This is what you get from fan feedback:

That was the first time in my life that I’d ever dealt with a mantrum and it was an eye-opener. Despite being so young, I luckily didn’t take it personally. I mean, obviously a woman could be a great science fiction author, so he was an idiot.

Funny enough, IIRC I had assumed Andre Norton was a woman but at some point in my childhood some sort of indication incorrectly convinced me otherwise, so I later re-learned Norton’s gender.

I can’t even imagine having your defining opus be something you did as a 16-year-old. How many creators get distant, hazy, and even bitter about constantly being identified with and grilled on masterpieces they made in their late 20s and 30s, when they were theoretically fully mature adults?

Although if any of you want…

I think there’s also the effect of being married to Shelley, which averages out to about a year of late-middle age ennui per real-time month. But she also apparently invented being goth by age 14 or so. Combine that with the brilliance of Frankenstein, and it’s an amazing achievement.

Yeah but Victorian 18 is, like, present-day 31.

I was so blown away about a year ago when I learned that The Outsiders was written by an 18 year old woman. I never really liked the book - I didn’t hate it - but I definitely respect it more as a first novel from essentially a kid.

Sounds like something an abusive person would say...

They couldn’t possibly be worse.

Honestly, it’s been kind of a mixed bag.

I’ve now taught in the south, and the upper Midwest, and in both geographic areas, I’ve run into the same thing:

Some students are exceptionally well-prepared in terms of having a general grasp of classical logic and salient argument.

Most don’t know what they’re doing, but can…

Put down the spray tan, go to the area where this character is supposed to be from, and hold auditions there for locals only.

But she specifically mentions having a couch.

But where do you put your feet?

Nick Jonas is very much into older women and I am very much into Nick Jonas.

Did this ever even really fool anyone, though? Speaking as a photographer of 25+ years, I never, ever bought it. He’s always set off my creep meter (to a huge degree), immediately.

How fucking g*y!

^^ THIS ^^

William Shatner made one of the greatest comedy albums of all time. Without trying.

2 I went to store at midnight to buy Limp Bizkit “Chocolate Starfish”.

I just want to clarify that Kid Rock is not a human man... he’s a walking STD.