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( Semi-coherent, not really spoilery )

Regarding the now-infamous Spearhead rant about how we should all leave science fiction in the manly, possessive hands of the virile, heterosexual males for the good of society, damnit:

What Annalee Newitz just said.

I saw the rant linked from a jimhines post on demographics in SFF anthologies, brought on by some of the recent Internet controversy. ( Read more... )

Minor spoilers for last week's Supernatural below.On the most recent ep of Supernatural, my gleeful Thursday night guilty pleasure, Dean Winchester gets dragged kicking and just about screaming to a worst case scenario Satanic future. There he discovers that a) Future!Dean is a hardassed sunuvabitch and b) President Sarah Palin has bombed my city ( Read more... )

About the Inferno/Comic Con schebang.

I love you, Carl.

"You have to be careful!" shoyesainomiko warned me the first time I went to a con. "Don't smile at them. Don't let them sense weakness."

"You have to be forceful," brainmuffin said emphatically.

"Well, yeah, but I'm not gonna be rude"Sometimes you have to be rude! It's the only thing that penetrates their skulls ( Read more... )

What's that you say? Get a life? Never!

The first one is absolutely for brainmuffin.
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Your result for The Supervillain Archetype Test...

The Professional

Cool, Levelheaded, Lethal


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Every time, it's the same struggle.

The new Harry potter movie is coming out!

But it will probably be dreadful.

But it looks like it might be good!

But it will never be as good as the books.

But it's your duty as a Potterhead to see it, and complain in a well-informed manner.

No, it's your duty not to support WB's business model.And every ( Read more... )

Darlings.

Are you really telling me that I have entirely missed my chance to punch anyone in the nose?

Just one good wallop. That's all I ask.

Or a sword fight.

But the so called honorable Knights of the most honorable Garter inform me that if I challenge them to a duel, they'll just shoot me out of hand.

Well, pog mo thoin.

So I'm taking a break from the studython and I end up clicking through this brief article at io9 about a new Marvel series called "Marvel Divas ( Read more... )