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TV, Bee and Puppycat, Netflix

Netflix’s ‘Bee and Puppycat’ Release Date and Trailer

Official banner for Bee and Puppycat reboot
My god, remember Bee and Puppycat? It feels like forever since we've gotten anything related to this franchise, but now, we're finally being blessed by the animation gods.
Big on the Internet, Christopher Columbus, cultural appropriation, diet culture, food, tiktok, xenophobia

TikTok is Speedrunning Appropriation This Summer in The Name of Clean Eating

Columbus outline (with TikTok logo inside him) pointing towards Agua Frescas. Image: Alyssa Shotwell and Eric Heath. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aguas_frescas_%282355553895%29.jpg
Because these rapidly occurring "trends" are acting as just cultural gentrification, a lot of the same patterns pop up.
TV, Armie Hammer, House of Hammer, The Hammer Family

So UHH … The ‘House of Hammer’ Armie Hammer Docuseries Trailer, Huh?

House of Hammer trailer
Watching the series and seeing those that Hammer allegedly sent those messages to will, hopefully, shed a new light on this story as a whole.
TV, What We Do In The Shadows

Laszlo and Nadja’s ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Wedding Song Is a Bop

Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, and Kayvan Novak in 'What We Do in the Shadows'
I can already see me asking Matt Berry and Natasia Demetriou to come and sing it at my future wedding. Mainly because I cannot get it out of my head no matter how hard I try and I'm not exactly mad about it.
TV, Elon Musk, fan art, Giancarlo Esposito, MPAA, Nova & Mali, Our Flag Means Death, Serena Williams, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Gets Queer Fan Art Zine From Nova & Mali

Kayley Ceniceros' (a.k.a. Comet) art contribution to As a Crew (an Our Flag Means Death Digital fan Zine.) Image: Kayley Ceniceros and Nova & Mali.
From the team behind Classics... But Make It Gay (and its sequel) comes a limited-edition, collaborative digital fan zine dedicated to our favorite queer pirate show, Our Flag Means Death.
Gaming, Forspoken

The Dialogue in the ‘Forspoken’ Trailer Is Already a Meme—But Is It That Bad?

forspoken trailer becoming memed
Square Enix's 'Forspoken' was delayed once and a teaser trailer featured some dialogue that many cited as "Whedon-like" causing more faith in the game to drop.
Movies, Horror, horror movies, vampires

The 9 Best Vampire Movies, Ranked

amy in Fright Night
The allure of the vampire isn’t a new concept. Some of us have been thirsting after vampires for ages (hint, by "some," I mean me). So, here's a list of some of my favorite vampire flicks.
Movies, Adam Scott, Madame Web

I Am Screaming Over ‘Madame Web’ Set Pics of Dakota Johnson and Adam Scott

adam scott as ben wyatt loml
If nothing else, I just deserve Adam Scott and Spider-Man together and so I will continue to scream about this movie I know very little about.
TV, A League of Their Own, A League of Their Own (Amazon Series), Abbi Jacobson

Amazon’s ‘A League of Their Own’ Is a Thrilling, Essential Reboot

Abbi Jacobson, Rae Gray, D'Arcy Carden, and Melanie Field in Amazon's 'A League of Their Own'.
A League of Their Own simply knocks it out of the park, and the results are heartwarming to watch.
Big on the Internet, crimes, donald trump, fifth amendment, Legal Rights

Donald Trump Finally Showed Up for His New York Deposition & Gave Us Nothing

Donald Trump adjusts a microphone and glares from a podium.
Donald Trump finally showed up to give his deposition in the NY attorney general’s investigation but chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
Gaming, Tower of Fantasy, video games

Here Are All of the ‘Tower of Fantasy’ Characters

Steam image for Hotta Studio's Tower of Fantasy
If you've been waiting to scratch your Genshin Impact itch, but with buddies to help scratch it with you, then today is a good day for you, indeed.
Gaming, gaming, Tower of Fantasy, video games

10 Features ‘Tower of Fantasy’ Has That ‘Genshin Impact’ Needs

In-game multiplayer segment in Tower of Fantasy
Genshin Impact offers so many incredible features. But here are some highlights that its competitor, Tower of Fantasy, offers over miHoYo's open-world ARPG.
Movies, Nic Cage, Nicolas Cage, rankings

All Nic Cage Movies Are the Best Nic Cage Movies but Let’s Try and Rank Some

Nic Cage in Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Yeah, I did it. I ranked Nic Cage movies. Will I ever recover? OR will I crawl on a desk and say "I'm a cat" like Abed in 'Community'? Who is to say?
Movies, Pac-Man, Pac-Man (movie), video game movies

Live-Action Pac-Man Movie in Development from Bandai Namco and Wayfare

pac-man
Pac-Man, originally called Puck-Man in Japan, hit the scene in 1980, and quickly became a massively successful and iconic arcade staple. But
Movies, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, The Menu

The New Trailer for ‘The Menu’ Serves up the Rich

Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy in 'The Menu'.
The tense trailer features elements of The Most Dangerous Game, Ready or Not and Fresh.
TV, Amy Pond, Doctor Who, Karen Gillan

Are Amy Pond and Rory Williams Coming Back for the ‘Doctor Who’ 60th Anniversary Special?

Amy Pond, the Doctor, and Rory Williams laughing together
Nothing is confirmed and this is all just speculation but man do I deserve a chance at seeing Amy, Rory, and the Doctor all together again.
Anime, anime, berserk, cowboy beebop, CrunchyRoll, Death Note, fate/zero, Kill la Kill, mononoke, Samurai Champloo, Trigun

The Best Anime to Watch on Crunchyroll

Celebrating One Piece
What a task. This is CRUNCHYROLL for crying out loud. This streaming service has ALL. THE. ANIME. EVER.
News, abortion, abortion bans, Post-Roe

Nebraska Teen & Her Mother Are Being Prosecuted for Alleged Abortion, Thanks To the Help of Facebook

Pro-choice activists protest during a rally
Police have arrested a Nebraska teenager and her mother after seeing Facebook messages discussing teen's alleged self-medicated abortion.
Gaming, Hades, indie games, queer shipping, shipping, Supergiant Games

Have We Talked About How Fantastic the Ships Are in ‘Hades?’ We Have? Cool, Let’s Do It Again

Hades lets Zagreus have two partners
One of the best things about Supergiant Games' Hades is its characters and the relationships between everyone in the game.
Movies, Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC Entertainment, DCEU, Warner Bros.

DC Films Boss Walter Hamada Reportedly Planned for Crisis on Infinite Earths in the DCEU

The Justice League of the DCEU.
It's anyone's guess how this will all coalesce into a 10 year plan, and whether an interconnected DCEU is on the horizon.
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