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>>46583
This is my haul from a couple of charity shops today.

>>46540
I don't understand the hype behind that movie, it's fine but the payoff was just not good for such a meandering plot. Really liked the comedy horror bits and I particularly like the actress that delivered them but I felt like it was really working towards something bigger and then it didn't

>>46546
It’s been a pretty piss poor year for movies so far, I can understand where you’re coming from in terms of the mystery but the homages to both Chainsaw Man and Day of the Dead won me over.

>>46548
>Chainsaw Man
I haven't see chainsaw man but now that you mention it the second portion of the movie feels very Jojo-ish, I looked into it and it seems that Blue Hawaii works in a similar way to the Weapons voodoo, right down to how the victims run, though I think it's just more that they're drawing from similar sources.

>>46544
OP here, I put John Dies at the End because I made love with my wife for the first time when it was on, good catch of you but also I think it is a very interesting movie

>>46540
Laughed a lot more than I expected I would. The end was pure slapstick comedy.

>>46326
also why the fuck do we need a subplot for a character who is never seen again, who her mom doesn't even mention when having to leave coruscant possibly to never come back and whose entire character development can be sumarised with the term teenage chud but female?

HE'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

>>46542
>52:44 minutes
Nostalgia Chad did it in 3 minutes

>>46553
>the Schwartz(tm)
Please say sike

>>46283
>>46294
Apparently they crammed like 4 seasons into one or something lol

>>46563
Sorry anon, I looked around my usual places but couldn't find much. I'm sure there's a torrent somewhere

>>46565
I found it, cheers. I couldn't find a torrent of it searching thepiratebay but i did some duckduckgo-fu and found a torrent of it on a piratebay mirror. very bizarre.

>>46564
It's just persecution fetish shit.
Like the oppression of women is a serious topic and it deserves more serious consideration than that kind of cartoon lampshade nonsense. Idc if you flick your bean to that or whatever else but the people acting like Handmaid's Tale is Important are clowns making a mockery of women's liberation.

>>46570
I agree for the most part. The first season is alright where it establishes these fucked up circumstances, and it has the real chance to examine women's issues and women's liberation in this hyperbolic context. But after the first or second season it rapidly starts to fall apart because there's not really anything more to it than watching these characters suffer, and it has nothing else to say besides "see, isn't this awful?"

It's a victim of its own ideological blindness at least in part because it doesn't really waste any time thinking about how Gilead or societies in general actually work. At least in the book, the narrative focus on June creates a plausible grey area for the world to function in because she's got very limited access to information, but in the show we've got multiple characters in multiple places inside and out of Gilead, and the more we learn about the situation the less sense the world and the actions of the characters within it makes.

Like at the point I'm at in the show the political situation between Canada and Gilead is receiving attention and it doesn't really make any sense. It seems like Canada is treating Gilead like it's a real country instead of the territory of a bunch of rebels acting against its actual ally the US. They also say that Gilead is some kind of military and economic great power, which also doesn't make much sense at all because from everything we've seen Gilead has more or less destroyed capitalism as we know it and irrevocably kneecapped themselves by taking a full half of their remaining population and the majority of their credentialed professionals and declaring them to be illiterate domestic laborers into perpetuity. So between the radiation zones, the multiple ongoing civil wars, eliminating half its work force, and the evidently omnipresent police state required to keep this all working, apparently with weekly or even daily executions, how the hell is Gilead any kind of power at all?

The confused politics of the show are really on display between the interactions between June and Serena Joy. Serena is the intellectual architect of this rapeocratic slave state nightmare and June keeps trying to make common cause with her. At first I thought she was just trying to manipulate Serena for her own ends, which seems like what they were going for at the end of season 2, but then JunePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>46579
>there's not really anything more to it than watching these characters suffer, and it has nothing else to say besides "see, isn't this awful?"
Shit you made me realize they figured out how to do the Oscar-bait slavery exploitation film but as a TV show about white women.

>>46551
Is that gooseworx? she's a legit creative powerhouse

>>46558
That's cosplay of Dr Kel from Voices of the Void

>>46558
Yes.

