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I found this interesting:

https://www.cbr.com/y-the-last-man-canc ... iewership/

It was in development for so long that options for some of the cast were already expiring.

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No, if you were lucky enough to have regular production work you probably wouldn't speak out.

You'd probably be supportive of the union mounting an aggressive campaign for better working conditions, though.

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I think it will take one or more significant sustained reversals from current societal trends, more than the overall political polarization the world is experiencing, to kill the sustained creation and consumption of SHIP content. I worry a little that a big enough swing of a single pendulum could s...

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I bet that in the last two weeks before Halloween, lots more stuff will go from "in stock" to "out of stock" but nothing good will go from "out of stock" to "in stock." After that, who knows.

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People don't need to be spoonfed fetish material to develop a fetish. And they don't need to see superheroines objectified on screen to want to see sexy versions of them. I sort of think they DO.... insofar as 'Does SHiP have a Futrure?' as this thread is questioning. ...in order to enter the fetis...

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People don't need to be spoonfed fetish material to develop a fetish. And they don't need to see superheroines objectified on screen to want to see sexy versions of them. https://www.deviantart.com/costalonga/art/Captain-Marvel-Commission-791072222 https://www.deviantart.com/amyroseater/art/Captain-...

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I watched the first episode a couple of weeks ago. I watched the second episode today, and I was so bored. It's following too many characters through too many mundane moments, scene after scene is blind to the elephant in the room, the development of emotional baggage plays more like baggage claim a...

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Sweet Christmas, and thank the gods for sexy Halloween.

I say quit thinking about it because it could sell out any day now and then you'll regret your lack of choices.

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There's a future for SHIP content as long as there are people willing to create it. How many of the creators you love got into it for the money or for their ego? Sure, specific fetishes with singular mainstream sources will fade as the number of people who were exposed to those mainstream sources ag...

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I'm looking forward to Foundation, but Apple TV+ is going to have to wait another month or so. Glad to hear it's pretty -- you can't sell me a Galactic Empire without some grand architecture and spaceships. I hope that the streaming services are finding data to support big productions of good materi...

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Redwing is, so far as I know, an original character first seen in a video by The Battle For Earth in early 2014, script by Lee Carl.

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There's quite a chasm between the SHIP triumvirate and the last decade. I'm afraid all the fun characters that will come to my mind will have origins more than ten years ago.
Spandexer? 2002.
Empowered? 2007.
This is already not-fun.
Oh! Redwing, 2014. Yay!
*quits while ahead*

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I legit don't understand where the Matrix story has left to go after the last movie of the trilogy without just resetting everything... Why? The trilogy didn't end with a Happily Ever After, just a dramatic political reshuffling, with a lot of new (competing) possibilities suddenly on the table. Wh...

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That was the post I opened with and both were widely reported facts. There are nearly 2000 dead a day and the vaccinations are the lowest of the G7. So where's the controversy? You knew damn well where the controversy is, as a moderator, making post # 1,125 of the thread. You pricked a deep wound w...

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Forgive my lack of imagination, but my favorites are cinematical -- dictated by having big dramatic moments on screen. For me, comic book stuff can't compete with that. It used to be the classic TV Batmobile -- it looked bespoke, whereas every other Batvehicle looked like mundane civilian equipment ...

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Let's not call each other idiots please. If anyone wants to call me a complete twat that's fine, I'm owning it. You're a complete twat for resuscitating this thread the way you did. Well I didn't think saying US had 2000 dead a day and the lowest vaccination rates of the G7 was particularly contrav...

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There's something mesmerizing about the obviously-enhanced.

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tallyho wrote: ↑
2 years ago
Let's not call each other idiots please.
If anyone wants to call me a complete twat that's fine, I'm owning it.

You're a complete twat for resuscitating this thread the way you did.

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Damselbinder wrote: ↑
2 years ago
No no he'd like - shapeshift back into Hugo Weaving for the big reveal. Trust me, it'd be sick. Trust me.

That would be sweet, but I'm taking Weaving and Fishburne at their word when they say they're not in the film. It's just easier that way, and seems more likely.

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I think the Doogie Howser therapist is Agent Smith, based on the character of some of his inflections. Ow, that idea makes a painfully unpleasant noise in my head. Neil Patrick Harris can be delightfully evil, but if Agent Smith heard himself speaking with Neil's voice, he'd vow silence until he co...

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Femina wrote: ↑
2 years ago
My Grandfather is in the ICU almost certainly about to die from it

Damn, that sucks. I hope he's able to recover from the virus.

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The real delusion is reawakening this thread with the idea that any post can overcome the smoke and stench of the smoldering garbage.

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I thought everyone who was aware of her was aware of the Catfish thing and the McLean thing. No. No we are not. Please elaborate. Click the link up top and its source links. Here's a recap of the Catfish episode: https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/chris-birdman-andersens-catfish-opens-up...

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They're not going to retcon everything that came after the original film. And if they did, sequel-haters would still be disappointed. I'm disappointed already because Mr. Fishburne isn't in it. But I have little doubt that it will be an interesting and entertaining and thought-provoking experience. ...

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I thought everyone who was aware of her was aware of the Catfish thing and the McLean thing.

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Your interpretation is little doubt closer to the creators' intent. I'm not really a horror fan. (And you know what? The show gives you the terms of the ending in her first meeting.) But I'm still disappointed. To me she wasn't nearly lost to evil and triumphant to reject and walk away from it. To m...

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Great point about a fundamental difference between PornHub and OnlyFans, Dogfish. There was a good Twitter thread a few days ago about how coverage of the two crises was different -- most media spoke to (parroted) the anti-sexwork zealots about PornHub, but spoke to sex workers about OnlyFans -- but...

