What Lily’s Garden is from what little I’ve seen of my mom playing it:

- just a bog standard match 3 game
- elements of Farmville or whatever where you repair a run down mansion and fix the garden
- there is no romance
- Lily’s grandmother is a sweet and loving woman

What the ads want you to think it is:

- Lily’s…

I’ll gladly check out anything Airdorf and/or Trevor Henderson work on.

Incels, to me, were always people of any gender/sexuality who thought sex was a “necessary right for human beings” and that anyone who turned down having sex with them, for any reason, was selfish/rude/”the bad guy”.

Neither Asa or Denji really seem to fit that description. I know mostly real people who do.

Outside of politics, I regret that I automatically dismiss people who have a real person as their avatar as bots at this point.

1. I admit that at the time I must have been EXTREMELY oblivious to the xenophobia in the gaming industry at the time, something I regret looking back on it. All I saw was G4 and the gaming magazines I read at the time praising Japanese franchises like Resident Evil and Final Fantasy, and thinking, “Oh, they’re just…

Speaking as a Jewish person myself, I have a couple of theories as to why this happens:

I will never understand how JKR thinks that a literal racist Neo-Nazi who thinks having sex with minors is “dangerous and sexy”, but that a trans woman who wants to keep to herself, use a toilet, and leave without interacting with anyone else in the bathroom is the real threat.

I don’t know what it says about me that I wouldn’t have even noticed, had it not been pointed out to me.

If you’re an animation fan, the actor who played Rufio also became a well-liked voice actor (he’s Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender), so I appreciate the film for that as well.

My least favorite Richard Linklater film is actually Waking Life. I love animation, but the rotoscoping looks bizarre to me, and I couldn’t…

Somewhat before my time, unfortunately.

Video game: Has an implied gay relationship between two men, devotes a whole DLC to the protagonist’s lesbian relationship, wins awards for its portrayal
TV adaptation: Keeps this and expands on it
A small, angry subsection of viewers: But why is there gay in it???

A different website talking about the same news story: “Man Illegally Found Tunneling Under School...”
Me: Oh shit, I hope the children are alright.
Other Website: “...to form illegal crypto mining organization.”
Me: That’s stupid and pisses me off, but not in the way I initially thought it would.

I haven’t watched Family Guy in years, so I barely remember anything about Joe other than “he existed and he’s Peter’s friend”.

This is my understanding of how the term evolved:

1. Leftists use the term “groomer” to call out heterosexual men who rope in underage women with the promise of their dream job, then convince them to have sex with them, claiming it’s “part of the job” (see: John K.)

2. Conservatives co-opt the term, falsely claiming the…

Does Later Alligator count? I liked that one a lot.

This is part of why I keep the Pokémon fandom at arm’s length. There’s some adult human characters that people like to sexualize (the aforementioned Miriam, as well as Cynthia, Lusamine, Archie, Maxie, & Guzma), & consenting human adults being sexualized I’m fine with. Not the Pokémon themselves or the human kids.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m bi and I really only care about the person’s personality when I date them. What’s between their legs is irrelevant to me (I would like kids someday, but in vitro is always an option if I can’t biologically have kids with them).

I do think fiction can affect reality, particularly when…

I’m bi and I don’t personally mind it at all, but I’ve had multiple crushes on gay men and heterosexual women where I lamented that it never had the ability to go anywhere. In fiction, you can write it so that isn’t an issue, should you choose to.

I feel the same way about stuff like Shrek, which was also supposedly significantly different in the original book. Do the fans ever get bitter about that, even with books where the film eclipsed the book’s popularity by tenfold?