>>46559
Also yes.

>>46568
Chosen one but they fail
Chosen one but they are actually just chosen by some human institution not divine powers
Chosen one but they turn bad
Chosen one but they are incompetent
Chosen one but there's actually several of them as backups and they end up fighting each other
Chosen one but the forces that chose them are actually the bad guy
Chosen one but you find out they're not the chosen one and just some guy
Chosen one but the grand plan for them is bad and they have to deal with that
Chosen one but they don't get any special help and it's just a burden

>>46572
series was entertaining while Rand was going insane, went to shit when he fixed it and turned into Wizard Jesus though

>>46572
wheel of time based

>>46569
yea most people recommend the abridged version, altho the book was highly influential it's spawned Clark Aston smith's Zothique and in turn inspired Jack Vance's Dying Earth series.

>>46519
Gay trotsky?

Low-rise pants shouldn't even exist.

>>46519
>>46526
I'm going to guess they thought of either Stirner or Spamton.

the sluttiest thing a man can wear

Hard.

>>46566
>Hard
Anon, what? He's not even wearing knees.
Fashion-fags get more ridiculous every year.

The biggest PEAK of Latinx American comics? I mean, what's the competition? Mafalda and CUCKdorito?

https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/01/from-champion-of-the-oppressed-to-truth-justice-and-the-american-way-who-took-the-socialism-out-of-superman/
Can commies reclaim Superman or is he forever destined to be an AmeriKKKan propaganda mouthpiece?

>>46370
Mafalda is Peak tho.

>>46376
I think about this a lot. There's some Alex Ross comic where superman tries to fix the world or some shit. He tries to bring food to starving Africans and of course the evil dictator blows it up, and supes has a cry about it. Then I think about the scene in Marvelman where Marvs tells all the world leaders that we're doing socialism now. Margaret Thatcher tries to tell him no, and he basically tells her "I'm not asking" and glares at her so hard it damn near kills her.

Peacemaker S2 released

Decided to reread Paradise Loft because that stuff is awesome. Will Finally read Paradise Regained also
>>46148
>>45908
thanks for the recommendations, will look into them

>>45887
>>45889
Highly disagree with the audio book idea, you need Capital in front of you, its not something you can put on in the background.

>>45587
this 1 is classic

Where's freudposter when you need him?

https://archive.is/20250820100131/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/08/it-girl-literary-heroines-are-all-cannibals-now

>What has happened to the literary woman? She used to slouch listlessly towards Bethlehem. Now she is eating people. Chelsea G. Summers’ 2020 novel A Certain Hunger follows a food writer who is in prison for murdering, cooking and eating several sex partners. In Ainslie Hogarth’s 2022 novel Motherthing, a woman deals with the Freudian fallout of her mother-in-law’s death by cooking a personal enemy. In Monika Kim’s 2024 thriller The Eyes Are the Best Part, a Korean-American protagonist gets her own back on white men who fetishise Asian women, by stockpiling and eating their eyeballs. This year’s Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito reads like a gory take on Agnes Grey and has its central governess joke about eating the children under her care.

>There is more. Lucy Rose’s bestseller The Lamb, published earlier in 2025, is a misery lit-adjacent tale of childhood abuse with a twist: the young protagonist must come to terms with her mother’s taste for lost hikers. Catherine Dang’s What Hunger, out later this year, promises to “[follow] the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants… as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood.” This violent power comes, as the reader may guess, with “an insatiable hunger for raw meat.” And in the Young Adult sphere there is Maika and Maritza Moulite’s 2025 novel The Summer I Ate the Rich, which uses its Haitian-American zombie protagonist to “[scrutinise] the socioeconomic and racial inequity that is the foundation of our society.”

>Inequity is the largest constant in this emerging genre. Almost every female literary cannibal resorts to cooking and eating people because of trauma in her past, and in each case the trauma is indexed to a larger political concern. Lucy Rose “explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts.” One of the women in The Lamb has her first brush with cannibalism after she is denied an abortion. “My body was a stranger,” she says, “but my father wanted me to bring the baby to termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.