Bea Lieber

@ez2believe.bsky.social

God’s most credulous mark • 🇺🇸 • Born 1989 • Autistic • ADHD • She/Her • Mostly here to follow others, but I post occasionally

Happy birthday Jack Kirby, born this day in 1917. A visionary artist and writer. He saw the future coming with a clarity that made it seem as surreal as it truly was, and understood the human condition in a way that continues to resonate.

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Think about this: Morgan Freeman was in two different movies where he played an old man preparing for death. They were released ten years apart. The Bucket List (2007) was released 19 years ago. Going In Style (2017) was released 9 years ago. And Morgan Freeman is still alive.

Poster for The Bucket List (2007), featuring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson wearing sunglasses and smiling. Freeman’s hand is on Nicholson’s shoulder, Nicholson holds a stemmed glass of white alcohol.Poster for Going In Style (2017), featuring Alan Arkin, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine (left to right) walking forward in front of a white wall marked with a police suspect height chart.

Six months out, I believe Clavicular getting “framemogged” was one of this year’s biggest events in online culture for the news coverage and discourse it drew to Clavicular and Looksmaxxing.

A smiling, muscular young white man with wide shoulders wearing a red leotard stands next to another young man wearing a black dress shirt (Clavicular)

I feel like criticism of Netflix shows doesn’t do enough to acknowledge that we know Netflix producers have ordered shows to be designed for viewers who aren’t paying full attention. It’s very much not a mystery why their shows are like this.

Here’s the Thing. Avengers Doomsday is Infinity War/Endgame for the post-Endgame MCU — the stuff that many MCU fans skipped or didn’t like as much. And Doomsday is rumored to precede a full-on reboot/recast of the MCU. That puts the film between a rock and a hard place.

The Thing from Fantastic Four: First Steps, an orange rock monster wearing a blue sweater with a white collar sucking on his pinky finger