Having just read Dune for the first time Duke Leto reminded me a lot of Ned Stark. A genuinely good man in a time and place that had no use for good men.

I also wouldn’t go as far as calling anyone ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys.’  Protagonists vs. antagonists feels like a better way to describe things.

CHOAM and the Landsraad: The stock market and Congress, respectively; both are made up almost entirely of heads of the Great Houses, who use them both as proxies for their long-standing fights.

This is a good article, but it doesn’t answer the most pressing question: how is it possible for a space opera set in the far distant future to have a character whose name is Duncan Idaho?

I read the original six books ages ago, but I have only ever revisited the first two, and I can’t say I remember much about the rest. I don’t think it matters, though. I can’t imagine the film series getting very far into the later books. I’d feel happy if we just get two great films adapting the first one.

It cannot possibly be healthy to be so invested in a celebrity’s size (whatever it may be,) that a change of one sort or another feels like a betrayal. 

What is genuinely surprising to me around the issue of “body positivity” (or was surprising, before it happened a bunch of times,) is the number of people who come out of the woodwork to say mean things about celebrities (and particularly female celebrities,) after they’ve lost a significant amount of weight. I think…

You beat me to it. Nadja playing kickball is a whole feeling. I feel like Rob would have enough of a sense of humor to show up at the Vampiric Council one day, but he’s probably far too big a star now.

The best thing to come out of that whole baseball scene is that it ultimately resulted in the kickball-in-the-snow scene on What We Do in the Shadows.

I’m glad Tendler is finding the time and space to express herself and make silly videos, and I hope she gets a jillion followers, meets someone new, and is fabulously happy (same goes for Munn and Mulaney.) 

YES all the Culkins have “lesbian dirtbag energy” and it is very hot. 

Skate Trolls sounds like an animated movie Dreamworks put out in 2006.

It’s actually very common for news anchors to participate in extreme sports. For instance, Tom Brokaw is an avid bungee jumper.

I know this is a bizarre thing to comment on in your story, but the horse hair in the walls isn’t actually that weird, since people used to use it to make plaster walls a lot stronger and less liable to crack. The horse hair was used to reinforce the plaster and allowed for greater flexibility of the plaster when…

I’m now fully vaccinated.

The museum should feel fucking ripped off: Haaning just took the money and just sat there on his ass. No running.

No one is more dangerous than someone who truly believes they were chosen by god to do something. 

I’m too busy with my Lesbian Pirate Armada to conquer space right now.

Into the fray of wonderful soaps, may I humbly suggest a French soap called “Savon de Marseille”. It’s made with olive oil, and they’ve been making their soap pretty much the same way since 1688.

If you have painful periods, fight, and I mean FIGHT until you get answers.