At 19 I was talking my boyfriend into trying out kink for the first time because I definitely knew what I wanted. 12 years later, we're still together, married, just had our first kid… and we're also still kinky.

I'm not actually going around evangelizing it, because it's an anime series centered on a now-obscure traditional form of Japanese comedy, but Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju was one of the best things I've seen all year. The art is lovely, the voice work is stellar, and the story is compelling. They even managed to…

It sticks me basically in a one-hour radius in NJ, which is accurate (grew up there, live in NYC now, the two accents are really similar but some of the slang is different and I've kept that.) My most distinctive answer is "Mischief Night," which is basically only used in NJ, so it pinpoints me to the state really…

Joelle Carter is actually from Georgia, which is probably part of the problem. Her accent sounds fine if you're not from the area and don't know the finer nuances of regional Southern accents, but it sticks out glaringly if you are.

"well I'm not sure if it does have an inner life or not…probably not…so I'll just torture it for kicks, whatevs"

Check the wowhead or icy-veins guides for your spec. It's the first thing I do after the pre-patch for a new xpac drops, if I haven't been closely following the theorycrafting ahead of time and it makes a big difference.

Yeah, it makes sense flavor-wise, but it is a bit sad to realize that I've got Hodir and Thorim and other people have their old class questgivers and trainers. But Valhalla is gorgeous and an entirely new environment, so I'm really not complaining. And at least I'm not playing a DK, since while I gather the flavor on…

Finally sidelining Thrall can only be good for the game's story.

I hope so! I'm also fascinated by the decision to place her in control of the entire Horde and basically force her to be responsible for people who AREN'T the Undead, given her historical monomaniacal focus (which was understandable given their position.) While I loved Vol'jin and will really miss him, he had a lot of…

This is really interesting to hear because warriors… do not get that. Everyone in our hall is a Vrykul, and all our followers are Vrykul or Titans, so no one from earlier than WotLK.

Every Shonen Jump property you list post-dates Dragonball, and Inuyasha ran in Weekly Shounen Sunday. Dragonball is one of the progenitors of the "tournament arc + power up to face the bigger bad you just found out about" style that's taken over modern action shounen.

It's really cool to see this stuff. I remember when they got rid of class quests on the rationale that it wasn't worth the development time to produce content that was gated off that way, and it's cool to see them finally change their minds about it.

I think foregrounding Sylvanas for an expansion that returns to the elven homeland is a really good call. It's bound to create some interesting storytelling options, much moreso than Voljin would have.

She named her cat Miss Havisham? That seems auspicious.

There's STILL a Captain Crook on the playground outside a McDonalds near me. It's kind of surreal.

It really comes down to how you define a matriarchy. There are no matriarchies that perfectly parallel the patriarchal structures we're most familiar, but I think that at some point it's fair to call a culture a matriarchy even if it doesn't exclude men from having a voice in the government/community. For me, that…

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Seriously, though, how do you account for matriarchal societies in that? I'm not talking about the European Prehistoric Goddess Culture bullshit, which is a load of crap, but the actual, extant societies with matriarchal structures like the Iroquois. Those tend to be disregarded because they're not perfect mirrors of…

There are also patriarchal societies that had exactly zero contact with the roots of Western Civilization. But there are also matriarchal societies, also independently evolved, so it's not clear that patriarchy is an inevitable part of human existence. Honestly, I sort of figure that humans are inherently hierarchic…

It's actually extremely common (and generally understood) that juvenile works with child/teen protagonists are actually aimed at kids a couple years younger, so "Annette" probably was intentionally pointed at preteens.