Mr Groening, and others of your ilk, I’d like to tell you a story.

However many weeks later it has been, I still find it very telling that virtually no one from Nerdist or Geek & Sundry have spoken out in Hardwick’s defense. Now, it’s entirely possible that, for example, the Critical Role people are staying mum because they want to keep running Critical Role, but...

... So, Scott McGillivray?

I’ve been involved in fandom or fandom-adjacent/aware for 20 years and I gotta say that my general experience has been that the more uplifting/hopeful and oftentimes inclusive stuff has the worst fandoms.

Vex taught Trinket well.

I’ve fallen out of love in varying ways with a lot number of TV shows over my life. In fact, I count Babylon 5 among my favourite TV shows, despite the fact that I couldn’t stick with the first season the first time around and started up again because of a casting change in season 2, and found that season 5 slowly…

The Marquis de Lafayette was 18 in 1776. There are streets, squares, counties, towns, cities, etc, named after him.

I find it deeply, deeply telling that I haven’t seen defense of Hardwick from Nerdist and Geek & Sundry folks (at least, the ones I follow).

If Wisdom and Intelligence were the same thing, they wouldn’t be separate stats on my D&D character sheet!

Right?! Maybe she does it because it’s expected...? Ahlam spends a lot of her time tending to people in the temple of Kynareth, so I feel like if there’s anyone in Skyrim who should DTMFA, it’s her.

But definitely hashtag all jerks who act snobby at you but it turns out they don’t even own property in town and instead sleep at the local tavern slash archery specialty shop.

FUS RO DAH!

I’ve never tortured my Sims. Sorry.

But I have, on occasion, dealt with being very, very angry by loading Skyrim and attacking a town, rather than delving for monsters in a dungeon. So. I dunno.

... Okay, it’s a specific town.

... Okay, it’s always Whiterun. I’ll walk up to Nazeem and initiate him and when he mocks my…

I’m 36; I’m just one year away from being the oldest group of millennials according to the AP’s definition of the generation. I am 100% on board with body positivity for everyone who is not me. I internalised too much from my youth and young adulthood, and I hate myself for the way I look (among other things I hate…

Damn. I salute your tenacity(?). I still actually have all my EU books; they’re packed in the same boxes I put them in after I quit Vector Prime. I feel like I have I, Jedi in there somewhere but I can’t recall actually reading that one.

I loved Rebels, but didn’t get into it until the beginning of season 2, and it was mostly because I learned that Sarah Michelle Gellar was going to be in it.

I’m snagging that PDF for myself. Thank you so much for creating it.

Thank you for saying out loud something I’ve been thinking for 20+ years and needed to know I wasn’t alone in thinking.

I’m precisely the kind of nerd that the EU was made for, and I hated every moment of it after Timothy Zahn’s first novel. The only character that made any impact on me was Thrawn, so it’s no surprise he got pulled into the new canon.

Okay, look. Okay. Okay. Big breath.