Boats.

Gun-kicking God in the tits.

From insta: “Ruby Rose they/she”

The category is Comedy Album, not Comedy Song Album. The award goes almost exclusively to stand-up comedy sets.

I think it’s less a co-opting and more ending up in the same place two ways. As meaning “rapidly reversing position” is just a figurative usage of literally turning on your heel. In the wrestling sense, you start with “face” from babyface, and “heel” as a bad guy, then narratively you have a face-heel turn and a…

Heel turn, as a description of motion or metaphorically, say “he turned heel and ran away” is quite old, sure. But “heel,” as a contemptable person, only goes back to 1914, and the oldest cited usage of heel-turn I could find was 2000. My suspicion is that it goes back to at least the mid-80s in wrestling context, but…

“Face” and “Heel” have been used in wrestling slang for at least half a century, and the specific phrase “heel turn” in this usage has been around for at least 20 years. Probably considerably longer, but slang etymology tends not to be all that rigorously documented.

In the early days, I used to joke that I’d finish high school before the series was done. Then that I’d probably be done with college. By the time book 10 came out and half the book takes place on the same day as the ending scene from book 9, it was clear he’d never actually finish. If he’d lived another 10 years, the…

Yeah, Two Rivers folk are dark of hair and eye. As I mentioned elsewhere, skin tone doesn’t get much specific callout. Rand’s taller than average, with red hair and grey eyes, all traits of the Aiel. And at one point a character specifically pulls back his sleeve to comment on his skin color, suggesting that Rand’s…

The books actually talk remarkably little about skin tone, but what little does get mentioned describes the Two Rivers folks as having darker complexion. They’re probably not intended to be black (the Sea Folk are much darker) but probably Mediterranean-looking. Rand is specifically called out a few times for not…

I heard moy-RAIN from both of them, but playing it back a few times now, it might be mwa. The emphasis on the second syllable is wrong, but end of the day it REALLY doesn’t matter. Despite having glossaries at the end of every book, plenty of readers still have their own preferred way of pronouncing everything. And…

Oh, the middle chunk is a real slog, no doubt. Sanderson’s closing volumes are considerably better while keeping something of the original’s voice. But even with the recovery at the end, I don’t think I could recommend the series in good conscience to any but the most voracious of readers.

Speaking as somebody so broken by having dedicated my teenage years to reading and re-reading them as they came out, my thoughts were, in order:

It’s worth noting that right after the time skip, Veronica was still saying to her husband, “It’s 2021, Chad. Haven’t you heard? Women can have it all now.” The degree to which the writers DNGAF is complete.

That was one thing I definitely noticed in The Protégé—Keaton was clearly in better shape than Sam Jackson at roughly the same age. Sure, most of Keaton’s fight scenes conspicuously involved him getting thrown around while not looking at the camera, but he was doing some of the choreography himself. Meanwhile Jackson…

I think you misunderstand the usage of sex pest. A sex pest is a harasser, somebody bad at taking no, somebody who makes people feel uncomfortable. Gary Glitter’s not a sex pest, he’s a pedophile rapist.

(Same-ish deal as Gunpowder Milkshake, though in that one, Gillan’s character was only jabbed with a paralyzing serum. It wore off after about half an hour, much like this movie.)

“a woman who is famous for being hot, kinda mean, and not very bright”

Immortal Hulk is one of the finest comics ever published, period.

“Oh Louis, Louis. Still whiiiining Louis. Have you heard enough? I had to listen to that for centuries!”