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Speaking of reading at all, I’m taking another hiatus. Family health care crises need more brain than I have; ice go to scrape together...

Clones of clones of clones eventually pile up genetic anomalies, with the 58th generation of clones of a lab mouse dying within days...

Andor convinced me that there is a huge amount of great Occupied Paris style war espionage stuff to mine in the OT era. Give me spy...

I think if we start making + threads about problematic people, we're going to see + threads simply shut down on this site.

I think it’s quite hard to separate the artist from their art at the best of times - what you know about them has to affect how you...

So it's cool to promote the series and Rowling has made it clear you then support her, but not cool to be opposed? Both stances are...

Oh, of course the studios and publishers are very happy to do this, the property isn’t being milked properly otherwise. But there’s...

We are about due for a Lord of the Rings reboot -- which I don't want (although I would absolutely rush out to see delToro's Hobbit...

I might watch this once JKR is dead and not receiving any royalties.

As we all know to the world's detriment, no money is enough money for some people. Once you get into that 0.1% bracket, you can realise...

Screw this and everyone supporting it.

Sadly it’s obvious that JKR would like more money and thus more adaptations, this time with actors who won’t criticise her personal...

As a GenXer rather than millenial, I can't say HP means much to me, personally. But I understand its popularity, and I feel bad for...

Well actually - neither Tolkien's Dark Elves (Moriquendi), nor the original Svartalfr of European-Norse mythology were inherrently evil...

Why should D&D limit itself to Tolkien's ideas and European folklore? Why should "good" elves be white, and "evil" elves be...