I once accidentally "stole" a baritone (a small tuba, for those readers who weren't/aren't band geeks) when I was in high school. A valve on mine jammed right before I had to perform a field show in a competition, so I borrowed one from another school that was in another town. After the competition, I put the borrowed…

That "myth" causes — and is caused by — unintentional diagnostic bias that's reinforced by portrayals of autism spectrum disorders as almost exclusively male. Writing autistic characters who are something other than dorky white teenaged boys might go a long way to who is suspected of having and eventually diagnosed…

ASD here too. I've been on the fence about hate-watching The Accountant because I can't decide if it would be a fun or disheartening experience. Your post might have just goaded me into doing it.

*pulls your glasses back down just a tad* Her name is Ilia.

Uh, isn't this common knowledge? See also Costco's Kirkland Signature brand.

I was really hoping the Skyrim Special Edition would bump the NPCs and Character Creation stuff into FO4 quality, but alas… Don't get me wrong, I still think SSE is great and it's the version of the game I play now, but if Bethesda wasn't willing/able to invest the time into improving external aspects of Skyrim…

I watched it religiously, but was already a voracious reader as well. I distinctly remember being jealous of all the kids who got to be on it. As a Star Trek dweeb, I was always hoping that if it was a rerun, it'd be the TNG episode.

Well, the episode of "Reading Rainbow" in which LeVar Burton appears as Geordi LaForge is going to blow your fucking mind. I know it blew mine back when I was 7.

"…cybersquatting…"

IT'S SO GOOD. Everything about Casey Affleck as a person aside, his performance in The Assassination etc. is fucking phenominal. He's simultaneously a total weirdo with whom you'd want nothing to do in real life, and really sympathetic, misunderstood guy.

Sometimes your teenage idols let you down, and sometimes they don't. Thanks, Mr. Reznor, for not only not letting me down, but for maturing into an inspiringly normal dude. Depressed, miserable 30-something Trent Reznor was exactly who I needed to get me through my angsty teens, and now middle-aged dad* Trent Reznor…

WHat the FUCK, no love for Legion???! That's it 2017, you've gone too far.

There's something about competitive eating that I find deeply, intrinsically repulsive. It's just …ugh, I don't know, it gets to me.

I was obsessed with exactly one boy band as a junior high tween girl circa 1999 and it was …Rammstein*. Not exactly something to advertise, but I AM secretly proud of myself for skipping the Backstreet Boys/NSync/98 Degrees thing.

I don't want to get into an argument with you about it. I'm sure you're very careful and skilled, etc., but ultimately it does come down to human feces outside of a bathroom, and whether other people who will use that space are expecting or should reasonably have to expect that. And not everyone is going to make as…

I'm glad you're concerned about whether a place is sanitary before you change your child's diaper, but like, exposing various public surfaces to human feces is in itself *unsanitary*, especially if we're talking about places that aren't cleaned regularly or in the same way as a bathroom.

My strongest recollection of Troy is Achilles shouting "HECTOOOR!!" at an extremely high wall for five solid minutes. It's like the coffee scene in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: first it's fine, then it's funny, then it overstays its welcome, then it becomes HILAROUS.

Just PLEASE tell me Doug Jones will be reprising his role as Abe Sapien. He is utter perfection, and I'm still an awe of the makeup effects used on that character.

Oh shit that's going to be amazing.

(Monty Python and the Holy Grail actually kind of does do some of those things, and minimally passes the Bechdel Test.)