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James Whitbrook
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Lead Editor at @io9.com and @gizmodo.com. Questionable taste in puns, sci-fi, and video games. 🏳️‍🌈│He/Him │Icon by @joehunter.bsky.social ❤️
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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · Jun 25
Me, at any given opportunity
A screenshot from Turn A Gundam. The city of Nocis lies in ruin, smoke spewing from multiple areas. Yelling from in the distance, the subtitled dialogue of Corin Nander simply reads "GUNDAM!"
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something something my heated rivalry something something
A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. The Turian and Asari councillors, as well as human ambassador Udina, stand as Kaidan, wearing blue spectre armor, draws a pistol on Shepard. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Kaidan, now wearing short-sleeved Alliance fatigues, salutes Shepard as they stand outside the Normandy's dock. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard walks up to Kaidan as he leans forward looking out of the Normandy's observation deck, resting his right arm across the glass. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Kaidan and Shepard stand very close to each other, staring into each other's eyes.
January 3, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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mfw kai leng
A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard snarls as he fires off shots with a pistol. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard looks concerned as warning holograms inside a car flare up in front of him. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard begins to lower his pistol, his eyes filled with the kind of sadness only seen in European gay porn. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard aims his pistol in front of a burning Alliance shuttle craft, looking mildly annoyed.
January 3, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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new year, new opportunities to keep yapping about cassian jeron andor
'Andor' Season 2's Opening Remains One of Its Best Moments
Welcome to the circle.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Tuchanka nights with the very model of a scientist salarian 😭
A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard, Liara, and Garrus move into cover at a Krogan artillery emplacement. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Liara, Shepard, and Garrus take cover in some Krogan ruins as a large Reaper harvester—a winged, dragon-esque bio-organic creature—howls in its death throes. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Garrus fires on a charging Reaper brute as it lunges towards Shepard and Liara. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Mordin, surrounded by flames, works away at a computer interface displaying several angry warnings about the Shroud, an angular tower structure projected in a red hologram.
January 2, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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I'm normal I'm normal I'm normal I'm normal I'm normal I'm so normal
A photo of the SH Figuarts figures of Char Aznable and Challia Bull. They stand almost back to back, Challia wearing is own mask, as they hold their right hands to their chins in an incredibly homoerotic mirror pose.
January 2, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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you can have this or you can have the digital homunculus of mark hamill
A screenshot from Heated Rivalry. On a beach at low sunset, Ilya and Shane sit next to each other, their hands drifting closer to each other's.
January 2, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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What do you mean they just stood there staring at each other for like 5 hours
A screenshot from Heated Rival. Shane Hollander, equipped with the kind of sad eyes you expect from either a puppy dog or eastern european pornography, stands staring in the dark lights of a club as people dance around him.
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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there's more time skips in this first episode than there is gay sex

and there's a LOT of gay sex
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“How does this have a more confusing timeline than most of the science fiction I consume?”

- @jwhitbrook.bsky.social’s adorable ass while watching HEATED RIVALRY
January 1, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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It's midnight in the UK, so it's our turn to enter 2026. 2025 was an incredibly challenging one, personally and professionally, and I am very happy to be leaving it behind! Onwards and upwards.
A screenshot from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Char smiles as he sits cross legged, holding a glass of red wine.
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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this is happening again thanks to For Good coming out on digital and I am begging people to learn even the tiniest little bit about how making the things that you love actually works
jwhitbrook.bsky.social James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · Jan 3
tiktok and the release of wicked on digital has taught me that so many people so very little about the making and releasing of movies that it's kind of wild
December 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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getting up at 2am having just watched 3 hours of Andor season 2 screeners and wanting to vomit at how good Mon Mothma crashing out was knowing that I could not talk about it for *weeks*
theswu.bsky.social The Star Wars Underworld @theswu.bsky.social · 2d
Discussion: With 2025 coming to a end, what was your FAVORITE Star Wars project this year be it show, book, comic or something else.

