I remember reading an interview with M. Night ages ago where he talked about casting Dev Patel because he thought he was amazing and then cast everyone else, the between the lines implication being he had to cast everyone as white to compensate. He seemed very frustrated, but it was unclear as to the reasons he felt…

She's brought it back from hiatus, although I don't know if it's still updating at the moment. She's been perusing other projects at the moment. She's republished Poorcraft and put out a sequel to it and she's heading up a pretty big Kickstarter for the latest issues of Smut Peddler.

Yay!

The Haunting of Hill House is one of my favorite books (I still have a copy from high school when they briefly renamed it "The Haunting" with "of Hill House" handwritten below in indignant jelly-pen). So now is a great time to ask: does anything awful happen to an animal in We Have Always Lived in the Castle? I very…

Gee, that's too bad!

Hooray!

I've borrowed Condemned: Criminal Origins from my brother-in-law for my October scare game. I've been told the second game kind of blows up on itself but the first game has been aces so far. Great atmosphere and they've been doing some really fun things in the department store level.

Wait, how is the Vulvani's trap misandric? Are you imply that only men would respond to and attempt to help a naked woman in danger? Or you implying the Vulvani wouldn't attack a woman? There really wasn't any evidence that they would have let Furiosa go if she hadn't been Vulvani. Heck, there's even a scene of one…

Or you just have more than one female character, like the article suggests.

This is a very moving story about Yellow Cat, but please, please, please if you've found a cat that you think is lost or abandoned, catch it if you can and take it to a local animal shelter. At best, it's micro-chipped and have someone desperately waiting for it. At worse, it may be euthanized at the shelter but…

Oh geez, and now I'm crying at work.

That's fair. I'm certainly more upset by human deaths than by animal deaths in real life and I tend to be equally upset by human and animal deaths in fictional writing. I always get more upset by animal deaths than humans in movies though. There's always a little voice in the back of my head reminding me that…

Although I've never seen the film, I remember having nightmares as a kid about the poster for Problem Child. The poster showed a cat in a dryer and even as a kid I recognized that playing an animal being battered to death against burning hot metal for laughs was really messed up.

I spent a fair amount of time sick as a kid, so I watched a lot of movies. If actors or actresses from an upcoming movie had come in with their costumes and props to talk to to me, I would have been super-stoked. I would have had a million questions about the filming process, the prop-making process, what it's like…

It's been years since I've seen the movie, but the working class kids (at least one troop of them) were pretty antagonistic. The movie does show that their behavior is caused and encouraged by Velda, but the kids in that troop are pretty unlikeable all on their own.

If you have a Wii, I highly recommend Endless Ocean!

Sounds a bit like Endless Ocean for the Wii. It was a scuba-exploration game with no health system and it was wonderfully relaxing to play. Although the best design in the world cannot make the Megamouth Shark any less alarming.

Can Gems actually die? I recall Garnet saying they could if their gems were destroyed but we've seen Gem fragments become limbs that seem to be capable of understanding and responding to their surroundings.
Actually… we've only seen limbs. Where are the heads? Is there a war chest somewhere on the Homeworld full of…

Jenny takes her evil twin duties very seriously.

You've got a good point. I was hoping we'd get to see Peedee play off Ronaldo more instead of just quietly following him around.