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I Love Boosters (2026) dir. Boots Riley TEASER TRAILER | IN THEATERS MAY 22
Isn't it interesting that a site that's regularly going on about revolution and burning it all down and killing the rich doesn't give a damn about a kid being murdered for being wrongly thought to have stolen some $4 worth of water because he had a gun?
A gun he didn't even show until 3 crazed adults chased him FOR NO REASON over 1000 yards WITH THEIR GUN.
I hope Black people are taking note of the non- response here.
Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.
Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾
Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-
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Toke, Ordinary Lies (Series 2)
GIF from @derekstilinski
*Content: while this review doesn't get into it, be aware that the season involves an ongoing subplot that deals with mental illness and suicidal ideation*
This is an interesting show, although I think the concept might be a little better than the execution, which can be uneven. Also uneven? Joel Fry's screentime, a factor that's baked into the conceit for the show. But when the space is made to showcase him, he's really remarkable in this role.
Coopers Outdoors is a sporting goods company in Cardiff. Similar to the setup on The Office, there's an office where the sales folks make calls to retailers and an attached warehouse where the products are stored/shipped. Each episode focuses on one major character, split evenly between the office and warehouse employees. A character's centric episode gives us insight into who they are outside of work, the hidden dramas that none of their coworkers know about.
Some of the characters' secrets are pretty out there, while others are more grounded. Either way, they usually lead to the episode's centric character spinning out heartily, and that frequently spills over to affect their job performance. We get toxic relationship behavior, illegal activities, complicated family stuff, and all manner of bad/ill-advised decisions, often from people who are just struggling to keep one hand on the wheel when it feels like their life is racing out of control.
One of the most noteworthy things here is that Joe, the office Head of Sales, is played by Con O'Neill. If I'm keeping score correctly, this is the only time Joel Fry worked with one of the Our Flag Means Death cast prior to the series--he and Kristian Nairn were both on Game of Thrones, but their storylines were shot in different countries, and none of their episodes overlapped. It's hard to get used to seeing Con in a middle-manager role where he's like the goofy dad of the office. Aside from my own cognitive dissonance, they definitely try too hard with it at times. There's a scene where Joe quotes Yoda during a team meeting, and when he asks, “Which great philosopher said that?”, everyone is stumped. But it was “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” Come on, that's like the most obvious one! Not one person knew that was Yoda??? I call bullshit!
Toke is the warehouse manager, and he and Joe are pretty good buddies, so a decent amount of Joel Fry's screentime is spent palling around with Con O'Neill (though it's less than the gifsets would have you believe--like, at least 80% of the GIFs I could find of Toke had Joe in them too!) Outside of his centric episode, Toke never has more than a handful of scenes, but I really like this characterization.
The best way I can describe Toke at work is that he's a cheerful grump. He's friendly and funny, but in a way that's slightly cranky and keeps people at arm's length. He's not a joiner. He skips his own after-work birthday drinks (that he begged the office PA not to organize,) and when there are jokes at his expense, you can practically see Toke activating “good sport” mode, allowing others to have their laugh while also radiating that he's counting the seconds until it's over. When he does show up to work functions, he tends to hang back, watching rather than participating.
That characterization is entertaining on its own, and it gets more interesting in light of the revelations we learn in Toke's centric. I’ll save the spoilery details for a later post, but we see that, for his own reasons, Toke takes that arm’s-length approach in his personal life as well, including with his girlfriend. However, the people in his life don’t realize that he actually has this deep wellspring of empathy, and when he lets it out, it hits with all the force of a truck. His capacity to care is overwhelming—for the person it’s focused on, and for him too—and he goes out on numerous limbs for the sake of someone he barely knows, driven by an earnest desire to help that he simply can’t turn off.
This is a really beautiful performance from Joel Fry, all the more so for the contrasts between Toke’s public face and his private one. Joel nails everything: the good-natured brush-offs of Toke’s evasions with his coworkers and girlfriend, the pressure cooker of his frustration as things get more complicated with the person he’s trying to help, and the vulnerability he disguises with jokes and griping. When the script lets Toke unleash the sensitivity he holds back, Joel Fry absolutely commands the screen.
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I'm still thinking about I Love Boosters, like where do I even start with how delightful it is?
I love the way unions are framed as love for your community, and how community is the moral of the story but also showing the dangers of the media preying on people who want that sense of community. I love the friendship between the two main leads and how their personalities realistically clash but how they love each other at the end of the day and are willing to go to hell and back for each other.
I love the examination on how everyone loses in the system, from the people making the clothes for dirt cheap in other countries to the shipment drivers who don't get jobs because the company would rather invest in scifi technology then pay and wait to the store employees who see a fraction of the overall cut to the creative visionaries whose work goes taken and uncredited because of a figurehead and even to the assistant who is putting up with it all for the chance at being a boss.
