Reposted by Lady HoratiaLeonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation" 71356449
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"We have so removed, and detached, sex from any semblance of the natural in our media that it has now become common to talk about the “unnecessary sex scene”." #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and the Denaturalization of SexDid you know that Deadpool and Wolverine had sex in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’? 021
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"It is not news that the Empire in Star Wars is fascist. George Lucas modeled the empire after the Nazis, not only in its design and terminology but also in its ideology and function." #Andor #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Andor’ and Fighting FascismThe fight against fascism is never-ending 131
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The fact that this movie has survived likely has much to do with [James] Gunn, whose involvement in producing and co-writing the story seems to have been downplayed to not stoke the right wing fanatics who attack him with glee." #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comCoyote Vs. Acme: We Are All SisyphusOne can imagine Wile E. Coyote happy 031
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"...Do we want to stop believing in love and compassion? Have we become so burned by the world that we have forgotten what drives our passions, what animates our humanity?" #film medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comFrom ‘Birth of a Nation’ to ‘Intolerance’ and Believing in LoveWhat did D.W. Griffith believe in? 021
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"If...there is nothing outside the text, then what are we to do with the real harm [D.W.] Griffith unleashed into the world?" #movies #Medium #society medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comFrom ‘Birth of a Nation’ to ‘Intolerance’ and Believing in LoveWhat did D.W. Griffith believe in? 041
Reposted by Lady Horatiasarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026if i ever became a film professor one of my white whales is a reverse-chronological film history lesson plan. i think starting from the present and working our way backwards would be EXPONENTIALLY friendlier to contemporary film novice undergrads than making them watch DW Griffith in week one 51008
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"...sinners are not humans. In becoming sinners they have been ontologically recalibrated and redefined as sinners, an epistemic category which sets them outside the confines of sympathy or empathy." #books #movies #religion medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comDante’s ‘Inferno’ — Hell Isn’t a Place, It’s A ProcessOne which produces and reproduces sinners 021
Reposted by Lady HoratiaA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"The evidence shows that unhoused people are in grave and persistent danger from the punitive systems of neglect we fund and support. And yet it is unhoused people who are understood to be the danger…to us. I think a lot of us do not believe they are people." www.the-reframe.com/jordan-neely...the-reframe.comJordan Neely Was a PersonOne Nation Under Fear - Part 1 2656115
Reposted by Lady HoratiaA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058482036
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Can a film that has removed from the frame almost everything by which the genre is usually recognized be called cyberpunk? And even if the answer is yes, do we deserve such cyberpunk?" #movies #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comMud Instead of Neon: ‘Hard to Be a God’ as CyberpunkFrozen eternity, a god whose power makes no history, and the medieval present we deserve 021
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"[Emily] Wilson begins her review by pointing out the fundamental nature of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ which most of us forget — it is already an adaptation." #movies #ChristopherNolan medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comNolan’s ‘Odyssey’ — A Response to Emily Wilson’s Review of the FilmTell me about a complicated film 041
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Because The Ugly Monster's writers are GODLIKE, we now have 15,000 followers on Medium. Now read this think piece about The Odyssey. #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘The Odyssey’ and Bourgeois SubjectivityIf Spartacus is the story of ancient proletarian revolutionaries, then Homer’s The Odyssey is the founding myth of the bourgeois 033
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"Art doesn’t have an obligation to anyone, whether that be the artist or the audience. Why do we expect it to now have an obligation to us?" #movies #Medium #TheOdyssey medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comNolan’s ‘Odyssey’ — A Response to Emily Wilson’s Review of the FilmTell me about a complicated film 042
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"Nolan is injecting mystery and humanism back into faith. The beauty of faith is that you cannot epistemically know if it is true. But faith becomes real when it is lived, breathed, felt, and in some cases, yes, seen." #TheOdyssey #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comNolan’s ‘Odyssey’ — A Response to Emily Wilson’s Review of the FilmTell me about a complicated film 032
