The Tuesday Edition - Jan 21, 2020
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News, impeachment, politics, U.S. Senate

Today’s Weirdest Impeachment Revelation: Senators Are Only Allowed to Drink Water or … Milk?

A glass of milk being poured.
The Senate has some really weird rules.
Big on the Internet, facial recognition, internet privacy, technology

The App That Lets People Search You via Your Face Is Real and TERRIFYING

A woman's hand holds a smartphone in a pink case.
The end of privacy ... now there's an app for that.
Big on the Internet, baby Yoda, Jabba the Hutt, The Mandalorian

Disney Cracks Down on Unauthorized Baby Yoda Merch While Baby Jabba Sweeps the Internet

jabba the hutt
Gird your loins and say goodbye to your expendable income! Baby Star Wars mania shows no signs of slowing down.
AMP Featured, Books, prequels, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Protagonist of Hunger Games Prequel Series Is Possibly the Worst Person It Could Be

Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Ugh, I'm not surprised or even disappointed; it's just a really weak way to continue a series that has managed to be perfectly relevant so many years after it was released. If not more so.
TV, Batwoman, queer representation

Batwoman Just Came Out to Gotham Because Queer Heroes Matter

Batwoman -- Image Number: BWN106a_0082.jpg -- "I'll Be Judge, I'll Be Jury" -- Pictured: Ruby Rose as Kate Kane/Batwoman -- Photo: Liane Hentscher/The CW -- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Batwoman the hero, not Kate Kane the person, came out within the world of the CW show, letting Gotham city know that she's here, queer, and ... not into the Bargain Chris Evans cop that people were shipping her with.
News, impeachment, Mitch McConnell, politics

Mitch McConnell’s Impeachment Rules Are Absolute Crap

Progressive Democrats of America holds a rally to urge action to "impeach, remove, indict and jail" US President Trump outside the Hart Senate office building in Washington, DC
Donald Trump's impeachment trial started in earnest today after last week's swearing-in and it's shaping up to be as big of a sham as we all expected.
Movies, Disney, The Little Mermaid

Ariel to Have “More Power” in Live-Action Little Mermaid, Whatever That Means

The Little Mermaid (1989)
Daveed Diggs, who's voicing Sebastian in the new film, gave a little bit of a teaser about how Ariel will be transformed into a more "powerful" character.
News, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Hulu

Hillary Clinton Gets Honest About Bernie Sanders in No Holds Barred Interview

hillary clinton
In the past three years, she has written books, she has traveled the world, and now she stars in a four-part documentary series on Hulu, Hillary, where she gives the crew unprecedented access to her personal life.
Movies, Greta Gerwig, Little Women, queer representation

Let Jo March Be a Lesbian, Please

Saoirse Ronan in Greta Gerwig's LITTLE WOMEN.
Jo March in 'Little Women' is gay and it would be great of movies would understand that.
AMP Featured, Books, American Dirt, books, The Mary Sue Book Club

American Dirt Is Not the Immigrant Tale It Was Said to Be

American dirt book cover
Despite claims of authenticity and reviews praising the novel, American Dirt is not the immigrant novel it was advertised to be.
AMP Featured, TV, baby Yoda, contributors, The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian’s Finale Turned This Baby Yoda Skeptic Into a Believer

baby yoda in the mandalorian
I have to be honest: After the first episode of Disney+'s first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, I was a little confused why there was so much fuss about it. The IG-11 fight scene was super fun, but otherwise, the pacing felt slow, and I wasn’t very interested in our masked hero, Mando. It was a little concerning to me when my favorite moment of his was when a suicidal droid was threatening to blow him up.
TV, music, the witcher, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Now The Witcher’s “The Song of the White Wolf” Gets an Awesome Metal Cover Treatment

Brazilian musician Dan Vasc is blessedly back with another metal spin on music from 'The Witcher.'
TV, Dracula, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat

We Need to Talk About Lucy Westenra in the New Dracula

claes bang and lydia west
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Dracula miniseries was met with mixed reviews when it premiered earlier this month on BBC/Netflix.
TV, fandom, queer shipping, Shipping Issues

Fake News: When Fandoms Queerbait Themselves

Dean Wincester and Castiel
Fandom is great hobby and pursuit, but it shouldn't alter your sense of reality.
Big on the Internet

The Problems With Redemption by Death

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren/Ben Solo
We all love a good redemption arc and a good heroic sacrifice. The problem with Redemption by Death is that it is an unfulfilling use of either.
AMP Featured, Big on the Internet, Henry Cavill, period dramas, The Witcher (TV series)

The Best Period Role Looks of Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill in The Tudors (2007); Henry Cavill in Immortals (2011); Henry Cavill in Stardust (2007); Henry Cavill in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
There is something about Henry Cavill in The Witcher that just works, despite the wig and contacts. I think that Henry Cavill works best in an environment where men wear either nothing or lace.
Big on the Internet, Apple TV, LGBTQ Representation, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Visible: Out on Television and LGBTQ+ Representation in Television

ellen degeneres
Apple TV+ just dropped the trailer for their upcoming five-part docuseries about LGBTQ+ representation on television.
TV, Bojack Horseman, Netflix, Raphael Bob-Waksberg

We’re Not Ready to Say Goodbye to Bojack Horseman

bojack horseman
The critically acclaimed series has only 8 episodes left to wrap up its grand Hollywoo saga.
TV, Freeform, Motherland: Fort Salem, witches

We’re Joining the Witch Army of Motherland: Fort Salem

military gay witches in this bitch.
A world without the patriarchy? That's reason enough for us to tune in.
TV, Apple TV, Kumail Nanjiani, Little America

Little America Is a Beautiful Reminder of The American Dream

little america poster
The series was created by Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick), and Lee Eisenberg (The Office), who base each episode off of Epic magazine's column which documents individual stories of the immigrant experience in America.
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