So. About that preview of dub!America. More specifically, about that line dub!America gets, where he tells England to do a suicide charge "like the Light Brigade" and tells Russia to "keep sending us your cannon fodder ( Read more... )

I don't have much to add to what my girlfriend already said, but goddamn.

I have never, ever been so ashamed to be part of a fandom, and may every single dumbfuck who performed the Nazi salute in Germany cosplay at a convention photoshoot be visited by the face of Jewish vengeance, because words fail to express how deeply NOT OKAY that is ( Read more... )

warning: links and videos in this post might be triggering.

So between Amy Dickinson utterly failing to get why saying that a rape victim was the "victim of her own horrible judgment" is not only inappropriate but heinous and a thirteen-year-old girl committing suicide when the adults in her life subjected her to a campaign of shame because she ( Read more... )

Do not know if NYAF will get full con report, as the con itself was -- not great. Overcrowded and overpriced ($4 for a bottle of water!), under-paneled, Javitt Center kicking people out at seven and ten on Friday and Saturday respectively, and even the supposed big draw of the con, the dealer's room, didn't have a whole lot I was interested in. ( ( Read more... )

I've been avoiding the current warnings debacle not out of fear of reprisal, but because the whole thing makes me nauseous. Quite literally. And until recently, I have not trusted myself to make a post that doesn't consist of the words "FUCK YOU" repeated over and over again ( Read more... )

Regarding recent events in California: I want to summon the energy to say something on this issue, to say anything, but what more can I say that hasn't already been said? The Supreme Court's ruling is, unfortunately, not an aberration; it is yet another example of the kind of bullshit I and every other queer-identified American have to go through ( Read more... )

By now, I think everyone's heard of Amazon's rather spectacular fail.

My initial anger has subsided somewhat. Somewhat. I am calm enough to actually make this post instead of sitting in front of my computer sputtering in outrage. Do I think there's a culture of homophobia at Amazon? Not necessarily. Dear Author offers a plausible hypothesis, as ( Read more... )

Three questions.

a) Why are you all writing about mental illness?

b) Why are the vast majority of you getting it so so WRONG?

c) Have you people considered researching these topics before you write about them? Pretty pretty please? I mean, these resources exist. Trust me. Just go to the library. Hell, go to Google ( Read more... )

*rant mode: ON ( Read more... )