Me too, and probably most of Jezebel.

It seems no amount of wealth you hoard can stop parents or any older family members, really, from making unsolicited comments and offering all kinds of nasty, unsolicited advice about your body.

Don’t forget he raised his stepdaughter since she was 4 years old. 

Just to clarify, are you suggesting that she did not, in fact, take the most private jet trips this year, and that these bloggers are lying? Or, she actually did take the most private jet trips this year, but each of her 170+ trips was an attempt to escape this warzone you speak of, and each time she discovered,…

Uhh… isn’t that worse?

Every single word of this opinion article is a fiery example of gatekeeping. It burns bright enough to be seen from orbit, and makes no effort to disguise its purpose.

If you don't think that there's not millions of kids out there who have never heard of DnD then I don't know what to tell you. 

So what? So Claire’s experience as queer isn’t the singular vision of the movie. I don’t know that means it won’t or can’t be folded into the film, and frankly neither does Claire.

Claiming D & D is hot because of queer roleplayers on podcasts is downright bizarre to the point of parody. I am more concerned about the weird lack of knowledge about Led Zeppelin. I mean, Led Zeppelin was exactly what was playing when D & D sessions were going on (That and Jethro Tull, of all things)

Seriously. If this criticism was leveled against - say - The Hobbit trilogy, I’d understand where it’s coming from. But Lord of the Rings?

“D&D is hot right now, largely because queer roleplayers have made it shine”

Look I’d love if we queers could take credit for this but dude that’s an interesting choice for planting a flag. That you skip over Stranger Things is weird, which (along with Critical Role, which you mention) I feel did a LOT more to bring it…

“Be it queer-only actual play podcasts that chart out across epic adventures for hours at a time every week, or powerful new RPGs like Thirsty Sword Lesbians, the modern TTRPG renaissance is profoundly queer and, from the looks of things, this film is not brave enough to take the same chance.”

Your view of nerd culture…

It is always amusing when someone is completely unable to look outside their own experiences in an attempt to be critical.

A true D&D movie should make all the protagonists as murder hobos who do nothing but barter at the local shop for 30 minutes to get the nice sword cheaper by 100 gold.

To your point, I’m pretty sure your average D&D campaign would make for an awful movie. The idea that LOTR is somehow a D&D substitute completely ignores how much D&D has diverged from it since its inception - like yeah, they both have elves, dwarves, etc. but D&D goes quickly off the rails from there by comparison.…

Oh also, I went and checked. Even RADIO ADAPTATIONS of The Fellowship of the Rings cut Tom Bombadil

yeah I thought the LOTR movies were great because they knew what to cut (and the extended editions are still worth watching because they also knew what to cut) Tom Bambidil was in the books purely out of spite from Tolkien over everyone trying to connect the hobbit to various real world events so he put in Bambidil as…

Exactly the same (IMO, silly) criticism that was lobbed at TV series adaptation of Foundation.

“Arguably, we’ve already had the “perfect” D&D movie thanks to Peter Jackson’s adaptations of The Lord Of The Rings in the 2000s—which, if I’m being honest, do chart a bit too close to “action movie” for my taste”

Black pastors generally abuse the fuck out of that trust to line their own pockets and secure their own power within their communities. Essentially, they’re reformed in some way (usually addicts of some kind who were “successfully” rehabilitated), have a great gift of gab and prey on people who don’t/won’t know better…