“The Goblin god of slavery, oppression and morale” — If you get to enslave and oppress people, your morale is probably pretty good, but your self-esteem is questionable.

Note: The Supreme Court did not rule that his posts weren’t threats. This is not about the facts of his case, but the process. What this says is that the jury should have been instructed to consider his state of mind.

God has forgiven him, so who cares what his victims think...

Not revolutionary, but still very good: The work of Patricia McKillip. I think she writes new fairy tales. There’s something very immersive and fairy tale-ish about her language.

And several sequels, all delightful. I want a Frying Pan of Doom.

My fantasy superpower is to smite people with lightning, preferably while they’re telling everyone how it’s right and proper for them to go around being evil. ‘Cause it would look like their God was laying them low, like a big ol’ divine “Nope.”

Ahem. They’re “action figures.”

Co-writer John Rogers studied physics at McGill University and has a few words for you:

OMG, I was just coming here to recommend a look at this entirely different brilliant post by John Rogers:

Stealing the world’s greatest sandwich? Now I’m thinking about Leverage’s The Office Job. Now I’m craving a Leverage/Marvel crossover. Darn you.

Fingerprints are useful, but one thing this doesn’t go into is that the process of matching two prints is a subjective evaluation. You hear about how a fingerprint is a “five-point” match but no one explains what a point is, or how many points make a good match. Because a fingerprint is a 2D representation of a 3D…

A small-scale movie means no big action set pieces, so it would be more about characters. Tony obviously has some huge issues, and it would do everyone good if he could work on them. He tends to blame his father for his hang-ups and as much as I’m tired of guys wrapped up in their daddy issues, I’d like to see him…

John Q was a respected ambassador before being elected presidency. I believe there’s a line from some notable about how he had two brilliant careers interrupted by a mediocre presidency.

I was thinking about this from a different perspective today. Most mammals are born fairly functional, but human infants are born before they’re fully baked, and have to undergo a lot of neural development. If you had artificial wombs, you wouldn’t have to worry about them growing too big to be born, so do you let…

Just based on the title, I was going to nominate Aragorn from the LotR movies. Not because his journey is messed up, but because forcing that journey onto the character messed up the movies.

Oliver being the Arrow on The Flash while he’s still Heir to the Demon on his own show is giving me whiplash from the double takes.

League of Assassins entrance exam

I am so in favor of school uniforms. (Please, tell me how children forced to wear uniforms are forever denied the ability to express themselves through fashion. Just like how fast food workers and professional athletes are incapable of self-expression through clothing.)

Clearly the teachers were just worried about sunburn...

Why on earth would the judge deny a DNA request? “A definitive determination of the merits of the claim? Nope, can’t have that.”