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Things We Saw Today
This is about when Sauron decided that he needed to find a hotter place to forge his ring than in his kitchen. (That’s Nerdalicious!)
- Disney parks can apparently teach you a lot about human nature. (The Frisky)
- We’re happy to see that the career of Amandla Stenberg, Rue of The Hunger Games, is moving along, because she seems pretty great. (HuffPo)
- Aveline du Grandpre, the only female protagonist of an Assassin’s Creed Game, proves that you can make a successful work with a female character and/or a character of color, even if it is set in a time when history didn’t pay a lot of attention to folks of those persuasions. (Kotaku)
Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru get gothic. (The Autumn Society)
- Carrie Fisher was hospitalized recently, but says she’s “feeling much better now.” We wish her a speedy recovery! (Digital Spy)
- Nepal’s Chhurim Sherpa just set a new world record in Mount Everest climbing. (BuzzFeed)
- RiffTrax needs your help to license Twilight… so they can tear it a new one live. (Wired)
Brendan proposed to his girlfriend in the form of a physics paper. Our normal approach does work here. Our normal approach is to give you a link to it. (Boing Boing)
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Rebecca Pahle
I need to hire someone to follow me around and say "Christopher Lee makes thrash metal albums" whenever I'm in a bad mood.
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Rebecca Pahle
The Cumbervillain takes the angriest showers EVER.
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Jill Pantozzi
I just backed @MyGimpyLife Season 2 on @Kickstarter! http://t.co/si0DAibiee
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Susana Polo
Voyager crew just waltzes into a dormant Borg cube because JANEWAY HAS BALLS OF STEEL. #susanawatchesvoyager
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Jill Pantozzi
I was quoted in the NY Daily News today! http://t.co/JjdOqPgaVz
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Susana Polo
"SHARKS. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the uterus." - A thing I just said in chat, sans context.
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Susana Polo
In a perfect world, that would make those men MORE sympathetic to women when they talk about objectification of women in media.
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Susana Polo
But really the take away from this is that two seconds of quickly covered up Chris Hemsworth stomach makes some men feel objectified.
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Susana Polo
Good to know that a broad trend across much of visual media has effected one man, in one shot. We can all go home, sexism is over.
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Susana Polo
Whenever we bring up objectification of women in modern action movies, people always bring up the one shot of Chris Hemsworth shirtless.
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Susana Polo
Brave the burning daystar to see me sing this Wednesday! http://t.co/P5GbSxCiOt
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Susana Polo
Just saw a #FF tweet that listed me next to Joss Whedon, so, yeah, I'll take that.
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Susana Polo
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Susana Polo
.@RebeccaPahle and I do not have the means to make a Pacific Rim porn parody, but we're hereby announcing our availability to write it.
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Susana Polo
I linked to dramatic hamster twice in one post. I think my work here is done.
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Susana Polo
Somebody thinks I'm a hypocrite for disliking the Merida redesign and supporting a Wonder Woman show at the same time. ¯\(°_o)/¯
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Susana Polo
"The Vampire Gatsby is the Bunnicula of the Jazz Age." - New York Times Book Review
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Susana Polo
If we can get Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, can I get a Gatsby retelling where he's not just new money… he's a vampire?
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Jill Pantozzi
Holy cow! Congrats to my pal @ArkhamAsylumDoc who has her clinical dissection of #IronMan3 on the Hollywood Reporter! http://t.co/lYZtkU7o9Z
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Susana Polo
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