I see the blatant commentary with making the main antagonist a wealthy white woman and a minor antagonist a white gay man who uses "progressive" language to talk down to his employees of color (or the figurehead of the union eventually being a light skinned woman of color). I love this too, especially paired with the backstory made for the wealthy white woman with implications of her being an underage victim of a white man but still doing massive amounts of harm as soon as she is the one in power.
There is probably a lot more I could be talking about but I don't want to spoil too much for those who want to see the movie plus I know there are things which flew over my head.
It is just a sheer delight with a lot of heart and a really good script with so much blink and you miss it commentary. I hope to own it on DVD.
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Our Flag Means Death - Season one
Grace being aroace, and Project Hail Mary's focus on platonic relationships, is so important to me, for so many reasons.
It's like. Project Hail Mary is a big, popular movie. It has fucking Ryan Gosling in it. And there's not a hint of a romance plotline anywhere! It's all entirely focused on platonic relationships. The friendship between Grace and Rocky is the focus of the movie, and it's so important to the story. They both found someone to be brave for, someone they were willing to die for. Without their friendship and collaboration, neither of them would have been able to save their home planets. Their bond is so close and special and above all their best friends, and it's beautiful.
There's also Grace's relationship with Stratt. Stratt is the main female supporting character. In any other story -- any other story -- I can almost guarantee she would've been the love interest. But she isn't and it's fucking wonderful. Just. Just think about it for a moment. Project Hail Mary is this big blockbuster movie -- and it looked at Eva Stratt and said, we're not going to make her the love interest, because she wasn't in the book and she doesn't need to be. Their dynamic is just as fucked up and wonderful and traumatic when they're friends. That's such an amazing thing to see in such a mainstream movie.
And, of course, it means so much to me that Grace is aroace and that the film (and the book) continuously point this out. He leaves the party when he sees people getting together. He's only had one girlfriend. Half the time he's wearing the colors of the aroace flag. (In the book, he's incredibly confused when people think he and Stratt are sleeping together).
Stratt uses his lack of romantic relationships as a justification for sending him to die, which is heartbreaking, and it felt so real. Because society is constantly telling aroace people that we're worth less because we won't date or get married or have sex, because we don't fit into societal norms. What Stratt said to Grace -- that's something the world is constantly telling us.
And then the movie flips that on its head. It says that it doesn't matter that Grace never had any of that, because he loved living and he loved his students and he was so full of love for everything around him. And he met his best friend in space and their friendship was what made them able to save their homes and each other.
It's just. In a world where there's hardly any aroace representation, having this much of it means so much to me.
YES. 💜🖤🤍🩶
*Project Hail Mary Spoilers*
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I'm losing my mind over Rocky and his tragic backstory guys, every time I think about it it makes me want to cry, like lil dude what do you MEAN all of your 23 crewmates died and you have no idea why, or how you survived, what do you MEAN you've got a mate but they might have moved on because you've been gone for- OVER FORTY YEARS?!? not accounting for space-time wonkiness so it's probably been LONGER?!? BUDDY WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE BEEN ALONE IN SPACE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR RACE WATCHES EACH OTHER SLEEP FOR SAFETY AND YOU HAVEN'T HAD ANYONE TO DO THAT FOR YOU FOR OVER FORTY YEARS?!
It's no wonder Rocky saw Grace's ship and BOOKED IT over there and parked right beside the Hail Mary and watched it intently and started copying everything Grace did to seem as friendly as possible because there was NO way for Rocky to know if the Hail Mary would have friendly aliens on it or not and he was probably just as worried about it as Grace was but also at the same time much more desperate because he'd been on his own for so freaking long trying to solve a problem that was beyond his skill, very confused about multiple things, his whole crew died horrifically and he was just really lonely and sad. (Lucky for him he found a human and we will befriend literally anything)
AND THEN HE GOES AND SAVES GRACE'S LIFE BY- for all he knows- SACRIFICING HIS OWN BECAUSE "You are friend now" NOT EVEN KNOWING THE LENGTHS HUMANS WILL GO TO TO SAVE THE PEOPLE THEY CARE ABOUT (and he's trusting Grace to find a way to save his people too, he's trusting Grace to save Earth AND Erid he believes in his science human 😭)
Anyway I love Rocky I'd die for Rocky and he deserves one thousand hugs (and people to watch him sleep)
"Grace Ryland is Rocky's dog" is such a funny fucking dynamic when you think about it
Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.
So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.
