As previously mentioned, Octopus Pie and Gunnerkrigg Court are always lovely reads.

This is a pretty biased perspective since I'm a sucker for these kinds of books, but I have high hopes for some of DC's odder fare — Cave Carson, Deadman, Doom Patrol, that kind of thing. I love comics history, and I think that covering characters that very few people care about definitely gives authors and artists a…

I'm a DC fan (which is probably kind of obvious because of my profile picture), but I think it's worth saying that I was in basically this position with DC since the new52 happened; it felt so disrespectful to characters I had known and loved growing up, and it made reading very frustrating. But this year, they…

What's your beef with her?

Yeah, I definitely feel you there — that sort of murky moral ground in the book where everyone was kind of awful was very compelling. But I can understand why they made that choice, especially at this time; if I'm not mistaken, this is the first broadway musical that's explicitly about being a lesbian instead of it…

I'm currently reading A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab. It's my first foray back into fantasy since I was a kid, and it's decent. Nothing spectacular, but certainly entertaining enough — I've heard great things about this author, though, so I'm ready for things to start warming up.

Fun Home is incredible — I recommend Bechdel's other work, Are You My Mother if you ever feel like diving into her work again. It didn't top Fun Home for me, but it was gutting in a different sort of way.

I haven't been looking at this feature long (if it's even existed for a while), only with the girl with the TV head and this one, but are the comments sections always so negative about them? I saw nothing but criticism for the TV head comic, and people seem to hate this one too. Has there every been one that's been…

I see that you've made the argument that it's more okay to climb a rock than a sacred building because the latter was man-made and the former is a natural occurrence, but when it comes down to it, they're all just objects. It makes just as much sense to deem a beautiful natural occurrence as sacred as it does to deem…

Yeah, it definitely reeks of some serious overexaggeration. I mean, I believe she scratched her ass on some rocks, but the ensuing disaster? Ehhhh.

In Clone Wars, at least, I felt he had plenty of flaws. He always seemed like a holier-than-thou smug kind of asshole who would openly taunt his foes while, you know, either horribly injuring or killing them while constantly infuriating the dude who was going to go on to do horrible, horrible things.

What would you recommend?

Agreed wrt the whole financial situation — sometimes it feels as though people don't recognize that those who are in hard times, financially speaking, still splurge on expensive frivolities every now and then. There are tons of people who are broke who still manage to save up enough scratch for, say, a gaming…

No to the whole suspense thing! I understand how that can absolutely impact others' viewings, but I've always been more about the journey than the outcome, and I find that knowing the eventual outcome can make repeat viewings even more valuable.

I must just be a masochist, because after watching season 3 of Bojack, I went alllll the way back to season 1 and watched it more carefully. And yeah, it made me no happier the second time around but whoof, what a show.

I figure this is as good a place as any to drop the link: if anybody's interested in a pack of 151 games including Gone Home for 20 bucks (50% goes to the ACLU, 50% to Planned Parenthood), check it out! https://itch.io/b/149/a-goo…

So everything about this whole Tinder has 37 genders to choose from thing is a little bit misleading, so I'm going to clarify it in my own comment here in hopes this helps others understand a bit better instead of having the kneejerk reaction of "THIRTY-SEVEN GENDERS???"

I'm sure that you've heard this before, but in the hopes that it's helpful, I'm going to say it again!

A lot of them mean the same thing and seem to vary by preference of usage. For example, they have: transgender man, transgender person, transgender woman, transmasculine, transsexual, transsexual female, transsexual male, etc.

While they may be in a room full of people who presumably agree with them, I think it's important to remember that they did tell the audience members to film and share their speech as well. As a result - and because they got attention from the President-elect himself - they've opened themselves up to an awful lot of…