It definitely has felt a bit like Jezebel has, in many ways, been kinda half-assing this most sacred tradition this year... *sad trombone*

Samesies.

This is an intellectually dishonest take and that’s me being generous. Earning money off of borrowed money is free money. No longer having to carry a debt is not free money.

This seems to be a theme in the stories this year. I feel (and have been told as such by Elders) that sage is a technology that can be used by anyone - not only does it have spiritual significance across many cultures, but there is something really powerful about moving a wand of smoking sage around with the…

Scarlett Johansson’s already up for the role of Lydia in the film adaptation.

Light colored heels.

Perhaps you haven’t seen a little movie called Jurassic World, but Colin Trevorrow is amazingly, almost perfectly clueless about women.

This is and always has been a shallow and classist way to talk about art.

Really don’t think these are comparable hostile environments.

I’m so sorry this happened to you, and I hope he leaves you the fuck alone forever. On a bit of a (related) tangent, I gotta say that within the last few years’ worth of the Jez scary stories contest, the predominant emotion I feel while reading all the stories has become less “fun-spooky shivers” and more “white-hot…

Sure, yeah. I bet you do the same thing in Harry Potter fanfic and D&D forums and every Reddit thread about aliens. People who have fun in ways that you deem “unscientific” are definitely the real problem here.

We’re all very impressed with how high your horse is, btw. Amazing. So very, very high.

You seem like a lot of fun. Are you this much of a snob about everything other people enjoy that you think is a frivolous waste of time and energy in the face of war, genocide, disease, etc., or do you reserve your scorn for just this?

I hope you get out of the greys so you can tell that story.

Also, I hope you write an amazing series about a kid who somehow befriends an annoying brat of a demon who tells him important information, and when he grows up they solve crimes together and stuff, because I would absolutely read/watch that.

There they were, running into [and right out of] our lives within 3-5 mins!

Concur. I really needed something to keep the existential dread at bay after the 30 to 50 feral hogs thing ran out.

The biggest flaw in the “hunting people” genre is pretty simple: they take somebody who has no survival experience and throw them into a Survivor-type situation with no protection and no way to fight back...how exactly is that the most dangerous game? There’s also no reason for a screenwriter to buy the claptrap that…

My guess is she meant “vignette”, but the autocorrect made it a salad option.

“it is their fault if they take out that anger on the person who has no power to change it.”

But the thing is what was so strange about the story I told (“horror story” was a little much) is that there was absolutely no warning. No signs, no nothing. Had there been I would have kenneled my dog and waited it all out at a nearby bar or a friend’s apartment or something. As it was they were down there until well…