what age-group for these Ada Twist stories?

Wacky Wednesday is fucking infuriating, by cracky!!

Julia Donaldson is the Mistress of Rhyme, she has such a catchy way with metre which never seems forced.

.. holding it aloft ..

incogruously stunning backdrop for a massacre

I would totally be down with S3 being heavily focused on the attempts of Canada and other sympathetic regimes to counter Gilead and provide aid to its victims.

Surprised no mention of Mr David Byrne.

Absolutely, in fact if you watch the scene again you’ll see it was very calculated.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by author Stephen Donaldson hit on the point you’re making; that possession is essentially rape; depriving another person of their agency is evil in all its guises.

this gig is just a fine piece of Americana; love these guys, they have but one album (patter between songs suggests there’s another on the way) but they’re such a solid giggin’ band, and this shit is close to flawless *if you’re into dat kinda thing*

cool; I was literally just reviewing the World Cup preview posts and, like a child, wondering ‘when are they gonna do Australiaaaa’ - voila, 5 minutes later I was gratified, more or less instantly.

I find this face-saving ‘don’t score on us man, we’ve already lost’ unwritten-rule to be laughable and borderline unsportsmanlike - you don’t want your opponent to score in the last few seconds? Fucking defend.

I agree with Jameson that backstory and world-building have become a big expectation among ‘geeks’ (or just run of the mill fantasy/sci-fi readers).

that’s just some plain good writin’ Tom; very enjoyable read.

hehe; perfect, read the article before reading the comments and briefly entertained the thought that I’d be the first to come up with such a perfect pop culture burn.

first comment on Jezebel, only to deeply concur with your (funny) response to the news of a Picnic At Hanging Rock um reimagining.

That film really is close to perfect, and I need to watch it again, soon (I do own a decent copy, just gotta make the time).

yup, totally fictional; Joan Lindsay’s editor wisely excised an overtly supernatural 18th chapter and in doing so preserved much of the mystery of the novel and Weir’s adaptation.

I was actually pleasantly surprised at the production values; I feared going in that it’d come off looking a little cheaper than it does. It is fine for what it is.

It’s definitely aiming at funny a lot of the time.