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I recall hearing that Discworld, especially in the earlier books, is also prone to ethnic and gender stereotyping (which I noticed some of in the book version of Good Omens too), though Pratchett evidently got better about that later on

Oh it very much is. He got a lot better about it but was always a British Dude of a certain age.

There's multiple bits of great trans rep & I love the plotline in Unseen Academicals where one woman has to come to grips with her own internalized sexism and how she's been looking down her nose at a great opportunity for her friend, which her friend loves and to which she is well suited, bc it isn't a "serious enough" opportunity. Like, he tried, and in many cases he succeeded, and the constant attempts to get better are why I still love Discworld.

But I'm really not okay with pretending it's all roses.

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I sometimes wonder what the overlap is between people who describe ketchup as "spicy" and people with undiagnosed tomato allergies.

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a person online: i hate it when adults act like childish little freaks in public, smh. you’re an adult, you should be able to order your own food without help. get over yourself. also, why are some people, like, waaaaaaay too into the stuff that they like? omg, and the people who CLEARLY can’t even have one (1) normal conversation without acting Weird??? it’s embarrassing, u guys are embarrassing, get help

the same person five seconds later: we gotta remember to love and support the autistic community u guys <3

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You know, there's objectively nothing surprising about this. We know Diane is active here. We know Diane worked with fucking everybody (especially anybody who had anything to do with any aspect of Star Trek). We know that Diane even wrote two teleplays of Gargoyles with her partner (both of whom were Tuckerized--if that's the word for this circumstance--as a pair of archaeologists). And I follow Diane here for a reason.

And yet, I still see something like this cross my feed and just quote the King of All Cosmos: "My, Earth really is full of things."

Gargoyles was droppin' gems. 💎

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I was impressed--that is sort of the word--by this line from an interview:

Apart from Star Wars, Snyder has said that his influences include the films of Akira Kurosawa, especially The Seven Samurai and The Dirty Dozen.

I can only conclude that Zach Snyder finally got around to watching Krull and decided the reason it underperformed at the box office is because it didn't have enough lightsabres.

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I'm a little worried about Stuart Semple right now, I have to admit... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

I've not been sued yet, if you scroll down the main page and watch the 'New Reality' video you'll see an IP lawyer talking about some of my previous work. I think everyone knows where I stand on issues like this.

Saying that I'm a contemporary artist and use the medium of satire in my work as a form of social critique. The project is a non-profit, so commerce really isn't the main point at all. I like to use parody in a lot of my internet art. I believe if an artist authors software, and uses it to be critical it should be protected by the law, just like any other artwork would be.

Dude's about to learn the difference between trademark and copyright. And it's going to be expensive.

if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it. 

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Steven Universe is interesting to me because it’s got the most extreme dichotomy between ideas that would be better fleshed out in a show for adults, and ideas that are interesting specifically because they’re native to an unironic children’s show.

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I thought mutants traditionally are blue and good. Which...huh.

Could we get more Mutants in red or is that strictly tied to blue and green?

We just need the right world.

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i rember when i was in high school, hearing a teacher say “lebron james is rich, the guy who hands him his paycheck is wealthy”, and i think that that’s a really simple illustration of wealth and class that a lot of young leftists these days do not understand

i see a lot of young leftists these days thinking that “having a lot of money = oppressor”, which shows a fundamental misunderstanding in how social classes and the dynamics of power in society work, and as a result they go after actors, athletes, even youtubers, but the thing is most actors, athletes, and youtubers don’t actually own capital. actors don’t own disney or warner bros or 20th century fox, athletes don’t own their stadiums or sponsorship companies, and youtubers certainly don’t own youtube or advertising companies that sponsor youtube channels

many highly successful actors, athletes, and youtubers DO start their own businesses once they’ve amassed enough wealth, but it has to be understood that the large majority acquire their wealth through paychecks given to them, rather than through owning the means of production, and it’s the owning of capital that really determines who runs society and who doesn’t, because it’s those who own the means of production who gets to decide the affluence or poverty of those who don’t

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The Internet seemed to really like the previews I posted of NYC bullying Spider-Man, so here is that episode in its entirety. Enjoy!

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E02: Way of the Warrior, Part II 

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Architecture is one of those fields that’s perpetually on the border of “You’re all full of shit” to me. This is an NYC office building that was built in 1977:

Apparently that little circular doohickey up top was, at the time, a revolutionary departure from modern design principles and had every prominent architect at the time absolutely furious for that reason. 46 years on and it’s seen as an architectural treasure that made the NYC Landmark list.

It’s. A circle. Literally just a circle. I don’t get it.

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Anne Rice reveled in her rep for C&Ding her fans, though.

I need everyone to know that Anne Rice and guy who started Popeyes (the fried chicken place not the cartoon) hated each other and once spent weeks/monthes taking out page length ads against each other in New Orleans newspapers because the Popeyes guy opened a tacky restaurant where Lestat was supposed to have died, or something like that

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Nobody should.

Playing Chrono Trigger on stream tonight I realized I should not be trusted with time travel at all

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Checks out.

The thing you need to understand about the rules of Magic: The Gathering and why the official rulebook is Like That is that a large portion of the game's tournament scene consists of people who approach the turn structure the way video game speedrunners approach terrain collision, and they've become very good at glitching out of bounds.