Yeah, okay, not reading a book by an author platforming the rhetoric that could get my husband murdered is *draconian.* “Read another book” is such a horrible assault! And besides, YOU HAVE A FRIEND therefore my point is invalid! I’m not telling you what to do. But no, I’m not fucking with anyone with Harry Potter…

I don’t know that it’s unsustainable, though I agree that it’s a choice a lot of people won’t make. But that sucks. There is no death of the author, because the author is not dead and continues to actively derive a platform for hateful ideas from the fandom.

I don’t agree, because there are a LOT of ways to show support besides directly putting money in her pocket. To a great extent, you continue to show support when you buy knock-off Etsy merch. You show support when you buy used books or DVDs. You show support when you get it from the library. This doesn’t give her more…

I am totally on board with death threats being bad and a problem. And—there’s always an and—Rowling’s TERF shit, spewed across an extraordinarily large platform of fans literally gets people killed. Normalization of the dehumanization of trans bodies and devaluation of trans lives, plus the linking of passively living-…

I saw this on Twitter and threw episode 0 on as background noise a few days ago. I’ve just finished episode 1, and while I don’t think I’ll get through the whole thing, it’s really fun. I think part of what makes it so wonderful is that the energy Everest Pipkin brings to the whole thing is this kind of haggard…

There are true crime podcasts that I’ve found do an excellent job centering the victims and using the platform to discuss what’s at play—the marginalization and erasure that the victims experience, the ways that victims can become or be painted as perpetrators by a media more focus on sensation than fact, and the way…

The center-dems are gonna get us all fucking killed.

A tweet I can’t paste, possibly because of Twitter and possibly because of Kinja: “her race has nothing to do with her collection you shoulda just wrote about that we can see that she’s black.” in a non-black writer’s hand sure, leave that part out but seeing her, her presence, her existence what she’s done is…

If something about missing a finger made it unusual or extraordinary that you’re being honored for your involvement in games, then it absolutely would’ve been in the headline. As Ash said above, if a blind person did an unusual video game feat, the headline would read “Blind Person TKTK.”

Y’all, let Black women write about Black women the way they want to see Black women be written about. Jesus Christ.

This seems like a good idea. It’s a comic book movie, treat it like a comic book. Not all past issues are gonna be considered canon for any given story, because the history is long and some of them are trash. Take what you want, ignore what you don’t, reject what was terrible.

Goddamn Murderbot is so good. I’m still in the novellas and haven’t gotten around to the full-length novel, but I’m really excited for it.

You know Biden hasn’t done anything about those kids in cages, right?

The sand ocean bit WAS cool!

Yeah, the dungeon that’s also a slide puzzle that you have to solve in several ways to fully traverse it. I thought that was incredibly cool.

Taking away the repeated tutorial messages and quieting Fi* are huge deals for me. This game had so many great ideas built in, including one dungeon towards the end that I still consider an all-time great. But it was also one of my least-favorite Zeldas. Fixing some quality of life issues like these takes it from the…

...what do you think socialism and communism are? I mean that honestly: what do you think those words mean? Because while different tendencies approach reaching a socialist or communist position differently, those two terms both have specific and simple meanings that I don’t think intersect with what you’re saying.

Does Rumsfeld dying help at all? Or does that make it worse because he got to live his entire life escaping justice?

Okay! I’m not here to litigate your mild skepticism of anything, thank you! This began with you saying you heard Kieron Gillen was a “twat/jerk/wanker” sometime between 11 and 21 years ago. I understand, and like I said from the start, we all gotta draw our own lines. Your vague insults towards him cross none of my lin…