That’s what appalled me when I first started reading YAOI. I expected it all to be this really feminist work, trying to work out romance if you got rid of the gender roles. I read enough articles about how it wasn’t really about gay men but women projecting onto male characters, so I wasn’t expecting good gay drama,…

“Romeo and Julien” is also the start of several gay porn scripts, though I think few of them go beyond using the name to get noticed.

I read one rape-fantasy romance novel, mostly because a friend who didn’t think the book was full of rape loaned it to me, and it was all about a independent woman being tamed by a proper, alpha male and realizing that’s what she wanted, that she was dissatisfied by her futuristic world and its pitiful beta males who…

So one factor was that Democrats once again decided to hope that the awfulness of the Republican candidate would be enough to overcome an uninspiring Democrat?

I still want a crossover where Emma Frost meets the Cosmic Boy of the 70s.

Along those lines, it’s worth remembering a big part of the rationale behind the All-New All-Different X-Men was to have an international team that would make the X-Men relatable to more international markets. Creative and marketing didn’t consult closely on that one, so a some of those characters came from countries…

I mostly agree with this. However, I’ve gotten through my guilt about skipping the last election because it was on an unusua date (in September) and involved a few bond issues and city councilor (and mine, as much as I would like to vote against her, was running unopposed). Thankfully, after terrible turnout, they’re…

There are a lot of match-3 games out there now. I doubt you could get as many people to try Pitfall Crush Adventure to get that fremium cash going.

Actually King has a few games that aren’t match 3, though they’re all pretty familiar to anyone who has played puzzle games or even just Pop Cap games. Bubble Witch is crazy popular with people who apparently never heard of Bust A Move, for example. I guess this sale explains why King has been pushing some of the…

The freemium model is insane. Instead of having to convince each customer to spend $60 on your game you try to find the person who will give you $1000 to get a pass at every hard level.

That they have that much revenue is insane!

IDK, from what I saw, Zynga just kept duplicating Farmville in different shades and flavors. It looks like King’s got some variety at work. They’re mostly puzzle games (and puzzle games that are a bit familiar to anyone who has played puzzle games) but they’re not all Candy Crush/Farm Heroes/Candy Crush Soda. King…

If this lawsuit actually goes to court, I imagine one of the documents they’ll have to release are the notes for the meetings where they picked the toys’ names. That should be the really fun part.

I’m focusing on the bright side and starting my Change.org petition to get Shonda Rhimes to add Steven Yeun to the cast of Scandal as the sexy political wunderkind who threatens Cyrus’ fake marriage but ends up breaking up Popus by seducing Fitz. Or anything where Yeun gets to be clean in most scenes.

Sadly, if it says it has no nitrates (it probably actually says “No added nitrates”) it probably does have nitrates, they just let it naturally develop instead of adding them directly. Or so I’ve been told somewhere on Kinja.

However, if they wanted to remake the Hunger Games and make her a woman of color, I think *most* Katniss fans would be totally on board.

Yes, that would have been the ideal but what we got was two gay characters with short lifespans whose sexuality was left unspoken as a way to avoid the bury your gays trope. I’m certain it would be better if they gave Victoria or Isabelle a good storyline where they were identified as lesbian. But considering what we…

Here’s a question that I’ve been debating myself, would it have been better if they left Victoria and Isabelle out of the show than depicting them and killing them without identifying them as gay?

The difference between The Flash and Daredevil TV series is the difference between 80s DC and 80s Marvel (which is apt since both shows wear their 80s influence on their sleeves). It’s more a matter of what kind of story you prefer.

I just realized someone uploaded the entirety of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil to YouTube so this isn’t completely obscure, but I immediately thought of the preist Ruthie sends to seduce Mary Fisher. He looked like he had a condition that gave him seizures as soon as his dick touched vagina.