That would be a ridiculous thing to do since Black Widow exists and also didn’t squander America Chavez.

The Egyptians were particularly bad about this. At least in the west cultural shifts have us getting uptight about cousin marriages that no one would have blinked an eye even a hundred years ago, but the Egyptian royals crossed lines almost ever culture normally steers well clear of.

Your local classicist here who just wants to be pedantic that saying Cleopatra was a ‘woman of colour’ (at least by modern standards) is really difficult given that she was not ethnically Egyptian but Macedonian and her dynasty was pretty incesty,  meaning she likely resembled Alexander the Great more than Ramses II.

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The government of India threw a fit back in the day—they really didn’t seem to grasp the ‘it’s not Ghandi it’s just a genetic copy’ thing. But I’m sure they’d be so much understating now.

I have similar issues with Evangeline Lilly whose one go-to expression is consternation. There’s models-turned-actors who do incredible work—Charlize Theron, Milla Jovovich, heck even Eddie Redmayne in the right role—and then there’s folks where you’re like ‘ah, so the face was really all they had going for them, huh?’

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I mean I’d consider Jonathan Blow’s last game challenging, but to call it an arch-nemesis seems overblown...

I’m not saying the R&M fandom is peachy-keen, but the SU fandom was especially virulent because it was SO at odds with he themes of the show. R&M fans being kind of shitty is just, y’know, of course they are. Unsurprising.

Hard disagree. Future frequently felt like the End of Evangelion of Steven Univrser: a weirdly bitter and unpleasant 90 minutes that just screamed YOU ALL LIKED THE SHOW WRONG AND I’M GOING TO PUNISH YOU FOR IT.

Or maybe it just came out at a really bad time, and in the midst of the fear and panic of lockdown a story…

“The phrase “good movie” and “Star Wars Holiday Special” are not regularly in the same sentence”

Star Wars Holiday Special is a good movie contrasted with Rise of Skywalker.

“Mondo, the Austin, Texas-based collectible company famous for” yet-more nerd clutter.

The Picard theme is the only good part of Picard.

The woman has less screen presence than Orlando Bloom, which I didn’t think was humanly possible. It’s amazing that someone that stunning can be so completely forgettable.

Imagine giving enough of a shit about the cameo at the end of Shazam 2 to create a conspiracy about it. Imagine carrying half as much, in any way, about Shazam 2, a movie we already all forgot happened.

Oh, and I forgot to add: of course you’re a real girl (though I’m sure you don’t need a stranger to tell you that) and your ex can to hell for being such a piece of shit.

And ruining a great movie!

I’ve really struggled to go back to Mystery Science Theatre because I had a vicious and frankly baffling falling-out with the best-friend with whom I had shared a love of the show for a decade.

It fucking sucks.

See, I read that as ‘by the time he was sleeping next to his PS4 his relationship was on the outs.’ He’s not sleeping next to his PS4 because he plays games too much, he’s sleeping there because he’s no longer allowed to sleep in the bedroom in the bed: he’s in exile on the floor of his living room or the couch and…

To be fair, EA doesn’t want you playing Titanfall anyways.

ME TOO!

The Rick and Morty fandom didn’t bully artists off Twitter with death threats for not making character ‘fat enough’ in art.

I was in the Steven Universe fandom and at its worse it was shockingly vile. I watched people argue for anti-miscegenation, claiming that humans and gems (especially Rose and Greg) could never eth…

The Lego Movie already proved it: everything in LEGO should be LEGO. Full stop.