D. G. D. Davidson

Artisan Book Reviews on 'Rags and Muffin': "... a delightful read for fans of urban fantasy ..." deusexmagicalgirl.com/2022/03/05/art…

There's this weird urge people have to cling to favorite IPs and demand more from them even after the quality has severely degraded. Avatar was lightning in a bottle, and the creators' muse abandoned them shortly after it ended. Just let it go already.

I understand an entire Avatar spinoff movie has been leaked. What I don't understand is why anyone cares, given that everything that has come out of this franchise since the original series ended has been hot garbage.

@PE__Bird @HazelAppleyard I have a very great friend in Rome named Biggus Dickus.

@HazelAppleyard Biggus Dickus Headus is available.

Grown man wants to call himself Flopsy

@Vitus_osst Whatever one thinks of Trump, it is simply a fact that the last four popes have liked crime.

A journalist asked Trump " Why did you attack Pope Leo on social ? " And Trump said " I don't think he is doing a good Job, he likes crime". " I am not a fan of Pope Leo" I don't find this polite, insulting the Pope is insulting the Catholic Church.

You can't be a Catholic and stand against the Pope.

@PopePiusXIIStan Pretty early in the development of Greek religious thought, the Olympus of the gods ceased to be the literal mountain. This makes as little sense as, "I go to Mount Zion, etc."

1. Zeus 2. I go to Mt. Olympus and find him at the top 3. This would be impossible, my God is not in space or time 4. Yes, this was a dumb exercise

@SwipeWright @RantyAmyCurtis "Neoliberal ideologies that locate sexual injury in individual agents rather than power structures." My actions aren't my fault, in other words, at least if I'm "queer."

This academic book chapter asks an unbelievable question: universities adopted rules against professor-student relationships to protect students from coercive power imbalances, “but should queer professor–student relationships be subject to the same scrutiny?” It looks at cases where “queer female professors were accused of sexual harassment by graduate students” and then sympathetically reviews arguments against such rules, including that they “disregard students’ consent,” “advance anti-queer and erotophobic agendas,” “require and reinforce fictions of female vulnerability,” and even “perpetuate neoliberal ideologies.” The author concludes that if there is ANY problem at all with queer professor–student relationships, it's supposedly “not exclusively or even primarily sexual” but “pedagogical.” Instead of simply saying professors should not sleep with their students, this chapter attempts to reframe the issue when the professor identifies as “queer.” Basically, everything is excused if you're “queer.”

Showed my wife some of the more violent parts, and she smacked me for reading this to the kids.

Bone and Thorn are still my favorite fictional couple. Everything involving Bone's hopeless crush is hilarious.

I'm reading Bone to my kids at bedtime. They like it but are probably too young to "get" it. It's been fun for me to revisit this masterpiece, as I used to be a big-time Bone-head. It feels different reading it to young kids, though. I forgot how violent it gets toward the end.

@porkparota91561 Is that in the books or in one of her post hoc retcons?

@DGDDavidson She says they are Bangladesh which us again bs

Rowling also doesn't say that they're Indian. You have to infer it from their names. It actually didn't occur to me because the books have so many odd names that I didn't think about it. Only when I saw the movie did I think, "Oh yeah. Parvati would be Indian."

@rlscottrl @RazorFist In this case, they wholesale borrowed Lord Dread's costume design. This might have been close enough for a lawsuit.

@DGDDavidson @RazorFist Nah. In story telling there is no ripping off. Plagiarism is bad, but similar characters and stuff like that are going to happen

At its best: Heady episodic Sci-Fi At its worst: Horseshoe bald blowhard cruises through space in an '80s living room, approbating the merits of Space Communism to humans with a wide variety of bumpy foreheads

@rlscottrl @RazorFist They ripped the Borg off from Captain Power. I'm serious. Look it up.

@RazorFist But created one of the scariest monsters in cinematic history: The Borg

@PotterWorldW x.com/i/status/20419…

It was repeatedly said that they were the two best-looking girls of the year btw

@edelnougat Status negativus, if it is legitimate at all, can not be absolute. Living in a state is natural to us. There has never been a Hobbesian state of nature. The real solution may be to talk less about rights and more about duties.

@DGDDavidson This has nothing to do with intra-family duties though. And propagating the idea of status negativus rights only does indeed prevent leftists from establishing legitimacy for invented rights - I think the idea is very useful in mobilizing against the left.

This kind of radical individualism is a dead end. It cannot be an adequate response to Leftists' inventions of novel "rights." Start here: The basic unit of society is the family. Parents have a duty to their children, so children have a corresponding right to parents' care.

@ItsumoNihongo This isn't dog food. It's canned refried beans. Not high-class or especially healthy, but she basically just served him an extra thick bean burrito.

アメリカの男の人たち、マジで可哀想。奥さんって本来、愛情込めて美味しいものをお腹いっぱい作ってくれるはずなのに、実際は犬の餌みたいなものをイタズラで焼いて世界に晒したりする

I haven't paid attention to Star Trek for decades, but I thought it was well-established in the canon that people of the future don't talk like this.

@makotopic Licorice is a divisive flavor. Some hate it and some love it. The best licorice is hard candy rather than chewy. Licorice ice cream can also be good.

せっかく自動翻訳機能がついたので本場のアメリカ人に聞いてみたいのは、「リコリス」とかいう見た目も味も食感も完全にゴムのあのお菓子、みんな子どもの頃は本当においしいと思って食べてたんだろうかということ。

@Fraw_DMC @maquisardberet They used to be. I think they've somewhat gone out of fashion, at least among parents trying to give their kids healthier foods.

@maquisardberet そうなんだ？ 日本のおにぎりぐらい、子供のランチとして定番だと思ってた！

アメリカのみんなが残念に思うだろうけど、日本にピーナッツバターが渡来した時、ジャムやフルーツジェリーと一緒に使う事が伝わらなかった。なのでピーナッツバターを日本のメーカーが作る時、美味しくしたいと思ってヌテラより甘くしちゃったんだ。なので日本のピーナッツバターはジェリーと合わない