that's pretty much my lane, so yeah

But if I advertise... someone might read it...

I posted the first bit of my nearly finished sci-fi novel on wattpad.com. It seems it's ok to post things there that aren't finished versions of your manuscript. I am incredibly nervous about receiving vicious feedback... but no one is reading it, so that solves that problem!

Oh man, I watched that movie with a bunch of friends in high school, and super-cool guy did me a solid and warned me with a little wave every time a scary thing was about to JUMP OUT OF THE SCREEN INTO MY EYEBALLS and so I successfully watched that whole movie without actually seeing a single scary thing. Still scared…

...Ok, I laughed with my husband about this for a while and then I started legitimately wondering:

This.

ARAGORN-STYLE YES ARMY OF THE DEAD HOLY CRAP

Nah, it's just a different thing. Plenty of people don't like it, it's no big deal.

Oh man. Loaded March, I tell you what...

Yeah, I'm with you on this one. (Although I never watched/read in the first place - too sensitive to the "attempted rape scenes everywhere" warnings to even start.)

I applaud you, but we will have to disagree on a couple things (mostly probably due to our differing circles of friends, I'm guessing):

Ok, so it's possible the angle is throwing me off, but it looks to me like the sword went straight through the spine. Also, it's not like there's a hollow spot there. Everything is squished together. That sword hit something - probably the liver, maybe the stomach. If it went left or right and missed the spine, he…

Oh man, I'm probably on an entire other plane of sci-fi loving existence than you, but I ACTUALLY JUMPED UP AND DOWN WHEN THE SWORD CAME OUT. My husband was all, Um, you're embarrassing me, and I was all, SHE BUILT A GIANT SWORD GIANT SWORD GIANT SWOOOOORD!!! SLICE! YESSSS!

Oh man, I had to leave the theater and walk around looking at movie posters for a while because the ending battle was so long and just so, so boring. So. Boring.

I agree! I love mash-ups and cross-genre tropes. I don't like westerns at all, but I sure loved Firefly. I loved the sci-fi + noir aspect of Blade Runner. Looper also felt very noir, and I liked it very much. I'm sure there are lots of ways we can get inspired to mash things together and send them into spaaaace (or an…

I made an elaborate "Hamlet IN SPACE" joke on my second date with my husband, and it was probably 25% of the reason he agreed to marry me.

But I can't tell Michael Biehn and Jai Courtney apart, so... are we sure they're not the same guy?

See, the fact that Mr Prez is completely fine with draining the grounders but balked at draining the sky people really hit me as realistically monstrous. That's the way people really are - the privileged assign different values of humanity to different populations. He simply doesn't see the grounders as equal human…

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The ladies are interesting and diverse and complex and it's just so, so great. It's one show where (SO FAR, KNOCK ON WOOD) I don't have to be constantly on edge wondering if someone's going to be sexually assaulted. Lots of people die, but there hasn't been a single instance of sexual…

Yeah... I'm trying to chalk it up to legitimate PTSD. That's the only way this makes any sense.