she gets that they have to put on the be-nice face

Conflict is fine, it just doesn’t have to always be “And then we kill this character’s loved one.” Looking at genre media, I loved pairings like John and Aeryn from Farscape, and Nomi and Amanita from Sense8, who were happy couples who faced crazy shit together.

“Happy” is the death of drama for genre fiction.

Boring stories are happy.

Mainstream Democrats’ insistence on wimpy, moderate, “nice” responses to the absolute insanity coming from the Right is the reason they keep losing our votes. The rest of us on the ground know which way the wind is blowing and are too busy preparing for battle to care about their stale, self-interested political…

You say this as if I’m asking for queer folks to never be touched or suffer harm in games. That the kid gloves should remain on and our stories be precious fluff. I hear variations of this argument a lot, like when I wrote about David Cage’s treatment of woman. That’s certainly not the case; many of the stories I’ve…

Going high when they go low just ends up with you being punched in the groin (or the stomach).

I don’t get what they pearl clutching moderates have a problem with.

Democrats are so out of touch they don’t even realize that there is no legislative or judicial or executive path out of this for the foreseeable. There’s a zero percent chance (it is in fact mathematically impossible) of winning a supermajority in the senate for impeachment, so Trump is staying his full term. The…

Being civil, turning the other cheek, staying respectful, etc. are elements of the same, naive, ridiculous aspiration of the Left: as long as we stay true to our values, advocate for equality, and stay civil, everything will turn out in our favor because we were the better person.

Maxine Waters was not saying “beat up people from the administration,” she was saying when you see people from the administration, don’t wait to fully organize an action — make your voice heard in that moment. Don’t make life convenient and peaceful for them, give them the same respect they give to immigrants, asylum…

Borrowing this from another thread because it’s just so appropriate:

At some point, people are going to have to accept this one, unfortunate truth:

They are similar in theme and the beats have a familiar “trappiness”, but they are very different tracks. Sounds like both of them were influenced by some of the more experimental hip hop such as NRK/Jay Cue/Shabazz Palaces.

Wasn’t it right after these comments that she jumped on Twitter to be all “Kanye’s a genius who speaks his truth, I ride or die for my man!”?

This is kinda silly. Those songs do not sound alike. But what do I know. I didn’t think Blurred Lines sounded like Marvin Gaye either. Fight me.

My work in in copyright and I am going to say something that will get push back but...there is no such thing as originality. Lots of people come with the same concept and even same tune really frequently. Why? Because you are messing around beats and because music has rhythm so what sounds good to you will also sound…

Nat Turner? Sure. The Nat turner that went around telling Black folk that it was Godly to obey the white people oppressing them. To be humble and servile in their oppression. That was before his epiphany when he decided to kill every white person on the road to the armory. The fact that his wife (according to him)…

Dude nobody believes that Kim would leave you over that comment. A lot of Black people didn’t even leave you over that comment.