Just got back from seeing Captain Marvel in theaters, because I wanted to help this movie succeed. To avoid spoilers, all I will say is it's full of twists, and also that this one reviewer was right: Thanos is indeed well and truly FUCKED. If Captain Marvel had been there in Infinity War to fight Thanos, she would have ripped off his arm, stolen ( Read more... )

This is a copy-paste of my Goodreads review of "WWW:Wake" by Robert J. Sawyer ( Read more... )

Okay so this book that I'm reading is really amazing! It's about... There is this intelligence on the Internet that is awakening. An emergent intelligence arising from the Internet apparently from lost packets or something ( Read more... )

Generally speaking, I don't like time travel movies and TV shows. I just find them painful to watch. There's this uncomfortable intensity of "ERMAGERD WE CAN'T RISK CHANGING THE TIMELINE OR WE'LL BE ERASED" and so often the people involved don't really know what they're doing, or they behave in cringey ways about their historical heroes and slip up ( Read more... )

My review of "Record of a Spaceborn Few" by Becky Chambers, third in the Wayfarers series ( Read more... )

(This isn't going to be very organized, I'm just putting down thoughts as I have them ( Read more... )

I finally saw Disney's "Frozen" tonight, after avoiding it so long because of the excess of gifs that came out before the movie did, which were all over Tumblr. (I sometimes avoid doing something that's popular just because it's popular, even if I'd otherwise want to ( Read more... )

Got the Turcom Huion drawing tablet from Amazon today. I just spent several hours trying it out. My verdict: Piece of shit. It works with Windows, but not very well. No matter what you set the pen sensitivity levels to, it doesn't work right. Not for very long, anyway. At first, I couldn't get the brushes to work right with it. Then when I finally ( Read more... )

I recently saw the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" movie again. Ye gods, I must have blocked that piece of shit from my memory. I remembered the third movie being a confusing piece of shit that made me want to drop a ton of books on Guillermo del Toro for bringing that abominable abortion into our world for. But the fifth movie... gods ( Read more... )

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