The idea is that at one time teens wanted to get the hell away from highschool. Even British boarding schools were regarded as hellish by Pink Floyd, Lindsay Anderson & C. S. Lewis. The op-ed didn’t describe it as a “fun” “connection”, but part of a sales pitch inviting these young adults (now older than the target…

This sounds a little bit like Jorge Dorado’s “Mindscape”, which was in English but came across like it was first written in another language (presumably Spanish) and then awkwardly translated.

I guess I’m lucky that I stopped reading after Goblet of Fire, and never watched past the first film.

Boarding school as an ideal was a weird aspect of HP that became popular in the US:

She’s a fantastically successful writer but her “worldbuilding” was clearly half-baked. How much time do you think she spent on the rules for quidditch?

Haxhi refuses DNA testing, which makes identifying any body as her husband’s practically impossible

Judging by what he’s been doing for most of the time since the Sopranos ended, I think he agrees with you.

I think it leaned toward stereotypes in a way that GRRM didn’t always. So Yara acts in a way Ironborn men valorize when it comes to war, but that doesn’t mean she’s seeking out prostitutes (instead she’s in a somewhat casual relationship with a young man known as “Qarl the Maid” for his lack of facial hair). Brienne’s…

The 25th Hour was good. So were the scenes invented as filler for the first season of Game of Thrones.

It wasn’t them who would be telling the story of Confederate. The showrunners were black, D&D would just be producers.

It does deviate somewhat from the source material, which was about someone more of a loser than Clooney dealing with the Dot Com crash.

Thank You for Smoking & Up in the Air weren’t written by her.

I stand corrected. I’m not literally standing right now, but I am corrected.

I thought it was large series of pictures of Kinja comments of whoever he’s responding to.

I doubt a Korean film like The Sadness is about “angry WHITE men”. America is not the center of the world that foreign pop culture must focus on.

My understanding is that the real “Devil Made Me Do It” case didn’t involve any claims of actual satanism, though those are added to the Conjuring film about it.

I watched…

The Final Girls was hampered by a restriction to a PG-13 rating.

Just a means of inflicting suffering on his readers.

It’s not really a “debut” any time after the first.

Mostly his readers.