#StarWars
December 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I'm on it.
A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. Zeztz runs forward. A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. Zeztz plants his feet wide, holding his hands up in a defensive stance. A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. Zeztz leaps forward through the air, holding his Breakam Zezter in sword mode above his head in both his hands. A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. Zeztz draws the thumb of his right hand across the lower half of his helmet.
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Good morning, Rider!
A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. In his standard green, red, and black colours of his physicam impact form, Zeztz stands with the thumb of his right hand on the activation trigger of his Rider belt, slung around his chest over his left shoulder. A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. Zeztz holds up the physicam impact capsem, a small globe capsule, removed from the central slot of his Rider belt. A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. Zeztz runs forward, aiming the gun mode of his Breakam Zezter in his outstretched right hand. A photo of the SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Zeztz. Zeztz leaps through the air, leading a kick with his left leg.
December 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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the goat line holder returns
A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard and Garrus talk to now-Major Kirrahe, wearing dark black Salarian STG armor. Shepard casually leans on a nearby wall, as Garrus holds a hand out to Kirrahe. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Kirrahe points his Scorpion heavy pistol at the prone body of a Cerberus trooper. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Kirrahe breaks from cover, strafing as he squeezes off shots from his pistol. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Now holding a mattock rifle, Kirrahe crouches to take cover behind a small plant bed.
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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rhea seehorn universes beyond when
December 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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furious that seemingly everyone at work but me has managed to start the gay hockey show

I'm meant to be the homosexual here!!!!!!!!
December 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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won't be doing a round up of things I wrote this year, but it's always fascinating to look back at the stories that clicked most with people across a year

thank you for putting up with me screaming about Doctor Who nosediving a lot
December 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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glad to be playing this game for another week or two
Thor Dreads Loss in the Latest 'Avengers: Doomsday' Trailer
Chris Hemsworth returns as the god of thunder in our latest look at the next 'Avengers' movie.
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December 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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being a hater does occasionally bring out the best in me, however
December 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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it's been four years since I punished myself by actively recapping a Star Wars show
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THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT premiered on this day 4 years ago
December 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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all the little side missions in ME3 just remind me that Legendary Edition cutting the multiplayer was such an own goal from making it the definitive versions of the game 😭
A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard and Garrus move through a Cerberus lab, firing their weapons as they do so. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Liara and Garrus crouch to take cover, the latter popping out from behind his to aim with his sniper. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Liara, Shepard, and Garrus fire on Cerberus troopers caught in a biotic singularity. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard unleashes a biotic punch, sending a Cerberus Centurion flying to the floor, their armor sparking with electrical overload, as another Centurion watches.
December 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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when I transferred over all the screenshots from my first play through of ME Legendary Edition on the PS5 to my PC, there were 691 screenshots

pretty fitting that this was the *692nd* to come from my current PC playthrough
A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Kaidan, lying shirtless in a hospital bed and with his face scarred and bruised, says in subtitled dialogue "Are you flirting with me, Commander? Wait, wait! Don't tell me. Let me live in the illusion."
December 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Futzed around with Cyclops some more and damn this figure, while having its own little quibbles (likely thing for Scott Summers to have a big back arch but no ab crunch), is so so fun
A photo of the SH Figuarts Cyclops. Scott stands with his right hand on his hips, smirking as he presses the fingers of his left hand onto the side of his visor, as it crackles with a small spark of red kinetic energy emitting from the right edge of the emitter. A photo of the SH Figuarts Cyclops. Scott plants himself low, yelling and looking to his left as he crosses his flat palms over his chest in an X shape.
December 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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pallin' around on palaven's moons
A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. James and Shepard provide covering fire from behind a rock while Liara works at a terminal on an elevated platform behind them. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Garrus takes cover as Shepard opens fire from a large mounted gun emplacement. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. Shepard opens fire with his pistol as a Reaper Brute—a large, hulking skeletal abomination with a turian-esque head and large claws—takes a running swing at him. A screenshot from Mass Effect 3. James, Shepard, and Garrus open fire from cover.
December 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM