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An Open Letter to Trey Parker and Matt Stone: Let Tweek and Craig’s Story Continue Without Turning Fandom Into a Battleground
Dear Trey Parker and Matt Stone, I have long been a devoted follower of South Park and feel a genuine connection to its characters. While the comedy is something we all appreciate, what truly makes these stories memorable is the characters themselves and the bonds between them.
By Jenna Deedy9 days ago in Geeks
I Got Bored of Blockbuster TV, Then Five British Shows Woke Me Up
American shows are like mutton hot pot: big portions, thick meat, a rolling broth, and one bite gives you full satisfaction. British shows are like cold-tossed radish skin: crisp, sharp, a little spicy. After too much hot pot, one plate of radish skin and your head clears.
By Jin11 days ago in Geeks
Make It So: Remembering Patrick Stewart, the Captain Who Taught Us What Dignity Sounds Like
I found out the way we all find out now. A push notification, a headline I had to read twice, and then the quiet that follows when someone you never met but somehow knew is gone.
By Lawrence Lease13 days ago in Geeks
The Short-Drama Boom Isn’t a Storytelling Win. It’s a Bill Sent to Cinema.
The claim circulated for weeks: Redov, the short-drama app launched by ByteDance three years ago, was on pace to earn more than 40 billion yuan in 2026, enough to match or overtake China’s total annual box office. On October 27, Redov’s official account issued a statement. The revenue figures, including “annualized approaching 40 billion” and “420 to 450 billion this year,” were untrue. The “institutional data” and “expert projections” behind them were not official information, and the comparisons built on them had no factual basis.
By Jin15 days ago in Geeks
Reviewing Season One of "Coven Academy"
I remember when the news broke about Coven Academy months ago; I was very excited to hear about this. I was all in quickly, and I had my reasons, especially a main one, but more on that later. Within the first few minutes that I watched this, I noticed that Coven Academy was basically Pretty Little Liars meets Charmed (either version works). I expected a lot in this show, but what I didn't expect was vampires... especially within the first two minutes of the series! But yeah, witches, warlocks, vampires, and yes, werewolves in this thing. But let's get to the plot (Warning: there are spoilers).
By Clyde E. Dawkins16 days ago in Geeks
Scott Douglas Jacobsen’s Opening Address to the Fifth International Conference on Holography and Its Applications (ICHA 2026)
Scott Douglas Jacobsen opens International Conference on Holography and its Applications (ICHA) 2026, hosted by Damghan University, highlighting holography, quantum information, cosmology, machine learning, and emergent gravity. He thanks organizers, advisers, and speakers, emphasizing international collaboration and the shared scientific effort to understand connections among geometry, matter, information, and gravity through rigorous discussion, research, and scholarly publication.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen19 days ago in Geeks
The Face of the Safe Bet
Watch enough recent Japanese anime and you get a specific kind of exhaustion. In an isekai show, a truck comes over the hill. The male lead opens his eyes on a grassland. His hair has changed color. His soul has not. In a school show, he sits in the back row by the window. By the third week, the three prettiest girls in school have had lunch with him, argued with him, and nearly bumped into him at a hallway corner. The genre changes. The setting changes. The girls’ hair colors change. The male lead looks injection-molded from the same template: not proactive, not offensive, not sharp, slightly self-deprecating, occasionally dense, and always able to say the right thing at the critical moment.
By Jin19 days ago in Geeks
What Survival Would Cost: Jun Maeda’s Cancer Decision
On October 19, 2026, Key released an announcement. The wording was tight and the facts were specific. Jun Maeda had felt throat discomfort since early spring. By summer, swelling and pain had worsened. After examination, he was diagnosed with pharyngeal cancer. After “repeatedly and carefully weighing his own condition and the prospects of treatment,” he decided not to pursue active treatment and to receive mainly palliative care. He wanted to “preserve his stamina and focus on creative work.” The announcement also described the work: the portions of Heaven Burns Red ’s main story through the first part of Chapter 6 that he was responsible for were complete, and the main story needed to finish Chapter 6 was written. The new music project, originally planned for long-term operation, would now focus on completing currently conceived songs as quickly as possible and releasing them one after another.
By Jin23 days ago in Geeks
MUSK The God Player. Top Story - October 2026.
I have watched this four-hour (!) documentary but it didn't feel like it was four hours. A 10-minute intermission in the middle helped, but the documentary itself was engaging and pulling in the ways I didn't expect.
By Lana V Lynx23 days ago in Geeks
Which Gambit was Better?
Have you ever doom-scrolled and found a video you felt needed a blog because the comment section was too short and limited? Trust me, it's happened to me a lot. I came across a video about the live-action X-Men character Gambit. The video is called “Is Channing Tatum’s Gambit really that bad? The video was made by YouTuber Cinefrenzylab; check out the channel and like their videos.
By stephanie borges25 days ago in Geeks
What If Iman Vellani Helped Shape Marvel’s Future? Turning Superhero Fandom Into a Global Movement for Literacy and the Arts.
Picture this: Marvel shifting its focus away from securing A-list stars for the upcoming Avengers movie, the Disney+ show slated for next year, or even from the whole notion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it.
By Jenna Deedy27 days ago in Geeks
Love Furry shorts
What do you say, we take a trip undergrrround? Not “Underground” with 1 R but with 3 R’s. I am talking about some animated shorts under 30 seconds about two anthropomorphic canines. They live together as human couples do. One is a hyena named Diesel, and the other is his girlfriend, Roxie, a wolf. If you haven't heard of this interesting show, you might want to check it out on YouTube. I came across it in the suggestions notifications tab while watching more video clips of the famous Miss Chiff, written and created by Dreamshorizon.
By stephanie borges28 days ago in Geeks