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Oscar Frontrunner Timothée Chalamet Claims 'No One Cares' about Opera - OperaWire Timothee Chalamet has taken a swipe at opera and ballet.

I write this as probably the biggest admirer of his acting on this site:

Say less.

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Thanks to AI-generated movies, the whole world is experiencing what Chinese cinema went through in the 2010s.

Suddenly, a lot of people can make movies. Everyone wants the prestige of cinema, but not everyone has a story to tell. So every creation is a cheap imitation of a Hollywood product :/

Did a new Blu-ray cover… whysoblu.com/cecile-is-de...

Japan’s far-right turn is real, but not in the way you think The Liberal Democratic Party’s absolute majority in the House of Representatives under the leadership of PM Takaichi Sanae, and the 15 seats won by the anti-immigration party Sanseitō, mark another st...

In Japan's ongoing far-right turn, it's ideas and not Diet seats that pose the greatest threat to the nation's democracy.

when he’s strong and fast and also fresh from the fight 🫦

Episode 151: Games Preservation at MIT Museum | Video Game History Foundation From vacuum tubes to virtual worlds, Dr. Flori Pierri, Associate Curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum, joins us to explore their unexpected journey into the world of video game preserva...

This week on the Video Game History Hour: We're joined by @flori-p.bsky.social, Associate Curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum!

Dr. Pierri trained as a natural history curator. So how did they end up working in game preservation? At MIT? The story of their career will surprise you!

a cartoon says that having fun isn't hard when you 've got a library card Alt: a cartoon (Arthur) says that having fun isn't hard when you 've got a library card

📚 VOLUNTEER WANTED 📚

Are you passionate about #VideoGames and #Books❓

The Video Game Library is seeking A COMMITTED VOLUNTEER who can dedicate time each week to help organize and catalogue the growing collection of gaming literature.

👉 If interested, email: TheVideoGameLibrary@hotmail.com

we should all listen to him

a panel from “Monster” showing Tenma confronting Johan.

This duality (relating to our previous thread on the shadow self) invites the reader to view Tenma and Johan as two sides of the same Monster, each moving in different directions, each seeking a name (at least in the metaphorical sense) and each seeking to grow stronger. 6/12

A page from the fictional storybook “The Nameless Monster”

What in a name? Appellation is one of the more intriguing symbols in Naoki Urasawa’s “Monster,” a story that actively explores the lengths that human beings will go to build, protect, absorb, or erase a name and, with it, their place in a society. #monster #urasawa 1/12

The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp

📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

screencap from the above link: I have found this problem fairly endemic to the romcomantasy (eh? eh?) subgenre to which McCallum’s debut belongs. Oh, I am so tired of reading book after book where nobody has ever done a single thing wrong, or, even if they have, it was all a terrible misunderstanding. I cannot bear these characters with personalities as smooth as Ken dolls, who run dear little retail shops in interchangeable Fantasylands and placeless middle Americas, unbothered by problems of inventory or human frailty. I am going to chew right through the bars of my enclosure, and go rampaging all around the countryside, if I am called upon to read one more book where a character’s big secret finally comes out, and the other character is like: “No problem, babe, I know your heart, and I understand that, while you initially had a scheme to sabotage my dreams, you changed your mind over the course of our courtship. Due to the trust we have built together, I understand this perfectly without your having to explain it.”

real footage of a critic being driven slowly out of her mind

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at something ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at something

This is like that one antagonist in the Persona 5: The Phantom X gacha game, in which the Subway Slammer just bodies into people on purpose.

(for context, when I was in grad school, most of the people who had published games-study work weren't actually gamers or dedicated to studying games, they were like film studies or lit folks dallying, so basic stuff like this fell through the cracks a LOT)

Aggrieved men sharing pics of romantasy shelves at Target or islands of romance novels in B&N, selectively ignoring the next display table over with an array of litfic, mystery, fantasy, and contemporary fiction. I think some guys want a boys’ club and do not want community with women readers.

Considering that men have been nominated and winning awards for their litfic and have been prominently spotlighted, these kinds of questions by these kinds of guys seem more like deflections, a less offensive way to ask “Why are there so many women interested in books?“

Ah but skill requires effort and a genuine interest on the topic at hand!

Here’s a cover I illustrated for the upcoming D&D book, Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. It was such a joy to paint Strahd again 🦇
Art director: AJ Hanneld

🎨 Xiang Weiren

Written in the Qing dynasty(1644–1911), Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio gathers 491 encounters with fox spirits, ghosts, and demons, beings often kinder than the humans who fear them. Its author, Pu Songling, repeatedly failed the imperial exams and turned instead to teaching,
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observing, and listening. Legend says he ran a teahouse where guests paid not with coins but with stories. From those whispers he shaped a world where spirits reveal the truth of society: that cruelty, hypocrisy, and desire belong less to monsters than to people themselves.
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Another page from Decomposer, a graphic novel I have been making art for

Magic for Unlucky Girls - A.A. Balaskovits — Santa Fe Writers Project Product Details: Series: SFWP Literary Award Winners Paperback: 242 pages ISBN: 9781939650665 Cover Design: Gwen Grafft, Art: Arthur Rackham, “Goblin Market” About the Book: The fourteen…

Read A. A. Balaskovits’s MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS (@sfwp.bsky.social) this #WomensHistoryMonth!

According to William Jablonsky, in these stories Balaskovits “has created characters and worlds we think we know, and then destroys our expectations.” www.sfwp.com/books/magic-...

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

requiem for vanished birdsong

A MARSH ISLAND, the newest S&T Classic is on shelves now! !🌻🌾

Thank you to the hosts of
@onebrightbook.bsky.social for your conversational afterword to the book!

A Marsh Island is available anywhere books are sold, including unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...

This is one you do not want to miss! And I’m not saying that just because we got to chat about it. Jewett called it her favorite among her works. Her subtle examinations of urban vs rural life, queerness, and the ecological landscape she knew well are stunning.

try it and remember what I said about steam reviews being incredibly important for developers!!! Yes, even for a studio with dozens of employees!!!

The New Scratch How is anyone who writes making any money right now?

Writers of Bsky: Scratch is back! This time as a weekly newsletter/blog about how writers are surviving ~these times~, run by me, @manjula.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, and @latriagraham.bsky.social. You can read more about why/what that means in our announcement post below.

A tall purple hot / cold insulated tumbler with a clear twist on cap with a purple top. Wrapped around the outside of the bottom are various moths. The moths' heads are one large eye with wispy antennae's.

New! A normal hot/cold tumbler with normal moths on them. No weird stuff.

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Next time you get ChatGPT to write a love letter for you, I want you to think about how you could've hired a human instead.