Superman 2025 Is Both the Classic Superman We Know and Perfect for the Moment

We get that young man who just wants to help everyone, but we also get a more intersectional vision of the world he is helping. He might be American, but he isn’t just interested in the well-being of Americans. In fact, the incident, which starts the movie, but actually happens before the movie starts, is him stopping a foreign war.

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My Top 10 Favorite Adult Animated Movies

First, not that kind of adult.

Here I am, sitting in a guesthouse in Tórshavn (that would be the capital of Faroe Islands, a town with a whopping 14k people) that functions as a student dormitory during the semester and somehow this idea for a post pops in my head. No idea why. This isn’t a sly joke or anything. I just found it weird I came up with this idea when looking at the skeletons of a pilot whale and an orca hanging from the ceiling of the National Museum. The problem with this is that I can’t rewatch any of these right now, so this is based on my memories of these movies (which has been waning, but here we are).

But why do we tend to think of animations as children’s entertainment? There is nothing inherently child-like in animation. It is just another production method or, more precisely, a set of methods.

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The Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post, 2025 Edition – My Head Canon of Fever Ray’s First Three Albums

Here we go again: I am boringly cis and straight white male, so I always need to be careful about what I say, because I am naturally going to be ignorant of many things, because I don’t have to experience them myself. I am in many ways shielded from the world. This is just part of my learning process and I hope people can be patient with me.

While my last post was just me thinking out aloud, I think this is more celebratory and thus more in the spirit of Pride.

Who is Fever Ray anyhow?

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The Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post, 2025 Edition – How Forgiving Should We Be to the Past?

I was reading a book called Making Movies by Sidney Lumet and I have problems with it.

Also, my usual caveat. I am boringly cis and straight white male, so I always need to be careful about what I say, because I am naturally going to be ignorant of many things, because I don’t have to or have a chance to experience them myself. I am in many ways shielded from the world. I am not trying to get angry on anyone’s behalf. I’m just basically thinking out aloud.

Also, Pride Month is supposed to be celebratory and this isn’t.

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