in front of a booth that says "Words for Sale." 
The Man inside the booth  says 
"You, young man! How about a nice bag full of pronouns?"
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Chad Denton @reluctantlychad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Have you seen the 19th century Japanese illustrated history of the United States with among other things George Washington brawling with a tiger? www.openculture.com/2018/11/a-ja...
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A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861): Features George Washington Punching Tigers, John Adams Slaying Snakes & Other Fantastic Scenes
'George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America' Though I'm American myself, I always learn the most about America when I look outside it.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I had not, so thank you! Now all I want is this anime.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lol - owned
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Zhang Yimou during the filming of HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (2004) Kaneshiro was BOTD in 1973
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And he played it so subtly too
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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What Cage has done for literally the past decade is exactly this, he finds a weird eccentric script by a first time filmmaker, signs on, his name brings in clout, he makes the film, and sometimes it's not very good. But it's still artistic as hell. This is why I *love* Cage.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nothing but respect for my Malekith the Accursed.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness with a GF who had to move back in with her folks 2 hours south after her apartment got sold out from under her & her kid...but at least she's real.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So: you accidentally invented the inhibitor collars that're gonna turn mutants into concentration camp inmates.
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Captain America's Detention with Chris Evans
ALT: Captain America's Detention with Chris Evans
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Zennial Widow (as my roommate named Yelena after we watched the Hawkeye show) remains Best Widow.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah, that's right. Get his ass, MJ.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"I had to let her go. To keep her safe." Which was the opposite of what she told you to do, Spider-ass. Way to violate consent.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh, of course.
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Jean Grey
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"You know, your apartment is kinda like a parody of where you think a sad, single guy in his 20s might live."
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Bruh Swag Reaction
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh, right: new Spider-Man movie. In all the excitement I legitimately forgot. Also, in typical Marvel fashion, everybody ran out, saw it, claimed to love it, & have gone on to never mention it again.
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spider man vulture good ol spiderman
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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes. Inherent in this idea is the capitalist drive to atomise and dehumanise. To 'personalise' in this manner is to de-socialise, to accelerate commodity fetishism, to erase the individual, to strip them of individuality and instead pickle them in a frozen consumer profile where a soul should be.
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🇯🇵 🎃 American Jack-O'Lantern 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 @jinglebellrockstar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
smokin on that shit that made frankenstein the modern prometheus
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 10/10/2026
i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And Nic Cage really is NOT into AI “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company. I am not an AI-friendly actor,” he said. “I didn’t sign the waiver. I’ll probably never work with that studio again.” www.vulture.com/article/nico...
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Nic Cage Pours Gasoline on the True Detective Rumors
But he’ll “probably never work” with Amazon again.
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This sign. Read it.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It all went sideways when we declined to make them our national bird
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 09/10/2026
Leon Kennedy with a speech bubble
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think part of the reason there aren’t a lot of good movies about contemporary American political life is you sound like an idiot if you talk about any of the things happening in American politics outloud. If I heard the word Groyper in a movie I would try to cut my own head off.
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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
-2022- Fascists: We need trannies OUT of society! Dems: No we need to focus on kitchen table issues -2024- Fascists: We need trannies OUT of society! Dems: *stays silent desperately hoping everyone moves on* -2026- Fascists: We need trannies OUT of society! Dems: We agree! Fascists: They DISAGREE!
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's abundantly clear that a lot of people want a permanent subaltern victim class they can abuse and exploit (sexually and otherwise), and are happy for trans people to fill that slot. This particular liberal pathology extends it to electoralism where they want a happy sacrifice to the vote gods
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.
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Pixie Casey @pixiecasey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
carrie being made again and again while christine—a story about an incel who gets possessed by/obsessed with a sentient machine and together they go on to kill everyone they hate—is right there? like hello 🚘
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're all atomized individuals with no political representation & nothing to do all day but work (boring, soul-destroying) or snipe at each other on the internet (occasionally interesting, moreso for some than others). The radioactive decay of this & all other discourses is the inevitable result.
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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Decadence" isn't real, but to some extent 1991-2022 was a bunch of Western countries with nothing better to do scaring themselves like teenagers telling ghost stories around a campfire. The Japan Panic, the GWOT, even to a large extent the immigration "crises" all come out of that. So does this.
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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.
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Charmslot @zaraworkercouncils.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Postmodern nationalism is a common theme in both degenerated anarchist and degenerated Marxist milieus. Internationalism not identification with any ethnic group claiming a landmass is the basis of actual communist principles. Nationalism is a pox. All who practice nationalism stray from anticapital
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🏳️‍⚧️ ⛧ Nɯvꝡɩɛl ⛧ 🏳️‍⚧️ @nuvy-iel.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
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A hand holds up the One Ring (fascist transphobia)

Elrond (leftist) turns to him: Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!

Isildur (liberal): No. The fate of the party shall be bound to that of its transphobes. 

Smeagol (The Party): Why did we lose precious?! Where'd our votes go precious? Waaaaaaaaaaah 😭
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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The sweet, simple pleasure of watching Captain Kirk convince a computer to kill itself
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Kirk Chuckles - Star Trek: The Original Series
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gonna steal that next time somebody tries to lure me into an argument.
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*as I block a scold, in my best Clarence Boddicker voice: "Sayonara, ContentCop!"
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Lets Drink Come On: Man Licks Device
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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We're already desensitized, as long as the violence isn't happening to us. & even then most of the time what most of us do is freeze. As proof, I submit the fact y'all aren't going to do anything about this except post, just like the rest of us.
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