Dec 22
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In July, Harry “hbomberguy” Brewis shared a video on his popular YouTube channel called “RWBY Is Disappointing, And…
Katharine Trendacosta
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Katharine is the Associate Director of Policy and Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the former managing editor of io9. She writes about technology policy and pop culture.
Dec 19 2019
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In the last twenty years, fandom and mass culture have basically merged. Fans and fandom spent the 2000s fighting…
Jun 27 2019
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“Fandom”—the participatory community that grows out of a piece of media—has come to dominate pop culture. Fandom is…
Apr 30 2019
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Spoiler culture—the capital-D Discourse surrounding how much of the plot you should know before heading into a piece…
Nov 21 2018
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I come not to bury J.K. Rowling, but to praise her. Harry Potter was an honest to god phenomenon, impacting my…
Nov 17 2017
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Nov 17 2017
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Listen, I give all the props in the world to genre fiction for its persistent casting of stage actors in its…
Nov 16 2017
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The star of Star Trek: Discovery has come out and said that her character, disgraced first officer Michael Burnham,…
Nov 13 2017
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The midseason finale of Star Trek: Discovery, “Into the Forest I Go,” finally got this show to the place it should…
Nov 10 2017
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Tamora Pierce is a prolific author of fantasy books, most of which feature young women as protagonists and many of…
Nov 10 2017
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Yesterday, the news dropped that Rian Johnson’s time in the Star Wars universe would not end with The Last Jedi.…
Nov 8 2017
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Riverdale is a delightful mess of a show. Absolutely none of it should work, and yet season one was a confounding…
Nov 6 2017
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Last night’s “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” ended on a cliffhanger that sets up a big showdown for next week’s finale.…
Nov 3 2017
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Out on a walk by the beach at night, you look out into the sea and see... two skeletons surfing on their coffins.
Nov 3 2017
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Hello, and welcome to another installment of “Oh god, why do I keep volunteering to re-read the worst Star Wars Expan…
Oct 30 2017
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Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) reappeared this week in an episode that took a crack at one of scifi’s most venerable…
Oct 30 2017
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If you’ve been sitting around waiting for Discovery to find a balance between classic Trek storytelling and its…
Oct 26 2017
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Something that Star Trek: Discovery has thrown up, once again, is all the questions that surround canon. How much of…
Oct 25 2017
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Halloween is one week away, and you know what that means: It’s time for the annual collection of utterly confusing…
Oct 25 2017
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The goal of Netflix’s Bright is clearly to slam together the tropes of the buddy cop movie with those of fantasy. So…