I have no idea if they even made those before or since. I was wondering if they were a joy-fueled hallucination because I was finally leaving high school.

My graduation shoes were Converse high-tops with “Class of 1991” printed all over them and little tassels hanging off the back. I did not make these, they were actual shoes they sold and probably the only time my parents actually spent money on the actual shoes I wanted and not a cheap knockoff version.

I’m still struggling with my youngest brother not being my sister anymore, and we’d seen it coming for years before he actually asked for male pronouns.

I think you mean JARED Bell. Since he’s so insistent on people using the names they were given at birth, and all.

I just finished this yesterday. Really good. I’ve enjoyed her Temeraire books but they’re becoming a bit of a slog as the main characters end up tromping all over the world having one disaster after another.

My husband giggled like a six-year-old every time he was on screen.

Those aren’t ALL villains! Not my sweet Rosencrantz. Er ... Guildenstern. No, wait ...

oh my god yes

Have you seen the original Wicker Man? I highly recommend it. Especially for Mr. Lee in one of the most lurid kilts known to man.

B... Brandon? Maybe?

Although to be fair, the movie is named after him. But since he’s coming into an established universe that gets less weight than other movies named for the villains.

Well yeah, Aurora is literally an inanimate object for half the story.

I know a lot of dudes who own kilts and ... yeah. Don’t ask unless you actually want to know. And see. And probably touch.

THIS SHOULD BE TATTOOED ONTO ALL MALE-IDENTIFIED PEOPLE WITH PENISES BEFORE PUBERTY

She should have lost his number 4 years and 11 months ago.

I got waved off with a warning once for expired tags (apparently I’d written the wrong amount on my check to the DMV somehow) ... by virtue of having the flu so bad the cop didn’t want to come near me. I can’t exactly recommend this approach, though. Sorry, Mr. CHP Officer, I hope you did not get the flu.

I feel like, in the case of the Hugos, the pendulum is swinging the other way. When science fiction was the domain of John Carter it was all man stories about men, but a lot of more recent science fiction and fantasy has been about women (or no gender at all, like Ancillary Justice.)

Yes, a game avatar. And I do indeed know people who met in online games and went on to get married - the cutesy lego-esque MMO Puzzle Pirates has a whole forum for couples who met in-game.

Weirdly, they don’t seem overly concerned about whether I’m really a man when they send me messages about the “hotness” of my avatar.