We never did clear SSC, even, actually. My guild was terrible. I was like their fifth tank, and the main tank couldn't hold threat to save his life, and geared for pure avoidance. It was like my own little special circle of hell. But a smaller group of us who actually cared got up to three of four chests in ZA without…

Oh man yes. I'm laughing bitterly here. There was this one hunter who always seemed to be around when I was trying to pug heroics in BC and he was awful. And I played a warrior, with the thunderclap target limit (Devastate mouseover macros were the shit), so I absolutely relied on CC back then. I remember loving the…

I never clicked with Cata or MoP and WoD feels like the game I fell in love with back when I first started playing. Just the fact that exploration matters again is a huge step forward. Cata and MoP often felt like I was on rails because they were experimenting with narrative through questing, and now the joy of…

It pinged me as subby too, and that definitely sounded like part of what the guy gets out of it. There just aren't many situations where "I go down on my wife and get myself off while she ignores me" comes across as anything other than a submissive behavior pattern. If he actually likes it as much as he says, it's…

Different breeds. Swiss Mountain Dogs are even bigger, but short-haired. I grew up with Bernese and they're great dogs but yes, shed like crazy.

Oh, I know. That was very much a joke. It's just funny to me because oral as the pinnacle of sexual experience is an even stronger narrative for women than it is for men and here I have two happy, willing partners and absolutely no interest.

That being accepted uncritically was the weirdest part of this week. I mean, I actually don't like really enjoy receiving oral because I'm a freak, but both of my partners like giving it. Which means that because they're dominant and I'm a sub, I sometimes end up getting it anyway. And that's pretty much the exact…

I'm really thrilled to see Momoiro Clover Z talked up so positively. "Infinite Love" was the theme song for Bodacious Space Pirates (which is why their costumes are pirate themed/the video is set in space) and it's one of those songs that immediately sounded really different given how samey J-Pop can be — cacophonous…

In that case, pretty much the same rules apply in terms of going slowly — basically, don't bite off more than you can chew in terms of how much you control his behavior and for how long — and you're at significantly less physical risk, so that's one worry off your mind. I think the idea that you have to sub first is…

Okay, this is really long. Apologies.

I'd honestly say more that the dom and the sub share control. I'm not any more in control of a scene than my partners are — we all can set boundaries and decide when we need to stop, and everyone involved has to respect those limits. But I'm not any less in control either, even if we're all playing with the fiction…

How you act on sexual fetishes determines what kind of person you are, not which ones you have. My experience is that all good doms worry about this sort of thing; I've certainly talked more than one through periodic attacks of anxiety and self-loathing while they were getting comfortable with their desires. The key…

I think you mean Batman/Superman. Apparently, Batman tops in the new 52.

Storm's getting a solo in July, so switching it to Storm and the X-Men seems like a logical choice.

I'm sorry, but you're completely wrong about Sherlock Holmes. They are absolutely representative of ACD canon in ways that no other adaptation really has been. It's true that they don't emphasize the things every other film or series had to that point, but the pulp direction they move in instead is just as much a…

My understanding is that he also worked on a full-blown hentai episode with similar themes prior to creating Kite (in a hentai anthology series). http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

These aren't really YA novels, though; they're not even really aimed at middle grades. They were originally targeted at kids in the second half of elementary school, aged 8-12 and it absolutely shows in the prose and the kids' ages (they start off the books in junior high, and protagonists in children's and YA books…

That story about Chelsey was one of those perfect mixes of pathos and "these people are horrible" that Justified does so well. "Last puppy from a dying litter, barely alive, raised it myself" is sweet and sad. "From a litter at a puppy mill that I was looking after for my friend" tips that anecdote right back over…

With Haruhi, KyoAni kind of shit the bed with the way they handled Endless Eight, which apparently was extremely poorly received in Japan. DVD sales for those episodes declined hugely from the first series — Season 2 sold less than half as well as Season One. And then they had enormous success with the moe slice of…

But is it more or less faithful than Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki manga? Inquiring minds want to know.