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"What does The Odyssey tell us about the wealthy? It portrays them as a solipsistic group that maintains power through lies and brute force." #movies #Medium #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘The Odyssey’ and Bourgeois SubjectivityIf Spartacus is the story of ancient proletarian revolutionaries, then Homer’s The Odyssey is the founding myth of the bourgeois 041
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Due to Marx’s praise, Marxists — especially orthodox Marxists — would take Spartacus’s name and story as a symbol of a heroic revolutionary proletariat." #movies #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comThe Radical Political Origins of ‘Spartacus’The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s ancient epic 011
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Rick thought he would eventually break free of the cycle by embracing evolution. Morty thought he could free himself from evolution with individual enlightenment. Instead they were both wrong. Community is what freed them." #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Rick and Morty’ — Let Evolution DieThe philosophy of the latest season of ‘Rick and Morty’ 031
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"As any description of Spartacus will tell you, the historical record has only a few lines about him, which has led historians to speculate that the Romans were embarrassed by the incident." #movies #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comThe Radical Political Origins of ‘Spartacus’The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s ancient epic 032
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"...the newly elected President John F. Kennedy made a political spectacle of crossing the American Legion picket line at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. on February 3, 1961, effectively ending the Hollywood Blacklist." #film #Medium #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comThe Radical Political Origins of ‘Spartacus’The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s ancient epic 031
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Fans who engage in Database Consumption...do not engage with the media to draw literary meaning from the text. Rather, their engagement is purely consumptive in nature." #RickAndMorty #philosophy #Medium medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Rick and Morty’ — Let Evolution DieThe philosophy of the latest season of ‘Rick and Morty’ 031
Reposted by Lady Horatiaopen borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 23/07/2026means testing is economically and administratively inefficient, but more importantly, *it is morally reprehensible* 38734
Reposted by Lady Horatiajourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 23/07/2026feels like the worst time in history to finally feel happy being alive 522025
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026"What’s changed between Terminator 2 and One Battle? Exit: cyberpunk dystopian horror. Enter: the hyperreal thriller. What was once a nightmarish vision of the future is taken for granted, caricatured, and treated as more real than reality." #NoPaywall medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comTerminator vs. One Battle After Another — “What Happens When the Past Invades the Present?”T2 and One Battle After Another are thematically similar but diverge on the question of Time 021
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026"Can you really find Zen when you don’t have a roof to sleep under? Can you accept the loose transience of things when you don’t even have a morsel of food to eat?" #Japan #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Perfect Days’ — Do shadows get darker if they overlap?Within the dialectic between shadows and their cause, the unhoused engage 141
Reposted by Lady HoratiaMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10746505120335
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 05/07/2026"In a society where every act of creation must be commodified as a method of financial survival, the removal of art from a product of consumption becomes increasingly difficult." #politics #propaganda #capitalism medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comWTF is Art?Art, Propaganda and the curious definition superposition 031
Lady Horatia @mediumacolyte.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I wrote a piece about Luis Buñuel's film The Exterminating Angel and how it is more relevant to our present day than you might think. #movies #politics #mexico #italy #film #philosophy 010
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 03/07/2026"Monstrous fathers abusing children have become a common way to reimagine novels. Conspiratorial thinking is on the rise, and films reflect it back to audiences..." #NoPaywall #film #culture medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comTerminator vs. One Battle After Another — “What Happens When the Past Invades the Present?”T2 and One Battle After Another are thematically similar but diverge on the question of Time 011
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 20/06/2026"The attack on Nul Hutta lets us draw parallels between the New Republic of the Star Wars universe, and the real (purported) American republic." #politics #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ and the Legacy of Star WarsThe latest Star Wars film is in line with the tradition set out by George Lucas in his 1977 classic 021
