Nothing says “I totally respect the Spanish language and its speakers” like refusing to Google, There is a raging, decades-old debate about Spanish and gender. Leaving aside the -x suffix (which wasn’t created by white americans btw), it’s... kind of a big deal.

Some/a lot of us actually do identify as Latin Americans (as well as from our countries of origin; it’s not an “or” thing). But yes, Latin/Latino/Latine tends to be a US thing.

Wow, the article about the Paraguay dust up is so fucking one-sided. The drama started because she complained about the fans not being there after their city had been flooded! People replied saying ‘... dude we were there the days before, you didn’t come out!’ and then she couldn’t handle the heat.

I’ve finally taken the AV Club out of my daily rotation after... way too many years, but I’m glad I did check it today. I was, probably, among the people that made those jokes nine years ago but I’ve always appreciated your writing and your standards for movies. Good luck! May I happen upon your reviews some other day.

So, the laws in LatAm tend to be more reaching than that: it’s not just cereal.

I’m not a Cowboy Bebop fan (have never watched it) but it wasn’t the toxic fandom that ruined it. What cancelled it was... that mainstream audiences (who don’t give a fuck about fandom) didn’t like it.

Well, yeah, it’s... fiction.

It’s pretty heavily implied in the intro to The Hobbit even if we leave all extra material out.

What. I mean, it’s the past of our Earth the way Star Trek is “the future of our Earth”

It’s literally canon in the books. Middle Earth is the past of our Earth.

She’s just re-released the album from the time when they had just broken up. It’s not really a feature in 1989, Reputation, Lover, or evermore/folklore which either have some songs about different break-ups or about her current relationship. (And a lot of songs about neither of those!)

The Visitors is an incredible album

But no The Visitors?!

My MCU hot take is that the movies where the director’s style shines the brightest are the Ant-man movies. If you watch Down with Love and Bring it on!, it’s clear that the same dude directed Ant-man 1 & 2.

Also it’s Monsanto, not Montasanto.

Farmers in Guatemala already can’t earn a living.

It’s not exactly that - in Part 2, everybody has read Part 1 because the book is real in the fictional universe. So it’s not a situation where he realizes he’s fiction but a more Spanish Baroque take on that.

Have you... actually read Don Quixote?

‘This week’?! It was news like a month ago! People voted for those capybaras and made murals already.

My grandfather died of cancer and it was most likely associated with his alcoholism. People are always surprised when I tell them that. I wouldn’t say it’s that well-known as a carcinogen in particular.