Over the past few months, a situation has developed. I have become completely engulfed in my love of tea. Tea has become the bowtie to my Eleventh Doctor, the Dumbledore to my Harry, the flowing raven hair to my Jon Snow. One might call it an offset of Anglophilia, an active side-effect of watching one too many shows that air on BBC, but I have accepted my fate.

Luckily for me, we live in a magical age where getting overly emotional about things like fictional characters and hot beverages can by some crazy random happenstance mesh, to be accepted by some group of lovable weirdos on the Internet, and I happened to stumble into what I will refer to as the “tea fandom” at the perfect time. One mythical night, not too long ago, I was introduced to my new favorite trend in warmed-up flavored water: fandom teas.

Steven Moffat enrages a lot of people. It’s simple fact. When you take over one of the most popular sci-fi franchises of all time and replace a beloved showrunner, the change is bound to stir up some feelings no matter what you do. This is made double true when among the changes to the show are issues that lend themselves easily to Internet ranting (read: most things, but most particularly those involving female companions and the like). This is made triple true when you are the type of showrunner who likes to interact—some would say tease, some would say torture—your fans on said Internets, metaphorically poking them with a long stick and frequently reminding them how often you are going to make them cry.

Steven Moffat stirs up a lot of emotions in people, it’s true. Some people probably prickled at the first mention of his name in this article. It’s just his general presence. But Steven Moffat also deleted his Twitter account recently. And that has a lot more behind it than the man himself, a lot more that I’d like to explore.

Memes are hard to kill; it’s basically in their definition. And the easiest way to deal with them is really to try and ignore them. But if there’s one we wouldn’t mind eradicating from the internet, it’d be the Idiot Nerd Girl Advice Animal meme. It’s emblematic of the persisting idea that tells people it’s ok to nastily call women out for not being “authentically geeky” enough. It’s basically the idea that you can use that old middle school tactic of calling people “posers” because they don’t adhere to your own particular rules as to what qualifies a “geek,” or because they happen to have boobs and read comic books.

Dark Horse Comics editor Rachel Edidin, however, had the idea to try and turn that around a week ago, by creating a sort of anti-meme that, instead of presuming that the pictured girl is pretending to like nerdy things in order to get attention, presumes that the girl actually knows her stuff and is tired of people assuming she doesn’t because of her gender. And a week later? A quick check of QuickMeme is about half full with defiant nerd girls. We don’t know how long it’ll last, but we like it.

We’re psyched about all of these DC shorts. Our only complaints step from the fact that we want them to be full-length shows, not short little things that will flit into our lives and then abandon us again. But we’ll take what we can get.

(WB’s Comic-Con via Tumblr)

Yes, we are opening today’s Things We Saw with a golf story. Why? Because Lydia Ko is a stone-cold badass, that’s why. She just became the youngest-ever winner of the LPGA tournament. (Jezebel)

Cosplay is a beautiful thing. This is especially true when you take one thing that’s great (Star Wars) and combine it with other things that are great–like all the other things people mixed with stormtroopers and Princess Leias and put in a blender to create all the great cosplay gathered here today.

And now we kind of want to see an Avengers-type movie with these people as the stars.

If there’s one thing I’ve always found the most inconvenient about being a woman, it’s the flabbergasting lack of pens marketed for my delicate lady-fingers. Luckily, the marketing geniuses over at Bic have come along to save the day, and Bic’s “For Her” pens are a smash hit. At least, if Amazon UK is to be believed, what with its pages upon pages of reviews on the product. And by “smash hit,” I mean “every lady with writing fingers saw right through their ploy and responded in kind.” Click through the jump to read some of the hilarious reviews of the pens.

The Lion King 3D re-release last year made Disney $94 million dollars. The rerelease of The Phantom Menace may have grossed only about half that at $43 million, and it may be causing Lucasfilm to shake up their plans a bit: Whereas they once had planned to re-release a Star Wars film every year until they ran out of them, they’ve now announced that Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith will be released only a month apart. The bonus? This means we get the original trilogy back in theaters far sooner than anticipated.

Storm troopers walking down the aisle. A superhero theme. Thousands of geeks looking on. That’s what Amy and Rob Bridges got for their wedding. It took place at 2012′s Fan Expo Canada, and now you can watch it, too.

(via tipster Courtney)

As one comment on the post pointed out, “I would love their storyline as a Disney musical in which Jorah sings a stirring love song called “Blood of My Blood.””

We’d watch that. (Tumblr)