Poso On Starship Troopers, Gay Books Declining, JMS Cries About Getting Snubbed - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
Much like Poso says, I too have read Heinlein. I do think that right-wing people are now much more literate than the left, who seem to only draw their information from what other people say on social media.
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Jack Posobiec Exposed How Hollywood Tried to Make Starship Troopers Into a Parody of the Right, But They Made a Rallying Cry Instead
Jack Posobiec posted this week on a clip of the classroom scene from Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 Starship Troopers, where Johnny Rico asks his teacher Mr. Rasczak whether he should join the Federal Service despite his parents’ objections. Posobiec’s comment: “The libs will never understand Starship Troopers. The right understood it at first glance.”
Publishers Are Lamenting the Collapse of LGBTQ Children’s Books Right as Pride Month Begins
Pride Month starts today and Book Riot primed the sadness as their movement dwindles in cultural relevancy. They put out an article declaring that queer books and authors “are at a breaking point” and calls on readers to join the fight. What the article documents, stripped of its framing, is a market that rejected a product category being pushed on children and the industry now paying the price for that overreach.
Invincible Replaced Its Gay Character Voice Actor With a More Stereotypical Sounding One And The Original Actor Has No Idea Why
Andrew Rannells voiced William Clockwell in every episode of Invincible across its first three seasons. William is Mark Grayson’s best friend, inserted into the show and comics as an openly gay character, and one of the show’s consistent human anchors through increasingly cosmic storylines. Rannells played him with a grounded normalcy that made William…
Bungie Is Killing Destiny 2 To Fund a Game Nobody Wanted An Players Are Review Bombing It In Protest
Bungie announced the final content update for Destiny 2 on June 9, 2026. Active development ends that day. No Destiny 3 is planned. The studio is pivoting entirely to Marathon, its new PvP extraction shooter, which launched in March 2026 to approximately 12,000 concurrent Steam users at peak.
Gaming’s Biggest Annual Event Has a Gayming Pride Parade This Year
Summer Game Fest 2026 runs June 5 through 8, broadcasting from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Around 40 games are expected at the main showcase on June 5, with confirmed or rumored appearances including GTA 6, Marvel’s Wolverine gameplay, Gears of War: E-Day, Phantom Blade Zero, The Witcher 4, Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Blood o…
The Writer Who Broke Spider-Man Was Not Invited to the 1000th Issue Party
J. Michael Straczynski learned he was not invited to Amazing Spider-Man #1000 the same way everyone else did: by reading the solicitation.
Which Sci-Fi Giant Has The Best Chance Of Survival?
Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Star Trek all bet on the same progressive formula over the past few years, and the ratings punished every one of them. The real question for fans isn’t which show is struggling. All three are. The question is which brand still has a road back, and which one is already past saving.
The Man Who Built Star Wars Fandom Shares What the Opening Crawl Actually Said in 1977
May 25, 1977. Star Wars opened in 32 theaters across the United States. Nobody knew what was about to happen.
Black YouTuber Calls For Boycott Of DC Comics #DCSoWhite
A YouTuber running the #DCSoWhite campaign announced Phase Two this week: DC Blackout, a full boycott of DC Comics including clearing his Absolute pull list, over what he describes as 1,200 days without a Black character-led ongoing series in DC’s main continuity.