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I just finished reading C. Knutson's 2003 work A Short History of a Delicate Subject: Condoms through the Centuries. This eleven-page...

A year before he died, Cushing signed on to be in a TV film for a British company. That never happened as he died the next year. As...

Great line, in the trailer but sadly not in the film, I think.

The only one I can think of is Alan Moore’s “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” when Brainiac merges with Luthor in an attempt...

Wait, so the suit wasn’t from Cushing’s family or estate objecting to his being digitally zombified, it was from another film company...

"This is a rebellion, isn't it? I rebel."

Captain America: The First Avenger (Bucky and Steve argue about Steve trying to join the army despite his 4F status.) Bucky: Why are...

Hi! For Invincible Superhero Roleplaying (which is the full title), Modiphius is incorrectly listed as the publisher - this is a Free...

Read Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones (of Howl's Moving Castle fame), which is the first of the Chrestomanci books, set in an alternate...

“The Brief but Heartfelt Disagreement Between Land and Sea, Mostly Involving Lots of Meetings, Some Explosive Violence, and the...

My fourth book of the week is Failed State by Sam Freedman, which is an absolutely outstanding analysis of the entrenched and worsening...

I see. I guess I'm kind of the opposite way, I really don't like lickspittle/fainting/damsel-type female characters in cis-hetero stuff...

Maybe they don’t have the budget to do it justice.

Oh, yeah, there is a whole toxic dsndom corner that despises them. I have never known a women who the books to be in that number, it's a...

Wait people hate Nynaeve and Egwaene? I had no idea. I guess both of them can be wet blankets at times but honestly a lot of the...