There’s more than a few allegations about him getting physically violent with collaborators and generally crashing working relationships straight into the ground with giant, ego-fueled fights. None of us really know anything yet, but I would be unsurprised if this was something like that instead of mere jerkitude.

“Trials should never be public” yikes. They necessarily have to be public. A cornerstone of functioning democracy is citizens being able to observe the courts and monitor if they’re fair. Now obviously for a lot of structural reasons like resource imbalances, the justice system isn’t necessarily fair. But imagine how…

You don't have to be constantly chemically disconnected from reality to blow $650 million dollars, but it helps. 

I agree with you that if you’re trying to make the actual best thing artistically, the best choice is to move forward. But franchises have mostly made a lot of money and not killed the brand by doing the opposite. 80% of Star Wars since Return of the Jedi is filling in gaps, and except for Solo they’ve all been at…

Matter of taste I guess, but enough that there are mountains of fan fiction about different characters, some of which is pretty good. Plus there’s the potential to go anywhere or anytime in human history and explore a whole new wizarding culture and different fantastical animals. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Beedle…

As a former HP super-fan, it’s partially both but even more that JKR has been creatively ever more disappointing since Deathly Hallows. Casual Vacancy is a bore. The Galbraith books (as far as I got) are a formulaic, fat-shaming, and misogynistic bore. The Cursed Child text is an absolute mess, the worst fan-fictiony,…

Or more accurately, if the franchise never creates another compelling lead character.  There is so much potential in the Wizarding World for a compelling non-Harry Potter-centric story or even an MCU style expansion, they just didn’t stick the landing. Personally I thought from the start Fantastic Beasts was a dead…

Even if everything else moves to short three-seasons or less, I think animated shows will continue to reach 100 episodes. If only because they can be a little more inventive with format and be easier to run for a long time. Even Archer is finally limping over the 100 episode line in their next batch of episodes.

It's not sampling that's a problem, it's sampling without getting permission and giving compensation. Nothing's saying you can't make that kind of art, you just can't be a dick about it.

What I wrote was almost word for word the same prompt I used to give phonics/literacy students when they weren’t quite connecting something I knew they knew. If you find that an assault, maybe you’re a little oversensitive.

If xylophone or xerox aren't beyond your skills, I think you can puzzle it out

You’ve got a point with some of the stranger neopronouns. If I was designing English from the ground up, I’d like just our basic set plus a single neutral singular neopronoun. The systems in some sci-fi books (mostly Becky Chambers) where you use a neutral neopronoun for everyone until you’re told otherwise just seem…

For sure they're not mutually exclusive! The one thing that unites all humans is we have both assholes and the potential to be assholes.

Ezra Miller has come out as non-binary. I prefer xe/xir or something similar to reduce confusion and pointless arguments about grammar, but the last round of close-minded olds in the 90s killed the more experimental alternatives so here we are.

Is this thread the Futurama writer's room because yikes

Exactly this. You can believe in magic, talking trees, scary wraiths, elves, dwarves, and orcs, but somehow women fighting breaks your suspension of disbelief? There’s no reason except sexism why a magical race like elves shouldn’t have women who are just as strong and warlike, if not stronger, than men. Especially…

She absolutely is. It’s so irrational that she almost definitely couldn’t have been cast as a mainstream romantic lead anywhere five or ten years ago either because of racism or colorism. Shonda’s series may not be 100% my thing all the time, but what she’s done for all kinds of representation is pretty incredible.

Source? Alopecia is only the word for the condition of losing hair. Androgenetic alopecia is the main source of hair loss, but we don’t even know if that’s what Jada has. Alopecia areata is much more likely to cause total hair loss in women and it is 100% a disease that causes your immune system to destroy your hair…

All publicity is good publicity? They’re both less relevant than they once were, this gets people talking about both of them and makes Rock seem like an edgy comedian. Although that’s a weaker argument than it would be if the joke was any good. Mostly the Oscars benefit. They get 48 hours of people talking about them…

Several of the people you cite have vehemently denied being gay to the press, which I would say by definition is not being out? Plus there’s much less of an element of traditional media gatekeeping nowadays, people like JoJo Siwa just put up a social media post, or heck, just a rainbow flag emoji in their bio. Many of…