Wait, the faith>works thing is distinctly Protestant. Catholicism puts way more stress on good works. Catholicism is definitely not a recent development.

But Eleanor is the one who is out of her element, who wakes up where she doesn’t belong, so to speak.

You can even pretty easily map the characters to the Wizard of Oz as well. Chidi is clearly the cowardly lion, Eleanor is Dorothy, Jason’s the scarecrow (he certainly needs a brain), and Tahani’d be the Tin man (all her good deeds having lacked heart, after all)

Yeah, that was what tipped me off too, which is a ridiculous sign of the times.

It’s not that I think people are so conditions to believe anything negative about trump (though they do exist) it’s that so many things that absolutely should have been fevered satires turned out to be true and reality itself makes no sense.

How is it possible for her to be even more delightful than I could have imagined?

25 comments? 25? Fucking Kinja, man.

The difference between the 10th doctor and the 12th doctor in not wanting to regenerate is that 10 didn’t want to change, and 12 is tired and is ready for things to be over.

I do not think Prosecco is made by adding CO2 to the wine. I know it is often has its secondary fermentation in a tank, but that’s not the same thing as treating it like soda.

Not every country follows US copyright laws, but they set their own. But it’s great that you think that it should be otherwise

How exactly do you plan to use people from writing fanfiction? It’s considered a transformative work. How exactly do you plan to use US copyright law to enforce your will in places that do not obey copyright law?

Arghghghghg. What is it with people that assume “let’s get rid of insane copyright” means “no copyright.” The current system is only forty years old, and somehow creators survived before then. Additionally, a lot of classic films are only classics and not forgotten is because they briefly fell out of copyright before…

If copyright terms weren’t so insane - which is greatly due to Disney, btw - you could have all the crossovers you wanted.

There is too much TV. I’m just overwhelmed by how much there is, so I kind of end up not watching anything.

How depressing is it? I’ve been kind of intrigued, but I really just can’t deal with something too depressing right now.

This is seriously GSUSA screwing over the troops. It makes me absolutely livid.

https://www.snopes.com/church-scientology-tax-exempt/ Fake news, unfortunately.

Portland is SO white that some friends of mine who live up there are joking that it’s got to be the only place where tech gentrification means it’s getting slightly more diverse.

There are so many things that suck about today - emboldened white nationalism being one of many of them- but yeah, some how in the midst of all the horror, I find myself having just enough bandwidth left to get annoyed at all the people online rushing to prove their wokeness before actually reading whatever it is that…

I dug up an old garbage gmail account just to connect. Of course, I basically have to leave it in an incognito window at all times, but yeah. It seems pretty shitty that you CAN log in with an AVC account, but that they’re going to force everyone to hook up to a “real” account with one of the internet overlords. It’s…