Sometimes, the adapter goes that extra little bit further and they seem to go out of their way to do violence to the original text. Famous examples include Stanley Kubrick when adapting The Shining or Paul Verhoeven when adapting Starship Troopers (to the point that, when I eventually got around to them, it affected how I read Heinlein's original work).

In many of the communities I operate in, in the past few years, there has been rotating discourse over what to do about Joanne (JK) Rowling. Like, a lot of discourse. Be it from the people rightly disturbed by her bigoted beliefs or those who grew up with her fantastical world of Hogwarts that refuse to let it go, to the person herself who refuses to just let one single sleeping dog lie, it seems like Rowling is never far from the thoughts of someone in the communities I oper

This movie is incredible. In another year it'd be my favorite movie of the year, but this year is stuffed with Spider-Man Brand New Day, Backrooms, Obsession, The Odyssey, and so many others that it'll get crowded out, but it's still a phenomenal movie that all involved should be proud of. Definitely in my Top 5 DC movies, maybe my Top 10 Superhero movies.

There's a lot of talk around the words to use when it comes to work generated by A.I. and the authenticity of it. People will say to those creators "you're not really an author" to which they're fire back "what do you mean? I came up with the idea, I submitted the prompt!" The first group will fire back "it's copying the work of others!" and the second will say "that's just what reading is!"

That, to me, is a massive example of bi-erasure happening here. But also, strangely, of heteronormativity. Just like in the early example when the child asks the bot of African decent “why would you dress up for Halloween? You already are something,” Roan here is making the same argument from the other side. The jilted lover she’s singing to could have been something, but has instead chosen not to be.

I'm going to save this post and post it into the comments whenever I see one of those "X comedian won't do college campuses anymore" stories. I'd love if you did the same.

I've been reading my way through some older comics of late, and I find myself enamored with the old-style anthology comics that Marvel used to put out. See back in the day, there were a limited amount of titles that Marvel could produce a month -- I want to say six -- because of their deal with their printer. So because Stan, Jack and crew had so many good ideas they wanted to tell, they produced anthology-style magazines where they could switch up who was in the title role e

Picture Lex Luthor in your mind. If you're picturing a mad scientist, you're picturing a comic-book character made in the 1940s. If you're picturing a wealthy industrialist, what you're picturing was based on Donald J. Trump.

Full short story from Matthew LeDrew, copyright 2025. "Three Authors." Content warning: Sex, sex work.

When I get asked what made my point of view, one story that pops into mind, unbidden, about an early time working with the police.

On January 1, 2034, unless something drastic changes with copyright law, the character of Superman will become a part of the public domain. That’s Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, all that good stuff. The things that were introduced in that first year of the character. Superman is one of the rare characters that, if you read his early appearances, came fully formed: he was as he is, for the most part.

When I was four years old, I had an imaginary friend. But it wasn't a typical imaginary friend. It was a cat.

Are there some of us for which criticism is an act of love, and some of us from which criticism is an act of violence upon a thing?

So, I read a lot. 500 books a year, on average. I've made more an effort this year to read locally, and to read more current texts.

Between the economy, COVID hangover, and fertility issues, 2024 has been the year from hell: and it has affected my writing.

Act One of Sherlock has perfect structure.

Watson is educated on Sherlock's methods.

Watson makes a choice that will change his life forever.

A small scene that is pivotal to understanding all the scenes around it, Scene 05 of A Study in Pink.

Analyzing the fourth scene of BBCs Sherlock, when Watson first meets Sherlock.