Hi, I'm Regann. Kinja hates me so sometimes I post all the time and sometimes I never post at all for months. I have been reading io9 since its inception because I followed Annalee here from when she was writing over at Wired. I live in the Southern US, I work in a library and almost finished a master's degree in…

Actually, Barbie has an entire line of Barbies that specifically come with different combos of facial features, skin tone and hair styles, as well as these kind of articulated arms. It's part of their Barbie Basics "Model" collection that they've had out for a few years. These dolls, however, are typically marketed…

Yes, yes, and more yes. When I was a teenager, I stumbled upon some stuff about the Persian Empire and was pretty amazed at how awesome they were (comparatively, of course) but how no one else seemed to know anything about them. Religious tolerance, roads and the mail service! Thanks, Persian Empire. ;)

Am I the only one who can't help but imagine that Hieroglyphics show as a live-action version of Yu-Gi-Oh's Millennium arc? Thieves and pharaohs and magic, oh my! What do you want to bet there's an evil or at least morally ambiguous high priest as well? The white-washing of the Ambrose character (who I assume is an…

More EU spoilers — Through Q shenanigans, Janeway is actually brought back to life eventually and she and Chakotay reunite and I'm not even going to lie about how many times I've read that particular Trek novel. ;) J/C was my teenaged OTP of doooom.

Between this and OUAT, why doesn't Disney just admit that it wants a live-action Kingdom Hearts movie/show? Heck, I want one if they can get permission to use the Final Fantasy characters!

Don't you find a few random verses about maybe-giants or angels that had sex with human ladies and then, oops, are never mentioned again really weird?!? If we're talking about weird passages of the Bible, it's way up there for me.

The front half of the movie is set in Moab where Ruth is a priestess who prepares the child sacrifices for their inevitable death. Along the way she meets Mahlon (a goldsmith?) who teaches her about Judiasm and ~love~ before he's killed by the evil pagan Moabites. There's great set pieces and costumes and just plain…

Firts, this list needs more mention of Nephilim. Second, if you're a fan of '60s swords and sandals bible movies, I suggest The Story of Ruth. Stuart Whitman plays Boaz and you'll not find a sexier Boaz around. And, iirc, they interpreted the above passage as pretty suggestive. Plus it has Thayer David (Professor…

I love you for this. Other people appreciating MoS always brings me to tears (of joy).

I'm right there with you! In NC, but hey, I live way closer to the SC border than I do anything else.

Now, I feel bad that Tempus is on this list because he's my favorite thing about Lois&Clark, namely for his "you are the stupidest woman on the planet, Lois Lane" rant about her not recognizing Clark as Superman. That is comedy gold to this day.

I absolutely love Deerskin! I have a lot of Robin McKinley novels, in fact.

These are two books sometimes used in college-level courses about the American witch trials: Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Boyer and Nissenbaum) and The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (Karlsen).

I often hope this turns out to be some sort of stealth live-action Kingdom Hearts series because I would forgive everything if suddenly Squall Leonhart or Aerith Gainsborough showed up. Hell, even Sora or Riku!

Weird, so they sold him to someone completely different, huh? I assume this was back in the day. Oh, well.

Who owns the movie rights to Namor? Because if this gets me some Sue/Namor action in a movie, I'm totally behind this. Namor is about the only reason I'd sit through a movie starring Reed Richards.

I understand being upset with a casting for a character you love (I dislike the casting for my favorite princess on OUAT, actually) but I really disagree that OUAT is diverse. It's one of the whitest shows I watch (not the whitest because I also watch Revenge and there's no POC on there at all) and it is desperately…

"My only problem was how Shadow and Slade are suddenly in love when Ollie was only on that boat a few days, tops. Right before that he and Shado were boning away and if anything Slade was jealous that she was taking his man."

There's also some brief scenes of Sasha Roiz (Capt. Renard on Grimm) being a sexy Roman badass in this trailer. I approve!