Hmm, I get what you’re saying. Given all he’s seen now, though, and the fact that he’s the inventor of time travel... space travel in the future might not be so hard for him to wrap his head around. But “We put a man on the moon” without the “and he and the crew returned safely as national heroes” bit does kind of…

I know this is a controversial opinion, but I think Gary is extremely hot.  Google image Adam Tsekhman, and keep a fan nearby.

Starred just because The Magicians is criminally underwatched.

“Even that couple are closer to typical expression of white male privilege, which is not that the authorities will back them up, but rather that they are the authority that others must submit to.”

He wouldn’t be the only character to have an alter-ego - Duke Silver, anyone?

There’s something poetic about this - this is the hill they want to die on, but they fell down. Like if Ozymandias was in the PTA.

Also, “She was only knocked out for a little while.”

So one rich white asshole admits to another rich white asshole that he literally sees some human beings as dogs who need to be kept hungry so they’ll be obedient.

I was a lifeguard at a water park, and did this about 30-40 times a summer (usually because of dumb parents pushing their children to go on rides they were obviously not prepared for). It was an awful place to work in terms of management and the deeply racist, sexist culture among a lot of the staff, but I loved the…

Very cynically, I’m wondering if it would be better in a mental health crisis situation to call 911 and say someone might be having a heart attack, having trouble breathing, feeling dizzy (I mean, I get panic attacks, and all of those aren’t technically lies) rather than “mental health crisis” because then they might…

Exactly. I regularly deposit checks as part of my job, and the last time, I forgot to stamp the back of one of the checks - the bank staff was like “No problem, sorry this might take a few extra minutes. Do you want a free T-shirt?”

I’m just going to admit it - I’m totally going to watch this movie because I love stupid horror schlock, and because I caught a glimpse of Ken Leung in the trailer, and I’m like “Goddammit, Miles! did you learn nothing about creepy beaches from LOST?!  Get your ass out of there!”

Where’s Keanu when you need him? Everyone knows the best way to take down white terrorists is to engage in a long bromance and then let them drown in the ocean.

Yeah, I’m happy to see any of her work adapted, as long as it does her work justice (and it sounds like this definitely will), but I’d really love to see an adaptation of the Parable series, or Lilith’s Brood. The latter might be difficult just because holy crap, there’s so much going on, and it would be easy to just…

Every now and then I remember Rush Limbaugh is dead, and I cackle like a witch, have a spite abortion, down a few birth control pills, then pet a gay frog (I know that’s Jones, but really, they’re the same person).

Fuck no.  The only reason I knew I was being laid off at my last job was because I was in HR, and saw the list.  They did give me two weeks pay, but I was technically not supposed to know about it until noon that day (yeah, I had to schelp my ass to the bus station at 6am, knowing I’d be out of a job before lunch).

Don’t remember where I heard this, but it was specifically in response to someone who was arguing that he knew someone who died in a crash *because* he was wearing a seatbelt, so no one should wear one:

Yeah, I was legit crying along with Johnson when Luke explains that he’d rather die. I think the whole cast is pretty amazing, and I’m glad he got the chance to shine in this one.

Joss Whedon is dead to me, but Charisma Carpenter is not, so I’m just going to say...

Yeah, all of this. I don’t follow tennis (or any sports, really), but reading about this the past couple of days, I never got the sense that Osaka was like “I’M NEVER TALKING TO THE MEDIA AGAIN!!”, just that she needs some time to take care of herself, and press conferences aren’t going to help with that right now.