But the Targaryens who came from Old Valyria all those years ago conquered by being notoriously lenient with those who chose to support them, not by burning everyone, even the innocent. The Tyrells and the Tullys, for instance, are both in the positions they’re in because Aegon the Conqueror granted them their titles…

I really, REALLY need everyone to stop with this. Having a different opinion on what constitutes good foreshadowing is not “not paying attention.”

Sir, this is an Arby’s

The anti-vax stance is ridiculous for a ton of reasons, but this:

Them: All I know is, if you’re gonna tell me that a child is going to travel the world for eight years training and learning to become a master fighter, I’ll tell you’re being ridiculous.

I’m not sure you know what trope means.

WOW, you are the reason that people hate geek culture. You are so high and mighty that nothing is good enough for you!  Try just sitting back and enjoy the entertainment instead of being comicbook guy WORST.EPISODE.EVER!!

Producers must not have gotten your memo with the list of tropes acceptable to you. If you don’t send it signature confirmation required, it won’t get read.

Whether your name is Thoros or Thanos, fucking with a Stark is always a bad idea.

Never try that “inevitable” shit with a Stark.

That does seem to be more of a UK thing than an American one, although I imagine a lot of Langford’s “As Others See Us” bits are locally sourced. I suppose it’s because here we tend to see less of a boundary between popular culture and “literary” fiction. Stephen King gets written up in the New York Review of Books,…

This reared its head again this week.

Just because Brexiters are racists and Brexit would be a disaster doesn’t mean that the EU parliamentary system isn’t also a lobbyist-captured, anti-transparent garbage fire.

CP violation was first spotted in koans, particles that contain strange quarks, in 1964.

IDK, man, I thought that scene on Ego where Drax is talking about his family, seemingly placid and well-balanced, and then Mantis touches him and breaks down sobbing at the emotion coming over her empathic link, was a terribly effective window into Drax’s inner life, and significantly more subtle than the lines about…

I wonder to what extent the total failure of review-bombing on Captain Marvel’s box office played a role. If it wasn’t already clear that nobody gives a shit what online trolls think about Marvel movies, it’s blindingly obvious now. 

Probably using a snake for an arrow like Thulsa Doom.

“Medieval Farmer” is such an incredibly vague term, though.

/Chuck Lorre sprints to typewriter to write pilot for his next hit series, Usual Formula

Finally, a way to play my favorite Switch games on the go!