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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

I will never stop buying blu-rays/4Ks. : | Well...as long as they'll let me, anyways. (This is why I bit the bullet and paid through the ass for the STRANGERS THINGS super-box set from ARROW...who knows when they'll ever do something like this again?)

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

This is why I buy blu-rays. Glad I got all 4 seasons of WESTWORLD...it's a DAMN GOOD, and DAMN GOOD LOOKING, show!

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

I really love Clive Barker, but I can only do the first 2 HELLRAISER MOVIES (HELLRAISER 2 is actually underappreciated to me...I love how AMBITIOUS it is in how it scales up the mythology and it's WILD visuals), though I can sort of fuck with BLOODLINES, which has good ideas if not a great execution

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

It still had the Easter Eggs and the overall beats and tropes of the mythology, but the mandate of this show seems to have been, "How do we make John Stewart THE Green Lantern and not A Green Lantern?" And in that...they were wholly successful. And they did it in a canny, mature, and poignant way.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

While a lot of these Marvel and DC movies and shows do change things out of necessity in the adaptation process, I think comics fans (like myself) sort of expect things we know to be remixed and regurgitated back to us...we crave the same, familiar, stories. LANTERNS truly did it's own thing.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of thought and care went into crafting this show...more than I think comic fans are probably used to. I've seen a lot of the theories and stuff, and most of them were pulling stuff from the comics and how the could use that to bring Jordan back or to make him the big bad, etc.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

I also like that this version of John Stewart isn't just another soldier in another corp...that he's managed to carve out his own place in this world and become his own thing. It gives him a significance that he could never really have in the comics, because there he's just ANOTHER Green Lantern.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

...better man. "Don't be afraid to be afraid." is a REALLY good line, and I like that it comes from the best version of Hal Jordan, and it frees John from the things that have been weighing him down, and allows him to let go himself, and forgive Hal...and his family.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

While the show did offer up a good character study of this version of Hal Jordan, as a prideful man who could not let go of anything, it's really a character study and rather COMPLETE origin for this version of John Stewart, who undergoes an extreme life and ends knowing himself and being a...

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 6h

I liked the ending of LANTERNS. I like that it didn't end in another superhero punch up...I feel like there is novelty in that. It's not like the show was ever lacking in action, and we already got a big 3rd act spectacle two episodes ago. I like that this ends with catharsis to the drama.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 8h

"For me, it's been a great honor to attempt to destroy a bunch of movies, create nothing, oversee the end of a 100 years of great filmmaking, and then collect a big fucking exit bonus to throw on my Smaug like money horde. DEUSES, BITCHES!" Fuck this guy.

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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lesbians can never just say "I love you."

Toregene and Sitara looking into each others eyes in the night while Toregene says "Let the two of us summon a storm."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 16h

I don't have many hills I will die on, but one of them is that comic book companies have to stop ceding publishing territory to third parties and letting them taking over that space WHEN YOU COULD CONTROL IT YOURSELF! Yes, this is about Marvel turning its digital comics stuff over to WebToons.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't wait until the real estate billionaires start fighting the tech billionaires. Because why do we need offices if we're all supposed to be out of work and replaced by AI within half a decade according to these ghouls?

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @office-anomaly.bsky.social · 16h

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portrait of thorn from the hex girls with traditional goth makeup around the eyes and snake bite piercings on the lower lip

portrait of luna from the hex girls with traditional goth makeup around the eyes and a septum piercing

portrait of dusk from the hex girls with traditional goth makeup around the eyes and an earl/bridge piercing

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15h

Any Democrat who says something like this is likely corrupt himself and should be investigated.

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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 13h

It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers.

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Sheephin (Commissions Open!) @sheepshin.bsky.social · 10h

RIP and TEAR until it's DONE

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 13h

The Batman who Laughs. Water soluble ink and an aquabrush

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Mark Lambert (Now on VGen) @remanance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finished my spooky Rosalina

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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22h

"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero." via Amazing Maps

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 10h

This was the best part of an otherwise terrible movie. This really scarred me as a kid. I saw only THIS PART while visiting family in Ohio, and for the longest time thought it was just a nightmare I had. SURELY no SUPERMAN movie would be this HEINOUS, thought I.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 12h

My friend shared this t-shirt and I was inspired

Xiaoling Chavez from Dark Science wearing a t-shirt that reads "Born to be a Baby Girl, forced to be a Big Dog"

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 18h

This is one of my all time.e favorire GREEN LANTERN stories. Just...a great little sci-fi story, low stakes, with a high concept. Great stuff!