But at the same time... imagine youre one of the first ever cosmonauts to make it into space. Then you meet a 10 year old alien dog who cant do 2+2 without pulling out its calculator. It forgets everything constantly and has to keep notes everywhere, like it basically lives in Memento (2000). Also if it doesnt nap constantly it gets even stupider. And you somehow has to reconcile this with the fact that this dog has a better understanding of physics than your entire civilization does. Like the dog knows how the universe started.
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Stede can hurt Ed, but Ed also has a unique capacity to hurt Stede. In one episode, he feels inadequate at an upper class party, where Ed joins in mocking him; in another, he feels inadequate with “real pirates,” where Ed asks him to stop being uncomfortable and be nice to a man who is mocking him at every turn (and you know would take an opportunity to physically harm him if he got the chance).
But Stede internalizes all his hurt. He smiles and tries to laugh and pretends that it doesn’t hurt. Where Ed can lash out, Stede has a lifetime of repression that has taught him the hurt is really his fault because of what he is, and the best he can do is pretend to smile through it.
I think what we often miss is that the French aristocrats and Jack are two sides of the same coin, and both punish Stede for being unable to fit into their concepts of what people should be. And the worst part is that Ed seems to join them.
I think there are a couple important factors in how these two can hurt each other without meaning to/realizing it. For Ed, he thinks Stede is incredible, always has been, and knows it--Stede is the guy who's "got it all sussed out." Ed probably can't imagine that Stede's been bullied and degraded for much of his life, so he doesn't think Stede would be seriously bothered by Jack or the folks on the party boat. Because Ed is a good code-switcher, he goes along with the "jokes," not realizing how painful it is for Stede. Meanwhile, Stede has no idea how much he matters to Ed, because he's never really mattered to anyone before. He has no idea how badly he can break Ed's heart, because he assumes Ed wouldn't miss him/would be better off without him.
On this day, 305 years ago:
“They’ll never forget the eccentric Pirate Bonnet and his savage, insane, vengeful, pirate horde. See? He’s a pirate. A real, proper pirate.”
JUNE THE 3RD
i bet the world was told the tale of how ryland grace heroically stepped up and sacrificed himself as the science specialist after the explosion. i bet his students were told that their teacher bravely chose to die to save them, all of them. ryland grace, the savior of earth.
no one will ever know he was dragged kicking and screaming. no one will ever see the cctv footage of him running, screaming, begging for his life.
the story they will be told of ryland grace, the savior of the universe, will be a bold faced lie.
and no one will know he did willingly sacrifice himself to save rocky.
no one will know he could have come home. no one will know he finally found his purpose amongst the stars.
That's one world, but there is another in the stars that will know. Because Erid will know.
They will know that there is this highly vulnerable alien, that gave up his home to save theirs. This alien who can somehow perceive what you cannot touch. Who talks about things like 'radiation' and 'light' and 'colours'. He gave up his food and songs and music and something called clothes, with no real duty to them, with no real need, except that one of theirs was his friend. This little thing that is not half as strong as them, not half as long a life, gave up what little he had, gave up every comfort he could have had because one of theirs would have suffered and panicked and died.
And maybe, one day, they will know that his home world was cruel to him. That he attended meetings and helped them with his science so he could save his children, that were not his offspring. And that they hurt him and put him on a suicide mission even though he begged not to go. And that he still saved them too. He did not pettily refuse to give them the Taumebas. They hurt him and he still loved them so much that their betrayal mattered nothing.
And then they may even realise that he saved Erid, this time choosing death. There was no nutrition on their world that he could have. Not until they designed it. There was no way for him to know if they even could. But the sacrifice he was once unwilling to make, he made for them willingly. Because his friend would hurt, and so he chose to hurt instead.
And that despite it all, despite now being the saviour, who would never have to work again, who could have all the riches Erid could offer, all he asked was for a small beach, a smaller house within and to reach their kids. Despite it all, he still just wanted what was best for the future generation.
And then they will know why his name translates to 'mercy'.
i think stories without a romantic subplot are so important actually because i didn’t even realize how much internalized aphobia i had rolling around in there until i saw ryland grace be genuinely happy and fulfilled by platonic relationships
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The most asexual thing I've ever read in a book in my entire life
I feel like there's something so special about seeing Ryland Grace as aroace because a lot of other aspec characters, especially aro characters (either headcanon or canon) are seen as/are cold, not emotional, don't have friends etc
Ryland Grace is a character who has deeply important platonic relationships in Rocky, a connection not only profound enough that it saves two planets, but also so profound that it lead him to turn and around for Rocky.
Even back on Earth, he forms connections with his students, with Carl in the movie, or Dimitri in the book, or Stratt, who has to send him off to die even when she doesn't want to.
Ryland Grace, who cries all the time, and is funny and awkward and allowed to express emotion.
