Honestly, if you can say “I lost to a massive collaborative effort to collect and preserve fan writing projects that’s been ongoing for over a decade”, you’re not saying you lost at all..

Cara Delevingne is not a bad actress per se, she just has a very limited skillset. She has presence and her physical acting is top-notch. But don’t ask her to do complex emotions or show vulnerability.

“Do or do not, there is no try” isn’t a general saying, at least not beyond the Star Wars crowd. It’s a movie line from a magic space wizard trying to tell his student how to use space magic himself, i.e. not exactly grounded in reality. 

CloudFlare is fixing to IPO. Matthew Prince is no stranger to shittiness—he formed a company called Unspam, which did not much that anyone can tell, and then lobbied the Utah legislature to require that anyone who sent adult oriented email had to scrub their list against a registry that Unspam would run and mailers…

I’m beginning to think that maybe shows based on classic dystopian novels work better if they’re not turned into extended serials. It tends to dilute the impact of the source material. I’m just trying to imagine this applied to Orwell:

Hate to say it, but D&D made the right decision and maintained a holistic vision for the show’s ending. Excellent direction would have been jarring alongside piddle-poor writing.

I look forward to them getting taken through a portal to Storybrooke where most of Elsa’s more expensive powers are used sparingly.

This IS basically the plot to their OUAT run, right?  

Counter theory: Ron Perlman spoiled us for other Hellboy movies......

Guillermo Del Toro made two incredible Hellboy movies that still hold up pretty damn well.

There’s a book called Caliban and the Witch that goes into great detail about all of this. Though I’ll warn you that it’s an academic read. So expect to read about a page or so before having to drop everything and research a footnote for a few hours. If that’s not your jam, I wouldn’t bother with it.

Piggy-backing on what the above individual wrote. When I wrote “the rule”, perhaps I should have written “was the most common”. But the medieval period in Europe represents almost 1000 years of history spread across hundreds of cultures and probably thousands of national jurisdictions. The laws and customs of…

Which is why, for example, Mary of Burgundy was probably the most sought-after bachelorette of the medieval period.

Martin’s own world building is not exactly “accurate” (magic aside) as a reflection of the medieval societies he draws on - for one thing there seems to be way more child marriage in ASOIAF, I think, than in real life though it wasn’t unheard of - but one of my complaints about how the show reinterpreted the books is…

I don’t know people here have told me over and over that the middle ages were super white and that GOT is totally cool for the lack of diversity. So many really great excuses. (/s)

Similarly, the idea that the Middle Ages were just white people everywhere as an explanation for lack of diversity (and that most of the non-white characters near the end were just murderous barbarians) is also not reality based: https://twitter.com/medievalpoc

I honestly don’t see how Watchmen isn’t a freight train loaded with burning manure sailing off a cliff into a volcano.

I feel bad for people who watch this instead of experiencing the comic book.

Because nothing says “cool on the Internet” like shitting on something people like.

Them: All I know is, if you’re gonna tell me that a child is going to travel the world for eight years training and learning to become a master fighter, I’ll tell you’re being ridiculous.