scraeming [he/him]

Dune in the style of French New Wave. Just a bunch of mundane conversations laden with layers of metaphor and subtext, and a bunch of unhinged, non-diegetic cuts to paintings and ordinary household objects as puns and visual metaphors for the dialogue.

The movie will run four and a half hours and only about fifteen minutes of it will not involve someone monologuing at length.

Oh yeah whoops I accidentally left out the bit about them being “left-adjacent at best” when I rewrote my reply, but yeah you’re right.

it wouldn’t surprise me if Thiel money has made its way through the leftist podcast scene

I think there was a scoop yesterday that some Thiel acolyte tacitly admitted that Anna K and Red Scare have received Thiel money to fund their podcasts, along with some other people in that sphere, so it’s not much of a stretch.

a lot of cringe “The Empire is super evil but it’s the only thing stopping humanity from being wiped out” bs

Which would still work fine if done with a satirical bent, if the overall theme of these stories was a kind of fatalistic “we could have stopped this” angle, rather than the cynical, psychotic banality of the worst evils mankind can inflict on the universe being the best we could have ever hoped to do.