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah...that waa scary. Especially the one that was made of elephant heads like a Transformer gestalt.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm SO GLAD I got the DVD of this show when it was released YEARS ago. What a charming experiment, combining European and Japanese visual and storytelling aesthetics to create a wonderfully imaginative original series. I wish more people had seen this when it was on.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

...for his big triumph to be to win at a game no one really cares about, with no stakes, and nothing to gain, beyond his own satisfaction that he's really good at table tennis, and sacrificing EVERYTHING he stood to gain to do it. It's like...an ANTI-arc, and there is a novelty in that that I like.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was just something really bold and refreshing about watching a selfish, grandiose, dickhead constantly dig himself into holes, only to climb out and dig a deeper hole, and learn almost NOTHING from the suffering he inflicts on himself and others, burning every bridge for his ambitions...

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

...as something that never really slows down for very long, moving from increasingly absurd Schadenfraude debacle to the next, each becoming more violent and disastrous as the stakes become higher and higher, and in the end...our 'hero's' big arc is that he becomes and only SLIGHTLY better person.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I watched this with my parents not really knowing what it was about (I had seen a bunch of hype, but sort of dismissed it because I just don't really fuck with Chalamet that much) and we were ALL blown away. Much like you, I could not say what I think the film was about, but it WAS captivating...

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What's disappointing and awkward about the film is the way it dances around any hint of queerness...it doesn't banish it, but it's quite tentative and AFRAID of it. But I suppose this is a product of it's time, when even just putting Brad Pitt's face CLOSE to Antonia Banderas' face was bold.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, this fucks. I'm still find Brad Pitt underwhelming (tho very pretty) and Tom Cruise DOES give it his all, but is ultimately miscast as Lestat...not nearly as charming or as disarmingly funny as he should be, but he's TRYING really hard. Mostly the film is BEAUTIFUL. Like...exquisite.

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🄼🄰🅈🄺🄾 | COMMS OPEN! @maykosharko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

another fem wolverine drawing #art #wolverine

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is what I was talking about earlier...this weird media push calling understanding and forgiveness for people that have spent the last DECADE focused on...EVERYTHING AROUND US. And now they feel it slipping away, and they're like, "This division is killing us! Reach out in kindness!" Fuck off.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember seeing WORZEL GUMMIDGE a few times very early on in the existence of YTV while at a neighbor's house in town (we didn't have cable/satellite until I was in my teens so I would RAVENOUSLY devour TV at other people's houses), and...WHY WAS THIS FOR KIDS!?! It wasn't charming at ALL. ^__^;;

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I really want a 4K of RETURN TO OZ. This is such a DEEPLY FUCKED UP film that scared the SHIT out of me as a kid, and it's fucking GREAT. >___<

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, LOTS of things. I was terrified of the Red Bull from THE LAST UNICORN, and that big Rat from THE SECRET OF NIMH. I saw both JAWS and PET SEMATARY far to young. The VHS cover of GHOULIES haunted me. The one time I heard the DOCTOR WHO theme song...lots of stuff.

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Samuel Agro @samuelagro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

INKTOBER Day 4: Another portrait of the cast of Big Trouble in Little China. Gracie Law, as portrayed by Kim Cattrall. Ink and ink wash on Strathmore Mixed Media card. 6x8 inches.

Gracie Law from Big Trouble in Little China standing in front of a wall at the restaurant from the movie.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This looks really great...I don't think I've ever heard of it. Looking it up...it did get an English dub and DVD release in 2003, but it was through ANIME WORKS, (which is now MEDIA BLASTERS, I think?) so I guess I missed this one. I was mostly getting ADV, FUNIMATION, GENEON, and BANDAI then.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026

It is a very big risk to pin all your hopes for the future on elections in a time when an increasingly powerful and reactionary ruling class is backing far-right candidates with everything they've got. Let's organize so we can keep fighting no matter how the elections go. crimethinc.com/Brazil2026

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd also say that she's the most interesting character in the film...but that could just be partially because she performs it all with such gusto and maturity. But it IS really juicy stuff...a child who becomes an adult but can never become a woman, and how that torments her.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The most impressive performance of this film is Kirsten Dunst as Claudia. God DAMN! I'll actually give this to Tom Cruise...he's better in scenes with Dunst than he is in scenes with Pitt. He's putting more in and getting more out of scenes with her.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But everything else is pretty exquisite and the scale of the production is impressive. This isn't being treated as a small film...it's grand in it's ambition and scale. Prestige Horror is a rare thing, and this is one of those rare instances of it.

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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...and things have change a LOT in 30 years, and I recall liking this film as a teenager when these two guys were considered PEAK performers, and I just don't think you'd play it this way now. It's not really fair to compare the two, either, because the TV show gets to be far more decompressed.

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