The story: Teenager prays for father’s life.
The comments: Bitch looks like a stripper, lol.

Only Murders in the White Lotus.

No idea how such an old article showed up in my feed, but I just saw it yesterday. And if AV Club has started editing their posts to fix errors, that’s news to me. I kinda thought they left them in, like rubbing the writer’s face in it.

Regardless, no condescension intended. I’m an old, and genuinely don’t know what’s…

Ad-supported websites are famously interested in getting clicks, it’s true.

I see your point, on all counts. Toxic fandom as an offshoot of toxic masculinity is absolutely one of many driving forces behind the growing reactionary movement in America, and just like any other cult of racist, misogynistic, homophobic trolls, it’s our duty to call it out when it bubbles up within earshot.

As to…

Agreed. The only point you made that I took issue with is the implication that we don’t see hand-wringing around portrayals of mythical figures in other religions. I’m not saying that we should see more of it, just noting that some bad-faith assholes will absolutely invoke tradition/faith/religion as a cudgel to…

If Ethan Hawke views the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the modern-day Western, what does he consider the modern-day Western to be?

More recently, internet people positively flipping their collective wigs over black elves in LOTR, claiming that elves were part of their English heritage or some shit. Absolute fucking hogwash. 

Hooboy, I read the first run of The ClanDestine avidly as a kid, because Alan Davis. I remember the book fondly, though I haven’t read it in 25 years. 27? Jesus, I’m old. 

Please believe me when I tell you that there are lots of people claiming to be VERY UPSET about how some characters from Norse mythology are represented in the MCU (which is to say, by non-white people.)

Please don’t mistake the loudest assholes on the internet for “nerd culture” (ugh) at large. I haven’t loved every change to the comic stories that the MCU movies have made up to this point, but I also understand that stories told in different media are, by necessity, told differently, and every other nerdlinger I…

The article says “animatronic” multiple times, though I’m not sure how familiar the general public is with that term, as opposed to, let’s say, a middle-aged man who had a book about Disneyland as a child, and watched reruns of The Wonderful World of Disney ad nauseam. 

We saw a reboot with First Class. We see how that ended up.

I’m a little confused by what you’re suggesting here

I burned my trial on Picard. I have . . . regrets. 

it breaks canon, sending Beavis and Butt-head through a black hole from 1998 into the year 2022, and thus negating the timeline existence of season 8

Oh man, maybe a backdoor to bring in Longshot as a space cadet stunt man. Let’s get weird!

We were four years and six movies in before Thanos was even hinted at, and that was at the END of “Phase 1.” Just have fun at the movies, they’ll get there. 

Dude, I’m sorry she hurt you, but just go to therapy. Jesus.

You’ve never had someone’s demeanor be so off-putting that it made you uncomfortable and made that person seem untrustworthy to you?