Can we talk about donuts? I didn't have a donut on National Donut Day and I feel like I've failed as a human being. I probably need to have like 4 donuts to make up for it.

It really makes me miss Team Heidi and Team Lauren.

The puka shell necklace is how you can tell they are really cavemen.

I want these so badly! I could and would wear them to RWA meetings.

I would never wear these but major props to Rudi for studying a marginalized literary genre.

I read an ethnography of an advertising company once, and you're right about there being many layers of people before an ad makes it to tv. But for all the market research these people do, they primarily end up producing advertising they believe will appeal to the executives who have the final say. Hence, crap like…

DEAR PENTHOUSE FORUM:

I want to find a photo of an untamed bush and photoshop the hair into the shape of a hand giving the middle finger.

The only trailer i have ever seen whose first word is MENOPAUSE. That's got to count for something.

It's a movie that stars women? Older women? Who are there as not just sex objects, but people with some sort of cause? Dude, I'm loving it already. It's actually far more realistic a plot than most movies. I've known a crap load of amazing middle aged women who do exactly this - see a need in their community and…

Stan Sitwell: proper lady.

GRR Martin said that the purpose of this was to subvert traditional fantasy narratives—the death of Ned Stark already did that by killing off the main, honorable hero, but we readers/watchers are delighted when his precocious, young, equally morals-driven son rises to occasion to become this ass-kicking boy-king…

Theme is hard to discuss when it comes to the Song of Ice and Fire, cause it's kind of a big, beautiful and glorious hot mess of writing. The show is ALOT tighter. The only truly consistent theme of the series is the dangerous and unnatural effects of extremism VS harmony/equilibrium/moderate. I know that seems like a…

As a student of writing, you've probably heard the advice, "never let your character succeed in their goals". Martin takes this technique to the extreme. (Also, though the Red Wedding totally destroyed me in the book, Rob isn't as much of a main character and doesn't get POV like many other characters do.)

You know, it's easy to say that this man's complaint is groundless and baseless but if this sort of discrimination isn't a problem, name me an example of one news anchor being an old white man.

It's horrifying that the most sane thing coming out of Fox News is from the person who said pepper spray was a food product.

Watching Kelly stand up for women is like watching Dov Charney stand up for fair treatment of labor.

That's the easiest game of F/M/K ever because the answer to all three is myself.

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