Monday Musing: PhDs
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Friday Thought: Hate-Watching
July 2025 Update
It’s the beginning of the third quarter, so we have another JK Geekly update for you. Hey, hey, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. JK Geekly has continued a once-a-day production schedule for several months now. Woo hoo! We’re keeping a couple of months ahead with most of our schedule, so by the time you’re reading this, we’re probably working on autumn/winter posts. Autumn and winter already? Is 2025 ending this quickly? Yikes!
Quizzes
We kept up with our quizzes, but we may slow production of one or two types (multiple choice and matching). Not too many people are viewing these. Instead, we have a new quiz type: Sweet Emoji. These quizzes will have a topic and a set of emojis for clues. Can you figure out what each clue means based on the emojis?
Next month (August 2025) will feature a Sweet Emoji quiz every Tuesday and Thursday. When the calendar reaches September, we’ll weave Sweet Emojis with Color Palettes, Timelines, and Multiple Choice/Matching. Multiple choice and matching won’t go away entirely; they’ll just alternate on the day one would appear. Let us know if you like this new kind of quiz.
TV Show and Movie Reviews
Geekly began posting TV show and movie reviews the day after the show or movie dropped, but we’ve found that the Friday or Saturday (or even the following Monday) after the show or movie drops is plenty of time to gather our thoughts and provide a longer breakdown of what we think. We’ll continue with this trend going forward. Let us know if you have a preference for when we release show and movie reviews or first impressions.
Whatcha Series
The Whatcha series is going strong. The Geekly Gang enjoys sharing what they’ve been doing over the past month, and you get to know us better. We’ll continue cycling through “Whatcha Playing?,” “Whatcha Watching?,” “Geekly Tunes,” and “Whatcha Reading?” every Wednesday in that order. You won’t have to wait long to see what the Geekly Gang has been getting into lately. Feel free to share what you’ve been playing, watching, listening to, and reading. We’re all part of the Geekly Gang.
Friday Potpourri Turning Into Writing/Design Diaries
Sure. We mentioned TV show and movie reviews earlier, but that’s only one type of post you may see on a Friday. Geekly has been testing the waters with memes, Geekly castings (where we fan-cast upcoming movies), and deep dives. Our first Geekly casting involved the MCU X-Men. Our first deep dive was Autism Representation in the Big Bang Theory. Let us know which of these posts you like best. We’ll continue with Geekly castings and deep dives, but they’ll be woven in with our usual Monday/Saturday posts. This will free up Fridays for writing and game design diaries.
Kyra Kyle will get even more personal with their writing and game design process. Beginning this September, they’ll alternate between the two diary types.
Quick scheduling note for this month’s deep dive. With so many releases occurring during July (the bulk of IronHeart, Superman, and Fantastic Four: First Steps), we won’t have another deep dive until August, but we’ll make up for it with a double dose of deep dives.
JK Geekly Discord Server
We haven’t seen many people join the JK Geekly Discord Server. We’re struggling to advertise it. We’ll post it here again and see if we get any new users and figure out other ways to promote the server. We’d love to see you on Discord, Geekly Gang.
Closing Thoughts
That’s all we have for now. We’ll have another one of these posts ready for October. Until then, stay safe, thank you for reading, and wherever you are, we hope you’re having a great day.
Monday Thought: Listening to RFK Jr.
Friday Potpourri: Food
Friday Thought: Fake Dinosaurs
Friday Thought: May 16, 2025
Today’s Vibe
April 2025 Update
Here is the second of our quarterly JK Geekly updates. I don’t know if we’ll continue doing these. Let me know if you like to see them coming. I figured this would be a good way to let folks know what we’re up to and what we have planned.
Hey, hey! Kyra Kyle here. Geekly has been chugging along with our new editor Season and new writer Skye. We’re staying a good couple of months out with our schedule. By the time you’re reading this, we’re probably working on summer posts. Yay!
Our regularly scheduled content being set this far in advance affords us to review the occasional TV show or movie. We’ve increased our weekly content.
Quizzes
We’ve been releasing color palette quizzes for the past few months. We hope you’re enjoying them. Here’s a link to the ones we’ve already produced. A new color palette quiz has been released each Thursday. Which ones are your favorite? Which franchises would you like to see get a color palette quiz?
We also reintroduced older quizzes that Geekly used to make and began posting alternating quizzes (among multiple-choice, matching, and timeline quiz types) every Tuesday. Since we have plenty of color palette quizzes (to match the number of the other quizzes), we’ll begin cycling through all four quiz types (to include color palettes) every Tuesday and Thursday. We’ll continue with this schedule until at least the next update in July. Let us know which quiz type you like best.
TV Show and Movie Reviews
Geekly has been keeping up with the weekly release of Disney+ and Max shows centered around the Marvel and DC Universe. We plan on covering some more movies, specifically ones that will release this summer. We can’t wait for Fantastic Four and Superman. Summer 2025 movies are looking great.
Let us know if there are any shows or movies you’d like for us to cover that we aren’t already covering.
