“Collaborator” is honestly too kind a word for Coco Chanel, aka Abwehr Agent F-7124 Codename “Westminster”, who was literally an undercover operative of the Nazi Party. The fact that she is still lauded as some girlboss heroine in 2020 is deranged.
There's ANOTHER COCO CHANEL BOOK COMING. This one is a historical fiction about her rise out of poverty to fashion fame. NAZI COLLABORATORS SHOULDN'T GET CUTE HISTORICAL FICTION SWEEPING EPICS ABOUT SURVIVAL TRIUMPH AND LOSS
Meghan Markle stands victorious. She won the game of thrones irl. Hot prince husband, global fame, freedom to do whatever the fuck she wants now. Love this for her. I hope she brings back The Tig.
After reading some discussion re: WandaVision, I've been contemplating whether I've EVER seen a Romani character in an American or British production actually played by a Romani actor? I think... no? Which is absolutely wild. I can't think of a single one.
“i must explain my attending a taylor swift concert to you, as a public figure with 8000 followers” and “anna nicole smith was an ableist exploiting the elderly billionaire who paid her for sex” in a neck and neck race for the twitter hall of fame this week
If I became the Twitter main character for a weird thread about my relationship with my daughter I would simply not defend myself with a Woody Allen comparison
EXCLUSIVE: Ellen DeGeneres has built her brand on the motto “be kind." But at her talk show, current and former employees say they faced racism, fear, and intimidation
I understand where you're coming from but I'd just like to note this is not true in all cases. Because he's my mom's brother, and that would be very weird.
There will be many Quibi postmortems but I feel like the most important thing future projects need to remember is that if you want things to go viral... people need to be able to screencap them
This woman is so fucking dangerous. Rich enough to be accountable to no human being on earth, and twisted completely by this point into an avatar of her fully-entrenched, defiant bigotry.
Look I just think "closeted people shouldn't be allowed to write about LGBT stuff" is a dumbfuck take when earlier THIS VERY YEAR a friend of mine was essentially bullied out of public life for using a pseudonym to write a deeply personal transgender metaphor about a helicopter.
Discourse about superheroes as 'modern myth' is always fascinating to me as a) a former classicist b) a person with a comics podcast because what *I* mean is 'a unique storytelling genre with eternal characters and no fixed canon, like ancient myth', not 'we should worship this'.
'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have exited the live-action Netflix series
'Whatever version ends up on-screen, it will not be what Bryan and I had envisioned or intended to make'
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This... is a really good comparison, honestly. She absolutely reshaped the genre, but you’re gonna have to give people a big caveat before you recommend anything.
I don't mean to rain on the Men's Warehouse and Jos. A Bank bankruptcy jokes, but I want to note that when I was about 350 lbs, not long ago, those were the only places I could buy work clothes. There are not a lot of options for fat guys outside of expensive custom tailors.
I am just trying to imagine typing an article where you write out the names Anya Taylor-Joy, Queen Latifah, S. Epatha Merkerson, Halle Berry and Alfre Woodard, nodding to yourself like “yes this makes sense,” and then pressing publish.
My psychiatrist says I seem great but “need to work a little harder on not caring whether people like you”, so I’m just going to request that everyone like me so I can stop worrying about it. Thank you.
@dreamoforgonon
Variety has already corrected it. I have heard her in interviews in Spanish and her accent is 100% Argentinian, except when she mentions any English name.
If people are really mad that Wanda Maximoff isn't getting punished for doing something bad to one small town in New Jersey, they REALLY should not read any Wanda Maximoff comics!! Just putting that out there.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to this FR*SIER reboot after Kelsey invariably Roseannes himself. Might I suggest skipping directly to LILITH?
As everyone is pointing out, this is why Dakota Johnson was so exhilarating. She had enough institutional power in Hollywood to just lol in Ellen’s face
The Susan B. Anthony Museum has rejected President Trump's pardon of the leading suffragist.
The museum's director said the best way to honor Anthony would be to take a clear stance against voter suppression — and to advocate for human rights for all.
"The saddest thing is that Wallis and Edward, despite being banished, were dutiful and patriotic to the end...Meghan and Harry, who took it upon themselves to leave Britain, seem unlikely to display similar loyalty to the Crown on Oprah tonight"
It’s true that media literacy is at an all time low in general, but it turns out a great thing that will help restore your faith in the human understanding of art is to just stop reading hot takes on this website.
The most effective and satisfying way to write a twist, in fact, is to do it in such a way that the reader/viewer figures it out shortly before the characters do!
Contrary to what the writers for prestige television on HBO tell you, being able to predict a twist or big reveal doesn't mean the writer messed up, it means they wanted that reveal to have build up and be justified in the logic of the story they are telling.
This "Bridget Fonda got fat, so sad" article in Page Six today (popped up as a push alert in my phone) makes me honestly want to scream. She retired from acting 20 years ago. She's 58 years old. Leave this woman alone while she gets her groceries, you fucking vultures.
CW: Weight loss, eating disorder.
3 years ago I had bariatric surgery to treat my lifelong binge eating disorder. Yesterday I had my last post-op reconstructive surgery. I support people being happy and healthy at any size, but if you are suffering with BED you are not alone.
Hard to explain how surreal this is if you were a comic nerd in the 90s. I still have trouble with the concept of laypeople knowing who like, Thanos and Gamora are. Monica is my *favorite* and I never imagined as a kid that pop culture would get here.
While everyone is debating who Buffy should have wound up with, I will just quietly note Angel belongs with Cordelia. The Spuffies are therefore my allies in the great war.
It’s honestly wild that basically the most evil possible reality show happened already almost 20 years ago and we all sort of shoved it down the memory hole
I've been a fan of
@evilrashida
's archival work for a decade now, since the wild heyday of Tumblr, and I'm so thrilled to be working with her in the next phase of her career -- bringing her pop culture expertise to bear on an exciting book project.
a thing you can do on this website if you are a dummy who doesn't understand the complexities of a massively controversial foreign policy issue is like, shut the fuck up about it. i do this literally every day!
Christie Smythe covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News and lived "the perfect little Brooklyn life" with her husband. Then she threw it all away for one of her sources: infamous pharma bro Martin Shkreli.
You know now that they’re in LA without royal protocol to follow she is gonna get Harry the best hair plugs money can buy, too. They are gonna be so hot forever.
Should you EXPECT QUESTIONS if you are a cishet-presenting person writing about queer stuff? Of course. I always advise clients of that. But 'just come out' is a very 101-ass answer, esp. coming from ppl whose own disclosure of their queer ID isn't gonna change their lives much.
I am absolutely stunned and overjoyed to see
@CerebroCast
on this list. Thank you
@cmholub
and thank you to everyone who has supported this weird little gay X-Men podcast over the last 15 months. Wow!
hello.
@lubchansky
just informed me i am apparently the protagonist of an early 80s spanish gay graphic novel called MANUEL. i am requesting privacy at this time
I don't know what's going to happen next month but I do think this woman is absolutely going to be president eventually. So it would be cool if she was indeed farther left!! Hope springs eternal.