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Now that they realize they can't get away with just burning the sex workers, they're telling more of a story. Financial Times article yesterday says it's all the banks' fault: https://www.ft.com/content/7b8ce71c-a87a-440e-9f3d-58069ca0480b (They could have said that from the beginning, but instead t...

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The ending left a bad taste in my mouth, but the journey was still very worthwhile. About the ending... I know not everyone is a storyteller -- some people just have a story to tell and once it's told they're done. And I can see the POV that the protagonist found her identity in the spirit of the ja...

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I don't know why, but quoted tweets here are forever "loading tweet..." Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard. We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community and have suspended the planned October 1 policy change. OnlyFans stands for inclusion an...

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Sorry, y'all can't ruin this for me. Maybe I'll feel the rain on my parade after I've seen the movie.

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Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina? That's enough to make it happy time. People my age aren't going to get many more instances of big-time audience-pandering in blockbusters. I'm going to enjoy them.

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Social conservatives may be the most organized and persistent antagonists, but what matters is that nobody in politics stands up for sex workers. And that's because sex work is still taboo. The politics is effectively non-partisan because society as a whole is against it.

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Be fair, lionbadger, the conservatism isn't just American.

A porn investment fund is a fun idea. Lots to worry about, though. Beating up on sex-related business is one thing people will cross the political aisles for. And investors seeking to maximize their returns would push for worker exploitation.

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I also wish sex workers would get together and build their own platform. They do but then they charge higher premiums. Why is that? Is it because they can't get big enough to get payment processing terms as favorable as OnlyFans? Or because OnlyFans operated at a loss in order to (illegally) disrup...

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The Congressional investigation would fizzle if OnlyFans followed PornHub's approach. But I think OnlyFans has stars in their eyes over the Titillating Celebrity Effect. OnlyFans is majority-owned by porn magnate Leonid Radivinsky, who bought his way in from the founding Stokely family in late 2018....

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I doubt OnlyFans would voluntarily gamble on making up the difference with "wholesome" content. They're just being left with no choice. They would certainly have to be idiots not to be able to see that porn is the bulk of what built their platform, or that Tumblr made that same gamble and...

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Last thing I want for Marvel is where DC is trudging. When everyone's Batman, no one is. What's this a reference to, by the way? DC's shoulder-shrug on continuity, schizophrenic treatment of Batman (can't have him, make other characters like him, have another reboot), and Syndrome's line from The I...

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OnlyFans has had a ban on public nudity for quite a while. What's coming on October 1 is a ban on sexually explicit material. I expect this puts the line somewhere between Playboy and Penthouse (back when they were printed magazines) -- basically, they're dialing it back to become a cheesecake facto...

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I was going to post last night (after I finished episode 3) that it struck me from the beginning as being like eXistenZ, specifically, but I couldn't articulate why.

Well now I've seen episode 4, and there it is.

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I think most What If comic book scenarios were brief too. Had these episodes only been 7-10 minutes I might feel cheated, but at 33 and 35 minutes I think the ideas have gotten their due. It's the highlights and some fun moments to get you thinking, not a prescriptive second canon reboot with every ...

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Episode 2 showed a pretty dramatic upswing in the fortunes of the universe simply by having space pirates abduct the wrong ten-year-old. But don't just put all the weight on who Peter and T'Challa were by age ten -- Peter had to be kept hidden from Ego, and T'Challa didn't. Then again, events in the...

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It was a simple obvious joke, set up early in the episode and nicely paid off. Scribbler explained it well enough. shevek, I suggest you watch the episode again before continuing to post -- you got so many things wrong in your bloodlust that responding to anything specific is an utter waste of my ti...

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Margot Robbie did her male-gaze time. As good as her genes appear to be, you'll probably have to wait until she's approaching 50 and wants to show she's still got it to see her be that overt again. Frequent reboots and retconning crossovers wrecked comic books for me. I'm hopeful the DCEU Flashpoint...

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Howard Stark could have namedropped Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable or Lana Turner, or any number of starlets who would appear on pinups in U.S. serviceman's lockers during the war, etc. The choice of Hedy Lamarr was deliberate by the writers for the reasons you described. Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable, ...

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I recently learned an older acquaintance of mine, who needed a hospital stay but not a ventilator, hasn't fully recovered after all -- a new heart murmur, easily out of breath, often fatigued. This is the sort of outcome that is most often on my mind.

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My primitive brain responds more strongly to a more pronounced hourglass and the look of healthy bodyfat. (Maybe a little extra jiggle.) But below the threshold of a full-size spare tire, the attributes of a daring costume with minimal body art, a good performance, and genre content are what tick my...

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I'd done more than 20 a year for several years before COVID-19. I broke the seal for Black Widow opening weekend in IMAX. At the time it seemed very low risk. But the experience disappointed me. The audience wasn't excited. I am hopeful but not expectant that conditions will be improved enough when ...

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IIRC, while WB basically sprang the day-and-date streaming of WW1984 on the director and star, they did make financial amends. That minimal gesture seems absent for Black Widow. Perhaps Disney felt they could do it because this was Scarlett's last time out. Perhaps this is Disney working out some fr...

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I could see young SG getting some art as an expression of rebellion against what her identity and origin impose on her. And just how would the needle have penetrated her skin, when bullets can't? You must be new to the forum :giggle: I'd be more worried if the tattoos didn't have a model ;) Venom, ...

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In live-action SHIP, any powers at all. Not for special effects, just for dramatic storytelling. (I know, SHIP is a fetish and economic realities dictate getting to the slippery slope of losing ASAP, but I still want drama.) By far, the two most popular characters remain SG and WW. They have super s...

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