That sounds seriously awful, given that Aunt May just learned Peter is Spider-Man in Homecoming. So she apparently was cool with it, since Peter still has his costume in IW, and then Peter dies, May gets 2-3 years to deal with her grief and guilt for letting him continue super-heroing, and then he comes back? Jesus,…

He looks f***ing ridiculous.

You might want to look into which version you originally read: there’s the 1818, which she published at 19, and there’s the 1831, which she revised quite extensively (and, to my mind, poorly) which is also the one most people end up reading.

That’s Charlie Jane: sexy AND right.

Let’s not speak for the people who aren’t here anymore, hmm?

Water they gonna do instead?

Tom King’s “Super Friends” made me cry when I read it the first time. It was just such a perfect encapsulation of what makes both Supes and Bats so great.

It’s a label I put on things to help remember that these people aren’t some neutral arbiters of what is good and/or beautiful, just that they’ve decided that they can make those judgments and keep out people they don’t like. Here, it’s just Netflix not getting to compete for a big award, but these are also the people…

That’s certainly what cultural gatekeepers call it.

Alien is the greatest movie of all time.

The prestige that comes from having cultural gatekeepers proclaim your stuff good.

It was so disappointing, because structurally The Hobbit is so much more film-like than LotR.

It’s not really a recent phenomenon—prestige horror goes in cycles in film, just like it does in literature.

Basically because control over women’s sexual autonomy and anti-choice politics are rooted in the eugenic movement of the early twentieth century, which is also the well-spring of Nazism.

A grim portent of a future without abortion doctors.

Well, they’ll just need to hire a ruthless businesswoman to spearhead some new Dark Mining operations.

What’s funny is you somehow think human beings will ever stop having sex.

Sorry! I found it riveting.

Given that the Creature demands a wife, and all the weird homoerotic stuff he has with Herr Doctor, I’m going to go with yes.

Uh, did you not read the part about how Okoye and Ayo were going to be flirty in early drafts? There was plenty of time to include it; they just made the decision to exclude it.