Coworker of the cosplayer; I saw the whole thing go down. So perhaps I can clarify a few things I’ve seen brought up in other comments:

I met him when I was 16!!! Fuuuck me the man is INSANELY GORGEOUS in person. His face, his eyes, his height his everything. It was at a screening of a movie he did and I asked a question; afterwards when we met, he touched my arm and said, “That was a great question, btw. Most people get really nervous and that was…

Whenever I think of Hillary Clinton I think of this quote from an anonymous White House staffer during Bill Clinton’s presidency, as quoted in Newsweek. They asked him (I assume the staffer was a him, I don’t remember if they specified the gender) what he thought of the Clintons and he answered “Him? Meh. Her? I’d…

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My best friend and college roommate for three years is a conservative, and was a member of the college Republicans. He was (and is) an exemplary conservative and one whom I wish the party was full of.

It’s nice to hear her natural voice. And it’s a pleasant voice, too! There’s still some vocal fry here, but it’s more a remnant than a real habit anymore.

On the last day of school in fifth grade, my teacher gave me his old, worn copy of the BFG (my then-favourite book) with an inscription telling me he was proud of how well I had done that year and that I should keep reading. I had only barely scraped through fourth grade with a great deal of extra attention from that…

Anna wasn't just her birth name, it's what she preferred to be called. I worked with her in the early 2000s and she was a lovely, beautiful person who brought so much light with her to work every day. I'm so sad to hear she's passed so young, but glad for her that her years of pain are over (she's had a lot of serious…

What is Xavier's weakness?

If you want an even more interesting fact, the very first “synthetic” gemstones were rubies. They were actually made from mined rubies but they found that if they heated them up enough they would melt and conglomerate to form a single large stone. This let to the Verneuil process where they melted aluminum oxide and…

We can’t just mention it. It’s too great a scene.

Yes. I’m only allowed to complain about one thing per year, and this is my thing.

In all seriousness, this is what the Nigerian space program looks like - this is one of the satellites they have in orbit. I had to look it up, but like a lot of other better-off developing nations, Nigeria actually does have a satellite-based space program (think telecom and weather satellites, spying, etc) - they…

You know I’m torn on this! As a woman and person of color it’s great for ME. I mean how nice will it be to just be handed a high paying writers gig without doing any work at all or having any talent, you know? I could call up a few late night shows and have a job tomorrow, no resume or writing samples required!

It’s supposed to be artsy, but it’s also supposed to establish a thematic look for the brand in the future. They will translate it to something that can trickle down into something much more wearable. So for example, that woman with the pants up to her armpits? That designers might be trying make something like the…

Ahhh, OK. I’ll keep that in mind. I never thought about Teva for boots... some of them are cute! Thanks for the tip!

That is simply not the case. Rey and Kylo Ren’s fight was extreemly well done- Rey was clearly not inexperienced in a fight, and Kylo Ren had just taken a potentially mortal wound to the gut and had to chase her through the forest after wasting his time toying with Finn. She fought smart just as much as she fought…

Or the dastardly ally of reader apathy: Creators who believe “woman” is a character trait (ex: the leader, the detective, the speedster, the wild card, the woman).

I was in college and married, and one of my close friends, Mark (a fellow CS undergrad), said, “There’s this cool-looking science fiction movie opening next week; wanna go?” So we did (myself, my (ex)wife, Mark, his (ex)wife). I was expecting another cheesy spaceships-and-bad-costumes film, the kind that I had grown…

I’m a cop, I’ve dealt with my fair share of domestic disputes. I don’t think this at all. From what I’ve seen, for a woman to call 911 and report something, I know more often than not it already took her a lot to even report anything. For a first time domestic dispute my question is always, “How long as this been…