Couple of clarifications:

More importantly, he’s a shapeshifter.

It’s not public yet. August, I think? For Gamecom?

I had no interest in seeing it even before the bad reviews because I know this is it for the Fox X-men movies, and thanks to the inscrutable timeline and weird character choices they haven’t earned any sort of finale.

Is it now the official policy of the Department of Health and Human Services that life begins at conception? Because if so, that’s news.

Why on earth does he have a mile and a half of white waistcoat showing below his teeny, tiny jacket? And why are the sleeves so long? He looks even more like a child than usual.

I’m just a simple country lawyer and I’m appalled. This is the best we can do?

So, very roughly, about 33,000,000 babies were born between January 2011 and now in the United States (it varies by year, but we have roughly 4 to 4.1 million babies a year.) If 32 infants have died as a result of this particular thing in those years, and most American infants have and use a car seat because we’re an…

One of them being President Obama. Face to face. In person.

So... it’s like a less funny, less self-aware, less stylish Borderlands. With the late game powers issues of Bioshock Infinite thrown in on top.

When she’s over eighteen, the dressing like a child thing is going to turn into... something else... whether she wants it to or not. Her audience is going to get, um, weirder. There will be a Jojo-centric equivalent of Bronies. (Please tell me there isn’t one already.)

They are, en masse, and it’s glorious.

Yeah, I know. I don’t really count those, though, since they’re giant ensemble casts and kind of a holdover from before she was a big star. (Don’t know why she’s still doing them, tbh.)

Serious question: Has Jennifer Lawrence pretty much quit acting, or what? She was everywhere during the Hunger Games years/being spectacularly miscast in David O. Russell movies years, and now... kind of nothing?

Can I just say? Socialized, schmocialized. “Women are socialized to do the majority of the work.” Sure... partly. The other part is that I grew the fuck up and want to live like an adult. I used to be a complete slob as a teenager, but I got the fuck over it and now in my thirties I enjoy living in a relatively clean,…

This is just my personal hot take, but I think Twice is trying to have it both ways with “Fancy,” at least for the music video and their stage costumes. It’s still a very cutesy/aegyo-ish song, but if you mute the sound and just watch the video, they look like a girl crush group (somebody on the production team…

That IS weird. Then again, I know Momoland for sure does completely different, somehow even cuter music videos for their songs for the Japanese versions.

So, the “nega/naega” you hear most often means “because.” There are about a billion in one of my favorite older songs, Hyuna’s “Roll Deep.” Phonetic, Korean, and translated English lyrics here:

Ehh... Blackpink and Twice are really different groups. Twice is (arguably) the biggest girl group in South Korea, and their image and sound are carefully tailored for their domestic audience. They’re like Red Velvet and Momoland that way. By Western standards they’re super cutesy and twee, deliberately trying to…

Petty side note: I have never understood why chickens are the go-to animal to represent cowardice. Here is a partial list of things I have seen the chickens at the farm where we board our horse attack solo: cats, dogs, a fox, pigeons, a bigger chicken, horses, the wheelbarrow, various humans, a truck, a tractor,…