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"Jayce and Viktor justify the use of magic by saying that it could save countless lives. And yet when the magic system is finally implemented it is reserved for Piltover, and consequently the wealthy elite." #fantasy #politics #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Arcane’ and the Myth of ProgressWe like to imagine progress as a perpetual social benefit, but is it really? 011
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"‘I Saw the TV Glow’ is a tragedy through and through. I knew it from the start. From the very second that the film began crackling onto my screen I knew what was coming." #GiftArticle #queer #horror medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘I Saw the TV Glow’ and Being Trans“There is still time” was written in chalk on the street. Is this true? 151
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"The structural forces of American culture breed and induce violence." #horror #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Christine’: The Violence of PossessionPossession makes you paranoic, and paranoia makes you violent 041
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Are you a writer on #Medium? Do you love movies and games and comics and books and stuff, but HATE AI slop? If so, come and write for The Ugly Monster. medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.comHow to Write for the Ugly Monster…and not get rejected 022
Reposted by Lady HoratiaDarci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.social · 10/05/2026as true today as when it was written 734121032
Reposted by Lady HoratiaAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Sometimes you can’t think of anything good to write, and that’s a perfectly normal thing a lot of writers struggle with. It just means you committed a great sin and displeased The Lord. It means He has punished you by cutting you off from The Source 328964
Reposted by Lady HoratiaGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13/04/2026This happened years ago with the death of Jeff Lockhart, and it should have led to the dismantling of this juggernaut of reckless corporate greed 017151
Reposted by Lady HoratiaAdam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 03/04/2026You don't really want this. So much of TV is changed and discovered in the process. No master plan survives 13 eps of production. Your actors' abilities and chemistry opens up story paths you never imagined. Other ideas sink like a lead balloon. Master plans are overrated. 661251165
Reposted by Lady HoratiaBig Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026This isn’t some kind of anti parent remark, by the way. It’s just interesting that everyone who has a kid essentially becomes a charity dedicated to one person, such that broader ideas of social goods are easier to dismiss and personal fortunes can be more easily justified 1046212
Reposted by Lady HoratiaDaniel Clark @danlovatclark.bsky.social · 05/04/2026A good editor is the perfect combination of ruthless and kind. Professionalism is the ability to recognize that writer and editor are on the same team, and that means honesty. 0299
Reposted by Lady Horatiasarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 20/03/2026it's very frustrating to see everyone hopping on the "national debt" discourse in complete sincerity. buddy we are still "paying off" debt from the civil war. national economies are not your household budget PLEASE stop falling for bush era propaganda that wasn't even that convincing in 2004 1392
Reposted by Lady Horatiasarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 20/03/2026public services don't need to turn a profit because they're owned by the entity that invents the money. same goes for medicare/medicaid, and should go for all healthcare, higher education, housing and transit. we do not need to attach profit-seeking a parasite to every exchange of human resources!!! 318394
Lady Horatia @mediumacolyte.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I wrote an article about why I think the Top Gun franchise functions as propaganda for American imperialism. #politics #movies #america #film 011
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 15/03/2026"Colonialism, and by extension imperialism, function in the same way as fascism — a successor to the former. That is, they rely on the destruction of the other’s will and consent." #Oscars #Avatar #GiftArticle medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ and the Nature of Colonial ViolenceJames Cameron abandons all nuance for revolutionary fervour 011
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026"Richard Linklater’s semi-rotoscoped animated film about a ten-and-a-half-year-old going to space captures the essence of coming-of-age..." #movies #Medium medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and the Nature of Coming of AgeRichard Linklater shows us that we are not alone when we grow up 011
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026"According to some calculations the embargo has cost Cuba around $130 billion since its inception." #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘Adiós Cuba’: Why Do Cubans Leave Cuba?‘Adiós Cuba’ sheds some light on history’s most misunderstood migration 011
Reposted by Lady HoratiaThe Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026"It is no mystery that capitalism frequently subsumes revolution; the reasons, processes, and nature of it are well understood." #Oscars #movies medium.com/theuglymonst...medium.com‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Eddington’ and the Neo-Silent Cinema of the 2020sSilence can be both loud and inspire revolution, or quiet and inspire complicity 021