Welcome to the Trash

A little bit of everything ☄☄

[ofcrystalsandart]

What it felt like when Austria won last minute:

[chiimeramanticore]

dude you gotta watch severance it's so exciting. in season 2 they go outside

[divorce-enjoyer]

severance is so scary i hope jobs arent real

[theswisscheeserag]

With severance season 2 around the corner it’s time for me to share the time I accidentally watched 4 minutes of an episode on mute and thought it was a brilliant way to show the sensory deprivation experienced by the innies

[theburialofstrawberries]

crying

[the-one-someone]

Tom Badgerlock and his dog that is not a wolf.

[animentality]

[ponett]

you just don't get shit like this with 8-episode streaming seasons

[may12324]

Been thoroughly enjoying long live evil ❤️

[dude1818]

I just finished The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt, and it's one of the best books I've read in a while. The basic premise is that soon after humanity abandons Earth and reaches the stars, an alien race called the Ministers shows up and subjugates their colonies. A thousand years in the future, one colony stellar system was able to fight off their oppressors and formed the militaristic Republic, which remains at war with the Ministers who rule the other populated stellar system. The main character, a smuggler named Sean, is conscripted by a Republican senator to go on a dangerous mission to a derelict research station orbiting a star that's about to go supernova, where it's believed the humans of old Earth squirreled away the Philosopher Stone. With the Stone, the Republic thinks they'll finally be able to defeat the Ministers

I was expecting a suspenseful, atmospheric grind through the abandoned spaceship. Instead, a squad of Ministers immediately shows up and captures Sean et al. The Ministers also believe the Stone is vital for their nefarious plans, and can't risk the Republic getting it first. Almost as soon as the Ministers take control, we discover that the spaceship isn't empty at all, but is instead full of countless horrible monsters: the remnants of the genetic experiments for eternal life that comprise the the Philosopher Stone

Isolated from the others, Sean and one of the Ministers have to team up to make it to the Stone and get off the spaceship alive. It turns into a horror story in the vein of Prey (the 2017 video game) as they have to stealth past and fight through hordes of vicious humanoid predators, childlike scavengers with way too many teeth, and the ship's rogue autorepair nanobots. They also encounter a Republican soldier who had been stationed on the ship for the past five years, who is the only surviving member of a previous team sent to recover the Stone. They're going to kill each other when they reach the end, but for now the other monsters are even worse. It turns into the most wild example of found family I've ever seen

The narrative style is very interesting. Sean has some form of PTSD from when the Ministers destroyed his home as a child, so various events in the story trigger flashbacks to that. It's a neat way to explore the backstory, but it flows really well with what's happening in the present. There are some pretty deep mysteries that get slow-dripped to the audience this way, like "what are the Ministers really" and "what happened on Sean's home planet," and I really enjoyed figuring them out

There's a really cool "there's something on your back" sequence near the climax. Not going to spoil what happens, but he pegs something is wrong way faster than Donna did, and it's so funny watching him gripe his way through the altered events. He's such a fun character and really balances the horror well

[dadattebayo]

guys I know the last episode was heartbreaking in so many terms but have you seen this dude

[5ummit]

Mean Girls (2004) || The Rings of Power (2024)

[arcadiaak]

Close enough welcome back cover of alecto the ninth

[theyputitback]

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[rhube]

Data is the supportive friend everyone needs.

[akiragatr]

“I’m gonna text my ex.” Data:

[oyesteryells]

i feel physically ill.

its 4 am...

[yenvengerberg]

"I could be really brash and really loud and really dressed however I wanted to and almost made [Chappell] on purpose a drag version of myself so I can be whatever I want. It allows me to feel really safe exploring those aspects of myself. I’d never be able to do that if I took myself super seriously with pop. I think that the project has allowed me to be a part of the queer community in a deeper way because I'm not observing from the outside anymore. I feel like I'm in it. I am the queer community–it's allowed me to just feel queer, feel like a queer person and feel freedom in that."