Its like how often the only way to get a creep to leave you alone is to say you’re already dating someone. Women and, their thoughts and feelings, don’t matter in and of themselves, but only as they relate to a man. Once again demonstrating that a disturbingly large number of men just don’t see women as real people.

How about, “This is how Trump talks about 50% of Americans?” Who cares if she’s a mother/sister/daughter/wife?

Convenient how at the end no one mentions that this is how he talks about US. An ad full of women, and no, we’re not upset on account of our little old selves, heavens no! We’re just upset that he’s talking this way about men’s wives! Men’s sisters! Men’s DAUGHTERS!

This would be quite effective were it not for the fact that “women: you have to treat them like sh*t” is the subtext for the entire Republican party.

Um, really? You’d think that drug addicts would be happy as long as they just had social tolerance and access to their drugs? If that’s the case, why in God’s name should anyone frown on drug addiction?

Unusual or offbeat people are always going to catch shit from people who think, for one reason or another, that mocking others makes them look good. If the testimony from the locals is true it sounds like it’s rolling right off their collective back. Keep on saving the birds, ladies, it’s a fine mission, and one that…

Plus, HP struck me as being very Roald Dahl-y, with the unsafe conditions at Hogwarts and regrowing bones and that kind of thing being business as usual in the wizarding world. Trying to make it “serious” doesn’t work as well, especially on a larger scale. I feel like she should have maybe kept to Britain.

i maintain the firm belief that the harry potter storyline exists 100 years earlier than she set it. it makes much more sense to think about their fascination with the hogwarts express (trains were brand newish! how funny and novel a muggle invention when the floo network is much more obvious), how the dursleys could…

how would the magical community explain the Holocaust?

you irl

Something something TIME TURNERS something something PROPHECY something something CASHGRAB

So you are saying Transformers should be ... what? An existentialist treatise on the benefits of mechanical nihilism? A product of entertainment is what is it, not what you think it should be. Or are you one of those people who did go see Transformers expecting Shakespeare?

I figured that magic doesn’t work outside the UK 15 years ago as a school student when I tried to write a fanfic set in an Australian school of magic - only to discover that there is no way to reconcile Australian history with a secret society of wizards without being totally offensive to Indigenous Australians. If a…

Here’s the issue. There is an entire continent here, that was once filled with a wide variety of people, all with different cultures and belief systems, who had their own complicated internal and external politics, including intertribal wars. All of these complex belief systems, all of these cultures, were condensed…

My biology teacher tried to use squibs as an example of dominant and recessive genes.

Also, MACUSA? People in colonial North America weren’t exactly into acronyms like that.

“As someone completely removed from the context of the issue, I see nothing wrong with it.”

It’s why I think that if you want to create a great universe, consider what is being applied. Sure, sticking to your own part of the world makes it easier since you know so much of it, but trying to get into another world, another culture or few takes a LOT of research and respect to be dished out.

This is part of why Urban Fantasy is such a hard sell for me.... it seems like a hard sell to say that you can have the regular world be just as it is *and* have magic, faries, werewolves and vampires too.

Even though the concept of a United States of America didn’t exist until the late 18th Century.