Geekly News
We’re still figuring out how we want to present Geekly News. Should we go with a big headline with smaller stories throughout the week or weeks? Or should we come out with focused news stories for individual topics? We could always do a weekly Geekly News with no headline, too. In short, Geekly News is a work-in-progress.
New Weekly Posts
The Geekly Gang is filling out the rest of its weekly schedule with two different types of posts. We’ll start with the Whatcha Wednesday posts. Each Wednesday, the Geekly Gang will share which games they’ve played, shows/movies they’ve watched, books they’ve read, and even which songs made the previous month’s soundtrack. Feel free to join in the fun, because you’re part of the Geekly Gang, too.
Our other weekly post is inspired by Harper Ross, one of JK Geekly’s commenters. These posts will be called Geekly Casting and will be released one Friday each month, starting with April 18, 2025. Skye’s our resident movie geek, so she’ll share her ideas on who should play certain roles. Season likes to conduct research, so she’ll unearth casting rumors. And my contributions may vary. We’ll see. Again, you’re more than welcome to share who you think should play which role, Geekly Gang.
But Geekly Casting will only post on one Friday of each month. The rest of the Fridays will have various posts. We’ll make it up as we go for Potpourri Friday.
Fantasy and Mythological Creatures
We’ve struggled to get the fantasy and mythological creatures series off the ground. We figured this might be the case. It’s difficult to coordinate with more people, but we will produce this series whenever we get the chance.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Geekly intends to release a series of game mechanism posts where we send game designers a questionnaire about specific game mechanisms. XD We do intend to do this and hopefully, the pitfalls we encountered with the fantasy and mythological creatures project will inform us on what to do with the board game mechanism series.
JK Geekly Discord Server
We started a JK Geekly Discord Server. We’ll try to be active on this server as much as possible. Discord could help with reaching out to potential content creators and you. We’re all part of the Geekly Gang. Let us know what kind of posts you’d like to see. We could even hang out on the server and play games. Who knows?
Closing Thoughts
That’s all we have for now. We’ll have another one of these posts ready for July. Until then, stay safe, thank you for reading, and wherever you are, we hope you’re having a great day.
Harley Quinn: “Bottle My Heart” Review
Season’s Thoughts
“Bottle My Heart” took a turn this week. I have a hunch about the ending, but we’ll get to that later. Who’s ready for some “Brainiac: The Musical?”
“Bottle My Heart” didn’t take off into too many different subplots and focused on one story line. That was a nice change of pace since we’ve weaved in and out of side stories in previous episodes in Season 5. Since that’s the case, I have a feeling the rest of Season 5 will remain focused as the season finale ramps up.
Lena Luthor switching sides is always entertaining. She didn’t get her end of the deal from Brainiac, so she turned on him. I wasn’t sure how they were going to have the other characters find out about Brainiac, but this was fun. I hope Lena’s true colors stay out for the remainder of Harley Quinn Season 5.
Despite the campiness of “Brainiac: The Musical,” it covered loss. Harley Quinn has covered loss in the past with the death of Mr. Freeze. Frank passed at the end of “Bottle My Heart,” which hit differently than Mr. Freeze’s death. We’ve been with Frank since “‘Til Death Do Us Part” back in Season 1. I’ll admit, some tears welled up when I watched this scene.
On to my hunch. I’m pretty sure Brainiac poisoned Frank in some capacity. At the end of “Bottle My Heart,” Brainiac says, “Now you know what it feels like.” I’m not sure if he poisoned Frank to get at Ivy, Harley, or both of them. He seems more fixated on Harley. Maybe we’ll get some answers next week.
One last question: Did you remember your hemorrhoid cream?
Kyra’s Take
I like how Harley Quinn tied up loose ends last week. The creative team abandoned the Gotham City Sirens storyline and gave that storyline closure, so they can concentrate on Brainiac this week and going forward. I agree with Season that Harley Quinn will (and should) focus on this singular story, with maybe a side story here and there (we might get at least one more Shaun the Shark sighting), for the remaining four episodes.
I don’t know how Alan Tudyk does it. He voices Clayface, portraying Brainiac and singing in a musical with his character’s usual flourishes. Ko–Kooooh! Awesome!
Lena Luthor always looks out for herself. Harley, Ivy, and the gang’s desires match hers for now. I wonder how much Lena regrets telling the gang about Brainiac’s plan to bottle Metropolis. She hopes they will write an expose about Brainiac and alert Metropolis’s citizens of their impending doom. She says as much to Poison Ivy as they watch from box theater seats, but as Ivy says, “This (a musical) is what they came up with.” I like Lena’s jabs at Harley’s costume choice. She would never wear that tacky blazer.
The musical has an effect, but it’s not the one the gang planned. Metropolis citizens sympathize with Brainiac’s story. To be fair, Brainiac and Mr. Freeze’s backstories parallel and both are tragic. Brainiac lost his family. His only tether to his past is Koko, but Koko is long gone. Brainiac: The Musical opens his eyes to this loss, which is heart-breaking, and Brainiac (presumably) poisons Frank. This won’t be the end of Brainiac’s terror.
Thank you for reading, and wherever you are, I hope you’re having a great day.
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