Twenty years from now, Halloween will long since have been banned.

The Marvel VP did not blame Black Panther and Ms Marvel for a sales slump. The Marvel VP reported that some comic book retailers were blaming the slump on the increase of women-led and racially diverse characters.

From the prop and costume-maker’s POV (as distinct from the military historian’s), “practical” connotes an item that can be worn and used in photo-shoots, etc. as opposed to just a prototype, etc. It isn’t normally intended to connote “functional” in the sense of actual battlefield use.

My son once owned a huge and unstable mastiff who attempted to bite me (not a nip - full, growling, lunging bite). I deflected the lunge with my elbow, jumped over a couch to gain distance and then grabbed a sword to protect myself - I know this sounds like BS, but it’s true, my son collected swords. The dog kept…

That really does seem to be what he’s saying, yes.

Love Atwood’s work, but Wen-do is a bad recommendation for self-defense training (to be fair, in the original AMA answer she only says that she’s “been told it’s good”).

The man is a grifter. Don’t worry about what he says - watch what he does, and what others do while he’s talking.

No, it didn’t. Bob Anderson (the fight choreographer) was an expert at the traditional Hollywood style of swashbuckling fencing and that’s what they wanted for the Princess Bride fight scene.

Trump can eat a bag of donkey dicks and his remarks were typically shallow and clumsy, but I read that comment as taking for granted that Frederick Douglass was a historical figure and referring, in the present tense, to the current and ongoing recognition of Douglass’s achievements.

I’m a permanent US resident/green card holder from a country that’s not yet on any ban lists. Last year I had to return to my country of origin to deal with my father’s death from kidney cancer and then manage his very complicated estate. I’m sorry for your situation - this whole business is stressful enough without…

Oh look - actual, literal context rather than hearsay, supposition and innuendo! What a treat!

Costume helmets can be the banes of a stunt performer’s existence because they’re seldom actually designed or tested for the range of movement and visibility required for stuntwork.

During the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in Wellington, New Zealand, star Elijah Wood decided that he didn’t like the famous Cuba Street Bucket Fountain. Wood was returning to his apartment late one night after drinking in a Cuba Street bar when he decided to show his contempt for the Bucket Fountain by…

It’s far too early for blame. I just feel sorry for the little girl and for my friend.

A friend of mine - a teacher in VA - posted a picture of her shoulder, stained by the tears of one of her seven year old students who believed that Donald Trump will bring back slavery.

Spirit photography and seances had another boom during the aftermath of the First World War and the Spanish Flu Pandemic, all thoroughly debunked by investigators like Rose Mackenberg (the original female ghost buster): https://amzn.com/B01LFX8MXW

She was also quite famous as a pioneering swordswoman.

Given how long it's taken to get a Wonder Woman movie, a secret society of badass suffragette commandos is going to be a hard sell, even though it is based on a true story. If the Suffrajitsu graphic novels are wildly popular, though ...

Speaking of Amazons, here's the main cast of Suffrajitsu auditioning for their own movie adaptation.

Maybe it sounds cool in Japanese, but I've always thought the word "cosplay" was clumsy and ugly in English.