Other writers do a better job of filing off the serial numbers, Dino Ironbody. Like Diana Wynne Jones with her CHRESTOMANCI series written between 1977 and 2006, including the school novel Witch Week, which has many elements in it that might be familiar to Harry Potter fans!

You insist on thinking of transwomen as “men in drag”, not as transitioning women—and that’s your damage, lady.

So...transpersons and allies should just STFU so you can’t be inconvenienced?

Well, a woman can’t really have sex with other women, so it’s not sexual assault if they do it!

It’s funny how many privileged people mistake minor inconveniences and having to see things they consider “distasteful” as oppression.

It was hand-waved away as being tropes from the genres she was writing in—not just fantasy but the “school story” where boys (usually) go off to boarding school to learn how to be MEN!, and when girls are involved they learn the social graces (and submerging their intelligence and talent) so as to be Proper Wives and…

Well, Nabin’s writing for the AV Club again.

Have you met Michael Bloomberg?

They couldn’t have made it any WORSE!

Yeah—I think Christopher Nolan has a Zack Snyder-sized blind spot in his perception.

I’m voting for the meds, myself.

Really! It was as if nobody working on the production had ever been to Africa, or knew the first thing about coffee.

La La Land and two Mamma Mia! movies would like a word with you....

I LOVE the Smell of Sarcasm in the Morning!

Marvel Movie in the Scorsese sense.

Even with all of that (and BTW, I already heard your line of BS from Jeremy Clarkson)? An EV is still a vast environmental improvement over a ICE once it’s driven 13,500 miles on average, and even with carbon-based electricity production it’s still significantly better for the environment than gasoline engines are. And…

I bet it’s because Billy Zane’s perfectly willing to let the world know he’s gone bald....

Yep—which I think Fillion is too likable to play...unless you’re Stana Katic, apparently.

Oh, brother, was it ever!

Yeah, but the Defunctland post is a “Homage” to Citizen Kane about EPCOT, full of stock video meant to suggest a large cast of characters and the passage of history. Since I more listen than watch anyway, especially while I’m driving, I found it really difficult to follow and switched it off twenty minutes in,…