And here I thought the Wanda Maximoff article was going to be the dumbest thing on Jezebel this month.

There were two factors pushing Tolkien to finish LotR: a publisher waiting impatiently (but in a polite, English way) for it, and — perhaps even more importantly — the fact that Tolkien needed the money, which GRRM obviously doesn’t. But even then, JRRT did wander off and write non-LotR-related stuff (that often got…

Fine, then. I’m not going to ask you to out your name on Usenet. But tell me what the the most argued about/commented on episode over the first three seasons was. If you were actually there, you’d know. Easily. The same response could be derived from the Bronze, so the answer’s the same.

Also, the Bronze was a niche…

As I said above, I wasn’t so much into Bronze/Bronze Beta. I was more Usenet in those days. But on Usenet, Xander was a puppy who was relentlessly kicked. No one liked him, no one defended him. His brief reformation (thanks to Dawn) in season 7 ended with his eye being gouged out, which seemed right to me.

I’m not at…

You’re just objectively wrong if you’re talking about Usenet. I don’t know what was happening at the Bronze because I rarely visited it and only read/not posted when I did. But no one on Usenet defended Xander. Ever. We all recognized that he was awful from season one on. If you didn’t see that, you weren’t actually…

There’s so much recency here

Money wasn’t the reason they settled. It’s Disney. They have all the money. This was about the talent.

You are, honestly, out of your fucking mind. New Zealand has breathtaking and extremely varied vistas and features all over the country. Yes, there’s a lot of farmland. But given the geological churn of the landscape, even a lot of that is dramatic; the cervena and sheep farms in the Central Otago or down near the…

They didn’t really scrap it, though. It’s a clear point of characterization in Ragnarok, both in dialogue and going as far as repeating her Quinjet message to Bruce, and there’s no obvious need for her to “be” in that movie at all unless it was considered something with which Bruce would still be concerned. It’s (subtl…

Even before recent events, Osaka played a latter-day Serena-type schedule: slams and 1000-level events only. Which means that she needs the points from majors (and deep runs in them, since no tournaments offer as many points as slams) to maintain her ranking.

Oh, as a piece of filmmaking — especially visual — I think the first is miles better than Catching Fire. The latter’s prettier, more colorful, and has far fewer nausea-inducing camera moves, but the former does a much better job of conveying the misery, panic, displacement, chaos, and hopelessness of Katniss’ journey.

Bobotie. Not because I can’t replicate it at home — I can — but because eating it near Cape Town was something I absolutely can’t replicate at home.

Subjects ranging from Zendaya (with whom Thorne starred on the Disney Channel’s Shake It Up, which ran from 2010-13) to the short Thorne directed for PornHub were off-limits, as was her OnlyFans.

And yet we did the interview anyway, because she’s just so fucking interesting when she doesn’t have to address any…

Fenway Park.

I grew up in a rural middle-of-nowhere place. A very, very cold place. There was nothing for teenagers to do for fun but drink, and so that’s what we did. Stealing booze (mostly 3.2% beer, occasionally then-newly introduced wine coolers) and evading the town’s one policeman to temporarily assemble and whisper-spread…

there’s an uncomfortable scene where Irulan (quite obviously) seduces Feyd-Rautha for information

I’ve eaten both brothers’ food. I’ve also met both. Michael was very engaging and a lot of fun to talk to but twitchy with energy, as if about fifteen things other than our conversation were banging against his skull. Bryan was incredibly nice, but I was with people who consider him a personal friend and so the…

Dry them out or use high-heat techniques. Frozen vegetables are a lot like washed mushrooms; there’s a water problem that you have to deal with before you can actually cook them. Otherwise all you’re doing is steaming them, and of course that leads to mush.

“I don’t have a racist bone in my body”

Depends on the band.