*cries forever*

I’m crying a few happy tears. Maybe all the schools will turn out to be tremendously problematic later, but right now I am so happy to be getting more magic from Rowling, and so many different kinds all at once.

What does this mean for the Barbie clothes? One of the great joys of Barbie is being able to switch up everyone’s outfits, but I’m guessing the tall and slender barbie’s shirt doesn’t fit the curvy one.....

Those are the ones I thought of, too, but the difference to me is that while Lumiere (Candlestick) and Cogsworth (Clock) seem to be significantly more visible over the wardrobe (who I can only remember speaking in two brief scenes, when she’s dressing Belle and then clobbering the townsfolk) and the feather duster…

Maybe the 90s heroines are strong role models, but it still says something that those princesses tend to be isolated women. If they were stories that took place in some universe where it is literally male dominated, and women are really rare in a 70% male population, then yeah, sure, that would be fine—but they don’t.…

I’ve wondered something along these lines for quite a while now. There’s this trope that the earlier Disney princesses are completely terrible from a feminist perspective, but at least they have women, plural. Sleeping Beauty in particular is driven by female characters, with at least 3/5 of those (4/5, depending on…

How does the top snapping-off half stay fixed to the bottom half? Five billion tons of glue?

Did I miss it, or did io9 not review the Sherlock special? I really want to here what you/Charlie Jane/Katherine/whoever-does-these-things has to say about it, but I’ve seen no coverage since the last Morning Spoilers.

How did it not beat Jurassic Park? It seems insane to me that Star Wars isn’t the more popular franchise worldwide, what with all its films and books and just general, y’know, everywhere-ness.

I have my own Death character, who I put in doodles that I leave around the honors building at my university. He/she likes Terry Pratchett, trashy music, and 90s TV. Occasionally his dog, a corgi skeleton named Anubis, shows up.

The interesting part of the story for me is to go back 75 years earlier and see how everything became the way it is.

ALL THE STARS FOR “CLARAITY.”

This is a good idea, and one I hadn’t thought of. I guess thematically, him forgetting Clara makes sense, with all the context of the Osgood Boxes and ‘run you clever boy, and remember’ and their destructive relationship, but it still rubs me the wrong way after spending the last two series loving Twelve and Clara’s…

I AM SO GLAD SOMEBODY ELSE WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS

I hate this ending. I loathe it. I can appreciate it as a long inversion of the travesty of Donna Noble’s ending—but simply flipping who gets the amnesia does not make this a happy ending, or a better one.

I think I read it’s because she has some sort of disease (Graves disease, maybe?) that has resulted in her feeling self-conscious about her face.

Like I said—some people like some of them. But none of them have garnered the deep love from the fandom that’s been given to, say, Paul Cornell’s work, or even one-off writers like Rob Shearman or Richard Curtiss. It just seems weird to me that Doctor Who continually invites back writers whose episodes have been…

I’m really confused why people keep suggesting Gatiss for showrunner—or, for that matter, why he keeps being invited back to write for the show. All his contributions so far (The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot’s Lantern, Victory of the Daleks, Night Terrors, Crimson Horror, Cold War, and now this) have been almost uniformly…

I never think of myself as a big Star Wars fan, until Harrison Ford shows up and my heart starts fluttering. Oh man. Oh man oh man. It’s finally sinking in. We’re going to see Han Solo again.

I know, it’s so close to his own style of phrasing anyway that it’s just a skip and a jump to having him say it anyway.