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Been watching Season One of Buffy with a friend, and we just saw the episode with the invisible girl. I think I'm beginning to ship Buffy/Cordelia a little bit. -
Rhetorical framing
Something I just noticed:
When someone makes a sexual/romantic offer and is refused, they frame their unrequited love interest as the active/offensive partner. "She rejected me."
When someone is the object of someone else's offer and refuses, the frame the person making the offer as the active/pursuing partner, and they are simply refusing to -
Cap 2 Thoughts (spoilers, if anyone cares)
HYDRA started out as a Nazi offshoot, but by CA:TWS they seem to be more like a nebulous totalitarian conspiracy version of the Auditors of Reality. It's subtext, and I don't even know if Pierce and co. see it that way, but this bunch seems to really resent human messiness. It's all about order through dehumanization. Project Insight is really ( Read more... ) -
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I want more Vorkosigan Saga/Marvel crossovers ( Read more... ) -
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Ways the internet has failed me lately:
* No fanart of Steve Rogers shoosh-papping the Winter Soldier.
* No Steve Rogers vids (on youtube at least) set to "The Soldiering Life" by the Decemberists.
Fandom, why do you hate America? -
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Russell Crowe's Noah does not interest me, but I would be interested in seeing a big soapy Hollywood take on the stories of David or Esther. -
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The biggest difference between Evangelion and Pacific Rim is that Pac Rim really is about people piloting giant robots to fight alien monster invaders, while Eva is actually about religion and clinical depression. -
A more extended Captain America: The Winter Soldier review
I was thinking about various nonsense regarding Natasha and reviewers slotting her into the “Ms. Fanservice/omg it's Scarlett Johansson in a catsuit!” and “sexy asskicker” boxes without the faintest attention paid to her personality or broader skillset, and, well, it inspired me to write this. Warning for Cap 2 spoilers and much objectification of ( Read more... ) -
Using the Femme Opossum to celebrate
It's not yet consistently warm around here (most years that takes until June, if ever), but at least most of the time it's not-cold. And you know what that means? Skirt weather! -
My history with Redwall is showing
Am I the only one who keeps trying to come up with "if everyone in the cast was a cute talking animal, what kind of animal would they be?" lists for my major fandoms ( Read more... )