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The Sydney Sweeney Humlitation Ritual Continues With Sleepy Hollow "Erotic Thriller"
Sydney Sweeney’s latest project, an “erotic thriller” retelling of Sleepy Hollow from Sony, is the newest entry in a pattern that’s been building for years: an actress who’s built her career on a genuine, growing body of serious work keeps getting covered, discussed, and marketed almost entirely as a body first and a performer second, and the coverage treating her that way is often the most explicitly hostile part of it.
Magic: The Gathering Doubles Down On Race-Swapped Aragorn In New The Hobbit Set
Magic: The Gathering just confirmed what a few weeks of quiet previews had suggested might not happen this time around. Aragorn is back, and he’s still Black.
Terry Brooks Handed Shannara to Delilah Dawson, And His 2019 Political Meltdown Explains Why
Terry Brooks announced his retirement from writing at Emerald City Comic Con in March 2025, handing primary authorship of the Shannara series to Delilah S. Dawson. Brooks, 81, said he would stay on in an advisory role while Dawson took over the actual writing going forward.
House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 5 Review: Three Episodes Left and Nothing Left to Say
House of the Dragon has reached episode 5 of its third season, and the verdict from this corner is blunt: the show has stopped being interesting. Titled by fan consensus “Aemond Joy” since HBO withheld an official name, the episode splits its runtime across Harrenhal, King’s Landing, and the Riverlands without ever landing a punch.
Savage Sword of Conan #15 Delivers Pulp Thrills and a Career-Best Backup From Titan Comics
Titan Comics released The Savage Sword of Conan #15 this month, and the lead story stitches together a serviceable Conan tale that struggles with pacing but lands its pulpiest beats.
Even Emily Wilson Thinks Nolan Botched It: The Translator Behind His Own Script Is Distancing Herself From The Film
Christopher Nolan built his Odyssey script around Emily Wilson’s celebrated 2017 translation, crediting her opening line, “Tell me about a complicated man,” as direct inspiration. Now that the film has opened to $260 million worldwide and a string of glowing reviews, Wilson herself is telling the Associated Press it left her unsatisfied.
Fans Are Making the Star Trek Paramount Won’t
Star Trek fans have spent years watching the franchise chase prestige TV instead of the character-driven storytelling that built its audience. Aftermath, a fan audio production, fills that gap with a new ship, a new crew, and clear reverence for what made Trek work in the first place.
Vox Day Launches Byron AI Crowdfund To Beat Amazon’s Coming Textual AI Push
Vox Day has opened a crowdfunding campaign through Infogalactic for Byron AI, an independent text-generation project built specifically for fiction writers. The campaign, live now on IndieCrowdfund, positions itself as a proof of concept for an AI trained on the epic fantasy genre rather than general-purpose code and business writing.