Soooo….One of my former stalkers, about ten years ago, was a top contributor on Wikipedia. (As I found out when I was Googling his screennames for the huge pile of evidence I needed to take to the police to get a restraining order.) The kind of abuse, flaming, unhinged irrelevant segues, and arguments he would get…

Well, the word "bitch" in relation to Isabella "The Beautiful" Swan DID cross my lips more than a few times when I did my own hate-reading of Twilight. (I wanted to see if it was bad as people claimed. It was worse. FAR worse.)

Twilight was just the result of Meyer having a dream about a vampire, then Googling "vampire" because she knew nothing about them, and *then* stealing ideas from the pop culture-related search results (her own confession. This is also why there's an entire scene in the book where Bella does an Internet search on…

Thank YOU for being interested in Native and "non-traditional" mythology! It's one of the few mass-appeal ways we have to keep these cultures alive.

I've got the episode up right now, and she said (and I rewound a few times to make sure I got it all down verbatim):

I'm going to remember you when the ink dries on all the contracts and I can finally talk about my writing. :D *Is a Native American and a fantasy author who inserts Native mythology into her work because we seriously need more of it in fantasy that isn't just "a windigo did it"*

Came here to post exactly this; now I don't have to. :D

Gah. Hurricanes are so inconsiderate with their timing!

I'm frequently amused, but rarely enough for it to surface externally! Also we're preparing for a hurricane around here, so I have to pretend to be somewhat serious. At least until everyone in the house gets a confirmed weather day off so we can have a hurricane party this weekend.

Zing! I want to congratulate you for giving me my first out-loud laugh of the week.

Care2 is a pretty disgusting place that disguises its hatred as unlimited tolerance and "working towards a better world." The latter being the same "rationalization" that racists, religious zealots, and other bigots use for their actions.

Correct. I didn't feel a thing. I actually had to ask the doc if he was done, and for some reason he acted all offended??

I'm sorry, too—until I figure out how to replace my DNA with that of something much cooler that is also not one of my relatives in any way.

Josh sure didn't have that problem!

I hope you're right, because I'd sure like to think my family was the exception.

*Slow clap, gradually gaining enthusiasm until the room erupts into a standing ovation*

Yes! Eccleston's run doesn't get enough credit. It was rough around the edges because it was the (re-)beginning of the show, but it was so damn fun, and usually didn't act like it was above itself.

The lack of Grey DeLisle in this show is a capital sin.

I'm surprised at how popular these books are; I'd never heard of them until the early 2000s, when I ran across a bunch in a Dollar Tree for $1 each. I bought a copy of each book they had entirely because "the art looks cool, and they're only $1 per." A few years ago I wanted to sell some of them, and people went…

That military buddy and I would have to have some words over branding TESO "shit." *Goes back to destroying the property values of online Tamriel with her mere presence* :D