I think people have misinterpreted the whole "ironically" thing - it wasn't about pretending to like something while secretly mocking it. It was about liking something *for* its weirdness or uncoolness, rather than *in spite of*. It's like when the eleventh Doctor wears a fez - he doesn't like it because he genuinely…

I consider it one of the great sins of storytelling to retcon away a previous work's happy ending.

Huh, interesting. It's a bit different for me - caffeine doesn't directly trigger anxiety for me. Even if I drink a lot of coffee, I just feel energetic and excited. But I've found that if I have had caffeine that day, and then later on I encounter something that *does* trigger my anxiety, I'm much less capable of…

If you think that the fanart I mentioned is intended for gay men, that's just not the case. The vast majority of it is produced by women, for themselves and other women. What's gay is the content, not the audience.

Caffeine may not be much physical risk to your body, but it's still risky psychologically - it can worsen anxiety and depression. Personally, it took me years to figure out that there was a connection between my panic attacks and my daily cup of coffee/tea, but once I dropped caffeine they almost completely went away.…

You should try doing a google search for "sexy X fanart" where X = any character that's popular with the tumblr set (Loki, Thor, Sherlock, the Doctor, Castiel, etc). You'll get lots of illustrations, a good chunk of which are straight up porn. It's biased towards what that demographic likes (lots of gay, for example),…

There's another dimension to "sexy" posing that I think often gets overlooked in these discussions. In our culture, it's considered default for men to be sexually dominant and women to be sexually submissive. This means that our most common "sexy" poses for women are submissive - they say "i'm vulnerable, i'm exposed,…

She's probably elderly, and still living in the house she and her husband bought back when they had 3-4 kids around to fill up all those bedrooms.

I wouldn't read too much into that - you can't really compare 2nd weekend numbers of one movie with opening weekend numbers of another.

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Can anyone vouch for the books here? The only ones I've heard of are American Gods and The Curse of Chalion, and I've already read American Gods.

Automatic toilets! Everything about them is just worse - they waste water with unnecessary flushes, and yet you can never trust them to flush themselves when you're done so you still have to flush them manually anyways. They make the whole process of using public toilets even more stressful and time wasting.

I'm not sure that's quite true - to be a terrorist you need to attack civilian targets, and the Death Star is pretty clearly military.

Heh, true.

But doesn't every luxury unit that gets built mean one less "rich" person moving into a poorer neighborhood? I mean, the rich people have to live somewhere, why not let them move into new development and leave everyone else in place?

Wait, how can you divorce rent prices from the cost of buying a house? If rent stays low while value of the home rises, landowners will just take their properties off the rental market and sell them for a nice payday.

The irony of course is that it's the "artistic and alternative types" from step 2 who do the loudest complaining about gentrification.

Yeah, I think this is the heart of the problem - The Giver doesn't make sense with a villain. It's just not that kind of society, and not that kind of story. I mean, I'm sure it was intentional that in the book the most evil act is done by Jonas's own father, who the reader knows and likes.

Studios take a bigger cut of the domestic than international, plus it's cheaper to market to one country than the entire world. The general rule of thumb is if you add up 1/2 of the domestic take plus 1/3 of the international, if it ends up being more than the budget then you have a good profit. So for edge of…

Mirror Dance is your *happy place*?! ;)