Excellent interview. I know that this question is going to sound facietious, but I mean it sincerely: what can we do about other white women? I was the only one in my family who voted for Hillary. I had no hope at all if convincing the men, but I tried. I also tried with my mother, sister and cousins. I don’t think…

If she sets up a London branch I’m good with small sword, sabre, and mortuary blade...

‘Are you up for monkeyshines, my deer?’

Zootopia was a fantastic film - but Kubo was infinitely better in just about every sense. Better animation, better story, better world-building, better script. All around fantastic.

I can’t be the only person on the planet who saw these and thought ‘holy hell, they’re beautiful!’ but I accept that I might be in a minority. The fish (shark?) with the rotary jaws looks Paleolithic. I mean that literally. It looks like a protoshark. And that starfish at the bottom looks like it was aiming for coral…

It absolutely was not necessary.

Why am I totally unsurprised at the fact that there are a lot of us MBC/MBU alumni on Jezebel?

MBU Alum here. When I attended it was as an early-admittance student (I enrolled at 16 - on a scholarship- to escape a frankly torturous home life) who didn’t have a high school degree. My test scores were very high, so I got in. I came from an excruciatingly conservative family. One of the only reasons that I was…

I saw this and squealed. Two classic teams back in action. The dynamics of this are going to be wonderful. I am seriously thrilled.

They took her to the poshest grocery store in the country. Seriously. This place sells ‘Essential Ostrich Eggs’. You know. For omelettes. They should have taken her to Tesco and had her try a can of 20p ‘extra value’ peas (with stones in, for extra stony goodness!) if they wanted her to experience every-day…

Extraordinary X-Men has two regular, openly-gay characters: Iceman and Anole.

I actually whooped for joy. This is the second piece of good news I’ve had today - right after selling a Weird short-story to Litro. Now I will be waiting on tenterhooks to see where they put Nightcrawler.

Needs more Nightcrawler.

Thanks. I’m still really sick, but the doctors are no longer worried that I’m going to permanently lose my hearing. So yay!

Ok, I just got out of the hospital from an ear infection that was so bad I had to be on intravenous antibiotics. I’ve got tubes in my ears and I’ve lost (hopefully only temporarily) 80% of my hearing but I wanted to see that so badly that I put on headphones, cranked the volume all the way up, and listened through the…

Thank you for that. I just nearly suffered a mild heart attack. I need my Nightcrawler fix, damnit! They’ve already killed him once.

It’s out in the UK. I saw it the other day. It is hilarious. Just constantly, consistently funny. There isn’t much of a plot, but what’s there works, and it’s absolutely beautiful in terms of dialogue, action, actors and visuals. It’s hard to imagine that if everything but the gender of the actors remained the same,…

Patty is more than street-smart. That phrase implies a lack of education and this woman knows her history.Auto- didact history buff is a better description of the character.

...can I come live in your house?

I’ve made a hobby out of coining Trump insults. Here are today’s: