I’m pretty sure I fought that sculpture in Returnal.

Unless W-Y Science Division has been completely taken over by androids. In which case, they want to unleash a self-replicating flesh-eating monster on humanity to wipe it out and make the earth and colonies safe for androids, knowing the xenomorphs will ignore synthetic life and go into hibernation once all the humans…

I’ve been teaching SGGK to undergrads for fifteen years, and that’s a better explanation than I think I’ve ever provided. It is my favorite work of literature, however, because, as you said “but in the end, while he’s able to deny sex, he can’t deny his own fear.” The way that Gawain slowly gives way to the lady and…

I’m pretty sure he’s using the Disco writers’ philosophy that Saying a Thing Makes It True.

Yes, and it’s especially tragic because this show has one of the most interesting ensembles since TNG to work with, but the writers seem to panic whenever they have an opportunity to explore anyone except Burnham, so they run back to her, double down on her as savior, and maybe kill the character they were tempted to…

I heard the caucus numbers are finally coming out. Apparently the result was 3.6 Roentgen.

1. Grind

#SickOldMan

No such thing as bad press. 

There is no one writing for io9 now who could or would write this. They don’t have the ability or, more importantly, the interest in doing so.

I think that’s right. The “rise” is the rising up of the common people against the Order. It’s inspired by the spreading of Luke’s story, which according to TFA had become just a myth for most people. Leia could be off spreading the truth of what happened for most of the movie while the main cast does its thing on…

Earlier this week, I realized that the infirmary level had imprinted deeper than I thought when I walked out of an elevator onto a hospital ward, looked up, and had an immediate panic attack because I didn’t know where the alien was. I laughed it off, but I couldn’t shake off the paranoia for the longest time.

Enid.

I really hope this is the explanation.

Rhode Montijo's Pablo's Inferno

Brilliant short comic: Rhode Montijo's "T-t-tartamudo" The twist works because of the relationship between text and narration, but also because of the ironic relationship between mythology and the living moment.

She's absorbs knowledge; they didn't say it was correct knowledge.

Terrible pacing, shaky mechanical effects, but it hits some of the same notes that Aliens hit for me when I was 10, and its heart is in the right place.

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