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Tommy Craggs gave me a second chance. I spent nearly three years writing for a different Gawker site, and I hit a point where I was just done. I couldn’t do it anymore. I was looking elsewhere, and my time at the company was up. I didn’t want to leave though, and in a passing conversation, I told Tommy I felt…
in those of us who are always on high alert and waiting for the future to fall apart because of a minor decision we might have made ten to twelve years ago.
They can out via Gawker and rest assured their own identity will be kept secret for professional reasons! Win, win!
Tatiana Maslany diserves all the emmy nominations. All of them.
I’m wondering how Natasha Vargas Cooper can justify being a sociopath.
There are a finite number of spots. To make it interesting the people who are bitching should out the people they think don’t deserve to be nominated.
It’s like they’re always on their periods or something.
I actually see a lot of “oh god, here we go again with that same damn trope/plot device” complaint about action flicks. It certainly is the stereotypical dude genre equivalent of the rom-com, so it is a good example. But like, there’s PLENTY of making fun of Sly Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme being totally…
while i am far from believing that every rom-com is good (and i know because i’ve seen Because I Said So...twice), i do think that at least some of the reason we all think “rom-coms suck” is because they are traditionally considered “chick flicks”?
Now I want to both pet and eat a duck. I’m more of a monster now, are you happy?!
Okay, I got three years here before Supernova becomes a barren, unlovable, wasteland of a human being according to the science man. Lets put this shit in fourth gear and slam my standards into the ground so I don’t have to deal with looks at Thanksgiving.
It’s mostly for very particular subreddits. Shockingly enough, the guinea pig sub reddit is quite nice and pleasant and full of cute peegs (same goes for r/corgi, r/bearsdoinghumanthings, etc) When I first got diagnosed with Celiac disease, the r/glutenfree was enourmously helpful in guiding me through a difficult…
There’s /r/aww, /r/funny, some helpful Linux stuff, etc etc etc. Just depends on what you’re looking for, I suppose.
Unfortunately, for many hobbies/cultures, there exists no real gathering point outside of Reddit. I say unfortunately because those vocal, toxic users do bleed over, as do their mindsets. You basically can’t make a pro-feminist comment on Reddit without being bombarded by MRA trolls, unless you do it on one of the few…
There are millions of normal people on Reddit doing normal things, talking about medieval history, skin care, jogging, anything you can imagine. Gawker is a competitor to Reddit and only focuses on the very very very bad stuff. That's it.
I think the whole Jezebel/Gawker/Deadspin family likes to pick out the small bad parts of reddit that are easily ignored. Similar to a village idiot. I think of it like how some people think all Muslims must be terrorists. They are flat out wrong, sure there are some but they do not represent the vast majority. There…