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The Cultural Gutter is dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. And shenanigans. she / her. they / them. whatevs / whatevems. No Fucking Kings. https://culturalgutter.com/
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#Cinemon tonight at 10E, you find yourself stranded far from civilization, only sounds to keep you company. You start to question which sounds are real, in your mind, or if the sounds are even human. We hope you'll join us for Ultra Q and The Twilight Zone. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Goblin Mode Kobolde Style Bugbear Gestalt Githyanki Modus Operandi Ogre It ys A Whole Deal Hill Troll General Approache to Thinges

“Messy queers, romantic entanglements come to life in moody color in ‘How Could You’” culturalgutter.com/2025/06/16/m...

Remember: the Pinkertons were evil. Not just "bad." *Evil*. And Kate Warne never saved Lincoln. The only evidence for the "plot against Lincoln" was in Allan Pinkerton's head. Tell you what: I'll do the Pinkertons thread tomorrow morning.

"Unless you know exactly what about it made you feel the way you want to feel again it’s likely it will be missing that special sauce, and if you’re unlucky it might swallow your original memory whole." culturalgutter.com/2025/06/12/p...

This is how I always wanted to start my Film lessons but I also wanted to keep my job

“Messy queers, romantic entanglements come to life in moody color in ‘How Could You’” culturalgutter.com/2025/06/16/m...

The @criterion.bsky.social just released MISHIMA on 4K - here's the late, great Bryant Frazer on this gorgeous film: filmfreakcentral.net/2018/09/mish...

This is beautiful: denied art supplies, incarcerated artist Juan Hernandez learns to make his own canvasses, and then creates an instructional zine to teach others to do the same. "As the Illinois prison system continues to take away resources from us, we must find creative ways to undo their harm."

The nominees for the 2025 American Manga Awards @MangaAwardsUSA and this year’s Manga Publishing Hall of Fame honorees will be announced this morning on @publisherswkly.bsky.social / @pwcomicsworld.bsky.social

You’ve probably seen this picture before, but did you know it’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of the man in it – Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, who bankrupted his vastly wealthy family estate in under six years?

Fascinating story, about which I knew nothing.

In case you missed yesterday's review, we learned about heroic Estonians keeping poor, thirsty Nordics supplied with drinkies during the region's embrace of Prohibition.

On Father's Day, of all days, it is important to remember to drag the hell out of Victor Frankenstein--douche, tech bro and terrible father. culturalgutter.com/2025/03/13/a...

#HappyFathersDay!

The editor must have known what they were doing in that one bit.

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

This was my last story as an NPR correspondent. It looks at the documented history of Trump touting eugenics, allowing in only white South African refugees, deporting more and more categories of (non white) people, and the opening of an "office of remigration" ... www.npr.org/2025/06/14/n...

Patrick Gill has an excellent video essay on pro wrestling, labor, and the video game Wrestling Empire. culturalgutter.com/2025/06/15/t...

Spite your homophobic dad by buying gay horror zines on father's day 😂

Happy Father’s Day!

You have a RESPONSIBILITY toward your large reanimated corpse son

Happy Father's Day to everyone celebrating except Victor Frankenstein!

Polish poster for SON OF GODZILLA (1967)

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#SpaceApeCinema tonight at 1AM E, the saga continues. Someone is gone and feared never to return, and new love is blooming. Plus, a special guest star may take the size of Tokyo Tower as a personal insult, leaving a large footprint on film history. Join us for ALWAYS ~ SUNSET ON THIRD STREET II.

No kings but...

No Kings but...

It is two thousand twenty-five and you're still writing "paywalled" under someone's post with a link as if you––a person posting on BLUESKY ffs––don't know about the Internet Archive and 12 foot ladder. If this is you, free yourself: 12ft.io

#PrideMonth

No Kings but... #tennis

No Kings but...

“No Kings” Houston, TX

Chicago.

Chicago showed the fuck up!