Are there any good alternatives ?

“We” ?

It’s the old look-at-jail-stats argument which skips all the filters on which crimes are being reported, by whom, which crimes are being judged and classified as such, etc.

However, I wonder if I’m the only one having been grayed for having sarcastically pointed out its racism.

If only she could return without the netflix live-action adaptation...

This “spare me, accept me, I am the good migrant unlike those who followed me they are the bad migrants” attitude is all the more depressing as it validates xenophobic discourses (“but even THEY are racist between each others, so, stop defending them”).

Even more shocking, these liberals keep talking of antisemitism (even though we all know it comes from those dirty muslims) and of islamophobia (even though we all know it comes from those dirty jews). Thank god we’re here to denounce all these racist races.

a tantalizing, Twilight Zone-esque setup: A man wakes up on a spaceship with no idea who he is or how he got there

My first reflex there would be to seek refuge in a fridge.

It’s also incredibly dangerous. I’ve known an extremely racist son of indian immigrants, in Switzerland, supporting and voting for the far right party (SVP/UDC), and who admittedly used to be bullied in school because of his skin color. He didn’t just over-compensate by wearing flags, but also by successfully, deeply…

Did many current readers know of this former AVClub? I’m genuinely curious because I don’t. I came to the current AVClub for what it is now (vaguely fun, mostly informative, roughly meh, but at least an alternative to the internet’s trumpist/putinist/gamergatey high tides of the time), and I’ve never seen the Fabled…

Aaaand he ended up painting Maria de Medeiros for some reason.

There’s a difference between basing your story on a legend, on a belief, on a rumor, or basing it on a lie deliberately manufactured for profit and self-aggrandizement.

Yes. And precisely, good horror stories manage to render eerie and unsettling the most normal, mundane everyday element. A good version of these stories would have made a normal raggedy ann doll terrifying.

What We Do In The Shadows, which is back for its third season on September 2.

Are they the same people from the Lake Travis Boat Rally ?

Right. For a second I thought it was about Antonis Remos.

Isn’t the Superman/Kent concept all about a bumbling, confused nerd that turns out “surprisingly jacked” ?

The Devil Made Me Do It

Ungreying this because people need to know.