superheroes & media & hopeful moping
“OCCUPY ME” – Science-fiction narrative podcast – CASTING ANNOUNCEMENT Now casting for a new fictional narrative podcast co-produced by Hard NOC Media and Melancholyball Media. Occupy Me is a science-fiction episodic about Earth’s first contact with two alien entities: Dot, a curious veterinary student, and Tod, a malevolent prince of the patriarchy (they are also…
This post will be updated as cosplayers IDs reveal themselves, or not. More SDCC 2019 stuff to come at my Patreon page. The crime fiction novelist Walter Mosley said a cool thing about Spider-Man once, I don’t mean to take it too out of context, but it speaks to a special awareness that was particularly on…
From a transcript of the joint press event with Congresswomen Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, and Tlaib, July 15, 2019: REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): Good afternoon. I will try to keep this as brief as I can. But who knows, when I get on a roll, right? When I was a little girl, my father took me…
(Amendments/corrections welcomed, this is mainly from memory.) Crowd Awareness: SDCC is a really absurdly huge crowd of people, many of them dressed in Mandalorian battle armor. They won’t actually battle you. Still, a strategy for vibing with large crowds is essential for both personal enjoyment and public good. Friday and Saturday are the most mobbed…
The “Disney Princess” mythos is a genre as restrictive as it is globally-superpowered, but in terms of the Official Princess Movie with the most patriarchy-subverting politics, I think it’s no contest: MULAN is by far the most progressive-minded cel-animated Disney Princess film, while also performing its essential sedative-hypnotic function on your child’s developing emotional vocabulary….
