oh HELL yeah, thank you for the tip!!
Your honor, I love them
The whole rationalist movement seems like an underrated element of the 2010s internet soup that spawned Gamergate and the intellectual dark web, and I know enough to kind of see the shape of what happened but not the details.
Man, I would really love to read a deep dive either on the creation of HPMoR and its consequences, or an analysis of the work itself.
Tanya Huff mention!!! <3
2. Seeing THE SIMPSONS MOVIE with my dad at a random theater in Oklahoma City. My mom had a conference and we were wandering the waterfront and decided to go to a mostly-empty matinee. When they got to the gag about Alaska paying people to live there we both shrieked with (Alaskan) laughter.
Runners up: 1. Seeing INCEPTION on the big screen (with the same friends who watched PONTYPOOL with me!). I remember feeling like I'd just run a race when the hallway fight finished.
I do also think it's worth remembering that one of the Wachowskis talked about approaching Speed Racer as a "cubist film," like, with the explicit desire to take the medium apart and put it together differently. Sometimes they're experimental in a way we're unused to in films of that budget.
Ooh, I should rewatch Jupiter Ascending, too. I remember reading someone fem describing it as "like a 14-year-old girl's fanfic" and I think that reading it in the light of "a teenage girl's fantasy from someone who didn't get to engage with teenage girlhood in a typical way" could be illuminating!