I hope this is sarcasm.

There’s SO MUCH ROOM for tension and conflict with them married! We haven’t REALLY dealt with Damian yet. How does the rest of the Bat Family feel given a totally new lieutenant/matriarch? Catwoman is a catburglar AND member of a major crime family AND a femme fatale—think of all the noir we could play with! Supes and…

Ok, well maybe my problem is with editorial—maybe this is just the Batwoman wedding problem over again. But if that’s the case, then there’s still no reason for me to give DC money, no matter how great Tom King’s plan is. I’m still better off waiting for it to officially happen—making my complaint about #50 clear via…

The thing is that all of the Batman leading up to #50 is the Batman that I want to read. Not just all of the great writing—although I did love that—but the sense that where we were going was somehow new and exciting.

Good god this is depressing. I bought #50 (and #51) because it was on my pull list and I didn’t want to screw over my shop. But I haven’t read it, and I don’t know if I’m ever going to, because I actually don’t want to see Batman be miserable all the time. It’s not a character journey of the character is just walking…

Good. It's one of the oldest stories ever--nobody owns it.

They’re preferred by the person using them, so it’s just good manners to use eir pronouns.

I think the point about scifi stories is that genre readers find themselves reading neologisms all the time and are generally good at picking out context clues.

There’s this great thing called Google, which would tell you what the Spivak pronouns are, especially if your job is professional copy editor. Wikipedia has an entire article explaining their use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun

Until Whedon dies, we can't say with any certainty that he's peaked.

I don’t think you’re disagreeing with me—I’m saying that human populations are healthier after agriculture than before, even if it means individual humans are less healthy. One of the ways that you can demonstrate that health is through an increased number of children born, even if those children grow to becomes…

Agricultural society was able to out breed hunter gathers because their children didn’t die in childbirth. That’s a pretty clear increase to the health of populations, even if it means individual members are slightly less healthy in adulthood.

If the agricultural revolution made human populations less healthy it wouldn't have taken hold in the first place.

This implies to me at least that the advent of agriculture might have been from a desire to make tastier bread, which jives with a lot of other technological progress that follows. (Hand stone mills become water- or wind-powered, opening up other tech avenues.)

LOL that show.

*why would you say something so controversial yet so true gif*

I mean, just thinking about the fan-led effort to save Star Trek TOS proves that fandom hasn’t always been toxic.

One thing that just occurred to me: Tara dies only after the titular character dies.

I’m one of the first people to call out callous anti-queer story telling, but I’ll defend Tara’s death (and season six generally) for the rest of my life. Is the death of a queer character used to further the plot? Yes. Is it a justifiable choice thematically? HELL yes.

I hadn't noticed the pun between press as media and press as pressure till just now.