Everyone in Hollywood should have your comment tattooed in reverse on their forehead, so they see it every time they look in the mirror. Why does only dark=real? It's laziness, is what it is.

Fantasy is more a subset of mythology than science fiction. One of the fundamentals of science fiction is that it is predicated on an understanding of (a system of) science (that may or may not be a fully accurate understanding but) that makes sense within its own framework. Fantasy is predicated on an understanding…

What kind of sexuality are you flaunting when your nose has been shaved off and your neck looks broken? And how are you showing off on a rooftop with nobody around? And why, when your job (and the story) are about your super-powers and not your ass-crack.

Shown in real time, you could see far more how empty the place is. First thing I noticed was that yes, everything was clean and well-groomed, but there weren't a whole lot of people for what's supposed to be a thriving capital city. And that cleanliness means there are no artists, buskers, interesting street…

Those folk usually are colonists, or live on the fringes of Federation space, where they're exposed to more scarcity. The heart of the Federation (Earth, Vulcan, etc.) are at the bright center of the abundance of the Federation—they wouldn't have money-based economies because money isn't needed for everyday life. Out…

I thought that was an "in lieu of community service" type-deal.

This is the same AT&T that actually lobbied against municipalities being able to run their own fiber and provide broadband? Not because they had plans of their own—they had no plans to expand in that market. They just didn't want anyone else to, either.

Just write the thing first. It sounds awesome, and if you keep the awesome in your mind while you write it, you can fix whatever doesn't work later. Please your inner creative mind first, then worry about making it marketable.

Vamp/Were fic writers know their audience. Editors may not want the stories much anymore, but the readers show little sign of being tired of them. They've moved to self-pub and cut out the middlemen.

What about Ethel?

Important thing to note is that *editors* are tired of these stories. Which has very little to do with whether or not *readers* are tired of them.

Case in point:

If you want me to buy GoT, then put it up for sale. I don't want HBO, I want GoT. Let me choose and pay for the programs I want to watch without having to support a bunch of programming and channels I will never watch and have no interest in. And don't make me pay for commercials (*hulu*). TV is great, and all, but…

Ancient Egyptian culture spanned a massive amount of time and, at some points, a massive amount of real estate. It was the world's first real concept of a "superpower." It existed in a larger world of trade and migration where different peoples would have mixed. It is just about un-debatable that ancient Egyptian…

Harry's final battle, like most of the ones on the list, is fought internally first. The trading of punches/bullets/spells/swords/curses/whatnot is just the physical cruft left over from the fallout of that battle.

High street comes to mind, if I remember correctly. On the upside, if you went to an (I think) Pi Kappa Phi party up there, you could just roll down the hill until you hit a freshman dorm and crash for the night...

When you weigh the benefits of having more stability in your life in which to raise a kid, versus the still being "young" (which is very much a state of mind and has little to do with how many years you've logged) when they are grown, the greater benefit falls on waiting until you're more stable (financially and/or…

You haven't met places like Circle Tail, 4PawsForAbility, and Freedom Service. Places like these take shelter dogs and train them to be service, therapy, and assistance dogs, sometimes through prisoner training programs and community fostering. Their dogs are donated, and often do come from shelters because they're as…

Better if the pups stay with their mothers for 12 weeks. Very few of the reputable breeders here in the midwest will let them go before then. Cuts down on the puppy-nibbling because they learn from mom and litter-mates rather than external training.

There are some breed-specific rescues that list their dogs on petfinder.com. I know of a ton of shelters and rescues who list their residents on petfinder as soon as they come in, because they know it's a national database, it's easy to use for people looking for dogs, and because each dog gets his or her own…