Having a human child grants you certain responsibilities, the failure of which, are punishable by—at the very least—censure, and at the most, prison and removal of the child from your legal guardianship. Failure to perform your responsibilities towards a dog, unless in extreme cases, gets you a, "meh." Calling it a…

That's critique (and valid critique at that). That needs to happen. The more it happens, the more people will become aware of what a badly-written book or badly-told story is.

So...you must be very lonely, being the only person in the world that can tell fiction from reality.

There *is* a difference between viewed pr0n and written stuff—written stuff, no matter how out-there or pedestrian, involves no actual beings outside the imagination. A lot of women are not fans of video pr0nz because there's always the niggling question in the back of the mind that asks if the participants are really…

My bookshelf is well-hidden from the ravages of children, animals, and children who can be animals. Also friends who like to borrow books that never find their way back to my shelves.

There are some books—Twilight being one of them (and its 50 Shades fanfic another) that seem to appeal to people who aren't usually readers, for whatever reason. I could not "get" either of these series, so for my non-reading friends who "had to read them," I sent them off with a blessing and further recommendations.…

Your idea of not touching Harry Potter "because I had standards" is the issue, not whether or not Rowling as a writer could grab you. The literary snobbery that allows someone to write off stories and entire genres without reading them is kind of the point of the article. Weighting a literary opinion according to…

I've started to discount pretty much everything in the first 3-5 episodes. The pilot is always the version that the execs greenlit, the next two or three eps are fiddling around with the characters and actors playing up what plays well with the focus groups, and the next two or three eps are angling to entice the…

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The wizarding outsiders thing was one of those things that bothered me about the Ten Years After bit—it seemed like Harry's goal, from the minute he met them, on one level, was to get what Ron had been born with. It's a wonderful literary device, and gave Ron some agency besides the doofy sidekick role he was forced…

Rule 34. You have to write that now.

Or Dunder-Mifflin...

Just wanting to point out the irony here in that it sounds like you're getting a little tired of having to defend your choices over and over again to people who either don't get or don't agree with your ideas? Even though you've obviously spent time attempting to craft them? And that some parts of your audience are…

KoTOR needs to be canon *as it was in the original game* when Revan's gender and fate were indeterminate.

In much of romance, "attractive" is a subjective tag. The better writers do not categorically run down a list of what makes the lady beautiful. The point is that the lady is beautiful *in the eyes of her partner,* which is what you read a romance for—to see how one person finds another person's (inner and outer)…

T-Rex Trying...

Actually, it seems like he was upset with you for being uncomfortable around him.

There's nothing inherently wrong with crafting the love story as an integral part of the plot—after all, it's the romantic throughlines that are *solely* the function of character arc and growth (or the lack/refusal of a character to grow). What falls down in a lot of modern stories with heavy worldbuilding these days…

Golden Compass was a crime. A series like that, with that many layers, couldn't translate the subtleties of Mrs. Coulter's menace, Lord Asriel's ambition, the thematic magnitude of Lyra's arc, in five-minute snippets of dialogue wedged into the spaces between CGI effects. Story arcs like Mrs. Coulter's, the thematic…

Success criteria for modern movies is different, too. I remember when a movie would be in the theaters for weeks, and rollouts took longer. Now, if it doesn't explode on opening weekend, it's a flop (same goes for books—release a book and if it's not on fire in the first week or so, it disappears, unless you're a…