Wow. That is some serious research. Nice work!

I think it has nothing to do with the War on Terror. It's also nothing to do with 'new' realities of politics and war - those are the same as they ever were, mostly. The real change is that we can actually see inside the process now courtesy of ever-expanding access to information. There can never again be…

The Pern novels were some of the very first speculative fiction I read. My young mind equated dragons with fantasy and when I read Dragonsdawn, my mind was absolutely blown. And I had to have a serious discussion with myself about the difference between science fiction and fantasy and which one Pern was. I think I…

Yeah! I loved the magic in the Sunrunner series. I need to reread that.

Now, now, when it sells a lot of copies, we call it 'a retelling.' ;)

I think the point is that some people don't believe that there's any sex at all in those pictures. None. That's the topic that's being debated here, really. That not a single bit of that is sexualized, that people are just imagining it.

Yeah, it's a one of those "unless you understand it, you're not going to understand it" things.

I know. I guess the bottom line is, when you run into someone who's really hardcore on this sort of thing - for whatever reason - there's just no point in trying to talk them around. But, really, I don't think that there's even a little bit of mean-spiritedness intended here. It's just a hard stop in the empathy…

I disagree. I'd say in 99% of the cases, it is absolutely not misogyny.

Bah, image fail, can't see it.

As I told the other party:

I think sometimes people can't see past their own roadblocks and get upset when you try to force it. May as well let it go.

Oh.

Well, D&D is a game, and they really aren't talking about games here. So, by extension, books based on the game got the kibosh, it seems like. That's what I mean by scope. This list talks about books and movies, but there are some really great games that could be included, too.

Huh, I did not know this, and I've read all his books.

That'd kind of segue into D&D, which I think is kind of out of scope. I mean, there are entire manuals detailing how Dragonlance magic works.

I was watching this video and it struck me: This happens all the time in IT, albeit on a small scale.

Oh, indeed. I do agree.

This bit of wisdom is near and dear to my heart:

Aha! Thank you! I remembered hearing about that.