This use of “gaslighting” joins other words/phrases that I’m watching people use completely incorrectly when they have very specific, particular definitions, and it’s making me kind of batty. And I’m not talking about someone who says “and it was so embarrassing I literally died!”

The oldest Millennials will be 37 this year, in fact. :)

He’s definitely a Gen-Xer, being born in the 70s, but I’ll just note that Pew Research has officially declared the Millennial generation to be 1981-1996. Just searching for that link brought up a fair bit of reporting on that from earlier this year, so that might be the official word on it. Anyone born post-2000 is…

My mum had a super rare medical issue—a pheochromocytoma—and while things might have been a bit frustrating (she had symptoms for almost 20 years that docs kept passing off as her being a woman of a certain age, if you catch my meaning), she still had her many, many doctor appointments covered. And then when things…

He remained a dick, but eventually people stopped being outright afraid of him. I ended up going to the same high school he did and he became class president one year. He also ended up working in the same store I did (I MEAN REALLY), though I actually got hired there before he did. He stole a lot of shit from the…

OH IF ONLY!

Thank you, too!

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.

Look closer. You’re so wrong.

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.

Good heavens that Thrawn looks like Jason Isaacs.

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.