Thinking about it I can also see the reason for specifically making The Commander really handsome, too. There’s a line in the book where Offred wonders, in a detached way during the Ceremony, “would I enjoy this more if he were attractive?”, that always struck a chord with me. Casting someone like Joseph Fiennes…

So I was also bugged by how young Serena Joy was cast until I watched the first three episodes, and now I think I get it. In this expanding telling of the story they’re placing a lot more emphasis on the “infertility plague” that explains why fertile women were so rare and (part of) why Handmaids became a thing.…

noggin? :)

“human-infested cities”

“...we have a big country. We have lots of other locations,”

I had a pixie cut in high school and was gloriously spared the up-do pain. Instead I got some hair gel with an obscene amount of sparkles in it and went to town, because woooo 2001!

My cousin and I both have classical music backgrounds, and we’ve seriously talked about making some kind of “gateway guide” for folks who don’t know anything about classical but like film scores. People will so often say “I don’t like classical music” but then say “oh man, that music that’s playing when Obi-Wan fights…

Hmm, lens designs by Hubble? If my prescription arrives slightly wrong will they send a team of astronauts to my house with some customized glasses to fix the problem?

Hmm, lens designs by Hubble? If my prescription arrives slightly wrong will they send a team of astronauts to my…

They STILL don’t have a womens’ 1500m swim in the Olympics - the longest womens’ pool distance is 800m. What makes it extra-weird is that there IS a womens’ “swim marathon”, which is a freaking 10K in open water. ???

This also explains why they preface all their canned BS responses to Womens Issues(TM) with “as a father/husband/brother/son”...

the delicious irony of this is that the guy’s one real contribution to physics literally hinged on understanding the composition of Earth’s atmosphere (short version: he was one of several people who realized that there was a sodium layer in Earth’s atmosphere, so you could - using a relatively-easy-to-make laser -…

omg i needed this gif

Confirmed. He actually did the narration for a planetarium show not that long ago, so I’ve heard the Liam Neeson version of “explaining black holes”. Perfection.

Greta 2044! :)

I gotta go tell my husband that we can just bang our way to my next successful STEM research grant proposal...

You are both correct. These things are simply levels of hell...

I now have a sudden need to train a classroom full of children to answer that same question with “GRAD SCHOOL AND HELL!”

I don’t know what the fuck this dude is on about with “only a minor annoyance”. Yes, UTIs don’t, like, hospitalize you if you treat them in time, but it has to be the largest “degree of pain/seriousness of illness” ratio I’ve ever experienced.

I actually debated “MotherMayI” vs. “mothermayi” since I figured there was no way Pence knew about camel case...

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