Science fiction has always been a way to talk about the problems that you’re not allowed to talk about. It has this magical property to look like nothing to censors and conservatives while being a bolt of lightning to anyone who’s paying attention.

…And with that comment forming in my head, I realize something.

Andor is largely considered better than the average Star Wars and I wholeheartedly agree. But now I fully understand why I agree.

I have been watching Star Trek since I was a kid. And while I was lured in with space travel and aliens and time travel and cool effects, I appreciate it more now because of the intelligent messaging of acceptance and understanding that has been a part of its identity from the beginning. No amount of campy acting or cardboard sets will diminish my love for Trek because of that.

Andor elevates Star Wars to that level. Star Wars has always been a classic tale of good vs evil. But it’s primarily fun, action-orientated entertainment. Andor is much more than that. Andor is Star Wars with the intelligent messaging of acceptance and understanding (and the dangers of failing to do so). It’s not just very good Star Wars, not just very well-produced Star Wars, it’s a whole new evolution of the brand into something so much more important than simply seeing the bad guy lose.

It’s shocking that Disney allowed Andor to be Andor. Except that it’s not. Mickey Mouse can’t make a moral stand against genocide, but Andor can. Because science fiction has always had the ability to make a pointed message look like safe, surface-level entertainment to some people while also having tremendous meaning to other people.

Thank you, Tony Gilroy. Hope to see more in the future.

They both opened the Ark of the Covenant while listening to a Memorex tape.

Get a content blocker that lets you maintain a whitelist of sites that don’t have their content muted and paused by default. I don’t even let YouTube autoplay.

“Drop a like!”

Nature is healing.

The latest post is 17 days ago. Looks like another instance defederated from yours.

By the laws of capitalism combat as written by Dow Jones, you are the boss now.

The most active community is !jellyfin@poweruser.forum.

Edit: Also try !selfhosted@lemmy.world, a LOT more people there.

And small as it may be, you will get paid better for your minotaur smut than you will for all your non-smut writing combined.

Now this is a shower thought.

Interesting social test to see who turns around.

Making your favorite meal is not autistic, everyone goes back to the things they like.

(Watching the entirety of The Office 50 times might be autistic.)

“Do you know what happens to a creepy guy in a lightening storm?”

Caller WhyD

Green: “We think everyone should exist peacefully together.”

Orange: “We believe you should all be shot!”

This shithead: “Why don’t you two find a way to meet in the middle?”

When people say, “Ew, a skeleton.” but they also have a skeleton:

“I just want you to be happy, Dave.”

“Goodnight, son.”

“Oh, dad, by the way, I need to rent a tuxedo for class tomorrow. It’s part of my grade.”

It’s hard to get people to donate blood at all, and O is the rarest type. It probably happens a lot. And if they’re out of something else, O is universal blood so maybe some gets used for a guy with AB-. But people with O can only take O.