His father was of Portuguese and Swedish ancestry, so he definitely has Iberian heritage.

I think it’s a cartoon on Amazon Prime, actually.

That’s ridiculous.

Not unless I’m speaking to someone from New Zealand. But it’s still just too close. If they made a spin-off to the Chronicles of Narnia about a character named Barnia, wouldn’t that be a little odd?

TIL that I have been carrying around the incorrect memory of the “fourth moon of Endor” for twenty years. Thank you for clarifying!

“Galactic Centrist” is my new band name, I called it.

IIRC, it was the “fourth moon of Endor,” so maybe they just called it “Endor IV.” It’s weird that there wasn’t a different name for it, though.

I can’t wait for the companion podcast, where a pro-Imperialist and a pro-rebel share their spicy takes on whether the rebels’ actions are turning the general population against them.

It’s a little confusing that they made the name of the show and the main character so similar to Endor, one of the main locations of action in the original trilogy.

In fairness to Jack, a TWINKS streaming service probably would be pretty profitable.

I personally think “zhuzh” is the authoritative spelling.

Seriously? My high school had plenty of jocks who were nice. I mean, I wasn’t friends with them because I was a repressed drama geek, but they were (and are!) nice to me when we do get chances to interact with each other.

My understanding was that the mob of people were actual humans infected with the nanites or whatever they call the doohickies that allow computers to control human beings.

Also, female children of kings claiming their father’s throne over a more distant relative isn’t some woke fairy tale. It’s a real thing that happened (see the case of Empress Maud).

I prefer the villain > gay icon pipeline, like Maleficent or the Babadook.

That also appears in the Quran, 5:32:

He was in an iconic episode of Community, thank you very much.

I’m surprised that the village being named “Kakamucho” (or “caca mucho”?) went without comment.

I am extremely confused about Axl, because Astrid is almost always a woman’s name, so I assumed the character was trans. I saw the argument over Axl’s assumed name as being coded in a way that the people who knew Axl were affirming his gender identity to Thor, who was still identifying Axl as their gender assigned at…

As someone who is not a uterus-haver but is a member of the LGBT community--is it at all possible that people like Bette Midler and JK Rowling are legitimately offended by “inclusive” language. Is it possible that there is a trade-off to the inclusive language, that expanding language to include trans men can also…