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Yep. Jinn are a separate race more analogous to dairies than fallen angels (the mistake is that Shaitan is an evil jinn who refused to submit to the supremacy of Mankind.)

Hell, it was heretical to believe in witches throughout most of the middle ages as a spell-casting, flying being in contract with the devil. That image only really came to prominence in the early Renaissance, fused with Hermeticism and alchemical thought when it returned to Western Europe via the Byzantines and the

Ironically, the most ethical Masquerade was in Vampire: the Masquerade, because it protected both humans and vampires as much as possible without one race being wiped out (vampires in that setting were inherently bad, but struggled to hold on to their humanity). When your setting's masquerade compares unfavorably to

But without the house system, how with the rich kids, the jocks, and the nerds separate themselves from the chaff that is Hufflepuff?

It's weird that Robert Loggia would come up on this thread so often, but…I was thinking of a Robert Loggia voice.

Wait, wait whoa, was there a stage in the production of THEODORE REX where it was supposed to be a serious action/buddy cop film featuring a cop paired with a sapient tyrannosaurus-man?

Anyone remember those Facebook flaps in which people think they can become exempt from a Facebook policy, usually about data collection, by posting a boilerplate legal notice?

The only real difference is whether you thing antisocial personalities derive mostly from organic origin (psychopathy) or socialization (sociopathy).

But actually, he wasn't, and the real Plumed Snake was all, "boo whoo whootl, muh dumb dead Nahua people, what shall I do?" while Huitzilopochtli ran around the heavens with a mecana and a murder-boner trying to challenge this Hezuchristo Teotl the albino centaurs worshiped and ate. The Flayed Lord got really into

All films have just been shittier variations on “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" and "Man Fires Gun At Camera" since the 1900s.

> In before that butthurt shitsnake Quetzalcoatl whines about the fall of his stupid civilization.

"Do them there hills have a sign reading 'Dead Coot Storage?' I said, do them there hills have a sign reading 'Dead Coot Storage?!'"

Seconded. Both in terms of outcome, effort, and results, that was the most effective and logical plan.

To be fair, it's probably hard to write Doctor/Master and Holmes/Moriarty relationships without getting wires crossed.

…hope you're into choking in that case.

Must…resist…urge…to…go…fucking…sickhouse…

I once put a harlequin-pattern case on my phone and the fucker immediately tried to strangle me the moment I turned it back on.

Well, if there's an unknown wife, it's not too much of a leap to assume that this was the mysterious grandmother of Susan. It's parsimonious.

Whoa…maybe her uploading and somehow materializing-through-teleportation is the reason for all the Master's really inexplicable returns. Like actually straight up burning to death.

Wait-a-tick, what if the reason Clara got the Master's attention in the first place is that, since Missy was especially focused on people directly connected to the Doctor's actions, she kept uploading nearly identical women and decided that this was something worth keeping track of, and realized through that vague