I thought it was weird that we’re getting an Xavier that’s younger than me but: A) I’m old. B) James McAvoy is TWO WEEKS younger than me.
Ryan AKA Ben Graven
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Former Midwestern/current southern left-leaning dad. Aka “Bengraven”. Freelance, talking about writing, gaming, mental health and 🏳️🌈 , Americana, comics/manga, animation, cozy or genre art. Severe ADHD when it comes to posting!
In case you need something to clean the dust from your eyes.
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d agoJIM HENSON wrote a letter to his Children to be opened after his death. It’s entirely beautiful.
Stavros Halkias: I don't wanna do the both sides bullshit because it's not true. One side is worse than the other, objectively speaking. One side is disappearing people and one side wants children to have healthcare. A lot of stand up comics happened to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth
My limited contact mom posted a hateful gay joke on her Facebook (despite being fully away her grandson is gay), followed by a “I’m not a perfect mother but you have to thank me” meme. Okay. Thanks for the free womb rent.
Let me fucking tell you that our Sunday School teacher was telling us to be quiet, but this is all we wanted to talk about that morning. I don’t know much about Jesus’s fish and bread incident (the topic of that Sunday) but I live and breathe this legendary day in American animation.
And it also runs AI ads. Fox knows what it pays for.
Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel
Just what the doctor ordered.
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Occasionally, my gender-fluid kid has been selling our turnips on an Animal Crossing Discord to a man in the Middle East at4am. Last night the man became upset when he saw my character’s name because “Ryan is a name commonly used by transgender people”. Ha, okay buddy. Just open your gates, bigot.
The energy I’m going into the weekend with. - (The music video for Brian May’s rendition of the theme for Go Nagai’s X-Bomber/Star Fleet)
Brian May - Star Fleet (Official Video Remastered)
YouTube video by Brian May Official
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Peter Cushing in the TV version of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Rudolph Cartier, 1954
I don’t mean to boomer post but take me back here.
This is the only picture you will ever see of me when I was 150 pounds heavier than I am now. It's too great not to. (taken around 2018)
Five minutes after I wrote this, I realized you could make the story contemporary considering we’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia
Ryan AKA Ben Graven@bengraven.bsky.social · 2w agoNeed to do a cyberpunk dystopia story or even novel with multiple POVs, each contradicting themselves due to their own personal porpoganda-fed bias and feeling of futility and their selfish drive to be the main character in their own story - quite literally in this case.
No spoilers. But BND is an incredibly healing movie. There are some incredibly emotional scenes. One scene I NEEDED: I won’t spoil them but I’ll post two completely contextless pictures. Easily a top 3 MCU film next to GotG and Black Panther.
Need to do a cyberpunk dystopia story or even novel with multiple POVs, each contradicting themselves due to their own personal porpoganda-fed bias and feeling of futility and their selfish drive to be the main character in their own story - quite literally in this case.
Oh the misinformed “pro-cop” chuds are going to love this one.
Anxiety has been so poor that it’s becoming difficult to concentrate. We’re back in the “stay up at night, sitting in bed, staring at the wall” phase. I’m doing my best to keep my focus off the phone and more on writing. Spending time with the family when I can.
QTP with a gif of your favorite Pokemon! (Wrong answers only)
Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️@sharkabytes.bsky.social · 3w agoQTP with a gif of your favorite Pokemon! (Wrong answers only)
Knee caps, rib bones, dry trachea tubes. Sounds like Texas Chainsaw but it’s the dog snacks area of this grocery store.
You can’t see it, but as my son is running around his Animal Crossing island and Emmy the tuxedo is trying to catch him, he’s tearing up to the Over the Garden Wall music playing.
As a Burning Hells-fearing American? I stand with Tyrael.
My son, a swinger, in 2046: “Hey twin. My plug and I have been mogging you across the bar for a minute. He said your looksmaxxing is on point, cuh, no cap…”
AI is everywhere, our own phones and cameras are spying on us. Self driving cars are killing people. The government knows what kind of cheese we buy at the store. People are using mindless feeds of seratonin videos to cope with corp+gov greed. We’re not “approaching” the dystopia. It’s here.
“You let the cats outside? Do you understand how dangerous that is?” Both my younger cats were living outside when I adopted them. One was abandoned by the young family next door and the other was living off cafeteria scraps and ducking two feral aunties who were trying to kill him. They’re okay.
