After it finished I just turned to my girlfriend and told her it seemed to be written by someone who has not yet realized women are people.

This trailer made me viscerally angry, so I will probably be revisiting this review many times.

Yeah, the first third of the book or so is largely solid, when the character actually has external issues to deal with, and there's some interesting world-building both within and out of the Oasis. Once he gets money/celebrity, a lot of that goes away and it's just "I went to a party with R2D2 but this girl still…

When he was wrapping up and said he could fill several chapters with Ted Cruz awfulness, I was just like PLEASE DO. I would read an entire book of Al Franken hating Ted Cruz.

Yeah, I recently listened to the Giant of the Senate audiobook, and Franken basically says he gets along with his republican colleagues because they are, at the end of the day, his coworkers, and even if he disagrees with them on a fundamental level, he needs to work with them in order to do his job. He likes some…

One of my favorite recent discoveries was a game called "Not Parent Approved," which calls itself "Cards Against Humanity…for kids!" Sadly because the games were arranged in alphabetical order they couldn't stock it right next to Apples to Apples, as it would be in a just universe.

I just have a large collection of souvenirs from the Charlotte airport.

Many of my childhood feelings about Tekken make a lot more sense now that I've realized I'm bisexual.

Re: musicals, when I was in ninth grade we did Gigi and followed up with Gypsy the next year. The same girl was cast in the lead role for both, which just made it more awkward. I wasn't involved, but the same (male) teacher made all decisions about what shows we did and who was cast in what roles, so basically all the…

Yeah, I went to middle school while I was there (my dad had a two-year stint as director of a study abroad program) and I still remember clearly going in on the first day and having the teacher send me to the wrong spot because I hadn't given my last name, and there was another Charlotte in the class. The thought…

As a Charlotte who never met anyone with my name until I went to England, the name's comeback is both confusing and alarming. Will I finally find it on souvenir license plates? Am I finally a Bort?

The show makes a lot more sense if you just assume that Dr. Spaceman from 30 Rock is their consultant for science and medicine.

Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are well-regarded but not fandom-popular in the same way as a lot of their other projects. And Frequency and No Tomorrow never had any online presence I saw. I'm not saying that's WHY they were canceled, but I'm also not saying it's not.

It feels like The 100 is gearing up for one as well, but I'll give them a pass just because they've done four seasons that were supposed to take place over the course of a year, and all their teenagers were already five years too old when the show started.

Mine's a D20, which might make me actively less cool, but I definitely enjoy it.

I've got a spinner ring to fidget with and it's really a godsend.

Yeah, I have nothing against looser adaptations, nor against the idea behind this adaptation in and of itself. I don't need slavish devotion to the canon. But you can talk about changes you're making without sounding dismissive of the original work, and that's something I really want from someone who's adapting…

I've been really annoyed with the way I've seen the showrunner discussing this show (which feels very dismissive of the original books), but everything I've heard about the show itself, including from life-long fans, is really positive, so I'm hoping it's going to be one of those times when I disagree with the…

If we're talking other people to take the role, I've heard Bob Morley (also of The 100) is already in this movie, so if you've got him there anyway, cutting your losses, switching him to the lead, and being like, "Look, he's half-Filipino, we listened," is probably the best move at this point.

According to an article I saw he's an EP on the project, so good job making your own terrible decisions bro.